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The Dream Collection Leather Goods For A Purpose
The importance of leather goods in the fashion industry truly cannot be understated, but what is even more important is the quality of goods that we buy.
Adees Co is an American Fashion brand, founded by Adylia Gutierrez, that designs and manufactures affordable high-quality handcrafted genuine leather backpacks, handbags, accessories, and more. Adees Co proves that it is possible to offer a combination of high quality and chic style at a truly attainable price.
Adees Co’s new collection – The Dream Collection has something for everyone. The bold, bright, and metallic colors exude optimism and fun. Every purchase of the Dream Collection goes to helping St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Giving back never looked so chic!
Add Colours, Volume or Length with Hair Extensions at 30% Off!
Got a special occasion or event coming up? Always envy others rocking with striking hair colours that are bleached but hesitant to try cause it may damage your precious tresses? Well, Hair Extensions may be your solution!
Hair Extensions come in strands of hair that are clipped, sewn or glued to your natural hair to add colours, volume or length; they can be made of natural or synthetic hair. My last visit to H4U Salon was to try adding some colours to my hair without bleaching. Since it is my first time having Hair Extensions and I am so in love with it, I am really excited to share my experience with you gals and answer some FAQs:
What Is The Procedure of Hair Extensions Like?
Depending on your concerns whether it is to add Colours, Volume or Length, you may need 2 sessions with H4U Salon as the hair salon uses 100% natural human hair and needs to customize according to your request. The salon does not use Synthetic Hair Extensions as they can’t take heat styling well and tend to tangle easily.
Offering customers a tailor-made approach, your 1st visit to the hair salon will be to discuss the Hair Extension options eg the colours you like, with the stylist and to find out the estimated cost. If you are comfortable with the price, you can then fix another date so that the stylist can prepare the Hair Extensions in advance to fix them on your next visit.
Since followers of Luxury Haven get a Special 30% Off All Hair Services at H4U Salon, I strongly recommend you to take advantage of the offer during your 1st visit to enjoy a Nice Wash and Blow etc. This way, you can see if you are comfortable with the stylist before making a commitment for the Hair Extensions. You may be pleased to know that Wash and Blow starts from just SGD 20 for Short Hair, and the price is before the 30% Off!
H4U Salon uses Micro Rings for Hair Extensions. During my visit, I had about 30 strands of Hair Extensions clipped onto my natural hair using Micro Rings initially just to test it out. I felt quite comfortable, and both stylist and myself felt I could have more colours, so he added another 30 strands of Hair Extensions. Including wash, trimming and styling, the entire session took about 3 hours. 60 strands may sound a lot, but surprisingly they appeared to be lesser than I thought after fixing. I was told clients usually ask for 100+, with some up to 200 strands of Hair Extensions!
How Long Can Hair Extensions Last?
Typically, Hair Extensions can last for as long as 2 – 3 months if you are good at taking care of them; that is to wash your hair gently by massaging instead of “ scrubbing ”. Depending on how fast your hair grows, it is usually time to remove when it grows by about 1.5 inches. That is when the natural hair colour at the roots start showing.
Which Type of Hair Extensions?
Previously using Fusion Hair Extensions which requires bonding strands of hair onto the natural hair, H4U Salon has since switched to using Micro Rings Hair Extensions as they do not require heat nor glue for attachment, thus reducing damage to your natural hair. They are easy to remove unlike Fusion Hair Extensions where it can be a painful process and hair may drop during removal.
Also with Micro Rings Clip-In Hair Extensions, you can play around with colours on the spot. If you change your mind after adding the desired colours, stylist can always remove and place them at another part to test it out. With Fusion Hair Extensions, you are unable to do that once they are glued.
Thanks to H4U Salon, I was happily showing off my Hair Extensions during a recent Fattoria Betti 4-course media dinner & wine tasting event at Casa Tartufo with my lovely guest. With only about 1,200 bottles of Merlot in production, we had the pleasure of tasting the Rosso di Toscana IGT “Semel” 2015 paired with Char-Grilled Ribeye Steak.
I also brought along streaks of colour to Jewel Changi Airport, awed by the world’s tallest indoor waterfall at 40 metres high – the HSBC Rain Vortex.
