Three Stroke Application

Apply nail varnish properly and your hands will look heavenly, apply it wrong and they will look the complete opposite. If you have a little patience you can have a professional look, if you don’t you are better off visiting a professional (expect high annual nail varnish bills).

Follow these straightforward nail varnish professional steps and you will be on the road to heavenly hands:

Nail Varnish Polish Application Steps:
1: Clean:
Use warm soapy water to wash nails (and under the tips) ensuring that they are completely dry before proceeding

2: Base Coat:
It is essential to use a good base coat with all polish applications. Stroke in the middle from the base to the tip of the nail. Then apply the base coat from the base of the nail to the very tip on both the left and the right part of the nail without touching the skin (if possible) – known as the 3-stroke application (as shown in the picture above). Wait a minute before next step

3: 1st Coat:
Use the 3-stroke application method used above and apply a light layer of your chosen colour. Wait a minute before next step

4: 2nd Coat:
The second coat adds depth to your nail. Follow the 3-stroke application again until fully finished

5: Protect:
Use a good quality top coat, this will protect your nail from chipping and peeling (leaving the top coat out can make your nail look dull very fast). Only a light coating is needed (you guessed it use the 3-stroke application method)

6: Perfect:
Using a very thin brush dip into a good quality nail varnish polish remover and gently eliminate any nail varnish polish that accidentally found its way onto your skin. This will give you greater precision than using cotton wool.

If there is just one thing to take away from this, make sure you use base and top coats for a longer lasting professional nail varnish finish.

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pretty feet

A few girlfriends of mine used to dread the idea of wearing sandals or open toe shoes because they were scared about what people would think of their feet.

Firstly, 9 out 10 of them had nothing wrong with their pretty feet and the others had to take care of the feet a little more and everything would be fine and dandy.

Pretty Feet Top Tip:
1: Don’t get paranoid about your feet! Other people probably look at them and wish they had feet like yours (human nature, we all want what other people have: handbags, cars, ass and the list goes on)

All of the following can be done in the comfort of your own home.

Pretty Feet Treatment Part 1: Foundation for Pretty Feet:
•    Gently wash your feet with some good peppermint foot scrub (take your time and work it all over your feet), this will give your feet the instant freshness that it is probably dying for and get rid of excess skin sitting on the surface
•    Soak your feet in warm water (the warmer the better) usually adding something like peppermint or lemon deodorising foot soak (5-10 minutes), this will help relieve any pressures in the feet and soften the skin for the next step

Pretty Feet Treatment Part 2: File those Feet
•    Towel dry your feet
•    Whilst they are still moist and warm from the water gently file away the hard skin on your feet. Please do not try to attempt removing all dead skin in a single treatment, try to phase it over 3-4 treatments.
•    Rinse with water (the colder the better – make you feel fresh and alive)

Pretty Feet Treatment Part 3: Moisturise
•    Buy a moisturiser that is specifically made for feet as the skin is much thicker and harder to treat than other parts of our body. Work into the skin paying special attention to the areas with harder skin.

Other Tips:
•    Cut and carefully file toenails on a regular basis
•    Try to get a foot massage at least once monthly (can also relieve stress)

Hope this will help convince you that you do have pretty feet, they just need a little tender loving care.

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Drinks

Why do people keep asking if I had a late night?

I’m afraid our eyes usually give away the secret without us even saying a word. Most of us suffer from bags under eyes or eye puffiness. The main causes of bags under eyes tend to be the following:

Causes:
1:  Fluid retention: body fluids have settled under the eye area. Usually occurs overnight after a late night.
2: Late nights
3: Aging: Skin looses elasticity over time and this can lead to under eye bags
4: Allergy: You could have an allergy to certain products (RAST test can reveal that causes the under eye bags)
5: Diet: If you have a very unhealthy diet (excessive alcohol) that lacks essential vitamins then this too can cause enhanced under eye bags.

How to prevent bags under eyes:
1: Reduce salty food intake as scientists have seen a link to eye bags
2: Elevating your head (e.g. extra pillow) can prevent the fluid becoming trapped in the eye area
3: Get some good sleep!
4: Dont Stress!

How to reduce bags under eyes:
1: Splash cold water onto your eyes which will encourage circulation around your eye area. Follow this by gently tapping your eye area to further encourage circulation
2: Cold cucumber slices over the eye area for 10 minutes at a time

Only use eye care products to treat eye bags if you feel that you really really need them (naturally treating is always better long term)

These are not a one off fix for how to get rid of bags under eyes but must be consistently applied until the route of the problem is fixed.

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