Everyone close your eyes. Think of your scariest nightmare. Does it entail all those Snapchat filters your friends love to put on their faces coming to life? Omg, mine too! Why not channel that fear into creating a spooky Snapchat filter Halloween costume? These makeup tutorials will show you how to turn yourself into a living, breathing Snapchat filter.
You could be the butterflies...
Or the dog...
Or everyone's fave "I totally belong at a music festival" look, the flower crown.
So many options! Plus, real life makeup doesn't disappear in 10 seconds. You can spook your friends all night! (Extra points if you can find a real-life way to haunt them with copious amounts of unnecessary notifications.)
Emma Stone looks like a gingery Audrey Hepburn on the November cover of Vogue thanks to a dramatically shorter haircut. Hollywood Life is reporting that the new 'do is courtesy of a wig, but she looks so amazing with the pixie cut that she should consider getting the chop for real.
Within the pages of the magazine, Stone dons everything from her signature red locks to a short black bob with blunt bangs. Her hair was styled by celebrity hair God Shay Ashual, which explains why she looks like a beautiful woodland elf with the dramatic cut. I would probably look like Conan O'Brien if I tried to pull that off.
Jon Hamm may put his (devastatingly handsome) best face forward, but he has inner demons like the rest of us (though even his demons are probably also handsome). In an interview with fashion site Mr. Porter, the 45-year-old Mad Men actor opened up about his battle with alcoholism, his visit to rehab last year, and fighting stigma attached to both. What a mensch.
"Rehab" is a word that still carries a lot of stigma, but Hamm wants everyone to know how much it helped him in his recovery. "[Rehab] has all these connotations, but it's just an extended period of talking about yourself," said the actor. "People go for all sorts of reasons, not all of which are chemically related. But there's something to be said for pulling yourself out of the grind for a period of time and concentrating on recalibrating the system. And it works. It's great."
Hamm also said he's a huge fan of therapy, which he has been doing since the '90s after his dad died. "So what do you do? Go and see a professional," he said. "I preach it from the mountaintops. I know it's a luxury and it's not something everyone can afford. But if you can, do it. It's like a mental gym."
I can personally vouch for therapy and just getting help in general (many therapists accept sliding scale payments, just FYI). And though I never went to rehab, it's on my bucket list—who doesn't love an extended period of talking about herself? Just me?
Hey, ever see a drone buzzing around think, "Gee, I should use that thing to bring extremely sharp objects next to my head and give me a haircut!" No? Good. It's a bad idea.
Well, if you would would consider getting a drone haircut, check out this video by YouTube personality Roman Atwood is entitled "NEVER DO THIS!! DRONE HAIRCUTS!!" first. It should tell you everything you need to know about getting your ears lowered by a flying remote-controlled robot.
Atwood's girlfriend's cousin Caleb bravely volunteered as tribute for the experiment. You can watch the actual haircut happen at the 7:40 mark.
Wow! That was bad, but somehow not as bad as it could have been considering that the dangling buzzer kept repeatedly banging into Caleb's head. Luckily, after the experiment, Caleb let a human person give him a proper buzz-cut. He even ended up looking sort of like Marshall Mathers.
Looks like robots won't be taking all the jobs away from humans.
Lukas Yla, both a master of marketing and a master of disguise, found the ultimate way to make sure people look at his resume: put it in a box of donuts.
@Kirasw I was trying to deliver donuts to you, but wasn't able to hand them personally. Hope you received th package pic.twitter.com/k3rNffSDje
Dressed as a Postmates delivery man, the marketing pro from Vilnius, Lithuania made sure his resume ended up in the hands of the right people, bring up boxes of donuts to 40 big companies in San Francisco.
Enclosed in the surprise box of donuts was an even more surprising cover letter:
Hi,
This delivery is not a mistake. I pretended to be a Postmates delivery guy to ensure my resume was delivered to you personally.
As you have noticed, I approach things in a different way and most importantly - I like to get them done.
My name is Lukas; I am a marketing guy with five years of experience. I admire your company and would like to work for you.
Yla told Metrothat he scored 10 interviews, an impressive yield.
The secret to success? Embrace the power of donuts.
When I was a kid, I hated Disney. I remember being seven when Aladdin came out, and deciding on the car ride back from the theater that I was against it. I thought it was too commercial, that only dumb kids liked it, that it was condescending. (I probably even used the word “condescending.”) I was, as you can imagine, the most unbearable kid in the world.
Imagining this kid lecturing you about Mickey Mouse. That's the level of annoying I'm talking about.
I maintained my anti-Disney crusade throughout my childhood, turning up my nose while every other kid fell in love with The Lion King and Pocahontas. I wouldn’t even give it up for Beauty and the Beast. I only made an exception for The Nightmare Before Christmas, my favorite movie, which was technically released under Disney’s Touchstone Pictures banner, as I would point out to everyone.
