Singapore Artist May Sum Sculpts Celebrity Portraits In Expensive Lipstick

Ever dreamed of having your face memorialized in expensive lipstick? A Singapore-based artist May Sum, who has made a name for himself by carving expensive lipsticks from top brands in the makeup industry into detailed busts of various celebrities, from Lady Gaga to Audrey Hepburn.

Some women would kill for a stick of lipstick from established brands such as Yves Saint Laurent or Estee Lauder, but artist May Sum doesn’t think twice before slaughtering them into oily busts of popular fashion icons. It’s not clear what kind of tools he uses during the carving process, but considering the size of his medium, they must be pretty tiny and accurate. Although his lipstick busts aren’t exact replicas of the characters he aims to depict, the Singaporean somehow manages to always nail he details that define his muses. For example, Lady Gaga is easily identifiable by her unmistakable hairdo and large glasses, while Coco Channel can be distinguished by her signature hat and pearls. May Sum can carve sticks of lipsticks into anything from animals to sceneries and customs portraits, but she is most famous for her “Strong Women” series.

Obviously, high-end lipsticks are not cheap, so you may find May Sum’s exclusive sculptures a bit on the expensive side as well. Prices start at $600, but the artist will give you the option to choose the lipstick brand, the model and the color. Pretty steep, but if you don’t like the finished product you can always just use the lipstick for its intended purpose, and your investment wouldn’t be totally wasted.

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Aishwarya Rai Celebrated Her 40th Birthday With Media And Fans In Mumbai!

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the name that spells class, beauty, elegance and success, held a press conference on occasion of her 40th birthday in Mumbai.

Aishwarya looked stunning and radiant wearing a red Abu-Sandeep salwar kameez, which was not a new outfit that she purchased for the occasion, she maintained!

Aishwarya Rai told her fans that daughter even sang a birthday song for her. "Since last evening she (Aaradhya) is wishing me happy birthday mama. Even at midnight she sang birthday song but with her name. It was sweet of her," she said.

When asked about her birthday celebrations, Aishwarya imminently said, “This year, birthday celebrations are Diwali celebrations and that’s the big party at home, that’s the way we are celebrating my birthday.” The actress also donated cash for cancer patients. Aishwarya said that this year it will be a quiet birthday for her with family – husband Abhishek and daughter Aaradhya – and close friends.

Aishwarya thanked all her fans for the best wishes: “Heartfelt thank you to everyone for the wishes. It's a good coincidence that my birthday comes with Diwali... It's a celebration time. I am thankful to God for this life... Thankful to my parents for this gift of life. It means a lot to me. I embrace everything that life gives me," Aishwarya said.

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Dubai Opens World's Largest Airport

The Gulf emirate of Dubai unveiled passenger operations at its Al-Maktoum International airport, which is hyped to be the world's largest airport once completed.

Al-Maktoum is built next to Dubai Jebel Ali Free Zone and its port in Dubai World Central, an economic zone the government hopes to turn into what it calls an 'aerotropolis'.

The airport was opened only for cargo in June 2010, while passenger operations were constantly delayed and once completed it will feature five runways that will be able to handle an annual capacity of 160 million passengers and 12 million tons of cargo, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Chief executive officer of Dubai Airports, Paul Griffiths said that 36 cargo carriers presently operate out of the new airport, compared to only two in 2010.

In comparison, Dubai International handled 57 million passengers in 2012, as it has become a major stop for air traffic between the West, Asia and Australasia.

Chairman of Dubai Airports, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said that the airport will play a vital role in the future development of Dubai as a centre for trade, commerce, transport, logistics and tourism.

Griffiths pointed that Al-Maktoum is not aimed at replacing Dubai International, where expansion work is continuing. A Wizz Air plane from Budapest was the first passenger aircraft to land at the sprawling new ability and Jazeeera Airways would follow suit on Thursday while Gulf Air will begin operations on December 8 and no other airline has announced operations for the new airport.

