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Nail Care Tips for the Dubai Climate

Dubai's climate, with its intense heat, low humidity, and abundant sun exposure, can damage nails, leaving them brittle, dry, and prone to breakage. However, with proper Nail care in Dubai, you can keep your nails healthy and beautiful despite the harsh environmental conditions. This article provides essential nail care tips designed explicitly for Dubai's unique climate.

Hydrate Your Nails Regularly

The arid conditions in Dubai can dehydrate skin and nails. Keeping nails moisturized is crucial for preventing dryness and brittleness.

Use Cuticle Oil: Apply cuticle oil daily to nourish the skin around your nails.

Hand Creams: Opt for hand creams with ingredients like shea butter, glycerin, or hyaluronic acid for extra hydration.

Drink Water: Staying hydrated internally is just as important. Aim for 8–10 glasses of water daily.

Protect Your Nails from Sun Exposure

The intense UV rays in Dubai can weaken your nails and cause discolouration.

Apply Sunscreen: Use a broad-spectrum sunscreen on your hands, paying attention to the nails and cuticles.

Wear Gloves: For prolonged outdoor activities, consider wearing UV-protective gloves to shield your hands and nails.

Avoid Prolonged Exposure to Water

While hydration is essential, overexposure to water can make nails soft and prone to splitting. This is particularly important if you’re engaging in water activities or frequent hand washing.

Gloves During Chores: Use gloves when washing dishes or cleaning.

Dry Thoroughly: After washing hands, ensure your nails are dehydrated to prevent weakening.

Choose Breathable Nail Polishes

Traditional nail polishes can sometimes trap moisture, leading to fungal infections in humid conditions. Breathable nail polishes allow air and water vapour to pass through, maintaining nail health.

Opt for Non-Toxic Brands: Brands that offer 5-free or 7-free formulas minimize exposure to harmful chemicals.

Give Your Nails a Break: Allow your nails to go polish-free periodically to breathe and recover.

Strengthen Your Nails with Supplements

A diet lacking essential nutrients can make your nails weak. In Dubai, a balanced diet with supplements may be necessary for optimal nail health.

Biotin: Known to strengthen brittle nails.

Vitamin E: Promotes overall nail health and hydration.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Helps maintain nail flexibility and reduces brittleness.

Avoid Harsh Nail Treatments

Aggressive treatments, such as frequent acrylics or gel applications, can weaken nails over time, and the hot climate can exacerbate this damage.

Choose Gentle Alternatives: Opt for nail wraps or soft gel extensions instead of acrylics.

Limit Harsh Removers: Use acetone-free polish removers to prevent excessive drying.

Regular Nail Maintenance

Consistent nail care routines can prevent damage and ensure they remain strong and healthy.

Trim and File Regularly: Use a glass or crystal file to smooth edges and prevent splits.

Buff Gently: Buff nails lightly to promote blood flow and remove ridges without thinning the nail surface.

Visit Professional Nail Salons

Dubai is home to several nail salons that offer tailored treatments for the climate. For professional care, consider booking regular manicures and pedicures at reputable salons.

Hydration Treatments: Look for salons offering paraffin treatments or deep moisturizing services.

Custom Nail Solutions: Experienced technicians can recommend products and care routines suited for Dubai’s conditions.

Conclusion

The climate in Dubai presents unique challenges to nail care, but with a combination of hydration, protection, and mindful practices, you can maintain strong, healthy nails year-round. By incorporating these tips into your daily routine and investing in occasional professional care, you can keep your nails resilient against harsh weather. Whether you’re basking in the sun or braving the heat, your nails can look polished and well-maintained with the proper care strategies.

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Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French (1782-1866) wife of Louis-Philippe I (1773-1850). By Frédéric Millet.

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watching, looking, judging ph. emily lipson

[sinligh]

I woke up hyperaware of every inch of my body. A bone must be missing, a tooth or two my hair feels like an extension of the pillow that i hide my dreams underneath

And my head is too heavy with the weight of everything I said i will think about later…

Childhood, adolescence, adulthood

It all overlaps sometimes, and I worry that my childhood is all I’m going to grow up to live and relive.

I worry that it’s a punishment,

Like Prometheus; that I’ll spend my nights picking at it trying to cleanse myself from all that a young version of me wasn’t strong enough to process

only to wake up and realize I’m carrying it between my ribs again.

To be pregnant with another girl that will relive my life like I’m reliving my mothers.

I’m overthinking again

Stages of life like gates to the many graveyard’s that I have built inside me.

A sanctuary

A place of residence to all the feelings i had no time to over analyze.

I digged my phone from underneath the pillow, something must be said..

A phantom of the words that are trying to escape is at hands reach..

An Aura. A migraine.

Its 04:51 am. The sun didn’t rise yet, why am I awake again?

Thoughts are fighting each other for a way out, like a newborn waiting to be called by a name, any would be fine; as long as it gets acknowledgment.

On my way to the bathroom, i stumbled upon keywords

Some that I believe i missed the night before..

