Saturday, April 3, 2010

Facial


Beware 3 Things for Facial Cleansers

If your skin is regularly subject to acne, then you'll know how hard it is to find a good face cleanser that soothes the skin while also repairing and healing acne skin from the bacteria that is the cause of acne.

Regardless of your age, you can get pimples or acne. I'm currently in my mid-late twenties and I still get the occasional outbreak of acne, especially when I find myself too busy and forget my skin care regimen or when my diet isn't healthy.



The first step to prevent acne would be to change your lifestyle to include a healthy and balanced diet, exercise and sleep. But let's move onto finding the perfect facial skin cleanser.How to Choose a Facial Cleanser Fit for You

1.First thing is to ignore the marketing of a product. Fancy colors, packaging, claims and organic labels without the approved USDA logo are all marketing claims to hype up a product. There are certain words and phrases that companies will use to try and make a claim yet be excused of its responsibility under the FDA guidelines. e.g. anything that has the words "helps" or even "may" won't do what it claims to do.
2.Avoid sodium laureth sulfate. Most products will contain Sodium Laureth Sulfate which is a big irritant your skin because it is a chemical to form soap suds and bubbles. We are so used to having foamy lathers in our products that we believe a good product should produce more bubbles. Not true. This is simply a myth. Foam does not equal good cleansing.
3.Avoid products with dyes or colors. One of the main reasons many products don't pass the FDA tests is because it contains dyes or colorants. This is a big no no if your skin is sensitive and especially more so for acne skin. On the ingredient list, if it says anything about "red..", "yellow.." then skip it. It is more likely to cause more irritation.
The Best Face Cleanser that Works For You

When looking for a cleanser, be sure to ignore the hype and marketing of a product. Just because you saw it on TV with some beautiful models does not mean it will produce the same results.

Learning to read the ingredient list and becoming familiar with what is good and bad is a good start to empowering yourself to make smarter choices. You can find a list of the best and worst ingredients for exfoliators to find out how to go about learning.The Best Way for Clean and Clear Skin

You can use the best facial cleansers all day long, but you can improve the benefits of the product by knowing the process of facial cleansing.


Friday, April 2, 2010

Makeup


What Permanent Makeup Is

Are you not entirely happy with how your face looks, but not unhappy enpough to do something stupid, like undergo a surgery? Then permanent makeup might be someth9ing to consider for you. A failure here is less critical than it would have been with for example botox, as the permanent makeup can be removed; if botox "goes wrong" the recorrection can possibly make it worse.
It is usually called permanent cosmetics, but also goes under the names micropigmentation, cosmetic tattooing and dermapigmentation.



permanent makeup resembles, but is a permanent variant of, the makeup on lips, face and eyelids. It can be used to cover ugly scars and such things on your face.
But it is not entirely superficial as it is also sometimes used to make artificial eyebrows for post cancer victims and those that either suffer from other diseases, such as paralysis or blindness, that keep them from doing their own makeup.

Some form of permanent makeup, especially the eyebrow tattoo, has been around for a long while, since ancient times, but in the last hundred years or so got popular; kind of introduced pencil thin eyebrows that you could see on moviestars in that time. As opposed to how eyebrow tattooing in that time was considered a luxury - at least being associated to "those with money" - it has now become a more common procedure; not meaning "everyone" does it but that also "common people" do it.

In some countries permanent makeup is completely prohibited - in others you need license to do it. In for example Australia the tattooer can not call it permanent makeup as, just like all tattoos do, it fades over time

Skin,


Best Home Beauty Recipes ,

Tired of all those cosmetics that do you more harm than good? You don’t have to look too far as all you need is right there in your kitchen!
Yes, your kitchen can be a rich source of natural beauty recipes that will keep you all glowing and beautiful. What are you waiting for?
Treat your skin with the healing properties of nature, and within a very short time you will see the difference.
Why spend a whole lot of money in beauty salons when you have your very own beauty recipes up on your kitchen shelf?
Turmeric
For ages now, turmeric has been considered as one of the best natural beauty recipes. It can be used as a wonderful base for face scrubs or masks and brings about a natural glow to your skin. If you are looking for a cure for pigmentation, turmeric can be your best solution. By mixing turmeric with cucumber or lemon you have a ready cure for pigmentation.