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8 Crushed to Death in Andhra Pradesh Train Accident

Seven of the eight Bokaro Express passengers who were run over by another train near Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh Saturday night have been identified, police said.

All the bodies were shifted to railway hospital at Visakhapatnam. "One body is yet to be identified," a police official said Sunday.

One of the two injured is in critical condition. The dead have been identified as Alexis, 27, Shweta Singh, 33, Samhita, 10, Shaurya, 2, Tara Devi, 34, Kartik Sahu, 70, and Lokender Kumar, 28.

Police said Lokender Kumar was a soldier in the army. The dead comprise three members of a family.

Eight people were killed and two injured after being run over by a speeding train in Vizianagaram District in Andhra Pradesh. The accident took place at Gotlam village station, close to Vizianagaram.

The CPRO has said: The passengers were of the Alappuzha-Dhanbad train that came under the Rayagada-Vijayawada passenger train coming from the opposite direction on the adjacent track.

It started after passengers of the Bokaro Express (Alleppy to Dhanbad), proceeding to Bokaro Steel city, pulled the chain at the railway yard at Gotlam station near Vizianagaram town when they heard a rumour that a compartment of the train was on fire. They then alighted the train and jumped onto the tracks at around 6.50pm.

It was dark and the passengers didn't see the Rayagada-Vijaywada passenger train coming from the opposite direction on the adjacent track. The Raigarh-Vijaywada train ran over them, an East Coast railway spokesperson has said. "The passengers pulled the chain as rumors spread that one of the compartments (of Bokaro Express) had caught fire. As it was dark, they did not notice the oncoming train", the railway official said.

The dead comprise three members of a family from Aurangabad in Bihar. Manoj Kumar lost his wife Shweta Singh and two children two-year-old Shaurya and 10-year-old Samhita Kumari. The family was returning to Aurangabad from Bangalore. Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge termed the incident as "most tragic" and instructed the officials to ensure the injured get speedy treatment.

An inquiry has been ordered into the incident.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy expressed anguish over the accident. Reddy, who was in Bengaluru, spoke to the district Collector and the SP over phone and asked them to supervise the relief operations, an official release said in Hyderabad.

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Royal Baby Prince George Christened With 7 Godparents

Prince George made his first public appearance in three months Wednesday, as he arrived with his parents, Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, for his christening at St. James's Palace.

The baby prince smiled as he was shown off to family members including his great-grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, before the royals entered the Chapel Royal.

George was dressed in an intricate lace and satin christening gown that's a replica of one made in 1841 for the christening of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter.

Being baptized into the church is more important for George than for most people, since he is in line to become king, which would also make him the supreme governor of the Church of England.

 The occasion was kept unexpectedly small, in a shift away from the larger ceremonies that his father and grandfather enjoyed at Buckingham Palace.

His grandfather Prince Charles and uncle, Prince Harry, were among the select few invited to the ceremony, along with Catherine's parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, and her siblings, James and Pippa.

The royal baby, who was born in July, has seven godparents, among them Prince William's cousin Zara Tindall, daughter of Princess Anne, and close friends of the couple.

They include Oliver Baker, who got to know William and Catherine at St. Andrew's University, Emilia Jardine-Paterson, who went to school with Catherine, and William van Cutsem, a childhood friend of William.

The other godparents are Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, a former private secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry; Julia Samuel, who was a good friend of William's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales; and Earl Grosvenor, son of the Duke of Westminster.

The replica christening gown was brought into use in 2008 to help preserve the 170-year-old original, used until then for every royal christening, including those of Prince William and his father, Charles.

The venue for the christening also has a distinct significance for Prince William. The body of his mother, Diana, rested in the Chapel Royal for five days before her funeral in 1997.

