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Hip Hop Star Method Man is the Real Deal in the Gym

Fitfluencer is a thing. A suitable influencer can be controversial. Method Man, however, is the real deal.

Obviously, if you've trained 100 pound dumbbells like it isn't a big deal, you are not a celebrity or a potential goldmine of search engine optimized websites.

But, aside, we salute Clifford Smith Jr., aka Method Man, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan collective who played cheese in The Wire, who starred in How High, for now being a bona fide fitfluencer.

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Hip Hop Star Method Man is the Real Deal in the Gym

Fitfluencer is a thing. A suitable influencer can be the subject of discussion. Method Man, however, is the real deal.

Obviously, if you've trained 100 pound dumbbells like it isn't a big deal, you are not a celebrity or a potential goldmine of search engine optimized websites.

But, aside, we salute Clifford Smith Jr., aka Method Man, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan collective who played cheese in The Wire, who starred in How High, for now being a bona fide fitfluencer.

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Soap & Glory Smoothie Star Breakfast Scrub Review

With the weather getting better here in Missouri, I thought about switching to some new skin care products, and Soap & Glory Smoothie Star Breakfast Scrub is one of them. This is an effective cream-based scrub that is perfect for a mild winter scrub. Because the sugar-based scrub does not sting like some salt-based scrubs, it contains honey as one of the main ingredients that helps moisturize the skin.

price: $ 11.99 in the US

Soap & Glory Smoothie Star breakfast scrub comes in one transparent Plastic jar with a pink cap. The jar is pretty sturdy and the cap closes tightly so the contents stay safe even in my checked baggage. Although I prefer tube packaging Since it is more hygienic, I would recommend removing the product with a spatula if you use it in the shower. For the first-When I used it in the shower, I found it difficult to use as the scrub made my bathtub messy (the raw sugar it contains dissolves quickly). After reading the manual properly I started applying this to damp skin and Not on slippery wet skin … that way it lasted long enough to properly scrub and exfoliate my skin.

Most of the body scrubs I've used in the past have been too abrasive, some even made my skin red, but honestly it didn't! The Cupuacu scrubbies softens my skin and gives a beautiful luxurious glow. Did I tell you that this scrub has an amazing smell, Oh YEAH! I can describe that Scent so tasty not that i would have eaten it but seriously wonderful fresh smell. The scent remains for a good 1-2 hours and persists even after this time. Soap & Glory Breakfast Scrub contains oats, sugar, shea, banana, almond, maple and honey as keys ingredients.

The scrub gently cleanses my skin and makes it smooth once you wash off the scrub. After washing, there is no residue and my skin does not dry out, although I always apply a body lotion after showering.

A total ofThis is a wonderful scrub that is suitable for all skin types. I especially like it in winter because it makes my skin soft. It exfoliates, helps remove dry skin, and my skin feels fresh and smooth. If you are looking for a good body scrub this is worth a try! Yes, and that delicious scent to wake you up to!

BnB rating: 8.9 / 10

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Pentax FA Star Series 85mm F/1.4 Review: Stellar Performer

Pentax-D FA Star-Series 85mm f / 1.4 in hand with lens hood attached

“Pentax fans have a winner. For everyone else, the Star Series 85mm is the best portrait lens you will never use. "

  • Very sharp

  • Excellent workmanship

  • Nice bokeh

  • Minimal vignetting

  • Minimal chromatic aberration

If you're a camera company that has made the decision to double up on DSLRs despite the surge in popularity of mirrorless cameras, you should at least have some lenses worth talking about. This is exactly what Ricoh, owned by Pentax, did with the slowly growing Star series, and the new HD Pentax-D FA Star series with 85mm f / 1.4 SDM AW is a shining example of optical excellence. This full-frame portrait lens can easily hold its own against the best 85mm lenses from other brands. In fact, it's a near-perfect lens – and at $ 1,900, it should be.

There is only one possible problem that is preventing most people from enjoying it: it requires a Pentax camera.

