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Stimulated Self Serum Skin Therapy Uses Own Blood to Banish Wrinkles

We’re all constantly looking for ways to turn back the hands of time, whether it’s by using better cosmetic products or by paying thousands of dollars in a lifetime to dermatologists or, depending on the case, to plastic surgeons. London-based French cosmetic doctor Daniel Sister has just the answer to he...

2 November 2009
13:21 GMT

Lindsay Lohan’s Skin Looks Terrible

At 23, Lindsay Lohan should look her best, no matter if she occasionally overdoes it on the self-tanner. Still, deep wrinkles crease her forehead and the spotty skin on her face has something of the quality of parchment, which makes her look 35, beauty experts believe. This is the direct result of many years of smoki...

2 October 2009
13:31 GMT

Anti-Ageing Products Speed the Ageing Process

When a woman enters a shop where they sell beauty products, in most cases, she expects to come out holding the answer to most, if not all, her problems. Given the pressure women feel to look a certain way, it’s no wonder we can hear them talk of wrinkles and problems usually associated with growing old when the...

14 September 2009
13:21 GMT

Natural Lift with Face Trainer from no!no!

Earlier today, we were telling you about a procedure that promised to rid us of wrinkles and saggy skin without having to have Botox or filler injections, or spend several weeks in a row hidden, recuperating from plastic surgery. However, if electronic stimulation seems too much of a stretch, there’s also the o...

31 August 2009
16:31 GMT

Electronic Stimulation of Muscles to Fight Wrinkles

When considering the methods available to fight the most troublesome signs of old age, wrinkles and saggy skin, we all know that they are quite limited: either Botox, which freezes the muscles of the face, or fillers that add more volume to the face, making it plumper. However, as of late, a third option has started ...

31 August 2009
13:21 GMT

Eat Yourself Beautiful Collagen Marshmallows Fight Wrinkles

For a while now, an original product broke on the market bearing the promise of eternal youth. It doesn’t imply any poking or sticking needles in certain parts of the body, it does not require cutting, bleeding and, of course, recovery time, and it’s very cheap. Even more, it does not even imply any degre...

27 July 2009
16:31 GMT

Makeup Finishing Spray by Skindinavia – Cools and Evens Face Makeup

The summer heat can have the most devastating effects on a girl’s makeup throughout the day, as also does humidity in the air or rain. To avoid the frequent trips to the bathroom for retouching the makeup, women all over the world have now the possibility of investing in an extra product that is guaranteed to m...

7 July 2009
13:31 GMT

Instant Youth with LA 2 Week Miracle Program

Creams and anti-aging solutions are constantly used by women in their attempt to turn back time, yet few can rise to the high standards set by a relatively new product, the LA 2 Week Miracle anti-aging program. All natural and without preservatives or artificial fragrances, this is one cream that claims to boldly go ...

23 April 2009
14:31 GMT

Probiotics and Prebiotics – The Imminent Revolution in Skincare

Probiotics and prebiotics are the “friendly bacteria” we’ve been hearing so much of in recent years. They can be found in yogurt and marked as a genuine revolution for intestinal health, as they help balance the level of bacteria in a way that does not interfere with the friendly ones. The same coul...

21 April 2009
14:21 GMT

A Rosy Face Is a Healthy Face, Study Shows

We’ve always heard that we can tell how healthy a person is by simply looking at their face. Now, a new study comes to prove the saying right, in that people perceive a rosy countenance as a very healthy one, while a pale or greenish one is a clear indicator of illness or some form of ailment. Lead researcher...

1 April 2009
08:11 GMT

Extreme Dieting Makes the Face Look Older, Study Says

Women struggling to lose weight and chronic dieters will end up looking older than they actually are by the time they turn 38, a new study comes to show. Because of yo-yo dieting and the fact that, in extreme slimmers, most of the fat goes from the face, they will actually look with approximately four years older tha...

