Lifestyle Choices

I like to hang out at night bar with my girlfriends. I have some creative styles for your nail painting needs.

Choose a nail varnish color that complements the dress you are going to wear. If your dress color is flat, pick a shade of nail varnish, a little less than the dress color to emphasize the hue. (more…)

If you live in a climate where winter is of any strength or duration, you’ll need a good basic coat to keep you warm and looking great all season long. A coat is a major expense, and therefore represents a major investment. Since you’ll be wearing it so much, it’s essential that you pick one that is exactly right for you. Your Mom will probably want to join you in making a purchase of this size, and you should take advantage of her knowledge. Here are some tips so that you too can be armed with a little knowledge before you’re ready to hit the racks. (more…)

If you live in a climate where winter is of any strength or duration, you’ll need a good basic coat to keep you warm and looking great all season long. A coat is a major expense, and therefore represents a major investment. Since you’ll be wearing it so much, it’s essential that you pick one that is exactly right for you. Your Mom will probably want to join you in making a purchase of this size, and you should take advantage of her knowledge. Here are some tips so that you too can be armed with a little knowledge before you’re ready to hit the racks. (more…)

One of the simplest and most effective ways of changing your appearance is to change the color of your hair. As we get older, the color of hair tends either to fade or to go darker, so that a once shimmery golden mane or deep mahogany tresses can become lackluster and dull. One of the best ways of remedying the situation is with a color boost. Hair coloring these days is effective and reasonably priced and can look even better than most natural hair—provided, of course, it is done correctly. Otherwise it can end up looking like a burnished haystack.

There are two categories of hair colorants: permanent colorants, which enter the cortex and cannot be washed out, and the temporary and the semipermanent, which can be used to highlight and intensify your own hair color but won’t alter the cortex.

The Temporary Colorants

These are the easiest to use. They coat the cuticle of the hair with color that washes away with the next shampoo. You can get temporary highlighting shampoos and color rinses in a great variety of colors that don’t disturb the cuticle imbrications. Most of them have a shine- promoting pH, too. But what you can do with them is limited, for while they will darken the hair—say from blond to red or to black—they are really designed for minor color changes only. If you try to go too many shades away from your natural color, they tend to streak and give uneven coverage. They also cannot make your hair lighter than it is, because they have no action on the cortex, where the melanin granules are —they merely coat the outside of the hair shaft. (more…)