Thursday 20 November 2014
Wednesday 19 November 2014
Tuesday 18 November 2014
Mom's Beauty Tips
TOP TIPS FOR MOMMY'S
For mommy's to look pretty and beautiful is some what more challenging. You have to adjust your look to be pretty and fresh, stylish but comfortable. Here are some tips to make you look and feel pretty.
1.
Keep a stash of makeup and a few accessories in
your purse. It's amazing how even a quick swipe of lipstick or slipping on a
cute headband can make you look and feel more pulled together.
2.
To create a more of a bright eye, due to lack of sleep
try, using a soft, white / pale liner, gently trace the inner corner of your
eye. Then, using a pale shimmer shadow, soften that "V" and extend it
a bit toward the inner part of the bridge of your nose. You'll lighten up the
eye area and draw attention away from dark circles.
3.
There are four spots (aside from under your eyes) where
concealer can do a sleepy face a world of good, the sides of your nose (next to
your eyes, where concealer can lend extra brightening) and the outer corners of
your eyes, nostrils, and mouth (three prime locations for sleep
deprivation-induced darkness).
4.
Brush in a brow gel-upward, of course to lighten and
lift the brow bone with a subtle, pale shimmer shadow. Avoid a high-shine frost,
because it highlights every flaw and follicle.
5.
Stock up on dry shampoo, spray in some of this magic
potion to absorb oil, add texture, and smell. These sprays contain oil-zapping
ingredients like oat or rice powder, and they really do work. If your hair is
very oily, you will want to bring a travel size along in case you need
refreshing. As a bonus, shampooing less helps preserve hair color and saves
your locks from daily heat styling.
6.
Get a great haircut, if you don’t have time to style
your hair every day. This will mean that you have to embrace your natural
texture no matter what it is. It also means you should opt for a more organic,
less fussy style.
7.
Prioritize, when it comes to skincare, everyone knows
they should moisturize and use sunscreen. However, you should also do your best
to add exfoliation to your routine. It’s essential to healthy, brighter,
younger-looking skin. If you don’t have a lot of time to do your makeup, I’d
reach for concealer, mascara, and blush first, as they’ll have the biggest
impact for most people.
8.
Choose products that do double duty, Eliminating steps
helps to make daily maintenance just a tiny bit more manageable. For example, a
tinted moisturizer that contains SPF protection is three products in one and
will really save you a lot of time.
9.
Be on the lookout for all sorts of ways to cut corners.
These days you can self-tan while you moisturize, protect hair from heat
styling while adding shine, and treat your face to a scrub and masque combo.
Monday 17 November 2014
Sunday 16 November 2014
Tuesday 11 November 2014
Cut Your Own *Bettie* Bangs by Seabirdx
Cut Your Own *Bettie* Bangs by seabirdx featuring goody hair pins
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Sunday 9 November 2014
Thursday 6 November 2014
How to make makeup last?
MORE TIPS ON KEEPING IT FRESH THIS SUMMER. . .
1. Bronze believably.
"Bronzer makes your eyes look brighter, your teeth whiter — everyone looks better with a little warmth added to their skin," says New York City makeup artist Troy Surratt. To keep the results looking fresh and natural, he recommends applying bronzer just to the high points of your face, where the sun naturally hits you: forehead, cheekbones, chin, and nose. (Covering every nook and cranny is what gives you that fake, baked look.) Powder bronzers are the easiest to apply; look for one with varying shades — they'll swirl together for the most authentic-looking results. And be sure to sweep a little bronzer onto your neck and earlobes, especially if you have short hair or are wearing a ponytail.
2. But first, make time for primer.
You won't regret the few seconds it will take to smooth on a primer, which goes on after moisturizer but before face makeup. Like house-paint primer, it provides a smooth base for whatever goes on next. "Primers are definitely the way to go in summer," says New York City makeup artist Ashunta Sheriff. "They're incredibly light — they don't feel at all like a heavy, additional layer — and they really help hold makeup in place."
3. Lighten your face makeup.
"Just as you switch to breezy skirts and linen blouses, dress your face with lighter makeup," says Surratt. First step: Swap foundation for tinted moisturizer. These sheer formulas look and feel airier on skin and are less likely to turn cakey on steamy days. Feeling a little too exposed? Surratt recommends brushing powder foundation over the tinted moisturizer in spots where you need a little extra coverage — say, on blemishes or areas of redness around your nose.
