Lip Care Tips

Lip care is very important especially when there is a change in season. The skin on your lips is very thin and there are no oil glands to help protect them. Even after applying lip balm regularly, the dry lips hardly cure. So you can do some home remedies to cure dry lips and soften your lips.

• Avoid exposing your lips to hot water when you take a shower.
• Keep yourself hydrated by drinking plenty of water.
• Avoid lipstick as much as you can as certain brands can dry your lips out, causing them to eventually crack.
• Avoid licking your lips. Licking your lips will actually dry it out and not moisturize it
• Keep lips well lubricated at all times and this means at bedtime as well.
• Always apply a natural lip balm to protect your lips. Applying it before applying lipsticks will prevent your lips from dryness and exfoliation.

Home Remedies to Soften Lips:

• Take a drop of honey and gently massage on your dry lips. Honey moisturizes and softens your lips and prevents it from cracking.
• Take ½ grated apples and 1 tsp of unsalted butted. Mix and spread on your lips for 15-20 minutes. Rinse with cool water.
• Take 1 tsp of brown sugar and 1 tsp of olive oil. Mix and massage into lips for about 30 seconds, rinse and finish with lip balm.

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Avoid some habits to stay beautiful

Skin is a very delicate part of our body that needs absolute care in order to look beautiful and perfect. Healthy, glowing skin is usually beauty priority number one for women. Maintaining a tab on some really harmful beauty habits can actually help you stay away from many skin problems. To make sure you stay looking pretty, fresh-faced and perfect, check out this list and make sure you don’t do any of these habits that ruin your appearance.

• Make a habit of removing all traces of make-up from your face before going to bed. Any make-up left on the face aids the growth of pimples/acne, as it clogs the pores.
• Skipping meals can cause skin to age faster and dry out more quickly. Always try to include vitamin C in your meals to build up your skin’s health.
• Avoid dehydration by drinking plenty of filtered water. It also helps to prevent the body from aging.
• Whether its cosmetics, lotions or cleansers we like to try it out. So always test a product out on small patch of skin to avoid an unexpected allergic reaction.
• Take good care of your hair. You can take your choice from herbal and non-herbal shampoos and conditioners flooding the market. Read the blurbs carefully and see what suits you.
• Remember to wipe your sun glasses clean because build up and bacteria on your glasses can get into pores around the bridge of your nose causing breakouts and irritation.
• Cleaning your makeup brushes from time to time is very important not just for keeping them as good as new but also for staying away from various skin infections.
• A good night’s sleep, between 7-8 hours, is essential to maintain a healthy body and help you to relax and, present a calm and pretty face to the world.
• Smoking and drinking are both bad habits that will harm you in the long run. So avoid that to maintain a healthy body and look young.

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Beauty tips to Apply Mascara

Mascara can coat our lashes, making a beautiful frame for our eyes. There are only few lucky girls who have long and voluminous lashes. Others have to use plenty of techniques and various types of mascara to create a luxurious mysterious look. Mascara can be used to lengthen, thicken and darken your eye lashes. No matter what type of eyes you have, mascara can surely add to its beauty. In fact, your eye makeup will not be regarded as completed without mascara.

Before you start applying mascara you need to bear in mind that you need to choose the right type of mascara and you must know the art of applying it. Here are some beauty tips for you to make the process of applying mascara easier and more effective.

Before applying mascara:

• As applying mascara can be very tricky, you must pull all your hair back. This way you will not get distract and also there will be less chances of smudges.
• Use a well lighted room and hand mirror to apply mascara. 
• Shake the mascara bottle properly before opening it and scrape the excess product off the brush before applying it to the eye lashes.
• Always apply waterproof mascara on a rainy day or when you are attending a function where there is a chance of having tears in your eyes.
• To avoid getting mascara on the eye lids or cheeks, put a business card behind the upper lashes or under the lower lashes before applying it.
• It is essential to remove mascara at the end of the day or else it can cause bacterial infection.

