Browsing all articles from July, 2009

The favorite fashion accessory, “Tattoo” is becoming very popular among youth and different age groups people as well. Earlier, it was only teenagers, who use to go for a Tattoo art, to add a style statement in their looks but today, everyone is so conscious about their personality, which is why experimenting on many new things, to make a fashion statement every day. But on the other side it is extremely important to take certain precautions if you would like to get a tattoo done on your skin, and protection of your skin where you have your Tattoo, is one of them.

Among all other way of making a style statement, Tattoo art is attracting numerous people day by day. Some may like to write the name of their spouse on their body and other may like to have just a nice artwork. However, apart from the being a popular fashion accessory, Tattoos also have flip side, which is the afterwards side effects that can damage your skin vigoursly.   

The chemicals used while creating tattoo on your body actually merged up with your skin, which later can cause irritation and several kind of skin infection. However, in permanent tattoo art, the skin problems can become serious. Therefore, in order to prevent serious skin problems, one should follow some do’s and don’ts to stand on the safer side of tattoo art.

The first precaution one should take is to avoid exposing that area of the body where you have a tattoo art done. As we have mention earlier, the chemical used while creating tattoo on your body can react adversely with sunrays. Because sunrays already have, harmful UV rays that can damage our skin cells, so the further exposure of our skin with chemicals along with sunrays can deeply affect your body while causing many skin problems.

However, if you still need to go out, then, never forget to apply a high SPF lotion, especially on your tattoo area. Applying sunscreen lotion will not only save your skin from harmful UV rays but also will protect your tattoo from fading or having any undesirable reaction with sunrays.

Note: sunscreen lotion only works for 2-3 hours, so if you are going out for whole day keep your high SPF sun scream handy, so that you cal re-apply it after 2-3 hours to protect your skin from UV rays.

Moreover, you can even hide that particular body part (where you have tattoo) from sunrays by covering it with cloth. For instance if you have a tattoo on your hand, prefer wearing full sleeves while going under sun  or if you have a tattoo art on your neck area you can hide it with a scarf or a high collar shirt.

Honey is not only a natural source of sugar, but also has some incredible properties that help in many ways to enhance the beauty of our body. It is not only several magnificent traits of honey which helps in beautifying our body, but also honey is pretty much a favorite food item or ingredient among many people because they would love to have honey on their breakfast toasts, bred, salads etc.

For many skin problems, the use of honey works as a great reliever and that is the reason why almost every cosmetic company includes honey in their beauty and skin care products. Moreover, this is not only cosmetic products through which you can use honey but also you can include honey in many home remedy in order to cure several skin ailments.

The best quality of honey is its great moisturizing properties that specially work wonder for those people those have oily skin and do not find natural moisturizer in any other skin care product, so if you have oily skin, then applying a mixture of cold milk and honey for almost 20 minutes for glowing and smooth skin.

On can even cure minor skin infection with the use of honey, as its antioxidant properties makes it more reliable to reduce skin ailments. Especially, people who tend to have regular acne problem can use honey for effective result. The strong absorbable properties of honey reduce the excess oil from the skin and further tighten up open pores, hence prevent acne while making your skin younger and radiant.

Apart from preventing acne, honey also has cooling properties that helps in soothing down burns. Moreover, it also has unique traits that fight against harmful effects of UV rays, so if you have suntan than also you can apply honey with lemon juice to reduce and further prevent tanning.

Honey is the best friend for those who have dry skin, which even becomes worst in winters. So in order to cure dry skin problems you can apply honey with milk cream and leave it for 15 minutes, then wash it off and see the results.

Therefore, you can protect yourself from those unnatural/chemical rich, skin care products that later cause more skin aliment and can avail the benefits of honey to beautify your skin from not only outside, but from also inside.

During summers, almost everyone would like to wear sleeveless while going out but extreme exposure to sunrays and UV rays can cause different skin tone to your face, hands and legs that means tanning, which becomes a disaster for your personality.

However, we do take measures to prevent tanning on our face, while having immediate facials, applying facemasks but we forget to take care of other body parts and hence, only end up while having “not so decent” look with different skin tone.

Even regular facials creates, skin tone difference because facial improves the texture of the skin, however, other body parts remain same, which does not look decent.

Therefore, it is important to not become partial with the beauty of your body parts and concentrate on all over beauty of your body. So, with the help of some useful home remedy, you can improve the texture of the skin to have all over beauty.

Before you sleep, apply a lukewarm coconut oil and slightly massage in upward motion, and leave it for whole night, applying coconut oil on tanning or darker area helps a lot to improve the texture of the skin. But it is recommended to avoid this remedy, is you have oily skin. However, if you have oily skin then you can apply lemon juice on tanned area, as lemon have natural beach properties that quickly improves your skin texture.

