#Amore Pacific

[aespaupdate]

AESPA FOR Qoo10 X AMORE PACIFIC DAILY BEAUTY

[kpoploverfrevr]

SM's Light Stick Lip Balm Prices Face Harsh Backlash From Fans

Recently, SM ENTERTAINMENT partnered with Amore Pacific and released SM artist lightstick lip balms.

This collaboration gained much attention from fans as it was an innovative product that many fans would want to add to their collection. For this collaboration, they released three versions:

However, fans felt that the pricing of the lip balm would be the biggest factor in whether or not they would purchase the products. On September 23, the product officially dropped online and the prices were revealed.

Many fans were shocked to find out the prices were 23,000 KRW ($17.20) as it did not come with a photocard or anything else. Their only offer was a limited edition lip balm mini bag for fans who bought two or more IP balms.

Most fans were not excited about the prices and felt that it was too much even if it was a collaboration item. "I'm sad they didn't add a photo card, I had a feeling the price point would be that much...but the case doesn't look like it would be 10,000 KRW"

"If you buy two, it's almost the same price as a regular lightstick. I didn't anticipate much but I can't believe it cost over 20,000 KRW"

"I would've just bought it if it was 30,000 KRW and included a photo card... but having nothing and being over 20,000 KRW is a bit"

[anemoiawithatouchofobsession]

"The women of the world, using Amore Pacific!" Since 31 years, with tomorrow ahead. Amore Cosmetics (under Taepyeongyang Cosmetics), a company that creates trends and dreams, has now grown into this world's Amore Cosmetics, becoming a favorite of women from 24 countries around the world. This is because of the enthusiastic support of our customers who have continuously cultivated their beauty with Amore cosmetics for the past 31 years, and poured their deep affection and trust into us. "Making mankind beautiful, making society beautiful" - Amore has always been at the forefront of producing and distributing nothing but excellent products and taking the lead in the world today.

Amore Pacific advertisement - still under the Taepyongyang Cosmetics umbrella. Today, they are the biggest beauty chaebol firm, with popular K-beauty brands such as COSRX, Hera, Sulhwasoo and others.

[thisislizheather]

Winter Wednesdays Vol. 6

BAKING/COOKING

I made this honey garlic pork tenderloin again and it’s such an easy, fulfilling meal.

CRAVING

A vanilla ice cream sundae with hot fudge. No idea why. Maybe because it’s impossible to find on adult restaurant dessert menus?

EATING

The red meat at Bistro Eloise is unparalleled.

EXPERIENCING

Snow in New York! It’s insane that schools were closed for that amount of snow, but I shouldn’t be so negative. Just grateful to have any.

LOVING

My friend Dave is in the movie Sometimes I Think About Dying that’s playing at the Angelika and it was great! He did such a great job.

SHOPPING

So I caved and finally bought Baby Dog a ramp for the bed. She’s been having a hard time seeing things at night, so hopefully this’ll help things.

WATCHING

I rewatched Waiting To Exhale and it still really holds up well. It’s also a perfect breakup or men-ain’t-shit movie.

WEARING

Night eye cream from Amore Pacific. I’ve had it for years and never used it. So I’m trying to care about these things, even if the interest lasts a month.

You can read last week’s Winter Wednesdays Vol. 5 over here.

[bbyscaar]

Las energías tan divinas que me entrega el mar y su esplendor no lo podría definir ni comparar jamás🩷🪽

[loove-alwayss]

Eres libre de darle a mi pintura el contexto que quieras.

[marcial-r0jas]

Que me cante el mar...

Mientras hablabas sobre tu desdén hacia el queso para nachos, yo veía el lunar que te adorna la mejilla izquierda, muy cerca y casi a la mitad (casi a la deriva) del camino que va de tu nariz a tu labio superior. Nunca he visto el sol durante un atardecer en la playa, y ahora sé que no necesito hacerlo. Igual y si miro tus ojos me imagine el cielo cuando sus tonalidades van del púrpura al anaranjado. Aquel cielo del que tanto hablan en el Pacífico mexicano. 

