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Q: What is a natural look with makeup that i can wear that looks pretty?
Makeup is not suppose to be used as a war paint to mask one's natural beauty. Makeup is to be used to enhance and accentuate your existing features and make the best one of your features pop. It's good that you are thinking pretty.

First, consider your coloring or skin tone. Are you warm or cool? Go to a beauty counter of your favorite department store and you can get free advise from an experienced beauty advisor. The best way to play it safe is to use colors in the neutral shade. Study the basic color wheel to understand color theory. It takes a few minutes to look it up online. When you choose your makeup shade, bear in mind the color of dress you will be wearing so you will look put together.

To accent your eyes, highlight brow bone and lid with a light shadow. Contour with darker color the crease area just above your lid to create eye definition. If you have good skin, foundation is not necessary. Nowadays, powder mineral make-up provides coverage but creates a soft natural look. Use that as an all-over powder and then use bronzer with a little color for your cheeks. Add a layer of mascara, rim your eyes with kohl pencil softly smudged to avoid a harsh line. Lastly, apply colored lip gloss. You can do this in 15 minutes and you can be out the door looking pretty and nice.

Q: What is the best way to disinfect cutting boards and sponges?
Germs and bacteria love to make their homes in sponges and cutting boards. With wooden cutting boards, bacteria can seep into the cracks of the wood even miniscule cut marks made by your knives.

With spongea, you can disinfect and kill the germs by putting it in the microwave for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes after washing your dishes at night.

I don't use wooden cutting board anymore. I use the plastic boards or the stone ones. However, if you like using wooden cutting boards, you can purchase paper thin plastic sheets that are marketed as a surface for cutting boards. You can easily wipe them clean after using it on top of the wooden cutting board.

Q: How often should you change your bedsheets.
Obviously they need to be changed if something gets spilt like juice or something but other than that how often should they be changed if nothing gets spilt on them
Nothing feels better than to lay your tired body and head on clean bed sheets, freshly laundered. In the old days, blankets and bedsheets were hung outside the clothes line, dried by the sun and then crisply ironed. With today's numerous options for thread counts with the highest 1,200, the bed has become such as luxury spot so why would you want to sleep on dirty sheets? Because of today's busy world, change your sheets at least once a week unless you spilled something that could stain your sheets.

If you have a partner and your kids come to your bed to cuddle for family time, please be considerate and change your sheets if you know that it is soiled.

Q: I am currently an intern at a school, and woke up this morning feeling exhausted and really unprepared. I texted my supervisor early this morning to let her know I wasn't feeling well (even though I'm not sick), and it's afternoon, and I haven't heard back from her.

I am worried she will find a text unacceptable, and I don't know how to proceed at this point.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
Sending a text to your supervisor was not a formal, respectful way of communicating. It's not just the way how business communication is done.

With texting, you can never be sure that your supervisor read the text- but by calling her and speaking to her, you are directly giving her the information of why you were not able to be at work at the school.

You should telephone your supervisor right away so you can tell her your reason personally. Do not forget to apologize anbout the text. Tell her that you realized that texting her was not an appropriate way of handling the situation and you will not do it again.

Q: My brother's friend who is about 20 years old just lost a significant amount of weight. However, he never expressed a desire to lose weight to any of us, so I'm wondering...would it be appropriate to tell him he looks good??? How would I even word that?
There is nothing wrong with giving a kind, sincere compliment, and telling a young man, who worked hard to lose that excess pounds that he looks good. But without having to point out your observation of his weight loss. He knows that he had excess weight, so it would probably make his day. Perhaps he will be the one to first mention that it's due to his weight loss. But you don't have to point out the reason why you think he looks good.


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