25 Beauty Products to Help You Through the End of Summer.

It is hard to believe that summer is coming to a close soon. I am in denial because I love the summer and the warm weather. Summer calls for certain types of beauty products. Beauty products for the summer need to be geared to the weather and longer days. Here are 25 beauty products to help you through the dog days of summer.

Aveeno Pure Renewal Shampoo & Conditioner
If you hair has suffered from too much sun, chlorine or even just over styling, it needs a bit of refreshing right now. This duo (sold separately) refreshes and re-balances hair with their Active Naturals Balancing Seaweed Extract. It makes hair super soft, shiny and more manageable.

Aveeno Pure Renewal Dry Shampoo
For in between shampoos, and who has time to do that everyday when you are trying to soak up the last bit of summer, this dry shampoo is fantastic. It is even great for after a day at the beach. It is lightweight and absorbs oil, leaving hair looking clean and healthy.

Benefit Bathina Body Oil Mist
Quench summer parched skin with this lightweight, but super hydrating, body oil mist. This is great to use everyday on the legs to give them that extra glow, or mist all over, because it reaches those hard-to-get-to areas. It smells seductively sweet, perfect for a summer night out.

Bliss Give Me Strength Hair + Nail Boosting Bites
If you've neglected your hair and nails over the summer, now is the time to give them that little extra nourishment they need. These delicious pomegranate-blueberry flavored fruit chews are created with a unique blend of strand-strengthening and fingertip-fortifying nutrients to get your hair and nails back in tip top shape.

Coppertone Oil Free Faces
An extra sunscreen for the face is a must. This is a fragrance free, hypo allergenic sunscreen lotion specifically designed for the face. It helps prevent premature skin aging and it's oil free so it will not clog pores.

Coppertone Sport
A durable sunscreen that lasts is important, especially if you are active. This sunscreen (that comes in various degrees of SPF) protects and stays on strong when you sweat.  It is water resistant for 80 minutes and contains ingredients that block both UVA and UVB rays.

EOS Lips Balm Kit
The taste of Summer can last all year long with this new Basket of Fruit Smooth Sphere Lip Balm Pack. The set contains four fruit inspired lip balms: Limited Edition Fresh Watermelon, Strawberry Sorbet, Summer Fruit and Pomegranate Raspberry Smooth Sphere Lip Balms. Keeping lips hydrated never tasted so sweet.

See also: How to Get Smooth & Sexy Skin for Summer

Foreo LUNA
This unexpectedly different facial cleansing system is not your ordinary facial brush, it is made with silicone making it extra soft and gentle on skin. It cleanses and massages the skin with trans dermal sonic pulsations to stimulate blood flow beneath the skin’s surface so you get cleansing from the inside, out. Skin feels soft after just one use and visible difference in overall skin tone is noticeable in just three days.

Fresh Life Eau de Parfum
The newest scent from Fresh is just that - fresh, but uniquely so. Life has a nontraditional structure of four different note compositions that are carefully blended together to capture the ultimate Fresh moment. If you want a light, refreshing fragrance that intermingles with the scents of endless summer, this is it. It's like a sunny blue sky in a bottle.

Gelmoment Polish
A summer manicure needs to withstand the elements and last as long as it can. This one coat gel polish is super quick and easy to use, as it needs no extra base or top coat. Nails need to be prepared for gel polish then cured with a UV light after one coat of polish, followed by a wipe of alcohol for high shine. There are eight summer shades available.

Herbal Essences Body Wash
This brand new body wash was made to smell just like the shampoo & conditioner. It's great for softening that dry, dull summer skin in the shower. The washes are infused with exotic botanicals and smell so good. Hello Hydration is a summery burst of coconut.

L’Oréal Paris Age Perfect Glow Renewal Facial Oil
This super rich and skin quenching oil and cream (sold separately) will turn over-dry skin back to its pre- summer state. The oil contains a unique blend of 8 essential oils that are all lightweight and surprisingly fast absorbing. It glides on effortlessly and makes skin feel great. Just 4 - 5 drops morning and night is all that's needed.

L’Oréal Magic Nude Liquid Powder
This lightweight liquid to powder foundation will gently cover and even out skin tone, while making skin look natural, but better. It's an "un-makeup" look. The advanced formula feels different - as in like nothing is on the skin. It is super soft and feels like a powder to the touch. UVA/UVB protection is a plus.

Meaningful Beauty Lifting Eye Cream
Summer sunning means you were probably squinting a lot and out late. Work on that eye area now before the crows feet set in. Not only does this eye cream contain ingredients to make the eye area to look tightened and lifted, it contains optical diffusers. These help blur lines, soften dark circles and diminish puffiness.

