An advert for mascara by Christian Dior starring Natalie Portman has been banned for misleading women into thinking it would give them “lusher lashes”. The magazine advertisement, showing Natalie Portman staring into the camera with well defined eyelashes, was challenged by rivals L’Oreal who said the photo exaggerated the effects of the mascara. The ad boasts “the miracle of a nano brush f…
Oct 24 2012 | Posted in
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Magnetic Lash created by Santhilea,which uses no airbrush trickery in their adverts, promises: what you see is what you get. Magnetic Lash isn’t actually magnetic, but it works like this. Magnetic Lash created by Santhilea,which uses no airbrush trickery in their adverts, promises: what you see is what you get Apply a coat of mascara, then follow up with tube number two, which contains cotton ca…
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nelling microscope in every household, I agree it’s a very experimental tool,” Dr. Sebastian Loth said. Dr. Sebastian Loth believes that by increasing the number of atoms to between 150 to 200 the bits can be made stable at room temperature. That opens up the possibility of more practical applications. “This is now a technological challenge to find out about new manufacturing tec…
…hook won’t catch any sharks. For more than a decade, Eric Stroud has been working to develop shark repellents. He used to work as a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. Then, in the summer of 2001, he and his wife went on a cruise to Bermuda. “We hit bad weather, and we were trapped in a cabin, and on the news was shark bite after shark bite,” he says. “It seemed like ev…
…rtant because specific locations or timing variations in the signal could indicate a more conventional source for the particles, such as a pulsar (a type of neutron star). AMS was placed on the ISS in 2011. The longer it operates, the better its statistics will be and the more definitive scientists can be in their statements. Lead spokesman, Prof. Sam Ting, said the AMS Collaboration would proceed…
Marzieh Vafamehr, an Iranian actress, has been condamned to one year in prison and 90 lashes for her role in “My Tehran for Sale” – a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic. Marzieh Vafamehr The movie came under harsh criticism in conservative circles and Marzieh Vafamehr was arrested in July. Marzieh Vafamehr was held at the Gharchak prison until the invest…
Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly been killed in his hometown of Sirte. (Photo by AFP) UPDATE: The NTC have confirmed the death of Muammar Gaddafi “He [Gaddafi] was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters. “There was a lot of firing against his group and he died.” Al Arabia reported 45min ago (via twitter) that the corpse…
As we age, we’re tempted to plaster on more make-up in a bid to hide lines, hollow cheeks and sagging eyes. Yet as supermodel Cindy Crawford, 46, has revealed, her secret to looking youthful is to do the opposite. “I wear less make-up,” she tweeted. “It can make you look older.” Since then, Sharon Stone, 54, and Carol Vorderman, 51, have been seen looking bare-faced and beautiful. “Too much make-…
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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Startram is a proposed “space train” that could make cheaper journeys beyond Earth’s atmosphere and will allow 4 million people a year to travel to space by 2032, according to its designers. Startram, designed by one of the inventors of the “magnetic levitation” trains in use in countries such as China, would be a railway driven by superconducting cables suspended in the air by magnetic for…
on from the flare – or coronal mass ejection (CME) – causing magnetic storms. The flare is part of a larger increase in activity in the Sun, which runs in 11-year cycles. It is expected to peak around 2013. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center wrote: “Category G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms are expected 28 and 29 December due to multiple coronal mass…
Film critic Roger Ebert has died at 70 after a long battle with cancer, his newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times has reported. Roger Ebert, known for his thumbs-up or down television reviews with partner and friend Gene Siskel, became a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, losing his jaw and his ability to speak in a subsequent surgery. Roger Ebe…
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Holly Willoughby’ secret to her glowing complexion is a special lotion made out of an exotic fruit. Holly Willoughby uses Lucas’ Papaw ointment ($7.5 for 25g), an Australian product which contains papaya and is great for cleansing and soothing. She posted a picture of herself without any make-up last week showing a perfect, dewy skin. Holly Willoughby says: “It’s my budget buy and is a great all-…
