Get Perfect Skin in 2009

Use this step-by-step guide and have glowing skin all year long

Here's the scoop on what products you should think about using in your 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s to keep your skin looking great. With these regimens, you can be on your way to flawless skin in the new year. Who doesn't want that? Find your regime

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Best of 2008

There are quite a few posts from the year 2008 that I have handpicked for your reading. Hope you find them useful, informative and interesting. Any feedback, suggestions, ideas and guest posts from you all are most welcome. Incidentally, the most notable event of this year at least for me was the mention of this blog in the prestigious WE magazine and recognition of this kind can be very encouraging. Thank you WE magazine. I look forward to a new year of blogging with renewed enthusiasm and have many ideas and plans in store which I hope to implement in the near future.

Products and reviews:

• Skin MD Natural Shielding Lotion: Review
• Dabur Vatika Hair oil: Review
• Cover your gray with touch-up sticks.
• Garnier Naturals’ Deep pore Exfoliating face wash:Review
• Bindi Mint Eye Mask to relieve puffiness
• Juara Skincare Milk and Red Sandalwood Mask
• Himalaya Neem Face Pack
• UNIL InfraShine Ceramic Flat Iron : review
• Himalaya Gentle exfoliating walnut scrub: Review
• Pantene Sleek and Shine Shampoo with conditioner
• Avon Nail Experts Conditioning Nail Enamel Remover
• Emami Hair Life – Instant Hair Pack
• Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque: Review
• Himalaya Kajal Herbal Eye Definer
• Lip care with Lotus Herbals
• Dove Beauty Bar Pink/Rosa
  

Informative posts:

• The bizarre snake-spa of Israel
• Swimming in over-chlorinated pools can have adverse effects on your skin, hair and teeth
• Dry eyes troubling you?
• Dry eyes after Lasik surgery?
• Healing powers of French clay and its cosmetic uses
• Mehendi (henna) tattoos and allergy
• Good things about the sun
• An MP3 player which cures acne.
• Head implants to make a person taller
• Blue eyed people may have a common ancestor
• Black pepper may cure vitiligo
• Can a shampoo session at a beauty salon trigger strokes in the elderly?
• Self-Moisturizing contact lenses?
• Permanent makeup
• Cosmetic and medicinal uses of jasmine flower
• A pillow to wipe out wrinkles
• Benefits of chewing gum
• Interesting hair facts
• Mythbuster: Mixing curd and fish can cause vitiligo.
• Brazilian Butt Lift for a rounder rear.
• Talcum powder dangerous for women?
• Energy saving fluorescent bulbs may cause skin rashes.
• Interesting eye facts

Beauty aids from home:

• Leaves as beauty aid
• Homemade Toothpowder
• Home remedies for age spots
• Homemade Antiwrinkle creams
• Cornstarch beauty recipes
• Aspirin for acne-prone skin
• Tips to ease sunburn ouch
• Treat yourself to beauty drinks
• Ease razor bumps with this terrific cucumber-yoghurt soother
• 12 beauty uses of baking soda
• When you run out of hair styling cream.
• Pore shrinking mask recipes from home
• Mint-sugar sole softener
• Coconut oil for beauty
• Homemade Anti-wrinkle face masks
• Homemade hair-packs and conditioners for normal hair
• A terrific homemade hair-pack to get shiny hair
• Whiten and brighten your nails with this simple remedy
• Eggs for beautiful hair
• 4 temporary fixes for your problems
  

Home remedies:

• Home Remedies for nose bleed
• Why scratching an itch provides relief and home remedies to relieve itching
• Vicks VapoRub for nail fungus
• Alternative uses of lipgloss
• Honey extremely good for burns?

Spa at home and grooming tips:

• My winter skin and hair care routine
• Hairs sticking out of your nose? Trim them using nose hair trimmers
• Terrific soothers for your feet
• Caring for your neck and some awesome neck-exercises
• Bad breath? Take these tests
• Winter skin care at home

Inspirational:

• Your personal bill of rights
• More Beauty Quotes
• Happiness quotes
• Emotional health quotes
• Success quotes
• Fitness quotes
• Inspirational quotes

You might also want to check:

• Best of 2006
• Best of 2007

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Happy New Year!

