My Anti Cosmetic animal testing painting and some cool ideas to use in your art journal

I love this painting, the first half is a normal girl and the other half is what she would look like if she had to go through the painthat animals do, just so we can look"PRETTY"?!

Here are some ideas For art journaling that I am loving:

• work with some ink and just add a few accents to your pages
• practise drawing
• think outside the box, look at every material as a potential piece of art journaling gold
• cut and paste down a random sentance from a book and use this as your prompt
• buy yourself a pot of gelmedium and experiment
• use paper chains(handcut) in your backgrounds
• Date your art work
• experiment with splatters

Have a good and creative weekend!DO you like it when i just post a piece of art and some prompts or should I give you more techniques or something?

Earthday: Go green and save he earth and animals

Today is Earthday, yay! So please please do your bit for animals or the enviroment today.There are so many simple things you could do today:

• Go on threadbanger and watch this for some places where you could find eco friendly clothing and accessories
  
  
  Check you cosmetics for cosmetic animal testing and download this fab app for your iphone(http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cruelty-free/id313825734?mt=8) its free!!!
• Reuse old thing in your art: cut of trimings and buttons from old garments, join stash swaps with your friends, reclaim the matierials used in you WIPs
• Cut up old magazines to create collage and find other ways to recycle in art like many of alsia burkes creations(http://www.alisaburke.blogspot.com/ )
• Switch off unused applications and lights
• Bring your own bag shopping
• Use old books as art journals or make your own from recycled paper
• Buy recycled stationary( I have some reviews coming up)
• Use flowers,leaves and other natural things in your art
• Create staemeent art to show people how bad things are
• Support charities
• Eat less meat
• Buy organic food and make your own over buying

These are just some supersimple ideas, so please do at least on of these or another earth or animal friendly thing today and remember, your art is your voice to.Chronicle where you found that nice veggie resteraunt or eco friendla hair salon, make art about the animals you saw today, inform your self about how bad your art supplies are for the enviroment and make some changes, use natural collage elemsnts and use rubbish such as old tickets from your everyday live and get active!!!!

Cosmetic animal testing

I think cosmetic animal testing should be banned.Why? Because beauty products are not a necassary for our health. Why shoul animals suffer just so that we can supposingly look pretty? Animals suffer a great deal when been tested on. This can result in liver problems swollen eyelids and bleeding. Often animals die or are killed after the testing!!Currently the big makeup company L'oreal continues to test on thousands of animals each year.They secure rabbits so that they cannot move and then test an ingrediant of them, by putting it into their eye.Rabbits are used because they have no tear ducts and cannot relife the stinging or pain.Also they often forcefed a group of animals an ingrediant until they die.These are just two terrible examples.(please click on link above for more info).

Also animals are really quite diffrent from us and therefore the results are not even all that accurate!For example the blood vessels in many animals are contributed in a diffrent way from ours, making their skin react in a slightly diffrent way.

Lastly makeup is not a need. We will not die if we do not wear makeup. But if we do animlas will die.I am not trying to say that we should stop wearing makeup.We should just urge companies to stop testing on animals.There are a few alternatives:Using existing results, i mean makeup has been around for a long time , so why should we have to create even more?If companies see this as the only way to make money, why don't they use ingredients that we already know are safe?Also we could use human volunteers.You may be apaleed by this, why should humans suffer?But consider that this is exactly what we are doing to animals.

Hopefully by know you will agree with me. But how can you help?

How can I help?

A very simple way you can help is buy nor buying from animal testing companies and more importantly supporting the ones that do.Here is a very good guide on the which ones do.Here is another good resource on how o find bad companies.