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You can roam the world and not return home to a cell-phone bill that rips itself from its envelope and frightens your dog. All it takes is stealth... and a phone that doesn't start with i.
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History recalls that Martin Cooper, an executive with Motorola, made the first cellular telephone call on April 3, 1973. He called Joel Engel, the head of Bell Labs research — possibly to gloat. Martin Cooper's development of the cellular telephone was inspired by watching Captain Kirk talking to the Enterprise through a hand-held communicator on Star Trek.
Martin Cooper also made the last really simple cellular telephone call... also on April 3, 1973. Cell phones have been getting increasingly complex and impenetrable ever since.
Contemporary cell phones are truly breathtaking works of technology, but if you plan to take one traveling — especially traveling to another country — you'll probably have cause to curse Martin Cooper and everyone who looks like him at least once during the journey. In fairness, however, it's not really his fault.
The people who make contemporary cell phones clever and intuitive and more powerful than all the computers on earth in 1973 put together are, sadly, not the same conniving weasely misshapen trolls who sell them and run the networks that communicate with them. These latter parties are the cause of most of the confusion and almost all the shocking phone bills that cell phone users have come to associate with these ubiquitous devices.
It's probably worth pointing out that this article will deal primarily with taking a cell phone from North America to somewhere else on earth — which will serve to explain the use of the term "cell phone" rather than "mobile phone" thus far. This having been said, the issues to be discussed herein are largely applicable everywhere, and readers in other parts of the world should be able to apply them equally well.
The act of uprooting your cell phone from the community in which it was purchased and wandering about with it will usually be referred to in the extremely tiny print of the agreement you signed upon acquiring it as "roaming." This being one of the few words in such agreements having fewer than five syllables, you should be able to spot it reasonably easily.
In order to understand cell phone roaming — and in doing so to avoid both roaming to places where your cell phone is useful only as a low-end digital camera, and to places where a minute of air time costs as much as a decent automobile — you'll need to get the issue of cell phone networks firmly by the throat. This isn't a trivial undertaking, because cell phone networks have been devised to be exceedingly slippery.
There are a number of formal structures by which cell phone networks manage the data that moves the voices of people talking primarily about their new phones between handsets. These structures are call "network protocols," and you don't want to know how they work. The only thing you need to know about them is that they don't play at all well with each other.
In North America, most cell phone networks use a protocol called CDMA, with a few exceptions using an alternate protocol called GSM. These acronyms stand for "code division multiple access" and "global system for mobile" respectively. Your head's probably already starting to hurt.
You doubtless need not be told that CDMA phones won't communicate on a GSM network, GSM phones won't communicate on a CDMA network and CDMA and GSM phones won't communicate on CDMA and GSM networks owned by carriers other than the one who sold you your phone without the payment of some sort of fee.
In most parts of North America, cell phone carriers have mutual back-scratching arrangements with other carriers who use the same network technology to allow for roaming. For example, my cell phone carrier is Telus Mobility, in Canada. I can take my Telus phone — actually a CDMA device — to the United States, where it will probably connect to a Verizon CDMA network and allow me to keep talking. In this case, talk won't be cheap — Telus wants 95 cents per minute for roaming, plus an additional 50 cents per minute for long distance.
Among many other places, I could also take my Telus CDMA phone to India, where it would connect to the Reliance Mobile CDMA network therein.
My Telus CDMA phone wouldn't be of much use in Great Britain, however, where all the networks are GSM.
As a rough guideline, CDMA networks are more common in North America, and GSM networks are more common just about everywhere else. This would suggest that cell phone users who anticipate traveling outside North America would do well to sign up with a GSM carrier, such as AT&T/Cingular or T-Mobile in the United States or Rogers Wireless in Canada. In practice, this involves two potential catches — these GSM networks don't always offer the broadest North American coverage, and they embody some truly impressive roaming fees if you use them for what they're really good at.
If you won't be wandering outside the range of the available North American GSM networks when you're at home — said networks, in fairness, are growing more widely available even as you read this — and you're prepared to return from your travels to find a cell phone bill with an awful lot of digits after the dollar sign, GSM international roaming is a cool toy. People will be able to phone your local North American cell number and talk to you on another continent. They'll be impressed.
