Sick of paying big bucks to replace your favorite lotions and gels. There's a way to hold off a little longer. You might think you're already getting most of the good stuff out of the container, but there's often much more hiding within.
It's hard to look
as chic as a celebrity when you step off an airplane, especially when you land in Hawaii with a scarf and boots on (yeah, I've done it).
The recycled, dry cabin air can cause parched skin and hair. An article last year in
Environmental Science & Technology suggests that "interactions between body oils and ozone found in airplane cabins could lead to the formation of chemical byproducts that might worsen nasal irritation, headaches, dry eyes and lips, and other common air traveler complaints." Yikes.
Many of you are enthusiastic or on the fence
about going back to school sometime soon, and Sallie Mae recently launched a free online tool to help estimate the cost of your decision. Their
Education Investment Planner was developed to help students better assess their choices when selecting a school and understand the true cost of education.
According to
Sallie Mae's press release, the Education Investment Planner is equipped with the following capabilities.
- Estimate the full cost of a college degree: Find out how much four years for a bachelors degree, two years for a masters degree, or other programs will cost at a specific school, including the average growth of tuition over time.
- Build a customized Plan to pay for college through a combination of their own money, federal and state grants, scholarships and, if necessary, federal and private student loans.
- Compare schools: Compare actual costs for approximately 5,500 colleges and universities not only tuition, but also average room and board expenses, fees, books and supplies.
- Determine if they need student loans and, if so, estimate what their monthly payments could be after graduation and project how much a graduate would need to earn to keep payments manageable.
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At a party in New York feting her Gotham magazine cover, actress
Amanda Peet rocked a downtown style, from her
Thakoon dress to her berry lips. Her messy, heavy-banged ponytail is the perfect top to her 1940s-ish makeup. Total girl-crush chic.
This week, at the Disaster Movie party in Cabo San Lucas, actress, model, and
fitness buff Carmen Electra played on the beach looking gorgeous and glowing with her quintessential summertime tan.
Besides her electrifying eyes (I wonder how many times she's heard that one), her skin oozed an undeniable radiance. We know that she's been hanging out at the
DKNY House soaking up the rays, but something tells me that she's being careful with SPF, because her wrinkles are minimal.
Sometimes an ornate vase is just what an interior is asking for. The beautiful colors and patterns of this
Tuscia d'Arte Vase ($165) from Emilia Ceramics are stunning on their own. But what's the best way to accessorize with such a complex ceramic object.
Baking soda doesn't just keep your fridge smelling fresh. It has oodles of uses around your house. You might know some of them already, but I bet you don't know all of them.
As much as I try to protect myself from the sun's harmful rays, I sometimes end up with the telltale white streaks on my temples of the sunglass tan. And with the
oversize shades trend still going strong, the area around the brows and dark circles — er, orbital area — also can begin to look a whiter shade of pale. Read on for some quick fixes — and be glad you weren't wearing
shutter shades.
Last night at the
Allure party for Victoria Beckham, actress Kate Beckinsale arrived wearing her hair in a casual, low-slung
bun with delicate
braids weaved throughout. What a cool twist. Even though Kate wears
hair extensions, (oh, c'mon, like you really couldn't tell by now), the best part about this look is that you don't need to have a lot of hair — or even thick hair — to re-create this style.
Hair trends are one thing – from the
polished dreadlocks and
pirate plaits on the catwalks, to retro styles, like
Victoria Beckham's Audrey Hepburn do – but what we all really crave is effortlessly sexy hair, that looks like it's naturally gorgeous – not like we've had to try too hard to re-create it.
Cue the covetable, grown-up version of beach hair. Textured, yet glossy and voluminous, it's the sort of laidback, tousled look that Kates Moss, Middleton and Beckinsale, are often snapped with.
