Beautycare Junction

Food Chart for Your Health

2007-03-25T11:03:00.000-07:00

I got this health care chart in mail. I liked it and so thought of sharing it with u all. I hope u'll find this useful.

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Eye Make Up Tips

2007-03-06T11:36:00.001-08:00

Eye makeup needs more skill than the rest of the face, as eyes are often the focus when we look at a person. Here are some tips to make it easier for you:

Eyeliner is meant to add depth to eyes and give definition to lash line. To do so, hold the eyelid skin taut with fingertips of one hand and draw as fine a line as you can very close to the lash line with the other hand. Your hands should be steady for the purpose.
For the soft smoky look, smudge the edge of the line with the smear end of the eyeliner pencil.
For added natural beauty look, extend a very fine line to the innermost part of the upper lid.

Lining the lower lashes add the dramatic effect to your looks. You can do so by adding tiny dots to lash roots and a fine line on the outer half of the lower lash line.
Liquid eyeliners give more glamorous look but require more skill too.
Use slate, blue, grey and plum eye shadows for brown eyes, pink, salmon, mauve and brownish pink for green eyes and brown, camel and taupe shades for blue eyes.
Curling lashes open up your eyes. Do so by squeezing them with a lash curler from lash line to three fourth way toward tips.
Stick to dark colored mascaras such as navy blue or plum for they look more natural.

Apply two coats of mascara, sweeping the wand from roots to ends. Wiggle the wand a little as you move upwards to detach the lashes and make them stand out.

10 ways for healthy and young looking hands

2007-03-06T11:34:00.000-08:00

Without our hands to create beautiful things, express our feelings, and get things done, we'd be lost. Here, 10 ways to pamper yours so they stay healthy and young-looking.

(1) Wear sunscreen:- Hands incur sun damage just like faces do. Don't forget to apply SPF daily.

(2) Exfoliate:- Use a grainy scrub on backs of hands twice a week to reveal glowing skin.

(3) Keep cuticles neat:- Cuticles function as barriers to bacteria and fungus, but they can often overgrow. Use a wooden or metal cuticle pusher after a shower to keep them in line (and you've heard it before: Don't cut!).

(4) Release tension:- Most of us hold tension in our necks and shoulders, but we can also carry the stress of the day in our hands. Give yours a daily self-massage to keep them tension-free.

(5) Share facial treatments:- Vitamin C, retinol, and alpha- and beta-hydroxy acids benefit the skin on our hands. Apply a bit of treatment whenever you use it on your face.

(6) Seal cuticle tears:- Tiny hangnails and bitten edges can catch on almost anything, turning into deep tears and possibly leading to infection. Keep them covered by applying a liquid bandage product (try the new one from Band-Aid) as soon as tears develop.

(7) Keep nails short:- Long talons tend to look garish, and invite breaks that can be painful. File nails to a quarter-inch above your fingertips.

(8] Give nails breathing room:- Experts suggest you take a one-week break from polish every month.

(9) Tap, tap, tap:- Believe it or not, tapping your fingernails on a hard surface stimulates nail health and growth. So drum away!

(10) Get a manicure:- Sure, doing your own nails is economical and practical, but a professional manicure every two or three months is a welcome bit of pampering. What's more, pros can deal with tough problems like calluses and flaking cuticles better than you can at home.

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Nail Care

2007-03-06T11:32:00.001-08:00

Nail care means the care of your fingernails and toenails. Poor nail care may lead to many nail problems. You should keep your nails clean and dry and cut to a length that helps keep bacteria and infectious organisms from collecting under the nails. Many authorities recommend that you cut your nails straight across with slight rounding at the tips. You should keep your nails free of snags and avoid nail-biting. You should consult a physician for ingrown toenails, nail changes, swelling, and pain.

Some Tips For Your Hair

2007-03-06T11:28:00.000-08:00

Everybody longs for that healthy glow, for sparkling eyes and shiny hair that bounces with every step. Millions of dollars are spent every year in beauty products to make skin that much clearer, wrinkles that less visible and lips pout that much more. And while there are cosmetics that do work, you shouldn’t underestimate the value of natural beauty products. Remedies that are available with nature. They’re easy to find, won’t put a hole in your pocket, and don’t have a trace of any harmful chemicals. Read on to see what gifts from nature can make you your most beautiful self.

