Hair Tips

Hair style plays an important role in an individual’s personality. By hair style we mean the cutting or styling of hair. A person’s look gets metamorphosed with just a different hair cut or with a different style. Every individual needs different styles according to their face structure. A good hair style gives you a fresh look and can make you look younger.

There are different and varying hair styles to groom a personality. The hair styles can be short, long, curls etc depending on the person’s choice. One can choose from a layered cut or even a bob to suit the hair type and face shape.

When deciding on a hair style, one has to first see the hair type and texture, then choose the hair style. One could keep on experimenting with different styles until he or she finds one that suits the personality and face cut. Proper care has to be taken for whatever hair style is chosen.

A few hair tips are enumerated below:-
• Hair styles like perms involve a lot of use of chemicals, and therefore care has to be taken to maintain them by conditioning them regularly.
• Hair dryers are commonly used to dry hair faster and help you to maintain a particular style. However, its use is also attributed to damage to hair due to the hot and cold air.
• Hair gel is one of the boons to set different hair styles. It could be bad for hair if used more often than required.

Acne Prevention
The most common problem today that people have is related to acne. Acne is nothing but the disorder in our oil glands that results in pimples. The face, neck, back, chest and shoulders are the common area of the occurrence of acne. Hereditary can also be one of the reasons of this problem. This is nothing serious but if care is not taken, it can lead to disfiguring and permanent scarring. Most people suffer from acne in their early teens. At this age, the oil glands start producing more oil. Better skin care can prevent acne.

The following tips are helpful for acne prevention.

• The most important way is to keep our skin clean is by washing our face at regular interval and scrubbing our face with soap. It is advisable to use a mild soap.

• One should avoid pinching or squeezing their skin. A sure shot case for scarring is the pinching of an acne.

• The person suffering from acne should avoid using sunscreen lotions. It is known to aggravate the problem in a number of cases.

• Cosmetics have to be used carefully and with discretion. Oil free cosmetics are the best for the people suffering with these problems.

• Stress, tensions and being nervous etc is known to trigger acne.

Elbow Care

Elbows are one of the most neglected parts of the body. In our day to day life we hardly pay attention to care for the elbows and the result is invariably a dirty and uncared for elbow.
Elbows are one of the primary hinge joint of the body and this positioning helps in small amount of rotation like straightening or eating. If proper care is not taken then it usually ends up with a problem.
The skin of the elbow is generally devoid of oil glands. This tends to make our skin dry and dark in color. Even the dirt is clearly visible in this area. Proper care makes it look clean and healthy.
Some of the tips that can make the elbow region soft and healthy are enumerated below:-

• Coconut oil is one of the best remedy to avoid dryness in elbows. Apply in small quantity and massage well.

• The elbows can be kept clean by rubbing with pumice stone. It acts both as a antiseptic and a smoothing agent.

• While having a bath, the elbows should be rubbed regularly and should be moisturized thereafter to give a clean look.

• Lemon is famous for its astringent effect and hence can be rubbed on elbows.

• One of the best home made remedies is flour. It is a good tonic to keep the elbows clean

Face Packs

That ultimate feeling when some one caresses your face and gives it a massage, follows it up with a face mask application and you relax. The result is often a glowing face, a relaxed feeling and of course a dented pocket. It is worth it and thus most of us love to pamper ourselves in a clinic or a saloon once in a while. What if we have an urge to do it ourselves and that too without denting our pockets too much?

Help is at hand. Enumerated here are a few home made tips that will give you the same feeling of relaxation, the same glow and is also easy on the pocket. Try them and comment.

• Eggs : The one stop for all solution. Use Mayonnaise as a pack on the face.  Apply it for 20 minutes and rinse after wards with cool water. Feel the glow!

• Use a peach and brandy mix. Blend well. Use the semi liquid to apply a mask on the face and leave it for some time. Rinse it after half an hour.

• Tomato is the ideal vegetable for oily skins. Apply the tomato mash and leave it for 20 minutes or so. Rinse thereafter.

• Banana mash is also recommended with honey to be applied on the face. It is known to provide the much needed moisture and is also known to give a great feel to the skin. It acts as a toner and also helps to tighten the skin.

• Milk is by far the best and the cheapest ingredient that can give your face a great lift. Apply milk and cream on the face and leave it on for five minutes. Rinse thereafter with lukewarm water for a glowing and soft skin.