31 March 2009
14:41 GMT

Put Your Mac-Head Inside WWII Online: Battleground Europe

Cornered Rat Software is encouraging Mac and PC users to download the free, 14-day trial version of its massively multiplayer PC game WWII Online: Battleground Europe for the chance to have their face added to an in-game character.According to Cornered Rat Software, anyone who creates a free trial account between Mar...

23 March 2009
08:02 GMT

TCA Peel – Fewer Risks, Quick Results

In their constant search for the ideal peel to get the perfect complexion, women have countless allies. If dermabrasion is too drastic a procedure, there is also the option of a deep skin chemical peel, also known as the TCA peel, which can be gotten at home and shows impressive results in just a couple of days. With...

14 March 2009
06:23 GMT

The Ribbon Lift, the Secret for Madonna’s Youthful Look

Madonna has always been the kind of entertainer that never failed to surprise the audiences, be it with her music or her public persona. The singer proves equally surprising as to her ability to maintain her youthful looks, while, at the same time, no one is able to name exactly the kind of procedure she might have h...

4 March 2009
16:01 GMT

A Woman’s Face Is Easy to Read, Survey Shows

It has often been said that women wear their heart on their sleeve and, to some extent, it is true. A new study performed in the UK comes to show that, when it boils down to expressing emotions or even giving away certain defining traits of their character, females rank higher than men, in that their face is easier t...

12 February 2009
15:41 GMT

How to Deal with Broken Capillaries

Just in case you ever wondered what you could do to make those red threads on the face or on your body go away, PopSugar has the answer. Sadly, it is not what you might have wanted because broken capillaries do no just go away like that – but we can still do plenty other things to make sure their appearance doe...

19 January 2009
05:04 GMT

US Surgeons Perform Their First Face Transplant

A woman who was injured to her face beyond any recognition benefited from an almost complete face transplant, as doctors replaced 80 percent of all tissue, skin, bones, muscles and nerves on her face, a Cleveland Clinic representative announced on Wednesday. This is the first such procedure to be performed in the Uni...

18 December 2008
02:34 GMT

Software Detects Your Mood by Looking at Your Image

Guessing the state of mind of a human can be a tricky thing to do for the untrained eye, although most psychologists brag about their ability to do it, based on body (or facial, in this case) language. However, their results are not entirely accurate and most definitely not very fast either. They could never be emplo...

3 December 2008
05:59 GMT

New Robot Mimics Human Facial Expressions

UK robotics researchers have taken up the task of creating a robot that would reproduce human facial expressions most accurately, and it seems they succeeded. At least, they managed to give the robotic head created by David Hanson, a US professional in the field of robotics, the most human-resembling appearance and m...

29 October 2008
08:59 GMT

Pareidolia Helps Customers Choose Cars

As car makers and dealers are yearning to find new approaches and features that would make their cars sell better, a new study tests how the pareidolia levels in people affect whether they like a car or not.Pareidolia refers to people's ability of finding human traits or even whole faces in objects that usu...

16 October 2008
10:26 GMT

Beautifying Software Developed In Israel

Using a complex algorithm based on mathematical formulas deduced from the opinions of a number of persons watching photographs of human faces, four software developers from Tel Aviv University have created a software that adjusts the physical traits of people (their photos, actually) according to the preset beauty st...

13 October 2008
11:19 GMT

Portrait Professional 8 Enhances Three-Quarter Views

Users of Anthropics' Portrait Professional should be glad to hear that the latest version of the intelligent portrait airbrushing software has been enhanced with more training in human appearance.Particularly, the three-quarter views have been specifically enhanced to achieve the most realistic results possible,...

18 July 2008
08:44 GMT

Summer Makeup Tutorial from The Body Shop

The good people at The Body Shop have put together a little tutorial on how best to use their products to make ourselves beautiful - and it's an absolutely fabulous, filled with useful tips on getting that healthy, glowing summer look we've always wanted. Their makeup lines are reasonably priced, good quali...

