Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Your Natural Hair Have you tried Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) in your hair regimen? If not, wait no longer! When used on the hair, extra virgin olive oil can nourish, condition and improve the strength and elasticity. Due to it's ability to penetrate the hair shaft, this rich moisturizing oil can reach the cortex of the hair, allowing the hair to feel conditioned, nourished, and healthy with each use. Extra virgin olive oil contains antioxidant vitamin E, vitamin A and helps heal dry flaky scalp, also known as dandruff. Ways to add this oil into your hair regimen for maximum benefits: Preshampoo treatment - Add 2-4 tbsps of EVOO to your dry unwashed hair. Are you an EVOO girl?
DIY Your Own Cool Winter Lip Balm Brrrr! Cold weather means chapped lips. Whether you’re looking to make your gifts at home this year or just want to try out an easy, new holiday-friendly lip balm recipe, we’ve got you covered. Ingredients: 8 Drops peppermint oil 2 Tbsp carrier oil (such as almond oil—this dilutes the peppermint oil from a burn to a tingle) 1 Tbsp beeswax pellets Glass dropper Glass jar Containers (hit up a department store for sample jars or order your own) Optional: lipstick shavings for a hint of tint Directions: Put the two tablespoons carrier oil and one tablespoon beeswax in a glass jar and close the lid. If you enjoyed this DIY lip balm why not try our DIY lip scrub too! How To: Hair Bow A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a hair bow I did on a bride. After I posted the picture I got a lot of emails requesting a step-by-step for it. So I made one! 1. Begin by taking one small section of hair from each side of your head. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ta-da!
Strawberry Chantilly Cocktail Recipe Strawberry Chantilly Cocktails These Strawberry Chantilly Cocktails are a perfectly sweet beginning to a Valentine’s dinner for two, or a fun Girl’s Night In. I am not a drinker and I liked this cocktail. I mean, obviously I realized it was alcohol. You can use full strawberries, but aren’t these tiny heart-shaped ones just irresistible? You can make these non-alcoholic mocktails by subbing cream soda for the whipped cream malt. , but any will do. Strawberry Chantilly Cocktail Recipe Print Save Prep Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes These Strawberry Chantilly Cocktails are a perfectly sweet beginning to a Valentine's dinner for two, or a fun Girl's Night In. Ingredients: 10 strawberries, washed and hulled Delicia Whipped Malt Beverage (or substitute cream soda) Strawberry ice cream Sugar for rim sanding, optional Directions: Cut strawberries in half lengthwise. Notes: Make these a non-alcoholic mocktail by using cream soda.Sub in your favorite whipped cream flavored liquor or dessert wine.
Secrets learned at makeup artist school You could say that I have a love/hate relationship with makeup. Some days I enjoy playing with all the different colors and get excited when my smoky eye turns out perfectly. But then there are those days when my liner refuses to go on straight, my bronzer makes me look like an Asian Snookie, or my lashes refuse to curl. That's when I want to toss my makeup bag out my bathroom window. I had one of those days last week, and after walking into work wearing two very different winged tips on my eyes, my editor assigned me a new story: Go to makeup school and write about it. Want to see the best techniques I picked up without spending the thousands of dollars (and crazy amount of time) it takes to go to makeup school yourself? Lesson No. 1: Spend some bucks on your tools At Napoleon Perdis' Makeup Academy in Hollywood, Rebecca Prior, NP's National Educator, begins the first lesson by introducing us to our tools. Here are the eight basic brushes you need: 1. Totalbeauty.com
10 Easy to follow Tips to help YOU Lose Weight, Weight Control, Weight Loss, Strategies for Weight Loss, Dieting, Holisticonline.com by Steve Li Dieting is not easy. If it were, we would probably all be thin. Since we are not, here are some tips that successful people use to lose weight so that others can benefit, too. Okay, for many people this is a big problem. To begin with, you should drink a glass of water in the morning first thing, before you eat. If you really cannot bear the taste of water, try using a water purifying pitcher or filter. Check out flavored waters on the market, too. Do not skip breakfast. Eating breakfast is not only good for overall weight loss, it will help you stay on track with your diet the rest of the day. You can always keep a couple of hard-boiled eggs in the fridge or some high-fiber, low starch fruit around. This can be one of the hardest adjustments to make. Just like eating breakfast will increase your metabolism, so will eating more often. SUCCESS TIP NO. 4: AVOID WHITE FOODS This is one easy way to remember what not to eat. Another benefit is the cost savings over the long run.
