January 29, 2010 Uncategorised
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January 29, 2010 Uncategorised
How To Create An Exotic Makeup – Secrets – Tricks And Tips
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How To Create An Exotic Makeup – Secrets – Tricks And Tips
By Kaysee New
I have always wondered how those beautiful women can look so beautiful; I am talking about Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty queens. It was interesting to find out that the make up they use has a yellow based tone. During the survey it was discovered that out of 100 contestants 98 of them had a yellow under skin tone, which means the majority of women have yellow skin tones. It does not matter if you are Caucasian, Asian, Latin, African or American, the yellow based tone make up matches your skin colour perfectly. When Miss Universe 1998 and 1999 were crowned they were wearing make up with yellow under tone.
Here are some tips you can try at home to get that exotic sexy look:
-It’s crucial that you find the right foundation colour before anything else. Majority of women around the world have a yellow under toned skin, therefore it’s crucial that they look for cosmetics to match their complexion perfectly. The foundation should match your skin perfectly and create a flawless look without leaving your skin orangey, ashy and un-natural.
-Follow with powder to set the foundation, if you have oily shiny skin, try ultra matte compact.
-Always use a dark shade of blush to contour and emphasize your cheek bones, to get that exotic finish highlights your upper cheek with a light shimmer blush.
-Most yellow toned cosmetics have the most amazing eye colours, use the light shade on the entire eyelid, follow with a medium shade on lower part up to the crease, and blend the colours to create a natural look. To complete the look ,follow with a dark shade on the corner to create depth.
-Use dark eyeliner if you got dark skin tone; apply from centre to corners using light strokes.
-Finish the look wit mascara to emphasize your eyes,
-Apply lip colour of your choice using lip brush, top it up with lip shine.
The master rule is that, what ever you apply, always BLEND, BLEND, and BLEND.
For more information on this article please go to: [http://exoticmakeup.blogspot.com]
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January 21, 2010 Uncategorised
How to add plaid to your wardrobe
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If you follow the fashion industry then you probably already know that plaid in fashion.
A jacket in plaid print is a timeless classic look. Plaid dresses look cute and make you look even more cutier.
Team this top with your regular jeans or a skirt. When paired with black, personifies fab.
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January 13, 2010 Uncategorised
Beautiful pink makeup
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January 7, 2010 Uncategorised, eye care
Cure for dark eye circles
One can get dark circles and puffy eyes if you had a late night out or didn’t have a good night’s sleep or cried your heart out. But, you can make them fade fast.
Unfortunately sometimes dark circles are hereditary, and regardless of how much sleep you get, some people just have darker circles than others. One thing to do is keep the area well moisturized.
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Take care to remove make-up. If you are too tired and you don’t remove your make-up, it spoils your skin texture and you can see the results very evidently in the form of dark eyes. You should also avoid wearing old eye make-up products under or above your eyes.
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If skin around your eyes is very dry, it can become puffy. Use an effective moisturizer to avoid such problems.
Exposing your eyes to too much of sunlight, can also result in puffy eyes. Apply effective UVA/UVB blocking sunscreen on skin surrounding your eyes to prevent skin damage by harsh sunlight.
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January 7, 2010 Uncategorised, eye care
eye care tips for eye beauty
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Always use reputed brands for eye makeup, never compromise on quality. Always remove your makeup before bedtime. Use a oil based cleanser and not a watery one. oil based cleansers easily dissolves colors and make it easier to remove. Splash water to remove the final traces of cleanser. Be extra gentle while removing makeup without tugging at the delicate skin around the eyes. If you wear contact lenses always remove the first before removing your eye makeup.
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When ever you apply a face mask always avoid the eye area.
No CommentsJasmine
This flower is associated attachment, sensuality, modesty, grace and elegance. The flowers are worn by women in their hair in southern and southeast Asia. The flowers are also woven into beautiful patterns and then worn into the hair. It looks beautiful and promotes hair growth.
Jasmine is an evergreen plant that usually grows upto 10 meters. Jasmines are widely grown in the garden, as house plants. Theses flowers are mostly picked during the night time, when their fragrance is the most intense.
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aloe vera for beauty
Though Aloe vera is a member of the Lily family, it is very succulent-like in appearance.
Of the 500+ species of Aloe, a few are actually poisonous to people, while only four are recognized as having nutritional value, with Aloe barbadensis miller is at the top of the list for nutrient benefits.