4. Try out vibrant color.
Just as you're probably more likely to wear a vivid top or carry a bright bag this season, now's the perfect time to play up your makeup palette. Besides looking summery, "livelier colors brighten the face and bring a youthful glow to skin," says Surratt. If you tend to stick with neutrals, experiment with just one area of your face. A punchy blush on the apples of the cheeks is a good place to start.
5. Stop shine and add glow.
A slick T-zone instantly telegraphs the message "I'm hot" — and we don't mean sexy. To eliminate unsightly shine in seconds, nothing beats blotting papers. "They're cheap, easy, and amazing — you just press and go," says Sheriff. If you need to perk up your makeup too, blot first, then follow up with a dusting of pressed powder with a hint of luminescence. "You want to eliminate shine, but you still want to look a little glow-y, especially in summer," says Surratt.
6. Switch out thick lipsticks.
Since heavy lip colors often feel like overkill once the weather warms up, many women opt for clear balm or skip their lips altogether. But just because you're feeling low-maintenance doesn't mean you have to look it. A simple swipe-and-go choice: tinted lip balms. "They give you whisper-light color, and many even have SPF to protect you from the sun," says Surratt.
7. Go sheer.
"Rich, deep colors have their place, but they can look heavy in summer," says Surratt. To lighten up, switch to sheer versions of your go-to lip and eye hues. Use a lipliner pre-application if you need extra definition, but go for a nude shade to keep that carefree feeling, or try "invisible" lipliner, which deposits a clear, waxy film to stop color from bleeding. Bonus: Because sheer colors are subtler, you almost can't go overboard.
8. Stay-proof your eye makeup.
For longer-lasting shadow, avoid using eye cream on your lids (it can break down makeup), and smooth on an eye primer instead. "It will minimize creasing and create a base for the shadow to cling to so it lasts longer," says Seattle makeup artist Sharona Schweitzer. For the ultimate in all-day wearability, layer a powder over a cream. Doubling up works for liner, too. "Apply your regular pencil or cream liner, then use a small angled brush to press dark shadow over the liner to set it for longer wear," says Schweitzer.
9. Wade into waterproof.
If you tried waterproof mascaras once but found them less than stellar, it's time to give 'em another go. "They used to be brittle, crumbly, and flaky, but today's formulas are much better — and they really last," says Surratt. Can't bear to switch from your favorite? Apply a waterproof version on the tips of your lashes over regular mascara to boost its staying power.
Tuesday 4 November 2014
Monday 3 November 2014
Sunday 2 November 2014
Thursday 30 October 2014
Overnight Beauty Tips
1. Soft Feet: Use Vaseline or warm olive oil to massage your feet, cover them with socks to treat dry, rough feet overnight.
2. Moisturized lips:
Wake up to kissable lips by using a thin layer of sweet almond oil over the
lips before going to bed.
3. Moisturize:
Cleanse and exfoliate to deep clean the skin from dirt and makeup, follow up
with a good moisturizing process to rejuvenate your skin overnight. Use a small
drop of vitamin e oil under your night cream to wake up to a
radiant glow. For an all natural night cream use olive oil and massage it into
your skin before going to bed.
4. Cuticle/ Nail Care: Soften the cuticles overnight by using a small amount of coconut oil to moisturize the cuticles and strengthen the nails.
5. Eyebrow/ eyelash growth:
Moisturize and condition your eyebrows and eyelashes to make them grow longer
and stronger by using castor oil.
6. Hair Care: For a
healthy hair and better sleep massage a small amount of warm hair oil into your
roots. Use your finger tips to gently massage in circular motion for faster
hair growth.
7. Split ends: To
treat dry, split ends use vitamin e oil to nourish and condition the ends
overnight to wake up to smooth ends.
8. Eye care: Massage
a small amount of almond oil around your eyes using your ring finger to treat
dark circles and fines lines.
9. Soft hands:
exfoliate the hands using a homemade scrub using olive oil and brown sugar.
Massage in a small amount of hand cream or vitamin e oil and slip them into
some soft gloves to wake up to softer, smoother and younger looking
hands.
10. Satin beauty:
Sleeping on a satin pillow reduces friction to prevent breakage and frizzy
hair. It is great for your skin too satin pillow reduces the stress on the skin
so you won’t wake up to sleep lines.
