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Daily Beauty Practices and How to Achieve Them: Part 1

Thankfully we are in a time where beauty is often associated with health. This means that a lot of things that will improve the look of your skin and body are going to help you live a healthier life. We know most of these things but we have a problem actually carrying them out. Here are most of the things you should be trying to check off your list each day and some ways you can try to turn New Year’s Resolutions into genuine life changes.

  1. Drink lots of water

If you already do this, kudos to you. I have a problem drinking water every day so I do a couple of things to make sure I’m staying healthy: I fill a glass with lukewarm water and have it first thing as I wake up in the morning. In addition I fill a bottle with ice and water and take it around during the day. When it’s right next to me, it becomes a habit to just lift it to my mouth. This one doesn’t work as well: I try to order water with meals instead of a drink or soda. Years of habit tends to mean I just order the more delicious and often cheaper alternative.

The Science

Your body is made up of 60% Water. One of the functions of your skin is to protect and prevent excess fluid loss. When your body gets dehydrated it begins to absorb the water it needs from wherever it can get it. That includes your skin: "Dehydration makes your skin look drier and wrinkled, which can be improved with proper hydration," says Atlanta dermatologist Kenneth Ellner, MD. When you are running low on water your body will tell you. Listen to those cues.

Read More: http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/6-reasons-to-drink-water

    2. Breakfast

There’s this idea now that there’s no wrong or right time to eat breakfast, as long as it’s in the morning! (It’s no longer breakfast after noon) So don’t try to force something that doesn’t fit your lifestyle. I don’t and can’t eat as soon as I wake up and many health advocates are beginning to say, ‘don’t worry’. The idea is to make that first meal the biggest one for the day.

Breakfast doesn’t have to be any specific foods. Pick things to carry to work in the morning while you’re in the supermarket, if you know you’re one of those people who can’t find the time to cook in the morning.

The Science

"People skip breakfast thinking they're cutting calories, but by mid-morning and lunch, that person is starved," says Milton Stokes, RD, MPH, chief dietician for St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City. "Breakfast skippers replace calories during the day with mindless nibbling, bingeing at lunch and dinner. They set themselves up for failure."

Eating breakfast is a daily habit for 78% of the "successful losers". The bigger the breakfast you eat in the morning, the less likely you are to overeat later in the day.

  Read More: http://www.prevention.com/beauty/beauty/10-breakfasts-healthy-skin

    3. Clean, Tone and Moisturize

For a lot of us the air and water we contend with on a daily basis is not good for the skin. They are aging us and our skin needs help fending off the ill-effects of the environment. This is one of the reasons that beauty experts sing the “cleanse, tone moisturize” song over and over again. Good skin is healthy skin and healthy skin looks better with makeup on it than unhealthy skin.

Put the three bottles of the items you need and put them right next to the sink so you can do your routine as you’re getting into the shower or stick them in the shower caddy. For me, my skin feels weird if I haven’t done my routine, because it has become such a part of my life.

The Science

Cleansing is required to remove most of the dirt of the day. Toning removes dead skin, additional impurities and prepares the skin for any treatments you use including moisturizer. But, you need to make sure the products you use are right for your skin. Take the time to read the label. Someone with oily skin should not be using the same products as someone with dry skin. Moisturizing your skin begins with hydrating by drinking water.

Read More: http://www.cosmedix.com/skin-care-related-articles/skin-health/hydration-vs-moisturization

    4. Replace Bad Habits with Healthy Ones

Smoking, drinking alcohol, greasy foods and processed sugars all come out on your skin. We already know this. Instead focus on getting more things that you like. If you tend to pick up packs of snickers, grab bags of fruits you like more. I like otaheite apples more than almost anything. I buy them whenever I can. When you focus less on cutting down bad habits and more on building good ones, you find it’s not as hard to drop the one that

The Science

This is about changing bad habits. Barack Obama insists on never wearing anything but blue and gray suits. According to the president, “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make too many decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” The president’s belief is well supported by the research. According to the Harvard Business Review, if you want to maintain long term discipline, it’s best to “Identify the aspects of your life that you consider mundane — and then ‘routinize’ those aspects as much as possible. In short, make fewer decisions.”

