Perfect Nail Care

Fingernails reflect the health and wealth of a person. They can be kept short or long, painted and lot more. But first of all you need to follow these nail care tipsand achieve the perfection of having great nails!

Time has come to clean your nails, take the dirt out of them with nail cleaner but be careful that you do not harm your nails.

This nail care tip suggests that once the inner parts of your nails are clean, get the other parts clean too. Use a clean toothbrush, soap or water to scrub yourfingernails hard. After cleaning get rid of soap and dry your hands.

This fingernail, tip suggest that use a nail polish remover or cotton buds to scrub your nails to get rid of all kinds of nail polish left on your nails. It is important that you start from the base and than go upwards. According to this nail care tip, soak your nails into soapy water for three minutes and make sure that water is not too cold or hot. Be patient while working on this, watch TV or talk to someone.

For clean fingernail perfection, wash your hands with soap and warm water. After rubbing them, use rich hand cream that smells good for your skin. Cut your nails if you keep them short, or file them if you're growing them. Make sure the nails are all completely even.

This nail care tip said, do not bite your nails, paint them with clear polish or get a beautiful manicure so you won't want to bite them. According to this nail care tip, if you paint them with proper colour make sure to sandwich the layers between a coat of clear polish.

Source: Fashion Central

The Perfect Bridal Makeup Tips

You have met the man of your dreams, fallen in love with him and even got the marriage date fixed. And now, you are eagerly waiting for the day of your union, when the two of you would become each other’s, forever. In the meantime, you have started with the preparations, right from choosing the venue to selecting the bridal dress. So you’ve got the guy, the dress , and the flowers and chosen a hairstyle, but what about your make-up? Here are a few tips that will ensure you look picture perfect when walking down the isle to say ‘I-do’!

Perfect Wedding Make Up Tips

Beauty Regime Before The Big Day

• Beauty Regime before the big day To get that glowing, fresh-faced look, there are a few things to consider a few weeks prior to your wedding day. A skin and nail care plan should be started about 6 weeks before the wedding. Talk to your beautician about having regular facials and manicures.
• Don’t get too much sun before your wedding. Sunburns and peeling skin shouldn’t sabotage your wedding day. Consider Spray-on-tanning, a 100% natural way to achieve a tan. Ask Cristina about Golden Tropics Spray on Tan.

Body Mind Spirit

• Don’t forget the importance of Body-Mind-Spirit. What’s going on inside is just as important to looking good. As you know preparing for a wedding is very stressful and if you are not looking after yourself by not getting enough sleep or not eating properly it will without a doubt show on your face!
• If you are really stressed out consider having a relaxing massage once a week for a month and also a day before the wedding. Burn some relaxing essential oils around the house to help calm your nerves.
• If you are having trouble sleeping try Valerian tea before going to bed, available from most health food shops.

Trial

• When you have chosen a makeup artist, organize a trial around 1-2 months before the wedding.
• It is a good idea to have your bridesmaids with you to give their input and also advise what kind of look they want themselves.
• Have pictures from magazines to show the makeup artist various looks that appeal to you.
• Mention if you have any skin problems or allergies etc or if there are any particular ways you wear your make-up.
• If you are having a day – time wedding it is ideal to organize the trial during the day as this will give you a better idea as to how the make-up will look.

Have Pictures and Swatches of Wedding Dress and Bridesmaid’s Dresses

• Having pictures of the dresses will give the make-up artist a starting point for designing the perfect look for you and your bridesmaids.
• Fabric swatches of the wedding dress and bridesmaid’s dresses and a description of the flowers will also help when choosing colors. The colors should compliment both the dress and the flowers.