When anxiety was eating another pathway for itself. A way out, out of my brain

Necrosis.

I spent the past couple of months studying all that can go wrong in a woman’s body.

Starting from puberty highlighting child bearing period and ending with menopause.

It’s all prewritten

And I get mad with rage because improvisations are treated like a sin that can never be forgiven.

I watched women bleeding incomplete lives from between their legs, that without shedding a tear.

We’re used to that, aren’t we ?

Bleeding.

And incomplete lives.

Distant dreams of motherhood bleeding classic tragedies into an ink jar

to be hand written as another passage in the wrenching history of all the fabricated religious books that swore by women.

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•Quotes: Blythe Baird/ Paul Guest/Molly McCully Brown/ Uma Thurman/ Sylvia Plath/ Joel Coen/ Emily Rose Cole

•Original context: Sinligh

•Art reference:

1.painting by Domenico Induno. 2. Painting by Henry Asencio. 3.painting by graham dean. 4. Art by Patricia Cronin. 5. Art by Amelie, Maison d'art. 6. Spirit Body Consciousness by Byron Tik. 7. Painting by Francesca Strino 8. Charles-August Mengin (detail)

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Catherine Danou, Composition I, (ink and acrylic on hemp paper), 2022 [Amelie Maison d'Art, Paris. © Catherine Danou]

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Miraculous Season 6 Speculation

I pulled up this post I made after the season 4 finale to see how close I came with my predictions about season 5. Despite getting pretty much everything wrong, I did nail a few things:

Gabriel was unable to handle the power of all the Miraculous, at least at first

Felix used his control over sentibeings to target Gabriel (although notably not Adrien, whom he was trying to save if anything)

Alya regained the Fox Miraculous (admittedly in the last ep and alongside all the other previous holders)

Marinette fell in love with Chat Noir, complicating her feelings for Adrien

Luka was placed in an impossible position because he knows too much

Natalie's health declined to the point of incapacitation (although I didn’t anticipate the same with Gabriel)

Chloe and Lila established an alliance that ultimately went south

I admit most of these predictions were obvious and easily anticipated. I’d rather not embarrass myself by going too far inside M. Astruc’s head, but I can’t help speculating about what the next season holds.

Hence, I’d like to suggest a few plot threads I anticipate showing up during season 6:

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Everyone assumed Cerise would be the new antagonist, using the Butterfly Miraculous to further her vendetta against Marinette and/or seize the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous to forge a wish of her own. But Cerise’s panic in the last seconds of the ep suggests she’s encountered a powerful force she can’t control. This is the new enemy, although Cerise will become its servant and vessel if it means fulfilling her revenge.

This entity will be far more dangerous than Gabriel ever was, unbound by human emotion or empathy. It will be capable of neutralizing and even possessing the new and inexperienced Miraculous holders, forcing Ladybug to create a new power-up.

Who or what exactly is it? It will either be connected to Nooroo, driven insane by a damaged Miraculous, or Tomoe Tsurugi, the only player in Gabriel’s “Perfect Alliance” gambit who didn’t get anything she wanted.

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Other plot points ripe for exploration:

Adrien and Marinette’s romance is plagued by lingering feelings of attraction for Ladybug and Chat Noir, respectively. They break up over it for at least one episode because one of them suspects there’s “someone else”. One of them gets possessed over it. However, Adrinette comes back stronger than ever, reinforced by better communication, more trust, and the realization that the other one isn’t perfect and that’s okay.

One of the other couples also breaks up or gets in an argument, again for only one episode and also involving possession.

Almost everyone believes Gabriel died a hero—except for Marinette, Felix, Kagami, Nathalie, and Amelie. One of them (and you all know which one) accidentally lets the butterfly out of the bag. Angst and drama ensue.

Amelie moves into Maison Agreste as Adrien’s legal guardian. It gives Adrien and Felix the chance to rebuild their relationship as cousins and friends. But certain members of the MiracuClass still don’t completely trust Felix. It causes problems when they realize he’s Argos.

The new Miraculous holders don’t know what the hell they’re doing and make all kinds of mistakes. They use their powers for selfish reasons, and LB and CN must save them from their own messes. They swap Miraculous without even telling Ladybug. They keep revealing their secret identities to each other. They upset, misplace, or lose control of their Kwamis. They get possessed by the new antagonist and use their Miraculous powers against Ladybug and Chat Noir. If Luka teaches any of them Mirakung Fu, someone's gonna kick one of their best friends in the face. Marinette briefly considers taking all the Miraculous back until an attack on her personally confirms she had the right idea. She starts relying more on Chat Noir as a mentor, and occasionally an enforcer, for the other holders.

Cerise joins the MiracuClass at the new school Miss Bustier created. Marinette’s the only one who recognizes Cerise as Lila, but everyone else thinks Marinette is nuts.

Chloe returns to Paris mid-season, discarded by her mother and with nowhere else to go. Andre reluctantly takes her in, and it turns out she learned nothing—she blames Ladybug for everything that went wrong in her life and will stop at nothing to get revenge. She may enroll at Marinette’s school in disguise and forge an alliance with Cerise, not realizing she herself is Lila in disguise, to “get” Marinette.