Mammoth size

The first thing you notice about the Sta-Series 85mm f / 1.4 is the world-eating size of the front panel. If you look into it for too long, you can get lost. This lens is a giant at 2.77 pounds – heavier than the already uncomfortably large Sigma 85mm f / 1.4 Art. Perhaps that's why it's called a star lens – it has enough mass to create its own gravitational field.

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With the lens hood attached, it looks like a much longer telephoto lens than just 85mm. Passers-by who saw me testing no doubt assumed that I wanted to watch birds.

But when you can handle the weight, you'll love how top-notch it all feels. The lens is completely weatherproof, the materials are luxurious, the focus ring is buttery soft, and even the lens hood feels redesigned, with a rubber collar on the front and a grippy inner surface. The hood snaps into place with a very short reach bayonet mount that is faster to use than most other hoods and is incredibly satisfying to do so. If ASMR were a lens, it would be the Pentax Star Series 85mm.

With 12 elements in 10 groups, the optical formula isn't really that complex, at least in terms of pure numbers. Despite the added weight, that's two elements less than the aforementioned Sigma 85mm Art. Numbers aren't everything, however, and Pentax has clearly made efficient use of the glass it contains, including three particularly low-dispersion Super ED elements and a single aspherical element.

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Pentax is also paying particular attention to its new autofocus system. The SDM motor has 1.3 times more torque than the 50 mm Star series lens, and the focus group contains, according to Pentax, a “greater number of optical elements than normal lenses”. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but the focus performance is certainly very fast.

The lens also uses an electronically controlled aperture which, according to Pentax, interestingly allows smooth exposure adjustments while recording video. By the way, almost every modern lens uses an electronically controlled iris, which tends to be more accurate than the older lever-driver style. Aside from smooth exposure changes in the video, this is helpful for consistency in things like time-lapse photography.

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The remaining specs include nine rounded bezel blades, a minimum focus distance of 33.5 inches, and a 0.12x magnification ratio. Spec sheet snoopers will find that these are all identical to the Sigma 85mm Art. It's almost as if Ricoh had some work to do in developing this lens (Sigma, which makes lenses for many different camera brands, stopped manufacturing Pentax K-mount lenses last year). Surprisingly, because of its additional weight, the Pentax “only” uses an 82 mm filter compared to the Sigma's 86 mm filter.

But the Sigma is $ 800 cheaper. So there is this.

Comparing these two lenses is, of course, nothing more than an academic exercise. One is available exclusively for Pentax, the other for every DSLR except Pentax.

Deep field

Aspherical elements and high torque focus motors are great, but I know that the only thing people really care about about an 85mm f / 1.4 is the bokeh. You want to see backgrounds that are forgotten, turning point lights into large, soft, gently overlapping circles. I assure you, dear reader, that the Star Series 85mm delivers all of this.

Environmental portrait shot with an 85mm f / 1.4 lens from the Pentax-D FA Star seriesDaven Mathies / Digital Trends

At 1: 1.4 wide open, your subject is brought to rest on a pillow-like bokeh cloud. The depth of field is so shallow that you can still achieve a decent separation of subject and background when the subject is relatively long. This is ideal for full body portraits or shots where you want to draw attention to a relatively small subject in a large setting.

As expected, there is vignetting at f / 1.4, but it's pretty mild. With f / 2.8 it's completely gone. The sharpness of the center is fantastic at any aperture, although the edges slope off a bit with larger apertures. I was impressed with how well a night sky was rendered at f / 1.4, and while an 85mm lens wouldn't be my first choice for astrophotography, this lens is sharp enough to handle it. It gets even sharper if you stop at 1: 5.6. However, in the real world, you should feel confident choosing an aperture for exactly the depth of field you want without having to worry about sharpness.

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The chromatic aberration is particularly well controlled. I noticed some color fringes in defocused areas, as is common with any lens, but only extremely small stripes in the focal plane and only with large apertures.

