Here’s a look at the top 10 products reviewed in the last week, plus a summary of how many products and brands were reviewed and a break out of ratings!
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Week in Review | February 20th through February 26th
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ColourPop’s Crème Gel Color in Polar
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Target March 2016 Beauty Box Sneak Peek
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[USA] [CONUS] FS - Niche & Designers (** Creed, Guerlain, AdP **), Low Prices
Culling the collection. Below are fantastic scents, they need to find a good home that will use them!
Excellent way to try niche and designers...
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We're Teaching People How to Treat Us
One of my friends is regularly triggered by his wife. There's one thing in particular that really gets to him. She talks over him while he's talking, especially in conversations with their friends.
His response is to blame her because he believes that making her wrong will get him what he wants. It's never true, but he tries it anyway.
They've been doing it for so long that they're stuck in a pattern. He protests her behavior by saying, "I won't put up with this! You can't treat me like this!" And then he puts up with it, and she continues to treat him like that.
Sometimes, his wife looks for an opportunity to get back at him. And she knows how to do it because he's shown her where his buttons are.
He has a button that says, "If you talk while I'm talking, I'll get upset." So whenever she wants him to get upset, she talks while he's talking.
This isn't rocket-science. It's just everyday preventable relationship dysfunction.
We're constantly teaching the people around us how to treat us through our response to what they do. If we show them that a certain word or look will get a consistent reaction from us, we're training them to use that word or look whenever they want that reaction.
We're saying, "If you want me to act this way, just activate this trigger -- just say this word that I've told you to never say, or take this action that I've told you to never take."
And when we've shown people where our buttons are, how they're activated, and what our auto-response will be, it's really not appropriate to blame them for pressing, "Push here."
What could my friend do that would work better? He could make himself unavailable. He doesn't necessarily need to go away. He only needs to not provide the response his wife is seeking, because people don't keep doing what doesn't work anymore.
His predictable response keeps his wife treating him in a predictable manner. And they'll continue doing what they're doing, until one of them decides to do something different. And divorce won't help because they'll continue the pattern with their new partners.
We can create positive change in our relationships, but we can only do it through ourselves, not others. So, if we want people to act differently toward us, we'll need to begin by acting differently ourselves.
Until we change, nothing will change.
We'll need to make a conscious decision to stop being triggered by what people say and do, which will deactivate our buttons and give us back our power.
We'll also need to examine whether our beliefs are valid. My friend needs to look at what he truly wants and whether making his wife wrong is getting it. And he needs to figure out how he can achieve what he wants without making her responsible.
First though, he needs to stop delivering his predictable response. When people can't trigger the reaction they want, they'll eventually stop looking for the buttons. But first, they'll try harder to find them.
So it may get noisy with his wife for a while. And he may actually need to leave the conversation, the room, even the building. When he returns though, it's super important that he support every positive thing she does.
That's how we train people constructively. As my friend pays more attention to the consequences he sets in motion, instead of blaming her for them, his communications with his wife will improve.
We're teaching people how to treat us all the time. The people in our lives who treat us badly are doing it because we've given them permission. And those who treat us well are doing it because we taught them how.
The key is to do it on purpose. When we feel triggered, if we will change our usual response, people will change their behavior. And when we no longer take what others say personally or believe that we're a target, we'll feel more secure in our relationships.
If we won't settle for less than that, all our relationships will become healthy - and those that can't will go away, which is also healthy.
We get what we want by being an example of it - by creating the internal change that we want to see externally. So the best way to teach people to treat us the way we want is to be an example of what we want.
For more posts by this author, please visit her blog at gracederond.com. This article was originally featured on The Good Men Project.
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See Every Stunning Shade of Too Faced's New Matte Lipstick Collection
It seems that lately, I can't scroll through my Instagram feed or browse the Internet without seeing mentions of Too Faced. Not that I mind! I'm a big fan of the brand and can't wait for the launch of the waterproof Better Than Sex mascara (out in March) or its collaboration with Kat Von D. As if those new releases weren't exciting enough, it has me amped for another upcoming collection: La Matte Color Drenched Matte Lipstick ($22).
You may already be familiar with the company's La Crème Color Drenched Lipstick ($22), which is ultracushy and comfortable to wear. However, the product is exclusively available in a creamy, slightly shiny finish. I truly love this texture, but as a matte-lipstick addict, I don't find myself reaching for the La Crème on a consistent basis.
The product development masters at Too Faced read my mind and whipped up a matte formula of their awesome Color Drenched lipstick that's just as creamy as the original. Despite the rich, balmy quality of each shade, it doesn't feather or bleed and lasts for hours. And whether you are a purple pout fanatic or drawn to nudes, you'll find your perfect color in the 10-shade collection.