Alternately, should the thought of a phone bill that rivals the annual salary of an elected official disturb you — or if you'd just like to go on vacation and not have every friend, colleague and telemarketer with your phone number play a ring tone of The Yellow Rose of Texas in your ear at two in the morning local time — you might want to consider a different sort of roaming.
Mobile phone networks in Europe are somewhat different from those in North America. Mobile phone carriers in the old world are breathtakingly competitive, which has driven the cost of using mobile phones across the pond down to practically nothing. The phones are extremely affordable too. Everyone with a working pair of lips and at least one ear seems to have one.
During a recent visit to Britain, I noticed a number of Vodafone vending machines selling mobile phones, all ready to start talking as soon as they popped out of the machine.
While most European mobile carriers offer monthly billing plans comparable to those used in North America, wherein you can buy a fixed number of minutes per month for a fixed price, they're infrequently used. The majority of mobile phones in Europe are "pay-as-you-go," wherein users add money to their mobile phone accounts as they need it. Because pay-as-you-go phones are so common, the network to pay for them is as well. Each mobile phone account comes with a plastic swipe card — there's one shown to the right. Take the card and your plastic or some cash into any shop that handles mobile phone updates — which is pretty much anything with a cash register — and your account can be updated in about a minute. You won't even need the phone in question.
Unlike cell phones with a contract, the mobile phone carriers that offer pay-as-you-go phones don't care where you live, or even what planet you do it on. As such, you can buy a phone in Europe and use it locally without anyone caring that you're clearly not from around there.
Because pay-as-you-go phones don't come with a contract, the mobile phone carrier in question won't be providing you with a free phone, and as such won't insist that you buy a prearranged number of minutes each month, or promise to use their network for the next few years.
Unlike a North American cell phone that's roaming in Europe, a local European mobile phone is unspeakably cheap. In Great Britain, as of this writing, pay-as-you-go mobile calls within the country cost as little as ten pence a minute, or about twenty cents. Overseas calls can cost as little as six pence per minute. Incoming calls are free on most networks.
Phones in Britain start at about ten pounds, and can be found in shops like ASDA — what Walmart calls itself there — and Argos. Admittedly, most of the phones available for ten pounds are pink.
As I write this, my father-in-law has just come over from Britain for a visit. He has a T-Mobile GSM Motorola KRZR phone that he paid 50 pounds for at Argos, or about a hundred dollars. It's identical to my Telus CDMA KRZR, which cost about four hundred dollars. I find this mildly irksome.
If you buy a local pay-as-you-go phone, you'll need to call or e-mail anyone back home that you want to keep in touch with and give them your local phone number... and the international dialing codes for the country you're in, of course.
Unlike most North American cell phone carriers, money in a European mobile phone account doesn't expire and disappear after a month as a rule, and you need not add money to one every thirty days to keep it alive. The details of mobile phone accounts vary somewhat between carriers, and it's worth reading the small print.
One of the issues that's not usually covered in the small print of pay-as-you-go phone agreements is the amount of time your account can be idle — while your phone is sitting in a drawer in Texas between vacations — before your account, its phone number and any funds associated with them all vanish in a puff of smoke. In the case of the UK mobile phone I have, it's about six months. Orange, the mobile phone network I use in Britain, says that they'll "quarantine" inactive numbers for an additional six months, during which time they can be reactivated.
If your overseas mobile account lapses, it's easy to get a new account and a new number. You'll lose a few pounds or euros — whatever funds were associated with your old number — and you'll have to distribute a new phone number to your friends back home, which is mildly inconvenient.
It's relatively easy to sneak around this issue if you keep in mind that the earlier discussion of roaming works both ways. European GSM phones can roam to the new world. If you bring your GSM phone back with you, it should connect to a North American GSM network in your area and be able to receive calls placed to your European phone number.
As long as you answer a call on your European mobile phone or receive a text message thereof more frequently than once every six months, your account should stay active. Just phone yourself, tell yourself you're having a wonderful time and hang up. The call will probably cost you about a dollar, but you need only place two or three of them per year.
There's one fairly important consideration in using this approach to keeping your overseas account active. Not all the world's GSM networks use the same radio frequencies. There are four distinct frequency bands available to GSM phones. To make sure your phone will work on any GSM network it encounters, make sure you buy a "quad band" phone. These things usually cost a bit more than base-model mobile phones, but they can go anywhere.
The Motorola Razr phones and their progeny are my favorite quad-band phones at the moment.