Oh, and there just isn't any distortion. At all.

I have to get really pedantic to find a bug with this lens, but let's go: while the blur circles aren't perfectly rounded 1: 2 in the center of the frame at f / 1.4, they extend in Rectangles. If you stop after f / 2.8, you can see the angular shape of the iris leaves in the blur circles. "Onion rings" also appeared in my test shots of LED string lights. It's all awful, I know.

Seriously, the Pentax 85mm f / 1.4 is a beautiful lens, and checking its little flaws is nothing but a waste of time. If you believe in the Pentax Belief and can win two grand, just step out and shoot, focus on your art, and trust this lens to keep making gold.

Astral plane

Products like these make being a reviewer great because I can try something new that I really enjoy, but that I would never actually buy for myself. I mean, did you think I would switch to Pentax?

And there is the problem. The Star Series 85mm feels like a dream, a utopian experience separated from reality. It could be the Pentax, not the Pentax.

I tested the lens on a Pentax K1 Mark II, which is a full-frame DSLR with an older but still excellent 36-megapixel sensor. I didn't want image quality – although I think this lens will go for even higher resolutions – but it's still not good enough for this lens. The 33-point viewfinder autofocus system lacks the flexibility and accuracy to actually use it. They are basically fixed to single point AF and the “focus and reformulate” shooting method. This is not the easiest way to get sharp results with an aperture of f / 1.4. During this test, as impressed as I was, I could only imagine how much better the lens would be with Sony's real-time eye AF or flawless subject tracking from Canon in the EOS R5.

The K1 Mark II has never been my favorite DSLR, but most of the flaws are simply that of format. DSLRs simply cannot offer the advanced focus features that mirrorless cameras take for granted. A couple of extraordinary lenses might have been enough to get people back to Pentax – if they didn't have to get people back to the DSLR first.

But the optimist would say that this lens is trend-setting. If Pentax can make such a great lens, maybe there will be an equally great DSLR soon. I think there is still room for innovation in DSLRs, but they have been moving away from the mainstream for years. Perhaps Pentax can be the one to rule this new niche realm?

After all, Ricoh is apparently good at working on the sidelines. The GR III is a neat little camera that was built for a select few street photographers. This Pentax lens is aimed at a similarly small group of customers. The brand may never be a high-volume competitor, but that doesn't mean the Star Series 85mm is any less of a triumph for those who can (and can afford) use it. Whatever your reasons for sticking to your Pentax DSLR, you have another big one right now.

Our opinion

Like the quiet, introverted kid in the back of the class who passes the test but doesn't say a word, Pentax continues to use some stunning lenses with little fanfare. Even the CameraVille, possibly the only Pentax-focused YouTuber, doesn't have a handy video at the time of publication. Compared to influencer-obsessed Sony and Canon, that's … kind of nice.

Of course, a lack of fanfare can simply signal a lack of fans. But for all of the confusing decisions Pentax has made with cameras (remember the Q?), I can still admire it when I make lenses like this. The Pentax-D FA Star Series 85mm f / 1.4 is as good as it gets – though most people will never get a chance to try.

Enjoy this moment, Pentax shooters. You finally have time to be happy.

Is there a better alternative?

No. The options for third-party Pentax photographers are slim these days. In many ways, this lens feels like a response to the lack of alternatives. However, in addition to being a great option, this is the only option. Vacuum or not, this is a brilliant portrait lens.

How long it will take?

Any professional lens will easily outlive the life of your camera, and this one is no different. I just hope the Pentax brand doesn't survive.

Should you buy it?

If you are ready to reiterate your commitment to Pentax and DSLRs, then yes. It may be gigantic and expensive, but the Star Series 85mm is a thank you to the Pentax believers who have kept it up for so long. Enjoy it; you deserve it.

