#Review - #Keune #CareLine #Shampoo & #Conditioner #SatinCare for #Dull #Dry #Hair

Ladies, who wouldn't agree on #Keune to be one of the leading brands of hair products across the world. I have been lucky enough to be their promotional partner back in March when their signature salon was to be opened in Islamabad. You may read the event details here.
Few weeks back I received another goodie bag from #Keune & #EvelineCosmetics with some awesome products again. I am going to review two of their products today which are #Keune #CareLine #Shampoo & #Conditioner #SatinCare for #Dull #Dry #Hair. I started using these items the very next day when I received these so that I have a good set of information to be shared in my review for my readers. Soooo ladies what next - read on to find out!

#Review - #Keune #CareLine #Shampoo #SatinCare for #Dull #Dry #Hair

#Review - #Keune #HairBeauty #SplitEnds #Serum

Hey Lovelies, using a serum is one important task to add to your routine these days due to the always changing weather and pollution in the environment. My hair tends to get really frizzy during humid days which just makes me hate them!!! I have noticed that if I use a serum on my hair when its a bit damp after the shower, the frizziness tends to be reduced therefore i am trying to make using serum a part of my everyday shower routine (though at times I am lazy like we all are *lol*)

#Keune #HairBeauty Split Ends Serum HF1/SF9

#Event Update - Opening Ceremony of #ELYSIANSalonbyKEUNE in #Islamabad

Girls, #KEUNE is definitely one of the brands which is the go-to company for all professional hair related services and products; and when #KEUNE announces opening of its signature salon in #Islamabad; who wouldnt get excited?? Right!!

#Keune Contest Announcement - #ELYSIANSalonbyKEUNE

Girls, as promised I am breaking the news of the weekend surprise I was discussing on my page earlier. We all know #Keune is one of the top most hair product brands in the market out there and they have a broad range of products ranging from hair care to hair cosmetics; so who could be better than them to take care of our hair right??? Soooo wait is over ladies... #Keune is launching their very own signature salon called #ELYSIANSalonbyKEUNE in Islamabad in March 2016 and guess what??? They want one of you to be the guest on the opening ceremony of this wonderful beauty hub!!! Isn't that WONDERFUL? Here is what you have to do to take part in this contest:

#ELYSIANSalonbyKEUNE - What makes a salon perfect for you?

How to Use a Beauty Blender!

Hello ladies … hope you are all enjoying the winters! :)

Today’s post is about one of the highest used beauty tools of today – the beauty blender. You may get drop shaped or bottle shaped beauty blenders these days from many facebook pages, online stores as well as cosmetic shops – but do you know what is the best way to use it? I m sure many of you do, but for the beginners out there; I am here to help you understand how to actually use it the proper way to apply foundation.

How to use a Beauty Blender

Review - Atiqa Odho Contouring Powder "Coffee"

Hi my girls, contouring and highlighting is something which is always tricky and at times you are not sure which shade of contouring will be suiting your face. I am personally looking for different shades to try out for contouring and enjoy the different looks according to different outfits and situations.
Recently I came across a contouring powder by Atiqa Odho cosmetics called "Coffee". Its very reasonable price urged me to try this out as my mantra is to find out better priced alternatives to everything expensive. Read further to find out how it works and what is its result like on my face.

Atiqa Odho's Contouring Powder in "Coffee"

Top 5 Lifestyle Blogs I follow!

Hello Ladies, we all have some inspirations to look upto and of course a beauty blogger's inspiration will definitely be so many other bloggers. Today I am going to list down my top 5 followed blogs and the ladies which are my inspiration when it comes to beauty & lifestyle blogging.

Top 5 Lifestyle Blogs I follow!!!

An open letter to Madam Javeria Saud and all morning show hosts!!!

Madam i had the misfortune of watching your show in repeat on 16th October 2015 while surfing the channels and need to highlight certain issues on the topic that you had chosen today:

According to you and some of your guests, generally girls in Pakistan are not able to secure good jobs on the basis of their looks, or on the basis of the degree to which these ladies observe parda/hijab. It is quite disappointing to see what you are portraying through a channel which is being watched globally and definitely setting up an image of Pakistan in the whole world.

Are our morning shows actually represent majority of the mindset of the society or are they injecting the society with their own mindset?

Caring For your Nails !!!

Hi girls … today I m going to share a few easy tips with you regarding your nail care. I don’t want to share too complex tips which would consume your time and u end up ignoring them.