I should point out that when you roam — even through you're actually roaming home in this case — you won't need an account on the network that picks up your roaming phone. In my case, my Orange UK mobile phone, for which I do have an account in Britain, connects to the Rogers Wireless network in Canada, for which I don't have an account. Rogers thinks I'm a visiting British tourist and bills any activity on my phone back to Orange, which debits some money from my Orange account, and presumably pays Rogers Wireless. Everyone gets paid, and no one really cares where I live.
If you plan to keep a European GSM phone alive in North America, it's a good idea to either stock up its account with a substantial amount of money before you catch your flight home, or set up your account with a credit card having a reasonably long expiry date so you can top up your GSM phone over the web. If the money in your phone runs out before you bring it back for a visit, you won't be able to phone yourself on it.
Should you buy a cell phone in Europe — to work with a GSM network — you'll unquestionably get involved with a plastic smart card called a SIM, or a "subscriber identification module." A SIM tells a GSM phone who you are, and as such, what your mobile phone number is. It links your phone with your account information in the computers that your mobile phone carrier uses to keep track of their subscribers.
If you transfer your SIM from one mobile phone to another, the recipient phone will adopt your number and account information, and become your phone.
At least, this is almost completely true. If you transfer the SIM card from one Orange mobile phone to another Orange mobile phone, for example, all will be well. If you transfer the SIM card from an Orange mobile phone to the phone of another carrier, such as T-Mobile, the recipient phone will complain and fail to connect to its network.
The same thing is true for most GSM phones from North America, although as there are very few North American carriers that run GSM networks, this issue is unlikely to arise over here.
Most mobile GSM phones sold by specific carriers are said to be "locked" — they'll only work with SIM cards provided by the carriers who sell them. As the term might imply, there's nothing preventing GSM phones from migrating between carriers save for this lock, and the lock can be picked.
An unlocked GSM phone can accept a SIM card from any carrier.
As a rule, mobile phone carriers dislike the idea of unlocked cell phones because a locked phone makes it prohibitively expensive for the customers of one carrier to jump ship and pop in a SIM card from another carrier. Changing carriers means buying a new phone.
Not all cell phone carriers are married to the issue of locking phones quite as passionately as they used to be. Some North American carriers who manage GSM networks will unlock the phones they sell if they're asked to, sometimes upon payment of a fee or after several months of use. It's worth inquiring with your carrier or reading the fine print.
Keep in mind that if you buy a cell phone outright, it's yours — you should be free to use it any way you please, subject only to local laws. You probably should consult the agreement under which you acquired your phone to ensure that it doesn't include language to the effect that the phone remains the property of the carrier — and you should certainly never enter into a contract with a carrier that includes clauses like this in its agreement.
As much as mobile phone carriers on both sides of the pond frown on the use of unlocked phones, using them is not illegal or even slightly nasty. If I transfer my Orange SIM card to another phone, Orange will still debit my Orange account and get paid just as if I'd been using the phone I originally bought from them. If I decide to switch to T-Mobile, or use my GSM phone in Canada with Rogers Wireless or in the United States with Cingular, I'll have to set up an account with the carrier in question and pay them.
Using an unlocked cell phone will allow you to choose the carrier you want to deal with — it's not a way to avoid paying for cell phone service, and as such, it doesn't constitute cheating or defrauding anyone.
Most GSM phones can be unlocked, either by updating their internal software or just by entering a magic code through their key pads. A few minutes with Google will turn up innumerable resources to address this, for free or for a small charge.
I find it easier to just buy pre-unlocked phones. My favorite supplier for these is Tiger Direct, which offers a range of unlocked GSM phones at competitive prices. They're typically last year's cool phones, so they're not prohibitively expensive, and they're already unlocked and ready to go. They usually come with the regalia of a specific carrier printed on them — the Motorola GSM Razr phone I use at present has an AT&T logo on its case and a Cingular splash screen — but as they're unlocked, they'll work with whatever network you obtain a SIM card from.
Most European mobile phone suppliers will be happy to give you a SIM card at a nominal cost or for free. Orange, for example, wants one pound for theirs, but if you know the secret page at their web site, they'll snail-mail up to four of them to any UK address for free as of this writing. You'll need a friend or relation in Britain to make this work — the URL for the secret web page in question is at the end of this article.
T-Mobile in the UK has a similar page, also to be found at the end of this article.
