Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Turn Your Alligator Hands into Silk
This season feels like a dry one and as we know Winter may bring much of the same. Here's a way to naturally and affordably give your hands VIP treatment so they feel like silk. You'll need 1 lemon, 1 cup of white or medium brown granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon warm coconut oil (or some other kind of natural oil) and creme lotion. I personally like to do this with coconut oil and nivea hand creme because its so moisturizing but any lotion will do. Use corn oil if thats what you got. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze as much as possible into a bowl. Half will yield enough. Then add your sugar 1/4 cup at a time stirring until the sugar dissolves. Depending on the amount of juice you sqeezed, you may be able to use more than a cup of sugar but you won't need it. The mix should be thick but pourable. Next take two spoonfuls of the mix and rub it into your hands as thought you are washing your hands. Get between your fingers and keep this up for 3 minutes. If the mix gets too dry add more lemon juice. Don't rub your hands raw. Next rinse your hands off completely in the sink with lukewarm water. Next take the oil (warmed if possible) and rub that into your hands till its gone. Next rub in some hand creme and voila! Your hands will be exfoliated naturally, infused with vitamins and protected. Now you've got soft holdable hands.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Fast Fashion Fixes
There is always a time and place for everything...including that fresh snag in your pantyhose or unsightly crack in your nail when you're in a rush. Here are some fast fashion fixes that are sure to make your life easier.
1. That snag in your hose, easy. While there is no way to wave a wand and completely erase the snag you can apply CLEAR nail polish to the end of the run while wearing the hose to stop any further running. If you have to throw on the boots to cover up what is showing do it!
2. Oh it's not the night to have chipped nails or unpolished ones, but that 3 hour make-up session you just spent in the mirror took up all the time you had to wait for polish to dry. But alas there is a solution! Chipped nails are not an option nor chunky over polished ones. Take off the old polish and put on the new. Sounds totally backwards but wait 1 minute after you finish applying the last coat to your nails then, run them under cold water for a minute or two. The colder the better. The water actually hardens the polish sooner because of their chemical properties. You are now ready to run out the door without worrying that your nails will be ruined. You can actually touch your nail and feel its dry, but don't go too crazy. Good-bye chemical sprays.
3. You just took weeks maybe months to grow YOUR OWN nails out. They're beautiful and then in a momont POW. Painfully you wonder why now of all times you just clawed the kitchen counter only to draw back one jagged cracked nail in a line of four perfectly manicured ones. Should you cut it off? File it smooth and hope no one notices? Cut all the nails and start from scratch? No. Take a tiny and i do mean tiny piece of tissue paper and cover the crack. Next take some nail glue and tweezers. Carefully drop a drop of glue on the tissue and move it over the crack if need be with the tweezers. When this dries you can file the paper down till its smooth and cover it with polish. It will be next to perfect which is better than loosing all your hard earned growing.
4. The ultimate insult is a $64 super push'em up to your throat bra that springs a wire and leaves you trying to feed that wire back into its place everytime you wear it. What's more is as the night goes on you know that wire is going to be rearing its harsh stabbing head into your under pit. You could have spent $12 at target for a wire popping bra but they just wern't as cute. What to do? Break out that nail glue once again. After feeding that wire back through to it's proper place, drop a tiny amount of glue in the tear's opening and pinch together with a pair of tweezers. The fabric should actually melt together. Put just a little glue because you don't want the glue to bleed all the way through to the outside fabric and have it harden as well. Then it would be fixed but harshly brushing up against your skin as well so keep the glue amount minimal. Now you've saved a bra and yourself from a potentially embarrasing moment.
1. That snag in your hose, easy. While there is no way to wave a wand and completely erase the snag you can apply CLEAR nail polish to the end of the run while wearing the hose to stop any further running. If you have to throw on the boots to cover up what is showing do it!
2. Oh it's not the night to have chipped nails or unpolished ones, but that 3 hour make-up session you just spent in the mirror took up all the time you had to wait for polish to dry. But alas there is a solution! Chipped nails are not an option nor chunky over polished ones. Take off the old polish and put on the new. Sounds totally backwards but wait 1 minute after you finish applying the last coat to your nails then, run them under cold water for a minute or two. The colder the better. The water actually hardens the polish sooner because of their chemical properties. You are now ready to run out the door without worrying that your nails will be ruined. You can actually touch your nail and feel its dry, but don't go too crazy. Good-bye chemical sprays.
3. You just took weeks maybe months to grow YOUR OWN nails out. They're beautiful and then in a momont POW. Painfully you wonder why now of all times you just clawed the kitchen counter only to draw back one jagged cracked nail in a line of four perfectly manicured ones. Should you cut it off? File it smooth and hope no one notices? Cut all the nails and start from scratch? No. Take a tiny and i do mean tiny piece of tissue paper and cover the crack. Next take some nail glue and tweezers. Carefully drop a drop of glue on the tissue and move it over the crack if need be with the tweezers. When this dries you can file the paper down till its smooth and cover it with polish. It will be next to perfect which is better than loosing all your hard earned growing.
4. The ultimate insult is a $64 super push'em up to your throat bra that springs a wire and leaves you trying to feed that wire back into its place everytime you wear it. What's more is as the night goes on you know that wire is going to be rearing its harsh stabbing head into your under pit. You could have spent $12 at target for a wire popping bra but they just wern't as cute. What to do? Break out that nail glue once again. After feeding that wire back through to it's proper place, drop a tiny amount of glue in the tear's opening and pinch together with a pair of tweezers. The fabric should actually melt together. Put just a little glue because you don't want the glue to bleed all the way through to the outside fabric and have it harden as well. Then it would be fixed but harshly brushing up against your skin as well so keep the glue amount minimal. Now you've saved a bra and yourself from a potentially embarrasing moment.
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