Vernis Color Show by Maybelline et mascara Wonderfull de Rimmel

Buenas tardes,

Je reviens aujourd'hui pour vous parler de deux produits un TOP et un FLOP .

Vernis Color Show de Maybelline:
En achetant ce vernis je m'attendais à quelque chose de bien mais sans plus puis j'ai finalement eu un véritable coup de cœur une fois que je l'ai testé  !

Sur l'emballage on peut lire " les pigments de la formule Colorshow captent la lumière et la reflètent pour une brillance inédite. Maxi tenue" et tout est vrai ! Il tient super bien pas besoin de retouches si l'application est bien faite (d'ailleurs il s'applique très facilement) et la brillance est juste parfaite, il n'y a rien à redire. Franchement si vous l'achetez ça ne sera pas de l'argent de perdu contrairement aux vernis camaïeu (j'ai fait un article dessus ici).

Maintenant passons au mascara Wonderfull de Rimmel
Ce mascara est "Wonderfull" en rien du tout à par peut-être par son incroyable inefficacité.Honnêtement une fois appliqué la différence n'est pas flagrante, je trouve que c'est limite une arnaque tellement je ne la vois pas, en fait ce mascara rehausse seulement légèrement mes cils et encore il faut que je colle limite ma tête contre le miroir pour le remarquer .

Voilà ce que dit le produit:

• "Une formule révolutionnaire avec huile d'argan du Maroc qui aide à nourrir les cils / apporte douceur et confort " je vais commenter ça par un simple : LOL (bon et puis je passe pas ma vie à caresser mes cils non plus).
• "Une brosse ultra-flexible qui capture les cils de la racine jusqu'au pointes pour une définition parfaite et un volume sans paquet" je veux bien qu'elle soit ultra-flexible cette brosse mais elle ne fait aucun volume donc ça sert à rien...
• "Les cils sont respectés, plus souples pour un volume intensément délicat." Là encore je le redis IL EST OÙ CE SOI-DISANT VOLUME ?

Conclusion : ce mascara est wonderriendutout, la seule chose incroyable qu'il a réussit à me faire faire c'est perdre de l'argent ! Après je ne vais pas dénigrer la marque pour ce premier flop chez eux parce qu'ils ont d'autres produits que j'aime bien .

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Cigarette : l’un fume, l’autre non, l’expérience choc sur de vrais jumeaux

C’est un constat choc qui a été mis en avant par une étude menée par le Département de chirurgie plastique de la Case Western Reserve University d’Ohio. On le sait, le tabagisme a des conséquences néfastes sur la santé mais aussi sur l’apparence physique. Mais plutôt qu’une simple comparaison entre fumeurs et non-fumeurs, l’étude s’est portée sur devrais jumeaux, afin de relever, à patrimoine génétique similaire, l’évidence des modifications et altérations physiques impliquées par la cigarette.

Et le moins qu’on puisse dire c’est que les visages parlent d’eux-même : bouche pincée, poches sous les yeux, rides plus marquées, fatigue visible, des signes qui ne trompent pas quand au vieillissement accéléré de la peau chez les fumeurs. Et qui donnent envie d’éteindre sa cigarette, pour de bon.

 Le jumeau de droite a fumé 14 ans de plus que son frère :

La jumelle de gauche a fumé 17 ans de plus que sa soeur :

La jumelle de gauche n’a jamais fumé, contrairement à sa soeur qui fume depuis 29 ans :

La jumelle de droite est fumeuse, celle de gauche non :

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Steaks and lamb chops calm down stressed out men by bringing out their caveman instincts

Steaks and lamb chops calm down stressed out men by bringing out their caveman instincts 

Women who want to calm down their husbands after a stressful day at the office should serve him a big steak, scientists said today.

Contrary to popular opinion that a hunk of red meat may make men aggressive, experts said it actually has a calming affect.

Psychologists said they were shocked by research findings which show that far from bringing out the 'caveman instinct' in modern men, seeing meat lowers any aggressive tendencies because it reminds males of friends and family at meal time.

The researchers, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, said seeing meat provokes a sense of non-agression that could be related to family feasting among the earliest humans.

Lead researcher Frank Kachanoff admitted he was 'surprised' by the findings.

He said the idea that meat would prompt aggressive behaviour makes sense as it would have helped our primate ancestors with hunting. 

Kachanoff believed that humans may therefore have evolved an innate predisposition to respond aggressively towards meat. 

He cited the fact that some sports coaches feed their players big hunks of red meat before a game in the hope of pumping up their aggression.

