Showing posts with label Cosmetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cosmetics. Show all posts
Facial Exercises
Image by mod as hell via FlickrFacial exercises promote a smooth and wrinkle free skin. As facial muscles loose firmness, the facial exercise helps in toning the facial muscles. Facial exercise is an inexpensive way for you to strengthen facial muscles and increase tone for a more youthful appearance.1. Eyes: Sit with your eyes closed and relaxed. While keeping your eyes closed, look down and look up as far as possible. Repeat this face exercise for ten to fifteen times.
2, Forehead: Place your index fingers just above your eyes and pull down your eyes while raising your eyebrows. This facial exercise firms your forehead. Repeat this exercise for ten times.
3. Lips: Suck on your finger as hard as possible and slowly remove it. Repeat this facial exercise for ten times. This face exercise firms your lips.
4. Cheeks: Take your three center fingers and place them on the cheeks and push them down. At the same time, raise your cheeks by smiling as hard as you can. Keep your head back when you are performing this workout.
5. Double chin: sit straight in a chair and tilt your head back and look at the ceiling. Keep your lips closed and relaxed. Make your lips round, count up to twenty and relax and bring your head back to the normal position.
6. Neck: Sit straight and tilt your head back looking at the ceiling. Keep your lips closed and relaxed. Move your lower lip over your top lip as far as possible and keep for a count of ten. Relax and repeat for ten times.
Remember that facial exercise is about skin, not muscles. You don't want to stretch or damage the connective tissues beneath you skin. Do exercises gently, and don't worry if you forget to do them occasionally. As long as you do your exercises every other day, wrinkles will slowly smooth away.
No anti-aging regimen would be complete without a balanced diet containing adequate amounts of fruits and vegetables, use of an effective sunscreen, and some moderate exercise for the total body. Discuss all exercise and diet plans with your doctor.
Resources: Fitness Health Zone, Best Skin care world,Living Strong
Lips Scrubs
Mix salt, white sugar and vaseline. Apply the mixture on your lips and gently rub the mixture to remove dead skin cells.
Wash your lips with water and your lips will be soft and smooth.
Use 2 or 3 time a week if your lips tend to be very dry and flaky.
Sugar Lip Scrub
Mix a small amount of coarse sugar with a few drops of water.
Apply the mixture onto lips and gently rub it in. Wash with lukewarm water and apply olive oil or vaseline to moisturize them.
You will need the following:
1 teaspoon of honey
1 teaspoon of baking soda
a few drops of olive oil
Start with a base. I like something waxy, such as good old ChapStick which is economical
Scrape off a little ChapStick with a knife or small spatula and make a paste-like consistency by adding sugar.
Add a sprinkle of cinnamon, apply, and get smooching.
Mix the honey and baking soda until a smooth paste is formed.
Apply the mixture on your lips and leave it on for a few minutes then gently rub the lips to remove dead skin.
Wash your lips with water and apply olive oil on your lips to moisturize them.What you need:
1 tea spoon of honey
1 tea spoon of sugar (brown or white sugar)
and a tiny bit of vaseline
Stir it all up and fill it in a little container. Don't keep it in the fridge because the honey is going to harden. I would recommend not keeping it longer than a week.
It's easy just dip your finger in it and apply it all over your lips and gently srub it. Try not to harsh if you have sensitive lips. The sugar scrubs away the dead skin cells and the honey and vaseline add moisture to your lips. Then you can either lick it off your lips or wipe it off with a tissue. After all that just apply your favorite lip balm.
Resources
becomegorgeous
bellasugar
The Perfect Eyebrows
Image via WikipediaYou've got two choices when it comes to eyebrow grooming you can wax or tweeze and waxing at home may not be to easy unless you have been doing this for years. To obtain great looking eyebrows you have to see what kind of face shape you have and take it from there, and you must have to proper tools.Grooming your eyebrows can make a dramatic difference in your look the best looking eye-brows are the ones that look natural.
Poorly shaped brows can make you appear tired, unhappy or much older than you really are and a pair that’s too thick or too dark will make you look like Browzilla,or even worse you will get the what look, you know the look that makes you appear as if you are always asking a question the huh look.
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| Model credit Candice Freeman |
Taking the time to groom your brows each day will make a marked difference in your appearance. Brush them upward when you want them to appear fuller, or sideways to make them appear more slender. As they grow, you can tame unruly hairs with clear or tinted brow gel, or even a bit of hairspray applied with an eyebrow brush or dry toothbrush.
How do you achieve the perfect shape everyone's shape is different and is determined mostly by facial features. If a you have a larger facial features — eg, eyes and nose — a thicker brow will balance the face as opposed to a thinner, shorter brow working well for those with smaller features.
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| Model credit Danielle Roux |
When you're done plucking and combing your brows into a shape you like, hold the look with some brow gel, brow wax or a little hair gel. Apply just enough to hold the hair in place.
Eyebrows change with the trends – sometimes natural is in, sometimes thick is in. Start with what looks most natural and flattering on you and play with different shades and thicknesses.
Fuller brows ALWAYS look more natural and make you look younger. Over-tweezing is never flattering. It can be easy to get carried away with the tweezers, so be careful.
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| Model credit Lesley Burrows |
Resources
Suite101
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