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Teeth whitening? Microblading? Bird 🐦 poop facials? Bleaching your hair? Wearing a wig? A mani or a pedi? I’m asking ’cause this video of 9 things Mariah Carey has never tried before (removing a stain with a Tide Pen, really MC? How is that possible when you have two kids?) got me thinking… What are some things — popular or otherwise (fish pedicure, anyone?) — you haven’t tried? Here are nine of mine… 9 makeup/beauty things I haven’t tried before I’ve never tried a spray tan. I’ve never tried an eyelash perm, although I really want to! (I hear it’s...

MBB’s “Fresh Friday” series takes a look at new beauty brands (and venerable O.G. brands that are new to me). Let’s discover new makeup! One of the issue I’ve had with some synthetic makeup brushes is how stiff their bristles are, but that is not a prob for the brushes I’ve tried from aDesign, a new makeup brush line exclusive to Amazon. The angled buffing brush, for one, is so soft that it feels like you’re getting kitten kisses. Sometimes I’ll sit at my desk just rubbing it all over my face. If soft is what you want, soft is...

At one point over the seven days I wore Smith & Cult Analog Fog on my paws, the weather took a decidedly dark, chilly turn… It started to look like fall. We closed the windows and contemplated turning on the heater. Also, I started baking stuff in my oven again. I cranked out three lasagnas (one was even gluten-free, what-what!), two banana blueberry oatmeal bakes, a gluten-free pizza from Costco, and two batches of oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies. Really, Smith & Cult should have named this polish “When It’s Cold, Bake Your @ss Off” instead. Taking everything I did into account,...

“Fresh Friday” is a new MBB series where we explore products from new beauty brand (and veteran brands that are new to me). Let’s discover new makeup! Two pressing life-related conundrums: So…when did 7:30 p.m. become late for me? Because I swear, 7:30 is the new midnight now. When the clock strikes 7:30, I turn into a pumpkin! Am I the only person who assumed that because Kaja Beauty refers to their products as “bite sized,” they’d be teeny and tiny for travel? From Sephora: “We create bite-sized beauty packed with Korean innovation that once you experience, you’ll want to...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”.Congratulations to the winners (and their teams), among other things, for being one of the fronts in the fight against cancer.Images obtained of the report for the general public: DNA repair – providing chemical stability for life (PDF).The Nobel committee provide us also an advanced report: Scientific Background: Mechanistic studies of DNA repair (PDF).