Day of the Dead
Day Of The Dead:
The Day of the Dead celebrations might seem to be very similar to Halloween. In both celebrations people dress up in costumes, there are a lot of skeletons everywhere, and there are special sweet treats and candies given out. Also people spend a lot of time in graveyards and death imagery is everywhere.But there are some big differences between the holiday that promotes fear of the dead and the holiday that celebrates the dead. The Day of the Dead holiday is about celebrating the dead, not being afraid of the dead. It’s a holiday for people to honor their ancestors and loved ones who have passed away and invite those spirits back into their homes to be part of the family once more. It’s a celebration of family and a show of respect for those who have passed away.
| The practice of celebrating the dead
goes back thousands of years in South American cultures. In the
Aztec culture the celebration of the dead was in August and went
on for a month. During that time the people paid tribute to
Catrina, the Goddess of Death, who was portrayed as a skeleton.
When the Catholic faith became entrenched in South America the festival of the dead was changed into the Day of the Dead and timed to coincide with All Saints Day and All Souls Day. November 1st and 2nd are national holidays in Mexico and other South American countries. During those days people welcome back the spirits of the family members that they have lost. |
They pay their respects to their loved ones by tending to their graves, cleaning up graveyards, planting flowers and trees, and leaving offerings at the graves. They also wear the clothes of their deceased relatives, paint their faces as skulls or wear skeleton masks and costumes, and build altars in their homes to honor their loved ones.
Offerings of sweets, special bread, and the same foods and drinks that the family members loved in life will be placed on the altars along with marigolds to draw the spirits of the family members who have crossed over. Marigolds are said to attract spirits so they are visible everywhere during Day of the Dead celebrations.
One of the most well known ways that people celebrate the Day of the Dead is to turn themselves into skeletons using elaborate makeup and masks. The skeletal appearance highlighted with flowers, bright colors and artwork is a striking image that has now become an icon of the Day of the Dead. These looks are based partly on the decorated sugar skulls that are left on altars as offerings to the spirits and partly on a piece of artwork called La Calavera Catrina. It’s a zinc etching that was created at the turn of the 20th century and is a depiction of the Goddess of Death wearing a very fancy hat with lots of flowers. That image has inspired over a hundred years worth of stunning sugar skull makeup.
Tuesday 28 October 2014
Monday 27 October 2014
Happy Halloween
History of Halloween
Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve.Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.
The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the fires attracted insects to the area which attracted bats to the area. These are additional attributes of the history of Halloween.
Masks and costumes were worn in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or appease them.
Trick-or-treating, is an activity for children on or around Halloween in which they proceed from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as confectionery with the question, "Trick or treat?" The "trick" part of "trick or treat" is a threat to play a trick on the homeowner or his property if no treat is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters.
The history of Halloween has evolved. The activity is popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and due to increased American cultural influence in recent years, imported through exposure to US television and other media, trick-or-treating has started to occur among children in many parts of Europe, and in the Saudi Aramco camps of Dhahran, Akaria compounds and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia. The most significant growth and resistance is in the United Kingdom, where the police have threatened to prosecute parents who allow their children to carry out the "trick" element. In continental Europe, where the commerce-driven importation of Halloween is seen with more skepticism, numerous destructive or illegal "tricks" and police warnings have further raised suspicion about this game and Halloween in general.
In Ohio, Iowa, and Massachusetts, the night designated for Trick-or-treating is often referred to as Beggars Night.
Part of the history of Halloween is Halloween costumes. The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages, and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering, whining], like a beggar at Hallowmas."
Yet there is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in America, and trick-or-treating may have developed in America independent of any Irish or British antecedent. There is little primary Halloween history documentation of masking or costuming on Halloween in Ireland, the UK, or America before 1900. The earliest known reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, near the border of upstate New York, reported that it was normal for the smaller children to go street guising (see below) on Halloween between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs. Another isolated reference appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.
The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children but do not depict trick-or-treating. Ruth Edna Kelley, in her 1919 history of the holiday, The Book of Hallowe'en, makes no mention of such a custom in the chapter "Hallowe'en in America." It does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the earliest known uses in print of the term "trick or treat" appearing in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939. Thus, although a quarter million Scots-Irish immigrated to America between 1717 and 1770, the Irish Potato Famine brought almost a million immigrants in 1845-1849, and British and Irish immigration to America peaked in the 1880s, ritualized begging on Halloween was virtually unknown in America until generations later.
Trick-or-treating
spread from the western United States eastward, stalled by sugar rationing
that began in April 1942 during World War II and did not end until June
1947.
Early national attention
to trick-or-treating was given in October 1947 issues of the children's
magazines Jack and Jill and Children's Activities, and by Halloween
episodes of the network radio programs The Baby Snooks Show in 1946
and The Jack Benny Show and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in 1948.
