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You run out and forget to bring eyeshadow or blush; Instead of picking something from the corner store, take your matte lipstick and blend it onto your cheekbones and eyelids. Everyone who wears makeup has done it at some point: took a cosmetic for one thing and used it for another. It’s all meant for your face after all – so what could the harm be?

Don’t put lipstick on your eyes and vice versa

When you buy lipstick, that product is tested for one use and only one use: your lips. It may seem harmless – if it’s safe around your mouth, it must be safe around your eyes, right? But as a cosmetic chemist Kelly Dobos Lifehacker said, “The use of lipstick around the eyes is just one example of a potentially dangerous substitution as most of the red pigments approved for use in lipsticks are not approved for use around the eyes due to the possibility of irritation or allergic reactions. “

It’s not just your eyes to watch out for – using eye products on your lips can be dangerous, too. Eyeshadows can contain, for example, iron as well as ultramarines, iron ferrocyanide and chromium oxides. The skin care and natural make-up company Sterling Minerals explains: “These are approved as safe for topical use in mineral make-up products and all other forms of cosmetics, but not for use in lipstick or lip gloss.”

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What are the risks?

The main risk for cosmetic substitutes is allergic reaction and irritation; The product you are using may contain ingredients that your lips will not react to, but which can cause a serious allergic reaction around your eyes. The FDA warns against this the use of cosmetics in areas where they were not intended:

Do not use cosmetics near your eyes unless they are specifically designed for that use. For example, don’t use a lip liner as an eyeliner. You may expose your eyes to mouth contamination or coloring additives that are not approved for use in the eye area.

Wear eye shadow on your lips while doing this and you run the risk of ingesting harmful chemicals.

What are Safe Cosmetic Substitutions?

It seems like a bad idea to use lip liner as an eyeliner or lipstick for eye shadow. However, using eye shadow or lipstick as a blush or lip liner for eyebrows is relatively safe. In fact, some like publications Teen Vogue suggest people with red hair use a lip liner to get an accurate tone for their eyebrows. And makeup tutorial site The Beauty Department offers detailed instructions when using matte lipstick as a substitute for blush.

But be aware: lipstick used as a blush can cause breakouts or something called “cosmetic acne, ”Where makeup is the main cause of a person’s acne. However, aside from a bout of acne, there doesn’t seem to be a serious risk dabbing your cheeks with your favorite lip color. Just try not to mix cosmetics for your eyes and mouth and watch out for harmful additives. If you experience any serious reactions, stop using it immediately and contact your doctor.

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Pets can often let you know how they’re feeling, but it can be difficult to tell when they’re sick. Your illnesses can seem so vague and amorphous – a little puke here, some strange lethargy there – and it can be difficult to tell the difference between a little under the weather and starting a serious problem.

Of course, there is always a veterinarian available to help you figure out what’s going on. Sometimes the answer is surprising:

If that Twitter users When she noticed that both her cat and dog had acted strangely, she took them to the vet and found that the essential oils in her diffuser made them sick.

When I saw this tweet I had to ask myself: Was my cat’s vomiting recently caused by my own essential oil diffuser? I had run it on lavender and pine oil on occasion. I would never have put these oils on my cat’s body or in her water, but I hadn’t thought of checking if the oils in the air could harm it.

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The ASPCA has a robust Animal poison control Info center and hotline, and their advice on essential oils is comprehensive:

Cats are particularly sensitive to essential oils, and if ingested in significant amounts, effects such as gastrointestinal upset, central nervous system depression and even liver damage can occur. Inhaling the oils can lead to aspiration pneumonia. There are significant differences in toxicity between certain oils. For this reason, we would not recommend the use of essential oils in areas your pets have access to unless pets are supervised or the use of the oil is approved by your veterinarian.

What kind of exposure is dangerous?

I contacted Dr. Tina Wismer, Medical Director of the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, for more information.

Wismer says skin exposure is more dangerous than inhaling unless pets have breathing problems. She points out that pets can ingest topically applied oils through the skin or ingestion while grooming themselves. While there are some products for pets, such as flea control products that contain essential oils, these are low concentrations that are safe for pets. However, you should only use these products as directed. “Cats are particularly sensitive to many toxins because they have fewer metabolizing enzymes in their livers than dogs,” explains Wismer. So don’t use a dog product on your cat.