Porque te aparentas taciturna, cuando en el fondo tu ser es un constante choque entre las olas y las rocas. Ojalá la banca desde donde te miro pasara a convertirse en arena recién mojada por el agua salada de tus virtudes; porque de eso y solo eso estás hecha.

Regreso de la ensoñación y pienso por qué no amas los nachos tanto como yo. Y ahí se planta la distancia que hay entre tú y yo, entre el mar y yo. 

[shamanarcher]

Uma Reflexão Sobre a Carta #1

Não irei compartilhar em inglês o que tirei com as cartas de Liev Tolstόi. Irei fazê-lo em português para compartilhar a beleza do conhecimento Tolstiano com os meus amigos e amigas lusitanas, em especial para os meus irmãos brasileiros. O que irão ler é para nós e não para os gringos desta terra. Infelizmente o povo da America U.S.A. está muito bitolado e incoerente. O povo aqui está batendo…

[ginmar97]

Gina Marcela: Fémina del mar y el cielo

[pablitogavii]

Hi! Could you write gavi x reader where readers ex bf turns up at the same club she’s at and she grabs gavi to help make her ex jealous but reader and gavi don’t know each other but he goes along with it? Sorry for being really pacific 😂 also take your time!!

New Boyfriend

I came to the club with my best friend not expecting to see him sitting at the with the same girl he cheated me on only two weeks ago…fuck, this is just my luck!

“Should we just go somewhere else, tía?” she asked me but I didn’t want him to dictate what I do anymore. I was done with him and he should be the one to feel uncomfortable after seeing me there and not other way around!

“Let’s just get a drink!” I said in annoyance pushing past the crowd not looking who I pushed to the bar and order the drink.

“What got you so angry, preciosa?” guy next to you with quite a low voice said but you were in no mood for meaningless flirting right now.

“No te importa!” you said ordering a two rum colas when you friend came closer to whisper into your ear.

“You just said that to Pablo Gavi, tía!” she said and my eyes opened wide as I turned to the side seeing his handsome face staring back at me which made me blush bright red. Shit! He was hotter than on the pictures!

“Lo siento..I am just having a horrible night and totally took it out on you..um and now I’m mumbling so I should stop talking!” I said getting even more nervous when he moved to stand closer to me.

“She’s a big fan!” my friend said and I pushed her saying that she was lying while looking into his now smirking face.

“Don’t be shy, preciosa..I like it” he said saying to the bartender that the drinks will go to his tab making me blush even more while my friend left us alone. 

We talked for a few minutes, joking around like we knew each other for years, and I almost completely forgot about my ex and that bitch licking his face all night long.

"Mierda! What are you doing here?" he came to the bar just as shocked to see me here as I was to see him, not to mention that I was not alone...that's when an idea popped into my mind.

"I'm out with my boyfriend!" I said moving close to Gavi and he snaked his arms around me wast sending my mind into frenzy that he was playing along.

"You..you are with Pablo Gavi?" he was even more shocked when he realized who the guy besides you was while his girl was definitely not enjoying her time anymore.

"Yes, she is with me and I plan on taking a much better care of her than you ever did cabron! She will be treated like a princesa that she is!" Pablo spoke and a shiver moved down your spine from his words wondering weather he was just saying it as part of his new role or if he really meant it...no way! Pablo Gavi had girls piled up in front of him, why would he want me???

"I don't believe this! No freaking way Pablo Gavi would be with..you" he said and the girl behind him rolled her eyes leaving shortly afterwards now that she was no longer the center of attention.

My eyes watered from those words feeling very self conscious suddenly every single girl looking much more attractive than me in this moment. He was right..why me?

