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Ever noticed how toned your stylist’s arms are when they are straightening your hair? Here is a hack every woman can try! Before you start blow-drying your hair, add wrist weights to your arms. It takes about 20 minutes to blow dry your hair depending on your hair’s length and thickness. Adding weights while blow drying your hair helps tone your arms by challenging your muscles while you dry.

Never know when your steak is done? Try out this helpful hack! Try the “Face Test”: First, completely relax your face. Stay expressionless, no smiling or frowning!  If you like your steak rare, compare its firmness to the fleshy part of your cheek. If your steak it rare, it will feel very similar! Remember, a rare steak has a cool, bright red center. For a medium-rare steak, compare its fi...

When you’re cooking, do you make sure to cut your different foods on different cutting boards? Why would you? It’s all going to the same place, right? While, yes, it is going to the same place… cutting different food on the same cutting board can lead to cross-contamination and food poisoning! To avoid doing this, consider color coding your cutting boards! For example, consider using these col...

There are several different ways to thaw frozen meat, but many of them are unsafe! Check out the Do’s and Don’ts of thawing meat below to make sure you’re being safe.  DO Use cold water to thaw your meat! Give ample time for a refrigerator thaw! Keep meat wrapped when thawing in the water! Immediately cook meat thawed in a microwave! Cook meat after thawing!  DON’T Don’t thaw your...

Listen here, guys… Are you sick of your lights always going out whenever it storms, or the wind blows too hard? Turns out, there’s a simple way around that. Just, you know, move. This tip may seem a bit unconventional but depending on if you move to the right place, you’re likely to never suffer through a power outage again, or at least not a long one! So, you may be asking, where is the righ...

What’s tiny, hard to see, and leaves you in excruciating pain? Splinters! The infamous splinter, second only to a paper cut when it comes to small size and big pain, will begin to haunt our households now that school is back in session. As arts and crafts begin again and falls on wood chip filled playgrounds pick up, you need a quick and easy way to remove a splinter! The best way to deal wi...

You know better than to take a bite out of a piece of produce bought straight from the store! Produce is often covered in dirt, chemicals, or wax. A simple rinse under the water faucet isn’t good enough to wash away these potentially harmful substances. You definitely don’t want to scrub them down with soap and a sponge, either. So, what do you do? Did you know you can make a natural scrub to ...

We have all decided at one point or another that, “Today is the day we start a new life!” We head to the gym or group class and we give it our all! We are determined we can get through a group class and end our workout with a 20-minute “brisk” walk on the treadmill. Then reality hits. You’re 15 minutes into the workout and you’re confused why time is moving so slowly and chasing your children...

Did your grandmother ever tell you that you could catch more flies with sugar than vinegar whenever you got a little unruly? Maybe you always took it as an old wives’ tale she had stored in one of her silver hairs that crowned her head, or just a saying she had a put away in one of the many wrinkles that defined her glowing face. However, it is true! Flying insects are a nuisance, especially i...

Adulting is hard, you know? You’ve got bills to pay, debt to pay off, taxes to file, and so much more. And the worst part? Most of the time, we have no idea what we’re doing. It’s not like they explain these kinds of things in school— even though they probably should. And what about insurance? What do all of those terms even mean? Like deductible. Seriously? What’s that supposed to be? Luckily...