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	<title>Lasting Impression: The right tattoo artist and design will help you make your mark</title>
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Body:People get tattoos for all sorts of reasons&#46; An expression of love&#44; a significant date&#44; a memoriam&#44; an autograph &#38;ndash&#59; the list is likely endless&#46; But the primary reason people are drawn to ink under the skin &#38;ndash&#59; its permanence &#38;ndash&#59; is also what keeps most from going under the needle&#46; &#40;Photo by Todd Franson&#41;Perhaps a few words from folksinger Ani DiFranco&#44; who sports a tribal tattoo across her chest&#44; can offer perspective&#58; &#39;&#39;I had to leave the house of self&#45;importance &#47; to doodle my first tattoo &#47; realize a tattoo is no more permanent than I am&#44;&#39;&#39; DiFranco sings in her song &#34;Shroud&#46;&#34;If you&#39;ve found yourself in a similar mindset &#38;ndash&#59; outside the house of self&#45;importance &#38;ndash&#59; or possibly wanting a tattoo for no particular reason at all&#44; Tattoo Paradise&#39;s Nikki Lugo says the first step is finding the right artist&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Mist Kissed: The liquid alternative to suntans can light up your skin as summer fades</title>
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Body:Where there are large populations of Caucasians&#44; in this contemporary world that sees them more likely to toil beneath fluorescent bulbs than a noonday sun&#44; a celebration of tanned flesh seems de rigueur&#46; The theorized threat of a melanoma death has not killed this sensibility&#46; Add a threat of premature wrinkles to the International Agency for Research on Cancer&#39;s July announcement that tanning beds have been upgraded from &#34;probably carcinogenic to humans&#34; to the IARC&#39;s most dangerous rating that simply deletes the &#34;probably&#44;&#34; and a fake tan may be sounding better every day&#46; But won&#39;t it look absurd&#63; Will it be splotchy or streaked&#63; Will I look less like a bronzed god and more like an Oompa Loompa&#63; The questions don&#39;t come from out of the blue&#44; but from results that have been witnessed&#46; Fortunately&#44; what&#39;s on offer today is a bit more evolved than the results researcher Eva Wittgenstein reported in the September 1960 issue of the journal Science&#58; &#34;Staining of Skin with Dihydroxyacetone&#46;&#34; Claudia&#44; a local woman who&#39;d like to keep her last name to herself &#45;&#45; because what girl doesn&#39;t like to keep a tight hold on her beauty secrets&#63; &#45;&#45; says she converted to a brand of spray tan last summer&#46; Working in TV&#44; she saw one of her on&#45;air colleagues arrive one day with a beautiful tan&#46; Seems it didn&#39;t come from the tropics&#44; but from a can&#46; The brand was SunFX and Claudia loves it&#44; both for the results and for the convenience&#46; &#34;I&#39;m not scared of the sun&#44; but I don&#39;t have time for those results&#44;&#34; Claudia says&#46; &#34;You&#39;d have to sun worship&#46; Basically&#44; it&#39;s &#36;20 a pop&#46; It rocks&#46;&#34; The inconvenience&#44; however&#44; is that Claudia drives 45 minutes to an aesthetician in Prince Frederick County&#44; Md&#46;&#44; for the one&#45;minute treatment&#46; Still&#44; incorporating a bronzer into her SunFX solution gives her an immediate glow&#46; &#34;You walk out and go&#44; &#39;Hello&#33;&#39;&#34;While Claudia prefers the handiwork of an aesthetician spraying the SunFX solution on her body&#44; another leader in the field&#44; Mystic Tan&#44; offers an automated process &#45;&#45; as close as downtown Washington&#46; Hollywood Tans at 625 D St&#46; NW sports a bank of Mystic Tan booths&#44; and a visit couldn&#39;t possibly be more no&#45;nonsense&#46;&#34;Is this your first time&#63;&#34; an attendant asks&#46; &#34;Yes&#44;&#34; you respond&#46;With that&#44; you&#39;re escorted to a Mystic Tan booth and given a quick rundown&#58; When you enter the booth&#44; strip &#45;&#45; or wear your Speedo for a tan line&#46; Cover your hair with the cap provided&#46; There is also lotion provided to block the spray&#44; so apply it to your palms&#44; the bottoms of your feet&#44; your fingernails and toenails&#44; possibly knuckles and the backs of knees and fronts of elbows&#46;The attendant inserts a canister of Mystic Tan into the booth&#39;s waiting receptacle&#46;&#34;Is that the lightest formula&#63;&#34; &#34;There&#39;s only one&#46;&#34;Yes and no&#46; With SunFX and Mystic Tan&#44; dihydroxyacetone &#40;DHA&#41; is the active ingredient&#46; DHA is a plant&#45;based product that has the odd effect of staining the upper layer of skin&#44; though not immediately&#46; In fine&#45;tuning a formula&#44; a manufacturer may add a bronzer for an immediate effect&#44; aloe for soft skin&#44; and so on&#46; The basic Mystic Tan formula on offer is the original&#45;formula clear mist&#46;What happens next is totally sci&#45;fi&#46; Stepping into the private booth&#39;s second cylinder &#45;&#45; the business end&#44; one might say &#45;&#45; four numbered footprints mark the floor&#46; There is a small sensor&#46; &#34;Welcome to Mystic Tan&#44;&#34; says the automated voice&#44; something far cheerier than the one telling Ripley she had T&#45;minus 10 minutes to