"She asked you to play along, didn't she tio?" he walked up to Pablo who was clenching his jaw angrily ignoring his attempt to shake hands. He would never shake hands with such an asshole!

"I warn you to watch how you speak about my girlfriend, capullo!" Pablo said and your ears screamed at the word girlfriend thinking how beautiful that would feel if it was indeed real..

"So prove it then?" he said and I gulped feeling nervous not wanting Pablo to be put in the uncomfortable situation because of me.

"We have nothing to prove to you gilipollas..wanna go home amor??" Pablo's hold on me tightened and he leaned in kissing the side of my neck softly and my knees felt week from his kiss knowing that I won't forget this moment until I die...Pablo gavi just called me "amor" and kissed my neck!?

"Mhm.." I said slowly feeling his hold relax as he grabbed my hand walking me out of the club with my ex still staring at the two of us in disbelief.

When we walked to his car far enough for my ex not to be able to see us anymore, I let go of his hand looking down and finally letting a tear fall down my cheek.

No matter what, I used to love that boy and hearing him say I'm not good enough hurt unimaginably..made me think I will never be enough for anybody.

"Come here, princesita..it's okay..I'm right here" he pulled me close and I cried into his chest which felt so safe and comforting in this moment. But then I suddenly realized, we were no longer pretending..my ex is nowhere in sight..why was Pablo still holding me like this??

"I'm so sorry..I panicked when he walked up..I shouldn't have said.." but before i could finish his finger was on my lips and he said it was fine with him.

"I have to admit playing your new boyfriend made me wonder what it would feel like to be one for real.." Pablo spoke tucking a piece of my hair behind my ear and I froze unsure weather I was dreaming right now or not?

"Tu eres tan preciosa.." he moved closer and I felt my back glued to his car while looking up into his warm brown eyes..he was so beautiful that I couldn't stop staring.

"I wanna be your new boyfriend preciosa..and I want to kiss you so bad right now but not until I know that's what you want?" he spoke touching my cheek and I leaned into the touch feeling too shy to talk so I just nodded my head.

Pablo only smiled nodding his head as well before placing his large hand on the side of my neck pulling me closer and placing his lips onto mine deepening the kiss once I relaxed and started kissing him back.

'Hi.." he smiled resting his forehead against mine and I blushed opening my eyes and looking into his feeling my heart melt still going crazy that all of this was indeed real.

"Hi.." I answered and he leaned in again kissing my lips again and this time I relaxed some more snaking my arms around his neck and playing with soft hair while he kissed me passionately.

When we pulled away, I rested my head on his shoulder while he smiled kissing the top of my head holding me close while whispering proudly "I'm your new boyfriend.." and I smiled nodding my head and kissing the side of his neck before looking up and kissing his lips again.

I think this is an intersting concept so here you go..lmk if you like it :)

[thisisrealy2kok]

Pacific Blue - Amore (2000)

[todaysfish]

Okay, mis petite amores, today’s fish is a little less flashy, but still - they glow. In this post you will learn about fish candles, overland grease trails, and a theory on the state of Oregon.

I would like to introduce you to Thaleichthyes pacificus, also known as the eulachon (you-luh-con, in the lower 48; hooligan in Alaska; oolighan in Chinook Jargon)Also known as the candlefish.

These are tiny smelt - but they are also extremely fatty fish.

With up to 15% of their body weigh being fat tissue, if you dry one out and string it on a wick, YOU CAN LITERALLY BURN IT LIKE A CANDLE.

They’re anadromous, like salmon, so they live in the ocean during most of their lives but spawn in freshwater rivers - though they’re rather less predictable.

Indigenous communities on North America’s Pacific coast included eulachon as part of their diet, and often processed them for oil - which is done by letting them rot in a hole in the ground for about a week before adding boiling water and skimming the oil off the top.

Eulachon oil was so widely traded between coastal tribes and inland tribes that the trade routes were called grease trails.