Tips to apply mascara:

• Before applying mascara, you should finish it off with the other eye makeups like eye shadow and eyeliners.
• Use an eyelash curler before applying mascara. If you prefer to curl after application, make sure that the mascara is dry.
• When applying mascara you must start with upper eye lashes. If you want to give some curl, the direction of the brush should be upwards and outwards.
• Once you are done with the upper lashes you can proceed to apply it on the bottom eye lashes. 
• Once you have applied mascara on your eye lashes, you must comb your lashes so that they are all separated. Use a lash comb to do it.
• Black mascara works for nearly everyone, but if you think it’s too harsh try brown/black.

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Simple Baby Hair Care Tips

Baby's hair is soft and hair care regime of baby’s hair needs to be carried with special care and attention. If you fail to follow a special hair regimen for your baby, it is likely to damage both the hair and scalp of your baby. Many babies start life with little or no baby hair, or perhaps a downy layer of fuzz.

If that’s the case with your baby, no special hair or scalp care is needed, just wash your baby’s head with the same gentle soap you use for the bath. Here are few tips on how you can mange the task of caring for your baby's hair easily.

• If the baby is having less or no hairs, shampoo twice a week. Washing baby hair for 3-4 times can make the skin dry and flaky.
• If the baby has dandruff, massage the scalp with little olive oil before washing the hair.
• Try to protect baby’s head from sun. Use baby hats or caps.
• Use wide toothed comb to work out any tangles before shampooing. Always keep separate baby comb. 
• Babies don’t really need any conditioner. As your baby gets older and the hair gets longer, your might want to start using a gentle conditioner occasionally.
• Use only baby shampoos as they don’t have chemicals in the ingredients.
• Once the hair gets longer, trim it to keep it out of baby’s eyes.
• Start combing from the bottom or back then come towards the top.
• Depending on the hair length, wash baby hair. In the growing ages, increase washing baby hair from 2 days to 3 in a week. 

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Tulsi and Beauty

Everyone likes to look beauty. Nature has provided us with a variety of medicinal herbs to preserve beauty. Among these, Tulsi play an important role. Tulsi is promoting enhancing beauty. It contains antibacterial properties, which is also used to preserve our beauty. Here are some easy tips for your beauty.

• Chewing few Tulsi leaves helps to purify the blood.

• To remove dark and light spots on the face, dry Tulsi leaves and make it as a powder. Rub this on the face as a talcum powder.

• Apply paste of grinding Tulsi leaves with lemon juice is a best treatment for ringworm.

• You can use this leaves also as a face pack, apply a paste of grinding dry leaves with water to the face on the pores of the skin. This will flushed out the dirt of the pores, and it will keep our skin soft and clear.

• Tulsi is a good medicine for pimples. Grind Tulsi leaves and immediately apply on pimples. It’ll reduce our pimples.

• Tulsi tea gives glowing and smooth skin, boiling 2 teaspoon of dried leaves with a cup of water. Boil it for 15 minutes. Allow it to became cool. Use this tonic twice a day.

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Tips for Cracked Heels

Heels are most important and sensitive part of human body. It is balancing our weight of human body. Cracked Heels are common among the people. Because of over dryness our heels get cracked. It may affect both the heels. It is a most painful one. The following tips which I've given below may help you to get heels with cracks.

• Keep your feet clean by washing your feet daily with warm and soapy water. Avoid using hot water it’ll makes your feet dry. 

• Massage your feet with coconut oil before you off to bed, this practice will help you to reduce heels cracks.

• Apply banana pulp over the cracked heels, Leave it for 15 minutes and then wash off. This is the popular homemade remedy for cracked heels.

• Rub your cracked heels with olive oil before going to bed. Immediately wear a pair of socks overnight with olive oil. This will gives you smooth and soft heels.

• Rubbing with butter or lemon on cracked heels is also good for feet.

• Spread honey over the cracked feet, and allow for full bedtime. This helps you to make your cracks softer and soothing.

• Drink plenty of water to keep your skin and body hydrated.

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Sweet Cucumber Face Mask

Homemade face masks are fun and easy. There is no need to drop big purchase at beauty stores, when you can make your own homemade face mask with the ingredients at home. Here are tips to make your own cucumber face mask. 