My favorite thing about these lipsticks, though, is the name of each one. A classic red shade, "Rebel Heart," must be a nod to Madonna's most recent album. A vivid pink called "As If" would be Cher Horowitz's go-to hue. But the name of the vibrant, dramatic orange formula ("The New Black") stood out to me the most. The founders must be as excited for season four of Orange Is the New Black as I am.
Read on to preview every color from the collection, then head to Ulta on Feb. 28 to pick out your favorites!
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Introduction to Marc Jacobs Beauty
Introduction to Marc Jacobs Beauty I’m new to this brand. Where should I start? A Few Notes | Highliners: It’s one of the longer-wearing formulas, and I’d say one of the interesting things about the range is that they also manage to have more unique shades (relative to what you see from most brands, and […]
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Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Endorses Donald Trump
Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Saturday endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Trump has made immigration a central issue in his campaign for president, vowing to build a wall along the southern border of the United States and promising to have Mexico pay for it.
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Here, Finally, Is The Full Cast Of The New 'Harry Potter'
The new "Harry Potter" generation is here, y'all!
The full cast for J.K. Rowling's upcoming play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," was finally revealed Friday, now that rehearsals for the production have officially begun. Fans have known what actors would play Harry, Ron, and Hermione since December, but have been waiting in anticipation for the names and faces of the rest of the production's characters.
Behold:
Rehearsals have begun! See @JK_Rowling & the Company of Harry Potter & the #CursedChild together for the first time. pic.twitter.com/t2tCYgjHgb
— Harry Potter Play (@HPPlayLDN) February 26, 2016
The picture was posted to Pottermore and tweeted by the play's account Friday, though which actor will play which role has yet to be announced. (The Pottermore page says it will be "very soon.") But if you're looking for something fun to do this weekend, staring at the child and teen actors and wondering which Weasley and Potter children they're supposed to be could be a great start!
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" opens in London this summer.
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Former CIA Head Explains Why Armed Forces Can't Legally Obey Trump
Michael Hayden, the former head of the NSA and CIA, thinks some of presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign promises are so unlawful that the U.S. Armed Forces could not follow them as orders.
These include Trump's claim that people deserve to be waterboarded even if it doesn't work and that he would target the families of terrorists. The internationally recognized Geneva Convention bars such action.
"If he were to order that once in government, the American armed forces would refuse to act," Hayden said Friday during an appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher." "You are required not to follow an unlawful order that would be in violation of all the international laws of armed conflict."
Hayden added that he would be "incredibly concerned" if Trump followed through with his campaign promises as president.
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M.A.C Cosmetics Zac Posen Luncheon
Los Angeles, CA, February 25, 2016 — M·A·C Cosmetics kicked off Oscar weekend celebrating the launch of the M·A·C Cosmetics Zac Posen collection. M·A·C global brand president, Karen Buglisi Weiler, Demi Moore and Jacqui Getty hosted an intimate lunch at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House to honor Zac Posen and his new red carpet cosmetics collection. Guests […]
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What Makes a Woman Beautiful: See What’s Possible
Every day there is someone new to be inspired by. Women around the globe are making things happen and are living their dreams. They are taking action and living their life “by design.” Instead of letting life happen to them, they see what’s possible and go for it! It is inspiring to watch! Always on […]
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Comparing Trump to Hitler Is Worst Kind of Hate Speech
To all those comrades on my Facebook feed irresponsibly comparing isolationist Donald Trump to imperialist Adolf Hitler: that is your constitutionally protected right.
However, we have a very important, if unwritten, rule in high-level policy debate: he or she that resorts to a Nazi Germany or Hitler comparison loses the argument. This is because there is nothing that can compare to that diabolical aberration or person. In addition, usually those making the comparison have not done their homework, and are lazily latching onto to one aspect of the thing they despise (e.g., Trump's support of Federal libel laws, or his opposition to sanctuary cities, or his temporary Muslim travel ban) and then loosely extrapolating to the whole.
I have routinely lambasted Mr. Trump for his irresponsible rhetoric - including his birther-ism and pointless ad hominems - as well as for some of his wiggy policy prescriptions. Just read my repeated Huffington Post takedowns of the man.
Nevertheless, as a journalist, author, and former debate coach of some of the top teams in the land (see the urban debate documentary, Crotty's Kids, to learn more), I am also particularly sensitive to irresponsible rhetoric. And, as even MTV News agrees, these comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are grossly irresponsible.
