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[ad_1] NASA / JPL-Caltech The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, now includes converting part of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. An experimental instrument the size of a toaster aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) accomplished the task…
Hailey Bieber, who’s ramping up to launch a brand of her own, just revealed her full nighttime skin-care routine on her YouTube channel. As expected, there are all sorts of mid-range to luxury cleansers, serums, and oils in her go-to lineup — but it’s the low-cost drugstore staple Bieber ends the whole routine with that…
Body composition refers to how much of your body is composed of body fat versus muscle. Although most people fixate on their body weight when trying to get in shape, body composition is a much more useful metric to track. The problem with just tracking your body weight is that if you’re new to proper…
The pandemic has forever changed so much, but especially our travel visions and plans. We’ve canceled countless vacations, weddings, and holiday visits, and lockdown orders have forced us to get more creative with our OOO days. But just because we’ve been limited in terms of physical travel, doesn’t mean we can’t mentally escape to the…
If you suspect a gel manicure allergy, King suggests removing the polish immediately and treating the skin with an over-the-counter cortisone cream. If the rash doesn’t begin to improve in a week or two, see a dermatologist. Clayton hasn’t polished her nails, with gel polish or otherwise, since her ordeal, but dermatologists tell me that…
As I’ve gone through life as a girl, then a woman, I’ve noticed there are a few things that definitely happen to women’s bodies but are never really talked about. It was several years until I found out about postpartum alopecia or what an episiotomy is. I was also kind of surprised to find out…
“Sustainability” is an ambiguous, ever-evolving concept. In the beauty world, it encompasses many things, but one of the biggest concerns is the bottles, jars, and tubes that accumulate in our medicine cabinets, our showers, our makeup bags — and then our trash cans. On this Earth Day, we at Allure want to affirm our commitment…
[ad_1] April 22, 2021– In 1973, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepared to open a new dam project, flooding miles of the Stanislaus River Canyon, a beautiful, pristine river valley that flows from the western Sierra Nevada mountains into the Central Valley of California. In 1979, Mark Dubois chained himself to a rock behind…
But there’s even more to consider: For example, if a plastic pump includes metal (which almost all do), it can’t be processed. (This is something some brands like Love Beauty and Planet are addressing with new designs.) “Another uncommonly known fact is that dark plastics — such as black, navy, or dark brown — cannot…
In true #BlackGirlMagic fashion, Black female entrepreneurs are completely disrupting the wig and weave game. They are serving up higher quality extensions that more accurately reflect our range of natural textures and rich colors–heightening our incomparable swag. We are so here for this new generation of wigs and weaves making good on its promise of…