Sabrina and Marc’s mutual love of soccer leads the former to develop a crush on the latter. It ends well for no one.

And finally, Luka gets his own love interest, if only because he damn well deserves it.

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Épisode 9

Le lendemain, Gabin se tenait devant la fenêtre du salon, sa cigarette lui brûlait les doigts, il restait immobile, l'air absent de toutes pensées.

Il s'assit sur le canapé, puis vérifia son sac de voyage remplit de ses dernières emplettes. Gabin vérifia encore une fois ses papiers d'identité. Tout était en ordre , il était prêt à partir, il n'avait plus qu'à poser les charges d'explosif, bien réparties il ne resterait plus grand chose de cet appartement. Il était content de son dernier repas , il l'avait dégusté avec ferveur, il savait que c'etait sa dernière tranche de foie avant de tout faire péter.

Gabin se souvint soudainement du soir où ils avaient fait l'amour sous une porte cochère, c'était à l'initiative d'Amelie, il avait cèdé volontiers à ses désirs. Ils avaient beaucoup rit en aperçevant les caméras au-dessus de leurs têtes.

En pensant à cette soirée, il plaçait tranquillement ses charges explosives , il en plaça deux sur le congélateur où se trouvait le corps d'Amelie.

Il se servit un verre de vodka.

- nous-y voilà ! une page de tournée ! grogna t-il

- à l'avenir ! dit-il en levant un verre à nouveau remplit

C'était en novembre denier, ils avaient loué une maison pour quelques jours, arrivés là-bas, trempés par la pluie, Gabin se souvient que le maquillage d'Amelie coulait sur ses joues ce qui lui donnait un air sauvage. Gabin se souvient très bien qu'il s'était demandé si elle allait lui arracher ses vêtements, le gifler, le fouetter, ses phantasmes tournaient en boucle à cet instant là.

Amelie l'avait plaqué contre un mur et dit:

- je t'aime

Sans qu'il comprenne comment il se retrouva Allongé avec son amie au-dessus de lui , elle avait jouit en criant, il s'en souvenait très bien.

Ils étaient restés l'un contre l'autre, haletant, il lui avait caressé les cheveux en lui murmurant des mots doux à l'oreille.

- Tu es heureuse ? avait-il demandé

- Hum ! ouï peut-être

- ne me dit pas non ! ...

Amelie sourit en écartant une mèche de son oeil

- idiot ! rétorqua t-elle

C'est pendant ce séjour qu'il avait pris la décision de l'empoisonner quand ils reviendraient. Il n'était pas sûr d'elle et il savait qu'il manquait de confiance en lui. Il ne voulait plus être quitté, alors il agirait.

Je vais te montrer une de mes vidéos que j'ai apporté lui avait dit Gabin avant de l'embrasser.

Elle s'était enveloppée dans une couverture et s'était installée devant le poste.

Gabin l'avait trouvé très belle, il avait préparé un plateau pour eux deux. Il expliqua rapidement que c'était l'histoire du dragon, de la femme du dragon avec une tête de vampire.

Sur l'écran, la ville apparue toute illuminée, la musique étrange annonçait le dragon arrivant de loin, il se dirigea vers la cathédrale, il dépassa un grand pilier puis traversa une esplanade pour entrer dans l'édifice. Le monument est tellement haut qu'il donne l'impression de toucher le ciel.

Un homme surgit de l'ombre , il grimpa sur le dragon puis il lui transperça le dos en lui assenant des coups d'épée.

Le dragon dans un sursaut le fit tomber.

A ce moment là, Gabin pensa à sa mère, étant sûr que le dragon c'était elle. Petit il sentait les muscles de sa mère quand elle le serrait très fort. Elle lui transmettait certainement ses désirs, son amour. Il se rappelle qu'il étouffait dans ses bras là . il aurait aimé être à la place de l'homme sortit de l'ombre mais à l'époque il était trop petit.

Un autre personnage assistait au loin à la scène mais on le distinguait très mal.

La vidéo avait connu un succès d'estime , elle était virale sur le net. Grâce à ce court métrage, Gabin eût une certaine reconnaissance.

Ils restèrent affalés devant la télé.

- le tatouage du dragon ça vient de là ? demanda Amelie

- Oui...

Et il avait rajouté :

- ça me rapporte du fric et j'y tiens c'est sentimental

- j'ai aimé ton film dit Amelie

Gabin se souvint qu'il était parti dans ses pensées.

Il ne voulait pas être quitté, il tenait à elle comme à la prunelle de ses yeux , tout mais pas cela alors quand ils reviendraient il l'endormirait pour toujours.

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Claire de Chavagnac, Séville Plaza de Espagna, (pigments, acrylic and animal glue on canvas), 2016 [Amelie Maison d'Art, Paris. © Claire de Chavagnac / Adagp, Paris]

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