Moreover, cucumber have best traits to improve tanning or darker skin, especially those have oily skin. You can apply a mixture of cucumber, lemon (which works as bleach) and rose water (which works as astringent) for 15-20 minutes before you take bath.

You might regularly eat potatoes, and love several potatoes dishes but do know apart from cooking you can use potatoes to improve your skin tone? Yes, it is true; tomato has some significant properties that help in lightening the skin tone. And a mixture of lemon juice with potatoes juice (which you can get after grating them and squeeze them to obtain juice), can make your skin brighter and radiant.

Sandalwood is another natural product, which helps in beautifying your skin while making it lighter. You can use sandalwood powder with the paste of black gram to apply on your arms and legs for further lightening your leg and arms texture.

Apart from this applying orange and lemon, peel even works wonders to make your skin smooth and beautiful.

Lastly, as everyone advise to drink plenty of water to detoxify your body.

We often we see celebrities and wish to get the same magnetic personality, looks and appearance. However, getting a beautiful, flaunt body is not at all easy, you need to need to do many things, Skin care, Homemade treatments and implement them properly to improve the beauty of you whole body. So, here are some relevant tips that will surely accomplish your desire of having a charismatic appearance.

The first and foremost thing that other may encounter, is our face, to look smart, one should always start from enhancing his/her face. Give a nice shape to your eyebrows and remove extra hair from your forehead this will make the upper part of your body fair and clear.

This is not only forehead hair one should remove, but also removing unwanted hair from other parts of body like your hands, legs is essential to flaunt a beautiful body. To remove these unwanted hairs, one can use the method of waxing, which is quite painful but helps in removing large quantity of unwanted hair. However, if you cannot tolerate the pain during waxing, then there are plenty of hair removing creams available in the market, which will remove your hair easily without any pain, but may cost you a bit more than waxing cost.

Moreover, if you do not have time  to remove your body hair, than you can also choose bleaching as a good option which is less time consuming and makes your skin fairer. There are many cosmetic companies, which have recently launched many types of bleach, even according to specific skin type. You either can buy a bleach kit, or can have a bleach session in a good saloon. Bleaching is the very simple way to hide those unwanted hair. But one should always remember that the wrong use of bleach or adding high quantity of bleach powder can cause several allergy and burning sensation, therefore, it is important to know how to apply bleach if you are doing bleaching by your own, or visit a good beauty parlors for better treatment.

Next, important thing is to enhance the texture of your skin, for this, you can go for regular facials, or can apply facemasks but remember to choose a right facial technique which includes, cleansing, removing of black and white heads, nourishing, massaging, steaming and applying facemasks. However, it is also important to have a full body massage atleast twice a month, so that you will not have difference in your whole body skin tone.

Therefore, follow above body care regime to beautify your body.

Without having beautiful lips, a woman’s personality is incomplete, because the beauty of her eyes and lips is what, most arouses a man. However, by many ways a woman can beautify her eyes, for say, by applying kohl, eyeliners, lifting her eyelids, But there is only one way to beautify her lips and that is only while taking good care of them. Not every woman need to do extra efforts for beautiful lip line, as some are already blessed with soft pink lips, than what about those women who do not have the same? They might be able to hide the dark shade of their lips by applying lipsticks, but not for long period, they can do so. Therefore, a lip care regime can only make their lips naturally beautiful.

So here are some remedies through which you can beautify your lips -

Prevent your lips from being dry, as after becoming dry, the first layer of lip’s skin tend to tear up easily, and further ignorance can even damage them thoroughly, so always keep a Vitamin E rich lip gloss in your bag and apply it regularly on your lips to avoid dryness.

Moreover, if your lips are too rough and dry, than applying almond oil at night is a good option to nourish them.

You can also apply butter on your lips, before you sleep, it will moisture your lips and will make the outer layer of lip’s skin healthy.

Our lips has sensitive skin, which can damage very easily, so never tear your lip skin by your teeth, because it can give you ugly marks, which looks too odd.

You can even apply a mixture of crushed almonds and honey for 10 minutes to remove the dead skin of the lips. However, using an apple scrub is even beneficial to remove the dead skin.

Eat more berries like strawberries, raspberries because when you eat these Vitamin A rich fruits, the upper layer of lips absorb them fast, which further helps in making them soft and smooth.

Lastly, it is important to protect your lips from pollution, dirt, and harmful UV rays so whenever you go out, apply a good SPF on your lips to protect them from being damaged.

People who are very conscious about their looks and personality mostly use perfumes, as they always want to look good and smell good. Many teenagers especially girls uses Perfumes on their every day to stay fresh  and smell fresh throughout the day and to avoid those nostalgic odors, which their peers would not like. However, it is not only teenagers who do not want to smell like a goat, but also none of us would like to spread our body odor amongst friends and family that looks and smells too odd and creates your bad impression. That is why everyone, when go out uses different kind of perfumes, and it seems like spraying heavy perfumes every morning have become our routine. 

