Monthly Archives: June 2009

Running of the Nudes

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In Paris, France PETA members protested, semi-naked and splattered with blood, against the cruelty of bullfighting. The eye-catching protest took place outside, just in from of the Eiffel Tower. The reason for the PETA-organized protest was to bring awareness about …

Farrah Fawcett Last Rites

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-See photos from Farrah’s funeral processions- Farrah Fawcett, the ’70s bombshell that introduced us to Charlie’s Angels, was read her last rites last night at a Los Angeles area hospital. The 62-year-old Fawcett is currently in the Intensive Care Unit …

Nineties Fashion Makes a Comeback

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I’ll just come right out with it, I adore the fashion-sense of the Olsen twins. Say what you will, but those girls have style, whether you agree with it or not. Recently, Mary-Kate has been seen sporting some very grunge outfits. When I …

Perez Hilton Sues Roadie

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Perez Hilton is suing Black Eyed Peas road manager Polo Molina for alleged battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, after getting beat up outside of a Toronto nightclub. At first many thought Will.I.Am was the culprit, but after a …

Change in College Cost Reduction and Access Act

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The cost of paying for college has always been an obstacle for many American families with the rising cost of tuition, boarding/expenses, and annoying expenses like having to go to “Bed, Bath, and Beyond” to buy new sheets for your …

Baby Found In Shoebox With Breathing Hole

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In Long Island, New York a baby, less than a day old, was found in a Timberland shoe box, with nothing but a breathing hole. It was in the lobby of an apartment where a man, who heard noises from …

LUNA Makes Cookies!? Be Still My Growling Stomach

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There are precisely 3,491,851,984 different kinds of health/energy/meal replacement bars on the market.  Some get bad raps for being too sugary, too high in calories, or too devoid in nutrition, and, well, rightly so.  Often these bars end up resembling more …

Free Pantene Nature Fusion Hair Care Giveaway!

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NOTE: GIVEAWAY HAS NOW CLOSED. You may have noticed that we’re all about the Hair Care giveaways here at Twirlit recently as nothing says summer like healthy flowing locks. Or you know, short spikey do’s. Whatever your hair follicles may …

The Winner of the Ojon Hydrating Ritual Hair Kit is…

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And the winner of this post which we picked randomly is….JON GETTEL who says,

“My summertime hair care is to take extra care. With swimming and the extra sun exposure I shampoo with a mild balancing shampoo, condition with a super moisturizing conditioner, and a hair infusion treatment once a week. Than follow with a sunscreen infused moisturizing strong hold hairspray.”

7 Common Mistakes Women Make at the Gym

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The gym can be a jungle. It’s loud, crowded, smelly, and dirty. It’s also probably my favorite place to be.  It may the muscley guys (but not too muscley, thank you very much), it may be that everyone is there for the …

Tanya Angus’s Struggle With Acromegaly: 6-Foot-6 and Growing

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Meet Tanya Angus, a thirty-year-old woman who suffers from the very rare, human-hormone-growth syndrome acromegaly. Born in 1979, Angus spent the first twenty years of her life relatively normal. However, at the age of twenty she started to notice some …

Bikini Remorse and What to Do About It

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I’ve seen enough photos of Giselle Bundchen to know I will never look like that. And it’s not some big tragedy! It’s just a simple fact of life, just as surely I will never win an NBA championship or swim …

Celebrity Weight Battles Draw Mixed Motivation

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Recently, the tabloids, news and Internet entertainment outlets have been inundated with stories of celebs and their weight battles. Melissa Joan Heart (who will always be Clarissa to me) dropped her baby weight and won a magazine cover.  Stephanie Pratt …

Ed McMahon Dies in LA Hospital

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At the age of 86, show biz veteran Ed McMahon passed away in a Los Angeles hospital today due to a “multitude of health problems.” He was best known as the sidekick to former Tonight show host Johnny Carson as well …

Lauren Conrad’s L.A. Candy

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The Hills starlet Lauren Conrad is many, many things. Reality TV star. Fashion designer. Clotheshorse. Vaguely conscious human being.  And now, you can throw novelist in there!  That’s right!  With her mighty pen, Lauren Conrad has managed to instantly earn …