Sweet Cucumber Mask

Ingredients: 

• 1 medium cucumber, peeled and diced
• 1 tsp of brown sugar
• 2 tsp of white sugar

Instruction:

• By using a fork mash all the ingredients together in a bowl
• Mix it well to make it a thick paste
• Now apply this thick mask over your entire face
• Leave this on your face for 20 minutes
• Rinse face with warm water and followed by splash of cold water
• You can store the remaining paste in fridge up to two weeks

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Milk, Honey and Strawberries for Hair Straightening

Everybody wants things they don't have. It's the same for hair too. The people who have straight hair want curly hair and those with curly hair envy people with straight hair. The most common method of hair straightening involves the use of a heated flat iron that severely damages the hair's shaft over time. But, there are ways in which you can make hair straight naturally without straightening methods.

Milk, Honey and Strawberries for make your Hair Straight Naturally:

Step 1: Take three large strawberries and mash it well in a small bowl with a fork.

Step 2: Now take 1 cup of milk and 2 tsp of honey and mix it with the mashed strawberries. Mix three ingredients together until they form a creamy paste.

Step 3: Now your paste gets ready and you can apply this to your hair. Allow the paste on hair for 2 hours.

Step 4: After 2 hours, you can rinse your hair with shampoo and cool water.

Step 5: Comb the wet hair with a wide toothed comb.

Step 6: Allow your hair to air dry.

Step 7: Repeat this process weekly once for straight and shiny hair. 

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Tips to Reduce Pimples

Pimples are very serious problem of the skin. It’ll spoil the looks and beauty. Young adults and teenagers mostly affected by pimples due to poor hygiene and infection. Which will also leaves marks on your face. Hormonal growth in high may also cause pimples. Some of the below tips may help you to reduce pimples. 

• Wash your face twice in a day. This helps you to keep your face oil free.

• Try to drink plenty of water, this will make your blood clean.

• Avoid eating junk foods and fried food. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables.

• Apply fresh mint all over the face every night, which is the effective treatment of pimples.

• Apply cucumber, papaya and carrot paste on your face for sometime, this practice helps to reduce pimples.

• Honey has antibacterial properties, Apply honey as a mask twice in a week to reduce pimples.

• Oily hair may cause pimples sometimes, so wash your hair daily.

• Stress may also results in pimples, so exercise regularly to avoid stress.

• You can also go with bacterial ointments, which is suggested by doctor.

• Don’t touch or pinch the pimples, which can increase the pimples more.

 

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Homemade Natural Makeup Remover

Makeup removers are as important as the actual makeup. Some of the makeup contains certain chemicals mixed with it which causes allergies, breakouts, irritation and even acne. So it is really good to make your own natural homemade makeup remover with the stuffs at your home itself. The most popular natural homemade makeup remover is milk or another dairy product like yogurt.

• Put some milk on a cotton ball and apply it to your face and then wash it with water. This method will keep your skin smooth and soft.
• Combine cucumber juice to a few drops of baby oil to removed dirt and makeup.
• To reduce dark circles and cleanse face from dirt, mix a few drops of lemon juice with a tsp of potato juice. Apply this on to your face and wash it with warm water.
• Mix olive oil and baby oil to remove mascara.
• Rinse your face every night with raw milk to remove any makeup residue and oil.
• If your skin is oily then rub your face with lemon peel, this will remove the excessive oil and grease from face. 
• Take mashed banana mixed with 4-5 drops of milk and apply this mixture to your face. Leave this for 10 minutes and wash it off. This method can refresh and soften your face. 

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Rose Water for Eyes

Roses have a sweet fragrance and also had lots of benefits for skin too. Rose water is slowly becoming the essential part of the beauty world. Rose water is prepared from the petals of rose flower. Rose water retains the qualities of rose flower and is well known for its healing and cosmetic properties. As eyes are most beautiful gift of God to human, so every gift also needs a lot of care. So for eyes rose water is a splendid and natural product.