Nip & Fab Pigmentation Fix
Dark spots are bound to pop up after spending a lot of time in the sun. This concentrated formula reduces the appearance of brown spots and uneven skin tone so skin will look more clear. The serum like formula not only corrects spots, it contains ingredients to prevent the formation of the spots to begin with. Apply a few minutes prior to moisturizer, twice a day.

Nuance Salma Hayek Facial Cleansing & Toning Towelettes
Beautiful skin, is clean skin, and quickly washing away a day in the sun is a must. These detoxifying cleansing wipes use specialized extracts to help remove the days impurities, balance, soothe and calm the skin. Glycerin helps retains the skins natural moisture for a soft, hydrated feel.

Philosophy Kiss Me Exfoliating Lip Scrub
Lips bear the brunt of summer beach days. Get rid of that extra layer of dry, chapped skin with a this gentle lip scrub. Apply it with the tube and then rub your fingertip over lips in small circular motions. Tissue off. Lips are quickly soft and kissable once again.

POND'S Luminous Finish BB+ Cream
Looking for a do-it-all product that makes your skin look good while it does good for you? Try this new BB Cream. It contains a unique tone perfecting complex to even skin out while making it look luminous. All with a bit of extra hydration and broad spectrum sunscreen that is essential in summer.

RapidLash
If your lashes are more than brittle from all that harsh waterproof mascara you've been wearing, recondition them with this nourishing serum. Brush on the clinically-proven formula infused with vitamins, essential fatty acids and amino acids to have long, strong and fuller lashes in as little as 30 days. Use every night before bed and be prepared to be amazed.

Rootflage
Not enough time to get your roots done? Especially with hair getting more blonde form the sun, your roots are probably showing more now than ever. Use this colored powder guaranteed to match a variety of blondes and watch your dark roots fade as you brush the powder into hair. It comes in cool blonde, light blonde, or warm blonde.

Seventh Generation Boosts Hydrating Natural Skin Serum
If you skin needs a boost, and whose doesn't after spending so much time outdoors and in the sun, add a drop or two of this serum to your cleanser or lotion. You can even use it on its own to restore skins natural moisture balance. Skin is softer in no time.

Shaveworks Pearl Soufflé Shave Cream
Show off that faux glow with super smooth stems. The first step in shaving is a great shaving cream. This one not only makes sure you have a closer shave and reducing razor irritation, it nourishes skin as you shave. Natural botanicals (that smell so great!) smooth and soften skin. Plus, there is an ingredient that helps to inhibit hair growth, so that means a longer time in between shaves.

Shaveworks The Cool Fix Targeted Gel Lotion
This soothing blue gel is the ultimate post-shave skin savior. It immediately calms skin and cools razor burn as it alleviates redness too. Best of all, it releases those irritating ingrown hairs so razor bumps are a thing of the past. Used regularly it helps prevent ingrown hairs from happening in the first place.

Suave Skin Solutions Soothing Body Lotion
Dry skin needs to be re-hydrated and soothed. The new, richer formula soothes dry, summer stressed skin. Infused with aloe and cucumber, it is perfect to use after showering or at day at the beach. Skin is left soothed, soft and freshly scented.

Sultra Bombshell 1.5-Inch Rod Curling Iron
If your beachy waves aren't cutting it anymore, try this large rod style curling iron for a new take on your summer look. Wrap the ends of hair around the wand away from the face, and magically watch the big loose curls take shape. This rod heats up fast, so styling is easy and quick. Curls last all day, into the night.

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Dance performance improved by 'going through the motions'

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Dance performance improved by 'going through the motions'

Expert ballet dancers seem to glide effortlessly across the stage, but learning the steps is both physically and mentally demanding. New research suggests that dance marking - loosely practicing a routine by "going through the motions" - may improve the quality of dance performance by reducing the mental strain needed to perfect the movements.

The new findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggest that marking may alleviate the conflict between the cognitive and physical aspects of dance practice, allowing dancers to memorize and repeat steps more fluidly.

Researcher Edward Warburton, a former professional ballet dancer, and colleagues were interested in exploring the "thinking behind the doing of dance."

"It is widely assumed that the purpose of marking is to conserve energy," explains Warburton, professor of dance at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "But elite-level dance is not only physically demanding, it's cognitively demanding as well:

Learning and rehearsing a dance piece requires concentration on many aspects of the desired performance."

Marking essentially involves a run-through of the dance routine, but with a focus on the routine itself, rather than making the perfect movements.

"When marking, the dancer often does not leave the floor, and may even substitute hand gestures for movements," Warburton explains. "One common example is using a finger rotation to represent a turn while not actually turning the whole body."