Mike Godwin, director of innovation policy at R Street Institute, created his own Godwin's Law to call out these Nazi comparisons, which are commonplace online. Godwin's Law reads: "As an online discussion continues, the probability of a reference or comparison to Hitler or Nazis approaches 1." I urge you to read his article here and to get more granular in your comparisons going forward. I urge you to do this not because I am some monomaniacal hater of free speech - far from it - but because I find it deeply insulting to all those who died in the Holocaust to have their sacrifice cheaply denigrated in this way.
When we apply a Nazi comparison to someone or something that does not fit that comparison, then Nazism and the Holocaust lose their power to shock us. And they must never lose that power. If they do, which is quickly happening right now, when something diabolical does come along again in this world, we have no way to identify it, let alone stop it, because we've cried Nazi wolf so often that the comparison has lost its power to persuade. I fear this rhetorical desensitization has already happened in our delayed responses to atrocities in Syria, Rwanda, Darfur and beyond.
You see, for me, a Nazi comparison is a kind of inverted hate speech unwittingly directed at all those who died in the Holocaust. So, if you find Mr. Trump's comments a form of hate speech, it behooves you to not ape their very nature with a grotesquely irresponsible rejoinder. Moreover, when you make preposterous comparisons, you actually draw those on the fence closer to the very person you hope to disempower.
This is not to excuse Mr. Trump's more egregious utterances, but, rather, to create a wider space for moderate rhetoric to live and breathe. When we close off that space, then we create the conditions for rabid populists like Trump and Sanders to fill the rhetorical vacuum.
Remember that I called out the dangerous populist rhetoric of Barack Obama back in 2007. And I've been proven right, as that rhetoric has now morphed into a more virulent strain of leftist populism found in the Sanders voter, which has shocked many of Obama's original devotees.
We see its far-right parallel in Germany, which knows a thing or two about demagoguery. Because the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), at the behest of Chancellor Angela Merkel, has taken such a strident position on borders - foisting on the German people a disproportionately high number of the world's asylum-seekers without advance planning or deep and open dialogue - those who would naturally gravitate towards a more moderate border policy are left with no safe harbor, since all of Germany's conservative and liberal parties have embraced variants of the open border position.
Consequently, many decent, moderate Germans held their noses and reluctantly turned to far right political movements, such as PEGIDA, because they are the only ones standing up, however crudely, against Merkel's beautifully well-intentioned, constitutionally based (Article 16A grants asylum to anyone fleeing political persecution), but poorly conceived Wilkommenskultur. This is not to forgive this Heideggerian "turn," but to show how it happens.
Leftists in America are bumfuzzled that so many sensible, educated Americans find a home in the outlandish Mr. Trump. For me, however, the explanation is easy. Democrats have systematically enabled illegal immigration for cynical political gain for decades, and then successfully softened the deception by deceitfully reframing illegal aliens as "undocumented immigrants." Just listen to mainstream media, which routinely group illegal aliens with legal immigrants, to grasp the success of this artfully deceptive meme.
In cahoots with the Republican establishment (which wants easily exploited illegal aliens for financial gain), DC politicos have thus deliberately failed to secure our borders (enabling the free flow of drugs, human trafficking, illegal immigrants and, perhaps a few suspects on U.S. terrorism watch lists).
Working class and middle class Americans, whose communities have been savaged by Mexican heroin, the wage-deflating effects of illegal labor, and other scourges that cross our southern flank, have had enough. Unfortunately, their natural allies, the Republican and Democrat parties, have abdicated the middle. Therefore, these moderate voters are forced to hold their noses and embrace candidates with more extreme views because they've lost faith that those who embrace the sensible center will do anything about the obvious crisis.
The same is occurring on the left with the popularity of Vermont Socialist Bernie Sanders. Senator Sanders' vitriolic voters - just ask anyone who works for the Clinton campaign about the deranged hate mail and phone calls they get from Sanders backers, not to mention the dirty tricks that Sanders fails to fully control - believe that Obama, Hillary and the Democrats did nothing to punish Wall Street for the 2008 financial crisis (mainly because they took and continue to take outsized contributions from Wall Street investment banks). Now these voters want blood. Literal blood.
The angry sentiment emboldening the Sanders voter is precisely the vitriol that gets leaders' heads put on spikes. Scratch the surface of almost any of these Sanders firebrands and I can assure you that many would call for precisely such retribution (I've had to block a few on Facebook for precisely such sentiments). But few on Facebook are comparing Sanders to Stalin or his supporters to Brownshirts, even though the Sanders campaign plays on both nationalism and socialism.