Benefits of Rose Water for Eyes:

• If your eyes are burning, running, irritation, swelling and inflammation and turned into red, then rose water is ideal treatment for eyes cure.
• Put a few drops of this liquid in each of your eyes and close them to enjoy instant relief.
• Use rose water as an eye wash. Take some water and add a few drops of rose water to it and rinse you eyes. This helps reduce the stress and fatigue of sitting for long hours in front of computer and television screens.
• You can also soak wads of cotton in rose water and place them on closed eyes to enjoy soothing relaxation.
• Rose water helps in reducing dark circles too. Spray a mixture of cold milk and rose water and a cotton ball. Leave for 10 minutes on your eyes. Repeat this daily and you will notice a visible change within 3-4 weeks.
• Put 3 drops of rose water in both eyes and keep your eyes closed for 5-10 minutes for immediate release.
• Rose water is also use to get rid of dust from eyes, which is impossible to wash from eyes with the help of water. Simply put few drops of rose water in eyes before going to sleep. 

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Egg based Homemade Hair Conditioner

There are many items from your kitchen that you can use to make natural beauty products. And aside from saving money, there are many reasons to make your own, including taking better care of your skin and hair. I have picked out egg based for homemade hair conditioners that treat dry or damaged hair. It is advisable to take practice to get it right and that there are some important things to remember about using conditioners.

Ingredients:

• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp vinegar
• 1 tsp glycerin
• 2 tbsp castor oil

Method:

•  Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl and whisk nicely. 
• Now your homemade hair conditioner is ready to use.
• Massage your hair and scalp with this conditioner, followed by steam.
• If you don’t have a steamer you can soak a thick towel in warm water.
• Then squeeze the water out and wrap it around your hair. This procedure will steam your hair.

This homemade hair conditioner ensures your hair is visibly soft and luxurious. This will make it easier to manage and healthy. 

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Simple Beauty tips for Oily Skin

Beauty is one of the most important factors which affect your personality and confidence. Oily skin usually ruins a perfect day. Our skin needs a certain amount of oil to keep it healthy, but often when there is an excess production of oil, it can lead to issues. The goal of moisturizing your skin is to hydrate your skin, and to do that you don't need to add oils.

Wash the face with lukewarm water for it dissolves the oil more effectively than cold water and use soap.  Preferably use water-based moisturizer to prevent your skin from getting dry without adding oil on it. 

Tips for oily skin:

• Avoid eating fried and cheesy foods.
• Prepare mixture of oatmeal and egg white, apply this paste on oily skin and wash after 20 min. your skin will become fresh.
• Take a mixture of cucumber juice and lemon juice mixed in the same proportion and apply this paste on your face.
• Prepare puree of tomatoes and apply on oily skin, wash with warm water after 15 min.
• Drink at least 8-9 glasses of water in a day. Water helps to flush out toxins from the body.
• Rub your face with ice cubes and you can also try ice water mixed with lime juice.
• When you go outside the house, make sure to use sunscreen on your face as well as the other exposed body parts.
• Cut apple’s thin slices and rub it on affected area, wash with warm water after 10 min. It helps in controlling oily shine.
• Before food have a lime juice mixed with crushed ginger.
• Prepare pulp of raw papaya and apply on skin, papaya is a good cleansing agent.

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How to stop nails from breaking

Many women battle dry, damaged nails that split, peel or break. Nail care is important when you're trying to grow out your fingernails, maintain length or have just gotten a fabulous manicure. Fingernails serve as protection for our fingertips, as well as help in picking up objects. Breaking your nails is always a risk in everyday life. Give your nails some extra assistance to keep them strong and healthy.

You can take some measures to help your fingernails grow longer, stronger and healthier. Follow these tips to help prevent and repair damaged, brittle nails.

