Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Do Your Own Facial At Home

Facial is important to keep your skin healthiness. But some people it is just too expensive to do. Do your own facial is right choice for you. You don’t need specific tools to do own facial at home. These are the step how to do own facial at home.

Do Your Own Facial At Home
  1. Clean your face – clean your face from make up by using make up cleanser. Apply it by using cotton. Does it upward for lift any debris and excess oil. For eye area, do it in circular movement. Do it gently. Skin in eye area is very sensitive.Then clean your face using facial cleanser. Apply it in circular movement. Rinse it with warm water.
  2. Exfoliation – exfoliation is the key for glowing skin. Use facial scrub that fit for your skin type. Apply in to your skin using circular movement. Focus more on your nose, fore heads, or other oily area. Avoid the eye area. Don’t forget the neck area. Neck area has sensitive skin that needs extra care. If you have acne problem, don’t use the scrub with chemical ingredient. It can irritate the skin and make the acne change into a scar.
  3. Open the pores. Open the pore is important to maximize the treatment. Put warm water into the bowl and add herbal tea, like green tea. Soak the towel into the bowl. Wring out the towel and put in your face and neck.do it for five minutes. Leave it cool slightly. If you have a blackhead problem, use the blackhead cleanser. Apply it to your skin, and rinse it using warm water. Or you can use the blackhead sticker.
  4. Mask your face – use the mask fit to your skin type. You can use your own mask ingredient. Or you can buy the mask gel or powder available at the market. Apply the mask in your face and leave it for about 15 minutes. Remove the mask and rinse the remains using warm water. While doing the mask, you can take care of other area. You can put a bag of green tea on your eye lids. It helps to rove black area under your eyes. You can change the green tea bag for slice of fresh cucumber. Lips are also an important area. Apply a honey after you apply the face mask. The honey will remove the black color on your lips. Wash it after 15 minutes.
  5. Use the serum – serum contains ingredients for smoothing and glowing skin.  Apply it into your face by patting it using your finger. Apply it twice in the dry area. You can change the serum for vitamin or face oil. Make sure that the serum is completely dry before apply the second layer
Do the facial for once a month. You will have a healthy, young, flawless and glowing face. It is better to use natural product to do your facial. Especially for you who have acne problem. See the next article about easy homemade facial mask for making your own face mask.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Dark Circle under Eyes

Dark circle ruined your appearance instantly. It is like grey hair or wrinkles make you look older and dull. There are some causes why you have a dark circle under your eye. But there are ways to prevent, minimize the appearance or even remove dark circle under your eyes. 

Dark Circle under Eyes

Some people are genetically has dark circle under their eyes. They have prominent vein around their eyes. Or they have thick skin around their eyes. When they are lack of sleep, the dark circle under the eyes will get bold. This case of dark circle cannot be removed, but there are some ways to minimize the appearance.

Age is another cause of dark circle under your eyes. Over time skin lose its elasticity. It can cause the skin become hanging under your eyes. Age also make the vein become more prominent and add some fat in particular area. This reason cause by age can cause dark circle under your eyes.

Exposed by sun light every single day can make your skin elasticity is worse. Sun light can make skin lose its collagen that can produce wrinkle and dark circle. Research shown that woman who live at tropical area is have bigger chance of having dark circle under their eyes. Sun light also cause skin pigmentation is not prevalent over your skin. It can cause black spot on your skin. Black spot can also make black circle under your eyes is getting worse.

Allergic apparently can also cause dark circle under your eyes. Some allergic like weather, dust, or pollen allergic can make our dark circle under your eyes is getting bold and worse. Those allergic trigger your vein to get swelling. This swelling can make your under eye area is swollen. And because of the skin on that area is skin, when you get allergic, you will have dark circle under your eyes as the bonus. Allergic sometimes also make you want to rub your eyes. This rub can trigger swollen and cause dark circle around your eyes. The only ways to get rid of this dark circle is by cure the allergic. And try to not rub your eyes or nose even when you are get itchy.

