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2019 Health

We finally found a way around that whole “don’t wash your face in the shower” thing

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June 29, 2019 at 12:00PM by CWC Last year, when a dermatologist revealed that you should never, ever wash your face in the shower, my initial response was, “I ain’t got time for that.” My mornings are hectic enough as it is without having to add an extra element into my routine, thank you very much. The reasoning behind separating these steps, according to dermatologist Dr. Joshua Zeichner, is because the water in your shower is simply too hot for your face. “We may love hot showers, but our skin does not,” he explained, noting that it can strip the skin of oils, which leads to dryness, irritation, and inflammation. Even so, I ignored this advice entirely… and it’s worth noting that I regularly deal with all three of those skin issues. Whoops. My b. But then! Celebrity esthetician and ZIIP founder Melanie Simon, who works with A-listers like Jennifer Aniston and Busy Philipps, gave me a g-e-n-i-u-s hack that allows me to kill two birds with one stone—AKA get the overnight gunk off of my face without having to waste time (and water) using the sink and shower as separate entities. “Take a cold washcloth into the shower with you and use that to wash your face,” she tells me. “Worst case scenario it is lukewarm by the time you use it but this is much better than hot water blasting your face and breaking your capillaries.” No wonder Rachel (of Ross and Rachel) likes this lady so much. ad_intervals[‘404195_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function

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2019 Health Fashion

We found a pro-approved hack that will make any pair of shoes more comfortable in 3 minutes flat

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June 29, 2019 at 12:00PM by CWC We’ve all been there—you have that one pair of shoes that you’re dying to wear…but they hurt. So badly, in fact, that no matter how cute they are you simply can’t commit to them for an entire night. They’re just a smidge too tight, and you don’t have time (or pain tolerance) to let them stretch out with wear. Luckily, you have a few options for an at-home fix—and they all take three minutes flat. When you’re in a rush, all you have to do is reach for your blowdryer and blast the shoe with heat to make it stretchable. Set it to medium-high heat, and hold it 12 to18 inches away from the shoe for 3 to 5 minutes. Once the leather is warm and more malleable, he says you can put on a sock and then walk around in the shoe to help break it in. “Just make sure that when you’re using heat on any leather, especially high-end leather goods, you have to be very careful with it that doesn’t get discolored or doesn’t stretch too much,” says Vincenzo Rao Jr. of Vince’s Village Cobbler, a shoe-repair shop in Soho. ad_intervals[‘404661_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘404661_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); But if you have a bit more time, Rao recommends getting a shoe stretching liquid instead. “Heat is something that’s good, but the stretching solution is a lot more effective and a lot safer as well,” he says,

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