Blog Posts by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

High heels can land you in hospital. New research found that one in ten women have twisted their ankle or damaged their tendon in their stilettos. And another third have broken wrists or teeth after a painful plunge in their footwear. That doesn't mean we're going to switch to flats. Six out of ten women said they'd stick to living on the high-heeled edge. Let's face it: we're slaves to fashion. And our shoes are just the beginning...

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Separate beds. Nasal Strips. White noise machines. Some guys can out-sore anything. The constant honking drove one South Carolina woman to extremes. After several sleepless nights, she banished her husband to the couch. When he told her it would take a SWAT team to move him off the bed, she took the tip to heart and called the local cops.

Apparently, no laws have been created to deal with a snoring problem. So the cops called to the scene left the couple alone to sort it out themselves.

While there may not be a legal rule for couples with snoring issues, some people created their own household mandates. The most popular being separate bedrooms. A new survey found that more couples are sleeping in separate rooms just to get away from the cloying sound of their loved one's rest. Already one in four couples put a wall between them at night. By 2015, sixty percent of custom homes will have dual master bedrooms, predicts The National Association of Home Builders.

It's a great

OVERPAID: Tom Cruise part of a pack of leading men who take more than they give. (Jim Spellman/ Getty Images)
In Hollywood, men still make more than women, but that might be due for a change. According to Forbes, some of the highest paid actors in show business are some of the industry's worst investments. The reporters crunched film costs, salaries and box office grosses to determine the ten most over-paid film superstars. Nine out of ten were men.

Will Farrell offered the lowest return. For every $1 he makes, his films earn an average of $3.35. That's a bad investment by any standards. Eddie Murphy, Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler and Vince Vaughn also aren't worth the mega millions they earn, based on the number-crunching. Drew Barrymore was the only woman on Forbes' list, but she still promised a better profit for backers than Cruise or Farrell.

The big problem may be that some male movie stars command mind blowing salaries, but they're not able to back it up at the box office.

"Ferrell's The Other Guys earned $119 million in the U.S. and only $41 million abroad," explains Forbes'

This may look like flirting to us, but it's reading to guys like she has an eye infection. (ThinkStock Photos)
A new global study found that American women are among some of the world's worst flirts. The social networking site Badoo compiled over 90 million romantic connections, to discover State-side ladies had the lowest track record for flirting, second only to Ecuadorian women.

How can this be? We've devoted a sector of the publishing industry to the laws of attraction. We created the term 'sexpert.' We've got relationship gurus, countless magazine articles, and few television series all dedicated to the fine art of flirting. And still, we're coming up short.

Perhaps that over-analyzation is the problem. We get lost in too much advice, and end up thinking we're flirting when we're not. Dating blogger Carley Spindel suggests that our micro-managed approaches to wooing the opposite sex end up sending arbitrary messages. Take body language. Lots of love experts suggest leg crossing, twisting your hair, leaning your shoulders in. But Spindel says, the actions are "difficult for men to

'Hangover' or not, Mel Gibson will be returning to theaters soon. The scandal-ridden star, accused of domestic violence, put on his best "who, me?" face for the poster of his latest movie, "The Beaver." The film, directed by longtime friend Jodie Foster, is about a guy who uses a hand puppet to get over his mental problems. Hmm.

After getting tossed off "The Hangover 2" because no one really wants to laugh with him right now, the status of Gibson's "Beaver" was up in the air. But this poster suggests Mel and his creepy stuffed animal are slated to hit theaters next year. Some people crunching numbers in Hollywood still think people will put aside the racist tirades, the frightening phone threats, the bizarre public outings, and just enjoy a movie with America's former leading superstar. Are they right? Will you see the movie?

(Photo courtesy of abc.com)Julien Hug, a season five contestant on ABC's "The Bachelorette," died on Wednesday. His body was found in the remote Pinyon Pines area of Southern California after worried family members filed a missing persons report. According to investigators, the 35-year-old died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sadly, this is the second suicide by a reality show participant this year. Since 1997, 12 contestants have taken their own lives.

A good parent tells their child he can be anything he wants. Especially on Halloween. And that's just what one mommy blogger did. When her 5 year-old son got a hankering to be Daphne from the Scooby Doo gang, she bought him the red wig and the costume of his dreams. But she didn't bargain for the ridicule from moms at her son's nursery school Halloween party.
She writes: "Two mothers went wide-eyed and made faces as if they smelled decomp...Mom A says in disgust, "Did he ask to be that?!" I say that he sure did as Halloween is the time of year that you can be whatever it is that you want to be...And then Mom C approaches [and says that] I should never have 'allowed' this and thank God it wasn't next year when he was in Kindergarten since I would have had to put my foot down and 'forbidden' it."
It's hard not to question every choice you make as a mom. But in this instance, the mommy blogger knew it wasn't her family with the problem. It was other mothers. And she wasn't going to

Prince Jefri's sex toys on trial. (Photo via NY Daily News)If you had trillions of dollars, your own country and not much to do, things must get really boring. That's one way to rationalize why Prince Jefri of Brunei commissioned a pair of sexually active statues built in his and his fiancee's likeness. (Scroll though the photos here.) The Sultan of Brunei's brother is famous for being a perverse Richie Rich. And his reckless sexually motivated spending habits are the reason the photos of these statues are coming to light. They're part of evidence in his long running court case with his former business advisors. Despite his pleas with the judge to keep the photos of the statues private, the evidence was released to the public today. And we can't get enough of them.
First of all, the statue of Jefri looks more like a former member of 98 degrees. Secondly, the artist earned close to $1 million for his work. Thirdly: Jefri wants a mustache added to the male statue.
This all may seem shocking to those who haven't followed his exploits in the