I have a bad habit of eating an entire bag of chips, an entire jar of salsa and some toast with peanut butter on an almost nightly basis, so I can totally relate to this recent Reddit thread that poses a very, very important question: “Rather than eating...
It’s an all-too-common feeling: You’ve left work, run some errands and ordered delivery for dinner from the convenience of your car. You think you’ve got everything under control (the contents of your bladder most of all), but once you exit your vehicle and insert your key into...
In this edition of “Step Into the Chair,” hairstylist Cleve McMillan weighs in on your burning questions about the mysterious adventure that is getting a haircut. This cold weather has my hair frizzing up like a cotton ball. How can I get it to calm down? To...
How do I know how much to tip for a men’s haircut? 20 percent is the baseline. But keep in mind that the more you tip, the more attention to detail your barber is going to give you next time you come in. He’s not going to...
Hair gel is usually the first styling product to come to mind, but there are many other options — hair clay, hair cream, hair fiber, hair mousse, hair paste, hair pomade and hair wax. Cleve McMillan, stylist and hair guru, is here to help us explain what...
Millennials, as MEL previously reported, are quitting their jobs in droves so they can rent a closet in a major city and land at a company that actually appreciates them: “Barely half of the millennials surveyed in a recent Gallup poll strongly agreed that they planned to be working...
Whether it’s seeing our home team lose or splitting up with a partner, we’ve all had a cry at some point in our lives. Those big drops of sadness even have their own name, and are distinct from regular eye moisture: They’re referred to as emotional tears,...
Some truths hold fast no matter how much society changes: Sleeping with or kissing another person, once or a lot, when you’re committed to an exclusive relationship with another person, is something most of us see as cheating. Others not so much: The invention of social media...
Razor bumps, as everyone knows, suck. After carefully shaving to better show off your smooth, clean face to the world, an ugly red bump — or worse, a whole bunch of them — springs up and ruins everything. But what are these unwanted intruders on your skin?...
You might be vigilant about flushing toilets with your feet, swimming in hand sanitizer after riding the subway and avoiding bare-handed contact with bathroom door knobs, but did you know there’s a veritable petri dish of malevolent bacteria swimming in your pockets? Case in point: In a...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
First, a bit of poo-101: Bowel movements are the end result of eliminating what’s left after your body takes the nutrients it needs from the food you eat. Water makes up about 75 percent of it, while the rest is a gross combo of dead and live...