Creating sticky habits is far easier when we make use of our current routines, instead of trying to fight them. This tactic involves picking a regular part of your schedule and then building another “link in the chain” by adding a new habit. Multiple studies confirm this to be a successful method to rely on contextual cues over willpower. So the next time you decide to “eat healthier,” instead try “If it is lunch time, then I will only eat meat and vegetables.” (99u)

Read More: http://www.webmd.com/beauty/face/ss/slideshow-skin-beauty

http://beautyandwellbeing.com/beauty/story-beauty/natural-tips-skin-rejuvenation/

  Statistics and Quotes from WebMD and 99u

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Get the Most Out of Your Homemade Facial

The best way to get the most out of all the aloe vera, banana, green tea and avocado scrubs and masks you enjoy concocting is to use them the right way. These are the steps the professionals use, and theses are the ones you need to recreate at home.

1. Cleanse

Before you can start the deep clean, you need to get all of the surface dirt off of your face. Pull your hair back and scrub all the way up to your hairline and around your jawline. Remove all your makeup and then give your face a once over with your regular face wash, using a washcloth or just your hands. I prefer to use a washcloth because it makes me feel cleaner. Remember to follow up with a toner.

2. Steam.

You can use the steam from a pot of just boiled water. Remember to be careful with that heat. I always pour the water into a smaller bowl and keep it on a waiter. I love to add a green tea bag or lemon (because I have oily skin so lemon feature big in my home remedies. And it works!) Steam for about five minutes.

3. Exfoliate

Work all the way up into your hairline, and don't forget the areas around your jaw line and behind your ears where oil tends to build up. The purpose of the scrub is to remove dead skin, and to loosen up dirt and congested pores, which lead to pimples and blackheads. When you're finished, rinse with lukewarm water and pat your skin dry with soft towel.

4.Extractions.

The key to successfully doing your own extractions is not to squeeze too hard, and to make sure your fingers don't touch the area that you're squeezing in order to keep finger bacteria away from open pores. You can use a magnifying mirror to locate areas that seem to be concentrated with pimples and blackheads. Even if you're not prone to acne, you're likely to see some in the T-zone, which consists of your forehead, nose and chin. I use cotton to help keep my fingers away from my skin. Place your fingers about a half inch apart and facing each other, then, gently apply pressure, squeezing ever so slightly. You never want to pinch or gouge an area, because you'll end up leaving it puffy and swollen. And you never want to force something out. Once you've finished, swab the areas with witch hazel or other astringent or toner to remove any bacteria and encourage your pores to close back up.

5. Mask

Apply a mask and have a lie-down. Masks are intended to tone and clarify to your skin. Be sure to choose a mask specifically made for your skin type, and remember that you've just given your skin a workout, so err on the side of a soothing formulation. Dampen your skin first, and then apply a thin layer of mask all over your face and down your neck, avoiding your delicate eye area. Lie down, apply cucumber slices or steeped chamomile teabags over your eyes, (which are great for de-puffing that area) and relax for about 20 minutes. Gently remove the mask using warm wet washcloths, and apply a toner to get off any additional residue.

6. Moisturize

The final step is to treat that fresh, clean skin to a nice moisturizing treatment. Choose your favorite moisturizer or face cream and massage it onto your face and décolleté using upward strokes. Then it's time to go forth and glow!

Once you've got your process down go ahead and enjoy the fullness of blogger suggestions. Just remember to drink lots of water, exercise 2-3 times a week and cleanse, tone and moisturize everyday.

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Natural Hair and Colour and Products for breakage/HAIR CHAT

This post is meant to go with the video on the eyeampatoo YouTube Channel of the same name.

For my hair, I use the LCO method, in which I use a cream and the an oil on wet hair. I do not use heat. I only and I use a protein treatment every 4-6weeks.

This is what I do now, that I'm trying to restore my hair so I can get back to colouring it again (and hopefully this time I'll be responsible again.)

Of course, I only comb my hair out while it has conditioner in it to avoid unnecessary breakage, I condition/co-wash weekly and I use a sulfate-free shampoo once a month.

I have seen my hair transform from breaking every time i touch it to almost none, as it had been before I started colouring.

So here are the products I used:

LOVE Dark n Lovely Au Naturale Coil Moisturizing Souffle Eden All Natural Hair Oil Jojoba ApHogee Two-Step Protein Treatment ApHogee Moisturizing Oil Sheen Creme of Nature Argan Oil Intensive Conditioning treatment NOT-SO-MUCH-LOVE L'Oreal EverCurl Hydracharge Cleansing Conditioner L'OREAL Paris Power Moisture Moisture Rush Masque L'OREAL EverStyle Curl Activating Mousse

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