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Just 7 Really Great Charlotte Tilbury Products
Hollywood Flawless Filter is a forever TikTok darling for its ability to smooth, blur, and prime, with a barely there feel that rivals your most lightweight moisturizer. It provides a complexion boost when worn on its own but can also be layered under full-coverage foundation (and no, it won't pill). Promising review: "I've been waiting with baited breath for this product to launch, it arrived this morning after launching yesterday, and all I can say is WOW! There is nothing else like this on the market that I've tried before. It is absolutely beautiful on and gives such a radiant glow. The only way I can describe this is it's like red carpet makeup. Just beautiful, glowy skin that looks REAL, it's not full of chunky glitter, and I'm already obsessed! I love the applicator and it layers up really well, so if you love to glow, you NEED this!" —Marnik Price: $49 (available in 11 colors) Matte Revolution Hydrating Lipstick ends your quest for the perfect pink/nude hue cc: the infamous Pillow Talk shade. Gorgeous "my lips but better" everyday staple aside, a square-angled tip makes it foolproof to precisely line your cupid's bow. Promising review: "I've heard and read so much about this color that I had to have it. It really is a gorgeous shade; it's a little bit of a nude, a little bit of a brown, a little bit of a... just-bit-my-lips color. It looks very natural, like the kind of color I want my lips to be without makeup. I also love the slight vanilla flavor and creaminess of the lipstick." —mombogogo Price: $35 (available in four colors) Beauty Light Wand transforms your face into a radiant canvas with just a few dots of pigmented highlighter-blush. The star of the show? Pinkgasm: A pearlescent pink liquid that catches the light and turns every moment into golden hour. Promising review: "If I had to choose one makeup item to wear, THIS IS IT! It makes my cheeks the perfect shade of rosy as well as dewy/shimmery! I am obsessed. It looks so good when you have a tan as well. Makes your everyday makeup so much more elevated." —HannahmeiklePrice: $42 (available in seven colors, including Pinkgasm) Cosmic Power bottles the magic of the galaxy in a single spritz, harnessing a hypnotic blend of amber, vanilla, musk, and clove oils that's destined to become your signature scent. Word to the wise: Don't sleep on Charlotte Tilbury fragrances. They're next-level. Promising review: "I am obsessed with this fragrance, this is definitely my favorite one out of the collection. In general, I love a deep and complex amber fragrance, and this ticks all the boxes! It lasts all day, leaving a complex trail wherever you go! This is my new go-to scent and it makes me feel just incredible!" —Bebe99Price: $150 Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray locks in your look to ensure that humidity, sweat, and tears become irrelevant to the status of your foundation. This prevents makeup from turning into a runny mess and somehow landing on the collar of your shirt. Promising review: "I got the setting spray last week and used it for a night with my friends. I got home at 3 a.m. and my makeup was still PERFECT. I haven't had a setting spray that really lasts this long." —Kat1111Price: $23+ (available in three sizes) Healthy Glow Hydrating Tint eliminates the stress of shade matching: it goes on white and adapts to your skin tone, perfect for post-vacation complexions when your usual foundation feels a shade too light. Promising review: "I have very dry, sensitive skin. I also have major discoloration due to scarring. I cannot wear any foundation and have been using BB/CC cream instead. I tried this on a whim, and upon first use, I was in love. I looked well-rested, and my skin was glowing. I loved it so much, I immediately purchased another one to ensure I don't run out. My skin is moisturized and beautiful. No foundation makes my skin look this good. I just throw on some eyeliner, blush, and Very Victoria lipstick, and I'm out the door. It's MAGIC!!" —Shoebaglady8Price: $46 Exagger-eyes Volume Mascara is here to deliver the following: volume, volume, and did I mention, volume? One swipe of this clump-free formula means long, feathery lashes that make you look instantly awakened (even when you're stifling yawns after downing that third cup of coffee). Promising review: "I've always been a mascara girl, and I saw Bethenny Frankel talk about this mascara. I bought it and let me tell you, I will never live without it. It does everything it says it does, and does it well. No need to apply a million layers, this stuff is MAGIC. Not only that, but you can cry in it, jump in a pool, or go in the ocean, and it looks just perfect! No flaking, no clumping, absolutely amazing." —Poodlebabe Price: $29
Yahoo
17-04-2025
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- Yahoo
RFK Jr. Is Missing 1 Major Point In The CDC's New Autism Report — And Experts Agree
Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that autism rates have increased among children in the United States. In a new report that looked at data from 2022, the CDC found that 1 in 31 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with autism by the time they turn 8 years old. That number was 1 in 54 in 2016. Autism is a hot-button topic within the current Trump administration — Donald Trump shared misinformation about a 'connection' between vaccines and autism (a link that has been disproven over and over), and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to find the 'cause' of autism by September via a controversial federal study. He referred to autism as an 'epidemic,' which has drawn major criticism from the autism community and experts alike. As much as the current administration would like folks to believe there is something larger at play, the rise in autism diagnoses is because of better screening and earlier detection, according to the CDC report — and experts who talked to HuffPost agree. If you think about testing for anything, whether it's autism or the flu, you're naturally going to have more cases if you're testing more and fewer cases if you aren't testing, said Elisabeth Marnik, a scientist and science communicator based in Maine. 'So if you're not looking for something, either because you don't want to look for it, or because you don't have the tools to look for it, then you're not going to find it. But once you have the resources and the tools, then you're going to start identifying cases, because you now are equipped with that information,' said Marnik. 'Increased screening, public awareness of autism from public service announcements and other media reports, social media posts about autism, etc. are likely contributing to higher rates,' added Dr. Rebecca Landa, the founder and director of the Center for Autism Services, Science and Innovation at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. The definition for what it means to be on the autism spectrum has also been widened, Marnik said. Between increased screenings, more public awareness and a larger definition of what autism is, it makes sense that diagnoses have gone up. But HHS issued a press release about the CDC's findings and went against this. In the press release, HHS stated 'the increase in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence cannot be solely attributed to the expansion of diagnoses to include higher functioning children.' And, at a press conference, Kennedy pointed to 'environmental factors' as the reason behind the rise in autism cases and dismissed genetics as a factor. He also said the cause of the rise in autism will be determined by the federal study in September. 'I think the problem, though, with RFK's statement is that he seems very much set on blaming very specific things that we have a lot of data to show is not true,' said Marnik. 'For example, vaccination. We have tons and tons of data that shows that vaccines are not associated with autism.' 'I have been in this field quite some time. I had hoped that we put this to rest over 20 years ago ... the government many years ago now did a great job of acknowledging families' concerns about vaccines [and] funded some very tight studies and showed that there was not a link,' said Dr. Cindy Johnson, the director of the Center for Autism at the Cleveland Clinic. Better surveillance and early identification are what is behind the rise, stressed Johnson. More, Kennedy's comments put the blame on parents, as if they can control whether or not their child has autism. 'In the '50s, we were blaming moms for being a 'refrigerator mom,' blaming moms for a child [having] an autism,' said Johnson. 'Now, parents feel guilty when they give their child a vaccine that could likely save their child's life, and I shudder at the thought of families not getting a vaccine ... and their child becoming very ill of things that we thought were way back way in the history.' To stress even more that autism isn't in someone's control, research shows that genetics also play a role in the development of autism. 'I would like to encourage parents to stay current on their developmental screeners and autism-specific screeners at the time points recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics,' said Landa. 'If they have a child with autism, it is particularly important for the younger siblings to be screened for autism at 18 and 24 months, and even later, at age 36 months. One in five younger siblings of autistic children also receive an autism diagnosis; another 30% of younger siblings of autistic children will have language and/or social delays,' Landa noted. For new parents and soon-to-be parents who are concerned about this increase in autism diagnoses, experts have some advice. 'Young families now see this increase, but it should not bring them more concern, but rather we're better at earlier identification, which I see as hope in the earlier we can identify, the earlier we can address the concerns ... that are consistent with autism,' said Johnson. Diagnosis is better than being 'missed and misunderstood' as Johnson calls it. Meaning, it's better for a child to have an autism diagnosis, which can help them get the care they need, than to have a child who is unsupported and left to their own devices. Marnik noted that parents shouldn't listen to Kennedy's opinion regarding what an autism diagnosis means for their life. 