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Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B. Fall 2011 Runway Show
We are in the midst of NY Fashion Week and one business woman who I love to watch is Gwen Stefani. Gwen’s designer line L.A.M.B. (which stands for Love Angel Music Baby) represents a flirty rocker girls wardrobe. Her line includes clothing, shoes, handbags and fragrance.
Yesterday, she ended the show by thanking the crowd with her son Kingston (how cute)!
Check out pics from her show below:
*Must-See*: The Cab-Driver w/ the Michael Jackon Voice
First comes the homeless man with golden voice, then comes the Brazilian Cab Driver with a Pop Idol’s sound.
You have to see this for youself!
Support my Curly Cutie: Ishea
Ishea is a bubbly talkative blogger who is looking for your help! I’ve been friends with Ishea for a few years now and she has always been upbeat and opinionated with every encounter I’ve had with her. She is currently on a quest to become a vlogger for the site Naturallycurly.com. TOMORROW is the FINAL DAY for voting (I wish I had known this earlier) so please take a watch at her video below and make sure you LIKE the video!
Help support my girl reach the top, it’ll take less than 2 minutes! You know you have the time (at least my Chicago residents do … snowstorm watch today :-/)
Also check out her blog if you’re for some interesting posts!
Glee Nail Polish
The popular TV show “Glee” is coming out with a nail polish of its own, Women’s Wear Daily reported Tuesday.
Sephora plans to introduce a limited edition nail color collection in its stores in February under the beauty retailer’s Sephora by OPI brand said Robert Marick, executive vice president of Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products.
The seven shades available take their names from the hit Fox TV show about a high school glee club:
- Slushied, an opaque blue
- Hell to the No, a bold purple
- Gleek Out, a lime, glittery green
- Diva-in-Training, a poppy pink
- Who Let the Dorks Out, a peacock green
- Miss Bossy Pants, a rich raspberry
- Mash-Up, a pearlescent green gray
Each will sell for $9.50.
Talks are underway to create Glee brand fragrance and color cosmetics as well, and one could come by the end of the year, Women’s Wear Daily reported.
“This is a long-term brand for us, and it’s not just about getting products on the shelf — it’s about making sure whatever we do complements the show,” Marick told the publication.
The nail polish collection will be sold in all 270 freestanding Sephora stores in the U.S., as well as all 210 Sephora/J.C. Penney doors in the U.S., as well as sephora.com. The nail polish will also be featured on an episode of Glee on Feb. 8.
New Study: Music Really is Like a Drug
You know that feeling you get when you hear your favorite song? Some scientists actually call it the “chills.” In the lab they can measure the chills, which correspond with a specific pattern of brain arousal and often are accompanied by increases in heart and breathing rates and other physical responses.
Now neurologists report that this human response to music — which has existed for thousands of years, across cultures around the world — involves dopamine, the same chemical in the brain that is associated with the intense pleasure people get from more tangible rewards such as food or addictive drugs. The research will be published Sunday in the journal Nature Neuroscience. 
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal asked participants to listen to a favorite selection of music they brought in themselves and to a “neutral” selection of music they hadn’t selected.
As the subjects listened, they were asked to press a button when they felt the chills. To confirm and peg down the timing of the chills response in relation to the music, the researchers also monitored subjects’ heart and breathing rates, temperatures and other physcial responses. They also observed listeners’ brain activity as their music played during positron emission tomography (PET) scans and during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tests.
The results? PET scans showed increased dopamine release when subjects listened to pleasurable music (as opposed to “neutral” music). The fMRI results showed the researchers that the increased dopamine activity occured both during periods of anticipation of hearing the favorite bits of music and during the listening experience itself — although different parts of the brain were involved.
The discovery is significant, the authors wrote, because dopamine response is usually associated with more direct rewards associated with human survival — such as food. Showing that dopamine is also involved with our reactions to an abstract, aesthetic stimulus such as music might help explain, they wrote, “why music is of such high value across all human societies.”
It doesn’t prove you need art to live, exactly. But it may hint that you have evolved to enjoy it.
Source: Chicago Tribune
New Study: A Woman’s Tears Can be a Turn-off for Men
A woman’s tears can be a total turnoff for a guy — if he smells them, that is.
Men who sniffed the tears of weeping women produced less testosterone and found female faces less arousing, according to new research that suggests a novel evolutionary explanation for why humans cry.

Emotional tears previously had been shown to be chemically distinct from reflexive, eye-protecting tears. And in animals, tears are known to convey important messages: Male mice that cry attract females, and blind mole rats that weep ward off other males.
Perhaps human tears contained a chemical signal too, Sobel thought. So he asked six women to watch triple-hanky chick flicks such as “My Sister’s Keeper” and let their tears trickle into a test tube.
Sobel had assumed the tears would trigger feelings of sadness or empathy. Instead, the tears dampened men’s libido like a cold shower.
The 50 tear-sniffing men whose testosterone levels were tested experienced a drop averaging 13%. Sniffers who viewed erotic images before submitting to an MRI showed less activity in the sexual arousal regions of their brains, too.
The results imply that “tears have some influence on sexual selection, and that’s not something we associate with sadness,” said Adam Anderson, a University of Toronto psychologist who was not involved in the study. “It could be a way of warding off unwanted advances.”
Source: Chicago Tribune
So if you want a man to stop coming onto you, just think of a sad memory and let the tears flow ladies!







































