*~*~*useful Tips For Everyone*~*~*

** Tips for everyone to see**
[all tips tried and tested]

hi everyone!! welcome to the health&beaty tips thread created by ling_ling and chouchou

we have put together a thread filled with useful tried and tested tips, product recommendations and useful links to other threads/websites.
please keep in mind that we're not doctors or professionals in the area
we are just normal girls like you who have a slight obsession with health-beauty-fashion

ling_ling [creator]

i am a product rainbow

!!! since puberty i have been suffering from oily and acne prone skin and have experimented with many different skincare products and make-up in the hopes that it would help my skin get better. more recently as i'm growing out of puberty my skin has calmed somewhat into combination skin, although i do still have mild acne and medium sized pores.
if you have similar skin to me or have any questions about skin/skincare then feel free to pm me

chouchou

i am the fashion rainbow of the two of us

and haven't really had much interest in my skin until recently with the help of my sister. my skin is delicate and sensitive and sometimes can be quite dry. i have to be careful with what products i use as if it were to strong it would make my skin break out or irritated.
if you have any questions regarding dry/sensitive skin or fashion then feel free to pm me

*links to our profiles are in our names

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tips for hair

TIP No.1
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW IF YOUR HAIR IS HEALTHY?

1. Get a glass of water cold or hot it doesnt rly matter....but i think cold gives better results
2. Get a one piece of ur hair including the root and then place it in the cup of water
3. leave it over night and the next day take a look

RESULTS:
- if the piece of hair FLOATS then your hair is fine
- if it SANK to the bottom then its unhealthy - due to the fact it needs more moisture so it drank it up
- if you hair is sort of half floating and half sank then i suggest u leave ur hair for a while this means your roots are healty but maybe due to straightening/perming/hair dye ur hair is rly damaged and cnt handle it

this will help if ur contemplating hairdying and perming and if u already straighten and curl ur hair =)
p.s. even if it floated it is still good to do a protein mask once a week for healthy hair

TIP No.2
INCREASE HAIRGROWTH

1. Drink ALOT of water daily, make your first glass of water in the day warm so that it can clean out your system
- drinking alot of water cleans your system - this means your kidney and liver will be clean and those two organs are linked to your hair - these two organs being clean also helps regulate hormones whivh helps increase hairgrowth
2. Remember to trim your hair to refresh the ends
- dont care what the hairdressers say it DOES help - trust me
3. If your want your hair to grow longer then invest your money in SHOU WU pills
- a chinese herbal pill which helps bring nutrients to the hair so it grows longer, also making hair shiniers and healtheir!

TIP No.3
FOR CURLY HAIR (permed hair or natural etc to make the curl last)

1. Wash hair [shampoo once then condition)
2. Once you have finished washing your hair wrap your hair in a towel
3. Take your hair out of your towel and keep scrunching it with the towel to get rid of excess moisture
4. Your hair will be still wet but go and do other things for a while until your hair is damp
5. When your hair is damp get styling mousse [preferbly one for curly hair or volumizing mousse] and start working into your hair, starting from the roots so your hair is lifts
6. Keep scrunching your hair
- usually have to use ALOT of mousse
- about two - three hands FULL
- one hand for each side then the last hand for all the hair
7 once you have finished scrunching your hair let your hair dry fully
- if you have no patients or are running low of time use a hairdrying with a diffuser
8. Once your hair is dry get styling clay/wax/mustard/cream and start scrunching your hair again
- your curls will become more defined!
9. once finished spray lightly with hairspray!

RESULTS:
Nice volumous curly hair all day =)

**if you want it to be more neat then i suggest brushing your hair when your hair is still wet then scrunch it again using your hands and not a towel

TIP No. 4 - Helping hair grow faster part.2

TIP No.5 - GreyHairs

TIP No.6 - How to keep hair healthy

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tips for skin

TIP No.1
DO YOU HAVE OILY SKIN AND WANT IT TO BE LESS NOTICEABLE??

If you wear make up?
1. Wash your face twice daily
2. After washing tone your face
- try using something like the Clinique clarifying lotion or loreal purifying lotion
- they may be expensive but their expensive for a reason!
3. After toning your face moisturize using a non-greasy, gel based, oil-free moisterizer
- Loreal De-Grease is good
- Tea tree oil moisterizer
- Clinique dramatically different moisterizing gel
4. Once you have done this then wait for a bit and then apply make up but dont use the powder yet
5. throughout the day you'll see your face getting oily, to make it less shiny then get a tissue then wipe off the grease then using a matte press powder, powder your face
6. You wont need to re-apply powder or de-grease your face for a while cos the powder locks in the oil
7. at the end of the day, because your oil has been locked in, wash your face twice
- first time using a normal bar of soap
- second time using your regular face wash

If you don't wear makeup:
Do steps 1-3
4. use blotting sheets
- MAC, clean and clear, neutrogena all have really good ones
At the end of the day repeat step 7

EXTRA:
for extra help with oily skin:
- at night instead of your normal moisterize use a cream that contains Benzoyl Peroxide because it helps make the oil-glands in the skin smaller, only use this at night.
- Try using the Loreal Microdermabrasion kit but dont use the moisterizer - this helps even out complexion and helps your skin become smoother and less oily - if loreal microbrasion kit is too expensive then try using an exfoliator which has small beads in it - like somethng from body shop - do this 2-3 times a week
- Once a week use a face mask to refresh skin

P.S this tip also helps if you have larger pores!

TIP No. 2 - How to get rid of a tan [real or fake]

TIP No. 3 - At Home PalerSkin Treatment

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tips for body

TIP No.1
THICK CALVES??

1. Every morning or afternoon or whenever your free jog for about 30minutes to 1hour
2. Twice a day - when you wake up and before you go to bed stretch out your calve muscles
3. Drink water ... always helps =)

RESULT: Trimmer calves =)

TIP No.2 - Slimmer Thighs

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make-up tips

TIP No.1
EYELASH CURL NOT STAYING??

1. Put vaseline on your eyelash - only a small amount
2. Once you have done this use a manual eyelash curler [non-electric] and hold for 30 seconds
3. After you have done this put a bit more vaseline on it - jus a dab - they will look shiny but not greasy
- if they are greasy then you have applied too much and it wont work
- if you have problems then dont worry about applying it the second time
4. Once you have curled it [and put on vaseline] wait for abit for the lash to set [10 seconds]
5. After it has set apply water-proof mascara
- if you dont have waterproof then use another jus not as much
6. Once you have applied mascara wait for a bit for it to dry
7. Once dried curl it again [lashes have to be completely dry]

RESULTS:
Curled lashes all day until you have taken it off

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general tips/reminders/product recommendations/links

TIP No.1 - Some Reminders about hair and skin

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websites
shou wu pills [europe only]

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product recommendations/reviews

palmolive soap - both me and my sister have tried using this soap for our faces aswell as our bodies. as a body soap its great as its moisturising and doesn't irritate as its really simple and doesn't have many chemical ingrediants. as a face soap i definitely don't recommend it! it made both of us break out in spots quite quickly. it made my dry skin very oily also which i didn't like - i did then find out that it contains olive oil