It’s a common curling iron conundrum–how to get perfect waves that don’t look too done, or too frizzy, or too bed-heady. I had heard of a million tricks to getting the look–wrap locks around a closed curing iron, sleep on tight ringlets, spray damp hair with salt water–but hadn’t ever found a method I was consistently pleased with. So when I heard about the Goody® HEAT Wave Creator curling iron, and saw it’s strange shape, my interest was piqued. The wavy shaped barrel heats up to 410 degrees in 30-seconds, which, as all time-starved twenty-somethings can attest, is a huge plus. The...
Read more...
Smartphone addicted and a mom-to-be? You might want to think twice about how often you reach for your cell. A study by the Yale School of Medicine was released this week that indicates exposure to radiation from mobile phones in utero can affect brain development in little ones, causing behavioral issues like ADHD in their adult life. For the study, pregnant mice were placed in a cage with a mobile phone on a muted active call. Compared to the control group, which was in a cage with a deactivated phone, the fetuses born to the exposed group displayed more tendencies toward hyperactivity and reduced...
Read more...
Young Women’s Self Esteem is Affected by Facial Attractiveness. How Attractive Young Women See Themselves As Being Depends on the Attractiveness of The Young Women Around Them. In a study done in Japan, results showed that what you think about yourself {and others} is directly affected by facial attractiveness, especially in females. What’s more? This relationship may also be related to self-esteem and your own self-esteem may be affected by the attractiveness of those around you. Researchers found that what participants thought of themselves and their own attractiveness was relative to the attractiveness of others {the “contrast effect”}. In this...
Read more...
GIVEAWAY TIME: WINNER ANNOUNCED WIN One Sephora gift card containing $50 RULES Three ways to enter and you can do all of them for three chances to win: Leave a comment at the bottom of this post Like Liminas on facebook Follow Liminas on Twitter @liminasmag and retweet (RT) the following message: Follow @liminasmag and RT to Win a $50 Gift Card from Sephora! http://bit.ly/x8PeVp Leave a separate comment for each action taken. TERMS & CONDITIONS The deadline to enter is next Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 11:59 PM (PT) A maximum of three entries per person – within the comments at...
Read more...
5 Ways to Tell if Your Products Have Expired Unfortunately most cosmetic companies do not put expiration or best-by dates on their products, so we’re left to decode our products’ condition on our own. Here are five ways to check how yours are holding up. 1. Change in odor Fragrances, which are made of dozens of different ingredients, can react with the rest of the product. When one element of the product reacts with another, it’s original form is changed, so testing the smell of a product is a good means of knowing how the rest of it is...
Read more...
What did the Study Find? Not only is narcissism more common in men, but it’s also more likely to have a detrimental effect on their health. {In addition to the psychological costs to their relationships.} Why does it affect men differently than women? The assumption is that because society defines masculinity in ways that overlap with narcissism {e.g., beliefs that men should be arrogant and dominant}, men who fill these stereotypically male sex roles and who are also high in narcissism may feel especially stressed. What is narcissism? The personality trait is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance, overestimations...
Read more...
You’ve likely heard claims that semen is good for the skin–from companies bottling it up and selling it as face cream {wasn’t that from Sex and the City?} to your boyfriends and husbands touting the unending benefits of the sticky substance. Meanwhile, you actually may have been wondering not if semen is good for the skin, but if it could actually be harmful to your skin–will it irritate? Will it make you break out? Are there dangers involved? What are the components of semen? Semen is composed of seven basic types of chemicals: acids, bases, sugars, enzymes, hormones, proteins, and...
Read more...
LIP BALM ADDICTION: FACT OR FICTION During these past months of cold dry weather and repeated {almost with mind-numbing regularity} lip balm application, the thought has undoubtedly crossed your mind: if I incessantly reapply lip balm will I eventually become addicted to it? As an obsessive lip balm user {Aquaphor is my ointment of choice}, I have often wondered if, and when, I crossed over into addiction territory. I’m sure there was a time {maybe I was still in diapers??} when I did not compulsively use lip balm, but I can’t remember it. If I forget my Aquaphor, or can’t...
Read more...
From exercise as a sport to excuses, excuses, excuses. In high school, many of us participated in a sport. Some of us even were talented enough to land a spot on a college team. Needless to say, it was not difficult to find a way to stay active in an organized, social setting. Workouts came predesigned, already aimed at specific skills that a coach deemed important and necessary to develop. At least we could slug through the awkward, pubescent years with older and wiser minds guiding our fitness lives. Welcome to your early twenties, where you are considered old enough...
Read more...
Liminas Loves: derma e® Very Clear Problem Skin Moisturizer I’ve always had this sort of fairytale mentality about blemishes: when the clock strikes midnight on my twenty-fifth birthday, they’ll be gone forever. Well, the big 2-5 came and went, and I still get the occasional blemish. Unlike scrunchies and Lisa Frank binders, blemishes aren’t something you outgrow. In fact, the average age of acne patients has jumped from 20 to 26 years old between 1997 and 2007. But while we may be experiencing breakouts later in life, we don’t have to battle them with the same tenth grade techniques. In...
Read more...
According to a study published in the journal, Royal Society Biology Letters, women who take the pill tend to choose as partners men who are less attractive and worse in bed; however, these men may be better choices as long-term partners. The study examined both women who were taking the pill when they met their partner and women who were not. The consequences, according to the results, are both positive and negative. “Such women (taking the pill) may, on average, be less satisfied with the sexual aspects of their relationship but more so with non-sexual aspects. Overall, women who met...
Read more...
Can vitamins really kill you? We’ve heard a lot of conflicting information about the necessity and efficacy of taking vitamin supplements. Many experts have long advocated the daily ingestion of vitamins, especially multivitamins, for improved health. These same doctors have been telling us for years that vitamin supplements may help pick up where our poor, inadequate diets leave off. On the other side of the vitamin debate there are those who who dismiss vitamins as unnecessary {your body can’t absorb the vitamins in pill form, you can (and should try to) get enough vitamins from your food, etc.}. But even...
Read more...
Do you have to choose between your career or your fertility? This article shows evidence that you might. New research published in a recent issue of the journal Current Anthropology says that as a career woman you may be putting your fertility at risk. Professor Elizabeth Cashdan, an anthropologist at the University of Utah, found that career women are less likely to be curvaceous with the hourglass shape which has been linked in numerous medical papers to optimal fertility and, instead, displayed the more masculine, straight-up-and-down figure that is less conducive to child-bearing. Cashdan also states that work stress and the drive...
Read more...
10 Ways to Feel Better About Yourself Everyday, you have another chance to make things better. Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D. 1. Keep going. Don’t let life’s changes throw you off track, but remember that most extenuating circumstances are temporary. Gain more clarity by staying the course and channeling your energy in a positive direction. 2. Trust yourself. Believe in your inner resources, no matter what, and you’ll grow from the experience. I believe that the answers usually lie within and you are probably smart enough to figure out what you need to do. Give yourself a little time and have patience. 3. Be...
Read more...