Life Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice I have an apology to make: I used to be one of those girls behind the makeup counter of a big, fancy department store selling you over-priced beauty products. While I won’t say which brand I worked for, I can tell you that my uniform consisted of all black and way too much makeup. Hey, it was the 90’s, after all. Well, I’m here to make amends. The beauty industry is full of people pushing products that they don’t stand behind 100%. Also, celebrities rarely endorse products because, like the rest of us, they aren’t always picture perfect and no cosmetic company wants to be represented by someone who actually looks like the rest of us common folk. So, to make up for the error in my ways, I am sharing ten of my all-time favorite drug store beauty buys with you. (Part 2 of this series can be seen here: 10 More of the Best Drug Store Beauty Buys) L’Oréal Volumnious Mascara in Carbon Black I have been using this mascara for over 15 years now. Nicole Nail Polish by OPI Wet ‘n’ Wild Eyeliner
20 Amazing Eye Makeup Tutorials | Planet of Women- Health, Fashion & Beauty Eye makeup is very important. Eyes represent the entire character of anybody. Because eyes are the most substantial segment of our face. Eyes are classified as an entrance towards the heart and soul that demonstrate your internal natural beauty. 10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think. Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean. 1. Great glaciation is the theory of the final state that our universe is heading toward. 2. Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. Don’t you believe me? As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? 3. George Berkeley, the father of Idealism, argued that everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. The idea being that if the stone really only exists in his imagination, he could not have kicked it with his eyes closed. 4. Everybody has heard of Plato. In addition to this stunning statement, Plato, being a monist, said that everything is made of a single substance. 5. 6. Enternalism is the exact opposite of presentism. 7. 8. 9. 10.
5 New Hair Tutorials to Try Tonight Looking for a little hairspiration!? Well, look no further.Here at GirlsGuideTo, we're always looking for new ways to style our hair. The same "straightened and hair down" look gets old after a few days. {via RunningOnHappiness.com} This one is a little dressier and would be great to wear to your internship or the office. {via JoinTheMood.com} This one is a great way to add some drama to your regular side braid. This is another great updo and uses three braids as well. {viaOhSoPrettyTheDiaries.com} This tutorial showcases how to get sexy, messy curls using just your flat iron. {via TheWonderForest.com}Which tutorial is your favorite? **PS If you loved this article then be sure to tune in and watch this week's episode of GirlsGuideTo...TV because it's all about beauty!!! Check out this episode of GirlsGuideTo...TV below and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss any of our upcoming shows!
Diet: Weight Loss and Metabolism The last time it happened, it was the girl who cuts my hair. "So, what kind of diet are you on?" she asked. Since I'm a nutritional biochemist, it's a question I'm used to. There are plenty of experts who claim that all that matters is the number of calories you eat: If you want to lose weight, eat fewer calories than you burn. Case in point: carbohydrates. But here's what's surprising: High-sugar carbohydrates aren't always bad. Lose weight around the clock with The 8-Hour Diet! Time Zone 1: Right after You Wake In a study of 2,831 people, researchers at Harvard University found that those who ate breakfast every day were 44 percent less likely to be overweight and 41 percent less likely to suffer from insulin resistance—a precursor to diabetes—than those who had no a.m. meal. How to eat: Fill your plate with high-quality protein, slow-digesting carbohydrates, and healthy fats. Time Zone 2: Every 3 Hours after Breakfast Time Zone 3: After Your Workout 1. 2. Transform Your Body!
Sea Salt Spray DIY A blissful day of summer for me is playing on the beach with sunkissed cheeks and wind-swept beach hair. Unfortunately, like I told you here last week- I am a beach girl without a beach. What if I were to tell you that you can capture that care-free wavy hair without spending a lot of money on a fancy Sea Salt spray or spending a day on the beach…although, I would take beach time any day. I have used several sea salt products out there but noticed they can been costly and at times left my hair slightly too crunchy and dry. So, I wanted to come up with just the right recipe for my hair. I decided to do a little research and experimented a little to come up with my perfect mixture for a sea salt spray. Here is what I used: 8 oz. of warm distilled water 1 teaspoon of cheap coconut conditioner 1 squirt of gel or hair smoothing cream 1 squirt of gloss dropsf 1 tablespoon of sea salt (the fine kind) 1/4 a teaspoon of alcohol (not necessary- mostly used as preservative) xo Cristi
CSS Tinderbox: Free CSS-Based Templates WordPress Tinder A small collection of very simple WordPress template frames that can be easily customized and adpated to suit your needs. They’re built for WordPress 3.8 or later and set up to use widgets in multiple locations. CSST Simple Orange Another three column design but with the “heavy” column to the left and the other two narrow columns on the right. If orange is your thing, check it out. Screenshot / Download Zip CSST Simple Red To be totally honest, this one looks a hell of a lot like Simple Orange but with a cherry flavor though. Screenshot / Download Zip Installing A Template To install one of these WordPress templates: 1. 2. 3. As with any WordPress template, you’ll more than likely need to adjust the styles a bit to mesh with your current settings. (NOTE: Web geek tested and approved in Firefox 3.0 (Win), Firefox 2.0 (Mac), IE7 (Win), Opera 9.6 (Win), Safari 3.2 (Mac). Fixed-Width Templates Centered Box 1-Column 1-Column (2) 3-Over-4 Columns 3-Column 4-Column Now we’re talking! 2-Column
Wrapped Bun Today's hair tutorial is perfect for a summer wedding, either for the bride, bridesmaid, or attendant! Your hair will be off your neck so you won't need to worry about it melting in summer heat. And it's perfectly simple to do on yourself. Take a few times to practice this style, wrapping the sections around in different directions, holding the hair lower or higher, or just making little tweaks to make it your own. Add a small flower or decorative pin to the side and this style will be sure to turn heads. Nearly any length of hair can work with this style. Top: Banana Republic Outlet 2011 Necklace: Target Earrings: Elisabeth Ashlie Jewelry