Recession Proof Beauty: 10 Homemade Facial Scrubs - SASSYBELLA.com Due to popular interest, our Recession Proof Beauty series continues where we left off — organic, homemade face treatments. Today, we will focus on homemade facial scrubs. Exfoliation is essential to anyone’s skincare regimen, yet often the most hyped over-the-counter scrubs are costly and anything but chemical-free. The recipes below are not only all natural; they are cost-effective. Note: The facial scrubs listed work for all skin types, unless stated otherwise. General Facial Scrub Procedure Tie hair back.Remove make up and rinse face with some warm water.To open pores, steam face over hot water or press warm cloth to skin for a few minutes.After preparing scrub, apply it to face (and neck if desired). 10 Homemade Face Scrub Recipes Basic Baking Soda Scrub Perfect for everyday use. 2 to 3 Tbsp. Mix the ingredients into a paste. Basic Cornmeal Scrub Slightly more potent than the baking soda scrub, this works best on a 2 to 3 day interval. 2 to 3 Tbsp. Rose Almond Face Scrub Oatmeal Scrub
Get Sleek, Toned Arms Here's something you'll love to learn: Your shoulders and upper back tend to carry less fat than the rest of your body, so the right exercises can give this area a nearly instant makeover, says Ramona Braganza, a celebrity trainer who has worked with stars such as Anne Hathaway and Jessica Alba. Braganza's workout, below, hits every major upper-body muscle and will help stabilize your shoulder joints, improve your posture, and build that strong, toned look you're after. Using five-to eight-pound weights, perform 15 to 20 reps of each exercise and go from one move to the next with little or no rest between. Do two or three sets three times a week. Hold it right there: Build strength with this muscle-isolating isometric workout. Four Top-Tier Moves 1. Grab a pair of dumbbells and stand with your feet hip-width apart and your knees bent. 2. Hold a pair of dumbbells at your sides, palms facing forward, and keep your back straight and chest up (a). 3. 4.
Homemade Face Masks & Scrubs: 25 Do-It-Yourself Recipes Why pay for a store-bought face mask when you can use basic ingredients found around the house to make your own homemade face masks and scrubs? In this article, I share my most popular recipes for 6 different skin types. You'll be able to find the ingredients for these recipes in your kitchen and they cost pennies compared to ones you'll find in the store. The key is to use face masks formulated for your skin type. Masks should stay on for 10-15 minutes. Check out my Basic At-Home Facial to get the full benefit of these facial masks. These Masks & Scrubs Work for All Skin Types While some homemade face masks and scrubs work best on oily, dry or sensitive skin, I've pulled together a list of 9 amazing masks and 8 scrubs that work on all skin types. Oily, Acne-Prone Skin Oily skin is shiny skin, especially in the T-zone (from the forehead, down the nose to the chin). See my list of 8 Face Mask Recipes for Oily, Acne-Prone Skin Dry, Chapped Skin (Recipes Also Good for Mature Skin) Sensitive Skin
The 29 Hardest Ab Exercises Slideshow Travis McCoy/travismccoy.com Overview Think you’re hardcore -- or that you have a hard core? Prove it! 1. Don’t let this one fool you: It may look and sound a little silly, but it’s hard work. The Science of Amazing Abs 2. While this exercise doesn't target your abs, per se, it does target other core muscles like the glutes and hips. 20 Best Muscle-Building Foods 3. No list of advanced core moves would be complete without an example from the “300” workout. The 15 Toughest Do-Anywhere Workout Moves 4. Holding a plank -- especially on your forearms -- is probably a piece of cake by now. Sign Up to Receive the FREE Livestrong.com Weekly Newsletter! 5. To get the form right on this move, imagine you’re the Karate Kid: When he punches his right arm, he rows his left toward his waist. The Cardio Abs Workout 6. Keeping your hips stable and body aligned gets a whole lot tougher when the ground can roll. How to Stay Motivated to Get Six-Pack Abs 7. Food Tips for Six-Pack Abs 8. 9. Planks too easy? 10.
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Best Workouts for Your Body Type Not all workouts are created equal. By tweaking your exercise routine according to your particular body shape—whether you’re Hourglass, Circle, Triangle, Ruler or Inverted Triangle—you can help balance out your physique and make the most of your beautiful body. Not sure what your body shape is? Take our Body Type Quiz or read our Body Shape Guide! Exercises for Hourglass Body Shapes You’re curvy up top and down below with a small waist—basically, the smokin’ definition of the old Hollywood bombshell. Best cardio routine: “Muscle confusion is key,” says certified fitness trainer Lisa Avellino. Best strength-training routine: Certified strength and conditioning specialist Kevin Bailey recommends two to three days a week of a total body strength training routine that focuses on the extremities to balance upper and lower body curves. For the lower body, Bailey recommends focusing on the quadriceps, inner thighs, hamstrings and calves to complement the curve of your hips.
DIY Clean eyes! Eye make-up remover is so darn expensive! Here is a quick and cheap DIY Eye Make-up Remover recipe. If you have kids, you’ll have the materials! If you don’t… and you have to buy ingredients, well, you’ll spend less than 3 dollars! And get at least 30 bottles of remover. Ingredients: 1 C water 1½ TBSP Baby Shampoo (tear free) ⅛ TSP Baby Oil (Cocunut Oil or Olive Oil) EDIT! Materials: Mixing Bowl Measuring cup/spoons Bottle to put finished product in (I used an empty medicine bottle; an empty baby oil bottle would work GREAT) Small funnel (or improvise like me) Combine ingredients. Stir Pour I didn’t have a funnel.. and didn’t feel like messing with a make-shift one. I didn’t have enough room in my little bottle. Verdict: It works PERFECT! WAIT! What are some of your favorite uses for baby oil?? Hope everyone’s having fantástico weekend! # kristanlynn xoxo P.S.
You Know You Want Sexy Abs! The next month or two of work on Xanga 2.0 is going to be busy, so I wanted to share with everyone a roadmap of how we’re thinking about things! We’re dividing the work on this project into four basic phases. Phase 1. Data migration As described here, we’ve imported over every account that we have on Xanga over to the new system so that anyone who could sign into Xanga can still sign into Xanga 2.0. Finally and most important of all, we’ve imported over 2 million blogs from the old system. * We’ve archived the blogs of the hundreds of thousands of blogs where the user has logged in in the past 5 years and has at least two subscribers. * We did an additional set of archives for 200k users who had logged in the past year and had at least 10 blogs. * We’ve also archived the blogs of every single user that’s ever been premium at any point in the past… And of course, a lot of you guys archived your own blogs using the old Xanga archive generator. Phase 2. Phase 3. Phase 4.
Homemade face masks with baking soda help get rid of blackheads | Beauty Bets June 21, 2010 Today’s DIY recipe is a total revelation to me. It comes courtesy of Melissa Colgan, the Style Editor at Mpls.St. MC says that this combo gets rid blackheads like nobody’s business and is great for treating hormonal breakouts. Mix 1 tbsp real orange juice with 1 tbsp baking soda (I like to use a shot glass – ha!). The mask will tingle and itch a little so it’s good too have a distraction—paint your nails, watch TV, but whatever you do, don’t talk. Tip: If you don’t have the time for a full mask, mix a little bit of baking soda into your cleanser for a light exfoliating treatment.