Tuesday 23 October 2012

Hassle Free Beauty Tips for Hardworking Women

Working fulltime and trying to raise a family does not leave much energy or time to worry about one�s makeup. For professional females, getting dolled up for work and play may have become a thing of the past long ago. With just a few spare moments, though, quick and easy beauty tricks can refresh a woman�s look instantly.

Whether you have the job interview of a lifetime, a hot date or merely a night out on the town, countless beauty snafus may be lurking just around the corner! Don�t fall victim to some of womankind�s oldest enemies�instead, be ready and armed for whatever beauty blunders may await.

Mini skirts are more than still in, they are a fashion must-have.

Why are mini skirts sexy? What makes men like seeing women�s legs?
I can understand the primeval lust for breasts (supposedly resembling buttocks!) and for red lips (similarly resembling flushed sexual organs!), but why legs?

It is not that women who ran faster were better breeders or anything. Maybe it is the exposed flesh that�s been covered in more modest times.

No matter how careful we are, what could have been avoided sometimes just happens. We get food spilled on our clothes while cooking or eating, our men soak their shirts with sweat when they go to the gym, our kids get too rowdy and play in the dirt even if they are told to stay clean, and guests can leave marks on the pristine upholstery of the living room furniture. Yes, stains happen even when we least expect it.

Ah, the spa. A small slice of heaven on earth. A place to unwind, to de-stress and to relax, a place where one can shed off her worries away. A place where you can entrust yourself to gentle, caring hands and feel yourself healed, renewed and made beautiful again. Going to the spa is the perfect treat you could give yourself after a week is worth of hard work. Heavenly spa!

Finding a few moments to ourselves proves quite the daunting task anymore. With places to go, people to see, presentations to make and happy hours to enjoy, getting dolled up sometimes becomes more of a hassle than it is worth�or so it seems.

When you add up all the minutes it takes to select an outfit, accessorize with the right purse and appropriate jewelry, dry and style your hair, apply makeup and dash out the door, before you know it you�re running late again. The problem is this: You want to look great but you don�t want to spend a near-lifetime getting ready.

First Impressions

So ladies, we all know the saying First impressions last. We meet these words as a catch phrase on some commercial on TV or the radio, or in some book or magazine that we happen to read. We hear our mothers and our girl friends alternately nag and advise us about making a good first impression. It is an idea that is deeply ingrained in most of us.

Make the first semester of school a memorable one! Have fun as you reinvent your style with your own sense of back to school fashion and beauty. From new shoes and purses to the hottest shades in lipstick and eye shadow, fall�s own gorgeous colors can be accented and accentuated in your own fab choices of what to wear.

It is inevitable. There are just some times, in the course of an entire day, that something will pop up to get us down. It could be anything, any thing at all. It could be that your car would not start, you discovered bits of your lunch sticking in between your teeth right after a very important client presentation, or you found a long and nasty run along your stockings in the middle of a dinner date. It could be a reprimand from your boss, a missed deadline, a lost business opportunity.

We women, in one way or another, wish to look young all our lives. Whether you pin the blame on our upbringing, the media or our youth-oriented society, the thing is that we do indeed desire to retain our youthful looks for as long as we can. That is why cosmetic surgery and the cosmetic industry in general are making loads of money. Many women and even men are willing to spend a tremendous amount just to keep their faces and bodies looking young.

No matter what your age or skin type, it is vital to protect the skin you have. Avoid overly exposing your skin to the sun, wind, or harsh chemicals like chlorine. Practice a regular skincare routine by cleansing, exfoliating, toning and moisturizing your skin.

So you are going to have a job interview tomorrow. You really want that new job � the salary is great, the benefits package is awesome and it is truly a good career move for you. You think that, with your skills, you have a good shot at landing it.

Beauty is not always about how you look, what you are wearing or how you smell. Despite society�s current emphasis on what looks good, hip or cool, beauty that puts so much stock on the physical and takes into account only these small things is at best superficial.

What definitely counts as true, real beauty is not judged by how the palette you used for your makeup matches your skin coloring, or if the clothes you wear flatter your figure, or if your hairdo is nice and trendy. These are only our feathers; they make us look beautiful, but not entirely so.

Shopping is fun. It is always fun to buy new things, especially if they are bought with cash truly allotted for the purpose of shopping, rather than with a credit card. Shopping for new stuff is rewarding yourself for working so hard and going through all that stress just to get your job well done.

When we were struggling through those awkward teenage years, when our hormones were wreaking havoc on our bodies and our skin, we were most likely inundated by advice from our mothers and grandmothers, and even our girlfriends, on what we should do to keep ourselves beautiful despite the storm of changes upon us and upon our bodies. Some of them sound sensible, while some sound totally absurd.

But even if these pieces of advice sound really silly, there are some of them that we could not easily shake off. They seem to work for us, and why let go of a good thing if it is working somewhat?

Nonetheless, for curiosity�s sake, sometimes there is a need to ask. Do the beauty practices handed down to us by our mothers, grandmothers and girlfriends that we have religiously observed through the years hold a grain of scientific truth in them, or are they merely beauty myths spun by old wives? Let�s find out.

So you ate, drank and spent too much over the Holidays. Now you are overweight, bloated, tired and broke, and you are promising yourself that you are going to change all that this year!

With the hustle and bustle this time of year, you've probably paid more attention to shopping and cooking than the latest beauty trends and fashion. The holidays are just around the corner and since you'll most likely be spending the majority of your time with friends and family, you'll want to look your best.