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Soap & Glory Smoothie Star Breakfast Scrub Review

As the weather gets better here in Missouri, I've been considering switching to some new skincare products, and Soap & Glory Smoothie Star Breakfast Scrub is one of them. This is an effective peeling based on cream, which is perfect for a mild peeling in winter. Because the peeling is sugar-based, it doesn't sting like some salt-based peels, but contains honey as one of the main ingredients that help moisturize the skin.

Price: $ 11.99 in the U.S.

Soap & Glory Smoothie Star breakfast scrub comes in one transparent Plastic jar with a pink cap. The glass is quite sturdy and the cap closes tightly, so the contents stay safe even in my checked baggage. Although I prefer tubes packaging As it is more hygienic, I would recommend removing the product with a spatula when using it in the shower. For the first-When I used it in the shower, it was hard for me to use because the peeling made my bathtub messy (the raw sugar it contains dissolves quickly). After reading the manual I really started to apply this to damp skin and Not on slippery wet skin … this way it lasted long enough to properly scrub and exfoliate my skin.

Most of the body scrubs I've used in the past were too abrasive, some even made my skin red, but honestly it didn't! The Cupuacu scrubbies soften my skin and give it a beautiful luxurious shine. Did I tell you that this scrub has an amazing smell, Oh YEAH! I can describe that Fragrance so tasty not that I would have eaten it, but seriously wonderful fresh fragrance. The scent remains for a good 1-2 hours and persists even after this time. Soap & Glory Breakfast Scrub contains oats, sugar, shea, banana, almond, maple and honey as key ingredients.

The peeling gently cleanses my skin and makes it smooth as soon as you wash the peeling off. There are no residues after washing and my skin does not dry out, although I always apply a body lotion after showering.

A total ofThis is a wonderful peeling that is suitable for all skin types. I especially like it in winter because it softens my skin. It exfoliates, helps remove dry skin, and my skin feels fresh and smooth. If you are looking for a good body scrub this is worth a try! Yes and this delicious fragrance to wake up to!

BnB rating: 8.9 / 10

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Soap & Glory Smoothie Star Breakfast Scrub Review

As the weather gets better here in Missouri, I thought about switching to some new skin care products, and Soap & Glory Smoothie Star Breakfast Scrub is one of them. This is an effective peeling based on cream, which is perfect for a mild peeling in winter. Since the peeling is based on sugar, it does not sting like some peels based on salt, but contains honey as the main ingredient that moisturizes the skin.

Price: $ 11.99 in the U.S.

Soap & Glory Smoothie Star breakfast scrub comes in one transparent Plastic jar with a pink cap. The glass is pretty sturdy and the cap closes tightly, so the contents stay safe even in my checked baggage. Although I prefer tubes packaging Since it is more hygienic, I would recommend removing the product with a spatula when using it in the shower. For the first-When I used it in the shower, it was hard for me to use it because the peeling made my bathtub messy (the raw sugar it contains dissolves quickly). After reading the manual I really started to apply this to damp skin and Not on slippery wet skin … this way it lasted long enough to properly scrub and exfoliate my skin.

Most of the body scrubs I've used in the past were too abrasive, some even made my skin red, but honestly it didn't! The Cupuacu scrubbies soften my skin and give it a beautiful luxurious shine. Did I tell you that this scrub has an amazing smell, Oh YEAH! I can describe that Fragrance so tasty not that I would have eaten it, but seriously wonderful fresh scent. The scent remains for a good 1-2 hours and persists even after this time. Soap & Glory Breakfast Scrub contains oats, sugar, shea, banana, almond, maple and honey as key ingredients.

The peeling gently cleanses my skin and makes it smooth as soon as you wash the peeling off. There are no residues after washing and my skin does not dry out, although I always apply a body lotion after showering.

All in allThis is a wonderful peeling that is suitable for all skin types. I especially like it in winter because it softens my skin. It exfoliates, helps remove dry skin, and my skin feels fresh and smooth. If you are looking for a good body scrub this is worth trying! Yes and this delicious fragrance to wake up to!

BnB rating: 8.9 / 10

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