Wednesday, July 3, 2013

GIF Lesson: How to Apply Individual False Lashes

In a new series, makeup artist Daniel Martin helps us understand the art of makeup application through step-by-step GIF tutorials.

Not everyone wants to walk out the door wearing a full set of J.Lo-style lashes. But a few individual lashes, delicately applied to the outer edge of your upper lashline, will give your peepers extra oomph when mascara just isn't enough. In this tutorial, Martin opted for Winks by Georgie individual lashes and Lancome's Definicils mascara for a more natural look. But feel free to choose whichever brand works for you: Since individual lashes come in varying lengths and cluster size, select ones that best fit your natural lash, or opt for longer ones for a more fluttery, high-drama look.

Step 1:  Curl you natural lashes to give them some bend. This will make them "hide" better with the fake lashes.

Step 2: Prep your lashes with one pre-coat of mascara. This will also help them blend more seamlessly with the fake ones.

Step 3:  Using your fingers or a clean set of Tweezers, grab one lash from your set of falsies. 

Step 4: Lightly dip the end of the lash into a dot of glue. Tip: Pre-squirt some glue onto the back of your hand and reuse it as your glue palette. 

Step 5: Starting from the outside of your eye, apply the lash right into your lash line using a tweezer. Let dry for a few seconds if you landed in the right spot, or take your time in moving it so that it lines up with the rest of your natural lashes. Continue to fill in as many lashes as you need. Tip: Use the base of your tweezers (not the pointy end) to lightly press the false lash onto your lid. Fingertips are oily and can pull the false lash right off.

Step 6: After letting the glue set and dry for a few minutes, a final gentle comb through with a mascara wand will ensure that all the false and natural lashes aren't poking out in different directions.


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LinkedIn status updates can now include photos, other types of files

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LinkedIn status updates can now include photos, other types of files

Given how simple and common it is to do it on Facebook, Twitter or Google+, you'd think being able to share images as part of a status update wouldn't be anything novel at this point. But for those inhabiting the popular (and inspiring) social networking site LinkedIn, this hasn't exactly been the case -- and that's about to change. As of today, users are able to add a little more flavor to things shared on the site, with LinkedIn letting it be known that they can now easily enclose more than just text when using the share box. And while picture uploads are certainly all the buzz, LinkedIn's also making it possible to include other file types, such as documents and presentations. Currently, the new feature only allows uploads to be done via the desktop version of the website, however LinkedIn did tell CNET that the content "will be viewable inside the mobile apps."

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Great Moments in Blonde Hair, Dark Eyebrows

The last few months have seen a major uptick in one style trend in particular. No, not patterned pants. (But ... yes, those too.) It's the light-blonde hair with the dark, severe brows, rocked by both Daenerys and Cersei on Game of Thrones and in actual life by Kate Upton on the cover of this month's Vogue. The look has been around for ages, and has never really left us — though not everyone who has worn it has had quite as much blonde ambition as, say, Madonna. Let's look back through some great — and some not-so-great — moments in blondes and brows.


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Sony nominates three new board members, looks for fresh perspective

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Sony nominates three new execs to its board, looks for fresh perspective

While Sony has been improving its bank balance as of late, most of that turnaround has come through job cuts and office sales -- the company needs new strategies to thrive in the long run. Accordingly, the firm has nominated three new board directors with experience outside of its core electronics divisions. Tim Schaaff (at right) is a relative insider with his board position at media-focused Sony Network Entertainment, but the same can't be said for his two peers. Eikoh Harada (left) has been turning around McDonald's Japan as its CEO, while Joichi Ito (center) is well-known for his roles as the director of MIT's Media Lab and the founder of Digital Garage. Both Harada and Schaaff also worked at Apple several years ago, giving them experience at one of Sony's main rivals. Provided the three become board members at a shareholder meeting on June 20th, they could bring new thinking to a company frequently accused of clinging to business as usual.

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A Queen Within: Fashion Collides With Chess

This fall, "the Queen" from the centuries-old game of chess will be getting an entire fashion exhibition dedicated to her crowned wooden (stone or plastic) self. The exhibit, titled A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, Fashion, and Chess, will be held at the World Chess Hall of Fame in Saint Louis, Missouri, starting on October 19. The space's entire 3,000 square feet will be filled with fashion items, photographs, film, and artwork that grapple with the matronly archetype's evolving roles of power and femininity in both the game and in society.

