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Friday, July 23, 2010

How to Wear an Aviator Jacket

There are a few items of clothing that just exude cool for me. Leather jeans are one, a rock tee is another, and of course, there's the aviator jacket. Typically made from hard wearing materials, like leather, denim or corduroy, they are both comfortable and cool, and since the classic ones that I love so much are lined with sheep skin (usually faux, so animal friendly too) they are warm to boot. To wear an aviator jacket, and pull it off, you need to make sure that you're not too curvy – remember, these are bulky, so they're just going to add pounds visually if you are! Then you want to make sure that you balance the proportion, by wearing skinny or straight leg jeans, which hug your legs.

How to Make Salad Nicoise

Although this layered salad is usually served as a first course, it also makes a fabulous light lunch dish. Soak 6 to 8 anchovy fillets in some milk. Boil together until just tender 200g trimmed and sliced green beans, and half a seeded and diced red pepper. In the meantime, slice half an onion into rings, and skin and slice 2 medium tomatoes, and pare and slice a ¼ English cucumber very thinly. Drain and flake on 200g can of tuna in oil. Layer the beans, red pepper, tuna, onion, tomato slices and cucumber in a flattish bowl. For the delicious dressing, all you have to do is whisk together with a fork 60ml olive oil, 15ml tarragon vinegar, 1ml each of salt and paprika, 1 large clove crushed garlic, 10ml rinsed and chopped capers, a pinc h of sugar, 30ml chopped parsley, and 6 fresh, chopped basil leaves. Pour the dressing over the salad and top with the drained anchovies, a few black olives, and some sliced hard-boiled eggs. Chill and serve with hot with French bread.

How to Choose the Right Hairstylist or Makeup Artist

When you're getting ready for a big event in your life, whether it's a wedding or a high school reunion, chances are you'll be looking to employ a makeup artist or hairstylist to help you look your best. While there are many factors that go into choosing a great beauty professional, including cost, location, availability and so on, there is one golden rule that trumps all of them, and it's really simple. When you choose a beauty professional, make sure that you like their look. If they look awful to you, then you probably won't like the way they style or make you up, will you? You don't have to love their look and want to copy it, but if you're on two completely different wavelengths, then i t probably isn't the right choice.

How to Ensure That your Real Estate Fetches the Best Possible Price

When you put your home on the market, there are usually two considerations: making sure it sells as quickly as possible, and at the best possible price. There are a few tricks you need to bear in mind to make sure that that is what happens. First off, the simplest, most cost effective thing you can do to improve the appearance of your home is to repaint it – particularly if the paint is worn, or if it's a different color, that will not have mass appeal. Make sure you do any other minor fixing up that you can, and that your garden is neat and tidy, and make the best impression from day one.

The Secrets of Wedding Traditions

Although wedding rules vary from culture to culture, there are some very surprising similarities among all the wedding traditions. In some way or another, traditional weddings in all cultures support the institution of marriage by prescribing the proper conduct for the couple as regards their future relationship. For instance, some of the rules mark the transition to adulthood, or symbolically refer to the couple's future roles as child bearers. All these traditions have persisted over very long periods of time, and many have even survived, intact, and attest to the endurance of marriage as a social institution, as well as the profound, symbolic meaning attached to it.

How to Deal with Post Birth Bleeding

If you're having an elective c-section and are smugly anticipating not dealing with bleeding after the birth - don't. Whether you have a natural birth or a c-section, you will have to deal with several weeks of bleeding after the birth. This bleeding is called lochia, and is your body's way of expelling all the placental tissue, mucous, and clots that are left in your uterus. Clots are normal, but if you're still passing large clots more than a week after the birth, you should speak to your doctor. Another important thing to note is that you will need to sanitary pads throughout this process – tampons are not recommended. You will also want to buy special maternity pads, which are larger and more absorbent, to deal with the heavy flow.

When Celebrity Photos Go Bad â€" Stars Who Attack!

We all hear about how invasive the paparazzi are, and how badly they treat the stars, however, when you get right down to it, the stars are no angels either. In fact, in their quest for celebrity photos, many photographers have some very unpleasant experiences indeed. Avril Lavigne, for one, not only attacked a paparazzo, she also spat at him. Cameron Diaz, while still with Justin Timberlake, stole another's camera and ran away with it, and Woody Harrelson, better known for his easy going support of cannabis, ended up in court when he strangled an unlucky cameraman who tried to snap him! British actor Hugh Grant may share his countrymen's aversion to physical violence, but that did not stop him from tossing cans of baked beans at cameramen! It would seem that those photos you see in the tabloids aren't quite as easy to get as you'd think!