'If this is something that is concerning to a parent, then I think they really need to potentially hear from those with autism themselves about how their life is valuable and all of those things,' said Marnik, 'but also, I think it's important to realize that this there are options for early intervention, and it's not a death sentence.' In the press conference, Kennedy also said that autistic people 'will never pay taxes' or 'hold a job' or 'write a poem,' among other things, which experts deeply disagree with. 'Does he know that it's a spectrum, and you cannot make any global statement like that?' said Johnson. 'That is another myth that I had hoped had gone away, is that we characterize individuals with autism by their deficit. And certainly the diagnosis, there are deficits in certain areas, but many of these people have tremendous strength.' There's a full autism spectrum, so 'making any global, broad comments is just not accurate,' Johnson added. RFK Jr. Says We'll Soon Know What's Fueling The Autism Epidemic. His Prediction Is Wild. The 9 Biggest Signs Of Autism In Adulthood A Vaccine Skeptic Was Hired To Lead A Controversial Autism Study — And Experts Are Appalled
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Health
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Lessons from a vaccinated daughter of a vaccine-hesitant mother
At 23, Elisabeth Marnik sat in a travel clinic waiting anxiously while the staff tried to figure out how to fulfill her unusual request. Marnik wanted to get all of the recommended vaccinations, including MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis), among others. She hadn't received a single vaccine in her life up to that point. Marnik grew up in a religious household where her mother believed vaccines would do more harm than good. So she never got her kids vaccinated. It's an increasingly common choice as mistrust in vaccines and in the medical system grows in the United States. During the 2011-2012 school year, 1.4% of kindergartners had nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine requirements, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data. By 2024, the rate had more than doubled, to 3.1%. The trend is partly to blame for recent outbreaks of diseases that for decades were exceedingly rare in the U.S., such as the cluster of measles cases in Texas that's claimed the lives of two unvaccinated children. The viral disease is a health threat to adults too. In New Mexico, one unvaccinated adult has died of measles, the state's health department announced on March 6 (it hasn't been determined whether the infection was the cause of death). Marnik wanted to protect herself, but soon found out that playing catch-up on vaccines is no small task. Not all clinics and doctors offices are equipped to give the shots, as health care providers generally stick to a schedule determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to spread out jabs from birth through adolescence. For adults, there's a schedule recommended by the Department of Health and Human Services, and it allows people 18 and up who didn't get all their childhood shots to receive them. It would take Marnik a full year to receive all of her shots. Marnik's decision to get vaccinated as an adult was driven by her desire to go to graduate school and work in immunology labs. That's what brought her to the clinic that day. The choice wasn't an easy one but it's one she doesn't regret for a second. Growing up, Marnik's family life was centered around their church, where she first learned she was unvaccinated. 'My mom shared with somebody that she didn't vaccinate me and my brother because she'd read a book about somebody who went deaf and they blamed the vaccine,' Marnik says, adding that she remembers thinking, ''That's interesting; it makes sense why she didn't vaccinate me.'' That book, rather than religion, planted a seed of vaccine skepticism in Marnik's mother. But it melded into her spiritual beliefs too. 'My mom was of the mindset that you pray and God will take care of it if that's his will,' Marnik says. Her mother also got a religious exemption from school vaccination requirements for each of her children. Marnik spent her childhood in and out of public and private schools but didn't give much thought to what vaccination had to do with her education. In fifth grade, her mother decided to home-school Marnik. She remembers this being due, in part, to Harry Potter being assigned reading. 'My mom was like, 'No, not happening,' recalls Marnik. 'She was worried public school was going to corrupt me.' Homeschooling didn't involve much actual teaching until Marnik begged her grandmother to buy her a curriculum. Marnik would assign herself schoolwork and grade her own papers from fifth grade on. Finally she convinced her mother to let her return to public school in the 11th grade. 'That's where I had my first official science class, with an actual lab,' she says. 'I just loved it; I was obsessed.' Marnik loved learning about the world around her. And she was good at it. A teacher took notice and told Marnik she could go to college to study science, a possibility she'd never before considered. Although Marnik had begun to drift away from Christianity, her religious vaccine exemption followed her to college. 