Archive for the ‘Beauty’ Category

One of the few websites that I frequently visit is Yahoo Answers. Ask questions and help people by answering their questions. I came across a question asking, how come skinny people have cellulite. Well, I used to be one of those people who thought that only chubby and obese people have them, until I saw a skinny friend who was having it as well. Interesting.

I believe many people don’t really know what cellulites actually are, that’s why, just like how I was, they only related cellulite to fat people. Cellulite is actually collections of fat that push against the connective tissue beneath the skin which makes the skin looks lumpy. Though of course chances of having cellulites is higher when one is obese, but being skinny does not mean the person doesn’t have any body fat at all.

Factors that contribute to whether or not a person has it or how much or how visible it is are genes, age, amount of fat in body, gender and thickness of skin.

So I suppose that explains why they use slim models to promote cellulite cures on commercials. Since it isn’t impossible for slim, skinny people to face cellulite problem as well.

Being a consumer that tries to shop smart, I have often checked out reviews by other consumers before I decided on buying anything. So much so, I can say that my shopping experiences are good most of the time. In return, I also like to  contribute my reviews of products that I’ve tried, on review sites and also online shopping websites.

The same goes when it comes to weight loss products, if not more important, to read reviews of the products before you buy. There are various review sites out there, but the ones I like most are those that allow real users to give their opinions on the products. Just like what getdietsolutions.com is doing. You can read loads of weighloss product reviews not only by professionals but also users. If you have any opinions on any weightloss products reviewed on the website, you can post your opinion directly on the review page. As an example you can click here for lipozene information and check it out for yourself.

Be generous to share your knowledge, you may be helping many others in making a better choice.

I was going through some of the photos I took these past weeks in Spring. I saw that I took quite many pictures of flowers, mainly the cherry blossoms. I can’t help but feel that they are one of the most beautiful flowers that I have ever seen. I just love them.

These aren’t as magnificent as those in Japan I know, but they still are very beautiful. These pictures of the flowers are beautiful enough to print into photo cards to be sent to family and friends. Don’t you think?

It was last month when I wrote a post regarding myself trying out the Nivea creme in the blue tin for my extremely dry skin. I’ve been using the cream for a month now. Every single day. The cream is just great and I’m just thankful that finally I have found something to help me handle my dry skin and not cause major break outs while being so affordable. Well, I still have a one or two break outs but not as much as I would expect or what I would usually have to endure with other moisturizing creams.

So has my journey to finding the ultimate moisturizing cream has ended? Hopefully. It happened before that a cream may work for me for some time and after a while it loses its effect. I’m not sure why but sure hope this cream would be ‘the’ moisturizing cream for me for a long time. I really do feel for people who have major skin problems, when it is hard to find the for the right facial acne treatment,body acne treatment, eczema or other skin problems. It really can be so frustrating. And when something finally does work on your skin you’d really feel like you’re on top of the world.

I really do wish that some day there will be this one ultimate cream that will just work miracles on any type of skin.

If the craze for curly hair is back, the trend followers would rush to be in line with the latest fashion fad. For me, when someone asked me why don’t I go for the new hairstyle that everybody is crazy about, I’d say, “Why is it that everybody has to be a follower all the time? Can’t they just be ‘themselves’?”.

Nothing against looking good. Just don’t get it much with obsessive fashion followers that would put their hairs under so much stress (with all those chemicals and hot irons) just to follow the rest of the crowd.

Summer is great. Despite the heat, you don’t have to worry about your clothes too much. No more thick coats and heavy boots where ever you go. But the only problem is the UV rays that can be rather dangerous. There is a popular website,  which nearly everyone here visits,  that provides UV alert that tells people when it is not advisable to be under the sun too long.

The sun can be a friend and it can be a foe. We were brought up to believe that sunshine is good for the skin. But they didn’t really tell us that too much of it is not good. The UV ray from the sun can cause skin to wrinkle fast. That is a price to pay for a nice sun tan.

However, nowadays with so many medical breakthroughs being made, there is one particular product that was claimed to really work pretty well to admonish not only wrinkles, stretch marks and also some other minor skin flaws. This product is called strivectin.

No injections, or operations needed because strivectin is a facial cream that you apply on your facial skin just like you’d do with any other creams, 3 times daily. It is said, only within 28 days you will be able to see an improvement on how your skin looks. Wrinkles or stretch marks would slowly diminish.

You may obtain strivectin from many places, but currently you can get a 177ml sized tube at vitasunn.co.uk for only GBP £84.95, when it originall retails at GBP £134.95.

Perhaps in a way it is fortunate for me that I don’t really like to sunbathe because I don’t want to get too brown.So less wrinkles for me then.