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Quarterly roundup of best posts

Since I was burdened with personal problems, I couldn’t come up with too many interesting posts this quarter (October-December 2008). Nevertheless, here are some posts that have received the maximum pageviews. Enjoy!

• Interesting eye facts
• Honey extremely good for burns?
• Avon Nail Experts Conditioning Nail Enamel Remover
• Emami Hair Life – Instant Hair Pack
• Brazilian Butt Lift for a rounder rear.
• Your personal bill of rights.
• Mythbuster: Mixing curd and fish can cause vitiligo
• Winter skin care at home
• Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque: Review
• Himalaya Kajal Herbal Eye Definer
• Lip care with Lotus Herbals
• Dove Beauty Bar Pink/Rosa
  

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Does Your Makeup Need a New Year Makeover?

It may be time to give your product stash the update it needs

Is your cosmetics bag overflowing with dried-out mascaras, cracked eye shadows and a tube of lipstick from 2002? If so, it may be in need of an overhaul. Take this quiz to find out how much TLC it needs. Take the quiz

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Acai Berry Fruit Facial Mask

(Guest post by a reader ‘Sharon’)

Let me tell you about a remarkable acai berry fruit facial mask that I often use to pamper my skin and this has the same effect on your skin as one of those 100 dollar clay facial masks that you get at your day spa. The amazing little acai berry that comes out of the rain forests of Brazil has antioxidants. And antioxidants are known to prevent free radicals that produce harmful oxidation and oxidants that tend to speed up the aging process. Now let’s talk about Green French clay. This clay has enormous cosmetic and health benefits. Read all about it here. A combination of these two ingredients makes an amazing mask that works like charm on skin that feels like burlap due to the harmful effects of pollution, stress, lack of sleep, poor diet, exposure to sun, tobacco smoke etc.

Now to the preparation of the acai berry- French Green clay mask…

Ingredients:

• 2-3 tbsp Green French Clay
• Acai Berry juice, gel or freeze dried acai berry powder
• Drops of your favorite essential oil or lemon juice

Method:

Mix in a few tsps of French Green clay with the acai berry powder, and some mineral water, acai juice, or even the acai gel. Add some drops of any essential oil/lemon juice. Your consistency should be thick and moist. Liberally apply the mask to your face and neck, leaving the eyes clear. Wash off after 15 minutes. You will feel refreshed and like you just had a one hundred dollar facial.

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Hand Cream Showdown

Find out which top hand hydrators our testers found desk drawer-worthy

Dry winter air making your hands all chapped and gross-looking? Join the club. Battle the dryness with one of these proven hand creams, your fingers will thank you. View creams

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The Weekend Beauty Read

• Are you ready for Spring? Roselyn from Makeup Makes Me Happy has the full scoop on all of the upcoming beauty collections from designers like Chanel, Givenchy, Shu Uemura and more for 2009! A must-see!
• Beauty411 shares the details on the frosty new MAC Chill Collection!
• The Makeup Divas reviews the new ChapStick True Shimmer lip balms.
• A Touch of Blusher counts down the best holiday 2008 collections.
• Beauty Anonymous reviews Shiseido's Integrate Holiday 2008 Makeup Palette.
• Britney Spears got a hair makeover! Beauty Banter has the details... and other celebs that are following the trend!
• Beauty and Personal Grooming reviews Dove Beauty Bar Pink/Rosa.
• Felicia for ThisThatBeauty gets cozy with "Mixed Chicks" product line. Check out her review and product GIVEAWAY Take a peak!

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Top Mascaras for Length & Volume

What clumped, what ran and what truly transformed our real-woman testers

We had 12 beauty-junkie members of our Total Beauty Squad test out so-called lengthening and volumizing mascaras. Their verdict: You could spend a fortune on the best -- but you don't have to. See what was tops. Their findings

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