If you sign up with a North American cell phone carrier that uses a GSM network, and you buy an unlocked quad-band phone, you could actually use the same phone on two or more GSM networks by changing SIM cards. For example, if you sign up with Cingular in the United States and travel to Britain, you could have a local account with Orange in the UK by removing Cingular's SIM card and installing an Orange SIM card during the flight over. It's worth noting, however, that SIM cards are relatively fragile entities, and they probably won't put up with an infinite number of extractions and re-insertions.
Further to this, the metal clip that holds a SIM card in some cell phones is usually made of diaphanously thin steel. These things tend to bow slightly after a while, and in so doing fail to keep the SIM cards they're supposed to be holding tightly connected. If your phone uses this mechanism and transplanted SIM card isn't recognized, or if it becomes erratic, open your phone, remove the SIM card and reshape the metal clip and try the card again.
There are a number of additional things to keep in mind about traveling with a cell phone. Actually, the following list barely dips its toes in this turgid and serpent-infested swamp of an issue, but it's a beginning. You'll no doubt encounter a few more on your travels. If it wasn't frought with unexpected surprises, you couldn't call it an adventure.
As an aside, one of the less obvious issues involved in taking your cell phone to another continent may be how to keep it charged. While this situation varies between phones, most of the new ones can be charged through a USB port. This means that you can charge them with a USB cable connected to your laptop, assuming that your laptop will be accompanying you. You can also just buy an inexpensive USB charger when you get where you're going. Finally, most plug-in chargers will work on anywhere from 110 to 240 volts, and as such can be plugged in anywhere with nothing more than an adapter to take care of the different electric plugs involved. Do check this one out carefully, however — plugging a 110-volt-only charger into 240 volts will cause it to produce copious quantities of blue smoke, and it will probably smoke your phone as well. The range of operating voltages for a charger should be printed on it.
- If you're an infrequent traveler abroad, you might notice that overseas car rental companies will rent you a mobile phone. These things are nasty as a rule — you'll typically receive a very large, very old cell phone at a cost that far exceeds the purchase price of a low-end local GSM phone. If your rented phone disappears or is damaged, you'll be expected to pay for it, too. Don't go there.
- There's a link to a GSM Phone Index page at the end of this article, should you be curious about which GSM networks will allow roaming with other GSM networks around the world. Most countries have at least one.
- As of this writing, most jurisdictions in North America impose few restrictions upon your use of a cell phone while you're driving. Many European countries have very much more draconian laws in this regard. If you're caught with a phone in your ear whilst behind the wheel, you may be fined and the police will almost certainly take your phone. In the event that you get involved in a traffic accident that results in significant property damage, injury or death and you turn out to have been using your phone when the world came to an end — keep in mind that both your cell phone and your cell phone carrier's network will keep a record of the time and duration of your calls — you might not be coming home for several years. Make sure you read up on the local statutes regarding mobile phones and cars.
- You can buy overseas SIMs from several sources, all ready with a phone number and some money in their accounts to get you started, so your GSM phone is good to go as soon as you step off the plane. Telestial has been supplying these things for some time — their web page is listed at the end of this article. They also sell GSM phones. Acquiring a SIM from Telestial will almost certainly cost you more than getting one from a local cell phone shop after you land, but it will save you some degree of bother at the commencement of your trip, especially if the staff of the local mobile phone emporia speak a language other than yours. I should note that I haven't used Telestial.
- The discussion of unlocking cell phones only pertains to GSM phones. If you have a CDMA phone, it's stuck with the carrier who sold it to you until the end of time, and anyone who offers to change this for you is likely fibbing. Should you be uncertain whether your phone uses GSM or CDMA technology, remove the back and look at the battery compartment. If it's a GSM phone, there will be a removable SIM card therein.
- Canadian cell phone users might want to keep an eye on what the Canadian federal government is up to — its proposed Bill C-61 update to the Canadian copyright legislation intimates that it could outlaw unlocked cell phones. As vaguely worded as it is badly thought out, it doesn't address the issue specifically. If you live north of the border, write your MP. Let us know if you find an MP who actually seems to be listening.
