Free Republic

Finding a few flaky specs on your head isn’t anything out of the ordinary. But in your brow hairs? That might catch you off guard. Before you panic, eyebrow dandruff usually isn’t anything to worry about, Hope Mitchell, MD, board-certified dermatologist and founder of Mitchell Dermatology in Perrysburg, Ohio, tells SELF. That said, it’s not exactly a one-size-fits-all diagnosis either. Rather, those little white or yellowish crumbs could be signs of a few different issues that deserve your attention, like dry skin craving moisture, for example, or an underlying condition leading to irritation or inflammation. Below, we asked dermatologists to...

Hands where we can see them, Joe! President Biden got a little too close to actress Eva Longoria at the White House Thursday night — before the Hollywood starlet guided the 80-year-old’s mitts to relative safety. The president embraced the “Desperate Housewives” alum after addressing a film screening of her directorial debut, “Flamin’ Hot,” but let his hands hover a bit too long on her waist before the actress quickly moved to grasp them and took a step back. “Actress Eva Longoria barely escaped Joe Biden’s clutches,” one Twitter user said of the uneasy moment. The oldest-ever president had awkwardly...

A single mother-of-three has revealed she was dumped by the man she was dating and was embarrassed to leave her home after a botched microblading treatment left her with four eyebrows. Jami Ledbetter, 42, from Kansas City, Missouri, told WDAF-TV that she was initially excited when her daughters bought her a $250 Groupon for the treatment last November because she was born without eyebrows. However, the discounted microblading session went horribly wrong, and she ended up with four brows instead of two. Not only did the end result shatter her self-confidence, but it also led to the demise of a...

Now that the dust has cleared from the Fab Fifty Fest we can get down to more serious matters. Specifically, eyebrows. I know there has been much interest expressed in how, exactly, Lady M revitamized her eyebrows so dramatically. Tattoos? Asian caterpillars? You may not be aware of the vast number of options available for this distressing problem. Let’s explore a few of them, shall we? First there are SmartBrows, which, seem a natural for a woman of Lady M’s educational pedigree:   Part of what makes them so “smart” is the informational brochure that comes with them, identifying exactly why...

The Governor who couldn’t stop himself from proposing tax hikes on Virginians says during the Fairfax debate with George Allen that he’s open to a minimum federal income tax on everyone.

LONDON (Reuters) – British men are becoming increasingly interested in having their eyebrows professionally groomed, according to Debenhams department store which plans to hold men-only "guybrow" nights. Men, it said, now make up 40 percent of the visitors to its brow bars, double the proportion of a year ago. They are going for a treatment called "threading," an ancient method of hair removal which originated in India in which a thin twine of cotton thread is rolled over the offending area, plucking the hair from the follicle level.

don't know about you, but my eyebrows are a pretty integral part of my look. I've spent years taming their wily ways, too: careful tweezing, regular re-shaping and the vagaries of fashion have all had an impact on their thickness and shape, and not a day goes by without me sneaking off to the bathroom for a little look-see, just to reassure myself all is well. Oh, you know how it is. But why the obsession? It's simple -- I reckon brows are important. They're fundamental, in fact, to how you look, providing a framing mechanism for the eyes and...

When it rains in this border town, toxic goo from Mexican slums and factories flows down the Tijuana River onto U.S. soil. It winds through tidal marshes and ends up in the Pacific Ocean, closing the beach to swimmers and diehard surfers 198 days last year. The U.S. government found a novel fix: pay a private developer an estimated $700 million to build and manage a treatment plant in Tijuana, Mexico. If the plant sells recycled water to thirsty Mexican factories, U.S. taxpayers will get some of their money back. Ground has not yet broken and the 7-year-old agreement between...

This may not seem like your mother's League of Women Voters. The 86-year-old league, so often regarded as the epitome of good-government wonkery, will wade into pointedly political territory during its four-day national convention, which begins today in Minneapolis. Immigration policy, the death penalty and a move to upend the Electoral College are on the convention agenda. And the featured speaker at the convention's banquet on Monday is Garrison Keillor, the homegrown humorist who has long and loudly been a defiantly partisan Democrat. "We're looking forward to what he has to say, but just because he's a Democrat, you can...

As shown on tonight's edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Kieth Olbermann........

Twenty-four hours after the dramatic U.S. presidential-election results were validated, Human Events Online published my essay (which I had been hatching for two weeks), "Declaration of Expulsion," a slightly satiric proposal to kick out of the Union the 12 most liberal states, either to join the People's Socialist Dominion of Canada or, on their own, go straight to Hell. Within hours (and I do not claim that my piece was a causal effect), liberal voices formed into an enthusiastic chorus for roughly the same idea: Democrat gurus Lawrence O'Donnelland Robert Beckel, as angry talking heads on two separate TV news...

The world just learned that "Catholic" actress Brooke Shields is the proud mother of a new baby girl. For a long time infertility problems made it impossible for her and her husband to conceive, and after many failed attempts to conceive naturally she resorted to the technological solution: in vitro fertilization (IVF). Now she is pictured on the covers of glamorous magazines with a smiling beautiful baby girl, but some have questioned her decision to use IVF. I am one of them. Was this star wrong to have a "test tube" baby? Yes. Dead wrong. While recognizing the pain of...

This weekend has started the grilling season. It's all about family, BBQ, and mosquitoes. The challenge is to create the official Freeper grill menu. Have a red, white, and blue cake recipe that you want to share? A Freeper burger that would cause the average liberal to shake in their boots? How about some great "W" T-Bone recipes? Share them and have your recipe rated by other Freepers. I would like to have a panel of Freepers sign up for the judging....lets decide who gets the "Patriot" creative menu. May the best Freeper win.

Not enough folks to have Gephardt meetup meet Mon Jul 07 2003 18:33:31 ET Online supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt appear to have trouble organizing, recent email exchanges reveal. Campaigns have used the grassroots website meetup.com to encourage supporters to get together in their cities and plan campaign activities. But Gephardt, it appears, will have to fall back on more traditional get-out-the vote strategies: From: Gephardt in 2004 Meetup To: Subject: Your Gephardt in 2004 Meetup is Cancelled Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:08:35 -0400 (EDT) Important ================================================================= Unfortunately, less than 5 people confirmed that they'd attend the...

Dick Gephardt (D-Missouri), Democratic candidate for the Democratic candidacy for president, has released a statement that his long lost eyebrows may have been found using the 'Amber Alert' system. Speculation grows that they ran away when he left college. An anonymous former college friend said, 'Yea, they were total party animals and Dick was a lamer. Total square. I imagine they have been partying since the separation.' Sources close to the Gephardt campaign indicate they will time the reunion just before the Democratic convention to boost numbers. 'It will be a happy day for me,' said Gephardt. 'I always wanted...

I'm watching C-SPAN2 right now and the Green Party candidate has the longest eyebrows I've ever seen on my life. You gotta see this.