April 01, 2019 at 09:35AM by CWC Just like the springtime cold currently ravaging your office, complaining is wildly contagious. Your friend starts dishing about, say, the fact that their S.O. never revealed they’re in an open relationship, and before you know it, everything from the weather to your slightly-wrinkled blouse becomes worthy of verbalization. Getting swept up by life’s minor and major frustrations doesn’t have to become your unofficial life motto though. Poet Cleo Wade says committing to a “complaint cleanse” is one way to “make the world more magical and more peaceful.” In an Instagram post from Sunday, the wordsmith writes: “Complaining is something that seems to come so easy and so naturally to us, but the problem is: complaints have no magic. They don’t make anyone’s day better, and they don’t help any situation.” Rather than leaning into a litany of grievances, she suggests swiping left on them while they’re still inside your mind. Then just do that for seven days straight. Easy, right? View this post on Instagram Who wants to go on a complaint cleanse with me this week? I love you. #HeartTalk but seriously. Anybody in? No complaints for one week. Let me know! I will check in next Sunday and you can let me know what you noticed and how you did! Also midweek DM and let me know how you’re holding up. ❤️ A post shared by cleo wade (@cleowade) on Mar 31, 2019 at 2:58pm PDT //www.instagram.com/embed.js Wade’s thesis has a
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Bobbi Brown’s joined forces with Walmart to make beauty ingestibles uber-accessible
April 01, 2019 at 09:31AM by CWC Everything Bobbi Brown touches turns to gold. The former cosmetics mogul turned wellness mastermind has, in the past 3 years, gone from leaving her namesake makeup company to publishing a book called “Beauty from the Inside Out,” becoming a certified health coach, and launching Evolution_18, a line of ingestible beauty products—making wellness-world waves at every turn. Now, though, she’s upping her game even further with the launch of a new, affordable supplements off-shoot line from Evolution_18—which, as of today will be is available in 1500 Walmart stores (and on Walmart.com). And this is a big deal, because it marks Walmart’s first foray into the world of beauty ingestibles, and is poised to bring the category to the masses. “I’m really grateful and thankful that I’m launching this new brand with Walmart,” Brown tells me. “I’m trying to be really cool and calm. It’s beauty-inspired wellness, and what I’m really excited about is that it’s products that will help you with your inner beauty, and they’re being positioned in the beauty department.” The line consists of 10 beauty supplements: Beauty Bubbles in both collagen and hydration form, which are effervescent tablets you drop into water; Beauty Glow, supplements featuring collagen and hyaluronic acid; Beauty Superfood, a nutrient-dense powder (with collagen) for mixing; Beauty Debloat Tea, which is just what it sounds like; Beauty Probiotic, which is a powder that melts on your tongue; Beauty Gummy, a biotin-packed vitamin gummy; Beauty Grow, biotin supplements for
This $8 brow pen rivals any thousand-dollar microblading appointment
April 01, 2019 at 08:58AM by CWC Brow aficionados these days have undoubtedly come across the ever-so-popular microblading solution—which involves getting semi-permanent tattoos to fill in patches—to achieve fuller arches. While I’m usually game to try literally any such treatment that pops up (I’m looking at you, vampire and vagina facials!), face tattoos have always felt a little too hardcore for me. So when a microblading tattoo pen (with zero actual tattooing required) came across my desk, I raised an arch in intrigue. Iconic Beauty Microbrow Tattoo Pen ($9) is meant to give you that microblading effect without the permanence factor—AKA a makeup bag version of the treatment that requires zero tattooing. That I’m down to try. “Microblading pencils are great for people who need to fill in bald spots in the brows who aren’t comfortable or confident using a classic brow pencil,” says Molly R. Stern, a celebrity makeup artist. “My preference is a hard formula pencil which can be feathered and look very natural. The microblading versions deposit more color, which generally have a stain and cover more area in one stroke.” To see what the pen, which has four teeny tips to mimic hairs, could do for my brows, I swapped it for my usual brow gel. Now disclaimer, my brows aren’t super patchy to begin with, but the pen did a great job emphasizing what I’ve already got. I started in the inner-corner of my brow and began dragging it across skin, noticing that my brows