Images of a grunting or growling animal snarling at anyone who tries to take their meat away also reinforced the idea.

However, experiments led by Mr Kachanoff found that the opposite was true and that the sight of meat had a calming affect on  males and made them less agressive.

He conducted psychological tests in which aggression levels were tested among 82 men who were asked to look at a variety of photographs, some of which featured cooked meat.

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How it works: Apparently our ancestors would be calm when they saw meat, as they would be surrounded by friends and family at meal time. The same goes for modern man

The volunteers were told they could 'punish' a colleague if he made a mistake during a simple sorting task involving the pictures.

The researchers believed the pictures of meat would prompt the participants to inflict more punishments, but found the opposite was true.

Mr Kachanoff said: 'We used imagery of meat that was ready to eat. In terms of behaviour, with the benefit of hindsight, it would make sense that our ancestors would be calm, as they would be surrounded by friends and family at meal time.

'I would like to run this experiment again, using hunting images.'  Mr Kachanoff said he was inspired by research on priming and aggression, that has shown that just looking at an object which is learned to be associated with aggression, such as a gun, can make someone more likely to behave aggressively.

He said: 'I wanted to know if we might respond aggressively to certain stimuli in our environment not because of learned associations, but because of an innate predisposition. I wanted to know if just looking at the meat would suffice to provoke an aggressive behavior.'   

Evolutionary experts believe it is useful to look at innate reflexes in order to understand trends in society and personal behavior.

They said this latest research was important because it looked at ways society may influence environmental factors to decrease the likelihood of aggressive behavior.

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Sighing: The Reset Button for Our Mind & Emotions

Sighing: The Reset Button for Our Mind & Emotions

The sigh as a resetting mechanism makes a lot of sense. The respiratory system is highly complex, with many different feedback mechanisms, such as the sensing of carbon dioxide and oxygen levels, as well as pH levels, in the blood. To add even further complexity, such feedback mechanisms interact with other systems, such as the cardiovascular system, as well. And, of course, there is the need to respond to internal and external demands.

The sigh as a resetting mechanism fits in here, now. If the balance is out, a sigh can right the balance. A sigh, which Vlemincx and colleagues defined for their 2010 study as a breath at least 2.5 times deeper than the prior baseline, offers a sense of relief from emotional and mental loads.

Sighing: Letting Go and Hitting Reset

It is surprising that sighing has not been a topic of empirical psychological research until the twenty-first century. About the only place sighing makes an appearance is in studies of panic disorder, where it has been shown that such patients “hit reset” about twice as frequently as control subjects — an average of 21 times versus 10.8 times over a thirty-minute period of sitting quietly in a comfortable chair. Yet, there has been little interest in the interpretation of sighs generally, although there are certainly folk psychology understandings.

Karl Teigen opened up this area with empirical studies of what sighs mean to the sighers and the observers of sighs. His findings, while reflecting only northern European culture, are interesting, particularly in their illumination of sigher-observer differences.

For sighers, the act implicitly carries two messages. First, something is not right, that is, there is a mismatch of how I wish it to be and how it actually is. Perhaps there is a situation in which I begin to see that I’m not going to get what I need, or maybe I’m working hard to reach some end or some solution to a problem, and I realize that I may not be successful. Second, the message is a movement toward acceptance, that is, there is a sense that I must “let go” of something.

Sighs of Relief or Pleasure

Even sighs of relief or pleasure could fit this basic description. Relief could be read as a letting go of negative expectations. Pleasure could be seen as a letting go of agendas and surrendering to the moment. Lover’s sighs may be generated by the mismatch of longing for the one not available to us or by the presence of the beloved, to whom we give ourselves — the erotic form of letting go.

Sighers most often interpreted their own sighs from this something’s wrong/need to let go perspective. As social communication, the meaning of a sigh seems to follow self-knowledge, as the typical interpretation is that the sigher finds something or someone “hopeless” and is giving up (or letting go).

Maybe you noticed a spontaneous sigh as you read the last several paragraphs? Maybe one is due right now?

The Benefit of Sighing on Purpose

We have found that people who report enough life stress to take a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course often find benefit from sighing — on purpose. Here’s how we instruct them:

Inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth, making a quiet, relaxing sigh as you exhale. Taking long, slow, gentle breaths that raise and lower your abdomen as you inhale and exhale. Focusing on the sound and feeling of the breath.

