If you ever want to strike up a conversation, just mention hairstyles and you're off to a long chat. After all, many folks feel that hair is the very bane of their existence, and yet few people are satisfied with their style. Those with straight hair want curly and vice-versa; many will go to extreme lengths to achieve what they "think" they want. Almost everyone has an experience they can recall, often interesting, sometimes incredulous. ¶ For...

Small is beautiful--especially for bathrooms; These three modest-size bathing beauties are anything but ordinary in the ways they conquer inner space. ¶ Two for the size of one ¶ Overnight guests at Sandy Dodge's Rancho Santa Fe, California, home enjoy the luxury of an airy yet elegant guest bath. And the same space also serves swimmers, thanks to a second entry leading to...

While hair textures and styles vary greatly-straight, wavy, thick, curly, short, or shorn-people of Caribbean and African descent have long dealt with enormous pressure to wear hair straight. There were two ways to achieve this effect: the short-term solution of hot curling iron or hot comb, or the somewhat longer-lasting method of chemical relaxers. Although both practices are extremely damaging to hair, time-consuming, and demand elaborate upkeep...

Does the guy you like have the hots for you? Even if he does, how are you supposed be know? After all, he's always aching like such a ... boy! He looked at you during lunch, so that means he digs you, right? Or did he look your, way because you were sitting under a clock? Instead of spending one more second decoding his every move, just tally it up here and find out, once and for, all, if he likes you ... or not. ¶ 1. He recently asked one of...

The real way to make every day a great hair day? It all starts with the right haircut. ¶ Has this ever happened to you? You walk into the salon, torn magazine page in hand, visions of Jennifer Aniston dancing in your head. By the time you leave, not only are you fairly certain the paparazzi won't to be chasing you down the street but that your new 'do actually makes you look more like Brad than the missus. What went wrong, you ask? After one too...

Imagine eating a whole head of garlic. You likely conjure up an unpleasant experience--that is, if you have raw garlic in mind. But, when roasted in the oven, garlic cloves soften to a buttery consistency and a mild garlicky flavor. Even those who dislike garlic will be smitten with the roasted flavor. ¶ To add this delightful, mellow ingredient to your food, follow the simple roasting directions, then try our suggestions for using it. Nothing...

Dressed in creamy shades of white, Whoopi Goldberg and Angela Bassett stand on the steps of an exclusive beach resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica, looking as if they're having the time of their lives. A tall, lanky young man with drowsy eyes and full juicy lips breezes past them. "Welcome to Jamaica," he whispers. Basset and Goldberg break into whoops and giggles as they walk toward the sparkling sea. From the bottom of the steps, director Kevin Sullivan...

You flirt. You hang out. So what's the deal? Read his crush clues.... ¶ What goes on between you and that cutie at school is the stuff that keeps a girl up at night. On a good day, he smiles, makes small talk and everything kind of perks along. On an all-star day, he asks where you're hanging Friday night--does that mean he wants to meet up?! It's torture when you don't know what the deal is. You find yourself trying to decode his every word and...

Jasmine offers attractive blooms and Distinct fragrances ¶ We moved from India about eighteen years ago. Back home, I had a big garden with lots of tropical flowering plants. The most important one among them was my jasmine plant. The flowers of the jasmine plant are very fragrant and can be made into beautiful garlands. After coming to America, I missed my tropical garden and jasmine plant very much. ¶ Then, fourteen years ago, a friend...

I'm not a medical expert, midwife, doula, childbirth educator, or childbirth activist. I am the mother of two little girls, proud and happy about my drug-free hospital births, which took place with my husband in a quiet hospital birthing room with what I consider to be minimal and bearable interventions: the donning of a hospital gown; intermittent fetal monitoring; and, in labor, a heparin lock to keep a vein open in case I needed an IV line (I...