Best Foods for Healthy Hair

Milk

The commercials were right. milk does your body good, and your hair too! All the sources seem to agree that dairy is one of the best foods for healthy hair.

Eggs

Eggs can be one of the best foods for healthy hair for the same reason as salmon: high protein and high Omega-3.

Beans

Beans are high in folate, protein and B-Vitamins, all of which are important for healthy shiny hair. Explore all the many kinds of beans that are available. lentils, lima beans, black beans, garbanzo beans, azuki beans. all of them have different tastes and can be used in a variety of dishes.

Other Foods for Healthy Hair 

Ladies Home Journal suggests short-grain brown rice and cottage cheese. Ayurveda, an ancient system from India, lists fruit juice, yogurt and coconut as foods for healthy hair. Other foods with nutrients for healthy shiny hair include carrots, avocado, sweet potato and sunflower seeds.

Beautiful Eyebrows Tips 

* Spray a little hair spray on your brows and brush them using your toothbrush to keep them in place.

* If you don't have time for tweezing, you can get the desired contour quickly by brushing them upwards and then snipping the longest hairs beyond the natural arch using a pair of tiny scissors.

* Eyebrows slanting upwards make you look angry, so be careful not to take off too much at the outer corners.

* Before tweezing your brows, you must prepare your skin by wiping the brow area with a cotton ball soaked in astringent. The cooling effect numbs the skin for sometime and thus, you do not feel much pain.

* Hold the tweezers at 45 degrees and pluck the stray hairs below the brow line in the direction of the hair growth.

* If your brows are sparse, use a freshly sharpened brow pencil to fill in the areas with light, quick strokes.

* To get a natural and more defined look, you can brush your brows with a brow brush dipped in brow powder in upward and outward strokes.

* It is important to use the correct shade for your brows. Fair women can use blonde shades while olive colored women should choose tawny or brown. Dark African-American women can use gray shades.

* To add volume to your brows, use a stiff, slanted brush to apply eye shadow in short gentle strokes.

* In case, you have over tweezed certain brow area, try to fill the patch using brow shadow, applying in the direction of the hair growth. 

* Eye shadow gives more natural look to your brows than an eyebrow pencil!

* Brow shade should be about two shades lighter than hair color for olive or dark skinned women and two shades darker than hair color blondes or women with grey hair.

How to Apply Lipstick 

1. Prior to applying your Lipstick you should use a Lip Liner to give your lips a neatly defined edge.

2. Apply a little moisturizer to soften your Lips and also to help the Lipstick to glide on more easily.

3. Apply a light coat of foundation to your Lips to act as a base and to help even out the color.

4. Outline the natural edge of your lips with a Lip Pencil that is not more than one shade darker than the Lipstick you'll be using. The Lip Liner keeps the color from bleeding and it gives you a guideline for applying your Lipstick.

5.When it's time to apply your Lipstick, relax your mouth so it opens slightly. Using a Lip Brush, apply your Lipstick starting at the center of each lip working outwards to fill in the Lipstick.

Shaving Tips For Woman 

Today though many women wax their legs, shaving is still the least expensive way to remove your hair.

Shaving has to be done carefully or it will result in nicks and irritation. Here are a few shaving tips for women to ensure that they are doing it right.

* Do not shave dry skin. Wet your skin and let the moisture soften your skin. Shaving is a natural exfoliator and if your skin is dry, your razor will get blocked with dead skin and you are likely to nick yourself as well.

* Do not waste money by buying creams specially made for women, as they are almost the same as those made for men.

* To find the perfect razor you will just have to use all those available and choose the one that you like best. You can ask your friends who shave to recommend razors. Look for a razor with lubricated strips, pivoting heads and spring mounted multiple blades. 

* Exfoliate before you shave to ensure that the dead skin cells do not clog your razor and prevent a close shave.

* For your legs you will have begin shaving from your ankles and then work upwards. For your underarms you will have to shave in every direction as hair grows in every direction under your arm. 

* After you have finished shaving apply oil or moisturizer. The skin on your leg has few oil glands and hence may become dry.

* When hair curls back under the skin it caused ingrown hairs. To avoid ingrown hairs exfoliate everyday and use a glycolic acid body lotions. 

* If you have a chronic case of ingrown hairs then use a lotion that is specially made for ingrown hairs, that is easily available at the chemists. Apply it in the morning and at night and the bumps will vanish within a few days.