It’s official: I’m using this garlicky cashew dip that Jennifer Garner loves on everything
April 01, 2019 at 08:36AM by CWC There’s really no need to spend hours sifting through cookbooks for recipes (unless it’s Well+Good’s, of course!) when you have chef Jennifer Garner at your service. The actress is always providing intel on how to make the healthiest treats during her Pretend Cooking Show on Instagram, and her most recent fave is a garlicky spread that tastes good on literally anything. With their creamy texture, cashews make for the perfect spreads, but I’ve never seen anything like this vibrant green version. Garner recently went through the step-by-step instructions of how to make her beloved Spicy Garlicky Cashew Spread (which she snagged from New York Times food columnist Melissa Clark)—something that’s been part of her diet for a long time. “This dip is a little something I’ve used to make a blah meal ooh la la for years. The more you make it, the more you’ll discover your tastes,” she wrote. “For example, I tasted like garlic for six days after this batch. I ate it all anyway.” Creating the spread is simple. All you have to do is combine all your ingredients in a blender and mix it up until it’s nice and smooth. (And if you accidentally sneak a few cashews as you’re making it, don’t worry—Garner does it, too.) While the recipe is meant to be used on chicken, her version knows no limits. “I find that it’s good on everything,” she says. Whether it’s slathered on her favorite veggies or she’s
The two words to say on the first of the month for good luck: rabbit, rabbit
April 01, 2019 at 08:04AM by CWC When I was growing up, I had a brown rabbit that I (very creatively) named “Brownie.” One day, while my sister and I were sitting on the front lawn holding Brownie against his will, a neighbor passed by and asked us if we’d said “rabbit, rabbit” when we woke up that morning. We both looked extremely puzzled, until he explained that repeating the phrase on the first of every month was the equivalent of a verbal lucky charm. Now, as an adult who still religiously states the phrase on every first of the year, I’m still wondering—why rabbits? What about Thumper ensures 28 to 31 days of fortuitousness? A quick Google reveals that the root of the custom remains unknown. The first written record of saying rabbit, rabbit didn’t occurred in 1909, according to Refinery 29. In a periodical called Notes and Queries, the author writes, “My two daughters are in the habit of saying ‘Rabbits!’ on the first day of each month. The words must be spoke aloud, and be the first word said in the month… Other children, I find, use the same formula.” Martha Barnette, who hosts the public radio show A Way With Words, tells NPR that associating the long-eared mammals with good fortune dates back at least two centuries. “In the U.K., it’s quite common to say white rabbits,” she says. “Gilda Radner [an American comedian] was someone who was known to say bunny, bunny on the first day
5 wellness April Fools’ Day jokes we totally fell for
April 01, 2019 at 07:34AM by CWC Every day at Well+Good HQ, we dig deep into the latest headline-grabbing wellness news, deciphering what’s legit and what’s not. Let’s be real: Even when it’s not April Fools’ Day, some of the trends that pop up in the wellness world can sound like a joke. We’ve been known to have our fair share of April Fools’ Day fun, too. (Shout out to those of you still trying to order a kale massager—we see you!) Other wellness companies have come up with their own pranks too—and some totally got us. Hats off to the masterminds behind the below five pranks. You totally got us! 1. Cauli-milk is the latest alt-milk. Given that cauliflower can be transformed into pizza crust, is it really that far-fetched that it could become the latest alt-milk ingredient? And hey, in our defense, what can’t you milk these days? Well it turns out that Fresh Direct’s “chaulk cauliflower milk” is definitely not happening anytime soon. D’oh! 2. Tinder’s new height verification. Adding a few inches to their height is notoriously one of the biggest deceptions guys tell on dating apps. Which would make Tinder’s new height verification badge a pretty handy feature. Unfortunately, there’s still no sure way to know if your date is actually 5’11”. Yet another reason to stick to wearing sneakers on first dates instead of heels. 3. Aligners for dogs. There are already chew toys specially crafted to prevent cavities, but dental care for canines stops there.
