Troubled by acne?

While it is easy to turn to cosmetic products to treat breakouts and scars, nothing beats a natural approach when it comes to dealing with acne. It is known that certain food items not just work effectively on acne, but also help you keep your skin glowing and healthy, especially in the scorching summer.

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Ways to tackle adult acne

Strangely enough I never had a problem with acne as a teenager, but I didn't get away scot free. When I got into my twenties, I got a bout of what's called adult acne. Thankfully a face wash, of salicylic acid and mosturizering component, helped me a great deal in sailing through. I also recommend frequent check-ups with the dermatologist. After all, experts know the best.

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Home Remedies to Reduce Acne and Pimples

Tired of the regular zits that keep popping up every now and then? While if you suffer from an acute acne problem, it's best that you visit a dermatologist, you can bid adieu to a pimple here and there by following these simple home remedies — just make sure you don't suffer from any allergies. Acne usually starts with blackheads, which are formed when oil along with dead cells gets stuck in your pores and turn black.

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10 Summer tips for acne

Summers are here and it is the most nightmarish time for skin issues specially acne. Ugly to look at and painful in general, the outbreak of acne can be extremely de-motivating and affect the confidence of an individual. 

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Green tea and its health befits

Green tea and its health befits have been greatly extolled by the world. Here are a few. 

Green tea can be regarded as a storehouse of benefits for the skin. It contains a great deal ofantioxidants which are effective against free radicals. These free radicals, which are formed when the skin is exposed to the UV rays of the sun, are accountable for premature aging.

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Eight Trendy Hairstyles for Teenagers

1. Layered hair

The layered haircut is a very popular hairstyle among teenagers. It is a playful and stylish style that suits more hair lengths and face shapes. In a layered haircut, the hair is trimmed to form various layers, giving the hair plenty of volume.

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Bright and bold hues

Bright and bold hues are big this season. The trick is to choose the one best suited for your complexion. 

"Women should use one element at a time while choosing neon makeup. You can either highlight your eyes or your lips with a bright colour.

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Cranberry for your face

Cranberries aren't just excellent as a juice but also as a face mask to bring that glow and shine on your face.Known to be excellent for its anti-ageing properties, a cranberry face pack is easy to make and also keeps your face shining and glowing. 

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Anti-ageing tips for oily skin

Oily skinned women have typically less lines and wrinkles visible as compared to women with normal and dry skin. Though there are a few benefits of having oily skin, here's how you can prevent your skin from ageing faster

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Foods that prevent Breast Cancer

Flaxseed

You can get flax either as whole seed, ground or flaxseed oil. The omega-3s, lignans and fibre found in flaxseed are found to form a protective shield against cancer cells responsible for causing breast cancer. Include flax to yogurt or a smoothie to create a richer and nutty flavour. You can add flaxseed oil to salad dressings too or integrate them into baked goods, such as cookies or muffins.

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The Trick to Using a Diffuser

When using a diffuser, you want to tilt your head upside down to allow the curls to hang away from the scalp, or lift them up from underneath like the image on the left shows.

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The Ultimate Curly Hair Guide

Unruly locks? Not anymore. Learn the best ways to manage and style your curls with these tips from celebrity hairstylist Christo!

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Juicing Recipes for Weight Loss

Green Carrot Juice

This recipe helps you shut down hunger thanks to healthy doses of carrots and apple. Loaded with vitamins C, A and K, the juice also improves energy while proving that juicing recipes for weight loss don’t have to taste bad.

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The Benefits of Long Term Juicing for Weight Loss

When you’re trying to lose weight, you’ll hear time and time again that adding fresh fruits and vegetables can help make your weight loss process easier. By substituting high-calorie foods with low-calorie fruits and vegetables, you can lose weight. When juicing for weight loss over extended periods, you’ll still need to pair your low-calorie fruits and vegetables with other healthy foods, but when you do, you can devise a strategy for fast, healthy weight loss.

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A Week of Juicing – 7 Must Try Juicing Recipes

You already know the amazing benefits associated with consuming fruits and vegetables on a daily basis. If you’re juicing for weight loss, you need a balanced diet of the right fruits and vegetables. To help get you started, consider these seven must try recipes for an entire week of juicing. Just juice in the order listed for best results (and taste).

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Green Juices for High Energy

Once you’re established in the art of juicing, you’ll want to move your way from the typical sweet juice and venture into the greener juices. These juices are chalk full of vitamins and essential minerals that your body needs, especially when juicing for weight loss. If you’re ready to go green, consider these ideal green juice ingredients.

Apple
Granny Smith apples offer that perfect combination of sweetness and tartness to any juice. Use Granny Smith’s to sweeten up leafy greens.

