Essential Summer Hair Advice
	Summer is in full swing, and we're all doing our best to find at least a few spare hours every week for a trip to the beach – or to any other place out there that includes a pool and a lot of wonderfully cool water. With a lot of sunscreen, a few hours of frolicking around in the sea and sand – or simply lounging by the pool sipping on a fresh cocktail – are absolute bliss for our stressed, overworked, worry-consumed selves. [ADMARK=1 ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The New M•A•C Tendertone Lip Balms
	Looking for a dash of delicious color for your lips, yet dreading that annoying "sticky lips" feeling? You're in the clear. The fabulous people at M•A•C have just launched their summer line of Tendertone Lip Balms SPF 12, which are already emerging as one of this summer's absolute must-haves. They offer your lips a flavored summer treat, a stain-like tinted finish that comes with the double benefit of a nouris ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Daytime and Evening Makeup Tips
	Many of us have a thing about obsessing over makeup tips, tricks and suggestions – even if we know very well we're always ready to look our best under various circumstances. Plus, makeup is not an exact science – there are basic rules and principles, of course, and apart from that, it's mostly trial and error for the vast majority of us (I'm not talking die-hard makeup aficionados and professional makeup artists here). Howev ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 06:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

"Urban Heat" from Prescriptives
	Prescriptives have just launched their cosmetics line for the summer, aptly titled "Urban Heat". Apparently, they know a thing or two about the long-term weather forecast for the summer months, because as far as heat goes, we'll definitely be having plenty of that. What better way, then, to prepare ourselves and look ahead than by having a closer look at what the people at Prescriptives have in mind for the summer season and ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Summer Dresses for All Body Shapes
	This summer's number one rule: buy as many dresses as possible. From casual lunches to picnics and hot nights out with your friends, dresses are this summer's must-have. Mini, maxi, retro or ever-green, we're free to choose whatever suits us best and show it off on every possible occasion. Below is a selection of dress styles that will help you keep on top of this trend and see what best fits your body shape and ov ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 06:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Healthy-Looking Wavy Summer Hair
	With summer on the way, great hair is something that's bound to stay on our minds a lot these days – for a series of reasons. First of all, no summer look is complete without a matching hairstyle, whether we're talking shining, long, dreamy curls, a styled bob or a short, pixie-ish 'do with lots of textured layers of color. Trouble is, traditional hairstyling and summer heat don't really go together – imagine ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How We Fight Summer Heat
	The summer is coming and our thermo-regulation system will be once again pushed to the limits. Did you know that the human body is more resistant to cold than it is to heat? The fact is that we have physiological mechanisms more effective for combating the cold than the heat. Temperature is a parameter characterizing the heating stage of a physical system while heat represents the energy transferred from one body to another via a therm ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Colorful Sunglasses for Summer
	I might have mentioned this before, but one more time won't do it any harm: this summer, as far as accessories are concerned, the word of the day is "colorful". This also – or rather, particularly – applies to sunglasses. If so far you thought (and for good reason, maybe) that colorful was cheap, this season the colorful sunglasses are any girl's best friend. Let your imagination run wild and pick out a ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ten Hot Summer Trends from H&M
	It's May already and one thing we know for sure is that spring is definitely dying down, stepping aside and making way for a colorful summer. And when I say "colorful" I don't particularly mean the green palm-tree leaves and the tinted blue sky, but rather the colors that high street designers say should happily take their places on the very shelves of our wardrobes. And since H&M has been designated as Europe' ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Golden Food Rules for the Summer
	1. Drink a lot of water and if you doubt the quality of the tap water, buy bottled water. Babies, children and elders must drink a lot of liquids, as dehydrations are sometimes sudden and devastating. 2. Always keep lemons and bicarbonate in the house. When facing the minimal symptoms of gastroenteritis, boil some water and air it out (by passing 10 times from a recipe to another), and put in it the juice of two lemons, a pin ... [read more >>]
	09 September 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Longest Daylight for 2007 Is Today
	Tomorrow we will have the longest daylight in the Northern Hemisphere, marking the beginning of the astronomic summer, at 2:06 p.m. EDT (11:06 a.m. PDT). The summer solstice points to the moment when the sun reaches the spot where it's furthest north of the equator; instead, in the Southern Hemisphere, this marks the beginning of winter. At solstice, the sun seems to be shining directly overhead for a location on the Trop ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2007, 14:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Summers Will Be By 10 Degrees Hotter in 2080
	Global warming may still seem a remote concept for you, but our grandsons will experience tropical summers on very temperate latitudes. NASA researchers say that global warming could raise average summer temperatures in the eastern United States with 10 degrees Fahrenheit (5.5 degrees C) by the 2080s. "There is the potential for extremely hot summertime temperatures in the future, especially during summers with less- ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2007, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia