Friday, October 16, 2009

Say Bye Bye to Dark Circles!


Dark circles are always women's enemy and now not only that, even men has the same issue as well. Dark circles are formed usually due to late night sleep. But it's ok now that we have a solution to it. You can make them at home and it only costs you very little. You don't have to waste a huge amount of money anymore trying out different kind of products available in the pharmacies and be disappointed after that. You can try making this instead.

1. Use potatoes that you can find in the supermarkets. Peel off the skin and throw them into your food processor.
2. Then stuff these raw mashed potatoes into cheesecloth before applying them onto the dark spot below your eyes.
3. Beware not to let the juice drip into your eyes. Just leave them for about 20 minutes before removing it.
4. Wipe clean your eyes and apply your eye cream. That completes your dark circle treatment.


This method helps as grated potatoes are known to be containing catecholase, a kind of enzyme that is used in normal cosmetics ingredients to lighten human skin. This DIY is absolutely going to be effective in lightening your dark circles. Just repeat this routine for a few times and you'll get the result you want. But the best effective way is of course, to sleep early and have enough 8-hours sleep to prevent your dark circles from popping out again.




Fragrance and Personality


Choosing a perfume to your liking is as easy as snapping your fingers but it can be hard that you need to scratch your head when there's a wide selection for you to choose from. But did you know that fragrance can represent your personality? The perfume you use tells people about you and what kind of person you are whether you're a tough person, the girly kind, sexy, young and sweet, one with personality or sporty. It's not only about you, liking the scent or not. Often, there are people who like a particular scent and some don't. It reflects on your lifestyle as well.

When you go for perfume shopping, take your time to hunt for the right one before deciding on the one that suits you best. It might take you weeks to get one, but trust us, it's worth the time. As they reflects the inner you, only the one that you think is the most suitable will last longer. Even if you've decided to change one, the fragrance will still fall on the same category.


It often happens that the perfume doesn't smells the same as the one you sprayed at the samples counter as sometimes, your nose did some tricks on you. After a while of smelling it, the scent slowly fades away and blends with your surroundings and turning into a different scent. It's not about the perfume, but your nose just decided to smell differently. Don't try too many samples at a go, and start with the lighter ones before sampling the richer scent. Take a break in between before you start sniffing on samples again.

Colors of the packaging often tells you what kind of perfume it is whether it's a strong one or a lighter one or whether it's the floral scent or fruity. You can always find some information on the bottle, so read them over before trying them. Often brighter colors reflect fruity scent and those in pastel colors reflect floral scents. Either that or you can always ask the sales person for help and to collect more information and understand your own fragrant well. Thus, you'll get to know your own personality more.

It's always best to take a break in between samples and don't force yourself to get one now on the spot. Get some opinion from people and try a few more till you found your best.




Cholesterol Hair Conditioning


Homemade recipes are always cost saving. Though sometimes it may be a little bit time consuming but you'll definitely enjoy the process of making your own treatments especially when beauty treatments are always costly. Here's what we have for you to save on your hair treatment. You don't have to visit the salon every now and then to get your hair treated; instead, you can do them at home by yourself without the help of others.

For dry hair, all you need for this treatment is to get ready a cup of mayonnaise, some plastic food wrap and two towels. This DIY treatment is essential for dry hair and instead of using hair conditioners that are full of chemicals, use the natural way of treatment.

Apply the whole cup of mayonnaise onto your hair and massage them into the scalp and root. You might need to use a comb to comb your hair so that the mayonnaise is evenly applied through the end. You have a choice of combing your hair with your hand actually. After that, pile them on top of your head and wrap them with the plastic wrap. This way, it helps to keep the mayonnaise in place.

Then pre-heat the towel in your drier and wrap it around after the layer of plastic wrap. Keep the towel there for 10 minutes before removing it and place the second towel on it and leave them for another 10 minutes. The heat from the wrapping will help in deep conditioning. After all that, remove the towel and the plastic.

Shampoo your hair as usual after the treatment. This treatment is best done once a month as they make your hair softer and shinier. But for oily scalp, you are advised not to apply the mayonnaise to the whole head. Instead apply them only on dry ends. You can do this once a week, weekly to get the best result. It's good for damage hair too from too much chemical treatment.

