How to Remove Cracked Heels Fast

Cracked heels are the enemy of fashionable feet. Dry and sometimes painful, these heel fissures are common in senior citizens and people who are constantly standing on their feet. When your skin becomes dry due to cold weather, cracked heels are often the unsightly result. To get feet sandal-ready and smooth again, apply these home remedies to repair your cracked heels fast
 
*Fill the foot basin with warm soap and water. Ease your feet into the soapy mixture. Proceed to soak your feet for a minimum of 20 minutes. Don’t scrub your feet with the pumice stone during the soaking phase. Once the cracked skin on your heels has softened, remove your feet from the tub.
*Gently scrub your feet with a foot file or pumice stone. Scrape your cracked heels repeatedly until you have reduced the dead skin significantly. Be careful not to puncture your skin with the foot file. Towel dry your feet thoroughly. If you suffer with diabetes or have a fungal infection, check with your physician before you proceed with this step. Clean the foot file with mild soap, followed by alcohol or a germ-killing solution for sterilization.
*Moisturize repeatedly. Apply shea butter, Vaseline or olive oil directly to the heels of your feet. Replicate this step to prevent the cracked skin from reforming on the bottom of your heels. Before going to bed each night apply another thick layer of moisturizer to heal the skin while you sleep. Cover your feet with thick cotton socks to seal the oil into your skin.
*Apply fresh fruit and lemon juice to your feet for extra pampering. If your skin has remnants of dry skin left after the moisturizing step, apply lemon juice, a ripe banana or crushed pineapple to your cracked heels. Leave this fruit mixture on your feet for 10 minutes. Follow this step with a layer of moisturizer to soften your feet.

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Remedies to Whiten the Dark Neck

Our neck is an area that has several folds. These folds make very easy for the dirt to accumulate in them. It is very often that we don’t pay heed attention in proper care and cleaning of our neck. This careless cleaning of neck can lead the skin around neck to become dark as compared to the rest of the body complexion. Skin of neck can also get dark due to excess exposure to sun. Accumulation of sweat is also one of the reasons of dark skin around the neck.

Here are some useful tips to whiten the dark neck skin:

   * To get rid of dark skin around neck or to whiten the neck skin, first of all you have to make a habit to wear sunscreen before going out into the sun.
   * Clean and exfoliate your neck skin on regular basis.
   * Make a paste of yogurt and crushed walnuts and apply the paste on your neck. It is best home remedy to remove dirt and layer of dark skin. Repeat this remedy thrice a week.
   * Don’t wear artificial jewelry or imitation on regular basis to prevent dark skin around neck.
    *Use plan lemon juice on dark area of your neck. You can also use Vitamin E to remove stains from your neck.
    * Take one table spoon of chickpea flour, few drops of milk, and few drops of lemon juice and pinch of turmeric powder. Mix these ingredients well and apply the mixture on your neck. Leave the paste on your neck for half an hour and rinse with warm water and clean with towel.
    * Apply cucumber juice on dark skin around your neck.
    * Eat lots of green vegetables.
    * Take a potato, 5-10 tsp of fresh milk and one tsp coconut oil. Mix them together and make a paste. Before applying this paste on your neck, wash your neck thoroughly and dry it out with towel. Apply the pack on your neck and leave it for half an hour. Then wash it with warm water.

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5 MINUTE MAKEOVER

Alright let's face it, most women want to be able to do their makeup quickly! A morning makeup makeover shouldn't take long to do. Stay at home moms, students, business women - who has time for makeup application that takes FOREVER?
Choose the right products, tools and techniques and you're ON YOUR WAY to lookin' GREAT! After all, if you don't look great, you don't feel great! See below, for some necessary product recommendations to make your daytime makeup application quick, easy and most importantly...CHEAP!

To pull off a 5 minute makeover in 5 minutes or less you need to have your makeup products organized and ready to go in the morning....if you have to search for them in your purse, makeup bag, etc...this takes away precious time.

Now here are my recommendations on how to achieve your 5 minute makeover:

1-Dual Perfection Pressed Powder:
Time required: 30secs

Quick and easy to apply with a powder brush yet gives you a fresh, flawless look and provides even coverage.


2- Pressed Blush:

Time required: 20secs

Use for both cheeks and eyes for a hint of color.


3-Mascara:
Time required: 60secs

Make your eyes pop by curling and thickening your lashes.


4- LIP GLOSS:
Time required: 30secs

Nothin' like a little color and shine combined!!

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Blush tips..

 

Blush is probably the most overlooked makeup product there is. Blush gives your face a rosy, healthy glow. You can also use blush to contour facial features to enhance your cheekbones, elongate a round face, minimize a long face and highlight your best features. Most women skip this vital makeup step because they do not know exactly how to apply blush in the correct fashion. Use these blush application tips to help.

Makeup Tip, How to Apply Blush properly:

Blush should generally be applied directly on the cheekbones, and blended out and up towards the temple area. Never apply blush closer to the nose than the outer rim of your iris or below an imaginary line from nostril base to edge of face. Choose blusher colors that match your eye shadow and lip color or that have a slight reddish pinky color to them. Fair skin looks great in rose, olive in peach & dark skin in apricot or even red.

Contouring and highlighting with Blush to enhance your face shape:
Matching your blush application to your face shape ensures a perfect blush application every time..

Blush Application for an Oval Face: The perfect shaped face, needs little help from blush. But here's a few tips: For a natural look, apply blush onto the apples of your cheeks for a flushed, healthy glow.

Blush Application for a Square Face: Soften the angles of your cheeks by applying  the brighter color blush on the apples of the cheeks, then sweep the blush towards your temples. This causes the eye to look up, taking away from the sharp angles of a square face shape. You can also contour to round your jawline, by lightly dusting some blush from your chin to just below your ears.

Blush Application for a Round Face: Apply blush to the area above the apples of  your cheeks and blend slightly forward to thin the round face. Avoid getting the blush too close to your nose; this highlights the roundness of your cheeks.

Blush Application for a Long Face: To create the illusion of width on a long face, apply blush to the apples of the cheeks and extend the blush outward towards your ears. Next, sweep your blush across the middle of your forehead and along your chin line. This effect will shorten your long face.

Blusher Tips:

    Soften bright blush with loose face powder

    Always apply blush with a larger round brush. Don't use the small stick-like thing they give you in the compact.

    Your blush should match the rest of your makeup but specially the lip color.

    Never use blush on the underside of cheekbones.

    Select a color of blush that resembles the natural color of your cheeks after you exercise.
   
   Use blush on your temples and around jawline to contour your face. Be sure to blend well.


    Apply blush last,  after all other makeup

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Summer Cotton Suits

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