My Thoughts:
I am in love with my Hair Extensions, adding colours to my hair without using any chemical dyes to my natural hair! I like how my stylist mixed and matched different shades of pink, red and purple, although I gotta admit I was intimidated in the beginning when I saw shocking pink among the strands being the conservative me. Nonetheless, I trusted the team of stylists there, who had assured me that the colours will not be too loud when placed on my hair, and I am really happy with the outcome.
I was also skeptical about having Hair Extensions initially and worried my scalp may be painful or I may have trouble sleeping as the clips may get in the way. I was surprised I did not feel the Micro Rings when I lay on my pillow during my sleep. They are not heavy at all and it is quite comfortable too; just avoid scratching your scalp. So far, my hair did not tangle like what I have heard from others; not sure if it is due to the fact that I am using real human hair and not synthetic ones. It could also be because I only had 60 strands clipped on. But if you are experiencing any discomfort or pain after the Hair Extensions, inform your hair stylist immediately and get it rectified on the spot.
Be sure to seek a proper professional or your hair extension could be a nightmare. Although Synthetic Hair Extensions are a cheaper option, H4U Salon uses 100% real human hair which can be more expensive but your extensions will have a natural look and easier to style.
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Price for my Hair Extensions ( 40 short x SGD 4, 20 long x SGD 6 ):
Total SGD 280 incl trimming after Hair Extensions
* Price before 30% discount
Call Tel: +65 6738 8849 to book an appointment with H4U Salon now to discuss the colours and type of Hair Extensions you want – whether it is just for adding colours, volume or length. Quote LUXURY HAVEN to enjoy 30% off all hair services + 20% off hair care products at H4U Salon!
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Hand washing tips: How to clean your hands to protect against coronavirus
To get truly clean hands, don’t rush through the process.
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The spread of the deadly coronavirus is scary, but health officials say that you can protect yourself from getting sick or spreading germs with a few simple tactics. Avoid handshakes, sneeze or cough into your elbow and above all else, wash your hands.
While there’s been a frenzy of people buying hand sanitizer (or making their own), the CDC says that your best bet is to wash your hands often and long enough each time.
Read more: 7 hand soaps to fight germs, from cheap to luxury
I didn’t think I’d ever have to write an article explaining how to do something we’re all taught to do as kids, but the truth is that we don’t wash our hands often enough or well enough. Even worse, some of us (mostly men) don’t do it at all after using the bathroom and that’s plain gross. You should wash your hands after using the restroom, before eating, before and after handling food, after coughing and sneezing and after handling trash (here’s a full list of situations the require hand washing).
Not only is properly washing your hands easy, it’s also extremely effective at stopping the spread of disease. It requires less than 30 seconds and prevents you, your kids, your spouse, friends, coworkers and even people you don’t know from getting sick.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has simple directions for doing it:
1. Wet your hands with clean water. It doesn’t matter if it’s hot or cold, use whatever is comfortable for you.
2. Apply soap to your hands. Soap cleans your hands better than just using water. According to the FDA, you don’t even have to use antibacterial soap — any kind will do.
3. Rub your hands together to lather up the soap, then turn off the tap to save water.
4. Spread the lather to the backs of your hands and in between your fingers. Try to get it under your fingernails too — bonus points if you use a nail brush to remove more dirt and germs.
5. Now scrub your hands together for at least 20 seconds. If you don’t want to count out those seconds, sing the Happy Birthday song to yourself twice without rushing through it. You can also sing the chorus these other songs or figure out how much of your favorite song to sing while doing it. The point is not to rush.
6. Rinse your hands completely with clean water.
7. Dry your hands using a clean towel or an air dryer. Some studies have shown that paper towels are more hygienic than air dryers, but most agree that drying your hands right after washing them is important to stop the spread of germs no matter how you do it.
Tip: If you’re in public restroom and have access to paper towels, use a clean towel to open the restroom door as you leave. That will shield your hands from the germs of people who left without washing their hands.
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The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.
World of Beauty Fascinating 3-Step Wonder Skin Beauty Routine
All of us yearn for a nice complexion, but do you know that behind that glowing skin needs a little bit of hard work besides inheriting good genes?
