Lifestyle Choices

Performed to enlarge small breasts, augmentation mammaplasty has proven to be dramatically successful in relieving self-consciousness in small- breasted patients and in restoring a feeling of normal femininity. The operation involves creating a pocket under the breast tissue, or under the muscle, and inserting an implant, a soft, plastic envelope containing a saline solution. (more…)

Which is better—a bath or a shower? It depends. A shower is more invigorating (after all, you’re standing, not reclining), while a bath is more relaxing and therapeutic, easing sore muscles, circulation problems, arthritis and stress. Baths, however, are less effective at cleaning away bacteria than showers, and soaking in a bath longer than 15 minutes can exacerbate dry skin. (more…)

Simply said, aerosol sprays have an image problem. The rap against them goes like this: aerosols harm the environment; they contain CFCs, which destroy the ozone layer; and you should avoid them at all costs. (more…)

As we age, our skin fades its young good looking. It leaves the hollows, sagging, nasolabial lines and marionette lines. Our cheek is not round and lovely. And our mouth looks like the ugly cortices. These different depths and looking gaps always reminds us the recorder. Because life is recording many more lines on our face. For a little bit of cheating, we can try to fill these gaps. Ladies sit at the front of mirrors wondering how they look. (more…)

Changing season means changing colors. I love my eyes go with these seasonal colors. Beautiful eyes can actually reflect who we want to be. Spring means a little bit of green; Summer means a little bit of sunshine; Autumn means a little bit of orange, Winter means a little bit of snow.

When I was a little girl, I was always dreaming to be a little fairy which I thought fairy is full of magic colors. A sense of magic and full of colors always remind me the beautiful things. (more…)

It is one of life’s beauty ironies that your skin can be perfect when nothing interesting is happening in your life, and look dreadful when something important is in the offing. Excitement, tension and a little jiggling of the hormones don’t help. When you want to look good and your skin doesn’t, someone like Barbara Daly, a top British make-up artist, can come to the rescue. Here is her advice:

“Nobody’s face is flawless, and concealer is a magical piece of make-up. Choose a shade which will blend in with your skin tone and use a lip or eyeshadow brush loaded up from the stick just as you would if you were going to put on lipstick. (more…)

You have no doubt heard someone say — or been known to say yourself — “I can’t possibly go out looking like this!” “This” is usually a small crop of pimples, a bruise that will disappear within days or a temporary dose of dark shadows under the eyes. So just imagine the distress and feelings of social isolation suffered by someone with a real skin disfigurement such as a massive birthmark, scar, disturbance in pigmentation or any major skin disorder. (more…)

However luxurious and expensive the individual ingredients, most cleansing products that are designed to remove oil-based cosmetics are formulated in the same basic way. They include oil to break down the oil-soluble dirt and make-up, and detergent-type products to emulsify the oily impurities and rinse it all off your face. (more…)

When you see a label praising the properties of a beauty product, do you always know what it means? The following tips might help:

Allergy screened: Each ingredient in the product has passed through stringent tests to ensure that it has the minimum possible history of causing any allergic reactions. (more…)

Beauty spots . . . or minor blemishes

Moles may be called beauty spots, and blushing and freckles considered charming. But if they and other small skin problems upset you, they can be made less noticeable with care and cosmetics — and they will often disappear with time or a touch of treatment. Do keep your problems in perspective. Our own faces are magnified by close encounters with a mirror and other people seldom study them as searchingly or caringly as we do. (more…)

Facials are one of the most rewarding forms of beauty treatment, partly because your face is so much on show and partly because facials are enjoyable and relaxing. Massage and treatment include the neck and chest, usually the shoulders, sometimes the back and even the scalp. (more…)

Make-up lessons fall into the category of skin enhancers and are certainly rewarding and often money-saving. They can stop you making expensive mistakes with wrong cosmetic buys and are good for someone just starting to wear make-up, who is unsure about colours or techniques of application that suit her. (more…)

Take it slowly. Never go for the burn.

Stay out of the sun from 11 am to 3 pm. (more…)

Follow these lines and discover the regenerative effects of water:

Take a bath if you are tense, have been exercising or just feel ready for a good night’s sleep, but do not overdo your soaking time — ten minutes is enough, more will dry out your skin. Showers are less drying for your skin, so take one instead of a bath at least every other day, and more often if your skin is naturally dry or mature. (more…)

When the temperature drops: (more…)

We are born with the perfect skin condition. Aging, sun burn, ace and affection may partial influence how we look.

Every woman deserves a beauty revolution. We want our beautiful skin back. Too much chemical or too many works? Instead of covering up, our skin looks nothing better.

Maybe it is time to say goodbye to makeup. We want our skin breathe the sunshine and spotlight. Natural and attractive skin can be treated by correct medical attention. You don’t need to go through the expensive moisturizer or the painful cosmetic surgery. (more…)

It’s a time-honored sensual ritual: the smell of cleanser. The sound of splashing. The feel of a clean, dry towel. Was it ever as simple as soap and water? Clearly, renaissance woman who washed their faces in their own urine didn’t think so. How and with what you cleanse your skin depends on your skin type. (more…)

We age. Our circulatory system pumps more slowly, bring less blood to our skin and causing dehydration. We make fewer new cells, and the cells we do create lose their ability to adhere to one another. Melanocytes, which control pigmentation, become fewer and work less efficiently: we get blotchy or lose color. Collagen production slows down, making our skin less elastic. And that’s just the natural aging process. (more…)

Eyelashes may have the practical purpose of keeping debris out of our eyes, by we have invested them with much deeper meaning. We hold our lashes in such reverence that we bat them for attention, and even make wishes on them when they fall out. Still, most of us have complaints. (more…)

A makeup wardrobe is not like clothing wardrobe, which is built up over time. Makeup not only gets old fast, But technology changes our options faster than many of us change our lip color. (more…)