With holiday shopping, parties, and activities, chances are you will receive ongoing exposure to eyes everywhere. Anticipating time with friends and family gives us determination to put our best foot forward make the most of our natural beauty. If you're wanting to look fabulous for the holidays but just don't have the time for heavy maintenance, here are some simple makeup tips and ideas to update your look and add some pizzazz to the festivities.

Why is it that whenever you go to a holiday party, you can always find someone who doesn't look how you would expect? Is it because you think they overdid their fashion or makeup, or is it a touch of envy? Beauty queen or fashion disaster, it's up to you. If you want to shine for the holidays, take note of these holiday do's and don'ts to spruce up your look and receive raves from your friends and family.

This the season for calorie-packed meals, goodies, candy and treats. How does one avoid holiday weight gain and stay slim for the festivities? It's not an easy situation! Most of us want to enjoy the holiday meals but we also want to look good for parties and get-togethers with friends and family.

It's a new year, and time to get moving! Although Americans know there are many health risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle we often feel overwhelmed with the mere thought of exercise, even though we know the benefits are plentiful. Not only is exercise good for your health but it is also good for your mind and overall sense of well being.

Shilajit

Shilajit is perhaps the most potent rejuvenator and anti aging substance ever known to mankind . Attributed with many magical properties Shilajit is found predominately in Himalayan regions.

Description
Perennial aquatic herb. Root-stock stout, cylindrical, embedded in the mud. Leaves peltate, radiately nerved, margins wavy, petiole long, aculeate, inserted in the middle of the leaf. Flowers large, solitary, handsome and fragrant, rosy or white, carpels numerous, ovoid, fleshy, sunk separately in cavities of receptacle, maturing into nut-like achenes, skin hard and blackish-brown when ripe.

Description
A small, erect, prickly shrub with unequal, large, hooked prickles and many bristles, leaves compound, alternate, leaflets usually five, rachis not prickly, flowers usually pink, very fragrant, very double on long slender pedicels, calyx tube globose, ovoid, the mouth contracted, lobes 4-5 imbricate, petals many, stames many, inserted on the mouth of the calyx tube, carpels many in the bottom of the calyx tube, style subterminal, free stigma thickened, ovules solitary, pendulous, fruit a fleshy his enclosing bony achenes, seeds small, pendulous.

Description
A perennial growing to 1.5m, with lance-shaped leaves and green flowers with yellow stamens in axillary cymes.

Description
Aloe Vera is a a coarse perennial with short stem and shallow root system: Its leaves are fleshy in rosettes, sessile, often crowded with homy pickles on the margins, convex below, 45-60cm long tapering to a blunt point, surface pale green with irregular white blotches, flowers yellow or orange in racemes. Aloe vera fruits are like loculicidal capsule.

Description
A perennial shrub growing to 1m, with spikes of violet-blue flowers extending above the foliage.

Description
Herbal Amla is a small to medium sized deciduous tree, 8-18 m in height with thin light grey bark exfoliating in small thin irregular flakes; leaves simple, very many, subsessile, closely set along the branchlets, distichous, light green having the appearance of pinnate leaves. Flowers of Herbal Amla or Indian Gooseberry are greenish yellow, in axillary fascicles, unisexual, males numerous on short slender pedicels, females few, subsessile, ovary 3-celled; Amla fruits globose, fleshy, pale yellow with six obscure vertical furrows enclosing 6 trigonous seeds in 2-seeded 3 crustaceous cocci.

Description
Small trailing herb. Stems slender, prostrate, rooting at the joinds. Leaves alternate or tufted at each node. orbicular, round or kidney-shaped, obviously crenate. Inflorescence in single umbel. bearing 1-5 small flowers. white or reddish. without stalks, Fruit very small. compressed.

Cosmetic Uses

Chamomile, closely related to the daisy, has become one of the most popular herbal remedies in the world, with an extremely broad range of applications and uses, both internally and externally.

Butea Superba, Bastard Tea, Flame of Forest

(Butea Monosperma)

Description
A medium sized deciduous tree, very conspicuous when in flower, 12-15m in height with gum-containing grey bark exfloiating in irregular pieces, and somewhat crooked trunk, leaves 3-foliate, leaflets coraceous, obtuse, glabrous above when old, finely silky and conspicuously reticulately veined beneath; flowers bright orange red, large, in rigid racemes; fruits podsm thickened at the sutures.

Description
"Medium to large tree with gray-brown bark; leaves bipinnate, the primary leaflets subopposite, 2-4 pairs; ultimate leaflets opposite, 6-8 pairs, oblong, slightly asymmetric, blunt, 2.5-4.5 cm long; flowers fragrant, in loose heads, pedicellate, the head 2-4 cm broad, whitish; stamens long-exserted; pods flat, thin, pale straw-colored when mature, 15-20 (rarely 30) cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, few-seeded, the seeds bulging; pods drying, opening slightly or not"

Step up the romance with an elegant hairstyle for prom. Wavy, curly or straight, you'll want the style you choose to compliment your facial features and last throughout the evening. You can opt for a classic updo, or eye-catching, trendy style. Consider your dress when making your decision and coordinate your hair and accessories.

It's fun shopping for a formal dress and shoes but it can be quite an investment. Whether you plan on wearing your dress again or parting with it after your prom, we've got some tips to keep it in tip-top shape so you or someone else can enjoy the dress you first fell in love with.

Prom night is near and what better way to celebrate spring than a formal dinner and dance with a stunning, flirty dress? Whether you have a date or you're going solo, prom is your night to glow with your own glamour and unique style. This year's formal fashion trends are a mixture of pop star trends and simple elegance. Play up your diva factor with a flattering color and style that will make you feel like a "hot" Cinderella at the ball.

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Butea Superba, Bastard Tea, Flame of Forest

(Butea Monosperma)

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