The Beauty Tips Blog

• Comfort Food Bad Food…. Not Really!!!!

  15Mar
  Categories: General, Information Comments: 0

  Well that should be the case for some of the most loved comfort foods; chips and others have MSG or monosodium glutamate as part of their flavoring regimen. Primarily used as a flavor enhancer, MSG along with a ton of other additives makes canned goods, junk foods and many other foodstuffs so addicting we simply cannot get enough of them.

  True many a vendors of these products have changed their magic formulas to keep pace with today’s health conscious consumer but are these really to blame. Or is it the human side that should be better examined for the inability to control ones self specially when eating something so good one simply cannot get enough.

• Petroleum jelly for smooth hands and feet

  14Mar
  Categories: General, Quick fixes, Skin Comments: 0

  
  If you want to make your hands and feet feel supple, soft and smooth then there’s a trick you can do with petroleum jelly.
  At night after you’ve taken a shower, get a tub of petroleum jelly. Scoop some of it and rub it on your feet and on your hands. After you’ve fully worked in the petroleum jelly into your skin get a pair of socks and cloth gloves. Wear them and sleep. This combination will make the skin on your feet and hands very soft and smooth. It can even soften the calluses on your feet so you can remove them easily.

  Tags: petroleum jelly, skin care

• Nail Care And Tips

  10Dec
  Categories: General Comments: 0

  Are you among those women who worry too much on chipping and breaking their fingernails? Let us give you some economic tips:

  Put garlic on your nails and it will make them longer and stronger. If you have long nails, poke the garlic cloves using the tips of each of your nail. Or you can either smash or chop the garlic and gently apply on to them.

  After you do your manicure, let the polish dry for at least a minute, and run cold water over them for about 15 seconds. This leaves your polish dry.

  If you love applying colored nail polish, give your nails some rest without it. Let them breathe for sometime as regular applying of nail polish makes them yellowish.

  Image source here.

• Look Good, Spend Less

  10Nov
  Categories: General Comments: 1

  Wanna look good but on a very tight budget? Sit back and relax. You don’t have to be as rich as Paris Hilton to look good. With a little improvisation, you can be like her or anyone that you adore.

  If your eyebrows are like Bert’s and Ernie’s, you need not to worry. With a simple touch and help of petroleum jelly i.e. Vaseline, you can style your eyebrows perfectly. Apply a small amount of it and perfecto! Not only that you can put it on your cheekbones, use it as hand and feet cream and of course as lip gloss.

  Image source here.

• Beauty kit must-haves

  10Mar
  Categories: General, Make-up Comments: 1

  You’ll never know when you need to be extra pretty, so it always helps to be ready especially if you’re always on the go. But then again, lugging around a heavy make-up case isn’t fashionable unless it’s part of your job. So here’s a quick list of the trusty beauty arsenals you shouldn’t leave home without.

  * lip gloss to quickly accentuate your pouters
  * eyelash curler to dramatically open up your eyes
  * blush to give you a girly glow
  * extra clips or pins to easily change hairstyles
  * mints to keep your breath fresh and your smile confident

  Throw in some eye shadow, mascara, and lipstick if you will. But even if you only have our recommended beauty arsenals, you could never go wrong.

  Photo credits: Sxc.hu

• Have Uneven Skin – Who doesn’t

  21Aug
  Categories: General, Make-up Comments: 1

  Don’t fret for you might be surprised to find out that even the most sexy and alluring faces on Hollywood films need some sort of help from time to time. Women are most affected during hormonal changes such as during menstruation and pregnancy when hormonal changes cause many problems on the face and elsewhere. Exfoliation, renews the skin on the face, neck and shoulders that it exposes new skin cells that are not only softer but younger. Once exfoliation has succeeded in removing old ugly skin, foundations and tinted moisturizers that are loaded with UV blocking ingredients helps protect the skin from skin damage and then the makeup goes on. It doesn’t end there, after a long day of wearing makeup and looking gorgeous, it is only fit to end the day with cleansers that removes all the makeup and leaves the skin clean and moisturized.

  Tags: cleansers, Make-up, Skin Imperfections, Skin Treatments, SPF

• Customized Skin Care ?

  21May
  Categories: General, Information, Skin Comments: 4

  This might sound crazy but if you happen to realize and accept the fact that no two people are alike, so does their skin problems which may vary from person to person even with the same condition that would require a different treatment regimen. Consider the plague of the face, acne, it can be caused by one of many factors, infection, pollution, hormones, stress and many more factors, all of which have to be eliminated to come up with the best solutions that would allow proper treatment. Read more »

• Sticky and Root Vegetables for Good Skin

  21Apr
  Categories: Anti-aging, General, Information, Skin Comments: 2

  The hype began way back when a reporter heard and subsequently investigated claim that a certain Japanese town had people who were aged 50 or more but with skin of people half their age. She was dumbfounded by the fact these people not only had better skin, but lived better and longer, staying active well into their long lives. What made them last longer on this earth, a good and healthy diet of root crops such as potatoes some of which were natural in their area and a hefty dose of sticky vegetables and by-products such as soy and tofu. Read more »

• Beauty – Naturally

  21Mar
  Categories: Anti-aging, General, Information, Skin Comments: 1

  There is no better way to attain beautiful skin that to entice the body to do so naturally from within. And one of the best ways is through a holistic approach which entails some lifestyle changes such as with foods we eat for some of the very best anti-oxidants have been found to be present in nuts and berries that have been hailed as the next batch of super-foods, containing anti-oxidants that prevents cells from pre-maturely aging. Read more »

• Of Moisture and Creams

  30Jan
  Categories: Anti-aging, General, Skin Comments: 2

  Read a blogger post about moisturizing creams, and she points out the question, are they all the same? Most likely no, for some base their products on all-natural, others on high-technology/state of the art research and others, well go for otherworldly inspiration. Take Crème Ancienne, for example, it is an all natural product that is made in a monastery somewhere in Europe that is hailed as the very first cold cream that is based on an ancient secret formula. Some say it works and some say it’s merely creme yet people are buying the stuff.
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