However, there is always a bad side, of a good thing, somewhat our lovable perfumes do hold. A recent study conducted by the Health Organization, which mainly focused upon the afterward results of cosmetic products on our body have shockingly revealed the adverse affects of perfumes.

It is a well-known fact, that every cosmetic product, which we use in our day-to-day life, has chemicals intact in them, some cosmetic products may contain fewer chemicals, and rest may contain more proportion of chemicals. However, the survey has revealed that, cosmetic products, which are consist of strong fragrance, do contain more chemicals and adversely affects on our body while giving many ailments, rather than those products that are less fragmented.

That is the reason why perfume has been tagged as a “hazard for skin and body.” The moment you spray the perfume on your body, its harmful chemicals actually mixed up with the air, and leaves some undesirable components that enters in our body while harming it slowly-slowly. However, these chemicals can cause serious problems to asthmatic patients, as the harmful components of chemical creates hurdle while breathing for them.  

Moreover, not only asthmatic patient faces breathing hurdle in the presence of Perfumes but also the cheap chemicals of perfume can cause many skin related problems. For instance, if you are using a strong perfume (which contain high proportion of chemicals) can bring irritation to eyes, skin, headaches, nausea and even cancer in some serious cases.

Therefore, there is a diehard need to avoid creating health hazard even when we know what is causing adverse affects on our body. However, it is advisable if you cannot ignore the use of perfumes in your daily, life than, use those perfume, which contains natural components, which will be less effective on your health at some extend.

Winter Season comes and Lip skin care problems starts as well, and lips is an extremely important and delegate part of our body, because lips skin rashes can break and make the entire look of your face and that is where it is so important to take care of your lips during summer and winter season. Appearance of a beautiful woman’s body may look effortless, but there are always two sides of a coin. That is the reason why hard work of women’s body maintenance stands behind their beautiful body. From hair care to skin care, from facials to manicure and pedicure there are so many things to perform during body care regime, which is why most of the women forgets to take care of, little parts of their body, in which taking care of lips comes first.

However, our small lips hold great importance in our personality, as when we speak to someone, our lip gives a good or bad impression. For instance, if your lips are soft and smooth than you will be having a good smile on your face. On the other hand if you are having lips full of skin rashes and cracks then it will be a big mess on your face in front of anybody. And, hence it will only end up in a bad first impression.

Therefore, to avoid the above situation, it is important to devote atleast few minutes to take care of your lips. Moreover, it is even more necessary for woman who may have beautiful body, but having cracked lips can spoil their whole look.

So, the first rule to have beautiful lips is to protect them from cracks; cracks are the biggest enemy of lips that gives them an ugly look. It generally, occurs because of dehydration and drinking less water can even bring cracks on your lips every easily, because your mouth becomes dry and does not supply any liquid moisture to lips. Therefore, it is important to keep yourself hydrated while drinking plenty of water or adding more liquid supplements in your daily intake, so in way you can keep your lips wet while protecting them from cracks.

Moreover, our few body parts do not generate oil glands, like hand, ear and lips, even there is no necessity of oil on our hand and ear because these are consist of strong tissues, which prevent the skin from being cracked. But this is not the same with lips; lips have very sensitive tissues, and if we will not provide sufficient moisture, than they can easily get damaged. Therefore, apply a good moisturizer (almond oil) to your lips, especially before you sleep so that lips tissues can nourish properly to regenerate new and healthy cells.

In addition, it is essential to increase your intake of Vitamin E and B2 supplements because these vitamins help in making a sensitive skin, healthy.

Pollution, dirt and harmful bacteria damages our skin cells so much, that our skin loses its life and become dull because it doesn’t get fresh air to breath in and out for the production of upper and inner skin surface cells, and hence increase the count of free radicals which further brings the problem of pre-aging, acnes, skin wrinkles and pigmentation. Therefore, there is big need face masks for those who are very conscious about their looks, to maintain their skin care routine in order to get back that previous shine of their skin or to make their skin look fresh and healthy forever.

It is a pretty common fact that women are more prone to have many skin problems, which cause a downfall in their beauty. However, most women actually do take care of their skin, especially their face skin, which is the mirror of someone’s personality. Moreover, some might follow the routine of cleansing, toning and moisturizing while other may apply good lotions, have facials, but do you think only this much care can protect your face from those disastrous pollution and dirt? That completely and deeply damages your skin? No its not!

Taking extra care of ourselves have become the popular phenomena to prevent our beauty from those early signs of aging. Especially, extra care of our face is the most important thing because we can hide our arms, legs and neck from those harmful pollutants, which causes many skin problems but we cannot hide our face. However, devoting few minutes of your daily living can protect your face from many ailments.