What Look To Go With

• The style you choose for your wedding make-up will ultimately depend on your personal preference, but there are some other factors to consider:
• The time of the ceremony -is it a day or evening wedding? A lighter, more natural look is more suited to a day wedding and a more dramatic look is suited to an evening one.
• What time of year is your wedding? If you are having a Spring/Summer wedding, go for bright, pastel colors. Warm, deeper shades will lend themselves well to a winter wedding.
• Your skin tones and hair color? There are two color palettes- warm or cool.
• If you are Blond or fair skinned, cool tones of grey, blue, soft pink and lilac are ideal.
• If you are brunette or olive skinned, warm neutral tones of brown, taupe, burgundy & red are more suited.
• Remember your make up should be a little more dramatic than your everyday make-up as you can tend to look pale and wash-out in photos if your make-up doesn’t stand out.

Your Face

• Foundations with yellow undertones work best with flash photography.
• Keep away from shimmer highlighters as this look will not show up well in photos and give a reflective shine.
• Use a light dusting of translucent powder to prevent any unwanted shine.
• Ask your make-up artist to use a bronzing powder to warm your skin tone and give a natural glow. Place on areas where the sun would naturally hit e.g. Forehead, cheeks and bridge of nose.
• Blush- use more than not enough.

Your Eyes

• The eye-area should be soft and natural with no heavy, dark lines.
• Keep away from up to the minute eyeshades and make-up trends as you will regret it when you look at your photos in years to come!
• Use a brow pencil slightly darker than your hair color and avoid heavy, dark shadows.

Your Lips

• Use a lip-liner the same color as your lipstick and avoid a noticeable or dark lip line.
• The color on your lips will depend on whether you are a warm or cool color palette.
• It is more flattering to define one area i.e. If you want dark, defined eyes, go for a lighter lip shade and if you want dark/bright lips go for natural, light eyes.

Timing

• Ask your make-up artist to arrive as early as possible and allow plenty of time to get the job done. The last thing you want is to be rushed on your wedding day.

Touch Up Tips

• Ask your mum or one of your bridesmaids to carry a powder compact, tissues and lipstick for touch ups during the day.

Source: Sheclick

Beauty & Style

How to Get Rid of Itchy Scalp

Long, shinny and beautiful hair is the real beauty and crown of a woman. It not only enhances the feminine beauty but also add significant looks to a woman’s over all personality. Due to this, every woman uses many hair care products and tips to beautify her hairs.

Hair is the real beauty of a woman. It enhances the personality and over all looks of a woman. A beautiful, sleek, shinny and long strengthen hair doubled the beauty of the woman. That is why, every woman wants her hair healthy long and beautiful. And for this, almost every woman uses many hair care products and tips to beautify her hair.

But due to the hot and moist weather/climatic condition of Pakistan, Pakistani women specially face difficulties regarding the strengthening and beautification of their hairs. They usually face the problems of dry damage hair, hair dandruff, hair loss and itchy irritating scalp.

To overcome this very important and considerable problem, let’s have a look at some very easy hair care tips to cure itchy and irritating scalp.

Tips to cure itchy and irritating scalp:

• Hair Cleanliness:

The first step to get rid of your itchy scalp is your hair cleanliness. Make sure  that your hair is clean. A build-up of oils or dirt can clog pores and make your scalp feel itchy. Sometimes, a good shampoo is the best cure for an itchy scalp.

• Consider changing your hair care routine:

If your hair is clean, your itchy scalp might be due to an allergic reaction to a shampoo, conditioner or other hair product. A new product might have irritated your skin or your skin could have developed a reaction to an old product. Consider changing your hair care routine in order to cure a dry, itchy scalp.

• Use natural PH balanced shampoo:

To get rid of a painful itchy scalp you need a natural PH balanced shampoo that takes care of your hair, as well as your scalp. These shampoos are more costly than the big brands, but much healthier for you and soothing for the painful itchy scalp.

• Use Healing Agents:

Use healing agents that are both effective and natural, try combining natural oils like Neem Oil into the PH balanced shampoo. Neem Oil is derived from a type of tree bark, and is an effective fungicide and insecticide. Neem extracts are as effective as Coal Tar and Cortisone in treating psoriasis with none of the usual side effects of those stronger chemicals. Studies prove that Neem will reduce inflammation caused by acne and other bacterial infections making it an effective ingredient in an itchy scalp cure remedy.

