Brit women now opting for ‘nude’ lipstick shades just like Nigella Lawson
London: British women are ditching classic red lipsticks for softer, more muted “nude” shades, just like celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.
The natural look as portrayed by “Domestic Goddess” Lawson on the cover of this month’s Vogue magazine is becoming the norm. For the first time in three years, nude lipsticks are outselling bright red shades, High Street chain Debenhams said.
Sales of sheer, natural shades are up 62 percent compared with this time last year, the Daily Express reported.
The news should cheer Chancellor George Osborne.
Lipstick sales are often seen as a broad economic indicator with sales of bright red lippy said to rise in a recession and fall during an upturn. Estee Lauder chairman Leonard Lauder named the phenomenon “lipstick index” theory in 2001, although the effect was first noted in the 1930s Depression. (ANI)
Mummified woman’s body discovered in garage
Washington: Authorities in the US city of Michigan has found a woman’s mummified body, at least six years after her death, sitting in the backseat of her car, parked in the garage of her home where she lived alone.
Since her bills were automatically deducted from her bank account, residents of the quiet middle-class Pontiac neighborhood said they noticed nothing amiss.
Nobody saw her, but the grass was cut and the mail did not pile up. Some neighbours said they thought she had moved out of the country after the recession hit several years ago.
Eventually, the money in her bank account ran out and the house went into foreclosure, leading to the gruesome discovery this week, Detroit Free Press reported.
The body, clothed in a heavy jacket and jeans, had mummified, Oakland County officials said.
A contractor the bank sent to check out the house discovered the body on Wednesday in the attached garage of the ranch-style home, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department.
Undersheriff Mike McCabe said investigators believe the woman has been dead since at least 2008.
“She had USD 54,000 in her account, and her bills were being deducted,” McCabe said. “Eventually, the money ran out, and her house went into foreclosure.” (PTI)
Twin sisters who share one boyfriend undergo $200k plastic surgery to look identical
New York: Twin sisters in Australia, who share a job, a Facebook account, a bed and a boyfriend, shelled out more than 200,000 dollars to look identical.
Anna DeCinque, who with sibling Lucy has had countless procedures in a bid to look exactly like each other, are dating one boy at the moment, the New York Post reported. Lucy said that three of them share the same bed, adding that they have the same taste in everything.
The 28-year-old, devoted duplicates have indulged their self-obsession with breast implants, lip enhancements, tattooed eyebrows.
They get weekly skin peels and infrared sauna treatments, and have identical diets and exercise routines. (ANI)
Italian man books son’s girlfriend as escort
London: An Italian man got the shock of his life when he hired an escort, who incidentally turned out to be his son’s girlfriend.
The 70-year-old from the northern Italian city of Treviso was in for a shock when his future daughter-in-law walked through the door.
According to the Italian newspaper, Il Gazzettino, the pensioner had booked the escort from a neighboring city.
The 40-year-old son’s South American girlfriend had told the family that she was a waitress before their awkward meeting.
This bizarre incident has sparked a bitter feud between the pair that was revealed this week at a court hearing. (ANI)
`Cute` Florida otter kills and eats ‘hapless` alligator
Wellington: Florida’s Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge recently posted a series of pictures showing a giant otter devouring an alligator on their Facebook page.
The photos, which were taken in 2011, showed the hapless Florida alligator been killed and eaten by the carnivorous mammal.
The post was accompanied by a comment from the wildlife refuge said that the otter pulled the alligator up on the bank and proceeded to consume, which eventually gave up and was eaten.
The post said that the animals were no longer visible at that point, but the alligator was done resisting when it was dragged out of the water and despite of otter’s cute appearance, the mammals are the apex predator of many freshwater habitats. (ANI)