So here are some tips to enhance the beauty of your face:-

 Always choose herbal products for your skin care is the first rule to follow, because there is already chemical and harmful bacteria that your skin encounters and further use of chemical skin care products can adversely affect your skin.

We often do facials at home, but forget to add facemasks, which are very necessary, in order to prevent our skin from several problems like acne, pigmentation, blackheads and dark spots.

There are many natural facemasks that you can easily prepare at home which brings a desirable glow in your skin while protecting it from harmful bacteria. But, it is important to choose a facemask according to your skin type. For instance if your skin is oily than go for cucumber and lemon extract facemask, and if your skin is dry then use an almond facemask.

You can prepare almond facemask by mixing 7-8 crushed almonds with honey and egg yolk, apply this on your face for 20 minutes and wash it with lukewarm water; this will surely moisturize dry skin and will make it smoother. Moreover, for oily skin, mix crushed cucumber in mudpack with rose water, after 15 minutes rinse it with cold water. And for those have normal skin type can apply white part of egg with oatmeal for a glowing skin.

Many of us love those long hours of Spa treatments, where special ingredients and treatments help us to soothe our body and mind. In those same ingredients, Essential oil comes first and holds great importance in therapeutic treatments. Essential oils are extremely popular for their aromatic essence. These are obtained from natural resources like plants, specifically citrus plant that produces essential oils, through distillation process.

Essential oils have some great significant properties that make them perfect for external use especially when an individual is seeking Aromatherapy. During aromatherapy, the smell of essential oils plays a vital role, as it soothes the mind and gives complete relaxed feeling and ambiance to the person who is having this treatment. Another positive aspect of essential oils is that you can easily mix them with any other oil and still can get the same aroma.

However, it is always necessary to buy good quality of essential oil in order to experience relaxing massage, for this, one need to know the traits of original essential oils. Therefore, check the quality of essential oil before you buy them. Moreover, a good quality essential oil contain high aroma, which you can check by spreading some amount of oil on your hand and another way to check the quality of essential oils is to dissolve them into water and if the aromatic essence still spreads with strong smell, than it is a pure essential oil.

Essential oils can be used in many ways, like during bath you can add some amount of it, or while massaging you can use them. However, during massage the use of essential is very popular. But it is advisable to always use a mixture of essential oil with base oil, because the direct application of essential oils on skin can cause allergy to sensitive skin, as the citrus plant extract is strong. Therefore, you can mix the essential oil with almond oil, apricot oil, grape seed oil, or carrier oil for a better use.

Moreover, if you do not have time for having “hours long sessions of massaging” to enhance your body smoothness, then, you can add these essential oils in your bath tub to get almost same results of Aromatherapy.

 However, always remember that essential oils contain few contraindications, which are not suitable for those suffering from nervous system problems. Therefore, a suffering person should avoid essential oils like hyssop, rosemary and fennel. Even physicians suggest that those suffering from diabetes should avoid the use of angelica essential oil, which gives adverse effect on their health.

When it comes to take care of our beautiful face, skin, hair etc, many of us forget to take care of our feet, which is the important body part that even needs maintenance and care. Because the hectic schedule of our work does not allow us to do the same; hence, we only end up in making our feet ugly. The careless attitude towards the feet care and maintenance can cause many fungal infections. Therefore, it is very essential to make foot care routine to have a completely beautiful body. So let us tell you several ways from which you can make your feet beautiful.

The first routine that one should follow is to clean their feet daily. Add a mild soap in lukewarm water and soak your feet for almost 10 minutes than with the use of pumice stone rub your feet to remove the dead skin, as the skin become dry after cleansing, it is important to apply a nice moisturizer.

Apart from cleansing, scrubbing is another way to make your feet soft. Scrubbing is the better feet care treatment; it not only removes dead skin of the feet but also protects the foot from having cracks, which irritates a lot.

Next thing, is to always keep your feet clear, and apply a good amount of Vitamin E rich cream on them, especially before you sleep as this is the time when your feet stays on rest and can heal those crakes easily. Along with this, trimming or filing your feet nail is always essential to beautify your feet further. Moreover, on the one hand, you can also beautify our feet by applying several mudpacks, orange and lemon peel extract then, on the other hand, applying sunscreen when you go out, is also necessary as your feet also meets harmful UV rays, which make your feet’s skin darker.

Always remember to wear clear socks and shoes in order to prevent fungal infections. Also, avoid wearing tight shoes. However, it has been always recommended for woman to avoid wearing high heels as it pressurize foot and damages foot tissues.

Note: Physicians always suggest taking extra care of foot rather than other body parts in Oder to prevent further serious problem of feet.