Tuesday, February 9, 2016
teeth whitening at home..........EASY...........
There was applause all-round on the beauty desk when we found out that Oral-B's cult White Whitestrips, £50, arefinally launching in the UK. No more stock-piling from America trips, thanks very much.
But before you make a mad dash to buy some in the bid for whiter teeth, the celebrity dentist Dr Uchenna Okoye (of 10 Years Youngerfame) shares her at-home whitening tips to prep your teeth for any whitening, and how to prolong the effects. Note - put down that coffee...
Start using a whitening toothpaste
As we age, our teeth naturally become more yellow. Plaque adds to the yellow colouring, therefore in order to not look aged we must keep our teeth as white as possible. Start with a whitening toothpaste to keep surface stains at bay. If you smoke, stay away from most smoker's toothpastes as they can be too abrasive - the new Oral-B 3D White Luxe Glamorous Shine Toothpaste, £3.99 is very effective in removing surface stains.
Start using an electric toothbrush
For visibly whiter teeth, electric toothbrushes really do help. They perfectly complement any whitening toothpastes, and help to combat plaque build-up, prevent the development of tartar, and remove surface stains – leaving behind a beautiful white smile.
Avoid dark foods
In order to prevent new stains from appearing, avoid dark foods (anything that would stain a white shirt) and floss after eating to prevent stains. This means avoiding red wine, coffee, cola and curry which stain the teeth, and eating crunchy vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, celery and apples, as these foods actively help to clean and protect your teeth. Strawberries are also renowned for keeping teeth whiter because they contain malic acid, an enzyme that encourages saliva production, so you naturally rinse your mouth as you eat. Another tip is to drink sodas from straws. Avoid tea, coffee and definitely smoking especially with professional whitening.
Don't rinse after brushing
Fluoride is topical and therefore it needs to be topped up frequently. It is best to spit rather than rinse after brushing your teeth so the fluoride stays in your mouth for longer. This is especially important for the night-time brush so it can coat your teeth whilst you sleep.
How to use................. WHAT,.................
How to use an epilator
Managing your body hair needn't be a rush-job in the shower with a razor or a pre-planned mission to the waxer, because there's actually a way to achieve salon-quality 'hairlessness' in the comfort of your own home, with very little fuss or bother. If you've ever toyed with the idea of epilating, but the prospect of the pain or knowing how to do it properly has stood in your way, then here's a handy guide. The good news is, the more you do it, the easier it'll become.
Read on for Braun Beauty Ambassador, Nathalie Eleni's, no-nonsense tips for pain-free, efficient, long-lasting hair removal at home...
A few days before
If the pain of epilation puts you off, you may be interested to know that prepping the skin a few days before can go a long way to minimising the 'ouch' factor. "Skin that's dry, parched, cracked and sensitized is already unhappy so before you epilate use a body brush or body scrub, to slough away any skin build-up, then keep skin hydrated until you're ready to epilate," says Eleni. "The softer, more supple skin will be much happier,making the hair removal process much more comfortable."
Before you epilate
When you pay for a professional hair removal service there are certain pre-treatment processes it's wise to incorporate into your own DIY sessions. "In a salon you'd expect an alcohol or pre-wax cream to be applied to the area you're about to treat, and the same is useful when epilating at home," recommends Eleni. "Find a fragrance free lotion to prep skin and make sure skin is clean before you start."
Go slowly
Forget about ripping off a plaster, it's actually better to be slow but sure when epilating as being too fast could mean you'll miss some of those hairs and get a patchy result. "The first time you epilate it's normal to feel slightly anxious about how it's going to feel. Ease yourself in by treating small areas around the knee and keep skin taut as you go. Do a little bit at a time and when you've had enough, stop. You can build up to an area and speed that suits you. Avoid starting with the ankle as it tends to be slightly more sensitive," advises Eleni.
Short back and sides
"It tends to be the case that the shorter the hair the less painful it is when you're epilating, so if it's your first time use a trimmer to cut the hair down to around 2mm," recommends Eleni. "If you want to make it even less painful epilate after a bath when skin is still slightly warm and a little damp."
