Bruxism, or grinding one's teeth during sleep, affects most people at least some point during their lives. However for some (8-10%), like myself, it is an ongoing nightly occurrence, disturbing sleep and slightly freaking out your partner. Sometimes I can grind my teeth so loudly that I wake myself up and the next morning my jaw feels really tight, from the previous night's repetitive gnashing and sawing of teeth on teeth.
I often find myself relaxing into clenching my teeth at the desk or on the tube and have been trying to make a concerted effort to practice an exercise of "lips together and teeth apart" as advised. Since reading that my bruxism is probably stress related and can lead to loss of teeth,gum recession, headaches and many other related symptoms I've decided to try and address this issue. I ogled some horrendous photos of life long bruxism sufferers and decided that what was once a bit of a quirky, night-time tick is now a great cause for concern.
Getting a box full of the summer 2009 Ooh-La-La and La-Di-Da color collections from Zoya was like getting a box full of summer on a rainy, dreary day. These are colors to brighten your look and your mood, and I doubt anyone could help but be delighted by these super saturated hues.
Just when you thought you knew how to make a ponytail. Stylist Kevin Ryan gives some great tips on getting a chic look with your pony, including using mini bobby pins to wrap hair around the elastic! Genius!
Moving to an area with a terrific recycling program has only made me realize how much I coudn't recycle in my old apartment. Honestly, recycling cosmetics bottles rarely crossed my mind. But now you can recycle most of your cosmetics packaging no matter where you life, as long as you can get to an Origins store!
Long-touted as a maker of eco-friendly products and packaging, Origins is helping you take your green lifestyle further. Starting April 2 you can take your tubes, bottles, caps, jars and compacts to any Origins store or department store counter. They don't have to be Origins products, but it would probably be nice if they're clean.
Coincidentally, today get free shipping and a free liptint with any purchase at Origins.com. You know, to give you something to recycle come April.
I'm a sucker for a pretty face chart, and a pretty palette. So Mark's got me all googly eyed with their spring Flip For Its, $20. Each palette flips up to reveal more colors underneath, seven complimentary products in each! First up, above, is Flip For It Tokyo, above.
In case you have trouble reading the small print, the products used are after the jump, as well as the Flip For It LA face chart!
Sorry for the technical difficulties with publishing this week! We've been upgrading some technology that should make the sites way easier to use, so just sit tight! Since we couldn't do a lot of writing - we did a lot of reading this week! Here's what we found around the Web.
The first part of a series helping you get vintagey, Mad Men hair styles. [Girlznight]
The internet is abuzz about Katie Holmes' new long hair, and we agree it's fabulous. [Stylelist]
Zara gives us a gallery of the whimsical hair at Luella's Fall 09 show. [KissandMakeup]
Our girl Yuli from InsidetheTents.com got a little backstage dish from DEX New York at the E.Y. Wada show. Check out all their colors named after different NYC neighborhoods, perfect for fashion week.
We've been saying it for months, someone give Freida Pinto a beauty contract! The beautiful Slumdog Millionaire actress has been wowing us with her luminous complexion all awards season.
Seems Estee Lauder may agree. Rumors have cropped up that the brand is looking to sign the Indian actress as a spokesperson to help boost business in India and around the world.
Surely it would also be one of the bigger contracts an Indian personality has struck with an American beauty firm. Yay for diverse beauty!
Clinique, known for gentle products that won't irritate the skin, is now helping you deal with irritation from outside sources as well. Their new Redness Solutions Instant Relief Mineral Powder, $32.50, uses caffeine and other ingredients to visibly calm redness.
Boots has raided its archives for Boots Original Beauty Formula products, launching this week. The line, available at Target, is based on traditional formulas and updated with pure ingredients and recylcable packaging. Products include Cold Cream, Lip Salve, Vanishing Day Cream, Skin Balm, Skin Tonic, Bath Foam and Cuticle Oil and range in price from $7.99 to $24.99.
Remember the lady with the longest legs in the world who posed with the world's shortest man, Svetlana Pankratova? Well now she's teaming up with Kiehl's to launch their new Simply Mahvelous Legs Shave Cream, $15.50.
Pankratova will shave her legs using the shave cream at the Kiehl's flagship store on Third Avenue next week. And if it seems weird to have a bunch of people watching someone shave their legs, does it make it weirder that young girls will be scrutinizing her in particular.
Girls from the Lower Eastside Girls Clubs will be counting Pankratova's strokes, because Kiehl's will donate $44 to the Girls Clubs for each stroke. Forty-four dollars because Pankratova's legs are 4'4" long.
When I come back from a fashion show, I have a looooot of pictures on my camera. But only a small percentage of them actually make to to the site. So what happens to all the pics that I messed up? Or was just blurry or redundant, like this one, or I just don't have room for in a post?
Makeup remover wipes are a thoroughly modern invention. As much as we'd all like to imagine ourselves at a vintage vanity in a silk robe performing step after step of beautifying treatments, more often than not it's just not going to happen. Sometimes we're lucky to find pajamas and wake up the next morning with our eyelashes stuck together with last night's mascara.
So, yes, makeup remover wipes are a must for every bed stand. But what sets Boots Quick Thinking 4 in 1 wipes, $6.99, apart? A few things. Firstly, the packaging. The unique snap-closed lid attached to the usual plastic wrapper ensures that your wipes will not dry up before their time.
Sunday's star studded bash made many a fashionista cry herself to sleep for what they'll never have, but here at ShinyGloss we're more concerned with their beauty style and Oscar worthy hairdo's. Our British sister site KissandMakeup has teamed up with the fab Akin Konizi, British Hairdresser of the Year, from Hob salons to decide which celebs hair was truly outstanding.
At the top of the heap was Penelope Cruz, whose recent portrayal of an eccentric schizoid woman in Vicky Christina Barcelona was riveting.
'She looked stunning,' said Akin, 'combining a classic updo with an eye-skimming fringe, that had an Audrey Hepburn feel'.
Heat styling may not always be the best thing for your hair or the earth, but at least you can always use products to protect and improve your hair. Now, FHI Heat is coming out with products that let you protect and improve the earth, too!
The "Do More" series will include flat irons featuring color-coded plates signifying three different causes. The first release, "Do More: Earth" is a green-plated Technique 1" iron, $120. $1 of each sale of a "Do More: Earth" styling iron will go to Trees for the Future, and for every dollar approximately 10 new trees will be planted. "Do More: Water" benefiting clean water charities and "Do More: Breast Cancer Awareness" will benefit cancer charities (and likely be the most popular color choice - pink, of course.)
It was when working on their campaign with Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen that Mark Badgley and James Mischka started thinking about the transformative power of the couture dress.
"We wanted a fragrance to make you feel like you're in a couture gown," James said at an event to launch the Badgley Mischka Couture fragrance at the Red Door Salon. "An overall enveloping feeling of being in couture."
The fragrance, available this month, was created with perfumer Caroline Sabas of Givaudan Fragrances. Dubbed a "floriental" wood scent, the fragrance blends fruits with florals and musks. For more details, keep reading...
Bryony Hewer writes...
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