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What is a homemade remedy for beautiful hands?


Beauty Category: Nails, Foot and Hands

Keeping your hands beautiful hinges on protecting them, moisturizing them and keeping them neat. Protect your hands by wearing gloves any time you're using your hands for housework, art, gardening or home repairs. Protect them out of gloves with moisturizer, and avoid harsh chemicals, including the ones often used on nails such as polish, hardeners and polish removers. Protect them from aging by using sunscreen whenever you go outside—rub it thoroughly into your hands. Protect your cuticles from scissors-crazed manicurists who want to cut them: they should never be cut or trimmed.





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Posted by girlfriday on September 3, 2007 12:00 AM
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Can you explain why waxing your eyebrows can sometimes cause bruising?

Beauty Category: Eyebrows

If you wax and then rewax the same place right away because you didn't get it all the first time, you may bruise the skin. Also, not holding the skin taut when pulling off the wax strip can pull that delicate skin out and bruise it like that.





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Posted by girlfriday on August 27, 2007 12:04 AM
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What is the best oil for massaging hair?

Beauty Category: Hair Care

Coconut oil has long been used in India and the South Seas for keeping hair soft and shiny. It has the added benefit of a lovely natural scent, that can remind you of Hawaii without the added expense of plane tickets. You can also use sesame or olive oil to massage the head and hair.





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Posted by girlfriday on August 20, 2007 12:03 AM
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What is the best oil for massaging skin?

Beauty Category: Skin Care

There are all sorts of lovely massage oils. One favorite is sweet almond oil, although people with nut allergies should avoid it. Avocado oil is also considered delicious when rubbed between the shoulder blades. Sunflower oil, olive oil, even canola are fine for massage; just add a few drops of a favorite essential oils (sandalwood, patchouli, lavender) for a terrific scent.





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Posted by girlfriday on August 13, 2007 12:00 AM
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Does castor oil help eyebrows grow? And if not what does?

Beauty Category: Eyebrows

Nothing helps eyebrows grow. I know, it's a terrible thing to say, but only God can make an eyebrow. Well, actually, eyebrows grow because of hormones that are responsible for hair growth. There are only a few reasons people lack eyebrows: hormone problems; chemotherapy and radiation for cancer treatment, which cause your hair to fall out everywhere; eyebrow related accidents involving gas burners, drunken friends with razors or overplucking. If you have the money and your eyebrows are irretrievable due to hormones or cancer treatments, you can have them replaced by a cosmetic surgeon, which can transplant hair from your head to where it should be on your eyebrows. This isn't a quick fix: it takes months for the new hair to come in and grow. On the other hand, it's permanent. On yet the other hand, it costs thousands.





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Posted by girlfriday on August 6, 2007 12:00 AM
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How do you use concealer and foundation together?

Beauty Category: Makeup Advice

Put on your foundation, and whatever it doesn't cover can get a layer of concealer. If it still doesn't cover, try a little more foundation on top of the concealer. Let's not be mysterious here: concealer is just a thicker form of foundation. The tricky part is getting coverage without winding up with a big lump of makeup stuck to your face. Powder can be helpful: sometimes, it's easier to start with a layer of powder over the offending spot, then add foundation on top of that. The powder thickens the foundation a bit, giving you a little more coverage.





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Posted by girlfriday on July 30, 2007 12:00 AM
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What are some methods for getting rid of facial and upper lip hair (on women)?

Beauty Category: Hair Care

The easiest, if more expensive way to get rid of facial hair is to get an appointment at a laser hair removal clinic and have it zapped away about every six weeks, until the follicles give up and the hair either goes away completely or comes back so fine that it's not worth bothering with. Lasers have the fantastic ability to vaporize hair without messing up the skin around it, although they do work best on people with fair skin and dark hair.





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Posted by girlfriday on July 23, 2007 12:00 AM
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How can I keep the skin on my hands looking young?

Beauty Category: Nails, Foot and Hands

Our great grandmothers knew that to keep hands looking young, one needed several pairs of gloves. Anytime you're even tempted to do housework, don a pair of rubber or vinyl gloves to protect your skin from dust, cleaners and water. If you're gardening, put on your gloves before you even touch your pruning shears. In fact, put on a layer of hand cream and then your gardening gloves, and don't settle for the cotton kind that let the dirt rub through: get some lines ones. At night, before bed, rub on the thickest hand cream you can find (some people use Crisco), and slip on a pair of white cotton gloves. Basically, the more time you spend moisturized and gloved, the less time will affect your hands.





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Posted by girlfriday on July 16, 2007 12:00 AM
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What is the best skin care routine for oil skin types?

Beauty Category: Skin Care

The best skin care routine for oily skin is to be as gentle as you would if you had paper dry skin. The major mistake many people make with oily skin is in believing that you can beat it into submission with hot water, steam, toners, masks and topicals, when in fact what it truly wants is a little understanding. Oily skin is trying to protect itself from a harsh environment, and making its world even harsher through heat, cold or chemicals, will tend to make it produce more oil than ever.





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Posted by girlfriday on July 9, 2007 12:00 AM
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What is the best way to cover-up age spots?

Beauty Category: Makeup Advice

The high tech answer to age spots is to visit your friendly dermatologist and let him or her zap your age spots away with a laser. That's the easiest way to deal with age spots, and you won't have to worry about covering them.





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Posted by girlfriday on July 2, 2007 12:00 AM
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