Month: November 2018

November 09, 2018 at 05:23AM Thanksgiving is just around the corner, which means it’s time to start planning your Turkey Day menu, listening to holiday music, and gearing up for Black Friday sales. And if you’re a Best Buy fan, you’re going to love the techy deals the store is offering this year. Here’s the lowdown on Best Buy’s Black Friday sale: The madness officially starts at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day (November 22), with specific doorbusters available only on that day. It”ll be open until 1 a.m…and then back open for business at 8 a.m. on Black Friday (November 23). Expect even more special doorbusters and deals—including deep discounts on TVs, cell phones, speakers, and appliances—through Sunday, November 25 at 11:59 p.m. Of course, if you’re not super into fighting with crowds over the last iPhone Xs, you can actually shop a ton of Best Buy’s Black Friday deals right now online. I’m definitely eyeing that discounted KitchenAid stand mixer ($280 off? YASSS!) but that’s just me. Other perks Best Buy is offering to its Black Friday shoppers: free shipping on everything (no minimum, no exceptions, all season long!) and same-day in-store pickup. Ready to shop? Here are 7 deals you don’t want to miss from Best Buy’s Black Friday sale:   Photo: Best Buy 1. Chefman 3.5L Analog Air Fryer, $30 Make your dream of truly healthy fries a reality with an air fryer, which uses extremely hot air to “fry” basically any kind of food you want. And

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November 09, 2018 at 03:00AM Picture this: For the better part of a year, you’ve been confiding in your BFF about your deepest, most intimate #feelz regarding your significant other. Together, you’ve analyzed text exchanges, DMs, and dissected your IRL conversations. You’ve (tried to) psychoanalyze their other relationships—with their parents, doting exes, gaggle of friends—to make sense of how they shows love, and you recounted your best between-the-sheets sessions. Then one day, your BFF sits you down and tells you she has feelings for them—your person—and that she’s planning to pursue her crush. Turns out, the BFF-falling-for-your-partner plot line isn’t just the stuff of drama-drenched TV shows like One Tree Hill (Brooke, Lucas, Peyton), Gossip Girl (Blair, Nate, Serena), Friends (Ross, Rachel, Joey), and The OC (Seth, Summer, Anna). It’s actually rather common IRL. And since close friends tend to have many qualities, interests, and preferences in common—maybe even similar personalities—it kind of makes sense why. “The ways you are similar increase the likelihood that you might also like the same qualities in a partner,” says licensed family therapist Shadeen Francis. “Think about it: We probably trust our friends’ opinions about restaurants to try and TV shows to watch—so why not partners?” Having feelings for your best friend’s partner doesn’t automatically make you a bad person. But it’s a sticky situation nonetheless. If the three of you happen to spend a lot of time together, there’s more time to notice how great of a partner this person is—in addition to noticing their dashing good

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November 09, 2018 at 02:34AM When it comes to locking down a skin-care regimen, there are plenty of things to take into consideration: the environment, one’s skin type, and, as it turns out, the type of water running through the faucet. The question of hard versus soft water for skin isn’t one that we get to talk about often, but in actuality, it makes a big difference in how all products work, what products you need, and even certain skin conditions that might start to creep up as a result. Here’s why: Water can contain certain metals like copper, calcium, and magnesium that build up and act like free radicals when they hit your complexion. That means that despite best-laid plans to fend off or fight free radicals from things like pollution out in the world, by simply having a skin-care routine and sticking to it, you could be introducing problems onto your complexion. And if that’s not the most depressing thing I’ve told you all day, then I’m not sure what is. So, onto the good news: By knowing what type of water you have and adjusting and safeguarding your routine, you can supercharge your skin care and make it work even harder for you. More on that is just a scroll away. Photo: Stocksy/Marko Milovanovic Hard versus soft water for skin “Hard water is caused by calcium and magnesium buildup as well as other hard metal buildup in the water, and that causes damage to the skin because

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November 09, 2018 at 02:00AM When a memory keeps playing in your head on repeat, the desire to cast an IRL version of a Harry Potter “obliviate” charm becomes oh-so-strong. But even though we muggles haven’t figured out a way to manipulate memories just yet, there’s one mind trick that works almost like magic. Here’s how it works: Instead of mentally screaming Shut up! Shut up! Shut Up! at whatever childhood trauma or embarrassing moment keeps surfacing, you simply bring to mind another memory instead, reports Forbes. In the past, researchers at the University of Cambridge found that asking yourself to recall an alternative memory from your past causes you to passively forget said memory that just keeps sliding into your mental DMs. And now, a recent study published by the same team in Nature Communications has gone one step further to find that actually, you actively extinguish the unwanted recall through this process, which is called retrieval-induced forgetting. This replacement method could also work for songs or jingles that get stuck in your head (AKA, earworms), too. Because although Ariana Grande’s new #girlpower anthem is jammy, it might get old after your brain replays it for the umpteen-millionth times. And finally, you might consider using the same replacement logic for your exes. Consider this another vote for the old saying, “You can’t really get over one person until you get under another.” Here’s how to ask for a day off—for the sake of your mental health. Plus, why you should never, ever get back with your ex for the same reason.  Continue

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