November 15, 2019 at 12:00PM by CWC If you could peer into beauty influencers’ cosmetics cabinets, I can almost guarantee that you’d find at least one cult-fave lip-to-cheek tinted balm from Olio E Osso. The pigmented sticks, which are packaged in the brand’s distinctive push-pop tube, have quietly (but steadily) climbed to cult status among not only makeup lovers, but even people who don’t usually wear much makeup. Why so? Because they do it all and leave a whisper of a hue when you dab them on. Now, the balm brand is bestowing us with true makeup: lip products in all sorts of gorgeous shades. Launching today are Olio E Osso Lucente Lip Sheens ($28) and Crema Lipsticks ($30), which leave behind bold pigments, while still containing only good-for-your-skin ingredients. The brand extension into cosmetics makes sense, since founder Paola LaMorticella has been a makeup artist for over 25 years. “I’ve been doing that for so long, and I’ve always been on the hunt looking for things that feel good and are highly pigmented, but that I can sheer out,” she says. “I’m trying to create a color library, and a system [of products] that work together really well and support each other—to simplify things and make a family of products.” The brand’s new lip makeup plays along perfectly with the balms, giving you the option to layer more vibrant shades onto your lips (building upon the nourishing balm base). The Lip Sheens come in four shades—a neutral, a rosy
Category: Your Regeneration
If I really, honestly, completely trust my partner, why do I feel the need to snoop?
November 15, 2019 at 03:00AM by CWC The temptation to read your partner’s text messages or look through their inbox or otherwise invade their privacy can feel intense—even if you have no reason to question their trust. Still, when someone leaves a phone right in front of you, and you know the password…that’s basically permission enough to snoop, right? …Right? Well, no, not quite—but the desire itself is natural. At first glance, the need to know how to spy on someone and then go through with it can seem like it comes from a place of jealousy and lack of trust. But that isn’t always the case. So, what if you totally and completely trust your partner but just can’t help yourself when it comes to snooping? “It’s human nature to want to snoop, to hear what’s going on with everyone else,” says Amy Cirbus, PhD, a psychologist with online therapy platform Talkspace. “There’s a need to identify, and to not miss out.” We want to know all the things our partner is experiencing, thinking and feeling, and since not knowing is tough, and snooping and spying can yield that exact information, it can be tough to refrain. “Managing our impulses has become increasingly difficult in this age of instant gratification. We have a feeling or a sense of vulnerability—even a thought—and we can feel compelled to follow it,” Dr. Cirbus says. And that holds true even if you trust your partner. “Managing our impulses has become increasingly difficult in
Learn this rule to position your wrists the right way in every workout
November 15, 2019 at 02:00AM by CWC Strength training requires a lot of mind-body awareness—especially if you’re trying out more fancy compound movements. Without even knowing it, you could slip into bad form and often your wrists pay the price. When it comes to wrist position, trainer Charlee Atkins, CSCS, says that maintaining a neutral grip will keep injuries away. “In general, the wrists should be ‘neutral’ for whatever grip you are using when it comes to holding weights,” says Atkins. There are three types of grips: pronated (overhanded, like when you do a pull-up), supinated (underhanded, like when you’re doing a bicep curl), or neutral (falls in between underhand overhand grips, like when you’re doing a hammer curl). With each, your wrist position should remain neutral—”never cocked forward in flexion, or pulled back in extension,” explains the trainer. When you lose neutrality in the wrist joint, you’ll usually feel it, says Atkins. “Most wrist errors happen in overhead dumbbell exercises such as the single-arm overhead shoulder press or dumbbell chest press,” she says. “Most people try to hold the dumbbell like they are holding a restaurant tray, letting the wrist cock back slightly, so they can ‘push’ up. In training, your wrist should be straight, meaning knuckles to the sky.” The one exception is a front-rack barbell squat. Because your shoulders are helping to take the load, it’s okay for your wrists to be extended so long as you have the wrist and shoulder mobility to feel okay supporting
The 5 essential tools every healthy chef needs to cook (almost) everything
