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If Warm Weather Means It’s Time To Shake Up Your Beauty Routine, Grab These 31 Items

If Warm Weather Means It’s Time To Shake Up Your Beauty Routine, Grab These 31 Items

Promising review: “I have 2c/3a hair, medium to long length, and live in the South Central US, where there is fairly high humidity most of the year. It’s taken me a few years of getting used to skipping daily washes and minimizing my blow dryer use, partly b/c I never really knew how to style my hair on air-dry days. I’d end up with a frizzy A-frame shaped do, or a lifeless, gel-crusted mop.

I tried this brush after seeing it in a master class about hair. The woman with 3c used it to brush through small, damp sections of hair, then twist the section around her finger, let it loose, and then onto the next section. I tried this method, leaving my hair pretty damp and using a good curl cream applied throughout. I used the brush to also go back and gently give some lift from the root once I kind of had it placed where I wanted. I used a light hair spray as I finished each layer of sections.

I’ve been doing this style once or twice a week now for a couple of months. This brush has made a difference in my confidence working with my hair. Even in dead summer, the frizz is minimal, my waves/curls keep their shape without the necessity of crusty gel, and I have actual definition.

Not only has it helped me style on air-dry days, but my day two style is easier to manage. I can use this to gently brush out the sections to give me a nice, soft wave without it immediately frizzing. If I brush it out the night before and put it up, it’s even easier to deal with on day two. I don’t exactly understand how the brush does what it does, but I’d absolutely recommend it for wavy hair folks who want to define and control.

Besides liking the fact that it works, I like that the brush is lightweight, seems pretty durable so far, and is at a good price point. The handle is comfortable, and the bristle pad gives. Just a great brush all around.” —AM

Get it from Amazon for $19.56+ (available in seven colors/designs).

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South Africa series exposes India’s familiar squad-selection woes ahead of T20 World Cup <div id="content-body-70927999" itemprop="articleBody"><p>Imagine your favourite meal. A nice <i>thali</i>? Or a hot plate of biriyani? A decadent cheesy pizza? Now imagine the comfort of the perfect nap that inevitably follows said savoured spread, paired with a nice cool breeze on a hot Indian summer day.</p><p>What if someone comes and slaps you awake from that siesta? That might be how the team India is feeling after a 1-4 drubbing in the five-match T20I series against South Africa, weeks away from the 2026 T20 World Cup in England. The afterglow of a maiden ODI World Cup win, the team’s first major ICC title at the senior level, was enduring and generous, but the bubble had to pop sometime, and that pointy pin that did the job had Laura Wolvaardt’s kind face on it.</p><h4 class="sub_head">Wolvaardt supremacy</h4><p>The South African captain is on a hot streak like never before and looks unstoppable heading into the T20 showpiece. In the 825 runs the Proteas scored against India in five T20Is, Wolvaardt accounted for 330 – a whopping 40 percent. Her series haul is also the most runs a woman has scored in a single series/tournament in the format.</p><p>She has three fifties, a century (struck at a series-best strike rate of 216.98) and a solitary 18-run blip within her returns in the series. Incidentally, that was the game the Proteas lost. Naturally, she finished as the Player of the Series. For additional context, India’s top-scorer for its tour was her counterpart Harmanpreet Kaur, who scored little more than half of Wolvaardt’s aggregate – 169 runs.</p><p>That top-order brilliance masked frailties in the spine for South Africa. The middle order continues to be shaky. Sune Luus has been effective as Wolvaardt’s partner at the top, but the batting order thereafter has not managed an ounce of consistency.</p><p>Wolvaardt loves responsibility and has often tried to negotiate cricket’s tug of war on her own. Think of the semifinal and final in the ODI World Cup in 2025. But how much can she really do all by herself, year after year?</p><p>The side’s batting dynamite was on display in that 50-over showpiece when Wolvaardt and Tazmin Brits sculpted a <i>Travishek</i> (to borrow from the ongoing IPL)-style dominance over teams. Much like fellow South African Heinrich Klaasen for the Sunrisers Hyderabad, Nadine de Klerk, along with Chloe Tryon, gave South Africa its fangs lower down the order and finished several tight games for the side. With no official fixtures before the World Cup, the Proteas need to tap into these core strengths to fashion another surge to the summit clash.</p><h4 class="sub_head">Deja vu</h4><p>India, meanwhile, has stumbled back in time to 2024, where indecision rules. While the No. 3 slot was Amol Muzumdar’s biggest headache then, Jemimah Rodrigues has settled the nerves with a stable showing in that position. While the itch to use tours like this to experiment is understandable and even justified, a few of India’s calls are hard to understand. Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma have scored 37 percent (416 out of 1120) of the runs India has managed in the format this year, so resting the former to allow youngsters like Anushka Sharma a chance was fairly prudent.</p><p>What was puzzling was the organisation of the lower order. The handling of Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, and a player like Bharti Fulmali – inducted into the team for her power and quick-scoring abilities under pressure – felt scatterbrained at best. Bharti, returning to the Indian T20I fold after a considerable time in the wilderness, needs to be moulded in Richa’s template, someone who can usurp the reins of an innings and firmly steer it away from the opposition’s control. The Gujarat Giants and Vidarbha finisher has a best effort of 30-ball 40 in the 5th T20I, returning single-digit scores in the other two games she featured in. Should India have considered pushing her ahead of Richa to allow her an additional ball or two to settle in and get going? Richa’s own stutters mean she needs game time too – a Catch-22 for the think tank.</p><p>Beyond it all, will Bharti continue to get a run if Amanjot Kaur’s pace option makes her a better choice?</p><p>One can imagine Deepti was worried more about her returns with the ball than with the bat. She went wicketless in the first three games and then dug her way to a match-winning fifer in the fourth fixture, but her economy rates remained erratic throughout. England is the last preparatory stop for the Women in Blue, an opponent that brings out Deepti’s competitive best. Muzumdar and Co. will hope Deepti finds her rhythm in time to get going in the World Cup, should she make the squad.</p><p>Kranti Goud’s aggression and Renuka Singh’s ability to swing the ball early mean little if wickets don’t follow with the new ball. India managed just two PowerPlay wickets in five games. Renuka and Deepti are Harmanpreet’s strike bowlers of choice, and they clocked economy rates exceeding 11. 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That opening defeat at the hands of New Zealand buoyed the White Ferns right to the podium. All eyes will be on the squad India carts to the British Isles and what the unit does with the time it has to lock in some last-minute preparation as a challenging World Cup, with spirited opponents, beckons.</p><p class="publish-time" id="end-of-article">Published on May 01, 2026</p></div> #South #Africa #series #exposes #Indias #familiar #squadselection #woes #ahead #T20 #World #Cup

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