Women Skin Care and Beauty

Having a kissable lips such as Angelina Jolie’s lips is probably what every women, especially the younger ones look for. Read some sexy celebrity lips for you below:

Go peach rather than beige (which can appear corpselike). You can apply emollient balm before putting the color, this is will hydrate your lips and make an even tone. Or with a short and light strokes, you can use a neutral colored pencil to trace around the perimeter of your lips. After it’s done you can use desired color pencil you want to fill in your entire mouth. Somehow, you can increase the size of your lips use a matching gloss or high shine lipstick. Apply the gloss or lipstick with a lip brush to make sure that color is evenly distributed. Read more!

Your head-to-toe guide to good health. Remember what your mother said about carrots being good for your eyesight? She was right. “Not only are smart food choices vital for overall health and well-being, but certain nutrients can actually target and protect specific parts of your body,” says author of the health book. From your hair to your heart to, yes, even your private parts, the following nutrients will help keep every inch of you going strong.

1. Skin
What you need: Vitamin C
It helps the body make collagen (which keeps skin firm) boosts oxygen flow to the skin and helps heal scar tissue, cuts and bruises.
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New research suggests that broccoli can prevent the damage from ultraviolet light that often leads to skin cancer. And, as many children would surely appreciate, you do not even have to eat it. The research suggests that people who lather themselves with an extract of broccoli sprouts are protected from the skin damage associated with ultraviolet radiation.
The results in human volunteers, backed by parallel evidence obtained in mice, show that the degree of skin redness (erythema) caused by UV rays, which is an accurate index of the inflammation and cell damage caused by UV radiation, is markedly reduced in extract-treated skin.

According to the findings, unlike a normal sunscreen, the extract did not absorb ultraviolet light to prevent it entering the skin. Instead, it worked inside the body by boosting the production of enzymes that protected cells against ultraviolet damage and the risk of skin cancer. Read more!

Continued From Your Skin’s Looking Dull And Screaming?

Although they don’t refine your skin as well as skin brushing does, body exfoliators and scrubs certainly help keep your skin smooth.
These are typically cream-based products that contain granules or beads designed to dislodge and lift off dead cells. They’re great for clearing some of the skin’s superficial dryness and giving the skin a polish. Unlike skin brushing, which is done before you shower, you can use them while showering. All you need to do is massage the exfoliator over your body and let the product do the job. Concentrate on areas that tend to be drier, such as your knees, elbows and around your ankles and feet.

When choosing a scrub, steer clear of ones that contain rough or sharp granules since they’re likely to scratch your skin as you scrub. Read more!

WHEN leading skin care and makeup company Clinique made its debut in 1968, the cosmetics brand altered America’s beauty landscape by using scientific language and clinical iconography at a time when highly perfumed, elaborately packaged creams dominated department stores. Through laboratories in the United States, Europe and Asia, and thanks to countless academic, medical and research relationships, Clinique is able to bring the best that science has to offer to our customers. Now Clinique has gone one step further in aligning itself with therapeutic imagery — and in the process has raised the ante for beauty companies seeking affiliations with doctors.
They announced the opening of the Clinique Skin Wellness Center by the Department of Dermatology at Weill Cornell Medical College

The Clinique Skin Wellness Center will be directed by Dr. Richard Granstein, Chairman of the Depertment of Dermatology at Weill Cornell. It will exist to “advance the understanding of skin from clinical, scientific and cosmetic points of view.” Visionary in its concept, the Clinique Skin Wellness Center at Weill Cornell is both a physical space for patient services and education as well as a “center without walls” that fosters joint research, education and outreach programs. Read more!

1. Alcohol
Alcohol’s dehydrating effects on the skin are well documented - it appears dry, with more lines and wrinkles. Alcohol also causes vasodilation, in which blood vessels become dilated, resulting in increased redness and irritation.

2. Caffeine
Even one strong cup can have a dramatic effect on your hydration status, so if you love your coffee, don’t forget to have a water chaser. Be careful with these new energy drinks, many of which have two to three times as much caffeine as coffee. Dehydration causes the skin to look dry, wrinkly and dull.
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For some people, getting back acne is not as bad as getting facial acne. After all, skin imperfections on one’s back is easier to hider under a layer of clothing - unless he or she has to wear a swimsuit to spend time at the beach or pool. In such cases, back acne can cause feelings of self-consciousness; no matter how attractive a person’s body is, having zits or pimples on one’s back can be disconcerting, not to mention uncomfortable.

The causes of back acne - or “bacne” - are pretty much similar to what causes pimples to emerge on other parts of the body. The back is filled with sebaceous glands, which secrete a kind of oil called sebum. If excessive amounts of this oil are produced and not removed immediately, the pores and the hair follicles on a person’s back will become clogged, which then encourages bacteria to attack and inflame skin tissue. Read more!

