July 31, 2019 at 03:00AM by CWC The beauty team at Well+Good was recently confronted with a near-impossible conundrum: If you had to choose between lipstick and lipgloss for the rest of your life, which would you choose? Personally, I was stumped. Because how could I commit to only one? I’ve always loved the easy delivery system of a lip gloss, but as I’ve aged up my beauty look, I’ve come to depend on the creamy finish of a lipstick. Then, I remembered that there was a product category out there that would give me the best of both worlds: liquid lipstick. Liquid lipstick goes on the same way a lipgloss does, but that’s where the similarities stop. In fact, as celebrity makeup artist Natalia López de Quintana puts it, it’s actually the “polar opposite” of the glossy stuff. “Liquid lips tend to finish with a matte or satin texture whereas gloss is glassy and wet-looking,” she explains. “If applied to properly primed lips, liquid lipstick will give you a full day of satin to matte opaque lip color with minimal to no touch-ups.” ad_intervals[‘411723_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘411723_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); For a more glassy finish, you can apply a gloss on top of your liquid lipstick which will make it shine and stay put without sacrificing the integrity of the shade. As makeup artist Daniel Martin revealed at a recent event celebrating the launch of Honest Beauty’s first foray into the category, if
Month: July 2019
4 Key Changes To Help Reverse Crippling Negative Body Image & Self Talk
July 31, 2019 at 02:08AM One woman’s multi-targeted approach is totally empowering. Continue Reading… Author Steph Gaudreau | Life by Daily Burn Selected by CWC
5 of the best recovery drinks to fuel your sweat sessions
July 31, 2019 at 02:00AM by CWC These days, I’m looking for water that has super powers. Sure, H2O is fine and delicious on its own, but this humid heat wave—combined with the fact that I’m still getting my workouts in—calls for a little something extra: recovery drinks that have added benefits to just hydration. Drinking traditional sports drinks—for the sake of electrolytes—isn’t the only way to get the good stuff that you need. Now, the recovery drink market is filled with plant-based electrolyte and magnesium tablets, more bioavailable hydration powders you swirl into your water, hydrogen water packets, and more. The end game of each of these is to fuel your body, without the added sugar. “In the summer it’s easy to quickly lose essential electrolytes through sweat and regular daily activities,” says Lisa Richards, nutritionist and founder of The Candida Diet. “Replenishing electrolytes is important as they keep your body in perfect balance. Recovery drinks with electrolytes replenish these compounds and keep your body functioning at full capacity.” ad_intervals[‘409812_div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘409812_div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’);}); } }, 100); Similarly, sipping on hydrogen water helps boost your hydration and aid muscle recovery. “By adding hydrogen water to your post-workout routine, you can speed up muscle recovery post-workout,” says Richards, who adds that molecular hydrogen gives antioxidant properties, too, which can help with free radical damage inside your body. Besides those two star hydration ingredients, chef and celebrity nutritionist Nicolette Pace says that glucose and protein are
Bored Kids? How To Create A Wild Adventure Indoors & Year Round
July 31, 2019 at 01:05AM Just because you can’t get outdoors, doesn’t mean you can’t get a little wild. Continue Reading… Author Alexandra Engler | Life by Daily Burn Selected by CWC
How To Bask In Tonight’s Live-Out-Loud New Moon In Leo
July 31, 2019 at 12:36AM While there will be a time for practicality, these passionate moonbeams are not it! Continue Reading… Author The AstroTwins | Life by Daily Burn Selected by CWC
How To Build The Ultimate Gut-Friendly Smoothie, According To A GI Doctor
July 31, 2019 at 12:03AM These 5 ingredients pack a powerful healing punch. Continue Reading… Author Will Bulsiewicz, MD, MSCI | Life by Daily Burn Selected by CWC
6 Surprising (And Scientific!) Facts About Orgasms You Might Not Know
July 31, 2019 Spread the word! Continue Reading… Author Kelly Gonsalves | Life by Daily Burn Selected by CWC
One-shoulder sports bras are trending right now—but can you actually work out in them?
