04 | opinions
March 29, 2017
OPINIONS BEAUTY
Coffee can be used for more than a morning beverage
Emily Larson Fashion Columnist emily.larson@drake.edu @emj_larson
I know I am not the first to say it and I know I will not be the last but - I love coffee. It is my motivation to wake up in the morning it keeps me going when I want to give up and binge watch Netflix. But it is more than just liquid heaven, it can also help in your beauty routine. Here are 10 of the best ways to use coffee to your beauty benefit. First, it can revive your eyes. When a caramel macchiato is not enough to de-puff your face in the morning, grab some coffee grounds.
Take the coffee grounds and let them cool for a few minutes and then apply them under your eyes and on your eyelids. This will serve to reduce any morning puffiness and leave your face feeling more alert. It can also add shine to your hair. Bring a plastic bag of coffee grounds into the shower tomorrow morning. Work the grounds into your hair for 60 seconds and then rinse it out with cold water. It should also increase your hair growth due to the stimulating properties of coffee. It may sound gross, but you cannot dog it until you try it. Massaging a coffee scrub into your skin can reduce the appearance of cellulite. It will tighten the skin and help stimulate blood flow throughout the area. Coffee grounds can also be used to exfoliate your lips. Lip scrubs are a big trend right now, so of course there is a coffee one. Mix a half a teaspoon of coffee grounds and a half a teaspoon of honey for the perfect lip exfoliant. Save yourself from buying a mud mask. Instead of buying a one-time use mud mask from Target, just go to the kitchen for
your special skin care. Two tablespoons of olive oil and two tablespoons of repurposed coffee grounds blended onto the face for about 30 seconds will result in rejuvenated skin. Adding coffee grounds to your conditioner each time you
shower can result in a chestnut brown hair color. Coffee can work wonders for your face. Step one, freeze coffee ice cubes. Step two, rub the cubes all over your face. This will enhance blood flow and make the skin brighter.
Your feet deserve love too. Lip and face scrubs are important, but we cannot forget the two things that keep us upright: our feet. A cup of virgin coconut oil, half a cup of ground coffee and two teaspoons of vanilla extract will make for a wonderfully exfoliating cleanse. Feeling red? Ironically, coffee can actually be calming for your skin. Inflamed and red skin can be helped by the antioxidants in coffee. Maybe you ate some poignant tacos or a science project was too hands-on and simple hand soap is not doing the trick. Rubbing used coffee grounds in your hands and then rinsing with soap will relieve them of any lingering scents. Coffee can be used for more than just a stimulant to wake you up in the morning. It can be a part of your beauty routine too.
SLEEP
College students struggle to catch up on sleep
Natalie Larimer Book Critic natalie.larimer@drake.edu @larimerslogic
When people ask how I’m doing, I almost always say, ‘I’m fine, just tired.’ It’s a reflex at this point. I’ve been tired since I entered high school, and I thought that I could shake it off by the time I took more control over my life.
The truth is, though, that my bed and I were just not meant to be. There is no growing out of being exhausted, because in order to grow, you need sleep. Some might say, welcome to college, where caffeine addictions and all-nighters become the way of life. But that can’t be how we are supposed to live. There has to be a reason that we are all so tired. Yes, we probably don’t prioritize sleep as much as we should, but that isn’t entirely our fault. According to Anya Kamenetz at NPR, “sleep deprivation affects memory, cognition and motivation, and the effects are compounded when it’s long-term.” What are the main factors in succeeding as a college student? Memory, cognition and motivation. Sounds like if we don’t catch our zzz’s, we’re royally screwed. And the more stressed we are with classes, the less sleep we get. “The tougher the school, the later the students go to bed,” Kamenetz said.
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Those finals week cram sessions that last until the early hours of the morning are not specific to prepharmacy majors, hate to break it to you. Students of all majors are experiencing crazy amounts of caffeine-fueled desperation studying. In high school, I argued that teenagers weren’t mentally awake until about 10 a.m., and so asking them to be awake and learning at 8 a.m. is unreasonable. People from 1925 years old should be getting between seven and nine hours of sleep every night. Yet, we average around seven, the low end of the spectrum. Yes, technically we are getting enough sleep. But remember that this is an average. There is always that one guy who doesn’t have class until 2 p.m. every day and gets 10 hours of sleep while his roommate has an 8 a.m. every day and gets four hours of sleep. What I am calling for is not just responsible sleeping patterns among my peers, because I know that it is unreasonable to ask people to sacrifice valuable study time for some shut-eye.
What we need is for 8 a.m. classes to be obsolete and free coffee to be provided for any classes that start before 10 a.m. Seems reasonable enough for me, especially considering our tuition bills are more than enough to cover the cost. While we’re at it, we should just do Hubbell catering to morning classes. Get some first-years looking for pocket change to do the deliveries and bring us coffee and cereal. Not only would we be awake, but also nourished. I’ll start a GoFundMe for it, I think it’s a good idea. So this one goes out to Marty Martin and all administrators of Drake University: please provide a small continental breakfast in our morning classes. You would be surprised by the stark difference in our performance if we are alert during our classes. The Bill of Rights outlaws cruel and unusual punishments and I believe that covers 8 a.m. classes.
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