To investigate how marking influences performance, the researchers asked a group of talented dance students to learn two routines: they were asked to practice one routine at performance speed and to practice the other one by marking.

The routines were relatively simple, designed to be learned quickly and to minimize mistakes. Yet differences emerged when the judges looked for quality of performance.

Across many of the different techniques and steps, the dancers were judged more highly on the routine that they had practiced with marking - their movements on the marked routine appeared to be more seamless, their sequences more fluid.

The researchers surmise that practicing at performance speed didn't allow the dancers to memorize and consolidate the steps as a sequence, thus encumbering their performance.

"By reducing the demands on complex control of the body, marking may reduce the multi-layered cognitive load used when learning choreography," Warburton explains.

While marking is often thought of as a necessary evil - allowing dancers a "break" from dancing full out - the large effect sizes observed in the study suggest that it could make a noticeable difference in a dancer's performance:

"Marking could be strategically used by teachers and choreographers to enhance memory and integration of multiple aspects of a piece precisely at those times when dancers are working to master the most demanding material," says Warburton.

It's unclear whether these performance improvements would be seen for other types of dance, Warburton cautions, but it is possible that this area of research could extend to other kinds of activities, perhaps even language acquisition.

"Smaller scale movement systems with low energetic costs such as speech, sign language, and gestures may likewise accrue cognitive benefits, as might be the case in learning new multisyllabic vocabulary or working on one's accent in a foreign language."

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When will Jeremy Hunt stop skating and fall through the NHS ice?

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt moves quickly to condemn failure even if he is not in possession of all the facts, says Richard Vize. Photograph: Getty Images

So far, Jeremy Hunt has been skating over the NHS ice with the practised ease of an impressive communicator. When will he fall through?

In the wake of the Francis inquiry, the health secretary has shrewdly positioned himself as the patients' champion against the vested interests of the healthcare system. He moves quickly to condemn failure, even if, as in the case of the Care Quality Commission's recent convulsions over the Morecambe Bay maternity failures, he is not in possession of all the facts.

(The unravelling of the Grant Thornton report into the CQC's supposed cover-up means there is now the prospect of an investigation into the investigation into the investigation into the investigation. I can't help thinking there must be a better way of doing things.)

Hunt's announcement on the NHS's 65th anniversary that older patients should have a named clinician overseeing their care outside hospital was typical of his approach – being seen to be protecting the patient while riling the medical establishment, some of whom saw the move as interfering in the relationship between patients and GPs.

Ministerial simple ideas to improve care are rarely much help. Hunt's grand gesture was reminiscent of Gordon Brown's "deep clean", when he took personal charge of the country's hospital cleaner rotas by ordering a national frenzy of mopping and wiping in response to concerns about hospital-acquired infections. It wasn't the answer, but the public loved it.

Yet it wasn't supposed to be like this. Under the reforms, politicians were supposed to be removed from routine intervention in the running of the NHS, while the then NHS Commissioning Board was supposed to oversee the commissioning system. Now everyone has forgotten the script.

The board has, predictably, taken its name change to NHS England as a licence to interfere wherever it likes. Its plan, revealed in the Health Service Journal, to take control of investment spending, even where it has no formal powers, is just the latest evidence of how little has changed when it comes to central control.

Hunt, in turn, is being anything but hands off. He is insisting on weekly reports from NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson – an idea to which Nicholson has not warmed – and his influence can be seen in both actions and inactions.

A notable case of the latter is the Department of Health's repeated stalling on the development of a coherent approach to service reconfiguration. Hunt does not see his job as getting the health service right, but minimising the damage the NHS can do to the Conservatives' election chances.

For that reason, despite his admission that the involvement, under the government's reforms, of the Office of Fair Trading in decisions about trust mergers is causing problems, it is all but impossible to imagine him bringing forward legislation to sort the mess out. Laying bare a mistake in the government's approach to competition in the NHS would be a gift to Labour's election strategists.

But Hunt is overseeing a clutch of policies that cannot all be sustained – a funding freeze, pressure to integrate health and social care, a demand for round-the-clock consultant-led care and a refusal to face up to the need to merge and shut services. There simply cannot be round-the-clock high-quality care in all the existing hospitals at the same time as real-terms year-on-year funding cuts.

But with fewer than 100 weeks until polling day, the chances of Hunt providing the political leadership that is required to ensure the NHS enjoys many more anniversaries is remote. The time for this to happen was, of course, the first few months of the new government, when there was the prospect of ministers having enough time to see some of the benefits of bold decisions coming through.

So Hunt will keep skating, keep playing the patient champion and keep avoiding the hole that is gradually opening up at the core of the health service. It will be for his successor to take the plunge.

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