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How To Manage Your Holiday Stress Are you plagued by holiday stress year after year? Do you feel as if you are a victim in all of this? Do you believe that you are the ONLY one in your household who is contributing to the success of the holiday?

Let me share with you some ideas for making the holidays manageable. I used to literally make myself nuts during holiday time. I was married to a man who thought his contribution to the holiday was simply to show up, eat his fill and then watch television in the living room while I cleaned up the kitchen. I also had two sons who couldn?t care less about the trimmings of the holiday season.

What I am about to suggest may offend your sensibilities but it does stand a good chance of greatly reducing your holiday stress. When you are finished with this article, you?ll have to decide what is most important to you—having everything just perfect or regaining some of your sanity. When all is said and done, you can always continue to do it just as you?ve always done. I?m only providing some alternative suggestions.

What is your typical routine? …

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Dental Health During Holiday Season The New Year and Christmas celebrations are much awaited for. These holidays allow us to celebrate these events with our loved ones without worrying about our work. We often find ourselves staying up late, drinking and consuming all types of foods and beverages that we shouldn’t be. With such routines becoming popular and common among many peoples, the Diamond Bar dental agency revealed that the number of dental emergencies have increased substantially. This article discloses some of the most common dental emergencies that have been reported during the holiday season.

Broken teeth

Wondering how one can get broken teeth during holiday celebrations? The dentists in Diamond Bar have been called in for several emergencies involving people walking into glass doors due to blurry vision from excessive consumption of alcohol. Ladies often fall off their high heels, bang their face into clear doors and end up with broken teeth.

Chipped teeth and acute periodontal disease

The holiday season is the one time of the year that we all forget our diets and enjoy the good food. The rare and special delicacies are just too tempting for us to consider the effects they have teeth. As a …

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How To Make Your Holiday Color Last The holiday season is when you make the rounds of your family and friends. It’s a great time to catch up with people you may not have seen all year, and part of the fun is looking your best, including your hair.

Make sure your tresses stay picture-perfect from Thanksgiving on through the New Year with these tips from the A-lister’s colorist of choice, Marie Robinson. Robinson is responsible for coloring the locks of nearly every top celebrity filming or living in New York, including Natalie Portman, Rachel McAdams, Sienna Miller and Liv Tyler. Follow these insider suggestions to achieve the holiday look that’s right for you.

Tip 1: Anyone can have a little seasonal holiday red in her hair. Temporary rinses are the perfect complement to any festive ensemble. Try a strawberry-toned rinse for blondes; coppers and burgundies for brunettes.

Tip 2: The little black dress is a hit every holiday season. Complement the look with a few contrasting bold highlights in your hair.

Tip 3: When coloring in a salon or at home, it’s important to always apply a leave-in treatment with activated silicone and conditioning agents right after the first …

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Coping With Holiday Stress The holidays are upon us and instead of leisurely sipping eggnog around the fireplace, we find ourselves in a frenzy trying to get all too many things done in anticipation of that one perfect, albeit elusive holiday moment.

Despite expectations, holidays are a time when many of us end up so stressed and overworked, the joy is completely lost. Nonetheless, the holidays really should be about family, friends, renewal, and even fun.

As we all know, achieving any dream is not magic, it is mostly hard work. It is worth it though, otherwise we wouldn?t go at it so hard year after year. A little bit of balance and planning can go a long way toward de-stressing the holidays and making at least some of those holiday dreams a reality. Here are some tactics to help you deal with the pressures of the holiday season.

Prioritize.

Prioritize, organize and simplify. Sit down and think about your goals. What do you really want out of the holidays? What do you need? What does your family want and need? Don?t make assumptions. Talk about it. Needs and expectations change as children grow and family networks variously shrink and …

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