Basically, there are a few essential steps you should not miss in your daily skincare routine and here is a simple 3-step beauty regimen by World of Beauty, a Natural and Organic skincare brand equipped with international patented technology aimed to help each skin type.
For the busy executives and those of you who do not like to use too many products on your face, this 3-Step Wonder Skin Beauty Routine consists of just a cleanser, serum and moisturizer; the three basic vital skincare products for your face:
- Cleanser – Clean skin is a happy skin, so always start your skincare regime with a good cleanser to wash away any excess dirt and oil.
- Serum – Invest in a good serum. This magic potion is a super-concentrated skincare must-have that addresses specific concerns such as dry skin and fine lines.
- Moisturizer – This is a product that everyone should have regardless of whether you have dry or oily skin, and it should be a part of your morning and night skincare regimen. Moisturizers help hydrate your skin and also balance your skin’s natural oil production.
In the past, toners were made to help return the skin’s pH due to harsh soaps used during cleansing but these days, facial cleansers are so much better balanced than toners, so you can opt to skip this step if you prefer.
A good skincare routine starts with good cleansing. During the day, our skin surface accumulates both external and internal toxins and contamination such as pollution, makeup, dead skin cells, toxins from sweat glands, excess of sebum secretion from sebaceous glands and so forth. Cleansing twice a day keeps your skin looking radiant and healthy, and encourages proper skin hydration and prevents the production of excess oils. Cleansing also helps your treatments penetrate and work properly, and do you know that forgoing night time cleansing will give you larger pores?
Also, any skin type can have problems with dehydration, whether it is dry, oily, or combination. Dehydrated skin should not be confused with dry skin. Dehydrated skin lacks radiance, and can give you a wrinkled and aged look. Choosing a good cleanser such as the REVIVA Eau Micellaire can help manage pH levels of the skin; enabling sufficient water and product retention.
REVIVA Micellar Water is formulated with organic certified (bio) micelles, gentle microscopic oil molecules suspended in ionized water and pure fresh Australian Aloe Extract. Unlike your usual cleanser, REVIVA Eau Micellaire does not foam. Instead, the micelles dissolve dirt and any makeup traces, while respecting skin hydro lipidic skin system and barrier, and help rebuild the skin’s hydrolipidicfilm.
The wonder water is a favourite in a makeup artist’s kit and backstage for its easy, fast and effective use:
- 99,46% botanical ingredients
- 94,30% organic certified ingredients
- 100% easy and fast foundation remover
- 83,33% skin brighter after cleansing.
Next, let us take a look at Serums. Do we really need one? Sure, a moisturizer will do its job to hydrate our skin and so forth, but your serum can perform better tasks by targeting more specific concerns depending on the ingredients they are formulated with. Using highly concentrated active ingredients, some serums aim to give antioxidant benefits, while others may help in lightening dark spots and diminishing the look of fine lines and wrinkles.
Here is a serum especially for uneven skin tone and texture, dullness and loss of radiance. The World of Beauty DNADerm MMP Remedy Serum is a unique authentic epigenetic formulation that gives the skin all vital nutrients for a healthier skin. With vital plant-based skinfood like Centaurea and Acacia Flower stem cells extracts for a healthier to skin appearance, use this serum day and night to fight actively against matrix metalloproteinase (MMP), involved in the degradation of cell matrix.
The DNADerm MMP Remedy Serum provides the skin with a powerful source of revitalization, able to reduce inflammation, dark circles and lighten dark spots, while strengthening skin defence system to prevent skin disease caused by sun exposure.
After getting hold of a good cleanser and serum, we would also want to look at the importance of having a proper Moisturizer in your skincare routine. As mentioned earlier, you need a suitable lotion or cream for moisturizing your skin irrespective of what type of skin you have. This will help to protect your skin from harmful effects of sun and other environmental factors, and at the same time act as a temporary barrier as moisturizers hold water in the outermost layer of skin.
Thanks to the pure aromatherapy, the World of Beauty range of skincare products such as the Jeunesse Recovery Cream infused with Pure Organic Linden Flowers and Grape Extracts, are proven to soothe and smooth skin complexion. Its revitalizing mineral-rich formula helps to diminish the damages of skin cellular memory, caused by pollution, oxidative stress and UV rays exposure. Jeunesse Recovery Cream also contains Avena Sativa, with exfoliating capabilities to eliminate complexion-dulling dead skin cells.