For your hair Lemon juice: Lemon juice when used on your hair is an effective treatment for dandruff. Its citrus property cleanses the hair. Squeeze a lemon onto your hair and massage into the scalp, and then wash it out using water and your preferred shampoo.

Coconut Oil: Coconut oil is used in several parts of the world as an aid to beautiful hair. It has enriching vitamins and nutrients that help your hair to grow long and lustrous. In addition, it also combats dandruff. Massage into the scalp before washing hair. If possible, do so a night before, so the oil can soak in overnight.

Vinegar: Vinegar is great to add some bounce and vitality into dull and lifeless hair. Mix a little vinegar into warm water, and then rinse your hair with the solution. You hair will look revitalized.

by Ellen Biddle

Lips Make UP

2007-03-06T11:11:00.000-08:00

Shape your lips using lip liner and be proud of your sensuous soft lips that make you appear younger at all ages. Lip makeup tips that are quite handy and useful yet perform miracles have been enlisted here:

For long lasting lip color, apply sheer layer of foundation on lips, dust powder on them and then color them. This also helps lipstick not to change its color on dark lips.

Choose a lip liner close to lipstick color to define the shape of lips.

To make your lips look thicker, make the outline just outside your natural lip line while for thinner lip look, place the outline just inside the natural lip line.

Now fill the defined shape with lipstick using a brush and blend the color well with the outline until the latter is not noticeable.

Lipsticks can be glossy, matte, creamy or frost ones. Choose the one that suits you and do not make the skin on lip look dried and chipped.

A sheer tinted gloss look can also be achieved by sucking on the Popsicle of desired shade!

Apply two coats of lipstick for longer durability. After the first coat, press the lips on a tissue paper and then apply the other coat.

Outlining of the lips prevents lip color bleeding.

Lip-gloss can be applied on lipstick or used alone for a nude look.

Gloss makes lips appear fuller, so women with thicker lips should avoid using it.

Home Based Tips to Get Rid of Acne Scars

2007-03-06T11:07:00.000-08:00

Following are excellent and wonderful home treatment of acne or pimple scars.

Large pores on facial skin can be treatred with paste of sandalwood (chandan) powder with black gram (masoor) dal. Keep it overnight and wash it with cold water the next day.
This is an excellent and wonderful remedy to get rid of acne scars. Make a sandalwood paste with rose water and apply on the scars. Keep it overnight and wash it with cold water the next day. If you find that your skin becomes dry in the morning, you leave it only for a few hours on your face or you may try adding some milk while making paste.
Rub ice cubes on the face for 10-15 minutes. It will tighten the pores.
Apply cucumber juice on the face. Wash it off after 15 minutes. It will tighten the pores.
Cut the tomato in half and rub on the skin. Leave on for fifteen minutes. Wash it off with water. This will reduce open pores and blackheads. This treatment is good particularly for oily skin.

You may discuss with your dermatologist about different treatments available for acne scars. These acne scar removal teatments are Collagen injection, Autologous fat transfer, Dermabrasion, Microdermabrasion, Laser Treatment, Skin Surgery and Skin grafting.

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Facial Exercise

2007-02-14T08:39:00.001-08:00

Facial exercises in your daily face care routine will also improve the condition of the skin. Facial exercises do not eliminate your regular face care regimen, but they do enhance the quest for a younger and healthy glowing skin. A face skin care regimen that involves regular facial muscle exercises work better than you can imagine. These face care facial exercises make you look healthy and even younger. Your regular cleansing face care regimen needs to complement the facial muscle exercises to retain the youthful and radiant glowing look.

Tips to remain YOUNGER

2006-05-02T04:51:00.000-07:00

Our skin is very delicate and in order to keep it looking youthful and beautiful one has to take lots of care. Your skin looks its best in your teens but if you do not take proper care then you will start looking older than your age. Thus give yourself 15 mins everyday and care for your skin. With age no doubt you will lose the radiance and shine on your skin but there are ways by which you can easily cheat on your age.

Following are a few tricks that will help take 10 Years off your looks:

Get the Right New Haircut
A good haircut helps in cutting down age. Thus next time you visit your hairdresser make sure you go for a younger cut.

Colour your hair : This is very important in order to take the years off your looks. Talk to your stylist about your look. If you have dark hair then go for some lighter shades because dark hair can make you look older. If your hair is already light, add highlights. Colouring your hair will also hide the gray and give you a complete make-over.

Bring shine into your Smile : As we grow older our teeth become yellow. Whitening your teeth is one of the fastest ways to take 10 years off your appearance.