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Artist Creates Incredibly Realistic Colored Pencil Drawings That Look Like Photos

Although Adolfo Fernandez Rodriguez started drawing with pencils after the age of 40, Adolfo – a Madrid based artist, quickly mastered this method. Using only colored pencils, he now draws life-like characters, bubbles, reflections and ripples of water that often get confused with hyper-realistic oil paintings and even photographs.

His amazing creations include incredibly realistic waves and drops of water, distorted reflections as well as some very accurate depictions of statues and extremely detailed complex pieces such as two hands on a pile of hay with every straw cautiously contoured, or the pages of a book where the artist actually took the time to fill the pages with words and drawings. “I only just discovered this Spanish artist and, really, what else is there to say about his work but – ‘WOW!’ Done in a very accurate style, all of his drawings look like paintings and many of them are almost incredible to tell apart from a photograph. I find not only his work, but also his interpretations and expressions of the love he feels for his many subjects, to be incredibly inspiring,” associated pencil artist Lissa Rachelle Robillard wrote about Rodriguez’s work.

 

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Justin Bieber Fan Spends $100,000 on Plastic Surgery to Look Like His Idol Singer

 

From screaming teenage girls to fanatic grannies, everybody’s got Bieber fever, including Toby Sheldon, a 33-year-old songwriter from Los Angeles who spent $100,000 on plastic surgery trying to transform himself into his idol, Justin Bieber. The man has had countless procedures such as eyelid surgery, chin reduction and face fillers all in an off-the-wall attempt to look like the popular pop-star.

Toby has been fanatical with his fading boyish looks ever since he was 23, when he started a series of treatments for his thinning hair and ended up undergoing hair transplants which cost him an impressive $8,000. It wasn’t until 2008, when Justin became popular worldwide, that Toby really started considering plastic surgery. He explains that “once Justin shot to fame his face was everywhere and I all I kept thinking when I saw his picture was, ‘I want to look like him’.” To the distress of millions of second grade schoolgirls, Sheldon is not a true Bielieber as he mostly admires the pop star’s soft facial features rather than his musical aptitude. “I didn’t essentially listen to his music or fawn over him as a celebrity, but his face was just so flawless every change I made was modeled after him,” Sheldon says. With Justin in mind, the 33 year old spent another $21,000 to further improve his appearance and underwent a procedure to lower his hairline closer to his temples to resemble that of Bieber. Toby then grew out his bangs and got Bieber’s signature haircut which he says often gets him mistaken for his idol.

Still unsatisfied with how he looked and completely terrified of aging, Toby got Botox and Aquimid injections in his forehead and temples as well as eye surgery, which cost him $4,850, despite everyone – including doctors – telling him that the eyelid process was too much. “But it took going to eight different surgeons before anyone would agree to operate on me as everyone thought I was crazy to be obsessing over such a tiny detail,” Toby recalls. He then noticed other features could be enhanced as well. “When I first sought out to look like Justin I only paid attention to specific aspects of his boyish look like his hair and the structure of his face,” Sheldon says. “But the more I started studying Justin and young people in general it’s really their smile that gives them their youthful glow. If you look carefully, you’ll notice that when younger people just barely have their mouths open they naturally show their top teeth, giving them a sort of natural and effortless smile,” he adds. Also called the smile surgery, this process is very popular especially in Korea and the number of people who have had it in the U.S. has doubled in the past year. For a whopping $30,000, Toby’s frown has been turned upside down and transformed into a “perma-smile.”

In the past five years, Toby Bieber – as his friends now call him, has undergone various cosmetic procedures which add up to a astounding $100,000 in bills. But having so many invasive surgeries was not easy. He recalls that his smile surgery took more than a month to recuperate from, and that after his eyelid surgery, he couldn’t open his eyes for a week. However, he believes it was all worth it. “Between our similar hairstyles, baby faced smile and overall youthful appearance I finally look like Justin Bieber and I couldn’t be happier about it,” he says. Yet he still thinks there is room for development. “I know there is more work to be done in order to make a full transformation into Justin Bieber’s doppelganger like a nose job and jaw reduction, which my surgeon has suggested,” the wanna-be Bieber clone adds. However, Sheldon is content to look like a weird 15-year-old boy and to no longer be able to buy liquor without showing his ID.