An Advanced Day and Night Recovery Cream especially for uneven skin tone, the Jeunesse Recovery Cream Main Natural Ingredients Key Actions are:
- Succynoglycan Complex – the precious botanical extract of Polygonum Cuspidatum, an oriental medicinal grass, enhances the skin with a powerful soothing, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant action, eliminating up to 100% of damage caused by free radicals in 28 days of use.
- Purest Bio Jojoba ( Golden Grade ) – offers a long-lasting nourishing and elastifying action to the skin, thanks to its large concentration with a high percentage of Omega-9 and monounsaturated fatty acid, which is absorbed into the skin through the pilosebaceous metabolism.
- Cyanus Segetum Extract – extract rich in anthocyanins and pure bioflavonoids to help decongesting the skin and eye contour in case of irritation, redness and/or external polluting factors.
- Resveratrol – contained in the fresh extract of Vitis Vinifera Europea, the ingredient helps minimising neuronal DNA damage with a biocellular anti-age action in addition to its proven antioxidant action.
- Korean Sparassis Crispa Extract – A key active principle present in Jeunesse Recovery Cream showed a visible reduction of cell damage caused by exposure to UV rays in 96 hours (test microfluorescence cometassay).
The unique phyto cosmeceutical beauty routine by the World of Beauty is suitable for all skin types especially for preventing eye bags, dark circles, ageing and pigmentation. Using 100% Italian Authentic formulas which are paraben-free, paraffin-free, cruelty-free, efficacy tested and microbiological certified, the Italian beauty powerhouse has become one of the top choices for spa, beauty salons and beauty institutes.
Retail Prices:
- REVIVA Eau Micellaire ( 200 ml ) – SGD 54
- DNADerm MMP Remedy ( 30 ml ) – SGD 188.60
- Jeunesse Recovery Cream ( 50 ml ) – SGD 149
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* This is a sponsored post by World of Beauty. The author only recommends products or services she uses personally which she believes to be beneficial for her readers. Views and opinions expressed in this blog are purely by the author.
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Addictive Deep-Fried Wontons with Chives Recipe ( 韭菜鮮肉炸云吞 )
If you like fried food, you will enjoy these crispy Wontons filled with juicy Meat and succulent Prawns, and loaded with Chives.
It all started with my son eating some Deep-Fried Chives Dumplings ( 炸韭菜餃子 ) at a local coffeeshop. He enjoyed the dumplings very much, but found their skin too thick. So off to the supermarket the next few days, I bought a packet of wonton skin and the ingredients needed, and started wrapping my version of Crispy Chives Dumplings.
Let’s see how easy it is to make these Addictive Deep-Fried Wontons with Chives ( 韭菜鮮肉炸云吞 )!
( Make 28 Wontons )
Ingredients:
28 Sheets Wonton Skin
250g Minced Pork
1 dozen Medium Prawns ( shelled and deveined )
200g Thai Chives
3 Slices Ginger ( grated )
2 tsp Sesame Oil
1 tbsp Oyster Sauce
Pinch of Corn Flour and
Dash of Thai Fish Oil
Pinch of Black Ground Pepper
Egg Wash
Oil for deep frying
Method:
I made about 28 wontons and gave about half to my neighbour. So glad that they enjoyed the crispy side dish. Be warned! These can be highly addictive!
Doctor Strange 2: Release date, cast, plot and everything we know
The sequel to Doctor Strange promises plenty of mind-bending madness.
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Actor Benedict Cumberbatch will reprise his role as mystical Marvel superhero Doctor Strange in the upcoming movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Evil Dead director Sam Raimi is “in talks” to direct, according to Variety on Feb. 5. Raimi is also known for directing Sony’s original Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire.
Former Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson, revealed in January that he would not return as the upcoming movie’s director. Derrickson tweeted that he was stepping down as director due to “creative differences” but he would be staying on as an executive producer.
Marvel and I have mutually agreed to part ways on Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness due to creative differences. I am thankful for our collaboration and will remain on as EP.