In fact, one archaeologist argued in a paper that the name of the state of Oregon was derived from the Chinook Jargon word - oolighan.

A few distinct population segments of eulachon are threatened or endangered, so at this point I would not in good conscience recommend setting any on fire.

[intothemultifandom]

– 𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐀 || 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫

SUMMARY: If you were only ever created to serve Arishem, it did not feel like it. Not when you’d grown to cherish your people in the South Pacific and the entirety of Earth as reverently as you did and not when your heart, artificial or not, belonged to a man from beneath the sea. PAIRINGS: Namor x Eternal!Reader TAGS/WARNINGS: fluff ; light angst ; spoilers for Eternals (2021)

If you were only ever created to serve Arishem, it did not feel like it.

Not when you’d grown to cherish your people in the South Pacific and the entirety of Earth as reverently as you did and not when your heart, artificial or not, belonged to a man from beneath the sea.

In the aftermath of Ajak’s death, of Sersei’s frantic call that detailed what was happening–it didn’t take you too long to gather your belongings, to retrieve all the documents you needed just in case before you rushed behind your house, down the pathway and towards the secluded formation that was hidden deep behind your home.

In the cove you’d created decades ago, he waits for you as he always does. Somehow always finding his way back to your little hideout, again and again, as devoted as the waves that lapped at your shore.

Skin beaded with water, dark eyes pinned on you, always on you–the man you find does not match the names he’d been given over the past five hundred years, a fraction to your own existence. 

K'uk'ulkan. Niño sin amor. Namor. 

Legends only ever depicted him as one of two things: The merciless feathered serpent god worshipped by a long existing culture or the child without love, he who would light the world aflame if only he was not shackled to the ocean. 

Here in this refuge you’d created, however, you’d learned that he was more than just that. Had spent nearly four hundred years unearthing every cavern of his mind, body and soul.

Without saying it, you know his worry has guided him through the currents today. 

“I came to make sure you were unhurt after the Earthquake,” he says lowly, lacking the teasing lilt he often greeted you with. “But it seems you might know more than me already...”.

The armour you wear is dappered in metallic [favourite colour] with [complimentary colour] accents, something he has not seen before in all of your years together.

Wearing it not even a week after the world felt Tiamut’s movement is all the evidence he needs, a damning fact that the tremors felt all over the world are more than what they are. 

Slowly, Namor rises from the water and as he does, sea-foam bubbles around him, the worry you weren’t even aware had begun to fester dispersing just the same. 

“I take it this is not for pleasure?” he continues, his nonchalance contradicted by the twitch of winged ankles. 

“I’m afraid not,” you reply in lieu of your normal greeting.

His eyes linger on the glow of your hands, of the way your shoulders and arms are taught in a way he is unfamiliar with and you’re warmly reminded that he is not the only one who has been made bare before in this cove. 

As detailed as you can, you explain to him what you had learned in the past few hours: Arishem had created your family to evolve the human species, not for their own betterment; but so their progression could provide enough energy for a Celestial to emerge from the Earth’s core once the Deviants were eliminated.

The world is ending, you reveal, almost choking on the cold, ugly truth. 

When Sersei had explained it the first time, between rasped breaths and soft cries, you didn’t allow yourself time to lament what it all meant.

But now, seeing what you’ve come to consider the architect of your very being in front you, the truth unravels in a way that you cannot deny what it is.

An anchor that will drown you, or has drowned you already, considering all you’ve lost before. The people, memories, the love. 

"We’ve never fought a Celestial before,” you admit, thinking of Thena, anguished and desperate, the echo of infinity seared into her gaze, before you think of your people and of him. “But we want this planet to be our last. I want it to be my last.” 

It is not the words, but they might as well be.  

In an instant, Namor grips your wrist, pulling you back into him as you huff with surprise. 

His arms band around your waist, keeping you caged where he can nose along the column of your neck, hear the hitch in your breath at his closeness.