Sensitive areas
The bikini line needn't be off limits in your DIY lower-body deforestation, but you do need to go carefully. "Shave or trim the hair down and keep the skin you're treating taut at all times. Don't start on the inner thigh, instead start at the very top of the knicker-line just below your belly button," suggests Eleni. Make a batch of camomile tea and freeze into ice cubes, and apply it to the treated area immediately after you epilate to soothe. And if you're a regular at the gym, use a tea tree cream to keep the area clean for a few days after treatment."
Under arms
A five-o'clock shadow under the arms isn't a good if your aim is to be hair-free, and this is where epilating can be a saviour for your pits. "The hair under the arms tends to grow in three directions; down, up and across, so treat small sections and change the direction of the epilator so you can all the hair. It is a sensitive area though, perhaps even more sensitive than the bikini area, so treat small areas at a time until you get used to it."
British designer custom-making clothes for Blue Ivy
As proud mother Paltrow pointed out, the girls’ ‘jacket game’ was strong: Apple Martin sported a colourful, off-the-peg design by Stella McCartney Kids but Blue Ivy’s rainbow-print jacket was in fact a bespoke piece commissioned especially for the little one. Yes, Blue Ivy might only be four years old, but when you’re the only child of one of the most famous and wealthiest couples on the planet, who says you can't have bespoke fashion?
Cold weather dressing
Ahead of a frosty New York AW16 Fashion Week, we have been afforded some last minute winter styling tips by way of Kiev. Temperatures were around 2°C, and -1°C overnight at this week’s Ukrainian designer showcase, meaning show-goers had to keep layers handy while dashing between shows.
Here are five tips to take for a snug and stylish slog to spring…
Model strips nude for Paris Vogue
There’s no avoiding Gigi Hadid this year – or every inch of her toned, California sun-kissed body. If you haven’t witnessed the 20-year-old pin-up canoodling with boyfriend Zayn Malik in his new music video, then allow us to present to you the latest fruits of her modelling career: a nude magazine cover forVogue Paris.
The French style bible picked the model-of-the-moment to grace its March issue and asked her to pose for two covers, both proclaming the line 'The phenomenal body with 10 million fans' . While one features her preserving her modesty in just a Chanel bouclé jacket and some pearls, the other sees her sport just a pair of Chanel mules. She joked on Instagram – where she has since clocked up almost 13 million followers – that the latter was “the version where I'm wearing mostly Chanel N°5 ;) lol”, making reference to Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, who famously declared that she wore nothing to bed except the famous perfume.
Oscars put an end to long thank you speeches
The time-honoured practice of Oscar winners listing name after name of the people they want to thank during their acceptance speeches is about to change.
This year, the speeches will be more anecdotal and the names of people they wish to thank will appear in a scroll at the bottom of the screen during their allotted 45 seconds.
The new rule was announced by producers Reginald Hudlin and David Hill at the annual Oscar nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, a star-studded affair taking place this year against a backdrop of controversy over diversity in Hollywood and talk of boycotting the Oscars ceremony on February 28.
All the nominees are being required to submit a list of whom they'd like to thank in the scroll, but they can still also mention major influences in their acceptance speech.
The issue of the lack of Oscars diversity dominated the luncheon, although Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs clearly did not want it to cast a shadow over the event.
"This year, we all know there is an elephant in the room. I have asked the elephant to leave," she said. "Today is all about your incredible work on the screen and behind the camera."
Love & Friendship Sundance review: 'Jane Austen has never been funnier'
Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship
How well do Jane Austen and Whit Stillman get along? That’s the decisive question in Love & Friendship, the American director’s adaptation of an early Austen curio, her long-unpublished epistolary novella Lady Susan. It certainly sounds like a dream fit, since caustic comedies of high-society manners are exactly what Stillman does and always has – there’s even a barbed throwaway exchange about Austen in his debut film, Metropolitan.
It’s with ticklish glee, then, that you watch Love & Friendship live up to every possible expectation you could set for it, opening out the adulterous games of Austen’s surprisingly risqué text and elaborating on them with impish, often breathlessly funny verve. It’s flat-out hilarious – find me a funnier screen stab at Austen, and I’m tempted to offer your money back personally. Gliding through its compact 92 minutes with alert photography and not a single scene wasted, it’s also Stillman on the form of his life.