• Use natural liquid based soaps:

Switch to a natural soap-based liquid or bar cleanser, or try making your own cleansers yourself. Natural soaps are much kinder to the skin and scalp because they are made from vegetable oils instead of petroleum derivatives.

 

• Notice the dandruff:

Notice whether you have white flakes in your hair. Dandruff can be a cause of scalp itchiness, and you can easily treat it with over-the-counter shampoos. 

• Do hair massage:

Gently massage conditioner into your scalp after every shampoo to hydrate it and lift away some of the flakes.

• Lices in your hairs:

Determine whether you have lice. If your itchy scalp lasts for several days, or if your condition worsens, check your hair for the white or grayish eggs that can indicate lice. These eggs look like dandruff, but they are attached to individual hairsand do not move when you touch them. Treat lice immediately. Over-the-counter treatments are very effective. Do not use lice medication unless you're sure you really have lice. This medication is very strong and can be harmful. 

• Use Vinegar:

The vinegar will help remove residue that's left on your scalp from shampoo, conditioners and hair products. It will also cleanse your scalp and help heal any scratches you've made with your fingernails. This homemade treatment will also restore the natural pH balance to your hair and scalp. Vinegar may loosen waves and curls if you have a perm, though, so be careful.

• Try the following remedy:

Try the following remedy to heal and sooth your painful itchy scalp:

 

Apply a mixture of 1 teaspoon of Neem oil, 1 teaspoon Tea Tree or Manuka, one teaspoon of Rosemary oil and one teaspoon of Lavender oil together in 3 tablespoons of carrier oils such as Olive oil. Try and use carrier oil that matches your natural sebum closely. Wheatgerm and Macadamia oils are great for this. Apply the mixture to your scalp daily.

Some other important tips:

• Try putting a thick coat of mayonnaise or some olive oil on your scalp to cure dry itchiness. Some people find this a very effective cure.
• Some antihistamines might work to cure a dry, itchy scalp when nothing else does.
• Remember to apply sunscreen to the part in your hair if you plan to be outdoors for a long time.
• If the skin on your body is dry and scaly, then your scalp can be the same way too. To help hydrate your skin and relieve the itchy dryness, make sure you drink six to eight glasses of water each day.

Expert Strategy: If these tips don't alleviate the problem in four weeks, see a dermatologist. She'll check your scalp for a fungal infection, such as dandruff or ringworm (ring like marks on your skin), and will most likely prescribe a topical steroid cream or shampoo, which will calm irritation and itch within a few days.

Source: Fashion Central

The Mehndi Bride

Getting married isn’t easy especially when the bride has to buy clothes, jewelry and shoes for every occasion. Mehndi marks the beginning of a wedding function when hands and feet of the bride are decorated with henna and mehndi dress plays an important role.

Time is running by and there is so much to do. Mehndi marks the beginning of a joy, participation and happiness for the bride and the groom. During such times things have to be perfect starting from Henna to a dress which sets the trend for upcoming weddings.

Dresses for Mehndi are usually in orange, yellow and green colour. Usually, brides prefer to wear yellow dress match it with a multicoloured shalwar. Brides prefer to keep Mehndi dress simple and elegant with light gotta, mirror or dapka embroidery on sleeves and neck. Some prefer heavy embroidery on dupatta only.

However, with the passage of time, variations have come in Mehndi dress also. Now brides love to get the dress stitched in various designs and styles ranging from shalwar kameez to lengha.

Material used for Mehndi dress, include jamawar, silk, chiffon, kattan silk etc. There are yellow and deep red georget multi shaded shirts adorned with cut-glass, kamdani, sequins, swarovski, crystals and kora on hemline with big pendant on front V neck. Multi shaded dupatta has big square motives and green border belt are also in. Sunflower silk baggy/patiala shalwaar embellished from sides and at cuffs are also worn on Mehndi occasion.