“If this is then true, tell me why I shouldn’t persuade you to stay with me?” he growls lowly at the base of your throat, easily shifting between calm and not, as fluid as the sea. “I could compel you to stay here where it’s safe, where you can stay here with me,”.

You can’t help but groan under the ministrations of his teeth on your skin when he begins to nibble, hands moving towards his face as you summon every ounce of sensibility in you to turn his head away. A hard feat, given the way your blood sings as slivers of his siren melody bleed into his words. 

“Because though you would rather see the world burn, you would protect your people by any means necessary,” you gasp, feeling your fondness for him swell when he stills, caught.

For Talocan, Namor would protect his Kingdom by any means and at any cost. Even if he despised the rest of the world and would gladly burn the surface asunder, he would not condemn his people to burn, too. 

You and your family, as splintered as they’ve come to be, are the greatest gamble he can take to save them and everyone else. Even if it means he can’t join you.

Silent in his defeat, Namor–sweet, enchanting Namor– tilts your head to his languidly, leaning forward and bringing you in a kiss that makes you both want to leave and surrender yourself to him all at once.

Humming, he slots your mouths together even more as he shifts you in his arms, and you have to swallow the moan the bubbles in your throat once he pulls away, fingers digging into the flesh of your hips. 

“The ocean has given me many miracles, mi puksik’al. But it has also given me many tragedies...” he says hoarsely, after a moment.

Leaning his forehead against your own to stare you deep in the eyes, it’s a wonder he’s only ever been called cruel and monstrous things when he all he is is bewitching. Wondrous even as he pleads: “I cannot afford one more, [Your Name].” 

As he breathes, you press your nose against his and do the same. Feeling your heart break and mend all at once as you take life from his breath. 

When you first landed on Earth, you found that there was no greater resource on the planet than its ocean. Deep, vast and endless. A force that could give as easily as it took away. 

You’d revered it and its various forms the same way you did the man before you. Perhaps less than him now, you admit in this moment, when he leans back and brushes his lips against the crown of your head. 

“Come back to me,” comes the murmur. “Meent’ uts”.

Closing your eyes, all you can do is nod as you take in the scent of salt and tears, rasping, “E lele le toloa ae ma’au i le auvai” as you surge upward to breathe him in once more. 

NOTES:

Since all the Eternals all belong to different ethnic groups, Reader is Polynesian. I imagine her living somewhere on the island of Niue, as it is a coral atoll and has natural coves and chasms already though you can imagine otherwise.  

The way Reader “takes life from his breath” when pressing their forehead against Namor’s references the Maori people and the action of the hongi, which recalls the Māori legend of the creation of the first earthly woman, Hineahuone. She was formed from clay by the creator god Tāne, who then breathed life into her nostrils.

“E lele le toloa ae ma’au i le auvai” is a Samoan proverb meaning that life may take someone far from home but they will always return. Case and point: Reader and Namor. 

E lele le toloa ae ma’au i le auvai = The toloa bird flies far, but will always return to the water.

I am not an expert in the Mayan/Yucate language, which I believe is the main language Namor speaks, but I’ve taken the following translations from various online sources and apologise sincerely if its not quite right. Please correct me where I’m wrong and I’ll note it down for future reference. I’d also appreciate any reputable linguistic sources for all my fanfics moving forward, but anyway:

mi puksik’al = my heart

Meent’ uts = please

[astarab1aze]

i mentioned mharra's (simplified) underlying themes to lune, so i thought it a good idea to sort of do the same for my other muses!

