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The concept of "lucky skin" — the kind that seems to age gracefully, maintain its clarity through dietary indiscretions and weather changes and stress, and require minimal intervention to look healthy — tends to create t...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's return to the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012 was her first major international appearance since giving birth to her daughter Aaradhya in November 2011, and it generated, as her Cannes appearanc...
A technology project that used facial compositing software to merge features from multiple celebrities deemed conventionally beautiful produced a single "ideal" face that generated significant discussion — and not all of...
Research consistently finds that physical appearance influences hiring decisions in ways that most employers would be reluctant to admit. Among the appearance factors that have been studied, facial features — including s...
A Little Imperfection For That Smile? AMERICANS are expected to spend nearly $110 billion on dental care in 2012, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, with much of it to straighten, whi...
Old Navy occupies a specific retail niche — affordable basics, frequent sales, accessible style — and within that niche it is genuinely useful. The mistake that many shoppers make is treating it as a store where everythi...
Fashion's perennial promise of the universally flattering garment is, in most cases, marketing fiction. Bodies differ too much in shape, proportion, and coloring for any single cut or silhouette to serve everyone equally...
The expanded use of Botox beyond its original cosmetic purpose has generated research findings that challenge a fundamental assumption about how the face works—specifically, whether the facial expressions we make influen...
There is an old observation, variously attributed, that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. What is less often discussed is how quickly those first impressions form — research suggests within second...
Before spending money on commercial acne treatments, it is worth considering what may already be sitting in your kitchen. Lemon juice has been used as a home remedy for acne and skin blemishes for generations, and while...
Income tax officials are conducting raids at residences of Bollywood actresses Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif, TV channels reported on Monday. The income tax sleuths reached the residences of Katrina and Priyanka at 7:...
Don't know where to start on the "clean-the-clutter" New Year's resolution? Your cosmetics case or medicine cabinet would be good, since gratification can come in minutes instead of the hours it would take to organize yo...
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrived at the Élysée Palace in 2008 as the most unconventional first lady in the recent history of Western democracies — a former supermodel and successful pop singer who had been photographed by som...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Dress to impress. Most women love to dress up in style and with the new fashion trends making history in the fashion world, women go bonkers over clothes, accessories and other...
Pune is a hotbed of cultural activity and it is a perfect destination for a fashion city. So we decided to bring season two of Pune Fashion Week (PFW)," Badal Saboo, its managing director, told IANS. Very soon the second...
Google's boutiques.com experiment, launched in late 2010, was an unusually candid attempt by the company to enter the fashion discovery market by doing something Google almost never does: acknowledging that it doesn't un...
The fashion industry's relationship with color runs on a logic that combines genuine aesthetic development with the perpetual need to declare something new, even when the new thing is the old thing given a different name...
Lower back pain affects roughly 80 percent of adults at some point in their lives, making it one of the leading causes of disability and medical expenditure in the developed world. For decades, the standard treatment res...