You'll definitely going to enjoy this process and the result after that and not forgetting the satisfaction of Do-It-Yourself!




Daily Exercises


People always have the mindset of exercising means going to the gym and sweat for hours or going through a hard time trying to get the aim of finishing 30 minutes jog. But that's not about it anymore. Daily routine like walking actually helps a lot in the daily dose of exercise that you need. And every little movement you make can be mounted up.

We have little tips that might be handy to you if you are afraid that you won't have enough time in a day to do proper exercise. Light ones helps too. It only requires 10 minutes walk a day to increase your fitness level. Get rid of the 'No pain, No gain' thinking. Do a little a day especially if you just start to work out. There's no need to stress yourself out instead, just relax and enjoy your routine.


Keep in mind that you can walk a little a day and not to work hard in the gym. When you are running an errand, just park your car a little further and walk there. Or if you're on your way for shopping spree, don't leave your car near to the entrance instead park them at the farthest end and walk the whole length of the mall. Take this little opportunity to walk more and you'll be surprised to the result by the end of the day.

Every morning when you wake up, before getting off the bed, try doing a few sit ups on the bed. Lay down flat on your mattress and enjoy the routine. With a few times a day you can actually do up to 100 times when you get used to the routine.

There's always a price to pay for everything. The only little tips are 'Don't be lazy!'



Basic Yet Important


Below are the basic 10 little tips that looks not really important but as you accumulate them, it will somehow become essential to you someday. Make them a practice every day and it will keep you healthy throughout.

1. Move, move and more move

Challenge yourself and see how much you move your body every day. Climb the stairs to your house or to your office instead of taking the elevators or escalators. Opt for a walk if the place is within walking distance or walk your dog in the park, bring your children out to the beach, play with them and chase them around. You can also toss balls with your friends and go out for a game or two or simply mow the lawn. All these help a little everyday in moving your limbs. An easy fitness tool you can do every day besides the boring routing like going to the gym or aerobic or even tai chi.

2. Reduce Fat Bits by Bits

Try not to consume fried foods, burgers and other fatty meat especially those found in processed meat like bacon, ham, sausages and salami. You can also opt for low fat version of cheese, milk and cream if you love them. Nuts, mayonnaise, sandwich meats, margarine, butter and sauces and dressings should be consumed in limited amounts or get the low fat or fat free version instead. All these are not essential to your body and they give you no nutrients at all.

3. Say NO to Smoking

Smoking is harmful to anyone and everyone knows that. When you are craving for a puff, take the gums instead. Chew them and you'll soon forget about smoking. What worries people most is that smokers' age is getting younger each day and it seems like teenagers now ignore the important of being healthy. Parents are encouraged to guide their children well in this and try to advise them into quitting if they are found smoking.

4. Don't Stress

It's always easier to be said than done but somehow someway you'll have to do it as well. Stress can come from everywhere be it from yourself or your surroundings. And one of the easiest ways to reduce your stress is simply to do things that you like for example, read a book, soak in bath tub, go for a walk or enjoy the evening breeze. Take some time off from everything you do.

5. Avoid from Pollution

Make an effort to avoid smoke-filled rooms, areas with high traffic, breath in highways and exercising near busy areas. Those smokes are not good for health and your lungs and try to avoid breathing heavily in these places. You can also plant something at your home.

6. Buckle Yourself

Remember to wear your seat belt as it helps to prevent and potential injuries if you car gets crashed.

7. Teeth Flossing

There is a connection shows through research that longevity and teeth flossing are related to each other. The real reason to it was not identified but by logical thinking, if a person is to floss their teeth, it also meant that the person is health conscious enough. Hence, they'll not forgot the important of their teeth as well.

8. Drink Just Enough

Drink moderately instead of excessively. Research shows that a man can drink a glass of wine a day as it helps prevent heart disease but if it's a glass and more then it will bring harm to your body like causing liver and kidney disease.

9. Be Positive

Being cheerful everyday makes you think and act positively. Hence, you'll live well when you're in a better mood.