asuka: maturation, self-discovery, growth, a child who sees the world for what it really is for the first time but struggles and adapts, attachment, expression, the wonder and whimsy that persists in a violent and ugly world, unconditional acceptance and foolish love, powerlessness

crovita: relearning how to trust, motherhood, coping with the consequences of one's actions, a woman who sees the world for what it really is all the time, finds the hope and reason to keep fighting for it, tenderness, compassion, womanhood, beauty, sensuality

furie: disillusionment, doubt, loss of faith, having all this power and still being powerless, grief, coming to terms with loss and opening oneself to new possibilities and relationships, entrapment, doomed by the gods, false freedom, cryptic and acheful wisdom

hydre: the breaking and continuing of a cycle, 'eating one's feelings', the inevitability of passion and sloth, dysfunctional family, thinly veiled revenge, a supreme being growing fond of mortals they hate, the introduction of meaning, godhood, amorality, a life with purpose but no meaning

kaede: internalization of abuse, confusion, grief, self-loathing, slowly healing from various extreme traumas, self-abandonment, sexualization of connection, intensity, sitting on the cusp of breaking a cycle yet being too afraid not to use one's trauma as a crutch

loux: extreme self-abandonment, explicit continuance of a cycle of misery, death, and self-abuse, a literal inability to let go, 'the bad guy who redeems himself in the end', corrupted noble goals, family trauma & dysfunction, amorality, intensity, raw ambition, mercy

mharra: apathy, hopeless cynicism, loneliness, unwillingness to rely on anyone else for help to solve devastating personal issues, hatred for war & environmental destruction, stoicism, loss, intensity

sortia: sadomasochism, immorality, the loss and reclamation of oneself, intensity, wanton cruelty, extreme self-abandonment, insatiable and misguided hunger for power, vengeance, the violence of womanhood, what comes of a broken heart

vayn: hope and love persisting in spite of the horror of trauma and life et al, kindness and understanding in the face of evil, extreme pacifism, resisting one's true nature, healing, sexualization of love itself, family trauma & dysfunction, victimhood, loss of freedom, sanctuary

viresca: endless curiosity & thirst for knowledge, vengeance, a willingness to do the unthinkable to accomplish one's goals, slowest corruption, resilience, awkward youth, lack of understanding, propriety, family trauma & dysfunction, coping with abuse instead of doing something about it, keeping one's word

[fishrpg]

2024-09-01: Episode 1 (The Pilot)

Original airdate July 1, 1992

Episode Synopsis

Marine biologist Dr. Allison Beeker discovers a group of talking fish folk during a research trip to the Pacific Ocean. The gang of fish folk is curious about life on land, and Dr. Beeker invites them to stay in the Fresno Aquarium so they can learn about human culture. Dr. Beeker tells the gang that many humans are not taking good care of the environment, and there is a local business mogul (Boris Ozonevich) that is guilty of polluting the town by dumping chemicals into the Fresno River. Unfortunately, the city doesn’t believe that SynCorp is behind the pollution because SynCorp has a bunch of henchmen working at city hall who make sure the environmental quality tests don’t get reported. The gang must steal a barrel of toxic chemicals from the SynCorp factory to use as evidence, tip off the local news about the verifiable presence of toxic chemicals, and get the local SynCorp factory shut down.

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Character of Note: Boris Ozonevich

In addition to introducing recurring character Allison Beeker, the pilot also introduced Boris Ozonevich, the chief antagonist of the series. He is coded as an eastern European character who speaks with a Russian accent. He wears a gray business suit with red accents and the cut of the suit jacket is clearly inspired by Soviet officer uniforms.

Boris is an amoral business mogul who constantly tries to amass more economic power as quickly as possible so he can eventually monopolize an entire industry. In addition to pumping profits by cutting corners on safety, Boris is also known to disrupt his successful competitors by polluting or sabotaging their products. Boris also has a lot of minions who work in local government roles, and they are clearly depicted as being both evil and incompetent, yet no characters comment on this.

[01zfan]

are you boycotting the riize comeback

nope! only thing riize related i plan on boycotting is their upcoming collab with etude house (etude house is owned by amore pacific which is linked to vanguard investments; one of the 22 companies that have investments in israel) other than that i plan to fully support their comeback and attend their upcoming tour!