As an aside, while Telus Mobility appears in this article as an example of a North American CDMA cell phone carrier — and it is in fact the cell phone network I use in the colonies at the moment — I'd be reluctant to have this seen as an endorsement. Somewhat fixated upon the "bottom line" of late, various additional fees and service charges have crept into their once-competitive pricing, most recently a fifteen cent surcharge on incoming text messages — something that's free in most other parts of the world. If I were looking for a new cell phone carrier today, Telus probably wouldn't top my list of prospective choices.
Some of the mobile phone suppliers and related links mentioned in this article:
- Orange UK Mobile Phones: http://www.orange.co.uk/
- T-Mobile UK Mobile Phones: http://www.t-mobile.co.uk
- Vodafone UK Mobile Phones: http://www.vodafone.co.uk
- Rogers Wireless Canadian Mobile Phones: http://www.rogers.com
- T-Mobile US Mobile Phones: http://www.t-mobile.com
- Verizon Wireless US Mobile Phones: http://www.verizonwireless.com
- AT&T / Cingular US Mobile Phones: http://www.wireless.att.com
- Free Orange SIM Cards: http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/freesim
- Free T-Mobile SIM Cards: http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/sim-card-only/
- Tiger Direct: http://www.tigerdirect.com
- Telestial: http://www.telestial.com
- GSM Phone Index: http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml
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Asim Qureshi has a legal background specialising in International and Islamic Law. He is currently employed as the Research Director at Cageprisoners where he has led investigations across the world.
The very feature of current UK counter-terrorism policy in the civil law system, is that it applies to those who are considered to be "undesirable" rather than those who have committed a criminal act. The British public should be wary of such centralisation of arbitrary orders, as such policies will eventually end up affecting those they never originally intended.
In the early part of 2013, Theresa May announced that new rules under the royal prerogative would permit the Home Office wider powers to remove the passports of those considered "demonstrably undesirable". On September 13, the first recorded incident of passport removal was brought to the attention of CagePrisoners. According to the letter sent to the individual, the HM Passport Office explains:
"The letter is to inform you that the [above] passport is cancelled and you are no longer permitted to use this document to travel to and from the United Kingdom. There is no entitlement to a passport. The decision to issue, withdraw or refuse to issue a British passport is a matter for the Secretary of State for the Home Department."
The individual was not provided with any specific information of criminal activity that would warrant the revocation of the passport. Instead, the letter outlined:
"The Home Secretary considers that it is not in the public interest that you should hold a passport. You are not considered a person whose past, present or proposed activities are so undesirable that the grant or continued enjoyment of passport facilities is believed to be contrary to the interest."
In the wake of this new form of civil sanction, what does all this mean?
These policies come in the wake of fears by the UK security establishment that British citizens and residents are travelling to countries such as Syria to train and potentially become a threat to the British public on their return.
While the government argues the need for such laws, it is worth reflecting on the current state of policies that exist in order to deter potential "undesirables".
Denying re-entry
For those who wish to leave the country, providing they have some form of dual-nationality or tie to a foreign country, the Home Secretary has the ability to arbitrarily remove their citizenship, thus enabling it to deny them re-entry into the UK. The case of Mahdi Hashi highlights the way in which a British citizen suspected of extremism had his British citizenship removed without any due process considerations. An investigation conducted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism for The Independent provided a damning insight into the extent to which this power is used, all within the secret evidence apparatus of the security agencies.
The Home Secretary further has the power to inhibit the activities of individuals by subjecting them to a TPIM (Terrorism Prevention Investigation Measures) that followed the pledge by the Liberal Democrats in 2010 to scrap the previous system of control orders. Yet when the coalition government brought TPIMs into force in December 2011, it was clear that this new regime did little to restore civil liberties. As has been documented widely by CagePrisoners and many other human rights organisations, TPIMs are simply control orders rebranded.
Similarly to the cases of citizenship removal, the Home Secretary is permitted to make an arbitrary decision on the application of this order based on closed or secret evidence provided by the security agencies. The measures permit May to restrict the movements of individuals and keep them under strict forms of surveillance. Such restrictions can be particularly inhibiting as described by one TPIM subject:
"Physiologically drained, financially crippled and emotionally depressed, in short. One's entire life is consumed by this monstrous and inhumane regime, life virtually evolves around the set of obligations. Every aspect of life is radically controlled by the Order. Every decision made in life must consider and accommodate the Order. Whether you're planning to marry and start a family, begin a career. Every minute detail in life is adversely affected. You're frozen in time, you have to put things back, decide against taking steps in life. The security services have been successful in engineering a system which effectively renders a controlee a living ghost. Consider the mental impact of being on an indefinite control order - in a complete sense of limbo - even convicted terrorists are afforded the privilege of knowing when their sentence will end! I wouldn't even like to imagine the possible long term effects of this oppressive Order."
