Eye Cream with SPF
Most daily skin care routines include cleansing the face skin, applying toner, eye cream and a facial moisturizer with SPF in the morning. However, as much as most magazines and dermatologists emphasise how important it is to apply a moisturizer with sun protection, it has been understated how essential it is to make sure your eye cream has SPF too. This is the area where wrinkles become first visible, and the area we need to give most care to in order to prevent premature aging as much as possible. At night moisturize with a heavier eye cream, like Peter Thomas Roth Mega Rich Intensive Anti-Aging Cellular Eye Creme. In the morning moisturize with a lighter eye cream with SPF (yes, even if you’ll be in the office till dark). Murad Essential C Eye Cream with SPF 15 is my pick – provides sufficient sun protection, moisturizes without creating oily residue around my eyes or impeding the longevity of my make-up.
Every woman (and some men) need a reliable pair of tweezers that will do the job with the least possible pain and no margin for error. Tweezerman’s Slant Tweezers and Tweezerman’s Point Tweezers are exactly what I’m talking about. They are hand sharpened to perfection and pull each hair out with precision and ease. The point tweezers are excellent for ingrown hairs and really short hairs.
They are really worth every penny! I’ve gone through so many pairs of tweezers, and none of them compared in quality. In reality, I could have saved myself the money and just bough a couple of each of these Tweezerman tweezers. All you will ever need is two of each for the rest of your life! Tweezerman offers free sharpening on all their tweezers, so when it looses it’s sharpness a bit, you can just send it in, and use your second pair in the meantime. I just received my pair back from them – the turnaround time was only about two weeks.
Tweezerman Tweezers
Recently I decided to try a few recipes for natural hair and skin masks. I dedicated a whole day to these natural beauty products and have repeated some treatements a few times since. They worked wonders!
One of the oldest beauty ingredient is honey. Apply a generous amount of honey on clean face, leave for 10-15 minutes and rinse with warm water. It’s that simple. It helps with acne, leaves skin radiant and revived. It is especially great for hyper-sensitive skin types. It can be applied as a mask on the chest and used in back massages too. For really dry skin, apply plain yoghurt. For skin that needs extra nourishing, apply mashed banana, and leave for up to half an hour. The banana also acts as an anti-aging ingredient. To deep-cleanse face, split a few grapes in two and rub face with the grape flesh and rinse the grape juice has dried.
These face mask recipes are extremely easy to implement, they are inexpensive and easy to prepare – chances are you have all the ingredients at home already. And the best part is the result they produce!
Natural Face Mask Ingredients
With summer coming to an end, my hair has been feeling dry and damaged after days at the pool and the beach. Chlorine, salt water and the sun have taken its toll on my hair too. I decided to try using a hair masque (Kerastase’s Masquintense for Thick Hair) after shampooing, instead of my regular conditioner – I do this twice a week. It works! My hair feels a lot softer and looks a lot healthier. It gets a larger doze of the nutrients and conditioning elements it desperately needs. To keep the noutrients sealed in, I use a leave-in conditioner. I spray Joico’s K-Pak Leave-in Protectant while my hair is damp, and I just let it dry naturally, avoiding damaging it further by blow-drying or ironing. The K-Pak Leave-in Conditioner leaves my hair looking styled “au naturel”.