10. Know How to Choose

It doesn't mean that your parents who are diagnosed with disease that can be passed down through genetics like diabetes you'll be inherited with the disease as well. Yes, you have a percentage of getting the disease but you can work harder to prevent them from happening. You get to choose whether or not to live healthily. You can control your own health management too.




An Apple A Day


As the simple saying that rhymes, 'An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away' is no doubt a favorite children quote to have them to eat the fruits in order to get a balance diet. But have you ever wonder why must it be an apple and not other common fruits? Why is it that there's no 'An Orange a Day Keeps the Doctor Away'?

There must be something about this ordinary fruit that makes them extraordinary and a special of its kind. Research shows that they have extra benefits that are good for health where you can't find in other fruits. You can mix all kinds of fruits to get these benefits, but why not just take an apple? It's simpler this way. And the simplest way to stay healthy is always the best choice for everyone.

Let's see how an apple can keeps the doctor away.

1. An apple contains Vitamin C that is needed in your immune system. With Vitamin C, your wound heals faster and you     don't get bruises easily nor bleeding gums.
2. Flavonoid that can be found in apples are good to prevent heart and cardiovascular disease as they work as     antioxidants.
3. If you're having sweet tooth and are craving for candies or chocolates, try having an apple instead. They give you the     same sweetness and the important thing is they are lower in calories. And, they make your cravings disappear!
4. There are all kinds of cancers and the best fact about apples is they prevent cancers. An apple a day helps cure     colon cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer. So, women remember to have an apple.
5. Phenols in apple helps reduce bad cholesterol and then increase the good cholesterol in our body.
6. Not only can you keep the doctors away but dentists too. With the juice from the apple, 80% of the bacteria that     causes tooth decay can be killed.
7. Though it's not known to many people, but apple really can help protect your brain from brain disease like Alzheimer's     and Parkinsonism with the phytonutrients found in an apple.
8. Asthma can be prevented if you have at least five apples a week. It is said that apples help lower respiratory     problems.
9. The best thing is, apples taste great be it the green or the apple ones. You can have the red one if you dislike the     green or vice versa. But it's best to have both!

So, get your apples now and stay healthy without a doctor!





Diabetic Diet


It's not the end of the world yet for a diabetic for not being able to eat food that they love to eat previously. You'll just have to eat properly with the right portions and the right amount of nutrients needed in your daily diabetic diet and the most important routine of all is to exercise and sweat away all your food!

Healthy diabetic diet plan doesn't mean you have to take all the tasteless healthy food but instead, it's better to consult your doctor on what you should have in your diet and what you should not depending on what type of diabetes you are and also the sugar level in your blood. It's not going to take much effort from you and it's not even difficult to make it happen.

You don't have to throw away all the food you have at home but just need to watch the proportions you are taking. Eat lesser but increase your meal intakes so you won't feel hungry. You can still have the food that you like but beware of how much you take them in you. If you've taken too much, just do extra exercise to burn the extra food you've taken. It's not that difficult as it may seem.

Exercising is not hard at all as long as you're not lazy. Simple once like walking around your house is enough for daily exercise. Just as long as you are sweating, it's sufficient already. Once in a while you can have sports with your fellow friends or even with your family and it's definitely going to be fun exercising with a bunch of your loved ones rather than working out on your own. Exercising helps burning your extra glucose from your food and that's all you need to maintain a normal sugar level.

There are things that you have to watch out especially on your diet. But overall, cut down on your food proportions and avoid eating fried foods. The fats in the oily food will only help increase the chance of a diabetic getting heart disease and I'm sure you won't want to have that. After all, oil only makes a person grows fat. It's best to take steamed food or soup and avoid heavy seasoning. Use vinegar, herbs and spices, lemon juices and salsa instead of excessive salt and sugar.

Cut on the amount of eating out. Cook at home instead to ensure healthier eating. Eating the right amount of food and getting the right amount of exercise is all you need to get on track on healthier lifestyle. Just don't keep in mind that being a diabetic is the end of the world. Many diabetics are still leading their normal routine and enjoying the activities they like. Just make sure you maintain your sugar level and you'll be just fine!