Acne is the term used for plugged pores. Acne can occur on the face, neck, chest, back, shoulders and even the upper arms. Pimples include blackheads, whiteheads, and even deeper lumps (cysts or nodules).
There are glands in our skin which produce an oily substance called sebum. These glands are known as Sebaceous glands. Sebaceous glands are connected to a canal called a follicle. Follicle contains a fine hair. These sebaceous glands attached to hair follicles are most numerous on the face, neck, back and chest.

The oily substance sebum produced by the sebaceous glands normally empties onto the skin surface through the opening of the follicle, usually called a pore.
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The need to glow all year round has become a prerogative for the image conscious modern woman or man for the matter. Skin cancer campaigns against the sun has seen the multitudes of health conscious turn to indoor tanning as an alternative to gaining the exquisite, glowing skin sported by the much envied Brazilian and Caribbean bombshells gracing catwalks and television screens.

The popular websites comments on the rising trend of indoor tanning, quoting 68% increase in sales for the tanning industry in America alone. However there are drawbacks to indoor tanning with the most problematic being the financial drawbacks and physical side effects. Read more!

A class-action lawsuit filed last March in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that five major U.S. makers of sunscreen lotion falsely tout that their products are waterproof and offer protection from the sun’s harmful rays. Neutrogena, Coppertone, Banana Boat, Hawaiian Tropic and Bullfrog are the sunscreen makers, argue they have not changed their labels because the Food and Drug Administration has not enforced the standardization of all sunscreen labels, which was proposed in 1999. Under new regulations, manufacturers cannot include misleading terms, such as “waterproof,” “sunblock,” “all-day protection” and “visible and/or infrared light protection.”

When you are exposed to the sun and sunlamps, your skin color changes because it’s protecting itself from damaging ultraviolet rays. These UV rays can cause sunburn and over time may lead to blemishes, wrinkling, cataracts and other eye problems, skin cancer and a weakened immune system, the institute reports. Read more!

More than 1 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year and we need to being proactive about learning ways to reduce the risk. As recently lawsuit against sunscreen manufacturers, some people asking what sunscreen do to protect our skin health and what should they do to reduce sun skin cancer risk.

Actually, most of skin health patients know the basics about sun protection. But Drs. Kay Judge and Maxine Barish-Wreden, medical directors of Sutter’s Downtown Integrative Medicine program, gives some facts that we may not know about sunscreen and sun protection. Read more!

The market in beauty products has grown significantly in the last 25 years but in the last 10 years there has been an increasing interest in the ingredients contained within the lotions, creams and potions we apply so liberally to our skin - the largest organ of our human bodies.
Many main stream manufacturers still include a range of not so natural ingredients in their products:

- waste products from the petrochemical industry
- lead and other heavy metals
- products extracted from animal carcasses Read more!

Everybody desires a soft and velvety complexion. Only a healthy skin gives these attributes to the human body. Varicose veins and spider veins damage the skin beauty radically. Enlarged, distended and twisted superficial veins, the varicose veins are both a medical and cosmetic problem. One suffering from the condition of varicose vein goes through the painful experience of ulceration, inflammation and hemorrhage. Also look of varicose vein area becomes distracting by the presence of these bluish and swelled veins.

There are many factors that cause varicose vein, like sex, age, obesity, genetics and the amount of strain on the legs. Aging is the most important of all those factors. With age the veins undergo many wear and tear, because women are subjected to frequent hormonal changes. Pregnancy, pre menstruation and menopause take the toll to develop varicose veins. Then beginning as a brownish discolouration (stasis pigmentation), the veins become twisted, turned, swelled and extended. Read more!

Leading dermatologists and plastic surgeons told People magazine which celebrities their patients most want to look like – piece by piece. It seems Beyoncé Knowles’ lips (full and pouty); Nicole Kidman’s skin (pristine); and Catherine Zeta Jones’ eyes (sexy) are in demand.

Dr. Francis Palmer, co-director of facial plastic surgery at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, uses a mathematical formula to determine “true beauty.” Cheeks account 75 percent; they should be abroad, rounded and low. If you draw an imaginary line from your pupil toward your jaw and another from your nostrils across your cheek, the bottom of your cheekbone should fall at, or below, the intersection of these lines.
Eyes and eyebrows count for 10 percent. Lids should be nicely arched and be a pinkie-width above the rim of the eye socket. Read more!

You don’t have to eat/soak up these toxic chemicals to enjoy great, effective, quality skin care. Whether you want budget or high-end, there are plenty of truly natural choices. There are good companies that make perfectly wonderful and effective products without these cheap chemicals, which are used for the convenience of the company and their contribution to the bottom line. Learn on some ingredients you don’t want on you or in you.

Methyl, Propyl, Butyl, and Ethyl Parabens
Some combination of these synthetic ingredients are in almost every skin and hair product made today (except for the brands recommended here). Widely known to be highly toxic and cause allergic/skin reactions. Read more!