November 15, 2019 at 01:00AM by CWC I am a beginner cook. Today I cooked boneless, skinless chicken thighs in a pan, and the amount of accomplishment I felt after doing so is normally reserved for people who invented something that contributes to society, like the HPV vaccine or cauliflower gnocchi. Most of my cooking happens on a sheet pan, or in the only pan that I own—the very same one I used to expertly (read: not set off my smoke detectors) pan-sear that chicken earlier. But my palette has begun to get bored of a diet that can be described as “baked anything,” and not even copious amounts of Everything but the Bagel seasoning has been able to help. I wanted to know how I could upgrade my kitchen with a few accoutrements that would improve my healthy cooking without, you know, making it too difficult. So I enlisted Keri Glassman, MS, RD, CDN, and Chef Luca Moriconi from Culina at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, to share the essential, must-have kitchen items every beginner cook needs for easy, healthy cooking. 1. Cutting board As someone who has tried cutting various vegetables, cheeses, and even meats on a porcelain plate, I agree with the power of the cutting board. “A chopping board is the first thing that you need in the kitchen,” Moriconi says. “Make sure that you have a solid base that does not move around when cutting items and you can also use
The pro-approved secret for removing lipstick without wrecking your pout
November 15, 2019 at 12:30AM by CWC I consider myself a pro at washing my face. I spend at least two minutes lathering my skin with cleansers—two of them, actually, since I am an avid double cleanser—making sure to get every last millimeter of gunk and makeup off of my face. And I’m successful at doing this, save for one exception: removing lipstick. Whether I’m rocking a bold fuchsia lip or a more subtle neutral, my makeup abolishing abilities end at my lips. I just don’t know how to remove lipstick. Even makeup remover wipes don’t usually do the trick. Post-cleansing, I’ll usually have to scrub so hard with either a tissue or my poor not-white-anymore towel to get the pigment off, which leaves my lips dry, flakey and all shriveled up from the aggression. So I had to ask a makeup artist: Just how do you remove lipstick without wrecking your lips or leaving behind a crime scene in the bathroom? Pro tip: It’s all about oil. “I love to use an oil-based cleanser to remove lipstick,” says Jeannie Vincent, a Boston-based makeup artist. “Or you can use a straight up oil with a few drops of water. You can use either a cotton, Q-tip, or reusable cotton round to remove it.” Her go-to is sweet almond oil, which works particularly great on makeup (plus it tends to be cheap, like this $3 option from Amazon). Also helpful is emulsifying the oil via some H2O. “Putting a couple drops
These are the healthiest hummus varieties that go way beyond chickpea
November 15, 2019 at 12:00AM by CWC Just like that one friend who always insists on getting to the party early, hummus was in the fridge long before healthy eating was a whole scene. (And also at the party, next to the crudités platter, readily scooped up by everyone who doesn’t like ranch dressing.) But chickpea hummus isn’t the only option you’ll find in the refrigerated section at your local grocery store. Like the pasta, hummus has embraced a variety of ingredients. There’s hummus made out of black beans, white beans, lentils, edamame, beets. How’s a healthy eater to know which one to go for? Are brands just using clever marketing to stump us? Answering the questions in Well+Good’s Cook With Us Facebook group is registered dietitian and The Better Period Food Solution author Tracy Lockwood Beckerman, RD. How to choose the healthiest hummus made with a variety of ingredients Best for fiber: black bean hummus Both chickpea hummus and black bean hummus are good sources of protein, but Beckerman says the black beans win with fiber content. “Black beans have a slightly higher fiber amount than chickpeas—15 grams verus 12.5 grams in 1 cup—and black beans have 20 calories less than chickpeas,” she says. While more fiber is definitely a positive, Beckerman says chickpea hummus is slightly higher in iron, although both have almost two times as much iron as a three ounce serving of steak. best for protein: edamame “Edamame takes the cake because it’s a complete protein,
How to put together a recovery toolkit to nip knee pain in the bud
November 14, 2019 at 11:30PM by CWC When you’ve got knee pain, it’s kind of like an annoying younger sibling, tagging along in everything that you do. Whether you’re running, spinning, squatting, or contorting yourself into some sort of a Warrior pose, it’s just kind of…. there. And while many of us just kind of learn to deal with it (respecting our body’s limits, of course), we shouldn’t have to—and putting together a stretch-heavy “recovery toolkit” for knee pain can help make that happen. “A lot of knee injuries, or even chronic knee pain, can be avoided if you figure out where your imbalances are,” says Samantha Pell, founder of Samantha Pell Pilates. So for example, if you’ve got super tight hamstrings and not-so-strong quads, you’ll start to feel it in your knees. Same if you’re working your quads too hard and not giving those hammies their airtime they deserve in your strength training sessions. The fix? Hack your recovery regimen so that your muscles are getting the equal love they deserve (and those pesky pains will be less likely to happen). As with most recovery hacks, this one starts with a foam roller. While you never want to roll your knee (or any other bone in your body for that matter), rolling the muscles around it can help relieve some of the tension that’s causing you pain. “When you roll slowly and correctly, it can really break up any of those knots and lactic acid buildup in your muscles,” says