* If you shave your legs coarse hair will grow back fast. Therefore consider waxing your legs at least.

Indian Home Beauty Tips

There are a number of simple beauty treatments that we can use with things that are easily available in our homes.

Here are a few home beauty tips that you can try using things from the kitchen without any extra cost.

* Remove puffiness from the eyelids, massage a drop of very fresh castor oil on to them.

* Cool your eyes, make eye pads using thick slices of cucumber. Another option is to use cotton pads soaked in cold milk. Lie down and place them on your closed eyes and relax for a while.

* Putting a drop of rose water into each eye just before you sleep can also refresh you eyes.

* To prevent your lips from chapping, use hot water fermentation on your lips and then apply a mixture of vaseline and honey. Apply this mixture about three times a week.

* Prevent your lips from drying you can use a ground mixture or rose petals and milk butter.

* Delay age spots on your hand, use a piece of lemon and rub all over your hand, before washing. This will delay onset of age-spots.

* If you have no time to shampoo your hair before going out, then brush 1 tablespoon of talcum powder or corn flour through your hair. Try this out first when you are not in hurry to make sure that it works the way you want.

* To prevent hair loss you should have a biotin rich drink. Blend bananas with honey, yogurt and low fat milk. Drink this for a few weeks.

* While blow drying and setting your hair, blow-dry at hot on the roots of the hair. Roll your hair inwards or outwards at the ends.

* Improve the setting make sure the ends are evenly rolled in or rolled out. Heat the hair for a second and then let it cool. This process of setting the hair will last longer and make your hair look beautiful.

* Condition your hair, after shampooing your hair take some conditioner on your palm and rub it with both hands. Apply from the hair shaft moving downwards. Do not apply on your scalp. Rinse your hair after 5 minutes.

* Add extra shine and glow to your hair add 2 tablespoons of malt vinegar. Use it as a last rinse and towel dry your hair.

Home Remedy for Dark Skin 

The most common symptoms of dark skin are that the skin color turns to brownish to blackish.

Dark skins can be cured naturally using some easy measures. Know more how to treat dark skin naturally.

* Potato acts as a very good bleaching agent. Slice a potato and keep them over the face. This would lighten the marks.

* Grate a tomato and add 2-3 drops of lime to it. Apply this mixture on the face and keep it for 15 minutes. Repeat this two times a day for better results.

* Take a tablespoon of gram flour and mix it with 2 tsp of raw milk and 2-3 drops of lime juice. Apply this mixture and leave it for 15 minutes before washing off.

* The more water you have the more toxins flush out from the body and hence have better glowing skin. As per the diet, include whole cereals, vegetables, fruits, pulses etc into your diet.

* Dry some orange peels. Then, mix them to a bowl of curd. This would be beneficial in removing tan. Keep this for about 15 minutes and wash off with cold water.

Makeup in Five Minutes

We can tell you that getting the perfect made-up look in a few minutes is not a difficult job.

In fact, by being a little systematic and organized, a woman can do her makeup in as short a time period as five minutes.

* After taking a bath, apply some moisturizer on your face. Leave it on your face for sometime; say a minute or two, so that your skin gets enough time to absorb the moisture.

* In the meantime, get your entire makeup ready, so that you do not end up wasting time looking for different cosmetics. In other words, you need to prepare your foundation, sponge/ foundation brush, eye shadow, eyeliner, mascara, sharpened brow pencil, lipstick, lip brush, loose powder, powder blushes and blush-on brush.

* Now, apply the foundation on your face and blend it with the help of a sponge or a foundation brush.

* Next, you will have to apply your favorite eye shadow, followed by eyeliner, which will help define your eyes. Concentrate on the shape of your eyes while using the liner, since you only have limited time in hand and do not want to use it in correcting wrong make up.

* Apply mascara on the tips of your eyelashes. At this point, if it is needed, you can apply a few small strokes of brow pencil, to enhance the color or shape of your eyebrows.

* Apply a nice shade of lipstick on your lips. Instead of directly applying the lipstick onto your lips, use a lip brush to spread the color evenly over them in less time.

* Put some blush-on on your cheeks, with the help of a brush. Thereafter, gently apply some loose powder on your nose and the t-zone. This will prevent the area from becoming oily.

* Finally, go for a quick final check in the mirror to see whether you need to make a few corrections or not. If not, you are ready to dazzle in front of the world!