4 June 2008
09:52 GMT

Intelligent Sun Protection I : Face

With the arrival of the summer, we found ourselves not so much assaulted as positively swamped with tips and advertisements for sunscreen products. The new sun care technologies can sometimes be very confusing, so much so in fact that we often don't get a clear picture of what exactly we need to protect our face...

4 June 2008
03:17 GMT

Get Your Face Featured in Fable 2

If you remember the good old days when games only "knew" 256 colors and occupied less than 10 Mb on your computer's HDD, you must remember the things called developer cameos - usually a picture of the team of developers, hidden somewhere within the game. Well... these days are long gone and a new era has started...

2 June 2008
03:23 GMT

Why Attractive Faces Are Symmetric and Gender Specific

The face is one of the few things you cannot, under any circumstance, neglect in a new possible mate. For humans, the face is an important source of mating and social information. By casting only one glance, you can see if a face is attractive or not. Many studies have focused on issues like symmetry and the differen...

7 May 2008
14:06 GMT

The Perfect Spouses: Hot Wife, Ugly Husband

Men love hot women. Women love supportive men (read money) and Einstein would be disqualified for being too short. A new study published in the "Journal of Family Psychology" shows that the Beauty and the Beast make the most positive and supportive couple. In the end, attractiveness has universal standards, like big ...

11 April 2008
14:06 GMT

New Software Tells Us How Beautiful the Face of a Woman Is

The fact that computers ease human work is a technological advance. But how can we define the fact that they are able now to differentiate between a beautiful woman and one that is not so attractive, based on school-like marks? Perhaps one day they will even have sex in our place...A new research made at the Tel Aviv...

7 April 2008
14:06 GMT

New Software Tells You How Attractive Your Face Is for the Opposite Sex!

In the era of the informatics, computers will tell us who's beautiful and who is not. Biostatisticians at the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, have developed a computer program that predicts how attractive a face will be considered. The research is published in "Pattern Recognition." The software employs an a...

11 March 2008
14:06 GMT

Amy Wino Burned Her Own Face with a Cigarette

I don't think that anyone on this planet who has a clue about who Amy Winehouse is could possibly be surprised by the fact that the notoriously troubled singer also has some potentially serious personality issues to deal with on top of her booze and drug addiction. And truth be told, as much as I love Amy's...

6 March 2008
04:59 GMT

Just By Looking 0.1 Seconds at the Face, People Can Say if Somebody Is Gay or Not!

There are many public persons, hidden gays, like actors or singers, which consider that they have managed to fool us for a lifetime. Besides the fact that this is hard to do, in fact we are able to assess sexuality in just one fraction of second, just based on some photos. This is now a scientifically proven fact, st...

21 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Help! Michael Jackson's Face Is Melting Away

No, this is definitely NOT a horror movie. But really, I'm beginning to feel sorry about not posting a NSFW warning somewhere in the headline, because I feel some of you might actually get scared by this photo. But wonder no more - it's not a trailer for Rob Zombie's latest horror movie, it's the ...

18 December 2007
08:55 GMT

See World's First Face Transplant, Two Years After!

Face is what physically represents you. In the ID card, you have a picture of your face, not of your arm, a*s or belly. That's why it's hard to imagine the feeling of losing it. This is what happened two years ago to Isabelle Dinoire, a French woman, 38 by then, who had been disfigured by her dog. She was t...

17 December 2007
03:20 GMT

Hey, Look: They Released the Jacko Plastic Doll for Christmas!

I have no idea why Michael Jackson doesn't stick to what he does best: good music. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think he's a landmark in pop history, an icon, an idol, whatever you want - but one thing cannot be denied: he doesn't score too many points in the looks department - not anymore, at le...

12 December 2007
10:46 GMT

Physical Beauty Does Not Betray Overall Health

Physical beauty is something connected to your genes. Researches linked it to body shape, facial proportions and symmetry. Estrogen (female sex hormone) load has been linked to feminine face and body ratios. Women with waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) around 0.7 (0.67-1.18) are most desirable to men, while a 0.8 to 1.0 WHR i...

