I chanced upon this article from the online news website of The Age. I thought this will be a good read for us. Enjoy reading

January 13, 2009 – 11:46AM

Angela Cuming and Kristie Lau report.

Lemon juice gets rid of freckles

Mums do know what they are on about, sometimes. Applying lemon juice to your freckles does act as a bleaching agent. However, dermatologist Dr JoAnn See says you have to keep going to maintain the faded affect. “Lemon juice offers an optical lightening, yes, but it won’t get rid of freckles altogether. It’s like putting lemon juice in your hair in summer – that works as a temporary method, too,” she says.

Verdict: Fair dinkum

Brush your hair 100 times a day

Well, if it was good enough for Marcia Brady it should be for us, right? Wrong, says hair stylist George Wilson. “You should try (to) brush your hair as little as possible, especially when it’s long, because brushing causes split ends,” he says. “And if you do have to brush dry hair, do it from underneath to avoid all those flyaways on the top of your head.”

Verdict: Give it the brush-off

Don’t go to bed with wet hair

This beauty no-no does not just leave you with a stiff neck and a bad case of the sniffles the next morning. “If the scalp is moist for a long period of time it can aggravate the small amounts of bacteria found on the skin’s surface, which will cause flakiness and irritation and itching,” Wilson says.

Verdict: Right on

Cucumber alleviates puffy eyes

While at face value it appears that mum just invented this to stop teenage daughters wasting their pocket money on expensive eye creams, there actually is some truth to it. Sydney make-up artist Anya Fransman says turning to the vegie crisper can work wonders.

“Cold cucumber slices placed over the eyes can help to alleviate puffiness simply because the coolness of them helps to constrict blood vessels, aiding in slowing down fluid retention,” she says.

Verdict: Yes

Using toothpaste on pimples makes them go away

If your spots are looking particularly red and nasty, you can dab on a smidgen of toothpaste – but don’t expect long-lasting results. JoAnn See says toothpaste should only be used as a temporary treatment. “It will dry your pimples out because toothpaste is an anti-inflammatory agent. It can reduce the redness if left on overnight and the results are usually evident within 24 hours,” she says. “But it’s not designed to stay on your face as a cream; it’s supposed to be washed off, even on your teeth.”

Verdict: Quick fix

Never wash your face with soap

Soap can not only strip away all the natural good oils and sebum that keeps your skin healthy, it can disrupt the skin’s pH balance. “Instead, choose a soap-free, gentle facial cleanser suitable for your skin type (dry, oily, normal, combination), making sure that you use it in the morning and in the evening and massage it into the skin for up to 30 seconds or until all the impurities have dissolved,” Fransman says.

Verdict: You heard right

As a guy or rather a girl walks by with tattoes on his or her body, people will turn their head and their eyes follow him or her to wherever they go to. People’s perception on those who have tattoes were bad, that they aren’t good people, there must be something bad within them, that they aren’t as simple as people think they are and bottom line, it’s everything very negative. People started become judgemental towards them. These days it’s considered a fashion item, or to some, it’s art or rather related to religious issues. However, the older generation still has the conservative mentality though.

I have thought about having a tattoo ages ago, somewhat like 8 freaking years ago. Yes no joke 8 freaking years! How people decide to have a tattoo? Well, as for me, I got inspired by my dance instructor then who really has tattoos all over his body and it was just darn cool on him. Ever since then, I dreamt of having one and I never did until this year.

Once I told people my dream of having a tattoo, majority says NO and that I will definitely regret during my old age. I say .. let’s think about now rather than later. If it turns ugly later in life, so be it. The pain was bearable, and it wasn’t pain throughout the whole process. It was cool all the way.

If people … decide to have a tattoo, make sure you don’t ink your partner’s name, or something to do with your partner and *touchwood* something happens between the both of you, the name stays on forever though the person don’t. Also a piece of advise, don’t ink something to do with fashion today. Tribal used to be an “in” thing but right now it’s fading away. SUggestions … please if you wanna do a tattoo, do something you really like and love and it’s best if it brings meaning to it and not just for the sake of tattoo-ing. There must be a certain level of trust between you and your tattoo-ist or else the end result won’t be good. You just have to trust your tattoo-ist. Ask around, survey around only decide because this will last a lifetime and one last word, do not regret.

What is classified under this term pornography? Well as I have understood from the e-dictionary, it basically means drawings, photographs or writings that suggest obscenity or having no artistic value.

For years, men and women are so obsessed with breasts, two extra lumps of fats that can drive us crazy, crazy to look beautiful with push up bras, crazy to cover them up with cloths and pads so the men don’t see them. Or to put it into a more extreme illustration here, some even strip to make money and that two amazing lumps of fats can actually make the men go wild, drooling or even self pleasuring.  So what are these two lumps actually?

I remembered visiting musuems and arts exhibitions where there were paintings, sculptures and statues with bare breasts, may it be male or female figure; all bare breasts. And don’t these arouse the men? Don’t these drive them go ga-ga? Are we misled or something?

Readers, what would be your vote? Is it or is it not? I am puzzled!