Want to hang a plant from your ceiling but unsure how to get started? Here’s your step-by-step guide. If you’re looking for a houseplant to hang in a darker area, Rebecca Bullene, the founder of biophilic design shop Greenery Unlimited, loves ZZ plants, pothos, and Devil’s Ivy. For bright-light varieties, she’s partial to the Philodendron Birkin and Snake Plant. Whatever plant you choose, make sure it’s one you really enjoy looking at....
Oral fixation is the desire to experience pleasure and sensation through your mouth, tongue, and lips—these are some of the most erogenous zones of the body. This can apply to eating, drinking, smoking, kissing, anything really. These can all be ways to experience the same serotonin surges associated with sex and orgasm (e.g., food-gasm). Smoking is also a way to calm nerves, and you get a buzz from the nicotine. If this is a true oral fixation in Freudian terms, it might be responsible for your smoking habit....
This year’s holiday season is a paradoxical source of joy and tension. Even those who’ve never suffered from anxiety and stress are wrestling with a sense of overwhelm after months of pandemic-related life changes. Those with pre-existing mental health issues are discovering that additional stressors—and disrupted holiday traditions—are exacerbating anxiety, stress, and depression. The groups that may be hit the hardest include those who are isolated due to relationship status, health issues, age, or strict social distancing preferences....
The gradual and natural decline of the body’s collagen supply contributes to what we consider signs of aging: fine lines, sagging, sallowness, loss of volume, and more.* It’s no wonder that people are constantly looking for ways to “restore” their natural levels. Here, we look into why collagen declines and the most effective (and natural) ways to support your own levels of this protein in the skin.* Collagen is found in many areas of the body: skin, bone, cartilage, and muscle, with the purpose of helping tissues be simultaneously more firm, elastic, and withstand stretching....
Why do you want to be diligent about cleaning makeup, just as you may be about cleaning brushes? Simple: “When you don’t sanitize your makeup regularly, bacteria will grow on it. Bacteria can cause irritation and acne when it comes into contact with your face,” says Titus Tse, co-founder of Coral UV. In the same way we are warned against swapping other personal items, we need to keep the same mentality for makeup....
If they get a thrill when you demonstrate sweet expressions of appreciation, compliments, gratitude, and encouragement, it’s likely that their primary love language is words of affirmation. Words of affirmation is one of the five love languages, which are just specific ways of giving and receiving love in a relationship. If someone is drawn to words of affirmation as their love language, marriage and family therapist Michele DeMarco tells mbg, it’s because they believe words really matter and help them give a literal voice to how they feel inside....
As for the best blush to top your cheekbones, well, that’s up to you to discover The One. But this year, a slew of beauty fans have uncovered the secret to that effortless, wind-swept glow: a majestic purple. Plum, lilac, violet, berry—the people are turning toward the color family for a cool, wintertime beat. Dare we call it a royal flush? He’s not the only one to find the color family intimidating at first glance....