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Cake, Guava

                                       Cuisine: Hawaiian

Yields: 16 servings

Prep time: 30 min

Cook time: 40 min

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups cake flour

1 1/4 cups granulated sugar, divided

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

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Caesar Salad Recipe - Classic Caesar Salad Recipe

Recipe Type: Salad and Salad Dressing, Anchovy Fillet
Menus: Prime Rib Dinner, Pork Loin Dinner
Yields: 2 to 4 servings (depending on size of servings)
Prep time: 30 min

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Pacific Coast Clam Chowder Recipe

Normally, I just add the chowder ingredients, without measuring, to my soup pot. I just taste and add them to my liking. For you, I have attempted to write down my family's recipe. Add or delete to your family's taste. ENJOY!

Recipe Type: Chowder, Clams, Potatoes
Cuisine: Pacific Northwest
Yields: 8 servings
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min

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French Dip Sandwich Recipe

How To Make French Dip Sandwich

Recipe Type: Beef, Sandwich
Yields: 8 sandwiches
Prep time: 45 min 
Cook time: 45 min

Ingredients:

1 (4-pound) beef rib eye, sirloin, or tenderloin roast
1/2 cup coarsely-ground black pepper
Dipping Sauce (recipe follows)
8 French rolls
Butter

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Making Chocolate Quils

You will need chocolate, either white or dark, a pallet knife, a double edge comb scraper and a metal, broad spatula. The spatula looks like a 6-inch putty knife. I've used my metal bench scraper before and it worked pretty well. 

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Vanilla Wafer Fruit Cake Recipe

Cake Fruitcake, Candied Fruit
Yields: 1 large fruitcake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min

Ingredients:

1 pound vanilla wafers (cookies)
1/2 pound candied red cherries, cut in half
1/2 pound candied pineapple slices, cut in small wedges
1 pound walnuts, pecans or combination of both, broken in half or coarsely chopped

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Silver cake

 The whites of one dozen eggs beaten very light, one pound of butter, one pound of powdered sugar; rub the butter and sugar together until creamed very light, then add the beaten whites of the eggs, and beat all together until very light; two teaspoonfuls of the best yeast powder sifted with one pound of flour, then add the flour to the eggs, sugar and butter, also add one-half teacupful of sweet milk; mix quickly, and beat till very light; flavor with two teaspoonfuls of the extract of almond or peach, put in when you beat the cake the last time.

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Angel Cake

One cup of flour, measured after one sifting, and then mixed with one teaspoonful of cream of tartar and sifted four times. Beat the whites of eleven eggs, with a wire beater or perforated spoon, until stiff and flaky.

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Review–E.L.F. Tinted Moisturizer in Rosey Beige

Tinted moisturizers are something I always yearned for, but never got a chance to use one myself. Foundation & Moisturizer in one – its like a blessing for all those girls like me who are always running out of time when getting ready. Hehe! To My rescue, ELF cosmetics introduced their tinted moisturizers in Pakistan. Let me review one of them for you and tell you my comments about this wonderful product.

The Packaging:

The packaging is quite nice. It’s a card backed transparent pack in which the tinted moisturizer is set up. The

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Review - Hand Warmers by "Designs by Daisy"

We all know that winter is here and we are all stuffing up our closets with warm clothes, sweaters, mufflers and loads and loads of jackets and coats. For me, winter affects my hands and feet the most so i am looking forward for ways to keep my hands and feet warm. I have gloves but somehow gloves make writing, typing and other activities a bit tedious for me so i was looking forward for something that would help me keep my hands warm while letting my fingers breathe openly. I never knew something like this existed until I visited a small home based business called "Designs by Daisy".

I was amazed with the variety and quality of their products. As a trial I got myself two beautiful pairs of hand

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Review - Saeed Ghani's Aloe Vera Serum

I am a hugeeeeeeee fan of the herbal products and homemade diy's for the skincare and Aloe Vera is one of my favorite herbs for skin care. I even have an aloe vera plant at my home for quick skincare recipes.

 

Recently I came across aloe vera serum in Saeed Ghani's shop and I just HAD to try this out.

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Basic Lip Care & a DIY Lip Scrub

Hey my beauties, I am sure all of you girls must have faced the dry, flaky lips issue at least once in your life. Well, for me, its kind of a routine issue which occurs every two months or so. However, I have found a cool tip which is very simple and effective.

However, first I will discuss a few things which you need to do to keep your lips hydrated:

1. Drink lots of water - Simple!
2. Always apply a thin layer of lip blam/petroleum jelly before going to bed.
3. If you have VERY dry lips which often bleed, try this one simple tip. Put 2-3 drops of olive oil (or any oil will do) in your belly button. Lock with a cotton ball; and go to sleep. Your lips will be softy soft the next morning. You can repeat this everyday.
4. Stop biting your lips.

