Month: August 2019

August 12, 2019 at 04:00PM by CWC The first time Caitlin* learned of her fiancé’s sleepwalking habit, they were on vacation, staying in an Airbnb. It was the middle of the night when she woke up to find John* getting out of bed to—she falsely assumed—go to the restroom. But she was quickly rustled from her half-asleep state to a wide-eyed status when she realized he was about to do his business in the bedroom closet. “I jumped out of bed and said, ‘Babe! That is not the bathroom!’ And then I steered him toward the proper restroom,” she tells me. John later cleared up the situation when he told her that he often sleepwalks when he’s had a few drinks and is staying away from home. But Caitlin quickly learned that wasn’t the extent of John’s after-dark shenanigans. “If we’re home, he’ll get up and go check on ‘noises’ he thinks he hears, but when he wakes in the morning, he has no recollection,” Caitlin says. “One night, he got out of bed and walked over to my side of the bed to check my face, because he thought there were bugs crawling all over me.” ad_intervals[‘412609_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘412609_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’);}); } }, 100); From John’s perspective, the unconscious wandering is no big deal. “My dad used to sleepwalk all the time, too, and I used to think it was hilarious,” he says. “I tend to not remember anything [from sleepwalking episodes], and if

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August 12, 2019 at 02:01PM by CWC I didn’t get my ears pierced until I was 20 years old. I only did my lobes, because I was afraid of needles. I think the piercer legitimately had to give me candy, like I was a child, to calm me down enough to get pierced. Now, I have 10 piercings—and that’s not even so many compared to what is trending right now. Stephanie Anders, piercer and owner of Royal Heritage Tattoo in Venice, California, tells me that she has definitely seen a resurgence in multiple ear piercings. “And this resurgence has come with some really incredible, creative ideas,” she says. “With ‘curated’ ear projects or ‘constellation’ or stacked and clustered piercings. We are getting away from the traditional looks and for me it’s become about using each person’s unique anatomy and creating something that flows aesthetically for them individually.” “What I am personally seeing and loving is that the idea and motivation behind piercing has shifted. Now people are seeing [their ears] as more real estate for stunning jewelry,” adds Anders. Piercings are becoming more widely accepted, and so it’s “opening up piercing to a clientele where maybe it wasn’t even considered in the past.” Popular spots to get ear piercings are conch, tragus, and daith—along with the aforementioned cluster piercings. ad_intervals[‘414542_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘414542_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); If you’re feeling inspired to get more piercings, Anders says she will personally do a max of three

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August 12, 2019 at 12:00PM by CWC I once asked a hairstylist how I could tell if my hair was actually clean, and she suggested that I ask my significant other to sniff my head for me and let me know what was going on up there. Since I haven’t had a boyfriend since Obama was president, her advice made me assume that I was going to be stuck with a potentially stinky scalp (and no way to know for sure whether it was or it wasn’t!) until I found one. But recently, a different hairstylist filled me in on how to check my hair was clean while also maintaining my status as a strong, independent, good smelling woman. The key? Giving a touch-check to the back of your head. “When it comes to washing their hair, the first mistake I often see clients make is that they put conditioner in the wrong places,” explains Dana Hodges Caschetta, Eufora International national trainer and a stylist at New York City’s newly-opened Eufora salon. “There is a common misconception that you should put conditioner directly on the scalp, which can lead to hair falling flat, product build-up and even dry flakes—which nobody wants.” When you apply conditioner this way, the product tends to glom onto the back of your scalp, which can make just-washed hair feel dirty almost immediately. ad_intervals[‘414707_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘414707_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); If you feel like your hair gets dirty in these specific

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