The 3-week Face Wash Challenge

Hey all!
Okay so Marisa has the weirdest facial complex ever. I'm almost 19 and still get frequent breakouts. I have yet to find a face wash that works for me. So, after scouring the internet for some answers yesterday I came to the conclusion of 3 different face washes.

#1. The new Go 360 Clean Deep Facial Cleanser by L'Oreal (y'know, the one with that cool "scrublet").

#2. St. Ives Naturally Clear Apricot Scrub Blemish & Blackhead Control

And 

#3. Neutrogena Deep Clean Cream Cleanser (oil free)

I guess I should give a bit of background on my facial complex. It gets oily throughout the day but when I first wake up its not too greasy or too dry. I believe I'm allergic to Salicylic Acid because all the other washes I've used have that ingredient ... and these all have it too, but not as the main ingredient. I've tried washing my face for.... 12 years or so I think? I guess we'll see in 3 weeks!

The 1st two I've never used before but the 3rd I have....

I started yesterday with the Go 360 Clean, morning and night... One week.

See you then!

-Marisa

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine

"We all live in a yellow submarine"

The Beatles made a number of movies in their time as band: "Hard Days Night," "Magical Mystery Tour," and "Help!" just to name a few. However, one of the most unique and memorable to fans of Beatles films is probably the animated feature, "Yellow Submarine."

The movie premiered in the U.S. in 1968. During this time the Beatles were recording a number of their most famous songs and going through a bit of turmoil in their love lives and their lives as a band. John Lennon was the one who suggested the idea for "Yellow Submarine" as a movie with a Beatles soundtrack (www.beatles.ws/).

In the film we have a land "... called Pepperland ... 80,000 leagues beneath the sea." It was a country that loved music. Music was the very fiber of their being and even kept them safe from the vicious "Blue Meanies." These Meanies hated everything about music and plan a plot to take over Pepperland with the various miscreants that work together and turn the land completely "blue-y" ... and of course non-musical. So, to save the day comes Young Fred, the Beatles themselves, and Jeremy the nowhere man. Together (with song and love) they take back Pepperland and even befriend the Meanies into becoming good.

"Yellow Submarine," with lack of an more intricate storyline, makes up for it in spectacle. This movie is full of colors and flashing lights and the strangest creatures you've ever seen. The best example being the nowhere man. "Jeremy Hilary Boob Ph.D." He's the only creature that actually joins the Beatles on their adventure to the sea of green. However we see other creatures such as the Vacuum-Thrust, Kinky Boot Beasts, the Bonkers, Snapping Turks, etc. And who could forget Glove? The evil monster who zoomed around Pepperland smashing up all their positive signs. Thankfully he was defeated with a booming rendition of the Beatles' song "Love."

Throughout the various "seas" in Yellow Sub, we get a different Beatles song. Sea of Time --> "When I'm 64." Sea of Science --> "Only a Northern Song." Sea of Nothing --> "Nowhere Man." And my personal favorite, the Foothills of the Headlands with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Shiny fish are always swimming by, creatures walking around doing whatever they do, rainbow-ed backgrounds and psychedelic patterns float around through the whole film, and of course we have the Beatles singing every chance they get - obvious makings for a spectacular movie.

I'd give the Beatles "Yellow Submarine" a 9 of 10. Maybe I'm biased because it's a Beatles' movie and anyone who knows me knows I adore them. The only reason I won't give this a 10 of 10 is just because the lack of a storyline. It's just the regular heros going to fight the evil. Very basic. However, the Beatles did good... Even if they didn't show up until the last 5 minutes of the movie with corny catch phrases and puns. Hah, I still give them props for it.