Keep away from the sun : The rays of the sun have more potential to change the look of your skin than any other environmental factor. Thus keep away from the harsh sun rays. Always carry an umbrella and daily use of a sunscreen or foundation with an SPF 15. Use good moisturizer and drink lots of water.

Treat your skin once every week : Give your skin some attention. Cleanse, moisturize and tone your skin at least once every week. Apply some good face masks that will help clear clogged pores and let your skin breathe

Blackhead Causes and Remedy

2006-05-02T04:44:00.000-07:00

Blackhead is caused when excess skin oil, sebum and congesting toxins are expelled through your skin from the blood and lymph fluid that supplies your skin with nutrients. These congesting toxins combined with skin oil and sebum clogs your pores causing blackheads, whiteheads, and full blown acne.

Thus after knowing the cause of blackhead you can easily deal with it. All you have to do is stop the formation of these congesting toxins combined with skin oil and sebum that builds up in your sebum channels. Thus applying anything externally will not help because blackhead is basically an INTERNAL problem. Thus to get rid of blackheads you've got to normalize your skin's sebum or oil production and purify your blood of congesting toxins. The key to effective blackhead prevention lies in your liver function. Thus you have to improve and strengthen your liver function.

Face Exercises

2006-05-02T04:29:00.000-07:00

By following these few exercises religiously you will have a young and dazzling look without going for surgery or face-lift. Let us begin with forehead. This exercise should be done 10 times daily to the count of six at a time.

Forehead

1. Join your fingers together with your thumbs folded in and place your fingers near your temples i.e., where your scalp meets your head. Push straight up and hold and then, raise your eyebrows, hold for six counts and release.

Benefits: This face exercise removes the lines above the brow. It targets the muscles of the forehead and the muscles at the back of your head.

2. First, place the middle fingertip of each hand in the centre of each eyebrow. Pull the eyebrows apart or outwards, and at the same time try to frown. Hold for six counts. The next step is totally the reverse exercise. Place the middle fingertip of each hand in the centre of each eyebrow; push brows together or inward and at the same time raise eyebrows and hold.

Benefits: This face exercise helps remove the mark on your forehead and the area between the eyebrows. This face exercise targets the muscles right above the brow area.

Eyes

1. Place the three centre fingers of each hand underneath the eye, pull down, and try to close your eyes. Hold for six counts and release.

Benefits: This face exercise eliminates puffiness as it targets the muscles under the eyes.

2. Place the ring and middle fingers of each hand at the outer corners of eyes. Pull the corner of the eyes toward the hairline and hold. At the same time, squeeze eyes shut; hold for six counts and then release.

Benefits: This face exercise helps remove the wrinkles around the eyes.

Cheeks

1. Put your head back. Take your three centre fingers, place them on the apples of the cheeks and push down. At the same time, raise your cheeks as hard as you can by smiling.

Benefits: This exercise targets the muscles of the cheeks.

2. Put your thumb in your mouth right in the centre of the cheek and push. At the same time, bring the cheek back towards the teeth against your thumb. Hold for six counts and then repeat on the other side.

Benefits: This face exercise will fill out the cheek hollows, firm the face and lift.

Mouth

1. Take your middle fingers and pull down on either side of your lower lip thus exposing your teeth. At the same time try to mope.

Benefits: This exercise tones the muscles around the lip area.

Chin

1. Take your three centre fingers, pull the chin down and at the same time curl the lower lip over the bottom teeth.

Benefits: This face exercise tones the muscles of the chin.

Make up in 5 minutes

2006-05-01T02:57:00.000-07:00

Isn't it amazing that you can do your make up in 5 minutes. Here are the steps you can follow to apply your makeup in as little as five minutes :--

1. Dot on moisturizer. In most cases, it is recommended that you wait for ten minutes before applying foundation, but there will be times when we simply haven't the time.

2. Apply foundation and blend. I was always a big sponge user and while I have no problem with them, I have found something even better. A foundation brush gives great coverage without sponge marks. In fact, no one will ever guess that you even have foundation on.

3. Apply blush and blend. Powder blushes are the easiest to apply.

4. Apply your favorite eye shadow. A light coverage is all you will need.

5. Apply eyeliner according to eye shape. As we are working on limited time, concentrate on the outer corners. Less chance of a messy application.

