When is it really time to toss a beauty product? Look no further than this ultimate guide to makeup expiration dates.
Pay attention to the tips, not the shelf life, in this guide.
I often think that the shelf life is a ruse to make you buy makeup more often. I’ve had some makeup for years, and they haven’t gone bad.
And be sure to clean your brushes and applicators often!
Source: Save or Toss? The Truth About Makeup Expiration Dates | Byrdie
According to this article, preliminary studies have found a link between a meatless diet and mental problems like depression, anxiety, and self-harm. A nutrient-deficient plant-based diet might create problems that contribute to psychological disorders.
I quit eating red meat several years ago, mostly for health reasons. After reading an article about the benefits of vegetarianism for spiritual development (!), I quick eating poultry. I seldom eat eggs, but I still include dairy in my diet. On rare occasions, I eat fish.
Depression, anxiety, and fearfulness have ruled my life for as long as I can remember. I wonder if a mostly vegetarian diet has made things worse. Blood tests have revealed that I had severe deficiencies of Vitamins B12 and D in my diet. So much for spiritual development! (When I told my nephew why I had given up poultry, he said that that was ridiculous).
I don’t plan to give up my diet, but I’ll add nutritional supplements to my diet.
The book The Vegetarian reminds me of Margaret Arwood’s proto-feminist The Edible Woman, in which the engaged-to-be-married heroine loses her appetite for food, to the point that she can only eat noodles. After she breaks off her engagement in dramatic fashion, she suddenly becomes ravenously hungry.
“If you’re going to be a vegetarian, you have to be more thoughtful about what you eat.”
Source: ‘The Vegetarian’ and the Puzzling Link Between Diet and Mood — Science of Us
I call Sunday afternoon “Radio Sunday” as WPFW 89.3 PM has 6 hours of great programming, starting with Miyuki Williams’ Sunday Kind of Love from Noon to 2:00 PM, continuing with Donnie McKethan’s American Songbook from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, and winding up with Larry Applebaum’s The Sound of Surprise from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.
Donny McKethan often plays different renditions of the same song back to back. Today he had renditions of George & Ira Gershwin’s A Foggy Day (in London Town) by Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. The beauty of standards such as A Foggy Day is that different singers, with different styles, can perform them and be equally persuasive.
I had not heard A Foggy Day before, but I smiled when I heard the lyric:
A foggy day in London Town
Had me low and had me down
I viewed the morning with alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm
It reminded me of the weekend that I spent in London, in a hotel room no larger than a closet. Restaurants were so expensive, that I bought a grab’n’go sandwich at Boots to eat for dinner. The serendipitous discovery was that the British Museum was just around the corner from the hotel. I have more to say about the British Museum, but enough for now.
Here is another rendition of A Foggy Day, this time featuring Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald:
Walgreens has decided to close down drugstore.com and Beauty.com effective September 30 to concentrate on “a more unified brand and marketing approach” for its e-commerce strategy.
Sad. Beauty.com was one of the earliest beauty e-commerce sites. Kevyn Aucoin and subsequently his protégé Troy Surratt were consulting makeup artists to beauty.com. I hope that Walgreens will keep the high-low mix of beauty brands that drugstore.com and beauty.com provided.
With easy-to-remember names like drugstore.com and beauty.com, one might expect these Walgreens-owned websites to be doing gangbusters business. Yet the retailer says it will shutter both sites by the end…
Source: Walgreens Closing Beauty.com, Drugstore.com – Consumerist
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Speaking of AbFab, its theme song was “This Wheel’s on Fire” by Bob Dylan, as sung by Julie Driscoll. Here’s a version that Julie Driscoll did in 1968 with organist Brian Auger:
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
When I was a kid, really a kid, in the 1960s, I was fascinated by British fashion (notably Mary Quant and the mini-skirt) and the British music invasion. That’s why I wanted to read White Heat.
But White Heat is so much more than the swinging sixties. It covers political history throughout the Wilson years, in-fighting among those in Wilson’s cabinet, and economic crises, including devaluation of the pound and deflation. It relates the beginning of Protestant-Catholic conflict in Northern Ireland. It covers other social upheaval, such as corralling people into tower blocks.
While White Heat covers the swinging sixties in detail, it notes that the swinging sixties influenced few people and puts it into the larger context of life in the UK. Would you believe that the soundtrack for The Sound of Music outsold The Beatles’ albums? British society and tastes still remained fairly conservative by the end of the sixties.
Dominick Sandbrook also wrote Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles, about the preceding years of recent British history. He has also written books about the UK in the seventies: I look forward to additional coverage of The Troubles. All are books that I plan to read.
If you would like to focus on the swinging sixties, then I recommend Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London by Shawn Levy.
To mark the Fourth of July and #MusicMonday, I’m reaching back into recent history: namely, Lady Gaga’s rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner at Super Bowl 50:
She starts out softly, but once she surmounts “and the rocket’s red glare,” you know that she’s killed it.
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Source: Happy 4th of July! | The Style Page
I’m taking a different tack on Canada Day this year. On Facebook, I attributed the massacre at the Pulse night club to the killer’s professions of Islamic ideology. A prominent Canadian beauty blogger subsequently ripped into me:
It’s time to examine why your country [emphasis mine] gives guns to people who are mentally unstable. Especially when the FBI knew about them, and had been following them. Who cares about whether or not it was an American who decided to use ISIS to focus his hatred? Your gov’t knew all about him, yet he could still get guns. Stop talking about Islamic hatred and start talking about why your country discriminates against the gay community, which gives people like this shooter a reason for his own hate. IT DOESN”T MATTER that he was with ISIS. The US has had 7 mass shootings this week. Get your head out of the sand.
or did she really mean to say, get my head out of my ass? 😀
It’s time to examine the ideology of your country [emphasis mine] that went to war in Muslim countries, destroyed entire countries, armed rebels and basically created ISIS. Jesus. Read a book.
I felt that her references to your country reeked of contempt for the good old United States and that she regarded me as yet another contemptible illiterate American ignoramus.
Jesus. Read a book.
I don’t know if she had any particular books in mind, but here are some books that I’ve read:
Notice a pattern here? All these books are written by Canadian authors.
Happy Canada Day. 🍁
It’s Canada Day again, and time to revisit this article Canada Day. Happy 148th Canada!
Source: #Canada Day | The Style Page | The Style Page
Hi Folks,
On my recent visit to Super H, I discovered that Amore changed its name to Aritaum. It now has a front that clearly marks it as Aritaum.
Aritaum describes itself as “the one stop solution for all your beauty needs.” It is a chain of K-#beauty stores whose parent company is AMOREPACIFIC.
However, there is still spill-over area where you can buy various masks and find Missha makeup (Missha is not an Amore Pacific brand).
The Shiseido counter has closed.
Source: K-#beauty in the #DC Metro Area UPDATED | The Style Page
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