 There are some natural and cosmetic ways to get rid of dark circle under your eyes. The most common method is by using cucumber. Cucumber curs the swallow skin and refresh the skin make it elastic. Close your eyes. Put slice of cold cucumber on your eyes. Leave it for 10-15 minutes. You can change the cucumber using slice potatoes, tea bag or ice cube. Or you can use spoon. Leave the spoon in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. Put the spoon on your eyes until it get warm. Do those treatments regularly for best and long lasting result.

For you who don’t believe in natural ways, you can try to apply one of these creams. Many people works to remove dark circle using cream containing vitamin K and retinol. Vitamin K is good the help get skin elasticity. Vitamin K and retinol will work to cure your skin swollenness and make your skin color is prevalent. Use this cream every day for the best result. It is believed can make your dark circle under eyes is disappear.

Actually the key to prevent and heal dark eyes under your eyes is enough time of sleep. And also make sure you are not having a stressful life.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

What Causes Dandruff

Dandruff or scurf is like pieces of flakes on your scalp. Dandruff is your old scalp skin. Your skin is regenerate regularly. The new skin pushes the old skin out of the surface. Someone with dandruff problems mean their skin regenerate more often. More old skin made, that cause dandruff. Dandruff can also cause by other things like weather or allergic reaction.

What Causes Dandruff

If you have an oily scalp, you have to be worry about dandruff. Oil on your scalp will bundle your skin cell into white thick layer. That skin cell then what you see as dandruff. This problem will get worse at dry weather. Dry weather can trigger itchy feeling at your scalp. It is because your skin gets dried and turn into skin flakes. Scratch it will make it worse. You will peel off more skin flakes and make your dandruff worse. Try to not scratch your scalp at dry season. If you have dandruff problem, don’t blow your hair too often. Heat will make your dandruff worse.

Some hair treatment product can cause allergic. If your scalp can not resist some substances on hair product, your scalp will get dry, broken, and redness. This reaction cause itchy feeling that make you want to scratch it. Then without you noticed, you will have dandruff problem. Dandruff can be ccauses if you not clearly wash your hair and scalp after using the hair treatment product. Make sure you wash your hair with water clearly to remove any shampoo or conditioner you used. Remains product on your scalp will get dry and turn into some white flakes on your scalp. This allergic condition must be aware by you who have sensitive scalp.

There is dandruff that causes by some fungi or health problem condition. We have Malassezia fungi in our scalp. It works for to process oil in our scalp. There is the time where the amount of fungi in our scalp is increased. This condition can cause too much oil on your skin. Then the result is dandruff. The cause of increasing fungi on your scalp is remains unknown. Health problem condition can also cause dandruff on your scalp. Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition. It cause the victim have a scales skin. These scales will get dry on its regenerate. Sometimes this condition shown in the scalp that cause the skin peeled of and become dandruff. Other skin problem or similar medical condition can also cause dandruff.

Stress apparently can cause dandruff. Stress can ruin all of your body system. When your body system is not balanced, the skin will lose his elasticity and regeneration ability. This can cause dandruff problem. Try to avoid stress by having a balanced lifestyle and mind.

All of that condition can make your dandruff worse if you are not regularly washing your hair. Your scalp will become dirty. It will become sticky and your scalp covered by sweat, oil, and other dirt. The sweat and oil will combine and dry into flakes that become dandruff. Try to wash your hair regularly with shampoo. Choose the shampoo that fits to your hair condition. Don’t wear hats or other head covered that too tight. It will make your head sweating a lot. Too much sweat means too much dandruff.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Bad Side of Dying Your Hair

Dying hair is become the alternative for you to have a wanted hair color. Almost 50% of American people are dying their hair. There are many hairs coloring product sold on market nowadays. But all of them contain chemical substances that can damage your hair. It can cause a small until dangerous damage for your hair. Some research said that dying your hair cans also threating your health.

Dying Your Hair

Dying will make your hair dry. You will have a split end hairs. This is of course could be a problem if you want to have a long hair. The worst effect shows by permanent color and bleaches hair. Semi-permanent hair dying will shows this bad effect if you do it regularly. Unfortunatelythe easiest thing to do for your hair is not to dye it. But there are some things to reduce the effect. Use a moisturize shampoo and conditioner every time you wash our hair. And have a hair mask treatment every once a week.

