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If girls love anything it's flowers and makeup, so naturally a lipstick which contains tiny floating flowers is pretty much a dream come true.

Not only does this magical-looking product contain real flowers, it also changes colour throughout the day making it the stuff of actual dreams.

The clear lipstick – which was created by Chinese beauty brand Kailijumei – comes in three colours and dries matte when first applied.

But throughout the day the colour changes as it reacts to the temperature – getting lighter as things get cooler.

And as if that isn't awesome enough, this mesmerising lip product is made entirely of natural ingredients, including cocoa butter, olive oil and lavender oil which help keep lips hydrated.

Unfortunately due to being seriously Insta-famous, the lippy is all sold out but fingers-crossed it will be back soon.

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You know you've got something seriously special when Simon Cowell not only tells you he's got an 'incredible feeling' about you, but also hits that Golden Buzzer and even takes to the stage to hug you, right?

One young woman, who is in no doubt she's going places after her first audition, is 16-year-old Calysta Bevier who brought the house down during a recent taping of America's Got Talent.

Taking to the stage in front of the all-star panel of judges, Calysta revealed she had survived stage three ovarian cancer before blowing the audience away with a spine-tingling rendition of Rachel Platten's Fight Song.

Clearly moved by the teenager's talent and determination, Simon said: "I love everything about you. I just had thing feeling when you walked out, I just can't explain it."

"I think you're really special. I've just got this really incredible feeling about you," he added.

Aw, prepare for some MAJOR feels with this one, ladies.

 

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Just a year after purchasing her LA home, Kylie Jenner has put her first house back on the market with the intention of making a million dollar profit for her decorative efforts.

According to the Daily Mail, the makeup guru’s five-bed, six-bath home is for sale for a cool $3.9 million – that’s $1.3 million more than she bought it for.

And just like your standard starter house, Kylie’s gaff comes equipped with all the basics: movie room, glam room, walk-in wardrobe and shoe room.

The teen icon is trading in the luxurious monochrome home – which she spent months decorating with interior designer to the stars Jeff Andrews – for a bigger model.

She has reportedly bought a $6 million mansion in the Hidden Hills – the same area where momager Kris and sister Kim both live.

Her new home not only has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms, it also has a pool, four-car garage and a wine cellar – all for the girl who’s not even old enough to drink!

Images: Sotheby's Realty

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In a move which not many people would attempt, former News of the World editor, Piers Morgan, took to social media yesterday to suggest that he may have a higher global profile than…wait for it…Brad Pitt.

That's right; after the Good Morning Britain presenter copped that he and the Inglourious Basterds actor were travelling on the same plane, Piers put two and two together and happily came up with five.

Tongue firmly in cheek while tweeting to his Twitter followers who number in the millions, Piers wrote: "So, Brad Pitt just got on my @British_Airways plane to London. He's in seat 6F, I'm in 1A. This settles my celebrity status once and for all,"

Acknowledging the broadcaster's joke, British Airways decided to school him on celebrity hierarchy, responding: "Ooops, seems like we made a mistake there, Piers! Any chance you could swap with him?"

Telling the airline that that wouldn't be happening any time soon, Piers sat back and let the Twitopshere argue over whether he genuinely did think airplane seat numbers were directly related to an individual's fame.

Lads, we're pretty sure he's having a bit of a lol…

Feat image: Wenn

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The Improvements Inventhelp Offers to Your Company

When you run a company, you need to think about what you can do to make it better. There are so many changes that can be made to improve the way your business operates in the modern business world. Come up with as many ideas as you possibly can to help your business improve. One of the most important things you need to do is make use of Inventhelp wherever you can.

Now, it is clear that you are going to use a lot of sites and companies to help improve your business, and that’s a good thing. But, you also need to be sure you are utilizing Inventhelp too, especially at the start of the business process. Inventhelp technology is crucial for your company, particularly if you are looking for the best ways of protecting your ideas. These are some of the improvements Inventhelp offers your company.