'I wasn't thinking anything of it, but I started learning things like evolution that I'd never learned before,' Marnik says. 'I don't know if I even really understood genetics or the immune system at all before I went to university.' Those subjects became her deepest passions, and Marnik decided she wanted to get a PhD in immunology, the science of the immune system. That would require countless hours in labs, where she might be coming into contact with pathogens she wasn't vaccinated against. 'As I got closer to [college] graduation, I really started to question how I was raised,' says Marnik. 'I understood enough to know I didn't agree with the decision my mom made, and I was going to get vaccinated before going to grad school.' She did just that. Marnik, who ended up working in an immunology and allergy lab, sees vaccination as an extension of the Christian values instilled in her in childhood, as 'a way for me to take care of my community,' she says. 'That's something that the Bible taught me: Loving my neighbor, for me, also meant extending that to protecting them from these infectious diseases.' The shots themselves didn't cause Marnik much anxiety, but breaking the news of her vaccinations to her mother did. Marnik waited a full year to tell her mother what she'd done. 'She was very mad at me,' Marnik says. 'I tried to explain to her the reasons why I did this, but she didn't want to hear it. I think she felt like I was saying she was a bad mom. But I don't; I think she did the best that she could.' As much as she disagrees with her mother's decision not to vaccinate her children, Marnik is empathetic about the choices she made. 'The reason I chose to vaccinate my kids is the same reason my mom didn't choose to vaccinate me,' she says. 'My mom didn't understand vaccines, and no one was answering her questions about them, so for her, keeping me safe meant not vaccinating me.' Anxiety over how to best keep your child safe is often high when kids reach the age of their first vaccinations, Marnik says. 'Becoming a parent is one of the hardest things you can do. Suddenly, you have this new baby in front of you and you have to make sure they survive.' Adding to that stress is the prevalence of misinformation, particularly regarding vaccines, so it's not hard to imagine why some parents might consider foregoing vaccination. Marnik thinks that recognizing the good intentions of vaccine-hesitant people is key to encouraging a change of heart. 'I truly believe that most people are wanting to keep themselves and their families safe,' she says. 'Conversations about vaccination should start from that common ground.' Perhaps that's why Marnik made some progress with her own mother. After explaining that measles can "erase your prior immunity" to other infections, her mother conceded that it's OK for kids to be vaccinated against it, Marnik says. Feelings are "not always rational," she says, "but when doing anything, we want to make sure the benefits outweigh the risks, so it took her seeing that there are a lot more risks [to being unvaccinated] than she had accounted for."
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Lessons from a vaccinated daughter of a vaccine-hesitant mother
At 23, Elisabeth Marnik sat in a travel clinic waiting anxiously while the staff tried to figure out how to fulfill her unusual request. Marnik wanted to get all of the recommended vaccinations, including MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis), among others. She hadn't received a single vaccine in her life up to that point. Marnik grew up in a religious household where her mother believed vaccines would do more harm than good. So she never got her kids vaccinated. It's an increasingly common choice as mistrust in vaccines and in the medical system grows in the United States. During the 2011-2012 school year, 1.4% of kindergartners had nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine requirements, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data. By 2024, the rate had more than doubled, to 3.1%. The trend is partly to blame for recent outbreaks of diseases that for decades were exceedingly rare in the U.S., such as the cluster of measles cases in Texas that's claimed the lives of two unvaccinated children. The viral disease is a health threat to adults too. In New Mexico, one unvaccinated adult has died of measles, the state's health department announced on March 6 (it hasn't been determined whether the infection was the cause of death). Marnik wanted to protect herself, but soon found out that playing catch-up on vaccines is no small task. Not all clinics and doctors offices are equipped to give the shots, as health care providers generally stick to a schedule determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to spread out jabs from birth through adolescence. For adults, there's a schedule recommended by the Department of Health and Human Services, and it allows people 18 and up who didn't get all their childhood shots to receive them. It would take Marnik a full year to receive all of her shots. Marnik's decision to get vaccinated as an adult was driven by her desire to go to graduate school and work in immunology labs. That's what brought her to the clinic that day. The choice wasn't an easy one but it's one she doesn't regret for a second. Growing up, Marnik's family life was centered around their church, where she first learned she was unvaccinated. 