— N O S ⋊ Ɔ I ᴚ ᴚ Ǝ ᗡ ⊥ ⊥ O Ɔ S (@scottderrickson) January 10, 2020
“Marvel Studios and Scott Derrickson have amicably parted ways on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness due to creative differences,” Marvel said in a statement on Jan. 9. “We remain grateful to Scott for his contributions to the MCU.”
Marvel has not announced a new director to replace Derrickson, but the movie release date is staying the same.
Here’s everything else we know so far about the planned 27th Marvel Cinematic Universe film.
Phase 4
Can we just call it Doctor Strange 2 for short? Multiverse of Madness is part of Marvel’s Phase 4 plans that include a range of movies and TV series. Coming to the big screen is Black Widow, Thor 4: Love and Thunder, The Eternals and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. On the new Disney Plus streaming service, we’ll see Marvel TV shows The Falcon and Winter Soldier, WandaVision, Loki, What If…?, Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, and Moon Knight.
On Nov. 7, Marvel CEO Kevin Feige told Bloomberg News that fans will need a Disney Plus subscription, because events from all the new streaming shows will factor into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. According to Feige, Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch will have a key role in the movie and the Loki series starring Tom Hiddleston will tie in, too. “I’m not sure we’ve actually acknowledged that before,” Feige said. “But it does.”
Who’s making it?
Scott Derrickson was originally slated to direct his second Doctor Strange adventure, but on Jan. 9 announced his departure as a director from the project. He will still serve as an executive producer. Though Derrickson co-wrote the 2016 Doctor Strange film with C. Robert Cargill and Jon Spaihts, the sequel involves the new writer Jade Halley Bartlett.
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Marvel’s Phase 4 plan explained
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When will Doctor Strange 2 be released?
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ release date is May 7, 2021. It’s set to open in theaters worldwide around the same day.
Plot details
At Comic-Con 2019, Derrickson revealed not only the long-winded title of the film, but also that it’ll be “the first scary MCU movie.” He promised “the gothic and the horror” elements that made Derrickson love Marvel’s spooky Doctor Strange comics.
Originally created in 1963 by comic book greats Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, Doctor Strange is Marvel’s Sorcerer Supreme. Considering that Doctor Strange’s powers come from his mastery of mystic spells, and not from a mutant gene or weird biological accident like some other Marvel superheroes, dark magic could be an interesting plot device for the upcoming movie.
Doctor Strange was first seen in Strange Tales #110 in July 1963. He was created by Stan Lee and visionary artist Steve Ditko, who supplied mind-bending psychedelic visuals for the new character’s adventures.
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We know that Doctor Strange will be joined by Scarlet Witch, aka Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen. To understand how Olsen’s character gets there from the momentous events of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, you’ll need to watch the Disney Plus original WandaVision slated to air on the streaming service in spring 2021. The TV show will lead directly into Scarlet Witch’s appearance in the Multiverse of Madness in May that year.
WandaVision will reunite Wanda with her love interest Vision, both of whom are/were members of the Avengers. But it’s a bit different than the usual Marvel superhero story. Half the show will take place in a wacky sitcomlike home similar to The Dick Van Dyke Show, and the other half will feel like an MCU epic adventure, according to the showrunners, who spoke at last month’s Disney D23 Expo.
Though there aren’t any details yet about the plot of the Doctor Strange sequel or exactly how Wanda will fit in, that hasn’t stopped fans from speculating. Since Spider-Man: Far From Home, we know about the idea of infinite parallel universes within the MCU, and there’s a chance Wanda could end up as a threat to Doctor Strange.
Vision (Paul Bettany) and Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) in Avengers: Infinity War.
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“Wanda will discover a reality where Vision lived and Doctor Strange died but the Avengers still beat Thanos,” Reddit user drkcty speculates, drawing on the character’s comic book history, where she’s often shifted from hero to villain. “She’ll blame Vision’s death on the Master of the Mystic Arts and go insane, which will bridge the realities and cause a rift which will leak into the Prime timeline (MCU).”
If Wanda is driven to extremes by grief, that might explain why she’ll be living in a weird sitcomlike existence in a parallel universe with the very-much-alive Vision in WandaVision.
The events you see Wanda go through in the series will be directly tied to the multiverse, and lead into this movie, confirms @Kevfeige !! Seriously, talk about madness 😮 #MarvelSDCC
— cait petrakovitz 🙌🏽💃🏽 (@misscp) July 21, 2019
Meet the cast
This article was originally published on Sept. 5 and will be updated as news rolls in.