abandon ship&#46; After instructing you on which numbers to place your feet&#44; she cautions&#44; &#34;Spraying will begin in 3&#44; 2&#44; 1&#46;&#46;&#46;&#34; Then your canister sweeps horizontally as it glides vertically&#44; basting somewhere between a quarter and a third of your body&#46; And repeat&#46;Don&#39;t forget to keep your arms out&#44; elbows bent with fingers pointing down&#46; You should probably also keep your eyes closed and not breathe while the spray hits your face&#46; Although there&#39;s nothing terribly exotic in the bronze&#45;free formula&#44; the FDA hasn&#39;t approved it for your mucus membranes&#44; just your skin&#46; If you&#39;re particularly concerned&#44; ask for eye and mouth guards&#46;A towel is provided to pat yourself down afterward&#44; and your clothes go right back on&#46; Without a bronzer&#44; there&#39;s no fear of coloring your clothes&#46; The results&#44; particularly for those pasties who&#39;ve never known a genuine tan&#44; are fairly impressive&#46; Men who may be manscaping mightily beforehand should shave at least four hours prior&#46; Another must is a shower with a good scrubbing immediately beforehand&#46; After the spray&#44; wait at least four hours before showering&#44; as water will stop the DHA from doing its job&#46;Within a few hours&#44; you&#39;ll see the results&#58; about a week of color that others may or may not notice&#46; The basic treatment is fairly subtle&#46; But if you&#39;re sick of watching your purple&#45;blue blood pump through your veins&#44; about &#36;20 for a splash of color may be worth it&#46;Mystic Tan is available at Hollywood Tans&#44; 625 D St&#46; NW&#46; Call 202&#45;393&#45;8267 or visit www&#46;hollywoodtansdc&#46;com&#46; To find a SunFX salon&#44; visit www&#46;sunfxamerica&#46;com&#46;&#160; ... 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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Bod Jobs: With summer approaching&#44; you&#39;ll want to look your best for the beach&#46; Here are a few tips to get there fast&#40;er&#41;</title>
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Body: The season is upon us&#46; Maybe you haven&#39;t made it to Rehoboth or some similarly gay&#44; sunshiny holiday spot just yet this year&#44; but that invitation could be right around the corner&#46; Perhaps you&#39;re just seconds from getting that text from your pushy best friend&#58; &#34;SOBE 4 7&#45;4&#45;09&#33;&#33;&#34; South Beach for the 4th of July should be a welcome invitation &#45;&#45; as long as you&#39;ve gotten yourself back into summer shape&#46; No one will argue with your myriad excuses if you haven&#39;t&#46; Maybe you&#39;re a tax accountant who was too busy toiling through the early spring to hit the gym&#46; Then this whole marriage&#45;equality thing blew up and you were just too busy hitting town&#45;hall meetings and stress eating&#46; Mm&#45;hmm&#46; Here you are&#44; feeling flabby and counting down to your 2009 beach debut&#46; But if you&#39;ve got at least a couple weeks &#45;&#45; and discipline&#44; money or a combination of both &#45;&#45; you can do wonders&#46; &#34;It&#39;s definitely going to be a challenge&#44;&#34; admits Jaime Andrews&#44; a personal trainer and the general manager of VIDA Fitness at the Metropole&#46; &#34;But you don&#39;t want to go crazy and hurt yourself&#46;&#34;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>In Electric Company: Achieving higher levels of intimacy with Body Electric</title>
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Body: It&#39;s not easy for most&#44; stripping down to your birthday suit with a group of strangers&#46; &#39;&#39;It was very uncomfortable for about 10 minutes&#44;&#39;&#39; says Marlon Fixico&#44; 51&#44; a gay Washingtonian&#44; discussing the first time he took part in a Body Electric workshop&#46; That was back in 1995&#46; &#39;&#39;There&#39;s only so long you can look at a dick until they all look the same&#44;&#34; he says&#46; &#34;I mean in different shapes&#46;&#39;&#39;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Spa Hurrah: Whether you&#39;re in need of a facial or a massage&#44; area salons are offering more custom spa services than ever</title>
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Body: Different skin types deserve different facials&#46; But that doesn&#39;t mean you have to break out the cucumbers and mud when perfecting the right combination of ingredients for your face&#46; Now is as good a time as any to put your skin care needs in the hands of a professional like Chet Alan Bennett&#44; owner of C&#46; Alan Barber Salon at 923 U St&#46; NW&#46; &#39;&#39;I personally&#44; as the owner&#44; do custom&#45;blend facials&#44;&#39;&#39; Bennett says of his face&#45;pampering procedure that runs from &#36;40 to &#36;70&#46; &#39;&#39;I&#39;m famous for using a lot of cucumbers&#44; sesame seeds&#44; oatmeal&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; We do a lot of things with vitamin E&#44; lemon and sometimes &#45;&#45; depending on the skin type &#45;&#45; I will mix up an egg yolk or a banana&#46; There are all kinds of things that we use&#46;&#39;&#39; The salon is currently offering an introductory package of a haircut&#44; shampoo and mini&#45;facial for &#36;20&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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