I never had a very defined reason for hating Disney. (I did go to Disney World when I was five and had diarrhea the whole week, but that's probably not related.) I just knew that other kids liked it, and I wanted to be different. I’m sure some of my arguments had merit, but I’m also sure I was just denying myself happiness because I thought it was more important that I be right and everyone else be wrong. It’s an ongoing problem.
I vowed never to willingly consume Disney entertainment, and for years I didn’t. But meanwhile, executives deep within Disney’s Imagineering Bunker were imagineering a way to make me eat my words. They had figured out the formula to produce perfect animated musicals on an assembly line, and it worked for them year after year, hit after hit. Of course they were going to replicate that.
When they saw that Pixar had invented something that could replace them, they didn’t fight it. They bought it. I had only just learned how amazing Pixar was, and the news of the takeover in 2006 struck me like a blow. But by then I was in my 20s, and years of depression had started to teach me to take myself less seriously. I made my peace with Pixar’s acquisition just in time, because I had no idea what was coming.
One by one, the Disney behemoth swallowed every universe I had loved as a child. First Marvel, then Star Wars. They applied everything they had learned from decades dominating a narrow medium (children’s animation) and used to it conquer a much broader one (all media for everyone). They applied the same assembly line process I had bemoaned as a child, using it to manufacture movies based on the characters who meant everything to me—and I loved every second of it.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe was like a gift to nerds. We had suffered through years of substandard superhero movies. Now quality, interconnected superhero movies, featuring characters who looked and acted like they had in the comics, were coming as regularly as tax day. They were formulaic, but they had personality, and were different enough from each other to always feel fresh. (At least to someone who already loved the characters.)
And Star Wars sealed the deal. If Disney had to do one Herculean task to win me over, it was to erase the greatest heartbreak of my childhood: the Star Wars prequels. And they did it. They hired J.J. Abrams, because they knew only the best person had a chance. And he god damn did it.
So now, by sheer cunning and force of will, the Walt Disney Company has officially humbled me. Twenty years ago I vocally boycotted all of their products, and today I watch almost nothing that wasn’t made by them. Movies, TV (Luke CAAAAGE)… they have totally won me over. I like to think Walt Disney would have been proud, although maybe not because I’m a Jew. But that hasn’t been conclusively proven.
A former Apprentice contestant is the latest in a string of several women to come forward with sexual assault allegations against presidential nominee Donald Trump.
At a press conference on Friday afternoon, Summer Zervos accused Trump of inappropriate sexual conduct in 2007, both at his office in New York City and then again a few days later at a hotel in Los Angeles.
Zervos said that when she arrived at Trump's office to discuss job opportunities, he "kissed her on the lips" when she arrived and again when she left. She said it made her feel "nervous and embarrassed," but she brushed it off as a greeting.
A few days later, Zervos met Trump at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, again for what she thought was a business-related meeting. Zervos was supposed to meet Trump for dinner, but upon arriving at the hotel was brought to a bungalow where she alleges that he kissed her "open-mouthed," touched her breasts, and led her to his bedroom despite her efforts to get away from him.
Before Zervos told her story, her attorney Gloria Allred provided a statement in which she addressed Trump directly. "Donald, before you can become president of the United States, you must first learn how to treat women with respect," she said.
Australian nurse Caitlin Brassington has gone viral with an impassioned Facebook post about the subtle disrespect RNs face all too often. It all started when an acquaintance made a reference to her being "just a nurse," a phrase she's heard many times in her life. This time, she decided to speak up about it.
'Just a Nurse'. I am just home from a busy shift, looking very ordinary in my scrubs. On the way home today I stopped at...
'Just a Nurse'. I am just home from a busy shift, looking very ordinary in my scrubs. On the way home today I stopped at the shop for milk and saw an acquaintance. She has never seen me in uniform and said that she didn't realise I was 'just a nurse'. Wow! Over my 18 year career I have heard this phrase many, many time, but today it got to me. Am I just a nurse?
I have helped babies into the world, many of whom needed assistance to take their first breath, and yet I am just a nurse.
I have held patients hands and ensured their dignity while they take their last breath, and yet I am just a nurse.
I have counselled grieving parents after the loss of a child, and yet I am just a nurse.
I have performed CPR on patients and brought them back to life, and yet I am just a nurse.
I am the medical officers eyes, ears and hands with the ability to assess, treat and manage your illness, and yet I am just a nurse.
I can ascultate every lung field on a newborn and assess which field may have a decreased air entry, and yet I am just a nurse.
I can educate patients, carers, and junior nurses, and yet I am just a nurse.
I am my patients advocate in a health system that does not always put my patients best interest first, and yet I am just a nurse.
I will miss Christmas Days, my children's birthdays, and school musicals to come to work to care for your loved one, and yet I am just a nurse.
I can take blood, cannulate and suture a wound, and yet I am just a nurse.