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Drinking aloe vera juice made from the pure aloe vera gel inside the leaf without the “rind” or so called, “whole leaf” provides your body with 200 health promoting compounds, including 20 minerals, 18 amino acids and 12 vitamins.
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Natural pure aloe vera gel is colorless not transparent though, but it is not green in color.
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If you find green color aloe vera gels that means they have even the outer rind of the leaf added or colors added to it.
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Nail art – some designs for inspiration
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Winter Wonderland in Blues
Holiday Makeup: Winter Wonderland in Blues – click here to read more
by Christine
Here’s a wintry wonderland kind of look! There’s not much to it, and I tried to stick with mostly permanent eyeshadow shades as well. I felt like I hadn’t done a blue-ish look in awhile, so I figured I should knock one out!
Happy Wednesday!
You will need the following…
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by Christine
Neutrals with a Hint of Purple – Warm
LOOK: Neutrals with a Hint of Purple – Warm and Cozy Inspired & My Adventures! – click here to read more
Happy New Year everyone!!! This look is inspired by the new Warm and Cozy MAC Collection. I haven’t had the chance to look at the collection because I’m away, so I used some products I already have. I wore this look out to Eden Mountain Resort! It’s the second time I’ve stayed overnight at the mountain resort this holiday! I’ve also taken a few photos of our overnight stay at the end of the post. Enjoy~ ! xx
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No CommentsRed Eyeshadow for Christmas Eve
LOOK: Red Eyeshadow for Christmas Eve & My Adventures~ ! – click here to read more
Hi everyone! The wild bit of my Christmas holiday is coming to an end, which means I’ll have more time to make posts on the blog! I’d like to share with you all the look I did for Christmas eve, and a few photos of my adventures back in Davao City *so far! xx Keep reading~!
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No CommentsHomemade makeup palettes
An Easy DIY Lipstick Palette – click to read more
by Carla
Have too many lipsticks and want a better option to carry them around? Jenbabae from the Makeup Alley forums has an easy do-it-yourself lipstick palette you can do at home. All you need is your favorite lip balms or lipsticks, a palette with however many wells you would like (you can find some great empty palettes at Japonesque), 1 teaspoon stainless steel measuring spoon, floss and flame. With that, you can achieve this:
An Easy DIY Lipstick Palette – click to read more
by Carla
December 31, 2009 Uncategorised
Henna – Why Does the Stain Fade and Disappear
Henna – How and Why is the Skin Stained
By Ron T Cody
Across the globe, Henna is gaining popularity as a new form of Body Art even though it has been in use for several decades or perhaps centuries according to the recent archaeological reports. Henna is basically a flowering plant that produces a tannin burgundy dye molecule, Lawsone, in its leaves and petiole.
This molecule has an affinity for bonding with proteins and thus has been widely used to dye skin, hair and finger and toe nails.
Exactly how the Henna stains our skin is a big question and query of many interested applicants of Henna. As the human skin is also made of a special type of protein, Keratin, the Henna dye molecule is able of combining with it to leave a burgundy stain behind on the skin once the paste applied has been removed.
What happens during the colouring procedure is a rather interesting theory made by our scientists who have carried out a lot of experiments to understand the science and relationship of our skin and Henna.
Henna dye molecules, once applied on the skin, are small enough to penetrate through the skin cell layers.
They do not spread out like the ink would on blotter paper, rather, they go straight down as ink would on corrugated cardboard. This is the main reason why the Henna patterns or designs stay clear and in place till the last day of exfoliation.
The skin cells closest to the Henna paste will have the greatest dye saturation as compared to those beneath them.
According to a factual study, the more dried out and more corneated your skin cells are, the deeper that layer, and greater the dye saturation, the darker the stain would be left over by the Henna paste.
It slowly fades as the epidermal skin layer is replaced by a new layer of skin cells.
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Henna – Why Are Some Stains Dark Or Light?
By Ron T Cody
Henna has long been used for the purpose of beautification and increasing the appeal and worth of the body.
It has been regarded as the safest and healthy form of Body Art technique which leaves a provisional burgundy stain on the body.
The basic scientific relationship between the Henna and the Skin describes the actual reason for the working and leaving of the burgundy dye behind on the body when the Henna paste is applied.
Most intriguing feature of the Henna stains is that they leave imprints of dissimilar brightness on different body parts.
This phenomenon can be easily understood by deeply pondering over the structure of the human fabric, Skin.