However, the proliferation of essential oils can be dangerous to pets. “The most common symptoms in cats and dogs exposed to diffuse essential oils are drooling, vomiting, coughing and sneezing. The spread of oils can be fatal to cats and dogs with asthma or other breathing problems, ”notes Wiser.

Which oils are the worst?

According to Wismer, any essential oil can be harmful to pets, depending on how much and how much they’re exposed. Particularly poisonous oils for pets include wintergreen, D-lime (citrus fruit), pine, cinnamon, pennyroyal, eucalyptus and tea tree. You can still have a diffuser in your house, but Wismer recommends that you keep your pet and your running oil diffuser in separate rooms and not use the device for long periods of time.

Better safe than sorry. I like my diffuser, but not as much as I love my cat – especially when she’s not puking.

This story was originally published in 2018 and was updated on January 28, 2021 to be in line with Lifehacker style guidelines.

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If you are thinking of getting rid of WhatsApp –to the any reason– One of the sticking points could be the difficulty of moving your conversations from WhatsApp to another service. The people built some Smart Tools To help you with this, Telegram is now launching an official import tool to make the transition incredibly easy.

First, install Telegram on the device that you mainly use WhatsApp with. Get set up or log into a Telegram account, then switch back to WhatsApp. You now need to export your WhatsApp conversations tedious process To do this, you need to open each one and then tap the three-dot icon Moreand tap Export chat.

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When asked where you want to save your chats, make sure you select the Telegram app. When you do, you will be asked to select a group to import the conversation into in Telegram. You can also create a new group if you prefer. Then sit back and wait while Telegram processes your WhatsApp chats.

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The only specialty of Telegram’s import function is that your WhatsApp chats cannot be assigned to the exact date on which they occurred. Instead, your conversations and media files will show up in Telegram as being sent on the date you imported them. However, a timestamp is attached to each element indicating the time and date the message or medium was originally sent in WhatsApp.

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It’s a bit of a clunky solution, but that’s the tradeoff you have to make in exchange for such an easy way to migrate your conversations from WhatsApp to Telegram. In fact, Telegram also notes that you can also use this process to move your chats from Line and KakaoTalk. I haven’t heard of any of these chat services, but using them now gives you an easy way to switch if you want.

As part of the update that adds this export / import feature, Telegram also allows its users to delete secret chats, groups they created, and their call logs for both sides of the conversation. In fact it is the ‘Erasability‘That makes Telegram a bit stronger for privacy over WhatsApp, as the latter only gives you about an hour’s window to delete something you’ve sent to a group or chat (and from the recipient’s devices, too remove).

Google is testing a new Read Later feature that will allow users to save articles and other links that they come across and want to read later. Saved links appear in a new “Read Later” section in Chrome’s Bookmarks menu, but are not permanently saved like regular bookmarks.

There are other browsing apps and add-ons that do the same thing, but Read Later is built right into the Chrome interface so you don’t have to – or rely on – third-party solutions Clog your browser with an excess of open tabs and bookmarks.

Read Now is already available as a standard feature for iOS users. However, you can try it out on Android, Windows, and Mac by enabling an experimental flag on the stable version of Chrome.

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To find and activate the flag, open a new Chrome tab and go to chrome: // flags / # read later. Use the drop-down menu to enable the setting and restart Chrome when prompted.

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Alternatively, if you don’t want to mess around with the browser’s experimental settings, you can download Chrome Canary. Read Later is enabled by default in Chrome Canary 90 or later. Note, however, that Canary is used to test uncompleted functions and is therefore less stable, which may cause bugs and stability issues. The result is that you can try out new features like Read Later and Mute Chrome notifications while screen sharing.

How to use Chrome’s Read Later feature

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On the desktop:

1. On Chrome’s navigation bar, click the star icon (the same icon you use to bookmark websites).
2. Choose “Read later.” The page will be closed.
3. When you’re ready to catch up on the items you saved, click “Reading list” at the top right of the browser. Note: If you don’t see the Reading List, open a new tab or right-click the navigation bar and select “Show bookmarks bar.”
4. Click a link in the list to open it. Click the check box to mark it as read or the “X” to remove it.

On the phone:

1. Tap and long press a link or URL until the quick options menu appears.
2. Tap “Read later” to save it to Chrome’s reading list.
3. Tap the three dot to find your reading list “More” Icon then go to Bookmarks> Reading List.
4. From here you can open saved links, mark them as read or delete them from the list.

[TechRadar]