So without much further a do… lets see what the tips are:

• Add proteins and calcium to your diet – you can eat multivitamins for this purpose or you can eat the natural foods which contain these elements and therefore improve your overall health AND your nails …  isnt it cool !
• Who doesn’t like french fries … we all do right? Next time you make your french fries, don’t peel off the skin … eat those with the skin on… potato’s skin is rich in nutrients which are good for your nails & skin
• Massage olive oil/coconut oil on your cuticles and nails every night (OR at least twice a week) – you will see the difference in few weeks.
• Use lemon skin peel on your discolored or stained nails
• Nail polish removers mostly contain Acetone – which is a solvent best for dissolving nail polish, but it dries out your skin and nails. Try using acetone free nail polish remover if you have sensitive skin. Or if you need quick nail polish remover and cant avoid acetone; make sure you moisturize your skin before and after nail polish remover.
• Use a hand cream every night before sleeping

 

These were few of the easy tips to take care of your nails, I have tried my best to make sure these are not very difficult to do so that every one of you can try them out. Do let me know if you have other easy tips.

Organizing Your Beauty Box

Hello Lovelies …

Almost all of us do have beauty boxes which are our lovely possessions. Mine is a box with a good height and can carry a lot of my makeup items. This kind of a box is a blessing specially when u r travelling. It can carry small makeup kits, my brushes, even a small hair dryer. It is closed with a zipper so carrying it is even easier and safe when I am carrying it around.

 

There was, however, one big problem; I used to dump all my stuff into this box and while doing my makeup I had to dig into the box and look for the items I needed that time.

Here is a look of my beauty box originally:

I thought there was an immense need to properly organize the items in the box – and this is what I did.

I used some old tissue rolls and placed them in the box. then I placed my pencils, brushes and foundation bottle etc into them; now they are neatly arranged and easily found. Also, I cut some of the tissue rolls in half and separated one section of my beauty box with the shorter toilet rolls and placed my smaller makeup items like lipsticks and kajal sticks etc there.

Here is a screenshot of how it looks after this arrangement:

 

I am quite satisfied after this arrangement and finding things has been easy peasy after doing this. If you have some great organizing ideas, please share : )

 

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Biggest Skincare Sins

Skincare is a tricky business. You try and try and try millions of expensive and costly  products while the secret of glowing skin lies in simple and less costly ways. There are some ways which are really cost effective YET very beneficial for your skin. You can make a daily routine to follow some basic and simple steps and your skin will feel better in a matter of days. Following are some of the skincare sins I have personally learnt through my own experience; thought you might be interested in knowing what my experience says:

1. Skipping a sunblock: By far the most crucial thing for your skin is a proper sunblock. I personally never considered it something useful until I just visited a dermatologist for a few spots on my face and she told me that my skin was heavily sun damaged (I used to think my skin is quite better than the others till then :P, however she proved me wrong). I started feeling better with my skin in two days of starting the sunblock. If you are not sure which sunblock you should use, try going to a dermatologist and ask him/her which sunblock would suit your skin type. Please note that using the wrong sunblock for your skin might lead to adverse effects on your skin instead of positive. So its a quite critical decision on which sunblock to choose. I have noticed myself that whenever i skip my sunblock for a number of days my skin starts deteriorating. In fact I myself skipped the sunblock for about a month being lazy and noticed my skin was getting worse and worse. I was not sure what was causing the problem and was thinking of taking an appointment with a skin doctor. I just started my sunblock out of nowhere the same days and noticed improvement in my skin in 3-4 days. Then I realized that the whole problem with my skin was due to inapplication of the sunblock. I can go on and on about the usefulness of a sunblock but I guess this is enough :p
2. Drinking Less Water: Water makes up 70% of your body and is an essential requirement of your body tissues. You should at least be drinking 8 glasses of water per day. My own skin has started feeling much better ever since i have improved my water intake. In absence of proper water intake, your skin is dry, your face and eyes might feel puffy and swollen due to the increased mineral ratio in your body and lesser water. Make at least 6-8 glasses of water a part of your daily life and see how your skin glows.
3. No Cleansing: Another skincare sin will be NOT cleansing your skin. Experts suggest that you should be cleansing twice a day everyday but I personally cleanse once a day so I would recommend that. You can use any Good Quality cleanser and cleanse before you go to sleep as night is the time when your skin repairs and rejuvenates itself.

So what do you think girls, do you want to add to my list of skincare sins? Please share your thoughts...