You can use cues throughout your daily routine to remind yourself to take three to six relaxing sighs (red lights while driving, telephone sounds, waiting for elevators, waiting in line, etc.). You may want to place stickers in areas where you look frequently, or areas that cause you stress, as a reminder (computer, refrigerator, watch, cell phone, spouse’s forehead [just joking!]).

Tune in to a sense of relief, if you find one. Tune in to what happens next. Perhaps a yawn follows your sighs?

Workin’ ’n’ Sighin’: When Trying and Trying Again

When folks are working on a tough task, where they have to try, try again, sighs occur. And it makes sense. Brainteasers provoked sighs in one study by Teigen. He reports that almost 80 percent of participants sighed while working on the problems, with an average of four clearly marked sighs each, and two doubtful ones (a breath that may be a sigh, or maybe not). And here’s the telltale — one participant actually said the word sigh at three different times, without really sighing. This paragraph in Teigen’s discussion is rich in description of how we live and work with sighing.

Sighs occurred throughout the experiment, some sighed already when they received the task, and some when they handed it in, but most sighs appeared to occur in the breaks after one or several fruitless attempts. When interviewed, 12 participants (of 36) remembered explicitly that they had sighed (but not necessarily when), whereas the majority had not been aware of sighing, but admitted it was likely, given the nature of the task. Three participants (who actually sighed) denied categorically that they had sighed, one said: “I may have felt like sighing, but I did not, because it would have been rude.” When asked to give probable reasons for sighing, they explained that they may have sighed because they had to give up, they were frustrated, felt helpless, or stupid.

How do you work with sighing? When does it come into your attention? What might you learn by turning toward the sighing in your life?

 

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Les grands requins blancs sont "rock'n'roll"

 Matt Waller, un voyagiste australien, a découvert des admirateurs inattendus du groupe de rock australo-britannique AC/DC : les grands requins blancs. Après 36 ans d'existence et avec 200 millions d'albums vendus, la formation de hard rock la plus connue de la planète n'a plus qu'à se produire devant ce nouveau public des grands fonds.

 

Si vous rencontrez un grand requin blanc au large des côtes australiennes, oubliez le film de Spielberg (Les dents de la mer) : cette espèce n'attaque que très rarement l'homme. Ce prédateur ne fait pas bonne chère avec peu de graisse : pour ce squale, vous n'êtes pas assez gras. Il paraîtrait même que ce gros poisson d'environ 5 mètres cache sous son apparence massive un tempérament de mélomane. N'allez tout de même pas lui infliger un air d'accordéon d'antan, si vous ne voulez pas vous retrouver sous sa mâchoire puissante (environ cinquante centimètres de diamètre : que du bonheur pour un dentiste). Bah ! sa légende de "mangeur d'hommes" le dessert plutôt.

Le requin toqué de rock

Matt Waller nous rend l'animal plutôt sympathique en nous expliquant que le grand requin blanc préfère la musique d'AC/DC à celle d'autres groupes : "Nous avons procédé par tâtonnement pour savoir que la musique d'AC/DC fonctionne mieux et nous faisons plus de recherches pour voir ce qui fonctionne le mieux avec différentes espèces de requins." Par surcroît, ses chansons favorites If You Want Blood et You Shook Me All Night Long sont parmi les plus prisées des connaisseurs. Ainsi, plutôt que d'appâter un des plus grands prédateurs de l'océan avec des poissons, Matt Wallen lui donne à entendre les sons d'AC/DC.

Attiré par les basses fréquences

Il y a une explication scientifique à ce phénomène : le requin est particulièrement sensible aux basses fréquences. Pour Matt Waller, ces fréquences, en grande quantité dans les morceaux du groupe mythique de Sydney, titillent avec bonheur l'ouïe délicate du grand requin blanc.

Quoi qu'il en soit, malgré sa réputation (surfaite) de tueur sanguinaire, cet animal, s'il aime AC/DC, ne peut pas être totalement mauvais.