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…those patients who would like a fuller, thicker brow to achieve that result. • The treatment itself lasts around 4-5 hours and it is virtually pain free. • It involves using a special punch, less than 1mm in diameter, to remove hair follicles from behind the patient’s ear. The hair is then transplanted into the brow area • The hair will then grow gradually in its new location and you will start to…
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…” said Dr Neil Walker, a dermatologist at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. Iniatially Beautytek was designed as a device to treat pain in hospitals, then the technique was developed in Italy in 2000 for cosmetic purposes. Beautytek has been used in over 30 countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Austria, US, Canada, China, UK. …
On December 21, 2012, the apocalypse foretold 5,125 years ago by the ancient Mayans will come to pass and the world will end. Meanwhile, Harold Camping, an American radio preacher, got thousands of followers worked up when he predicted the Second Coming of Jesus Christ on May 21 last year. When that didn’t happen, Harold Camping said the world would end on October 21. And then he quietly retired…
Researchers have found that brain scans show that skipping breakfast makes fatty, high calorie foods appear far more attractive later in the day. Scans of 21 people showed the brain was more attracted to food if breakfast was missed and people had more food at lunch. Scientists said it made loosing weight challenging as missing meals made calorific food even more appealing. Nutrition experts say…
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ed the storm as the Sun’s version of Super Tuesday – in a reference to the US Republican primaries and caucuses in 10 states. “Space weather has gotten very interesting over the past 24 hours,” Joseph Kunches added. The charged particles are expected to hit Earth at 4,000,000 mph (6,400,000 km/h), and NOAA predicts the storm will last until Friday morning. Images of the Sun…
…f Caltech, said: “The idea of a division between social and cognitive processing in the brain is really pretty artificial. The two deeply interact with each other.” The research appears in the January 23, 2012 issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B….
Just two weeks after landing its Curiosity rover on Mars, NASA has announced it will send another robot to the planet in 2016. The InSight spacecraft will be a static lander that will carry instruments to investigate Mars’ deep interior. Scientists say this will give them a clearer idea of how the rocky planets formed – the Earth included. InSight beat two other proposals in a competi…
Robot avatars have got a step closer to being the real world doubles of those who are paralyzed or have locked-in-syndrome. Scientists have made a robot move on a human’s behalf by monitoring thoughts about movement, reports New Scientist. The man-machine link joined a man in a brain scanner in Israel and a robot wandering a laboratory in France. The person controlling the robot could also…
Joanne Trattoria, the Italian restaurant owned by the parents of Lady Gaga, has been slammed once again, this time by the New York Daily News, which called it “worse than herpes”. But after Lady Gaga blamed her family’s Upper West Side restaurant for her recent 25 lbs weight gain, can the simple family establishment, owned by Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta, be that bad? Lady Gaga told radio…
…ing, often funny reviews for movies. It was there, in 1975, that Roger Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, an award given to newspaper writers. “Roger was 24-7 before anybody thought of that term,” said John Barron, Roger Ebert’s former boss at the Sun-Times, who said he was among the first reporters to use a computer or send emails. Toward…
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When Apple’s voice-activated assistant Siri has been asked over the weekend “What is the best smartphone ever?”, it appeared to favor the iPhone’s rival, Nokia’s Lumia 900. But Siri now responds to the same question with a jovial: “Wait… there are other phones?” Nokia has accused Apple of “overriding the software” after the quirk was noticed….
rd snarling: “Bend over the F***ing bed. “Lay down or I’ll spank you in the F***ing face.” The horrific video appears to have been captured on a webcam and is said to date from 2004. A shocking video allegedly shows Court-at-Law judge William Adams from Aransas County, Texas, viciously beating his disabled 16-year-old daughter, who suffers from cerebral palsy, after catchi…
