Following tips from our expert ensure a carefree winter for all those who dread it.

Skin

For itchy skin, add half a cup of vinegar to a bucket of water. Use it at the end of your bath.

Add a tablespoon of honey to your bath water. This also has a softening effect and relieves fatigue.

Add a handful of powdered milk to your bath water. This nourishes dry skin.

Make your own massage oil by mixing almond oil with sunflower oil and adding a few drops of rose or sandalwood oil. This leaves the body with a pleasant fragrance and is much better than using perfumed oils which are available in the market.

Ample sleep is still the best medicine against tired skin. But sometimes even this does not help unless there is enough time. 8 hours in his own bed and 8 hours with the head on the table in the university extends even to me sometimes not. The consequences: The skin really limp and gray. But even here mom knows a recipe from grandma with ingredients from your refrigerator:
A cucumber. Because Powe has correctly! Besides the very high content of moisture and contains vitamins, vegetables and other enzymes that promote the regeneration of the skin while stimulating skin cells to re-form. For the face mask, the first cucumber with a knife into small pieces are cut, followed by those with a stab or blender puree to crush. Now, two teaspoons of the mixture Quark and the cause of the face mask distribute. After an exposure time of 20 minutes is your skin really fresh!

Beauty in the Seventies took a definitive turn. Some of the styles and trends of the 60’s carried over but the decade also spawned new trends.
HairIn the earlier years, many women kept their hair long and smooth with just enough body and volume to give it some bounce, but the late 70’s brought about copycats who were seeking to capture at least a piece of that ”Charlie’s Angels” magic. The Farrah (Fawcett) layered haircut became the ”in” hairstyle as women with cuts of varying lengths spawned angel wings. Of course the cut meant a slight change in the way that hair was styled gone were the juice can rollers in favor of slightly smaller versions or, better yet, the suddenly popular curling iron, which along with hair mousse became a must-have part of every woman’s beauty kit.

Crow’s feet, laugh lines, and wrinkles, oh my! It’s not what we want, but time and nature play a nasty trick on us and, as we age, fine lines and wrinkles begin to appear around our eyes, radiating outwards. These are commonly known as crow’s feet or worry lines. Besides getting older, our everyday lifestyle can aggravate the problem and cause premature aging to our skin.

Sun exposure, frequent squinting, smoking, and even sleeping on your face promote the formation of crows feet. Naturally, people who spend a great deal of time outdoors are at higher risk. Applying sunscreen, quitting smoking, and wearing sunglasses and hats are the key ways to avoid crows feet. Even if you’re already showing signs, it’s never too late to stop them from getting worse.

Don’t you hate it when you go to apply a coat of nail polish, and the polish has gotten so thick and sticky that it can’t be applied without looking like it was done by a first grader? This usually occurs as your nail polish gets older. Have no fear! There is a cure.

Things You’ll Need:

* Nail Polish
* Acetone nail polish remover
* Eye Dropper or equivalent

No matter how well groomed a woman might be otherwise, if her eyebrows are not equally well groomed, she will not have a fully well groomed appearance.

Well defined eyebrows give a woman a polished look that shows how much she values her appearance.

There are many ways of achieving nicely groomed eyebrows but we will discuss three of the most popular options here.

Which you choose depends on your preference, hair type and skin sensitivity. These three methods of eyebrow shaping and grooming are threading, plucking and waxing.

Eyebrow Threading

This recipe is good for oily face. It cleans the pores and controls oily secretion.

You will need:
Apple

Procedure:
Thinly slice the apple and rub gently onto oily skin.

Use a facial scrub once a week. For very dry skin, avoid soap and use a cleansing gel or cream. For the body, use a mild, glycerine soap. Apply sesame seed (til) oil on the body before your bath. Mix honey with egg yolk and a little milk and apply it daily on the face, washing it off with plain water after 20 minutes. At night, apply a good nourishing cream and massage it on the face with a few drops of water. Wipe it off with moist cotton wool. Apply sunscreen 20 minutes before going out in the sun. Til oil actually has sunscreen properties, but it is better to use a sunscreen lotion for proper protection. Aloe Vera is a powerful moisturiser and an anti-oxidant. It helps keep the skin soft and healthy. It is better to use moisturisers and creams containing aloe vera.

1) Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day.

2) Cut some beet root into small pieces and grind them. Squeeze juice from beet root and massage to your face for 5 minutes. Shower after 10 minutes with mild soap or gram flour.

3) Mix sandalwood powder with rose water and add 4 to 5 drops of milk in it and apply on to your face and body. Shower after 15 minutes with warm water.

4) Mix honey in water and drink daily in the morning to keep your skin shiny and smooth.

Angelina Jolie has revealed how she got her figure back after giving birth to twins.

The actress and husband Brad Pitt welcomed Knox and Vivienne into the world in July, but Jolie wasted no time in losing her baby weight.

Speaking at the New York premiere of Changeling, the 33-year-old remarked that she shed the pounds simply by being a mum.

“[Running] around with all the kids, and breastfeeding, which I think is part of your body’s natural way of losing weight,” she said.

Last year, Jolie claimed that a drop in weight was due to grief over the death of her mother.