There are *five* different types of acne scars—here’s how to treat them all
November 14, 2019 at 11:00PM by CWC [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt57es1bWhY] I’ve got some tough skin-care knowledge to lay down for you: Every time you get a pimple, there’s a six percent chance that it’s going to leave behind a scar. And as any dermatologist will tell you—and you may have learned this the hard way on your own over the years—that number goes up if you pop it or pick at it. Woof. Though they may be (frustratingly) common, all acne scars are not created equally, and neither are the ways you’re meant to treat them. There are five different types of scars your pimples can leave behind: keloids, which are raised and reddish; hypertrophic scars, which are slightly smaller than keloids and mostly happen on your chest and back; ice pick scars, which look like deep, pitted holes; rolling scars, which are slightly shallower and smoother than their ice pick cousins; and boxcar scars, which look like fingernail indentations. In the latest episode of Dear Derm, board-certified dermatologist Mona Gohara, MD, gives us the 411 on how to treat scarring from acne. But in order to understand what to do about a scar, it’s important to first understand why they happen in the first place. “When a pimple forms, collagen is damaged, and when that collagen starts to heal in a wonky way, it leads to scarring,” says Dr. Gohara. “When you get any sort of a wound, including a self-inflicted one from a pimple you had to pop, your skin
3 eye exercises an optometrist does to combat dryness
November 14, 2019 at 10:18PM by CWC Your eyes do a lot for you. And if you have a desk job that involves staring into the abyss of a computer screen, they deserve to be repaid for all their hard work. That’s where optometrist Weslie Hamada, OD, senior director of LensCrafters comes in with eye exercises to nurse your corneas back to health. “Thanks to our increasingly digital lifestyles, people are much more susceptible to digital eye strain than they once were,” says Dr. Hamada. “All this screen time can stress out the eyes and lead to eye fatigue. Constant digital stimulation or being on your computer for long periods can cause eye irritation, red eyes, and dry or excessively watery eyes.” We can’t just toss our laptops, phones (and wearables, and tablets) into the ocean and wipe our hands of the whole ordeal, but the eye doc says that there’s plenty we can do to look after the health of our eyes. Below, Dr. Hamada names four exercises to do in your spare time to ensure we can all keep squinting at Instagram for years and years to come. 3 eye exercises to keep dry eyes hydrated 1. Blink Oh. So you didn’t know that blinking was an eye exercise? Well, now you do. “Blinking cleans and moisturizes the surface of the eye. Insufficient blinking leads directly to eye fatigue, dryness, and eventually, to eye strain,” says Dr. Hamada. So wherever you are right now, bat those lashes. 2.
Salary transparency is key to the future of workplace wellness
November 14, 2019 at 09:01PM by CWC Earlier this week, someone forwarded me a Google spreadsheet filled with real-time salary information from hundreds of journalists and editors around the country. You might think that as a journalist and editor myself, I’d already know the salary ranges within my industry, but the truth is that I had no clue—and I was fascinated to see so much variation (even among people in the same city, working for the same company, with similar seniority levels and job responsibilities). But that’s exactly why the spreadsheet was anonymously created in the first place: There’s a whole lot of mystery and confusion around what constitutes fair pay—and not just in journalism. “Talking about how much or how little money you make feels taboo, and it shouldn’t,” reads a statement at the top of the document. “Wouldn’t it be great to know what your peers make so you can use that to leverage a raise? Let’s share what we make and any relevant info to help each other learn our worth!” Like many people I know, I’ve always believed that going public with my salary isn’t a good idea, not just out of fear of retribution from my employer, but also out of concern that my colleagues might resent me if it turns out I’m making more money than they are (or that I might resent them—and my managers—if the reverse were to be true). But a growing number of experts agree that salary transparency initiatives like