30 November 2007
13:56 GMT

Want a Mate? Then Look Him/Her Straight Into the Eyes

What would you prefer? The shy geek avoiding your look or the daring punk? The stupid bimbo not daring to look at you or the vivid girl piercing you with her eyes?Maybe the folk wisdom already knows it, but a new research strengthens it: look directly at someone if you want to appear more attractive, say the results ...

8 November 2007
16:31 GMT

Tutankhamon's Face Exposed to the Public

Those fascinated by the ancient Egypt have been waiting for this moment for 85 years, since the discovery of the famous mummy of the 19-year-old "Boy Pharaoh" by Howard Carter: as from yesterday the public can see the 3,000-year-old face of Tutankhamon in his tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings.The mummy has a shr...

5 November 2007
02:50 GMT

The 3 Main Physical Factors of the Biological Attraction in Humans

Attraction is more than looks: it combines smell, hearing (voice) and the visual clues. Some are at the subconscious level, driving us towards a person without being able to explain it clearly. Biology dominates us. Even before being born, it is already determined how attractive we will be. 1.Symmetry. Even at the st...

7 September 2007
16:31 GMT

Google Street View Not Showing Faces Anymore

Since Google Maps introduced Street View, the Mountain View company was assaulted by criticism because some of the users sustained this functions shows a little bit too much information about them. For example, some people said that that the Street View photos reveal details from their houses although they are captur...

24 August 2007
04:33 GMT

How Did Sexual Selection Shape Man's Face?

What makes a typically 'macho' face? Large jaws, well-defined cheeks and large eyebrows are hot or at least were in the eyes of some naughty women ancestors, as a team at the Natural History Museum has found. It is well known that facial attractiveness played a crucial role in the sexual selection during hu...

14 August 2007
14:06 GMT

Abraham Lincoln Had a Lopsided Face And Strabismus

We all have a good side. The problem is when the other side is horrible. Now, a new research has confirmed this in the case of President Abraham Lincoln. Laser scans of a bronze and a plaster copy of two life masks of Lincoln's face, belonging to the Chicago History Museum, show the 16th president's degree ...

14 August 2007
05:00 GMT

Women Look For Daddy-Like Husbands

Are you crazily in love with Brad Pitt? This means you had a bad relationship with your dad...A new study shows that the type of man a woman is looking for has to do with how well she got along with her daddy, as a child. A good daughter-father bond means that in the future the woman will be attracted to men resembli...

14 June 2007
13:16 GMT

Search Google for Certain Paris Hilton Body Parts

The Image Search function included in the best search engine on the Internet is now even more powerful as it contains some innovative features able to provide more relevant results. Basically, the search technology can now return photos that are displaying certain parts of the subject's body. As Ionut Alex, Goog...

28 May 2007
06:10 GMT

Women Look at a Man's Face, Not Body, to Assess His Sex Appeal

There is a wide spread concept that women tend to neglect a man's physical appearance and to concentrate only at his abilities. That's why guys like Austin Powers and their "Mojo" would cause quite a stir. But for body builders and sports addicted, a new study comes with bad news. It seems that the opposi...

14 May 2007
05:11 GMT

Simple Outlines Reveal to Us Sex, Race and Age

You may believe that race is something not so obvious, but adult brains are so keen in detecting race, sex and age that we can correctly determine those traits from nothing more than a black-and-white silhouette, new experiments show. "It's surprising how much information the silhouette provides," said lead rese...

2 April 2007
08:33 GMT

Are Face Reconstructions Effective in Catching Criminals?

The sinister faces of the criminals look at you from facial composites. You know from movies how gifted artists make them in just a few minutes with just a pencil and a piece of paper. In fact, most police unities employ computer software, with a vast sample of facial traits (eyes, ears, hair and so on) at their disp...

10 March 2007
04:48 GMT


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