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Dry, damaged lips can have a dark appearance. Use a good quality lip balm. Check the ingredients to make sure that it has both a moisturizer, such as shea butter or cocoa butter, and a binding agent, such as beeswax.  Good moisturizing ingredients to look for include shea butter, cocoa butter, and almond oil. Shea butter has been used since ancient times and is known for its antioxidant and moisturizing properties. Cocoa butter is often used to reduce discoloration from scarring. Almond oil is considered one of the best oils to improve the health and appearance of skin. Protect your lips from the sun as you protect the rest of your skin. Lips don't tan but they can burn and become dry which will make them appear darker.  Make sure your lip balm has sun blocking material of SPF 20 or greater. Use lipsticks with sun block of SPF 20 also. , if you do. Smoking can discolor lips, as tobacco, nicotine, and tar can all darken lips. Additionally, heat from cigarettes may cause you to produce more melanin (which protects skin from the sun) and darken your lips. Quitting is hard. Talk to your doctor about medications that can help you quit, as well as gum or patches.

summary: Moisturize your lips. Use sunblock. Quit smoking


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Speak with students in more advanced Italian classes, or make friends with people who are fluent speakers. Conversing with people who are fluent in Italian is the best way to improve your language skills; it's impossible to get this kind of practice by reading a textbook or using other educational resources.  Start an Italian discussion group that meets a few times a week. The goal should be to speak only Italian for a full hour or so. You can have everyone discuss a certain conversation topic, or simply go with how the conversation flows. Plan outings with Italian speakers so you can practice using the language in a variety of contexts. For example, you could go to a museum and discuss art in Italian. Find a way to speak Italian for at least half an hour a day. Even on the days when you don't meet with your group, give a fellow Italian speaker a call and chat in Italian for half an hour. Meet with an Italian instructor during his or her office hours and discuss the class in Italian. Get as much practice in as you can. Media immersion is a good way to continue improving your skills, and it helps you gain a deeper understanding of the Italian language through pop culture and other contexts. Rent Italian films and watch them with Italian subtitles, or no subtitles at all. Focus on understanding the language; soon you should be able to pick up on what the actors are saying. If you want to become fluent in Italian, there is no substitute for going to Italy and studying the language there for as long as you can. Attaining full fluency could take many years, but even a stay of 6 months to a year will vastly improve your language skills.  Look for study abroad opportunities offered by your college or university. You may be able to spend a semester or a year studying in Italy. If you aren't affiliated with a school, look for work opportunities in Italy. Foreigners can work abroad through arts programs, organic farming programs, and other interesting opportunities. When you're in Italy, speak only Italian and try to avoid English. Don't gravitate toward the English-speaking foreigners you'll inevitably encounter. Many well-meaning Italians may assume you'd rather speak English, but you should politely continue to speak Italian, even if it's difficult at first. With enough time and practice, the language will begin to click and you'll be able to speak with fluency.

summary: Spend time with people who speak Italian. Consume Italian media. Study Italian in Italy.


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If you are part of multiple teams with your account, you can switch between them by clicking the team name in the upper left and choosing to “Sign into another team”. On mobile, you will see a four square icon in the upper right after tapping the team name instead of “Sign into another team”. Click any name under the “Channel” header in the left sidebar to change the chat area to that conversation.  You can also hit Ctrl+K to bring up a channel quick search. Tap the team name in the upper left to open the sidebar on mobile. Enter text into the text field and hit ↵ Enter to send. You can add emoji to your messages by with the smiley button on the right side of the text field (left side on mobile). You can surround parts (or all) of your text with certain symbols to change your formatting. A full list of formatting interactions can be found on the slack support site.  Using an asterisk (*) on each side of the message will display it in boldface. Using underscores (_) will italicize text. Using tildes (~) will strikethrough text. Use a triple backtick (```) on each side to format your text with a codebox. Click the three dot icon displayed on the right of a message when you hover the cursor over it. This will bring up a menu to edit, delete, mark unread, pin, or set a reminder for that message.  Tap and hold a message on mobile to bring up the full list of modifying options. Pinning a message will place it at the top of a channel and display it as you scroll. Use this for important announcements. You can select a period from 20 minutes to 1 week before the reminder takes place. Click the Star icon that appears next to the timestamp when hovering the cursor over the messages. This will add it to a list of saved messages that can be check later by clicking the Star icon in the upper right. On mobile, tap a message to select it, then tap the star that appears at the top of the screen. You can check your starred message by tapping the team name and selecting “Starred” from the dropdown menu in the upper left. Type “@” followed by the username of the person you want to mention. They will receive a slack notification that they have been mentioned in a chat.  For example: “@user: slack message”. You can also use mentions to address an entire channel or team (@channel, @team). You can check messages in which you’ve been mentioned by clicking the “@” icon in the upper right corner. On mobile, this is accessed by tapping the team name and selecting “Mentions” from the dropdown menu in the upper left. Click the smiley icon when hovering over a message to add an emoji reaction that will display directly below the message. These can be used for something like votes, or just for fun.  Reactions can also be added to messages from the modify message menu. On mobile this is the only way to add them. Reactions can only be emoji. Tap the “+” button in the chat field and select “Upload File” from the popup menu to browse your device for files.  You can also drag and drop files into the chat window on a computer. On mobile you can take and upload photos from the same chat field menu. Slack will store up to 5GB of files (including images) on its servers. This amount can be increased by upgrading to their paid services.
summary: Switch between Teams. Switch between Channels. Send messages in chat. Use special formatting. Modify messages. Star messages to flag them as important. Mention a user in chat. Add reactions to messages. Upload files to chat.