Unintended consequences
The TPIMs can be applied to UK nationals, residents and even foreign nationals who are considered to be "extremists" or "not conducive to the public good". There is however one further mechanism that can be used by the Home Secretary in order to arbitrarily impact on undesirables, and that is through the use of deportation orders. As was seen with the case of Abu Qatada, the Home Secretary had been pushing for him to be removed from the UK for reasons of him being 'undesirable' to UK interests, but yet never brought a case to prove any of the allegations against him.
The current arsenal of counter-terrorism policies and legislation that are possessed by May go well beyond the three civil law orders that she can arbitrarily apply. The prospect that further legislation or policies are needed in order to restrict the movements of those living in the UK is absurd, particularly when the vague wording of the policies are considered. The very feature of current UK counter-terrorism policy in the civil law system, is that it applies to those who are considered to be "undesirable" rather than those who have committed a criminal act. The British public should be wary of such centralisation of arbitrary orders, as such policies will eventually end up affecting those they never originally intended.
Asim Qureshi has a legal background specialising in International and Islamic Law. He is currently employed as the Research Director at Cageprisoners where he has led investigations across the world. With his team of researchers, he has written and published reports exposing the use of unlawful detention, rendition, and torture in the 'war on terror'.
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Let's Play Pokemon! by SpufflezWatch
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The lighting is a tad bad to the right but Pokemon Blue is in the Gameboy Colour and Pokemon Trading Card Game is in the Gameboy Advance.
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Wow nice!!
Looks like your GBA's battery is running low.
well shit thats alot
that's me 2, always have 4 ds on the go
a TRUE fan!!!!
dang that's a lot of pokemon games I have black2 and I beat it already I have sapphire also but I cant play it because my Gameboys broken and so is my ds lite
Woah... awesome collection!! i'm jealous! :3
So many games
I'm sooo jelly >_<
Hehe, this is cute! I like it.
Oh my lordy....
My childhood . . .
Wait, you even have the original NDS? Wow, Impressive.
do you have gates to infinity?
°_°Poké-paradise *Q* !!! i want the emerald version :c i think is the best game !! ^.^
Soon you can add X and Y to this :3
I love pokemon <3
They all look the same to me.
I have all if those systems too.0. I just don't have all those games xc
My god. XD Thats awesome!
damn look at all thoes handhelds but your missing the nano
nice systems!
your a true pokemon master XD
I'm jealous...
Fan of Pokemon games much? XD
I have Sapphire! That was my favorite as a kid!
I'll Try Ruby, groudon is my fav! ^^
Epic Collection
Nice collection o.o
This is awesome!! too epic indeed!
Whoa ._.
Be prepared for X and Y!
Ah good to see you have mystery dungeon blue rescue team, my favorite of any pokemon game : )
Can't wait for X and Y!!!!
Dude, you haven't got the console that started this all off, no DMG!
I`ve been playing this since it came out ^^ best game series ever ^^
I have these sheets! But only 19 cartridges total. And 3 DSs and 2 GBAs.
You beat me.
You beat me.
yes please!!!
I HAD THAT BLANKET!!!!!! and almost all those games, and a ds lite and a blue GBA SP too and the pikachu GBC (tho mine was silver and had pichu at the battery light)
Ah..... Pokemon Crystal, I loved that game SO much! One time, when I was younger, we had a yard sale, and my oldest brother, (I have two) was selling some stuff. Being me, I walked around, since the whole neighborhood had stuff out. A boy who lived across from us had the game. I asked him where he got it, and he replied he had gotten it from my brother, and I nearly died. luckily I got it back, but... I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS NOW!!! TT^TT
So... Much... Pokemon...
Now thats what i call true devotion
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After using the Black Magic mascara by Eyeko, I didn't have much excitement for this one. But if I was to compare the 2, I like this one a lot better. My lashes don't clump at all and it lengthens my lashes too. I don't notice too much flaking but I think it helps that I don't have to keep applying more to declump my lashes. Just a little warning, this is extremely waterproof. It can sometimes be a big pain in the butt to remove so sometimes I have to get it off with eye makeup remover before using my cleansing oil.
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Age: 19-24
Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
This mascara has good and bad points. I love the brush and it definitely volumises my lashes. Some days it's will lengthen my lashes and some days they will just clump up. Even though the packaging is unique it doesn't wipe off the excess, so when I take the wand out I have to wipe it against the side. If I don't do this it will clump up my lashes with one coat, I'm not sure if this is just a dodgy one I have. It flakes off throughout the day too. I bought it when it was on offer on beauty bay, I haven't decided whether I will repurchase, I think I will try out a few other mascaras first.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
This is one of the best mascaras I've used to date. I have small, average length lashes. I use a eyelash curler always, no matter the mascara and the results when I curl my lashes and apply a coat of this is truly great! I bought this off ASOS,I think it was $19AUD which is good value for us considering drug store mascaras start here at $17! The quality of this maraca is really great but I do think it dried out quickly-ish.. The other downside to this is that it's waterproof and when eyeko say waterproof they MEAN IT'S WATERPROOF! I use bioderma micellar water to remove my eye make up and it has a hard time taking this mascara off. I find warm water does help, even rinsing your eyes before removing this mascara helps with the process. Overall, this is a bloody great mascara and I would recommend it for people with short lashes. I also find it makes my bottom lashes extra extra long!
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
This stuff is fantastic for bottom lashes. It doesn't smudge, flake, or anything even when it gets wet, though it doesnt say waterproof on the package. Gives a nice doll-like length. Not the best for top lashes, doesn't hold curl too well, but I will repurchase for bottom lashes. The wand is easy to use and the price was great!
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Love this mascara! Glides on lashes pretty well didnt leave any clump and stays quite long. I dont like the hassle of curling my lashes & this mascara did a good job lifting and curling them. The effect is really obvious, longer and defined lashes. Love that it's easy to remove too!
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Relaxed, Fine
Eyes: Green
I don't really know what to say about this mascara... Some days it works nicely and other days it clumps up my lashes real bad like no other mascara I've tried. And it's quite expensive where I live. I have nothing bad to say about its lengthening effect or the fact that it does not smudge at all. Maybe it's the brush... Because the product is really great.
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I really love this mascara, it gives me mega long lashes with one stroke. This is one of my hg mascara's (i have many more mascara's that i really enjoy)
The packaging is great too.
it doesn't smudge. I bought it online because eyeko doesn't sell in the Netherlands.
This is my second mascara and i will buy again!
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Blond, Other, Fine
Eyes: Green
This is a very good mascara. I don't get the poor rating.
Firts and foremost, I love the tube, it is tiny and light, does not take place in your makeup bag especially when you're on the go.
Then, the formula.
You have to love the distinct result it gives, I mean It gives a "triangular" shape, if I can call it like that. The lashes get grouped at the base and go up in a triangle-like shape. Difficult to explain but it colours more the base that the tip of the lashes... that is due to the brush that has a peculiar shape.
I like it because this is a one coat mascara, 2 coats as a maximum! So it is great when you have no time. One coat and your lashes are jet black, long and defined.
It is waterproof and it's guaranteed, lasts forever without smudging or fading. Spectacular!
and the formula is black black and very gentle with sensitive eyes (mine often get stingy with mascaras, especially the Dior ones).
Please be aware of the following, to get the best out of it:
- Never more than 2 coats...(3rd coat and it's clump city!!)
- you need to curl your lashes first (and yes, it will hold the curl!)
- it is a b*tch to remove.:o) So bi-phase remover as usual and after pleanty of hot water... and you'll need to remove the tiny bits with your fingers.
Other than that, this is a top notch mascara
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Warm
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
It's not bad. I've tried 3 Eyekos now and this is the best for me. I have short, sparse, blonde lashes and this gives lots of length & jet-black colour. Trouble is, it doesn't hold curl from my lash curlers & is clumpy. It's also tricky to get the colour onto your lashes; it seems to take ages to get good coverage. It also flakes into my eyes. It won't last the night if you sleep in it.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I have never felt the need to review a product poorly until I purchased this mascara. On application I found the mascara clumpy and needed to Separate with clean mascara brush. Was willing to get past this but then half way through my evening out for a meal with friends I realised the mascara had left black residue on my eyelids and panda eyes (after about an hours wear). Not a good look!!! Never again, il stick to Lancôme
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