Month: July 2019

July 03, 2019 at 10:00PM by CWC Typically, the term “feel-good” food conjures up images of mac and cheese, French fries, fried chicken, and other comfort foods. (It’s in the name, after all.) And while it can’t be denied that a piece of pizza or chocolate can be happy-making on a bad day, there’s not really much else they can do for one’s mood besides providing a temporary boost. Which is why I was intrigued to see a crop of healthier products across the food, drink, and supplement space branding themselves as happiness boosters, whether it’s through the power of stress-busting adaptogenic blends or improved gut health. Kara Nielsen, the vice president of trends and marketing at CCD Innovation, isn’t surprised that there has been an uptick in interest around mood-boosting products. “The overarching quest for happiness has grown recently,” she says. “Issues like global warming, poverty, immigration, and politics have always happened to the human race, but the issues are very acute right now. We’re super stressed out.” ad_intervals[‘403162_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘403162_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); At the same time. Nielsen says there is a growing interest in (and acceptance of) holistic nutrition, including Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. “Science and medicine are making some very powerful connections between stress and health—and also sleep and health,” she says. “We’re moving into this newer definition of what good health is, which includes sleep, stress, mindfulness.” She adds that gut health and the brain-gut connection is

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July 03, 2019 at 05:00PM by CWC No matter what I do, my at-home manicures never look as good as when I go to the salon. I’ve tried everything: working slowly to ensure I don’t color outside my nail beds; using special polish handles to make painting easier; and starting in the center of my nail to make my self-done mani easier. But the results have been dicey at best. Then, one morning I plopped down into a salon chair at New York’s Paintbox for a professional-grade mani, and my nail technician revealed what is actually the most important factor that influences how good your self-done manicures look. It’s all in the brush. “The size of your nail brush can really affect the outcome of your manicure,” says Nadine Abramcyk, co-founder of clean nail salon tenoverten. In fact, the size you should use at home is different than what nail artists prefer using for themselves. “A professional manicurist likes to use a more narrow brush because they can really manipulate the brush carefully into even strokes and into all the angles of the nail, but when doing your nails yourself, it is a whole different ball game,” she says. ad_intervals[‘404267_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘404267_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); Paintbox’s chief educator Evelyn Lim agrees, noting that “wider brushes are great for doing manicures yourself and smaller brushes are better for professionals.” (Paintbox’s new line called of polish called Power Couples, $40 have a wider brush for

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