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This $9 Trader Joe’s moisturizer is basically a dupe for La Mer
April 01, 2019 at 07:19AM by CWC I feel like a day doesn’t go by without another celebrity crediting their flawless complexion to La Mer. While it would nice to add the cult-fave moisturizing cool gel cream to my own beauty #shelfie, there’s no way it’s ever going to happen: a tiny one-ounce tub of it is $175. I guess the so-called “miracle broth” of ingredients come at a price. But thanks to Trader Joe’s, I might be able to get super-hydrated, silky-smooth skin sans the sky-high price tag. The healthy grocer has been majorly amping up its beauty section, and the latest addition is a much more affordable dupe of the highly covetable product. Just like La Mer’s, Trader Joe’s version—the Ultra Hydrating Gel Moisturizer, which is just $9 for 2.5 ounces—also has a light, aqueous formula. While both promise to get rid of dryness for a healthy, radiant skin, TJ’s version might be even more gentle for sensitive skin, as it’s fragrance-free. So, what does TJ’s use to bring on the skin-boosting benefits? The budget-friendly tub contains soothing ingredients like green tea, birch leaf, milk thistle extracts, and cooling aloe leaf juice. As for locking in moisture, it uses sodium hyaluronate—aka hyaluronic acid, the master skin plumper and hydrator. You can use the product both morning and night—or whenever you feel like you need it throughout the day—for the ultimate goddess-like glow. And you didn’t even have to put a dent in your bank account to get it.
If you’re yawning over old-school crunches, have we got an abs challenge for you
April 01, 2019 at 07:09AM by CWC Raise your hand if you are officially bored AF of doing crunch after crunch (after crunch after crunch) for the sake of a stronger core. Yeah, same. To combat the core workout fatigue we’ve been feeling of late, we tapped Le Sweat founder Charlee Atkins as the inaugural leader of out Trainer of the Month Club, and asked her to put together a 4-week ab challenge that won’t leave us all yawning over the usual up-and-down motion. The best part? It’s accessible via our Instagram, completely free, and requires absolutely zero equipment aside from your own bodyweight. So basically, you can do it every day without having to leave your living room or put on pants. Week one’s workout works for all fitness levels, and we will be doing it here at Well+Good HQ every day (sadly, we will have to put on pants for our own routines). A few tips from Atkins? “In all of these core exercises, the focus is to stabilize the core around the spine,” she says. “So in any supine (or lying) exercises the emphasis is pressing the lower back into the ground. And for any prone exercises the focus is on keeping a flat back, head in line with hips or heels, depending on exercise.” Try it out for yourself, and keep an eye on our Insta because Atkins’ abs challenge will be hitting your feed for three more Mondays. When that’s a wrap, we’ll have a
With skin-boosting, cold-fighting benefits, zinc is here to give magnesium a run for its money
April 01, 2019 at 04:30AM by CWC If calcium and magnesium are the Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper of the mineral world, think of zinc as their killer backing band in A Star is Born. In other words, although this nutrient isn’t usually front-and-center in the spotlight, our bodies’ performance wouldn’t be nearly as harmonious without it. See, zinc is one of 16 essential minerals that we need to survive. Yet it’s considered a trace mineral, meaning we only need small amounts of it. Perhaps that’s why we don’t hear as much about it as we do major minerals—including iron, sodium, potassium, and, yes, calcium and magnesium—which our bodies use in larger amounts. But zinc actually plays a mega-important role in skin health, immunity, and more, so it’s definitely worth keeping tabs on your intake. Luckily, it should be easy to get all the zinc you need—8 mg per day for women and 11 mg per day for men—through your diet, as long as you’re eating a variety of whole foods. According to nutritionist Dawn Jackson Blatner, RDN, CSSD, animal protein and dairy are high in zinc, as are plant foods such as cashews, pumpkin seeds, chickpeas, and oatmeal. (Here’s a cheat-sheet of the best zinc sources to get you started.) But there’s one caveat. “Plant-based foods [like grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds] contain phytates, which may bind to zinc and make it less absorbable,” says Jackson Blatner. So if you’re vegan, vegetarian, or just don’t eat a ton of meat,