• Wear gloves when washing dishes or cleaning.
• Avoid biting your nails.
• Your fingernails aren't intended to be tools to open soda cans, dial the phone and other tasks. Instead, use a pen or other object rather than your fingernails to do these everyday tasks.
• Protect your hands with gloves on cold days.
• Moisturizer is essential for correcting the problem of splitting fingernails. Apply a lanolin based lotion to the nails on a daily basis to infuse your nails with needed moisture.
• When filing or buffing your nails, always go in one direction. If you file or buff your nails back and forth, this will cause splitting.
• It is very important to drink plenty of water. This is necessary for fingernail health because it keeps the body hydrated.
• Don't use nail polish remover more than once or twice a month, if possible. And never use a nail polish remover that contains acetone, which can dry and damage nails.
• For weak and thin nails, soak them in extra virgin olive oil 10-15 minutes a day for a month, then twice a week thereafter. This inexpensive home beauty treatment will help fortify damaged, weak or peeling nails.
• To promote nail strength and flexibility, eat foods that contain folic acid such as whole grains, berries, kale, and citrus fruits.

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How to Make Up Your Eyes

Make up makes one to look and feel beautiful. This is mostly attracted by women. Eyes are the important part in face. Eye make up is the important part of make up procedure, this eye make up can define how lovely your look is. With the help of correct eye make up you can make your eyes more attractive. I hope this following procedure may help you to make your eyes good.

• Clean your face and apply foundation on your face and neck.

• Apply eye shadow all over the eye brow with the help of brush.

• Draw a line with the help of eyeliner near to upper lashes. If want to look more attractive, your line should be thicker.

• Make your lower lash dark with eye pencil and then apply dark eye showdown on this line.

• For Deep look, with the help of the eye shadow draw a line of your eyelid.

• In middle of your eyelid fill up the light colored eye shadow.

• Blend the colors over the eyelid with brush.

• Finally apply mascara on upper and lower lashes.

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Homemade Tips for Face Wrinkles

Wrinkles on the face can make a person to look aged. Wrinkles are caused by Heredity and the environment. Skin will destroyed because of age and other factors like improper care, unbalanced diet and stress it results in wrinkles. Because of this one cannot stop getting wrinkles but one can reduce their appearance on the skin. The following homemade tips can help you to avoid the wrinkles on your face.

Tip 1

Drink plenty of water and get fresh air and get enough sleep. This is the simple ways to reduce the wrinkles.

Tip 2

Application of coconut oil at night may also help us to reduce wrinkles.

Tip 3

Mix beaten Egg white and some salt with lemon juice. Apply this mixture for up to 20 minutes and wash off, it helps to reduce the wrinkles.

Tip 4

Take 1 tbsp of curd and some pinch of turmeric into it. Apply it for 10 minutes on your face and then rinse off with off cold water. It helps to remove the wrinkles.

Tip 5

Take ripe papaya and rub on the face and allow it for an half and hour and wash off. It’ll reduce your wrinkles and it is also a good toner.

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Tips to get soft and smooth Hands

Many women suffer with rough hands and having soft hands can be quite hard. Women do lot of things with hands like they expose the hands to dishwater, cleaning products, and soap several times a day. They use the hands to prepare dinner for families, bathing the children, and working in the garden. So there is no doubt in getting your hands dry, fingernails cracked and peeling.

Here are some tips for getting soft hands easily and quickly:

• Apply the mixture of orange juice and honey to make your hands soft. 
• Protect your hands from harsh cleansers and household chemicals when washing dishes, cleaning the bathroom, gardening and even when washing your car by wearing rubber gloves.
• It is important to always wash your hands with a moisturizing soap. Use a liquid soap instead of a bar soap because it is less drying. Remember to use warm water and not hot.
• Before you go to bed, lavish on by Vaseline and after that pop on a pair of cotton gloves. Your hands will be amazingly soft by morning. 
• Special treatments such as a warm oil bath and herbal therapies can keep your hands soft forever. 
• Apply sunscreen to your hands everyday to keep them soft and protect them from rays.
• Application of white of eggs also makes a hand mask. It makes the skin tight and prevents formation of wrinkles. 

Above all these things eat a healthy and nutritious diet. Your diet is just as important to the softness of your skin as avoiding the things that make it rough. Raw foods such as fruits and vegetables that have not been cooked are wonderful for your skin. Also engage in nighttime treatments this helps to soften the skin on your hands and keep it soft.

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