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Née sans vagin, elle tombe enceinte après une fellation

 

Tomber enceinte grâce à une fellation, cela est scientifiquement impossible. Et pourtant ! La revue Sciences et Avenir rapporte un cas clinique très rare : une jeune femme, née sans vagin, a donné naissance à un petit garçon après avoir pratiqué une fellation. Explications.
C’est une incroyable histoire, pourtant vraie, qui s’est produite au Lesotho, en Afrique, en 1988. Il ne s’agit pas du miracle de la nativité mais d’un étonnant concours de circonstances, expliqué dans le British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Tout d’abord, la jeune femme âgée de 15 ans a été admise à l’hôpital pour une blessure au ventre. Elle avait reçu un coup de couteau lors d’une bagarre entre son nouvel ami et son ex-petit copain. L’arme blanche avait perforé son estomac à deux reprises, ce qui lui a valu une hospitalisation d’une dizaine de jours.
Mais l’histoire ne s’arrête pas là. La jeune femme retourne 9 mois plus tard à l’hôpital pour des douleurs abdominales aiguës et intermittentes. Après quelques examens, les médecins comprennent qu’il s’agit en fait de contractions. L’adolescente est enceinte et accouche par césarienne d’un petit garçon. Si elle ne s’est doutée de rien pendant 9 mois, malgré un ventre s’arrondissant de plus en plus, c’est qu’elle n’a pas de vagin. En effet, elle présente depuis sa naissance une « aplasie vaginale distale », autrement dit « une absence quasi-totale de vagin par défaut de développement de celui-ci », explique Sciences et Avenir.
Mais comment alors la jeune femme a-t-elle pu tomber enceinte ? Sciences et Avenir donne l’explication, rationnelle mais inattendue : avant d’être poignardée, la jeune fille a pratiqué une fellation à son petit ami. « Le sperme, contenu dans l’estomac perforé par l’arme blanche, est passé dans la cavité abdominale où il a ensuite gagné un des deux ovaires. Les spermatozoïdes ne peuvent survivre dans un environnement à faible pH, mais la salive a un pH élevé et l’estomac, vide, de la patiente n’avait pas un pH acide. Tout ceci a pu contribuer à la survie des gamètes mâles » argumente la revue scientifique.

 

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You Listen to That Sad Song Because It Makes You Happy

New research shows that sad songs actually create positive emotions.

(PHOTO: STUART MONK/SHUTTERSTOCK)

July 15, 2013 • By Sarah Sloat •

If sad songs are just so damn sad, why do we keep listening to them?

According to a new study, it’s because, in fact, sad songs create positive emotions. Researchers at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the RIKEN Brain Institute had 44 participants listen to different musical excerpts and then choose from 62 emotional words to describe their feelings. Overall, the songs were rated a higher status of “perceived” sadness than actual sadness—meaning, participants thought the songs were a lot sadder than they actually were. Music that was deemed sad made participants feel somewhat upset, but mainly produced romantic and inspired emotions. Common descriptive words were: allured, wistful, nostalgic, and tender. And it’s these emotions that help us get over the more unpleasant ones.

This makes sense, because otherwise listening to sad music would just be self-torture (we already know it’s not completely our fault if we burst into tears at a note. Science!). So listening to the sad stuff is a good thing—consider it iPod therapy. After all, the study states, “Emotion experienced by music has no direct danger or harm unlike the emotion experienced in everyday life. If we suffer from unpleasant emotion evoked through daily life, sad music might be helpful to alleviate negative emotion.”

Participants in the study were moved by classical music, but there are plenty of songs in other genres that are good to wallow in—er, I mean, utilize in your more miserable moments. So here is a by-no-means-definitive playlist of sad tunes to get you over the hump:

1. “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” Bonnie Raitt

OK, this song is cheesy, but still, it’s just so sad. The video is even in black and white. And what’s more tormenting than unrequited love? SO SAD. Bon Iver and Adele try, but they just can’t touch Bonnie.

2. “Skinny Love,”Bon Iver

When he’s not covering Bonnie, Bon Iver is writing his own sad, sad songs. “Skinny Love” is a gateway to them all. This is alone-in-your-room, looking-at-clouds, wearing-flannel sad.

3. “Atlantic City,”Bruce Springsteen

Struggling-in-a-wayward America sad.

4. “These Arms of Mine,” Otis Redding

Classic sad.

5. “Have You Ever,” Brandy

This is secretly-singing-in-your-car sad. In the video she’s rolling around in a tuxedo. Was that his tuxedo? Probably, and that’s just sad.

6. “Sorrow,” The National

Singer Matt Berninger barely gets a note out before I feel like crying, his voice is just like that. Plus, the song’s called “Sorrow.”

7.  “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright,” Bob Dylan

Love-just-doesn’t-work-out-sometimes sad.

8. “River,” Joni Mitchell

Almost everything from the Blue album could be on this list.

9. “Rivers and Roads,” The Head and the Heart

This is moving-away-from-everyone-you-care-about sad.

10. “Cry Me a River,”Justin Timberlake

It’s a sad song, but it’s by JT. You can kind of dance to it. Can’t stay sad forever, right?

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