Cucumber
The freshness of cucumber is something that only few of us can resist. Cucumber is particularly good for your skin during the hot and dry season. Besides the many health benefits of this wonderful fruit, it can also be used for home beauty treatments. Cucumber can also be used to relieve the eyes from exhaustion. When your eyes look tired and puffy, place a slice of cucumber in each of the eyes and rest for 10-15 minutes. Your eyes will feel refreshed and your face will glow. Face masks and scrubs made out of cucumber also help in making your skin smooth and supple.
Papaya
For healthy, youthful looking skin, there are few fruits that can work more magically than papaya. This miracle fruit cleanses your body internally and the result is smooth glowing skin. Always make it a habit to include papaya in your everyday diet for good health and flawless skin. Papaya pulp and peel can be gently rubbed over your skin to remove dead skin, lighten the complexion and freckles. Papaya also works as an excellent sunscreen that protects your skin from the harmful effects of the sun.
Yoghurt
Yoghurt can be used both internally and externally to rejuvenate your skin and free it from blemishes, sunburn, and other skin ailments. Yoghurt is also great on your teeth and gums, which means a beautiful, glowing smile on your lips. More and more women around the world are realizing the enormous potential of yoghurt as a natural beauty booster. The enzymes and lactic acid present in yoghurt help your skin to obtain a smooth and glowing texture. Whether you apply yoghurt directly on your skin or consume it internally, you benefit from its cleansing properties. When combines with honey and lemon juice, yoghurt makes an excellent mask for moisturizing the skin.
The secrets to a beautiful you can certainly be found in your kitchen. Most cosmetics that are artificially made can cause harm to your skin. When it comes to lasting beauty, it is best to go the natural way.

Skin,


Natural Tips for Fair Complexion ,

Few very good masks to lighten the skin tone and add a glow to the complexion. continue to care your skin is always important to maintain your skin and look fresh all the time.

Mix 1 table spoon of milk powder, 1 table spoon of honey, 1 table spoon of lemon juice, and ½ table spoon of almond oil. Apply on face and wash off after 10-15 minutes. This pack helps bring shine to the skin and also removes tan.

You can do a fairness massage easily at the privacy of your home. Soak four almonds overnight. In the morning remove their skin and grind them fine. Make a paste by adding one teaspoon of gram flour, one teaspoon of milk and four drops of limejuice. A regular massage with this paste will assure a long lasting fairness to you.

For 15 days, apply a paste of gram flour (besan), milk (2 teaspoon) and lime juice(3-4 drops) on face and neck for 15 minutes and wash with water. You complexion should improve. Repeat every 2 weeks.

SANDALWOOD:

This is best home remedy for dark skin. Sandalwood is one of the most expensive, most exotic, and most aromatic plants known to humans. Sandalwood has a use in treating most skin problems. It is a cooling agent, stimulant, and blood purifier. It protects skin from the sun's rays, acts an anti-aging agent, and keeps skin smooth and aromatic. Sandalwood is extremely effective on pimples, prickly heat, skin erruptions, itching, rashes, spots, freckles, and swellings.



Mix oatmeal with yogurt and tomato juice and apply on the face. Wash it with cold water after 15 minutes.

Apply a mixture of 3-4 drops of lime juice and a grated tomato on face and neck for 15 minutes for 15 days. Wash with cold water.
Mix almond, neem leaf , turmeric, sandlewood and poppy seeds.
Blend this mixture into a fine paste using milk . Apply this paste on face and allow it to dry. remove the dried mask by massaging your face in circular motion and wash your face using luke warm water.
Wheat germ scrub:

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon oatmeal powder
1 tablespoon wheat germ (powder)
1 tablespoon skimmed milk powder
1 teaspoon sandal wood powder.

Rose:

This is a popular herb for dark skin. Rose oil is a cooling agent and is excellent for tired skin. It is a good source of vitamins C and E. Rose oil has a very pleasant fragrance to it. It removes dead cells from the skin, and provides relief from burns. It slows the aging process and balances the skin's chemistry. Rose oil is used for cleansing, toning, moisturizing, and nourishing of the skin.
Mash the cucmber with the skin still on to get the juice. You may then need to squeeze the juice out with your hands. You can use lime juice with haldi and besan, and scrub your face with this to try and remove the tan. However. simply applying lime juice and cucumber will help lighten skin over time.

Fair look, dry skin:

Apply a mixture of equal amounts of cucumber juice and honey on the face and whole body. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash off.

Fair look, oily skin:

Apply a mixture of equal amounts of lemon and cucumber juice on the face and whole body. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash off.

Hair


Valuable Information On Hair Straightening ,
Hair straightening is a process that when performed without following proper instructions and safety measures can lead to permanent hair damages. But they are excellent tools to tame even the most unruly hair, while offering smoother, smarter and shiny appeal to your hair when done effectively. However, applying strong chemicals on your hair wouldn't be right option as they are highly hazardous to your hair. At the same time, the use of high quality ceramic, titanium flat irons are best hair styling tools that are popularly in use today. Here are some valuable tips put together for you to keep in mind while straightening your hair.
A number of ways are there to straighten hair. These ways can include chemical relaxers, hair irons, hot combs, Japanese hair straightening techniques, or Brazilian hair techniques. Apart from these, there are gels, shampoos, conditioners, and other products that can straighten hair. All these hair straighteners show a discrepancy in their effectiveness.