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First Picture Of Shah Rukh Khan's son AbRam Leaked

Shahrukh Khan’s new born child AbRam was pictured from one of the balconies of the superstar’s bungalow. A nanny was spotted feeding the baby and looking through the window pane while other two nurses were standing in the balcony of the house. It was during the Eid when Shahrukh Khan’s little one partially made his appearance.

On Wednesday, Shahrukh Khan climbed atop the grilled barricade to greet his fans during the auspicious occasion of Bakri Eid. Shahrukh Khan in his signature style waved to his fans, he did adaab and blew kisses to the vast crowd. When Shahrukh was busy attending his fans from his balcony, his new born was clicked when a staff was feeding him in a feeding bottle.

Like every year, this Eid too SRK greeted his fans from his home Mannat in Bandra.

It was the gladdest moment for Shahrukh Khan and Gauri when they were blessed with a baby boy whom they named, AbRam in May through surrogacy but the sad part is that they are not able to spend time with their little one due to his health concern.

AbRam was born through surrogacy and he weight 1.5 kgs. He was kept in a protected environment for the improvement of his health and due to which Shahrukh and Gauri cannot spend enough time with their baby like any other parents do Speaking about AbRam, the proud father once said, "He is getting better and in another month, he should be physically good. It has been a happy and a sad time. We're not allowed to spend too much time with him, as he lives in a protected environment. Right now that suits me fine."

When AbRam was born, SRK was surrounded with gender determination controversy but it was a matter of the past. Now Shahrukh and Gauri are waiting for the development of their child health. SRK also said that AbRam is recovering and very soon they can’t spend enough time with him. SRK also revealed that his son has a dimple like him.

King Khan and Gauri already had two children Aryan and Suhana and now AbRam adds to their happiness.

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Indian Couple to Set a New Record - As the World's Biggest ALBINO Family

White-skinned Indian couples are set to enter the record books along with their offspring, after becoming the world's biggest albino family.

The ten members of the Pullan family, headed by Rosetauri, 50, and his wife Mani, 45, all have the exceptionally pale skin and near-white hair of albinos.

But despite years of preconception and suffering the poor vision which is a side effect of the condition, the Pullans and their eight other family members are set to land a Guinness World Record.

The Pullan's sons Shankar, 24, Vijay, 25 and Ramkishan, 19, and daughters Renu, 23, Deepa, 21 and Pooja, 18, inherited their albinism, according to The Sun.

Renu married a man who also had albinism, Rosheh, 27, and the couple's son Dharamraj, 2, also inherited the condition from his parents.

The family live in a one-bedroom flat in Delhi, and say many fellow Indians find it hard to believe they were born and bred in the country.

Roseturai Pullan told The Sun: 'I've heard people call us 'angrez', which means 'English'.

All we know is that we can't see correctly, and we can't sit under the sun for long, but we live the best we can.

'People in Delhi are a little more open-minded, but many think we're foreigners. 'Albinism affects around one in 17,000 people. Those with the disorder do not produce enough melanin pigment, which gives colour to the skin, hair and eyes and protects the body from the sun's rays.

Albinos such as the Pullans often suffer from dangerous short-sightedness and a severe sensitivity to light.

After marrying in 1983, Rosetauri and Mani moved from southern India to Delhi.

The couple say they have had a 'tough life' and often been treated as outsiders, but mother Mani says despite the family's setbacks she sees the condition as a 'gift from God'.

A spokesperson for Guinness World Records said they would be contacting the Pullans to confirm the record of them being the world's biggest albino family.

It is thought the current record is held by a six-strong family who live in the U.S. and Canada.

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