Topic: Hygiene

How To Effectively Sneeze Without Killing Everyone

How To Effectively Sneeze Without Killing Everyone

Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s disaster movie about a pandemic gone horribly wrong, will make you itchy. If you’re hypocondriac, you should probably avoid Contagion all costs. The movie begins with Gwyneth Paltrow on a business trip in Hong Kong and she goes to a casino with some co-workers. Then she gets a virus and brings it back to America. Chaos ensues. Spoiler: Gwyneth ruins everything.

But maybe this could have been avoided. These are the most effective ways that Gwyneth Paltrow could have not infected everyone in the world with her killer strain of bird flu. More »

Ready-To-Click: Some Fashionable Following

Ready-To-Click: Some Fashionable Following

The 10 best Twitter feeds in the fashion industry. -The High Low

Apparently Alexander Wang only eats extremely delicious foods. -Styleite

Ignore the Kardashian sticking out of it: that ivory blazer is pretty and summer perfect. -The Budget Babe

Public service announcement: how to wash your face. -YouBeauty

A checklist for getting bikini-ready (without having to hit the gym). -Birchbox

…Or you could exercise! …For your body type! -Betty Confidential

Are You a ‘Shower Alcoholic’?

Are You a 'Shower Alcoholic'?

My friend Brad emailed me after he first spent the night at his now-girlfriend’s apartment: “I think she’s a shower alcoholic.” Translation? She had so many empty and half-empty bottles in her shower that it looked like a longtime boozer’s detritus. Of course, the bottles were shampoo and body wash instead of tequila and gin, but you get the idea. More »

Poll: How Much Do You Care About Cleanliness?

Poll: How Much Do You Care About Cleanliness?

Sometimes, in relationships, we find that our partner is less of a neat freak than we are. And by less of a neat freak, I mean, doesn’t notice dust bunnies until they are usurping his or her place on the couch.

Once we’re in established relationships or marriages, these kinds of disagreements are kind of already what we signed up for. But when you’re just getting to know someone, would you end things if you found out that they lived in a perpetual Pigpen-like state? More »