THE ONLY WAY TO POP! post + photos by amy nadine, graphic design by eunice chun I tell my clients this so much, I feel like a broken record. If you squeeze a whitehead: you inflame it and the tissue around itit bleeds and scabs over, making it harder to cover upit ends up lasting a week instead of a few daysyou might even damage the skin, leaving you with a scar. But I get it. Run hot water that is pretty hot but not so hot that you can’t touch it with your finger. Congrats, you’ve removed the head without doing any damage or inflaming it! Note: If it wasn’t a whitehead to begin with but a cystic pimple deep underneath the surface, you shouldn’t be squeezing it anyway because it’s not offensive to anyone. Tags: amy nadine, beauty, blemish, blog, DIY, do it yourself, easy, hot, how to, make up, makeup, pimple, pop, pretty, scar, skin, squeeze, the beauty department, thebeautydepartment.com, tip, tips, tutorial, washcloth, zit Related posts:
10 homemade natural beauty and spa treatments found right in your kitchen - Special Sections 10 homemade natural beauty and spa treatments found right in your kitchen BY JANUARY THOMAS For Sun-Times Media Reprints Forever searching for the Fountain of Youth, many people may find themselves spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on beauty products, salons and spa treatments each year hoping to achieve the latest and greatest skin, hair and body. You'd be amazed to find many natural and low-cost ingredients found right in your kitchen cupboard that produces amazing results and often work better than the expensive brands. Brown Sugar Lemony Body ScrubThis particular scrub has lemon, which works as a natural disinfectant. Milk Foot SoakAdd 4 cups of warmed whole milk, 2 tablespoons of Epsom Salt and 6 drops of your favorite essential oil such as lemon, sandalwood or lavender to warm footbath. Invigorating Coffee ScrubCoffee contains Magnesium and Vitamin E. Avocado Conditioning MaskMash an avocado (two for long hair) in a bowl with a fork until it is a thick, rich paste.
Basics: Perfect Brows Tutorial Happy Sunday everybody! As we all prepare our homes for annual Spring cleaning, the requests for cleaning up brows has been high on my list as well! I think it's only appropriate as the appeal for a fresh-faced look is more and more alluring as the weather warms up. So how do you get those perfect brows? Products mentioned:Sephora angled eyeliner brushLioele Automatic Eyebrow pencilThe Body Shop brow brush/comb Slanted tweezers (I don't use a specific brand but Tweezerman is excellent)Cuticle scissors Anastasia Brows in Bloom palette in Brunette (discontinued packaging but this is the same thing, or just powder duo here) As I mentioned near the beginning of the video, the perfect brows depends on the shape of your own face. What is the Golden Ratio? And here is some sweet gif action of the golden ratio for brows on my face: 1. Generally, following these key points will help to guide a basic shape into your brows, especially if you have vaguely shaped brows as I do. 1.
» Overclock Your Reading Speed This is a guest post from Kim Roach of The Optimized Life. In today’s Information Age, reading is now a prerequisite for success in life. In fact, many presidents, including Kennedy, have required their staff to take speed reading lessons. Brian Tracy, a best-selling author, points out that just 1 hour per day of reading will make you an international expert in your chosen field within 7 years. If you’re looking to increase your learning rate while decreasing your effort, speed reading is a method you should consider studying. The Brain’s Power Speed reading actually began as part of military training to identify enemy war planes. But what was interesting about this method of military training is that it began to unveil the idea that the brain could process more things visually than was previously thought. What many people don’t realize is that the mind becomes bored when it’s not constantly stimulated. 1. In fact, I would suggest skipping parts of a book that you don’t need. 2. 3. 4. 5.
BROWS 101 photos: Justin Coit for thebeautydepartment.com post by amy nadine We’ve gotten tons of requests for a brow tutorial– how to shape them, how to fill them in, how to elongate them, etc… This is so great because the correct brow shape can really lift the eye and slim the face. First let me share my #1 rule: DO NOT OVER-PLUCK!! Please! There is nothing pretty about thin overly-tweezed brows. Brows frame your eyes. Spooly brush or disposable mascara wand, cuticle scissors, angled/slant tweezers, pointed tweezers, brow shadow (taupe for blondes, brown range for everyone else), stiff brow shadow brush, pencil (to line up the angles). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. XO Amy Nadine Tags: amy nadine, beauty, blog, brow, eyebrows, lauren conrad, makeup, the beauty department, tutorial Related posts:
7 Basic Things You Won't Believe You're All Doing Wrong If you're like us, you might sometimes have a problem with complex tasks, like trying to drive an ambulance and send a text message at the same time. But hey, at least most of us have figured out the simplest things that get us through the day, right? Except, you know, some of the simple things we've done every day of our lives, like ... What could be simpler than taking a good crap? The one who just threw up on the other one's shoulder is better at pooping. Chances are the pooping facility nearest you is a sitting toilet, a relatively recent invention that flushed its way into mankind's heart with the advent of indoor plumbing in the 19th century. GettyFuture toilets will exist just to kill us. So how the hell are we meant to do it? Luckily, there's a relatively simple way to end this poop dilemma. In fact, toilets that require you to squat that way have been the standard for most of human history and are still widely used in the non-Western world. GettyFor no reason, here's an icing pipe.
How to Always Have Something Better to Talk About Than the Weather Six years ago, when I lived in a snowy mountain village and paid my bills by cleaning high-end sinks and toilets, someone said something that prompted me to confront an uncomfortable truth about myself. A well-meaning coworker mentioned that she had been talking to another housekeeper about me. Oh? “She said, ‘David is a such great guy to work with, it’s just that he’s just so quiet.‘” I don’t remember how I responded, but I assume I tried to disagree somehow, and went back to my work hoping nobody would ever say that to me again. Quiet. I remember the rest of that day. “Maybe I don’t want to talk about what any of you want to talk about. My little internal rant echoed a common human pattern, though I didn’t see it at the time: When people feel inadequate in some way, they tend to make up whatever prejudices or beliefs they need to feel okay about it. Of course, nobody realizes it while they’re doing it. The Black Hole of Social Anxiety Silence seems to quickly become the smartest policy.
Top 10 Things That Determine Happiness photo: meddygarnet Happiness is, by nature, a subjective quality with a definition like a moving target. There is scant evidence — qualitative or quantitative — to lend convincing support to those life variables most critical in determining individual happiness, which is likely why past researchers committed to the scientific method rarely tried to tackle the subject. This is changing. While we’re not entirely convinced of this marriage between science and subjectivity, we can still offer up a top 10 of things that determine human happiness, as supported by this growing body of research. No.10 – Having a short memory Are you one to hold grudges? No.9 – Exacting fairness According to a recently published study in the prestigious journal Nature, people derive more happiness from scenarios and situations that result in a perceived fairness for everyone involved, even when this fairness goes against self-interest or comes at some personal cost. No.8 – Having lots of friendships No.2 – Good genes