SWATCHED: New drugstore lippies

After recently replacing an MLBB MAC lipstick in Hug Me, I realized I wanted a pinky-nudey go-to lipstick that would go with all of my makeup looks! Thankfully I did not have to look further than my sister's makeup collection to find just what I was searching for! We had a quick lipstick testing session which involved me trying on each of her lipsticks and getting photographed in them :-)

We visited our local drugstore and picked up a few new shades and I think I am in love. This seems to happen often...

The three products I picked up: Marcelle Rouge Xpression Delight & Sincerity and Revlon Super Lustrous Coralberry. Sincerity is my new fav! The texture, colour and longevity all combine to make a great lipstick! 

 

The Small Things, VI

"Like crowded megacities, busy ant colonies face a high risk of disease outbreaks. New research indicates such "urban ants" also know how to prevent epidemics — when an infected ant enters the colony, its nest mates carefully lick off the infecting fungus.

In nature, ants would pick up a fungal or other infection likely during foraging when they scamper across a cadaver of an infected ant or grasshopper, for instance, Cremer said.

To figure out how Lasius neglectus ants would react to such a diseased nest mate, the researchers infected one individual ant with fluorescent-labeled spores of fungus and let them interact with other members of their colony, tracking where the fluorescent spores ended up.

The researchers found that when this infected ant returned to the colony, its nest mates don't avoid it. Instead of running from the infected and contagious insect, the ants approached their colony mate and licked it, seeming to remove pathogens from the sick ant's body, a social grooming behavior."

#Teamwork

WTF???: The beginning

I have been mulling over this recurring blogpost for a while but haven't been able to fully commit to it until today, as I have not been feeling my usually inspired self!

I present this new feature that will explore shit that just doesn't make sense, shit that shocks and just weird shit in general. I can't guarantee I will be offering much more than some simple commentary, though I do hope it'll be an enjoyable read either way.

This feature will appear in contrast to my Small Things posts, because lets face it no matter how much beauty there is in our world, there is equally as much of the opposite! And there's definite value in exploring and learning about both, I think.

In its first installment, I present a Toronto Star article entitled,

A child is born every hour in the U.S. hooked on opiates, study finds

Lowlights: 

• University of Michigan researchers have made the startling discovery that a baby is born about every hour in the U.S. addicted to opiate drugs.

•  In the research published April 30 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, physicians found that drug withdrawal syndrome among newborns, almost tripled between 2000 and 2009

•  By 2009, there was an estimated 13,539 newborns with the syndrome, or one born every 40 minutes, according to the study assessing national trends in neonatal abstinence syndrome and mothers using opiate drugs.

• The Canadian Institute for Health Information reported in 2009-10 that there were 1,057 newborns with neonatal withdrawal syndrome, with Ontario recording 491.

Thoughts:

This is just a sad story, isn't it? Drug addiction and withdrawal are one thing in adults, right, but for these phenomenon to be touching newborns...My mind immediately goes to what the medical/psychosocial consequences that may occur be as a result. Good thing these children and their mothers are receiving treatment :-)