Month: October 2019

October 31, 2019 at 05:00PM by CWC If you’ve been perusing your calendar lately, wondering, huh, when is daylight saving over this year? Guess what? The time has come. On the early morning of Sunday, November 3, we shift back our clocks an hour, granting us a glorious additional hour of sleep. Yet, the long-term effect can be troublesome for many of us, especially those who suffer from seasonal affective disorder, since the end of daylight saving means that nighttime skies overtake the light of day earlier and earlier. Sure, you’ve lived your whole life to this point just dealing with the change (and considering a move to Arizona, where daylight saving time isn’t acknowledged). And while it might seem easier to just handle with the effects this way until the days stretch longer again, why not consider leaning on the stars for help? Your zodiac sign can offer huge hints about your personality and coping style, and astrologer Kyle Thomas has some personal tips to help make the sting of darker days much easier for you to handle. Who knows? Armed with this intel, you may just emerge from the winter months feeling more energized than ever. Learn how to use your zodiac sign to handle the effects of daylight saving being over Aries (March 21 to April 19): Start a fitness routine As a bold fire sign that thrives on the outdoors, an Aries can get fairly down once the colder months arrive—which means a rush of endorphins is

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October 31, 2019 at 02:00PM by CWC Since there’s no such thing as an eyebrow positivity movement (yet), I feel I can be frank: I hate my brows. They’re thin yet wild with a sharp arch that makes me look severe. So, I hide them with longer-than-I’d-like fringe while crossing my fingers that I’ll soon win the lottery so I can afford microblading or a private island and a pool boy who loves me no matter how my facial hair is groomed. It doesn’t have to be this way, brow experts tell me. While I can certainly work on acceptance, and hold onto fantasies of an impending windfall, it’s also not that difficult today to achieve the brows of your dreams. “Brows are the one thing that can completely change your features with just a few tweaks,” says Brooklyn-based Shen Beauty brow specialist Joshua Beeler, who makes it sound easy enough for even me to have new arch aspirations. Below, find four of the most popular brow shapes experts say are currently en vogue along with pro hacks on how to achieve them. 1. The soft angled classic “This is my personal favorite,” says Joey Healy, celebrity stylist and eyebrow specialist. “The arch is about two-thirds of the way out, and it’s well defined but gradual with a tapered tail and a relatively squared-off front.” When aiming for this look, Healy says it’s important to reveal just a modest portion of the brow bone to give the eye lift without over-arching.

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October 31, 2019 at 01:00PM by CWC I was almost late to The Big Quiet session I was set to attend, thanks to a pretty un-Zen Lyft experience. The other passenger in my shared ride was also headed to the mass group meditation, which is currently in the midst of a 10-city national tour. We were nervously laughing about not having time to visit the bathroom at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan before the centering session kicked off. And after discovering she had done the Big Quiet before and I had not, I used the traffic as an opportunity to conduct some serious investigative journalism. “Is it, like, fun?” I asked. She mulled it over and marked it as more of a powerful experience. To paraphrase, she said it’s fun, but not like, woo! fun. Hmmm, I thought. Unsettling, yet intriguing. For the uninitiated (like I was, until very recently), the Big Quiet is is a massive meditation movement that hosts events where hundreds of people gather in some of the most gorgeous places in the world to hopefully soothe their mind for 75 minutes. There aren’t harsh restrictions set in place at these events, either. Need to bend or stretch mid-meditation? Great. Bend or stretch. With The Big Quiet, comfort, unity, and the cultivation of community are paramount. And with 500 total attendees set to join the session at the Gugg along with me, I knew that I was going to get a lot of community. What

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October 31, 2019 at 12:00PM by CWC It’s the end of October, which means that for the past month, pink ribbons have adorned store windows, we’ve been encouraged to “think pink,” and cutesy hashtags like #savethetatas and #pinktober popped up on Twitter and Insta like daisies. All are hallmarks of the annual event that is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The breast cancer awareness movement is probably one of the most successful marketing and awareness campaigns to exist. A 2019 study from Northwestern University found that relative to its “incidence and mortality rate,” MEANING? breast cancer is the most well-funded cancer, with non-profits bringing in $460 million in fundraising in 2018. That’s absolutely a positive (and life-saving) thing—fundraising leads to new research, better technology, and better access to screening for underserved populations. But its success has also thrown into sharp relief the lack of attention and resources other diseases receive. How can we give those illnesses the breast cancer awareness “treatment,” so to speak? To answer, it helps to look at a few specific factors unique to the breast cancer movement that have helped propel awareness—and fundraising—to stratospheric heights. One is that breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the U.S. for women, with one in eight women receiving a diagnosis in their lifetime. In 2017, the American Cancer Society (ACS) estimated that 252,000 women were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and around 63,000 women were diagnosed with non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer. The second is that it has

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