  • Better Protection for Your IP

There are a lot of things that can combine in order to help you look after the business better. One of the biggest considerations to make is the fact that InventHelp offers better protection for your intellectual property. It is so easy to look at an idea and just assume that you are going to protect it because it’s yours. Unfortunately the world of business doesn’t work in that way. If you have any excellent ideas or designs you need to make sure you focus on improving the way you protect them, and Inventhelp allows you to do this. They will help you to see your ideas through into fruition, and come up with better ways of protecting and patenting your ideas.

  • Bring Your Ideas to Life

Another amazing thing that Inventhelp can do is that is allows you to bring your ideas to life. No matter what stage of business you are at, this is an excellent way of seeing through the process. In fact, Inventhelp can help students with their invention ideas just as much as seasoned business experts. It’s the sort of input and support that allows anybody to get their inventions and ideas off the ground and bring them to life. This encourages better business innovation, and more ideas to blossom into important and influential inventions in the business world.

  • Face to Face Interaction

One of the other improvements that Inventhelp can offer to you as a business is face to face interaction. There are so many excellent companies out there, but too few of them focus on what their customers actually need. It is important to make sure you interact with experts who can really help you get the best out of your business. You have a lot to think about when you choose to interact with companies, and it’s clear that Inventhelp offers one of the best environments in which to do that. So, this is yet another reason why you need to make use of them as a business resource.

These are just a few of the awesome improvements that Inventhelp offers to your business these days. You have to make sure you do as much as you can to improve and benefit the company, and that you take the brand onto the next level. The best way of doing that is to make sure you use the help and support Inventhelp provides.

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Social media stars are what it's all about lately. 

Gone are the days of bowing down to the celebs – now, we have 'real' people to tell us how it is. Tell us what beauty trick to use, what clothes to wear and what weight-loss methods work best.

However, we know ourselves, that everything on the Internet is not always what it seems.

We envy the 'perfection' that some people carry, yet recently, more and more social influencers and bloggers are owning up to what's really going on behind the filter.

Fashion, beauty and lifestyle blogger Tiffany Brien regularly posts jaw-dropping snaps of holidays and her bangin' bod, but she recently came clean.

The self-confessed peanut butter lover shared a split picture of her body on her Facebook page; one side showing her toned, tanned tummy, and on the other side, her bloated and sore stomach.

"These two photos are 12 hours apart," she writes, after opening the FB status with, "reality check."

"We are not all what we seem on social media. I thought I would share a bad day with you to show you nobody is 'perfect' and it is ok to have an off day where your body just decides to not play ball."

She continues to say that the substantial change is down to a "delightful cocktail of lack of sleep, hormones and food intolerances. A mixture for a whole lotta bloat."

However, what she writes next is something I think we can all relate to – mainly because it makes us feel so down – "It seems to happen at incredibly inconvenient times."

YES. Whether it be date night, girls night, our best friend's wedding or on holiday, the bloat always manages to surface when we least expect.. and least want it.

"I suddenly feel uncomfortable and now really unattractive with a big bloated belly," she pens before writing what lessons have sprouted from it.

"I have learnt a lot over the last few years through my own research into my own problems once I noticed my body playing up when I did certain things and ate certain foods.

"It was really frustrating because I couldn't work out what was triggering it.

"This photo is a bad day, a day I cannot tell you exactly what I ate that made me blow up. I have gone over everything I ate and I was relatively clean so it could be something I think is 'healthy' that my body now thinks naaa no likely.

"Sometimes your body becomes intolerable to something you've always eaten, you just have to work it out."

The fashion, fitness, beauty and lifestyle bloggers we all look up to now are stepping away from the impeccable lifestyle – because it's not real. It's ideal on social media, but when you're running on little sleep, crazy-ass hormones and a whole lotta stress, that sought-after lifestyle just doesn't work out, and Tiffany is saying that it's OK to not be that way.