5 New Years Sex Tips
Numerous New Year’s resolutions have one point in common. Whether it’s consuming a nutritionally balanced diet, exercising regularly, beginning a meditation technique, or participating in “Dry January,” a number of the most popular fresh-start pledges are focused on boosting your wellness. Yet one facet of wellness is commonly forgotten: your sex life. Yet sex is an essential part of well-being. It has numerous wellness advantages, from relieving stress to reducing duration pains to also, possibly, increasing your body immune system. Plus, it really feels impressive. If your resolution is to have even more of it in 2020, you’re not the only one. And Athens Escorts can help.
It ought to go without claiming that all sex needs to be consensual– if your companion’s not in the mood, don’t push them. And also if you do not have a normal sex companion, do not misery. Self pleasure has a lot of the exact same advantages of sex– a lot to ensure that sexuality experts often utilize the term “solo sex.” Whether you have actually got one companion, a number of companions, or just your hands (or your favoured vibrator), below is exactly how to have more sex in 2020.
Set up Sex
One way to make certain you have extra sex? Place it on your calendar. If you have actually obtained a partner or partners that get on board with the suggestion, reserved a hr or more every week– or every various other week, or once a month– for messing around. It may seem uninteresting as well as trite, however it’s a proven way to maintain sex on your minds as well as in your lives. Plus, it will provide you something to eagerly anticipate. Do not have a regular companion? Allot time for self pleasure– you can even make it component of your self-care regimen.
Discover Responsive Desire
If the main factor you’re not having sex is you simply don’t feel in the state of mind, try exploring responsive need. In her book, sex teacher Emily Nagoski differentiates between “spontaneous need” (desiring sex unexpectedly) and also “responsive wish” (wanting sex in feedback to something, such as making out with your partner or reading erotica). According to Nagoski’s study, 55% of the populace is a lot more prone to “receptive need” than “spontaneous need.” If the concept of sex seems just meh, attempt kissing, cuddling, or watching a hot flick as well as see exactly how you really feel.
Usage Lube
If you do not on a regular basis utilize lube, buy a container. Lube has lots of benefits: It can decrease discomfort and irritation throughout any kind of type of sex (both penetrative and also non-penetrative) and also assist lessen the danger of condom breakage. It likewise really feels great; we advocate utilizing it for partnered sex or self pleasure. In addition to making sex much more pleasurable, if you’re having a sex marathon, lube will help decrease chafing– indicating you’ll all set for round two quicker.
Establish A Goal, Or Make A Checklist
Do you normally stick to the same sex positions and also want to attempt something new? Are you curious about checking out a fantasy? Take some time to review exactly how you want your sex life to transform in 2020. Try making a “yes/no/maybe” checklist (either solo or with a companion), or selecting an objective you can work towards– such as having rectal sex, entering into bondage, or coming to be an expert sexter.
Redefine “Sex”.
Bear in mind, sex isn’t simply penetrative. Foreplay? Sex. (It remains in the name!) Fingering? Sex. Handjobs? Sex. Self pleasure? Solo sex. Broad your view of what “matters” as sex, and also you could begin having a whole lot more of it.
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All You Want To Know About Creating Great Content
I was asking myself a question recently. What makes a content great? Though making great content has become something ingrained in my mind, I need to break it down further, give it benchmarks and meaning while trying to teach other people something.
I think the biggest problem people have with issues like SEO and content marketing is trying to do the least amount of work for the highest return. If, in reality, online and offline performance has to invoke the direct opposite. For the least initial return, you have to do the most research.
If you’re sitting here trying to find a shortcut for ranking content right now, then this isn’t your place. Today, there are no shortcuts. There are no hacks or strategies that are less difficult. In reality, you have to do the job and put it in time.
If you’re able to do that, though, then there are certainly a few tips to make great content. It’s not just about the top search engine ranking. It’s about having huge amounts of money. If you do that, your great content will obviously be very high because it’s going to be entertaining and so useful that search engines like Google will definitely find it.