Dying your hair also need extra attention. Never dye your hair without using latex gloves. The gloves will protect your skin form chemical substances from hairs color product. The product will stick in your skin for a long time. A dark nails and skin of course not a good look for you. The chemical substance from the product can caused an allergic reaction to your skin too.  Use latex gloves to protect your skin during the dying process. And also use towel to cover your neck.  Towel will prevent the dye into your neck and cloth.

Some people will have an allergic reaction after dying their hair. Chemical substance in the product can cause an allergic at the scalp. If it accidently sticks on your face, it can cause your face become irritated. In some case the face will get swollen and reddish. Allergic skin cause by hair dye shows some signs. Skin irritation or redness is the most common case. Lumps on back or neck, swollen, and itchy on skin are other signs. In same case, it can cause headache or even stomachache. There are thing you can do to test your hair color product for prevent allergic reaction. Put tiny amount of your product. Put it on your neck or behind your ears. Wait for few hours. If your skin shows some signs like reddish or swallow, don’t use your product. Wash your skin with cold water immediately. That shows that your skin can’t handle the chemical substance on your product. Hair color product will last for a long time on your scalp and hair. So make sure use the product that safe for you. A long term scalp and skin problem can cause a more dangerous health problem.

A several studies said that people who dye their hair have more risk to have asthma than people who don’t. Long term exposure by chemical substance and bleaching can cause an occupational asthma. Another studies also said that people who dye their hair have a big chance of having cancer. This subject is still remains controversial, but the chemical exposures from the product shown can effects on our DNA system. A damage DNA system means big risk of cancer.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Anne Hathaway Lose 25 Pounds for Les Miserables

Anne Hathaway did a strict diet for her new role at “Les Miserables”. Those 30 years old Hollywood actress had been successfully lost 25 pounds of her weight. She lost 10 pounds at begin of the movie. And she lost another 15 pounds of her weight on only two weeks.  She did that by eating only two pieces of oatmeal paste a day.

Anne Hathaway

Anne said that she was a little obsessed with her role. She wants to look as skin as nearly death as her role, a consumptive prostitute, Fantine. She said that what she did is a little bit nuts and breaks the reality. But she thinks that looks is who Fantine really is.

Before the Les Miserables, Anne already has perfect shape of body in “The Dark Knight Rises”. She spends 10 months for vegan diet, hardcore weight training and martial arts. Losing 25 pounds of her body make her totally skinny. She also made another transformation. She cut off her long hair. She did it for the role, of course. But she said she loves her short hair and will keep that hairstyle as long as possible.

Extreme body changes have become part of Hollywood film promotion. For some reason it will affect the marketing side of film’s promotion. Natalie Portman get a lot of publicity for her weight loss. She dropped 20 pounds for the 2010’s movie “the Black Swan”. She actually won an Oscar Award for her role on that movie.  Jennifer Lawrence also made a big publicity for her movie “The Hunger Game”. She vowing for not having a diet for a role at the movie.

For some people, the dramatically diet for a role is an unhealthy way. Losing 15 pounds for only two weeks it’s just too soon. And do it by eating less than 100 calories just too far to do for a role. There are many technologies that can be done for the skinny effect on the camera. Showing the cheek bones, sleepy eye and black eye circle can be done by makeup and camera effect.
After the movie, Anne said she had a hard time because of the diet and the role.

Anne said that he had a hard time in her life after the movie done. She was having a physical and emotional deprivation. She got overwhelmed when she arrived at home. She cannot be overwhelmed by the chaos on the world. Need weeks for her to be back being usually her again.


“Les Miserables” is a movie about a consumptive prostitute named Fantine based on Victor Hugo's classic 19th century French novel. This movie had such sad ending by showing Fantine suffered for having tuberculosis. Directed by Tom Hooper,"Les Miserables" is scheduled to be released on December 25 in the United States. This movie is predicted for being an Oscar nomination. It’s not shocking, remembering the Tom Hooper is also the director for “The King Speech”. “Les Miserables of the stage musical version also stars Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. See other article about Hollywood news, Kelly Osbourne wear $250,000 black diamond nail polish.