Beauty
How To Survive Facial Cosmetic Surgery - With Makeups
When it comes to creating a certain level of comfort after undergoing plastic surgery, you should know that the way you feel and how you look are two different things. Although you may feel physically in perfect condition, your face may tell a different story. [read more...]
What Photorejuvenation Can Do For You
There are many skin treatments available today and, over recent years, high energy pulsed CO2 and Erbium YAG lasers have become increasingly popular. The lasers do repair deep wrinkles by molding and re-shaping supple collagen and elastic skin tissue, but can [read more...]
Is A Nip & Tuck Right for You?
Cosmetic surgery: it is the latest trend in overcoming self-esteem issues that stem from wrinkles, weight gain, skin disorders or breast size. Celebrities are doing it. Your friends are doing it. But should you consider cosmetic surgery?
Before taking [read more...]
The Great Classic Plimsoll Debate
Sports shoes are, these days, a whole multi-million pound industry with laboratories, institutes and technologies all their own. What’s wrong with the good old plimsoll is what I say.
That first day at school, where the smell of rubber plimsolls p [read more...]
New Hairstyles and Colors for Christmas
As the Christmas season nears, a multitude of holiday get-togethers, parties and office gatherings are held. Whether you are ironing out the wrinkles of an old party standby or need something to complement a new purchase, changing your hairstyle and/or hair co [read more...]
How to Avoid Fake Sunglasses on EBay
Every decent seller of genuine sunglasses is alarmed by the number of eBay members who sell fake sunglasses. There’s more to that, many of these replica vendors have a feedback value of over 90%. There are a few well known techniques used by these vendor [read more...]
The Myth and Lore Aquamarine: March’s Birthstone
Try using the mystical power of aquamarine to summon the dead, or for protection against demonic spirits, suggest Albertus Magnus (1193-1280). (Kunth p. 24). But take heed that you engrave your talisman with the image of an eagle first, which can be easily don [read more...]
The Myth and Lore of Pearl: June’s Birthstone
I know of no treatise on the secret lives of oysters, the fleshy creature that lives in the depths. Is that grain inside its shell that forms the pearl like a sore that is slow to heal, or is it merely an “irritant” as it is described in the gem t [read more...]
The Myth and Lore of Emeralds: May’s Birthstone
“Emeralds are very a green stone, because to speak of its greenness, it makes the air green,” writes the fourteenth century scholar, Chevalier Jean de Mandeville, which explains the remarkable fact that monkey wrench gang ecologists and Wall Street [read more...]
The Myth and Lore of Rubies: July’s Birthstone
Offer a large ruby to the Hindu deity, Krisna, the eternal child, and you will be reincarnated as an emperor. Offer a smaller ruby and in the next life, you’ll be merely a king. If you believe that existence is not cyclical and have figured out who you w [read more...]