Lady Susan’s confidante in these well-orchestrated indiscretions is a scruple-free American friend called Alicia Johnson, played in a spry, unshockable supporting turn by Chloë Sevigny – an old wingman of Beckinsale’s from an earlier Stillman comedy, The Last Days of Disco. Alicia is married – to Stephen Fry as a gouty killjoy, no less – but Lady Susan openly thinks he’s a bad match for her: “Too old to be governable, and too young to die.”
That line’s paraphrased from Austen, but so much here is ingeniously invented, like the scene where James Fleet, as DeCourcy’s doting but clueless father, agrees to recite a letter to his wife (Jemma Redgrave, superb) and makes a point of dimly including all the punctuation. Stillman has also threaded in a wicked pocket of anti-American insults – “You could be scalped!”, Lady Susan cries to Alicia in alarm, when she hears Fry’s character is threatening a punitive move to Connecticut.
The performances, even from some of the more surprising cast members, are uniformly sharp. It’s one thing for Fry’s cameo to fit in fine, but based on his polished, charming, and perfectly accented romantic lead, you’d never know Samuel was an Australian heartthrob who popped up in a Twilight sequel. The less well-known Tom Bennett, whose scene-stealing efforts should make him every bit as much of a star, grins and grins and understands nothing as the biggest stooge of the lot, a twittering eligible bachelor called Sir James Martin, in whose lap Lady Susan cruelly, and for purely mercenary reasons, intends to dump her hapless daughter.
Most films with this callous a heroine go through some rigmarole of redeeming her, but Stillman is completely uninterested in lessening the fun at any point, and lets compassion shine through in Austen’s other characters instead. His film takes the shape of an elegant mid-season ball with an immaculate witch presiding.
Beckinsale doesn’t miss a beat in responding with mere distaste to every wholly accurate slur levelled against her character – “Facts are horrid things,” she ruefully declares. Delivering all Lady Susan’s pirouettes of self-justification without ever landing too heavily, she’s gloriously bang on the money. Perhaps only by reading the book after you’ve seen this is the skill of Stillman’s treatment to be fully grasped – it’s one of the deftest feats of literary interpolation in ages. And it grafts wicked surprises – things even Austen didn’t quite dare conceive, plot-wise – right onto the merry finale.
Make it like for Charlotte's racy lacy bodysuit
Charlotte, 25, showed off her new surgically enhanced nose as she got ready to let her hair down in a black lace all-in-one.
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Double trouble: Charlotte Crosby and
Holly Hagan went all out when they headed on a bondage-themed night with
the cast of Geordie Shore on Monday night
Fashion boob: The girls wore the
skimpiest of lingerie outfits, both revealing a little too much as they
went braless for a night out at Madame Koo's in their hometown of
Newcastle.
Shore you want to go out like that? Holly Hagan and Charlotte Crosby go braless in very daring sheer lingerie outfits as they join the Geordie cast on bondage night out
Charlotte, 25, showed off her new surgically enhanced nose as she got ready to let her hair down in a black lace all-in-one.
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Double trouble: Charlotte Crosby and
Holly Hagan went all out when they headed on a bondage-themed night with
the cast of Geordie Shore on Monday night
Fashion boob: The girls wore the
skimpiest of lingerie outfits, both revealing a little too much as they
went braless for a night out at Madame Koo's in their hometown of
Newcastle.
J&B Met fashion 2016
SMART
Call booked her ticket to the US for the Breeders Cup in October, after
upstaging her male rivals in the R2.5m J&B Metropolitan Handicap at
Kenilworth Racecourse on Saturday, 30 January 2016..
Fashion
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| Siv Ngesi and I. |
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| Boitumelo Thulo |
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| Lalla Hirayama |
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| Danilo Acquisto and Zoë Brown |
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| Tamara Dey and Tol As Mo |
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| Sinalo Jonas and Khanyi Mbau |
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| Party starters at the Met: Crazy White Boy |
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
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