{"id":30114,"date":"2017-11-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=30114"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T23:10:01","slug":"cool-tools-2017-holiday-gift-guide-claudias-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/cool-tools-2017-holiday-gift-guide-claudias-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Tools 2017 Holiday Gift Guide: Claudia’s Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The editors of Cool Tools have curated a number of gift suggestions selected from the pages of Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities<\/a> (which itself makes a great gift), and from the website. This week: Claudia’s picks.<\/p>\n

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\n“The Amazon reviews for these Zojirushi thermoses<\/a> ($26) read like sycophantic hyperbole and almost turned me off, but my curiosity got the better of me. Turns out none of it is hyperbole.” — Phill<\/p>\n
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\nBecause of the Tangle Teezer<\/a> ($11), I actually like brushing my hair after I shower. Just a few, quick strokes and my hair is super smooth and detangled. I\u2019ve used the Tangle Teezer on my 10-year-old niece, who has 26-inch long hair and hates getting it brushed, and there was not one complaint. A tip for brushing long hair painlessly: gather all hair in a fist and brush in sections from the bottom up.<\/p>\n
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\n“I\u2019m a chronic insomniac, and often listen to music or podcasts in the late watches of the night. SleepPhones headphones<\/a> ($40) have been a godsend. Basically they\u2019re soft, low profile headphones in a fleece headband. My husband gave me the wired version a couple of years ago, and they were an immediate hit. I have fallen asleep wearing them fairly often.” — Amy Thompson<\/p>\n

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\n“David Bowie was asked what his most prized possession was and it was a chrysanthemum he pressed from his wedding in 1980. I think there\u2019s something to be said for sampling the physical world and taking a piece of it with you. My flower press<\/a> ($24) is two small pieces of plywood a quarter-inch thick with some pieces of cardboard and parchment paper.” — Robert Stephens<\/p>\n

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\nI\u2019ve been using the Clarisonic Mia2<\/a> ($169) for a couple of months now and I\u2019ve seen a definite improvement in the appearance of my pores and brightness of my skin. It does a really great job at removing my makeup and exfoliating. I can\u2019t imagine living without it now.<\/p>\n

\nWant more? Check out our other 2017 gift guide<\/a> picks, as well as our 2016 Gift Guide<\/a>, 2015 Gift Guide<\/a>, 2014 Gift Guide<\/a> and our 2103 Gift Guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Favorite gift ideas from Claudia Dawson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[2357],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30128,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30114\/revisions\/30128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}