"I am in no way perfect. In fact I am miles away from being a role model when it comes to looking after myself fully in this sense.

"We all have our areas of weakness. I know what I am doing wrong and I know how to fix it but it is actually implementing it into your lifestyle that's the tough bit." Here, here!

"Yes it gets me down when this happens. No there's nothing I can immediately do about it. But I can aid it and eventually overcome it.

"It'll be ok, you're not alone. Promise."

To read Tiffany's full Facebook post, check it out here.

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We don't know about you, but if we were prepping for a prime-time television appearance as an 11-year-old the last person we'd want advice from is someone who appears to have a dead rodent on their head.

But you can't always get what you want as Daniel Radcliffe swiftly found out before his very first chatshow appearance a whopping 16 years ago.

While speaking to Seth Meyers this week, Daniel explained that while preparing to make his debut on American television all those years ago, he was accosted by the American billionaire who imparted some very questionable advice.

"It was my first time in New York and I was doing The Today Show," the actor explained. "I'd never been on live TV before and just terrifed."

Remembering being 'marched' over to meet Mr. Trump, Daniel continued: "He was like 'How are you?' and I was like 'I'm really nervous. I don't know what I'm going to talk about on the show. And he said 'You just tell them you met Mr. Trump."

Clearly lolling at that aspiring president's attitude, Daniel joked: "To this day I can't even relate to that level of confidence. Imagine if I said to Billy 'Just talk about me when you do your interview. I'm interesting enough to be everyone's story'."

Daniel's memory of the moment is adorbs!

 

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When it comes to other people, there are certain parts of their body that most of us would quite happily never get too close to.

From touching other people's eyes to catching sight of someone's manky-looking toes, we can be a sensitive bunch when it comes to the human anatomy.

But, if the thought of getting all up in someone else's foot space makes your stomach turn, you can count yourself lucky that the vast majority of us have NO intention of exposing other people to these tooties of ours.

That's right ladies; a whopping 66% of the Irish public would rather swelter from the ankle down than actually reveal their feet in a pair of flip-flops.

Whether it's a lack of polish, the possible stank factor or the fact the our heels alone could bring us seven years bad luck, us Irish are very precious when it comes to getting our feet out for the lads.

In fact, according to a survey by Scholl, the same amount of people find this body part the biggest turn-off in their partner.

Is it any wonder we're so damn sensitive?!

 

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Ladies, it's time to put the phones down and listen up as top dermatologists have said that taking selfies can cause wrinkles.

According to The Telegraph, experts believe that regularly exposing our faces to light and radiation from smartphones is making us age faster.

And the effects selfie-taking can have on the skin is so bad, doctors can even tell which hand a person holds their phone in from checking the side of their face that is most damaged.

London-based doctor Simon Zoakei said: “Those who take a lot of selfies and bloggers should worry.”

“Even the blue light we get from our screens can damage our skin," he added.

And Dr Zoakei said wearing suncream isn't enough to protect skin from the harmful rays our beloved phones are emitting.

He said: “I think there is a gap in the market for products which protect because I know there are people who take lots of selfies, and bloggers who come to me and I have seen that there is damage there.”

“It's a different wavelength of radiation so sunscreen will not block it.”

The warning has been repeated by Dr Zein Obagi of the Obagi Skin Health Institute in Beverley Hills who said selfie taking causes a “dull dirty looking texture that you cannot identify on one side of the face”.

Dr Obagi suggested that saturating the skin with anti-oxidants could help prevent damage.

He said: “I think we need to create a defence mechanism, light has some sort of magnetic think that is happening to the skin."

“This magnetic field is altering the minerals in the skin. A sunscreen will not protect you."

"But if you saturate your skin with anti-oxidants it can help prevent DNA damage from electronic devices.”

Time to break out the Vitamin E!