Keep in mind that producing great content is a mixture of addressing technological considerations and the approach is also enthusiastic and innovative. With search engines, you can’t just write. While keeping search engines in mind, you have to write for humans. It takes time, and effort is needed. But after a while, as thousands upon thousands of people discover your content every day, those efforts will pay off.
Just don’t expect that to occur overnight. The biggest online stories and posts didn’t shoot to the top overnight. In the course of time they were slowly exchanged and engaged. In fact, most of the articles on Google before at least 100 to 200 days don’t hit number one.
How am I comfortable with this? In Google’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), I have hundreds of number one results. I’m talking about “make money online” (Forbes article), “right practices” (Entrepreneur article) and “self discipline” (Wanderlust Worker article). But also phrases like “principles of performance,” which also brings you and so many others back to this place.
It took between 100 to 200 days for each of the papers to reach the number one spot, and this will vary according to the competition. For example, I did a Forbes piece that ranked number one before the 100-day mark for “artificial intelligence examples.” But it takes time to rank the most popular search terms with the largest search volume, so don’t get discouraged.
This is one of Google’s methods of obfuscation. It leaves you guessing so it can maintain its search’s organic nature and ensure the importance is not exploited. Because this is the game’s name. Relevance is essential to the life of Google. Once the SERPs lose their relevance (something that started to happen before all the algorithm adjustments) then Google itself loses its marketplace importance.
Until I delve into the factors that make it great content, let’s analyze some of the trust’s underlying principles. When we’re talking about content that has the ability to rank on search engines, we’re talking about content that has an implied amount of trust and its root domain.
Trust is a huge part of the relevant factor and you need to be identified relevantly in order to rank. You need to be trustworthy to be important. How much do you or your users trust Google?
What it boils down to is how much trust you have built up over time. Sure, you might make great content that hits all 15 of the factors listed below, but you’ll find it pretty hard to rank without that underlying belief. So, make sure you don’t do anything to confuse or cause Google to lose confidence in you.
Trust is, in essence, focused on three components: Indexed Age: the age that Google first discovered and indexed your site, and also the freshness or everlasting quality of the content itself.
Authority: The consistency, quantity and variety of organic links that come over time to a web.
Content: the content’s inherent consistency, its quantity and frequency over time.
Trust is an integral part of the online success cycle, regardless of the medium you use. Do not try to take shortcuts and do your best to deliver value, and over time, whatever knowledge you seek to communicate, you will succeed.
The content is unique
To create great content, the first rule is that it is original. Never, ever, in any way, twist or duplicate content. That really goes against all the values of trust that are in place and plagiarizes effectively. You’re never going to rank a piece of content from another source plagiarized.
Make sure the content is original, not only when it comes to writing, but also when it comes to its observations. You don’t want to spin another post, even if you write it on your own without copying it directly, and you also get the same insights. You need it in its terms to be truly informative and original.
Has an attractive, keyword-rich title
If you’re serious about creating great content, then make sure the title is enticing and rich in keywords. It must be attractive, whether it is a post, a video, or some other type of content. To search engines like Google, what attracts someone to click on a listing over another listing is extremely important.
Even if your content is lower than the content in higher ranks, if your content gets clicked on more, it will eventually move up and over that other content. Here we are not talking about click-bait; we are talking about enticing titles that draw the searcher to further investigate.
Is relevant to your audience
Make sure you have a relevant article for your audience. Do not attempt to create content that is not appealing to your readership. You’re going to lose your interest. The whole article or piece of content has to appeal to your current audience in some way, shape or form. If you don’t have an established audience, you should be sure to focus your content on a specific topic, pleasant or industry.
This is critical as it is at the center of importance when trying to drive traffic. The more you have similar content and keep churning out over time, the more it will be applicable to a particular audience. In turn, to ingest content in that environment, they will keep returning to your platform.
Highly-engaging
Great content is usually very engaging. From the point of view of analytics, this means that the content is read and consumed and digested as visitors spend a lot of time on your website. The average amount of time spent on a website says a lot about a specific piece of content. If you’re serious about creating great content and rating, it’s got to go all out.
When visitors are engaged, not only do they take time to read your content, they also navigate to other parts of your web. Ultimately, you looked at their desire and gave them something they were looking for. For a cause, you were important. It’s a highly engaging, self-fulfilling prophecy of great content that eventually ranks higher.