The custom had become firmly established in popular culture by 1952,
when Walt Disney portrayed it in the cartoon Trick or Treat, Ozzie and
Harriet were besieged by trick-or-treaters on an episode of their television
show, and UNICEF first conducted a national campaign for children to
raise funds for the charity while trick-or-treating.
|
Trick-or-treating on the prairie. Although some popular histories of Halloween have characterized trick-or-treating as an adult invention to re-channel Halloween activities away from vandalism, nothing in the historical record supports this theory. To the contrary, adults, as reported in newspapers from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, typically saw it as a form of extortion, with reactions ranging from bemused indulgence to anger. Likewise, as portrayed on radio shows, children would have to explain what trick-or-treating was to puzzled adults, and not the other way around. Sometimes even the children protested: for Halloween 1948, members of the Madison Square Boys Club in New York City carried a parade banner that read "American Boys Don't Beg."
Sunday 26 October 2014
Thursday 23 October 2014
Wednesday 22 October 2014
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Halloween
Continued Halloween History:
A jack-o'-lantern (sometimes also spelled Jack O'Lantern) is typically a carved pumpkin. It is associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween. Typically the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved onto the outside surface, and the lid replaced. During the night, a candle is placed inside to illuminate the effect. The term is not particularly common outside North America, although the practice of carving lanterns for Halloween is. In folklore, an old Irish folk tale tells of Jack, a lazy yet shrewd farmer who uses a cross to trap the Devil. One story says that Jack tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree, and once he was up there Jack quickly placed crosses around the trunk or carved a cross into the bark, so that the Devil couldn't get down. Another myth says that Jack put a key in the Devil's pocket while he was suspended upside-down;Another version of the myth says that Jack was getting chased by some villagers from whom he had stolen, when he met the Devil, who claimed it was time for him to die. However, the thief stalled his death by tempting the Devil with a chance to bedevil the church-going villagers chasing him. Jack told the Devil to turn into a coin with which he would pay for the stolen goods (the Devil could take on any shape he wanted); later, when the coin/Devil disappeared, the Christian villagers would fight over who had stolen it. The Devil agreed to this plan. He turned himself into a silver coin and jumped into Jack's wallet, only to find himself next to a cross Jack had also picked up in the village. Jack had closed the wallet tight, and the cross stripped the Devil of his powers; and so he was trapped. In both myths, Jack only lets the Devil go when he agrees never to take his soul. After a while the thief died, as all living things do. Of course, his life had been too sinful for Jack to go to heaven; however, the Devil had promised not to take his soul, and so he was barred from Hell as well. Jack now had nowhere to go. He asked how he would see where to go, as he had no light, and the Devil mockingly tossed him an ember that would never burn out from the flames of hell. Jack carved out one of his turnips (which was his favorite food), put the ember inside it, and began endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He became known as "Jack of the Lantern", or Jack-o'-Lantern.
There are variations on the legend:
Some versions include a "wise and good man", or even God helping Jack to prevail over the Devil.
There are different versions of Jack's bargain with the Devil. Some variations say the deal was only temporary but the Devil, embarrassed and vengeful, refuses Jack entry to hell after Jack dies.
Jack is considered a greedy man and is not allowed into either heaven or hell, without any mention of the Devil.
Despite the colorful legends, the term jack-o'-lantern originally meant a night watchman, or man with a lantern, with the earliest known use in the mid-17th century; and later, meaning an ignis fatuus or will-o'-the-wisp. In Labrador and Newfoundland, both names "Jacky Lantern" and "Jack the Lantern" refer to the will-o'-the-wisp concept rather than the pumpkin carving aspect.
Halloween Costumes are outfits worn on or around October 31, the day of Halloween. Halloween is a modern-day holiday originating in the Pagan Celtic holiday of Samhain (in Christian times, the eve of All Saints Day). Although popular histories of Halloween claim that the practice goes back to ancient celebrations of Samhain, in fact there is little primary documentation of masking or costuming on Halloween before the twentieth century. Costuming became popular for Halloween parties in America in the early 1900s, as often for adults as for children. The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States.
What sets Halloween costumes apart from costumes for other celebrations or days of dressing up is that they are often designed to imitate supernatural and scary beings. Costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vampires, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. There are also costumes of pop culture figures like presidents, or film, television, and cartoon characters. Another popular trend is for women (and in some cases, men) to use Halloween as an excuse to wear particularly revealing costumes, showing off more skin than would be socially acceptable otherwise.
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