She’s been a Covergirl spokesperson for years, but Katy Perry was apparently ready to have the beauty world hear her roar — or, at the very least, least meow coyly —and so she joined forces with the mass market brand to design and launch her first-ever range of cosmetics: the Katy Kat Collection.
Typically, summer polish colors revolve around bold, zesty, bubbly brights, but these don’t have to be of the fluorescent variety to capture the fun-loving nature of the season.
Even when it comes to hair, age ain’t nothing but a number — or, at least, that’s how the scientists behind Living Proof are trying to make it.
The Tree of Life isn’t just the name of a visually astonishing, conceptually-driven, philosophical and esoteric Terence Malick film — it’s, in fact, the term Baron von Humboldt used to describe the buriti palm tree.
Summer is in full swing and, while in a perfect universe, I’d be typing this by the pool, my feet dipped in the water and a frozen Margarita within my reach, the truth is there hasn’t been much time for fun in the sun just yet.
Just two weeks ago, while driving from New York City to central Texas en route to our new home, my husband and I kept spotting signs directing us to cities with European names: Dublin, Virginia; Scotland, Virginia; Moscow, Tennessee; Paris, Tennessee; Hamburg, Arkansas; Florence, Texas; and so on.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we?
Anyone with color-treated hair will admit that maintaining a healthy-looking mane can feel like a Sisyphean task.
During college, when you’re studying for final exams or perhaps writing a thesis, you clock in such few hours of sleep that when you finally come home for the holidays, spring break, or summer, parents examine you and, with a concerned tone, remark, “You look tired, honey.” Later, when you join the workforce and have to tackle seemingly insane deadlines, it becomes friends, colleagues, and significant others — in addition to parents — who feel compelled to observe, “You look tired.” And then, of course, come the kids, at which point the phrase, “You look tired” almost seems redundant.
Because of our complex brains and our constant multi-tasking throughout the day (which requires accessing different parts of the brain), women need more sleep than men in order to feel refreshed — a theory I’ve always had but which was scientifically proven by a team of researchers at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England.