What should be In Your HandBag

Okay, I have been thinking for a long time to write a blog post like this. Every girl wants to make the most out of her hand bag. This blog post is mainly for working girls like me who have to spend more of their day at office or somewhere outside their home so a handbag is more or less all they have during the day. it should have all the required items that someone might need during the day. So I am not here to, you know ask you to follow the exact same things but definitely I will tell  you what s inside my handbag for work and why I think it’s a necessary item. I would also want all of you to share what’s inside your hand bag so that maybe someone can get an idea … isnt that great…

Hmm … I personally prefer my handbag for work to be a bit HUGE … I want it to hold so many of the things I would be needing during the day. so the size if you are working from 9 to 5 or 9 to 6 should be big enough to hold important items. the items inside my bag always include the following:

• My wallet –> Definitely you need a wallet when you go out to keep your money and cards etc in it.

• My beauty pouch –> Well, for every girl there HAS to be a beauty pouch in the bag. while some girls want to put their stuff right in the bag; I prefer organizing things as much as possible. So I keep a small pouch and put all the beauty related items in there. Here is its picture, It contains the following basic beauty items:
• Sun block
• Tinted Moisturizer
• Face powder
• Blushers (two of them – one is shimmery and one is matte)
• Lip gloss – one that is a shimmery glossy pink matching my natural lips with a sheen
• One eye liner
• One lip pencil
• a hand sanitizer
• a small mirror
• a kajal stick

 

• My techie stuff –> well this is for the girlies who are more tech savvy like myself … I put all this stuff in another pouch and here is whats included in this one:
• My cell phone charger
• my tablet charger
• my flash drives
• my mobile data cable

• A pack of facial wipes
• a pack of tissues
• a wide toothed comb
• some instant pain killers and quick medicines
• some safety pins
• a moisturizer

General Tips

Apply a mixture of equal amounts of lemon juice and honey on the face and whole body. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash off.
Apply a mixture of equal amounts of lemon and cucumber juice on the face and whole body. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash off. If your skin is dry, use honey and lemon juice.
First scrub your face with cucumber slices and then apply cucumber juice (with skin on cucumber) to your face, leave it there overnight and wash in the morning.
Apply a gram flour (besan) and turmeric or haldi paste on face and neck. After sometime when it dries, scrub it off gently. This would gradually reduce body hair over a period of time.
For 15 days, apply a paste of gram flour (besan), milk (2 teaspoon) and lime juice(3-4 drops) on face and neck for 15 minutes and wash with water. You complexion should improve. Repeat every 2 weeks.
Apply yogurt to the face.

Protein mask:
Make a paste of 1 tablespoon urad dal (black gram dal)and 4 almonds soaked in water overnight. Apply it your face and neck and wash it off after half an hour. It will nourish your skin and also bleach it.
Make a paste of 4 almonds soaked in milk overnight. Apply it your face and neck before going to bed. Wash with cold water in the morning. Repeat daily for 15 days. It will make your skin fair.
Fair look, oily skin:
Apply a mixture of equal amounts of lemon and cucumber juice on the face and whole body. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash off.
Apply cucumber pulp with yogurt on your face and neck for 20 minutes and then wash with cold water.
Make a paste by mixing papaya, honey, milk, and milk powder. Apply on face and leave for a few minutes and wash, your face will look fairer.
Apply egg white to your face.
Make a paste of honey, milk, yogurt, and ground sesame seeds in equal proportions and apply on face and whole body.
Mix 4 parts milk, 1 part honey, and 2 part lemon juice and apply the mixture on the tanned areas for 15 minutes. Wash with cold water when dry. This acts as a bleach.
Fair look, dry skin:
Apply a mixture of equal amounts of cucumber juice and honey on the face and whole body. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash off.
Dark hands: To remove a tan from the hands, apply a paste of sunflower oil, lemon juice and sugar for 15-20 minutes and then wash with cold water.
Dark feet: Soak feet in water containing some lemon juice for 10-15 minutes.
Dark ankles & elbow: Soak in water containing some lemon juice for 10-15 minutes.
Dark neck: Apply a mixture of lemon and cucumber juice (equal amount) with 1/8 teaspoon of turmeric powder. Leave for 20 minutes and rinse with lukewarm water.
Dark lips: Many men and women complain that their lips used to be pink but they have become dark or black.