To make this exhibit a reality, an international team of chess players, fashion insiders, and curators brainstormed together. It will include nine different sections devoted to various traits of the queen, such as "Sage," "Magician," "Enchantress," "Ruler," and "Mother Earth." Works from designers including Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Viktor & Rolf, Maison Martin Margiela, Hussein Chalayan, and Gianfranco Ferré will be featured, as well as select photographs from Anne Deniau's book Love Looks Not With the Eye, which includes over 400 never-before-seen photographs of Alexander McQueen at work. Click through the slideshow for a first, small peek at the artwork and gowns that will be on display.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 and 780 review roundup: Kepler's still kicking in 2013

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 and 780 review roundup Kepler's still kicking in 2013

Now that we have the low-down on NVIDIA's two mainstream heavyweights, the GTX 770 and the GTX 780, we figure it's time to move beyond specs and official slide decks and bring together some reviews from the specialist sites. Both cards contain the same Kepler architecture as NVIDIA's 2012 line-up, with no huge leaps in evidence, but they either add more of this silicon (in the case of the GTX 780) or drive it harder (in the case of the GTX 770) in order create new options for enthusiasts and for those upgrading from a card that is two or more generations old. At the same time, these products represent a major shift in NVIDIA's pricing strategy. At $649, the GTX 780 is priced much higher than its direct ancestor, and it aims to approach Titan-level performance without hitting the same thousand-dollar high. Meanwhile, the GTX 770 costs just $399 and yet is said to replace last year's flagship cards like the GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, which are still being sold for $450 and upwards at some retailers. Read on and we'll summarize how these claims have stacked up against reality.

GeForce GTX 770

Let's start with the GTX 770 since it's more a reasonable proposition and it just came out this morning. NVIDIA claimed in a product briefing that the card would edge out the GTX 680 by around five percent thanks to faster memory and higher clock speeds, and the reviews below have borne that out. Tom's Hardware actually saw a 5-10 percent boost in Borderlands 2 (90fps) and Battlefield 3 (54fps) at 2,560 x 1,440 and max detail settings, and a surprising 35 percent advantage in BioShock Infinite (51fps). HotHardware noted that NVIDIA's stock cooler was quieter and more efficient 2012 cards, which ought to raise the bar for third party vendors. Meanwhile, the GTX 770's lead over the Radeon HD 7970 was slightly smaller, testifying to the impact of AMD's mid-gen GHz upgrade and driver improvements, but the lead was there nonetheless -- and AMD's card is still generally more expensive. The upshot: if you already own one of the aforementioned 2012 cards, there's nothing to fret about, but if you're shopping for an upgrade then don't, whatever you do, buy a GTX 680 (unless you find an absolute bargain).

Read -- Tom's Hardware

Read -- Hot Hardware

Read -- TechPowerUp

Read -- TechSpot

GeForce GTX 780

As mentioned, this card's pricing and internals class it as a deliberately scaled-down Titan, rather than as an alternative to more mainstream offerings. NVIDIA's notion is that non-obsessives will be drawn to the idea of making a large dollar saving in return for a small performance sacrifice relative to the best. And again, the marketing promise holds true in independent benchmarks. Anandtech found that the 780 delivers "90 percent of the Titan's gaming performance for 65 percent of the price." Plus, with a bit of overclocking it was "easy to exceed" the performance of a stock Titan and achieve frame rates beyond 60fps even in games like Total War: Shogun 2 at 2,560 x 1,440 and Ultra settings. Legit Reviews tested triple monitor performance and found a mere 9 percent reduction in fps relative to the Titan -- sufficient to achieve 43fps in BioShock Infinite playing at 5,760 x 1,080 and Ultra settings.

Read -- Anandtech (and with overclocking)

Read -- Legit Reviews

Read -- Hexus

Read -- Guru3D

All in all, you can't escape the feeling that NVIDIA has rehashed and rebadged its existing architecture in order to capitalize on the strength of Kepler (and especially its power efficiency) and mold the market in the way it wants. Then again, the company hasn't tried to hide any of this -- it's been open about where it's simply added or substracted transistors, or tweaked the memory configuration, and it's also been made clear that those who upgrade from an existing Kepler card may not see a huge difference. As for the claims the company has made about these two cards, however, it's evidently able to live up to them.

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