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Is it a glitter, or is it a super shiny eye gloss? Quelle suprise! ‘Tis both. The MAC Dazzleshadow Liquid Eyeshadows ($22 each) The sparkling new MAC Dazzleshadow Liquid eyeshadows come in 10 shades in every color you’d want to wear to schmexy time, to preschool library story time (IT ME), or any time, really. “Get lost in eyes that tantalize, mesmerize and glamorize. Introducing the irresistible twinkle of our all-new daze-inducing Dazzleshadow Liquid. Available in a range of beaming finishes – from glaring glitter to subtle sparkle and cool chrome – this ultra-shiny liquid eye shadow glides across lids...

Irène Joliot-Curie born this day in 1897, daughter of the Curies (Nobel prizes in physics in 1903, his mother Marie also won the Chemistry Nobel in 1911), she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1935) with whom he had been her apprentice and then husband Frederic Joliot.An interesting reading, the story of mother and daughter during WWI as nurse radiographers: Marie Curie - War Duty (1914-1919)By the way, her daughter, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, married Michel Langevin, grandson of the famous physicist Paul Langevin, thesis advisor of her mother, and in his younger days a doctoral student of her grandfather and lover of her...

For the next seven days, I will be ditching under-eye concealer, which is craziness, considering the fact that there was a time when I’d literally never leave home without it. No, seriously, I used to apply under eye-concealer to pick up the mail…right outside the house. Lately, however? Nuh-uh. It has NOT been doing me any favors, and I don’t know exactly what happened, because I really haven’t changed my skin care routine. Suddenly, though (or so it has seemed to me), everything I put under my eyes looks heavy and thick and textured and like — pardon my French...

Does this happen to you? All the time?? If that’s the case, then hello! — welcome to my world. I try a new eyeshadow or lipstick or a different technique, and my makeup’s looking reasonably banging, but then I don’t really have any place fancy to go, so I end up chillin’ on the courch with a bag of TJ’s Mochi Rice Nuggets and watching My So-Called Life for the umpteenth time. Sigh… Oh, and by the way, it may be happening right now as I type this, ha ha ha! Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict, Karen Continue reading "How...

This seems a science joke, but it’s not, has a very definite purpose. Gummy bears under antiparticle fire (via Phys.org): Gelatin is used in the pharmaceutical industry to encapsulate active agents. It protects against oxidation and overly quick release. Tiny pores in the material have a significant influence on this, yet they are difficult to investigate. In experiments on gummy bears, researchers at Technische Universität München (TUM) have now transferred a methodology to determine the free volume of gelatin preparations.