For Darker Lips

To get natural pink lips apply beetroot juice before bed.
Massage your lips with lemon juice, to avoid the black colour of lips.
Apply mint juice or coriander leaf juice everyday to get rosy and smooth lips.
Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. Grind rose petals and apply on lips to get smooth pink lips.
Exfoliate your lips once a week. Wet a soft toothbrush and gently brush your lips with a circular motion.
Black lips have been caused by drinking too much tea, coffee or by smoking, so you try avoid this.
Apply a mixture of lemon and glycerine to your lips every night, before turning in. Leave it on overnight and wash it off in the morning. This should help lighten your lips.
Grate raw coconut and squeeze milk out of it.apply this milk on your lips.
Eat plenty of raw cucumber and carrot.it smoothen your lips and glowing your skin.

Lemon is one of the most well known and effective ways of bleaching your skin. You can use the juice of a freshly squeezed lemon and apply this on your lips. The best thing about lemon juice is that it can be kept on overnight. Almond oil is another such product. It works very well overnight and helps lighten the dark colored skin on your lips. You can mix a few drops of lemon juice to the almond oil and then apply on your lips. Glycerin can also be applied on dark lips, in order to lighten dark lip color. You can mix a few drops of honey to the glycerin and then apply on the lips.

Summer makeup tips

* Do not use lip liner during summer.
* One can use colors such as mango green or golden green for eye makeup by using brown or black mascara.
* Face with few drops of fog and the light touch of translucent powder is the best summer makeup.
* Tightness of dry hair makes problem in humidity. Do not make curly hair, as it is right for summer makeup. One can do deep conditioning of hair for taming the hair and always protect hair from sunrays, wind and sand by using s baseball cap or trendy summer hat. People can use texturizers and wax to tame hair.
* One can easily use gold shimmer under across or brows cheekbones.
* If one does not take any precaution, use a waterproof foundation to prevent damage with the tanned skin shade for covering the area under eyes and apply a small amount of foundation on the rest portion of the face.
* One may be used light brown or nude eye shadow for eye makeup and giving them a natural beauty.
* For getting a beautiful suntan, one should use bronzer in light shade on chin and cheekbones.
* Before wearing slippers or sandals sprinkle the feet with little touch of powder for avoiding blisters. One should take a small clean needle and hygienize it with alcohol for gets rid of the blister from feet. Use cotton for cleaning fluid from blister and then apply antibiotic ointment and cover the affected area by using bandage.
* Use sunglasses to protect the eyes before going to outside during the day. One should always use sunscreen lotion or cream with SPF 30 before going under the sun.
* One can use the Clear UV-resistant topcoat on skin to protect from sun.
* For nail care during summer, use a nail gloss with Ultraviolet protection topcoat on nails.
* For eye makeup in summer, use waterproof eyeliner pencil with shades like navy, slate gray or warm chocolate.
* One uses gel on hair. And use 1% hydrocortisone cream to avoid any rashes on skin.

* Sunny, bright and warm blush can be applied for summer makeup.
* For lip colors, apply natural shades of lip liner and lipsticks on lips. And one can use a lip balm with SPF and keep lips moisturized and protected.
At last, set the summer makeup by using spray water.

Ten Surprising uses of aspirin

1. To remove perspiration stains from white T-shirts, dissolve two aspirins in half a cup of warm water and apply to the area of the fabric where the stain is. This should be left for a couple of hours before washing.
2. Has your hair ever gone yellow or green from chlorine in a swimming pool? This can be remedied very quickly by dissolving 8 aspirin tablets in a glass of water and rubbing the resulting liquid into your hair. Leave for about ten minutes and then rinse it out. Shampoo in the usual way.
3. First aid for pimples: Crush an aspirin tablet and add a little water to make a paste. Cover the pimple with this paste and after a few minutes rinse it off. The pimple will be less red and reduced in size. Aspirin is an astringent.
4. Drop a soluble aspirin tablet into the water before arranging cut flowers in a vase. It helps to keep them fresh for longer.
5. To treat dandruff, crush two aspirin tablets and add them to your usual shampoo. Leave on the hair for a couple of minutes and rinse as normal.
6. Mosquito bites can be eased by wetting the skin and rubbing an aspirin over the spot.
7. Bee stings can be treated in the same way but any adverse reaction to the sting should be reported to a doctor.
8. Gardeners can treat fungal soil infections by dissolving an aspirin tablet in a liter of water and using the mixture to treat the soil. Don’t make this mixture too strong if using around plants as it may burn the leaves.
9. Aspirin can also be mixed with potting compost in the greenhouse, or garden, to prevent fungus forming around the roots of new plants.
10. Take some fresh lemon juice and mix it with a soluble aspirin to make a mixture that will remove grass stains, nicotine stains, etc from hands.

http://gomestic.com/homemaking/10-surprising-uses-for-aspirin/