I realize that in any political campaign there are policy prescriptions promulgated that certain segments of the population find deeply insulting. But because you want secure borders, for instance, or because you vehemently disagree with the policy prescriptions of those who want them, does not mean either of these positions is hate speech. Moreover, because you ask for calm restraint before castigating every black death by cop as a racist act, does not make you racist, despite what the lockstep believers at Black Lives Matter want you to think. These silencers of free speech recently tried to violently stop Breitbart's Ben Shapiro from speaking at CSULA because he dared to argue that diversity of speech on college campuses was under threat.
However, when you reach for dangerous comparisons in discussing this boorish behavior, such as the frequent violations of Godwin's Law seen on the Internet, or made recently on live television by former Mexican President Vicente Fox, you too are engaging in irresponsible, counterproductive, and dissent-silencing hate speech. Just because candidates from Marco Rubio to Ted Cruz to Ben Carson to Bernie Sanders to, yes, Donald J. Trump, indulge in that favorite American trope - the over-the-top end-of-days jeremiad - does not place them remotely in the same category as the deranged Austrian monster who brought us systematic rape, torture, ghastly human experimentation, the death camps of Auschwitz, Ebensee and Treblinka, as well as a game plan for these incomparable atrocities in his recently republished anti-semitic screed Mein Kampf.
So, rant all you want against Trump, cops, homophobic and environmentally ignorant candidates (my pet peeves) or anything else that displeases you, but please, for the sake of responsible rhetoric which breeds peace and goodwill among those of differing opinion, think long and hard before making odious comparisons.
James Marshall Crotty is the peripatetic publisher of Monk: The Mobile Magazine, author of How to Talk American (Houghton Mifflin), and director of the urban debate documentary Crotty's Kids. He writes about the intersection of travel, culture, and politics. To learn more, please go to www.jamescrotty.com.
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NARS Dual-Intensity Eyeshadow in Cressida, Kari and Tarvos [Swatches + Review]
<img src='http://chimera.mixrmedia.com/user_photos/2016/02/27/15707-8455670253d8c1383fbc04300528dd13-500.jpg' class='postImage' /><div class="rScore">9</div>The launch of the <strong><a href="http://flauntme.com/b/v/nars-unveils-the-spring-2016-nouvelle-vogue-color-collection/15662">NARS Spring 2016 Nouvelle Vogue Collection</a> </strong>saw the release of three new <strong><a href="http://flauntme.com/p/h/nars-dual-intensity-eyeshadow/12288">Dual-Intensity Eyeshadow</a></strong> shades; <strong>Cressida, Kari </strong>and <strong>Tarvos</strong>. The assortment of shades lives up to the Nouvelle Vogue theme of fresh modernity that pairs well with a bold, winged liner. Not into winged liner? No worries. Read on for swatches and the review:
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Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Hella Holo Customs and February releases
Disclosure: Contains press samples Today I have the Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Hella Holo Customs exclusive polishes. Hella Holo Customs is a Facebook group that features nail polish brands with special-edition holographic polishes. However, in order to purchase any HHC polishes, you must be a member of the Facebook group. You can message Aubrey Lacaillade , Dawn Borden or email hellaholocustomercare@gmail.com with the email address tied to your Facebook account. Yes, this does require jumping quite a few hoops, but the polishes are totally worth it. Atalanta (two coats): periwinkle leaning purple linear holo packed with gold to green to blue
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10 EASY TIPS ON HOW TO GAIN SELF-CONFIDENCE
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February Beauty Favorites
Hey everyone! Let’s talk Feb Faves. As I was compiling my favorites from the month of February, I realized there’s a very pinky theme. That was totally unintentional…just kinda...
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Caitlyn Jenner Lands M.A.C. Collab!
It’s Caitlyn Jenner’s turn to get a beauty gig and she landed a huge one with M.A.C. Cosmetics. The beauty giant will debut a new color for Jenner—a creamy rose-colored lipstick called, called, Finally Free. “M.A.C. was the first to come to me, and a company, I realized, would really make a big commitment,” Jenner […]
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Salma Hayek Mourns The Loss Of Her Dog Mozart!
This is a sad one…Salma Hayek found out this week that her dog, Mozart, a German Shepherd mix was killed to death in her Washington home. Salma shared the sad news on Instagram, “I haven’t posted for a week as I been mourning the death of my dog, Mozart who I personally delivered out of his […]
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Yoga Positions for Weight Loss (for Beginners)
Yoga can help you to lose weight and have a perfectly toned abs and sexy. If you count the benefits it brings to the overall health and relaxation it is the time to put into practice yoga exercises at your home!
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