I can manage a cardiac arrest in a newborn, a child or an adult, and yet I am just a nurse.
I can tell you the dosage of adrenaline or amiodarone based on weight that your child may need to bring them back to life, and yet I am just a nurse.
I have the experience and knowledge that has saved people's lives.
So, if I am just a nurse, then I am ridiculously proud to be one! #justanurse #love #nurse #mum#happy #taganurse
Brassington's post has received more than 11,000 likes on Facebook, and more than 2,000 shares. People are standing behind her, and all nurses, who fulfill a crucial role in health care but rarely get the respect they deserve.
Kudos to nurses! Anyone who can work a 12-hour shift, save a few lives, and come home covered in blood isn't "just a nurse," they're "just a hero."
It's Friday, October 14th, and before you go out and get your party on this weekend (and by get your party on I mean get dressed up for the Instagram and then immediately switch into a onesie and watch TV), catch up on the big stories of the day.
Whatever hate you may have in your heart towards Donald Trump or Khloe Kardashian, it might not come close to the hate they have for each other. According to another behind-the-scenes leak from the set of The Apprentice, Trump described Khloe as the "ugly Kardashian" and fired her from the show because he didn't like her or find her attractive. This news is equal parts gross and not-at-all-shocking.
Khloe Kardashian appeared on Season 8 of the show, which pits celebs against each other to raise money for a charity, back in 2009. She was fired in week six, allegedly because she missed an episode to attend a court-ordered DUI class.
“I hate people who drive under the influence; I really do,” Trump informed her on the show. “When you told me [that you had gotten a DUI], I lost a little respect for you… If I had known that you were missing time away from the task because of a DUI, you would have never been on the show.”
(Apparently the same rules didn't apply to other cast members on the show, like known drunk driverDennis Rodman.)
But mysterious inside sources told the Huffington Postthat the real reason Khloe was fired from the show is because Trump thought she was "ugly" and a "fat piglet" and just straight up didn't like her. Which is hardly surprising at this point, given Trump's increasingly horrifying track record with women.
An editor on the show said that Trump asked in regards to Khloe: "What is this? We can’t even get the hot one?” and added “[Trump] basically wanted to just get rid of her. He called her a ‘piglet.’” (Ironic given that Trump is literally a pig.)
And another inside source, also an editor, said: "When they fired [her], it wasn’t on merit. It was on him not liking her.” According to this source, Trump even asked the staff: “What’s the reason we can get her off [the show]?”
Khloe clearly returns the feelings. The reality star said earlier this year that she"hated every minute" of working on The Apprentice and only did the show because "my mom made me do it." Look, I'm not saying Khloe is #withher. But she did say "I don’t think he would be a good president.” Join the klub, Khloe.
Halloween is just around the corner and fashion retailer ASOS is getting in the spirit by selling a glow-in-the-dark "dripping blood" necklace. Unfortunately the internet, which constantly has its mind in the gutter, was quick to point out that the choker also resembles, ahem, a different bodily fluid.
It's semen. It looks like semen. And now we'll never be able to unsee it. The internet strikes again.
But hey, to be fair, there are far worse sexy Halloween costumes out there than wearing fake blood sperm around your neck. It's way better than sexy Ken Bone.
As Friday winds to a close, everyone's raving about Michelle Obama's speech, wincing at Ken Bone's seamy underbelly, and watching Donald Trump go off the deep end. These are the 29 funniest tweets of October 14th, 2016!
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I need an app that's just Michelle Obama reassuring me that everything is going to be okay.
If you've ever taught your teenage kid to drive, or if one of your parents ever taught you to drive, you'll relate to this New Zealand dad's video. He perfectly captures all the different dad archetypes, from the "Freak Out" dad to the "Read the Manual" dad. Bonus points if you remember exactly which type your dad was.
My dad was the "Internally Angry" dad. I feel like that's a common one.
Finally, some positive news in the midst of the tsunami of slime that is drowning us all this election season. Hillary Clinton's nephew, who is gay, wrote a sweet, heartwarming Facebook post in which he describes his aunt as a "warm, funny lady" who helped him come out of the closet and has supported him and his family. It's enough to make you want to crawl out from the bunker you've been living in, and vote (and not for him).
Colin Ebeling, a filmmaker, said his "Aunt Hillary" is nothing like the cold, calculated liar that members of the GOP and much of the American public has claimed she is. "To see Hillary portrayed as an evil, conniving criminal is baffling to me," he writes. "Throughout my life, I have only known her as my mom’s most supportive and loving friend."
Ebeling is married and has a baby daughter, said that Clinton has always gone out of her way to be supportive of his sexuality. "[She] congratulated me when I came out of the closet, when I got my pilot’s license, when I married my husband and when we adopted our baby girl," he writes. He adds that the former Secretary of State "has included me and my husband in countless events over the years and always greets us with warmth and sincere affection."
