Category Archives: Health and Beauty
Chin Surgery Benefits & Side Effects
Chin surgery skyrockets by 71% in the U.S. With more American career women wanting to look good for video conferencing, and more American male executives wanting to project a strong and decisive CEO-like image, the numbers of ‘chinplants’ — or chin augmentations — carried out in the United States in 2011 have exploding to 20,680.
Lead in Your Lipstick: Are L’Oreal, Maybelline Lipsticks Safe or Harmful?
Is there lead in my lipstick? Yes, there’s lead in your lipstick. The latest update (December 2011) of an U.S Food and Drug Administration analysis of 400 shades of the fastest-selling lipsticks in the United States shows that all 400 of them contain trace amounts of lead. But will this poison you? Is the amount [...]
Astalift Skin Care – Fujifilm: Effective Anti-Aging Cream?
Fujifilm Corp’s new anti-aging skin cream is picture-perfect in more ways than one. For one, it’s a way the company turned its lemons into lemonade. As market intelligence site Brand Channel points out, in recent years, photography and film have “shifted 180 degrees,” leaving Fujifilm’s main competitor, Eastman Kodak Co, bankrupt and “in the digital [...]
Blood Concept Perfume: Stupid or Brilliant?
Now, can you get more “organic” than that? What seems to be a modern-day fatal fascination with vampires and blood has just spilled over from the realm of fantasy lit for teens — ”Interview with a Vampire,” the “Twilight series” — and TV fare (“True Blood”) to fashion and…scent. Yes, scent, or to be more [...]
High Heels, Health Risks, Bad Side Effects, & Muscle Stress
High heels stress muscles, pose injury risk—and change the way future women will walk? If, over the next millennia, women will continue to use high-heeled shoes as modern women do, women in the future may evolve a tottering gait, walking with shorter, more forceful strides than men, with their feet perpetually in a flexed, toes-pointed [...]