There are many exfoliants and lip scrubs available in the market but I am always up for something which is less expensive and quicker than all of these things. I have tried a number of things but here I am going to share with you the simplest and the easiest thing which i found to be working the best.

Here are two simple things you will need for this easy recipe:

1. Sugar - Yes, plain sugar ... Quantity depends on how flaky your lips are; but 1 tablespoon is more than enough. If you are a regular in applying this scrub then 1 tea spoon is sufficient for you.
2. Petroleum jelly. I use Vaseline Petroleum jelly but any unscented petroleum jelly will do for you.

Now, here is what you have to do, remove any lipstick or lip gloss you have on your lips, dip your finger in the petroleum jelly and then dip it in sugar. Now your finger will have sugar crystals stuck to it. Rub these crystals gently on your lips in small circular motions. Dont be very harsh because if your lips are very dry, harsh rubbing can result in bleeding. Repeat it for about 3-5 minutes. You will feel your lips flake free and freshly colored (yes thats the color of your new skin which was hiding behind the flakes). After being done with it, wash your hands, dry your lips. You can also use soap on the lips to wash away the greasy and sticky feeling if you want. After cleaning and drying out your lips, apply plain petroleum jelly or any lip balm you like.

You can repeat the above scrub recipe every week. Its simple and quick. Share your comments after trying this out girls.

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Health Tips for Rainy Season

Many of us have fond memories of the rains from our growing up years -- impromptu holidays from school, splashing about in muddy puddles, or maybe simply getting wet in a pouring shower. Like you, your little one will love the rains, the fresh new leaves on the trees, the smell of the damp wet ground, and perhaps a little scared of the thunder and lightning which accompany the rain many a time. But with all the joyous moments, the rainy season also brings with it humid weather, flooded roads, mosquitoes, diseases, and lots more. With a little care and forethought you can let your child enjoy this beautiful season and also keep him safe from illnesses.

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DIY - Makeup Stuff holder

I love DIY projects and reusing stuff which normally people throw away.Recently I came across an idea and simply loved it. I practically implemented it and want it to share with all of you. The best thing is that it makes use of the item that we throw away ... Yes ... Tissue Paper Rolls. People hardly save these and throw these away as soon as a new tissue roll is required. But hello, you can use these rolls for a number of DIY projects; so you better start saving them up. Let me tell you what you might need for this project:

1. Tissue Paper Rolls. As many as you want
2. A cardboard tray - I used a shoe box cover (recycling here too)
3. Wrapping Paper - Any print that you like
4. Glue/tape
5. Scissors

• The first step is to cut the wrapping sheet in equal sizes to cover the tissue paper rolls completely and then glue the wrapping sheet to the individual rolls. You can use different prints for the wrapping sheets but I used the same sheet on all of the rolls
• After that you can wrap the tray/shoe box cover with the printed sheet as well. I did not cover mine as it was already a very good print so I didnt feel like covering it.
• After this I glued the tissue rolls on the shoe box cover and placed them in a regular pattern.
• Let it dry overnight and TA-DA !!! you have your very own makeup stuff tray with holders the next morning.

I am in love with this creation and I have many more ideas to use these cardboard rolls in. Will be sharing with you !!

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Review–Batiste Dry Shampoo In Blush

Cold weather ? or you are too lazy to get up and take a shower? Or not enough time to take a shower and just want a quick solution for your oily hair? Well, i have a review of a wonderful product for you guys - Dry Shampoo... YES a shampoo which needs no water. Isnt that great?

Lets walk through the details of the dry shampoo while i tell you my experience with this product. It comes in a spray form and looks like a body deodorant in the first look.

I specially waited for my hair to get naturally oily before writing this review as I wanted to show you girls the actual effect of the product. Following pictures explain the effectiveness of the dry shampoo:

Here is how my hair looked before application of the dry shampoo:

Here is a look of the hair after the application:

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How I Organize My Sandals!

I am a huge lover of sandals and shoes, and its hard for me to stop myself from buying more and more sandals everytime I go to the market. Buying sandals is more of a fun experience for me but the issue becomes when I come home and the closet which I used to store my shoes is full and I don’t have any place to keep the new shoes :D hehe… yes that happened with me many times.
another issue which I come across normally when I put my sandals in a closet or a shoe rack is that very

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Nail Art Simulator–Virtual Nail Salon

Hey girls, I am really fond of trying different kinds of nail arts on my nails. I wont say that I am very good at it anyhow I try various styles just to keep practicing and I hope someday ill be better at it hehe !!
I have some samples of the nail arts I have done in this album on my facebook page here.
Recently I tried a few nail arts and I couldn’t get the shapes the way I expected them, and then I looked it up on internet and turned out I was doing the wrong steps to make certain shapes; that time I had to remove my

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