If you want to buy a Mango lehanga on Mehndi, then silk lehanga with turquoise and pink hand beads work on borders and all over lehanga makes the best dress for the occasion. Similarly, Mehndi colour raw silk sleeveless shirt/kurti. Standing sherwani collar and kurta style neckline crowded with stones work. Stone spray arranged along shirt/kurti. Red jamawaar pajama makes it a fabulous combination.

All the brides on Mehndi are dressed with fresh flowers instead of jewellery. Mehndi is a ceremony that sets the tone up for the wedding ceremony, and the traditional Mehndi dresses adds colour to the ceremony.

Mehndi dresses are an essential part of the ceremony, as the bride aspires to get dressed with traditional outfits that also get embellished by the addition of a trendy touch to it.

So make your Mehndi day special by wearing fabulous Mehndi dresses and be a perfect bride.

Source: Fashion Central

Eye…. and eye care!

Eyes are said to be the windows of one’s soul. One can only see this beautiful and fascinating world through these windows. People who have bright, shiny and healthy eyes are the blessed one. World seems so dread, barren and colorless to those who are deprived of this precious gift of God.

Eyes are the beautiful and precious gift of god. It is considered as the prominent part in human face. The world seems colorless to those who are deprived of this gift of god. People with beautiful eyes are the luckiest one. In our poetry, also the eyes are the central focus of almost all poets. Inside colorful shinny andlong lashed eyes attract every one and immediately grab the attention of others.

To preserve and for the care of eyes, there are thousands of tips and techniques which are common now days. Despite of this, wide ranges of eye care products are also available in markets in order to treat your eyes with special care.

Unfortunately, majority of the people neglected this special area and only put emphasis on eye makeup or usage of lenses which often occur in eye damaging and retina diseases.

The present flood in Pakistan results in many diseases among them, the eye diseases listed at the top. Thousands offlood victims complained for different types of eye problems. However, besides this our eyes need special attention and care in our regular routine also.

To put special emphasis on this very important eye care matter and to give much awareness to our readers, we give some very common and easy applicable and necessary eye care tips which will not help you in your eye care but also doubles your eye beauty and shine.

Eye Care Tips:

• Wash your eyes with clean and fresh cool water every morning when you wake up.
• Rose water is very good ingredient for eye care .It will help in reducing eye pain and eye burning. Take 2-3 tbs of rose water, mix 2-3 drops of castor oil and wash your eyes with this liquid. It is the best cure for eye burns and other similar problems.
• For relaxation, you can use cold tea solution. Dipped cotton pads in the cold tea (which is without milk) for an hour and put them on your eye lids for 10-15 minutes. It is a very good eye relaxation technique.
• Majority of people face dark circles problems. To overcome this, they use to buy hundred of expensive eye careand dark circle removal products but did not get the result. Here, we give you a very simple but natural tip to overcome this problem. Take 3-4 pieces of cucumber sqneeze them and get the juice. Dip cotton pads in this for 2 minutes, apply this for 2-3 days and you will get rid of dark circles.
• Because of the late night culture, many of us not take complete rest and its results in puffy eye. For this, you can use chilled raw milk (milk before boiling). Put chilled raw milk dipped cotton pads on your eyes for 10-15 minutes and you will feel the change.
• Constant reading, writing and working on computer can damage your vision. When you are doing this type of work, it is advisable to take short breaks as constant staring at one place or on a computer screen will harm your vision and also a cause of headache and neck pain.
• Look at your surrounding time to time to give break to your eye s and comer the fatigue.
• Besides this, take nutritional diet to make your eyes and vision brighter.
• Wash your eyes before going to bed. Especially when you do eye makeup. For this, never use too many products just apply night cream or simple eye makeup removal cream as it will not damage your sensitive eye areas.
• Always consult an eye specialist for vision problems. Don’t treat this by self medication as it will result in vision damage or retina diseases. Also, use contact lenses and sun glasses or contact glasses after consulting with your eye specialist.
• Always put special emphasis on your eye care because they are the windows to your soul.

Source: Fashion Central