'My mom shared with somebody that she didn't vaccinate me and my brother because she'd read a book about somebody who went deaf and they blamed the vaccine,' Marnik says, adding that she remembers thinking, ''That's interesting; it makes sense why she didn't vaccinate me.'' That book, rather than religion, planted a seed of vaccine skepticism in Marnik's mother. But it melded into her spiritual beliefs too. 'My mom was of the mindset that you pray and God will take care of it if that's his will,' Marnik says. Her mother also got a religious exemption from school vaccination requirements for each of her children. Marnik spent her childhood in and out of public and private schools but didn't give much thought to what vaccination had to do with her education. In fifth grade, her mother decided to home-school Marnik. She remembers this being due, in part, to Harry Potter being assigned reading. 'My mom was like, 'No, not happening,' recalls Marnik. 'She was worried public school was going to corrupt me.' Homeschooling didn't involve much actual teaching until Marnik begged her grandmother to buy her a curriculum. Marnik would assign herself schoolwork and grade her own papers from fifth grade on. Finally she convinced her mother to let her return to public school in the 11th grade. 'That's where I had my first official science class, with an actual lab,' she says. 'I just loved it; I was obsessed.' Marnik loved learning about the world around her. And she was good at it. A teacher took notice and told Marnik she could go to college to study science, a possibility she'd never before considered. Although Marnik had begun to drift away from Christianity, her religious vaccine exemption followed her to college. 'I wasn't thinking anything of it, but I started learning things like evolution that I'd never learned before,' Marnik says. 'I don't know if I even really understood genetics or the immune system at all before I went to university.' Those subjects became her deepest passions, and Marnik decided she wanted to get a PhD in immunology, the science of the immune system. That would require countless hours in labs, where she might be coming into contact with pathogens she wasn't vaccinated against. 'As I got closer to [college] graduation, I really started to question how I was raised,' says Marnik. 'I understood enough to know I didn't agree with the decision my mom made, and I was going to get vaccinated before going to grad school.' She did just that. Marnik, who ended up working in an immunology and allergy lab, sees vaccination as an extension of the Christian values instilled in her in childhood, as 'a way for me to take care of my community,' she says. 'That's something that the Bible taught me: Loving my neighbor, for me, also meant extending that to protecting them from these infectious diseases.' The shots themselves didn't cause Marnik much anxiety, but breaking the news of her vaccinations to her mother did. Marnik waited a full year to tell her mother what she'd done. 'She was very mad at me,' Marnik says. 'I tried to explain to her the reasons why I did this, but she didn't want to hear it. I think she felt like I was saying she was a bad mom. But I don't; I think she did the best that she could.' As much as she disagrees with her mother's decision not to vaccinate her children, Marnik is empathetic about the choices she made. 'The reason I chose to vaccinate my kids is the same reason my mom didn't choose to vaccinate me,' she says. 'My mom didn't understand vaccines, and no one was answering her questions about them, so for her, keeping me safe meant not vaccinating me.' Anxiety over how to best keep your child safe is often high when kids reach the age of their first vaccinations, Marnik says. 'Becoming a parent is one of the hardest things you can do. Suddenly, you have this new baby in front of you and you have to make sure they survive.' Adding to that stress is the prevalence of misinformation, particularly regarding vaccines, so it's not hard to imagine why some parents might consider foregoing vaccination. Marnik thinks that recognizing the good intentions of vaccine-hesitant people is key to encouraging a change of heart. 'I truly believe that most people are wanting to keep themselves and their families safe,' she says. 'Conversations about vaccination should start from that common ground.' Perhaps that's why Marnik made some progress with her own mother. After explaining that measles can "erase your prior immunity" to other infections, her mother conceded that it's OK for kids to be vaccinated against it, Marnik says. Feelings are "not always rational," she says, "but when doing anything, we want to make sure the benefits outweigh the risks, so it took her seeing that there are a lot more risks [to being unvaccinated] than she had accounted for."