If you need only temporary straightening, you can use tools such as hot combs and hair irons. This is the same in the case of nearly all gels, shampoos, and other products. For this reason, don't believe the advertisements that boast of these products capable of providing permanent straight hair. When it comes to chemical relaxers and some other more complex methods, they can change the structure of existing hair permanently. Especially, the chemical modify the existing hair follicles, which result a permanent change in the structure of hair.
Before applying any sorts of heating tools on your hair, the most important step is to protect your hair with hair protecting products such as special heat protection gels, sprays, conditioners so as to shield the scalp and hair. The correct method of using the flat iron on your hair is also highly important. It is always recommended to take small sections of your hair and apply the iron from the back of your head, gently gliding towards the bottom. The temperature set for your hair is also important. Choose the temperature that suits your hair type. Above all, the most important factor that is responsible for the health of your hair is choosing the best flat iron that does the work without causing damages on your hair.





Nail's


Different Types Of Electric Nail

The modern society has placed modern people especially women under an obligation to look elegant and to maintain every single aspect of their appearance impeccable. The overall image if every person can be viewed as composed from several details that despite of being seemingly small and negligible, actually have great significance and relevance. The condition of one's fingernails is one of such aspects that are now attached great importance to. That is why a person who is truly vigilant about safeguarding one's impeccable appearance and thus keep their fingernails taken good care of.



The market of the nail care related products is now filled to the brim with all kinds of items. The range of nail care products available is very wide indeed and the list extends all the way from different shades of nail polish and to the various types of nail files. Nail files have a tremendously long history of usage and it is not by chance that its usage not yet been eliminated and is not even likely to.

Speaking briefly about the purpose of nail files usage it should be necessary to point out that nail files are absolutely indispensable for shaping the nails and attributing them the desirable form. Besides, apart from this main purpose, nail files are also applied for smoothing the nail surface in order to prepare the ground for nail polish application. There exist a wide variety of nail files types. Among the ones that are most widely used is the electric nail file.

Modern electric nail files are very often fitted with a pointed tip that can efficiently serve in the quality of a nail cleaner. They are normally designed to be small and handy, as well as elegant and safe. When choosing an electric nail file it is necessary to make sure that it is safe to use. Also make sure that the file edges have undergone the necessary grinding that is meant for smoothing the file edges to make the item comfortable and safe to use.

The materials that can be efficiently used for nail files manufacturing are quite different. The best material for nail files is believed to be professional steel, but at the same time the market of nail care products is flooded with all kinds of innovative nail files made from other materials including glass. The manufacturers claim that glass nail files will serve for an unlimited term and their manner of action leaves nothing else to be desired. The essential requirement to nail files is gentle treatment of nails without any damage to the nail structure that could potentially lead to nail slicing and breaking.


Thursday, April 1, 2010

Airbrush Makeup



Airbrush Makeup - the Evolution of Beauty
What ever happened to Fay Wray? We've lost her in the tunnels of time, but the new starlets out there are just as gorgeous as Wray ever was- and we do it with a little bit of air! Sounds light? You're right! Airbrushing! The flawless coverage and natural translucency that airbrush makeup offers is a huge step in the evolution of makeup
When the average person hears the word airbrush, we think of a car being painted, or the final stages of prints for magazines that are finessed into perfection. Today, these processes are accomplished digitally. The model's print (who already happens to be stunningly gorgeous) is color corrected, her teeth are made whiter, her pupils enhanced, her lashes made thicker, her skin tweaked to perfection, her legs thinned out and elongated. It's quite an artificial process and it leads me to the conclusion that I - or any farm animal for that matter... could probably model for Vogue. However, what would you say if some of these adjustments could be made on your face instead of on your picture? I said prove it!



As I watched the tiny droplets leave the airbrush gun and dance in the air before landing on the subject's face I was intrigued. I was sold when I saw a pretty great result dry into flawlessness. "Lets just wait a minute and watch the paint dry to see the final result," the demo makeup artist whispered. (It reminded me of an episode on the original Star Trek with William Shatner hanging out with a colony of women taking "the beauty pill " and watching all the "Plain Janes" turning into sexy amazons with the blink of an eye).
Spending time with the system I discovered the secrets that airbrushing holds. The airbrush gun takes the tiniest, most fragile foundation molecule and oxidizes it into a high opacity. In other words, one can wear the sheerest of sheer foundations and have virtually perfect skin. When I took the airbrush foundation and tried to apply it by traditional methods (a sponge and my finger tips) it was too watery to work with. Yet the same foundation passed through the air system takes on a new characteristic and a strength that I have not seen in the twenty-six years I've been painting faces.



THE PROS OF AIRBRUSH MAKEUP:
- Maximum coverage with minimal product
- Delivers a natural and translucent look
- Great for oily skin
- Fantastic for overly active skin that tends to "eat" makeup
- Lasts ten to twelve hours - a bride's best friend
- Does not require powder, which can be aging
- Some foundation formulations are silicone based
- Silicone is as smooth as silk

THE CONS OF AIRBRUSH MAKEUP:
- Set up fee for airbrush technician: $500 to $800. Requires a skilled technician/artist or a lot of home practice
- Airbrush Make-up session $80 to $200

Beauty airbrush is slowly making its way into the television and the film industry. With the transition of high definition television, it's definitely a makeup artist's and television personality's new best friend.