July 30, 2019 at 04:00PM by CWC Sports bras have come a long way since the ’70s, when amateur runner Lisa Lindahl made the first one by sewing two jock straps together. (Seriously.) We now have our pick of zip-front options, bold patterns and colors, and long-line crops that double as going-out tops, all of which are way more comfortable, cute, and supportive than their predecessors from even 10 years ago. But the latest addition to the elevated sports-bra boom is one that feels a little counterintuitive from a performance perspective: single-shoulder styles. I first noticed this look on a few of my favorite fitness app trainers, and I was instantly shook. How were they avoiding nip slips as they cycled through burpees and Arnold presses? Could one shoulder sports bras possibly hold up boobs that are bigger than an A-cup? And wouldn’t that one strap dig into the shoulder, given that it’s doing the work of two? ad_intervals[‘407192_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘407192_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); To find out, I reached out to Avocado activewear—the brand responsible for the one-shoulder Mercury bra ($50) I kept seeing onscreen during my at-home workouts. Although it may look like a flash-in-the-pan trend piece, creative director Jessica Laursen says the Mercury is actually part of Avocado’s core assortment and is a firm customer favorite thanks to the bra’s seamless, yet supportive construction. “The stitch composition is body-mapped, meaning that each type of stitch is placed specifically in order to
The 3-step success system to help you crush any and every goal
July 30, 2019 at 03:00PM by CWC It would be amazing if easy-to-follow, linear steps to success actually existed. I mean, as a kid, that’s what I was taught to believe: Get good grades, get a solid SAT score, go to college, become an astronaut, have a beautiful family, live happily ever after, the end. But back here on planet Earth (with no disrespect to the astronauts out there, of course), success isn’t a staircase a with clear and concrete upward trajectory. Instead, it’s an ongoing, fluid task to chip away at every day by not just setting goals, but implementing consistent habits to make ourselves strong and confident forces to be reckoned with. That is, it requires cultivating a success system. “My advice is to focus on processes over goals,” life coach Susie Moore tells me. “Because a goal isn’t enough to achieve success, you need a system to get you there. Systems work—they provide clarity and keep you on track.” So while it’s super swell to have an updated list of things you want to (and even plan to) accomplish, that list alone won’t make the things, events, and productive advancements of your success dreams fall into your lap. All of that certainly makes sense…but, um, what is a system? ad_intervals[‘410198_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘410198_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’);}); } }, 100); “A goal is essentially an objective that you either achieve or don’t achieve sometime in the future,” Moore says. “A system is something you do
Esther Perel explains why infidelity doesn’t have to be ‘the ultimate betrayal’
July 30, 2019 at 01:24PM by CWC Infidelity is typically portrayed as the death of a relationship; the worst case scenario short of the actual death of a partner. But our view of infidelity as “the ultimate betrayal” isn’t necessarily accurate, argues relationship expert Esther Perel. It’s actually rooted in our own problematic views of romantic relationships. Perel recently sat down with Jada Pinkett Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris on Red Table Talk to discuss why infidelity is now seen as “the ultimate betrayal.” As per usual, her thoughts were disorienting (in a good way). “The modern romantic ideal is a tenacious model,” she explained. “The model is that, ‘I’m going to have with you everything that I was supposed to get in a traditional marriage, you’re going to co-parent and I’m going to have economic support, and we’re going to be partners, but on top of it you’re going to be my best friend and you’re going to be my confidante and you’re going to help me become the best version of myself.’” ad_intervals[‘411744_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘411744_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’);}); } }, 100); When we have the expectation to have all of our needs must be met by one person, infidelity becomes a crisis on multiple levels, she argues; it seems perhaps more holistically meaningful than it necessarily is because of how much stock we put in our romantic relationships. “I start to think this whole thing we created was a lie, and the whole thing comes