6. Apply mascara to lashes.

7. Using a fat brown pencil, apply color to brow bone and blend.

8. If your brows need color, apply it now with small strokes of a pencil.

9. Color your lips. A lipbrush gives a better application and takes no more time than lipstick straight from a tube.

10. Powder your nose and t-zone with loose powder.

11. Check your blush and add a tiny bit more if necessary.

Tips:
Before you begin your makeup application, set out everything you need.
For individual How To's on any of the above, see the How To index.
Your five-minute makeup is perfect to take along on holidays. It's fast and easy and won't take up a lot of room.

Face care tips

2006-05-01T02:52:00.000-07:00

Never go to bed with your make-up on. Make-up that is left on overnight clogs the pores and prevents the skin cells from shedding, which may cause blemishes and/or blackheads. The skin needs to breathe over night. Waterproof make-up is most easily removed with a gel cleanser. The most important thing that you can do for your facial skin is to avoid sunlight or use liberal amounts of sunscreen. Sunlight causes the skin to age and causes skin cancer which is the most common malignancy in humans. The most common location for these tumors is the face. If you do not believe that the sun ages your skin, then look at the skin under your upper arm and compare it to the skin on your face and the back of the hands. Alpha hydroxy acid applied daily will help prevent acne out breaks if you have acne prone skin. If you have acne and the above measures do not help, see your dermatologist. There are many prescription treatments for acne.

Beauty and Health Tips

2006-05-01T02:50:00.000-07:00

Health needs to be at the forefront of every beauty routine.

Not only for the obvious reason of physical health, but because it is an essential beauty building block.

Taking the time to understand the essential health principles in every step of your beauty regime will bring a lot of clarity to your decision making and product choices, simplicity to your routine, and satisfaction with the results.

The benefits of incorporating some simple but positive lifestyle habits, such as regular exercise, drinking enough water and nutritious eating, benefit your physical health and appearance, but they go far beyond this. These habits are also essential to your body's effective functioning and long term health.

Glowing Skin in 1, 5, 10 or 30 Minutes

2006-05-01T02:46:00.000-07:00

As any woman knows, it can be a struggle just to get out the door some mornings. Luckily, there are simple solutions for looking your best in no time. Read on to find out how to look polished and pulled together in as little as a minute.

One Minute

Skin Care: Cleansing cloths, which remove dirt and makeup while gently exfoliating-are super quick, completely convenient and nix the need for a washcloth. And if you use cloths containing moisturizers, like Dove's Daily Hydrating Cleansing Cloths, you can cut your morning skin care routine to one step.

Makeup: Mascara, mascara, mascara! If you only have time for one thing, this little tube is it. Choose a formula that curls and lengthens, and you can skip the clunky curler.

Five Minutes

Skin Care: Dry air depletes your skin of much-needed moisture, especially in winter. After cleansing, apply a hydrating face mask; leave on for three minutes, then rinse off. Next, apply a moisturizer with sun protection, like Dove Essential Nutrients® Day Lotion SPF 15 which has a formula that replenishes nutrients naturally found in your skin.

Makeup:Apply a gel-based blush (which is more moisturizing than powder), blend it in with your fingertips, then top with a powder bronzer. The combination creates a natural-looking, healthy flush. Add color (and softness) to your lips with an emollient berry or burgundy-hued lip balm.

Ten Minutes

Skin Care: With a few extra minutes, you'll have time to add toner and eye cream to your routine. Toner cleans and tightens pores, leading to a brighter overall complexion. The delicate skin around your eyes ages 5 to 10 times faster than the rest of your face. Eye cream nourishes this crease-prone area and diminishes puffiness.

Makeup: Conceal dark circles by applying a creamy concealer that matches your skin tone and blending with a sponge. Also try using hydrating liquid foundations and cream blush and eye shadows. They may take a few more minutes to apply, but they adhere better to skin and won't disappear by lunchtime.

Thirty Minutes

Skin Care: Chill a plastic eye mask filled with water in the fridge for five minutes (you can find them at most drugstores). Before washing your face, put the mask over your eyes and rest for 20 minutes. The cool temperature will help de-puff eye bags, wake up your face and invigorate your senses.

Makeup: Pull out the tweezers and get ready to pluck: Nothing polishes your look like a nicely groomed set of brows. Follow your natural shape, getting rid of stray hairs and removing any extra layers under your arches (above your irises). Set the shape with brow gel or hand cream. Then sweep a powder shadow that complements your eye color and skin tone from lash line to crease.