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What. An. Episode. We may have had a bit of a whinge that things weren’t progressing as quickly as we would have liked – but great Odin’s beard this episode more than delivered.

And that battle scene! We found ourselves ripping the foam out of the armchair watching it. Yeah, it’s coming out of our deposit but do we care? Not a bit, because Ramsey has finally got his comeuppance, the little shite.

HERE GOES…

1.  *Watching the credits* Right grand, yer man that plays Ramsey’s in this episode, so is Jon Snow. And it’s called Battle of the Bastards. Someone’s getting offed. And it bloody better be Ramso.

2. Christ Liam Cunningham has wise eyes. He’s like an Irish owl. Would we? Probably.

3. Here we are the pre-battle parley, and all we can think is that Jon Snow’s man bun is making us weak the knees. Good thing we’re already sitting down.

4. Ramsey Bolton makes Voldemort look like Mary Poppins. Look at him there on his (high) horse, the smug git. Unruffled, we’d call him. Very unruffled.

5. “You’re going to die tomorrow. Sleep well.” Good woman Sansa hun, you tell the prat.

6. Ah there’s yer wan again. The saucy little one who gave 66 of her best soldiers. What a hero!

7. Seriously, how does he get the man bun looking so good? Mousse? Wax? Texturising sea salt spray?

8. Jon do us a favour and stop looking into our souls with those brown eyes, thanks.

9. All the odds are stacked against them. Hate to say it, but Ramsey’s right, they haven’t enough men to beat him.

10. Liam probably could have got the lads from GAA clubs all over the country to fight for him. Just sayin’. (Yes, we’re getting desperate.)

11. Yeah Jon, Sansa does know Ramsey better than you. Just because you’re a lad (with lovely hair and previous battle experience on the CV) doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give the girl a chance to help.

12. Right, the battle. Here were are. Oh JESUS we can’t take the stress of it. We’ll be mainlining the Rescue Remedy before long.

13. Is that Rickon with Ramsey? God he looks about 20 – the height of him. Teenagers and their growth spurts never cease to amaze us.

14. Right, what’s everyone’s favourite sociopath up to now? He’s letting Rickon go? No, there must be more to it. His eyes are lit with that mania that means he’s about to screw someone over.

15. How the fluich did we ever fancy Ramsey in Misfits.

16. RUN RICKON RUN.

17. Zig-zag you eejit!

18. Ah come on ZIG-ZAG!

19. Why isn’t that poor fool zig-zagging?

20. Right, he deserves to get hit if not even going to try to zig-zag.

21. We give up.

22. Don’t do it J. You’re falling into his trap.

23. Seriously Jon, you’re letting your emotions get the better of you. It’ll be your downfall.

24. LOOK AT HIM GO!

25. Look at the leather pleats swirling majestically around him as he slices down the opposition.

26. Googles ‘ASOS leather pleated skirts’.

27. GET HIM JON GET HIM. GET THEM ALL.

28. Look at that Ramsey yoke, still happy as Larry safely behind the lines. What a weasel.

29. Seriously, Jon is a legend. Props to you Lord of Light for giving him another go around the roundabout. Sound of you.

30. Ah there’s no way they can win this. No way. Sure Bolton’s lads are basically taking them all out with arrows. They’re not even being touched like.

31. The nervous systems are officially shot.

32. We swear if reinforcements don’t arrive at the last minute à la Lord of the Rings we’re NEVER watching this show again.

33. Okay, great, now they’re all surrounded by lads with better weapons who are slowly crushing them to death. The baddies are going to win. Cheers Game of Thrones. Stupid programme. *sulks*

34. Oh look, now our hero Jon Snow, who was brought back to life For A Bigger Purpose is going to go out getting smothered to death. Charming.

35. Ah no wait, after all that they couldn’t kill him off in such a crappy undignified way. Could they?

36. Then again it is Game of Thrones. They like killing goodies.

37. Nah, he’s gone. He’d need a heavy duty crane to get out of this pile-up. Grand, see you Jon. We’re shutting down our emotions now because our hearts can’t take it.

