Sunday, October 19th is National Evaluate Your Life Day. Yes, It would seem that along with Moldy Cheese Day, Bald and Free Day, and Virus Appreciation Day (seems like Ebola has good timing). Evaluate Your Life Day is a great opportunity to stop and appreciate something a little off the beaten path. That’s what quirky holidays are all about.
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The Pretty Files: Nailing It
When we think about being pretty we usually think about our hair and our skin, how we take care of them and how we enhance them. But skincare, makeup, and hair aren’t the only elements of being pretty. Our nails are also an important of the appearance and can be their own unique form of […]
The Flashback: ‘The Flash’ – Episode 2 ‘Fastest Man Alive’
Episode two, entitled “Fastest Man Alive,” opens with Barry running around Central City in his awesome Flash costume. He’s doing heroic things, like rescuing people from a burning apartment building, with Cisco as support back at STAR Labs. It’s pretty great until Caitlin busts them. Caitlin is not happy about Barry heroing. At all. Dr. Wells isn’t keen on it either, but reminds Barry to know his limits, which is timely because we see Barry having some issues.
The FlashBack: ‘The Flash’ – Episode 1 ‘Pilot’
The Flash is DC’s television adaptation of the comic book of the same name. It airs Tuesday nights at 8/7 Central on The CW. Our writer, Nicole Drum recaps the series each week updating you on the latest episode here in The FlashBack.
Secrets Have a Way of Surfacing: “Gone Girl”
There is something hauntingly incongruous about the juxtaposition of lush, rolling green hills, leafy expanses of riverbank, and decaying Southern town with a sudden disappearance-feared-horrible-murder and yet director David Fincher manages to fit those things together flawlessly in the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. If you haven’t read the book or seen the film please be aware that there may be spoilers in this review.
There Is Nothing Flattering About Harassment
Back in August Doree Lewak wrote in the New York Post that she found catcalls flattering. She went on for paragraphs about how being shouted at by men, specifically construction workers, made her feel sexy. She even said she willingly and excitedly enjoyed being their “objectified sex thing.”
Gluten Free Travel Snacks That Don’t Suck
Dietary restrictions are a drag. Think about it: for whatever reason you just can’t eat certain things or ingredients and it limits your tasty landscape. No dietary restriction is fun, though some are easier to handle than others. Nut and dairy restrictions generally still leave a person with lots of options. But a wheat or […]
The Pretty Files: Fall Makeup Trend
Summer has left us (unless you’re in the southern hemisphere and in that case welcome back to warmer days!) I have been reluctantly packing away my sundresses and my flip flops and looking ahead to sweaters, boots, and scarves. I have also been taking a look at my makeup bag. With the change in season […]
No Substitute: Is Positive Thinking Holding You Back?
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
I’ve had that little slogan in my life in one form or another for as long as I can remember. Sometimes it’s been on a poster, sometimes it’s just been written in a planner. A variation of it geared towards body weight was even stuck to the mirror of my junior high school’s nurse’s office (with a hippo imagining herself a giraffe and the words “think thin!” emblazoned along the bottom.) The message was clear: if you can visualize yourself being successful you will be.
I’m Not Sorry: Women and Apologizing
In June Pantene released an ad as part of their #ShineStrong campaign about women’s empowerment. In the ad we see a series of women using the word “sorry” in various every day situations that really do not need an apology: speaking up in a meeting, asking for someone’s time, even getting a bit of the blanket in bed. Then the video switches and shows those same situations without the apology. Instead of apologizing, the women simply do the task with confidence, then transitioning into “sorry, not sorry” near the end. It’s jarring to see the two versions of events side by side.
The Pretty Files: Makeup Bag Rehab
When is the last time you really looked at the contents of your bag? This month we’re having a little intervention, sitting down to look at those bags of wonder, and sending all of us to makeup bag rehab.
Not Perfect: When Being “Made for Each other” Might Wreck Your Relationship
Love is complicated, but we all know what we want. We want that person who just gets us, who we feel is “the one,” our soul mate, or who just “completes” us. That’s the ideal and it is for many what we go looking for in the world of relationships. But what if the idea of being made for one another, that concept of soul mate and perfect match, might actually ruin or damage your relationship? What if perfection is, in fact, the problem?
Hooked on a Feeling: Guardians of the Galaxy
Marvel Studios has built a reputation for themselves over the past few years for making entertaining, high quality, blockbuster films based on their beloved, long-running comic book characters. Films like the Iron Man, Captain America, and Avengers franchises have restored careers (like Robert Downey, Jr.’s) as well as skyrocketed others to fame. The films, collectively called the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has also inspired a new interest in superheroes and comics on the whole. It’s a great time to be a geek.
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