Our skin consists of living tissues covered and protected by the interlocked cell layers of Stratum Corneum.
This layer consists of dead and dry cells that exfoliate and desquamate rapidly on daily basis exposing a new layer of dead cells and so the procedure goes on.
The Henna dye molecules, when applied on the skin, saturate and dye the dead, dry cells in the Corneum layer.
The brightness of these imprints or stains is closely associated with the depth of this respective layer.
The areas of the body with the deepest layers tend to give a brighter and darker design colour as greater numbers of cells are dyed and they persist for longer time as these dyed cells are greater in number and consequently, take more time to exfoliate and peel off.
The common examples of such regions are the palms of hands and the soles of the feet that contain the greatest number of layers of these cells.
Mostly, the nourishment of the body also limits the colour of the stains.
As part of common observation, people who are well-nourished, happy and healthy tend to acquire a darker imprint of the Henna design, also those which are long-lasting, whilst those who are poorly-fed and sick, receive a rather lighter stain colour of Henna.
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Henna – Why Does the Stain Fade and Disappear?
By Ron T Cody
Henna tattoos and designs are provisional or temporary in nature as compared to the pierced tattoos that leave their mark permanently on the body.
There are certain biological processes that take place inside our body continuously that account for the temporary affect of the Henna paste.
Skin is comprised of many layers of cells that protect the inner organs from damage by the exterior lethal agents or liquids.
The human skin consists of living tissues as well as dead and dry cells.
Instead of softening and moistening, the dead cells harden on reaching the surface and eventually peel off naturally.
This natural exfoliation process takes place every day and night. The Stratum Corneum layer consists of interlocked cells throughout its column.
As the lower cells reproduce rapidly, they push up the column to replace the exfoliating cells from the surface.
The Henna paste is applied on to the surface of the skin which is hardened and dried.
The dye molecules in henna paste are small enough to penetrate inside the skin cells.
Hence, the cells closest to the paste become greatly saturated with the dye as compared to those lower in the column of Corneum.
As the upper cells die and become hard and flaky, they are cast off by the new cells beneath them that are being pushed by the newly forming cells beneath.
Thus the cells with lesser dye saturation rise above to the surface soon enough.
In this way, the Henna design slowly fades after approximately 72-96 hours.
The dye molecules are unable to penetrate much in to the column or till the living tissue layers.
This is the main reason why a permanent mark is not made as the cells in Stratum Corneum are continuously reproducing and exfoliating as compared to those in the living tissues.
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No CommentsDecember 24, 2009 Uncategorised
Oatmeal and honey scrub
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1 or 2 spoons oatmeal
1/2 tbsp honey
2 drops of almond oil
1/4 cup chamomile tea (brewed and cooled to room temp). Add only the required amount to make a paste.
Mix all the ingredients together and make a paste Apply all over your face and neck. After 15 minutes with gentle circular movements scrub your face If your scruib is dry pat somer leftover tea on your face. wash off with water and pat dry. Moisturize if desired.
No CommentsDecember 24, 2009 Uncategorised
Rose scented aloe vera facial cleanser
Many a times your skin feel dirty, dry and parched. You need a cleanser but dont have one that will revive and nourish your skin all while cleaning it. This is the time when you will find this home made cleanser recipe very helpful.
What’s so good about this recipe! Well all the ingredients used are renowned for their cleansing and skin nourishing properties.
Here is the recipe:
1 spoon aloe vera gel
1 spoon rosewater
2 spoons olive oil
4 drops rose essential oil
2 drops grapefruit seed extract/oil
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Mix all the ingredients together pour into a small bottle. Store in the fridge. Shake well before use, as the ingredients separate. Massage into your face and remove with either a muslin cloth or water.
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December 23, 2009 Uncategorised
How is turmeric grown and made into a powder
Turmeric is not only a spice but also a perfume, dye and a medicinal herb. It is used in the preparation of various delicious dishes. Turmeric belongs to the rhizome family very similar to ginger. It grows well in moist, hot climates.
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Turmeric is at it’s best flavor when it is fresh. The flavor rapidly decreases during the drying process due to the evaporation of the essential oil. In order to incorporate the fresh rhizome in diet process of pickling the rhizome is followed.
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The outer peel starts to dry and darken on storage.
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The rhizome is boiled, dried and ground to a fine yellow powder which is then packaged and sold.
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December 23, 2009 Uncategorised
How false eyelashes can change the way you look
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