38. Wait. Is he… emerging?

39. He is! He’s rising! Like a phoenix he’s emerging from the flames! *Switches back on emotions*.

40. And the Lord of the Rings-style reinforcements have arrived. Could it be? Something… good is going to happen in Game of Thrones? HURRAH!

41. Jon’s up, pleated leather a-flying! And he’s tearing after Ramsey! Get him Jon. Get him good.

42. Oh Ramsey pet, ever heard the phrase ‘Your chickens are coming home to roost’? Well look behind you, because there are chickens aplenty love, many, many chickens. Roosting.

43. Oh God imagine if Ramsey survived? Letter of complaint getting sent straight to David Benioff and D.B Weiss: “Dear Sirs, you’re crap”.

44. Oof wait, there’s no need. Oof. OW! Ouchie. OOOOOOOOOF. While we appreciate your exertions Jon, please don’t finish him off so easily! Make him suffer.

45. Jesus, Game of Thrones really has turned previously peaceful souls like ourselves into sadists.

46. What’s Sansa up to?

47. Ah here, his face is mushy, he’s tied up in a chair and he’s been defeated. Yet he’s still smug.

48. She’s not, is she? No, she isn’t, that’s not like her. Wait now, she is. She definitely is. Should have got a bit of the Pedigree Chum, Ramsington – or even a few Bonios.

49. That SMIRK. Good girl yourself Sansa! (See, sadists.)

50. Time for a lie down with a cold compress.

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In recent times we’ve become a frightfully healthy lot.

Yup – the days of munching our way through piles of buttered batch bread, gallons of milk, and meat-and-potatoes with a side of more potatoes are increasingly numbered.

We juice; we detox; we TRX with enthusiasm.

Indeed, these days we even have a dedicated healthy town for 2016.

Step forward the majestic seat of Navan; home of Pierce Brosnan, Hector Ó'hEochagáin, and Tommy Tiernan… and now the reciprocate of the Healthy Town 2016 accolade.

That means Navan is THE place where folk are going to be getting into serious shape. And from September, it is hosting a full eight weeks of the likes of free heart health screenings, workouts, and nutritional seminars.

Which in turn, we suspect, means the already strapping population of Navan will be making their bid to take over the country before the year is out.

Hat-tip too to Athlone, Portlaoise, Wicklow and Kilkenny – all previous champions of the same initiative, which is supported every year by Pfizer and the Irish Times.

Hector Ó himself is also getting involved for 2016, and he said today that the event was “about inspiring the people of Navan – and people in towns all around Ireland – to make the most of the wealth of clubs, groups, facilities and resources that are at their fingertips”.

Adding that Navan “has so much to be proud of and so many health and wellbeing facilities,” he stated for the record that the 2016 health drive was also going be “great craic” (which it definitely is).

The Healthy Town Facebook page is now up and running with the hashtag #MyHealthyTown also getting off the ground.

You can find out lots more here.

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Scarlett Moffatt is probably our favourite Googlebox star.

She's not afraid to speak her mind and is quite open about the daily struggles of life – which kinda makes us all relate to her.

And her most recent struggle is shedding those extra few pounds.

The 25-year-old is determined to slim down, saying that her fondness for junk food is holding her back.

"Doner kebab meat. Truthfully, I have it maybe once or twice a week," she told Now magazine.

 

Time to get fit I can do this #fitness #lifestylechange

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In the interview, she added that since her boyfriend is a fitness fanatic, he keeps her motivated to go to the gym regularly.

"I've just started exercising quite a bit actually. I'd say I do HIT (high intensity training) about three times a week.

"My boyfriend is super-fit so it's good having him on side because he's quite motivated."

Scarlett is currently enjoying a holiday with her boyfriend, and posting loads of pictures to keep us updated.

 

#boyfriend #holiday #tan #time

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