Sun Protection - An Introduction

Sun protection isn't just for sissies. Protection from the sun's damaging rays is important for anyone who wants to grow old gracefully. It's also an absolute must for anyone who wants to limit his or her risk of developing skin cancer.

People are finally beginning to realize that although sunshine is an important component of most outdoor activities and a great mood enhancer, excessive exposure can lead to much unpleasantness. A painful sunburn is the most immediate consequence of excess exposure. Long term, excess exposure can damage the skin making it prone to wrinkling and worse, the development of skin cancer.

When Do You Need Sun Protection?

Doctors will tell you that sun protection is needed all the time and they're right. Realistically however it's important anytime you'll be outdoors between the hours of 10:00 am and 3:00 pm, when the sun is at its highest.

People don't realize that they can still burn even though the sun isn't shining. Overcast days are some of the worst times for being in the sun unprotected. And because ultraviolet rays can reflect off certain surfaces, people need protection from the sun when snow covers the ground and also when in the water, when lying or playing on the sand and even when on a cement or grass surface.

Understanding UV Rays

Ultraviolet rays are the different wavelengths of energy that are produced by the sun. Even though harmful, the sun's energy is necessary to all human life. Fortunately, as life on earth has evolved so has the capacity to tolerate UV rays. The most important protection against the damaging ultraviolet rays is the ozone layer - a layer in the stratosphere that absorbs most of the various types of UV rays before they reach the earth's surface.

Most of this radiation or energy from the sun is invisible to the naked eye. The fact that the radiation is mostly invisible is likely the reason why the sun can be so harmful. It's hard to convince a person to protect against something that can't be seen. Of the ultraviolet rays, the two that are responsible for skin damage are UVA and UVB rays. The sun also generates UVC rays, but fortunately these extremely damaging rays cannot penetrate the ozone layer and therefore pose no threat to humans.

The longer and more prevalent of the two, UVA rays are responsible for long-term skin damage because they absorb deep into the skin. Their strength remains uniform regardless of the time of day or time of year. UVB rays are shorter and are what causes skin to tan or sunburns. Our bodies need UVB rays to produce Vitamin D, an important vitamin. Their strength varies based on time of day, time of year, altitude and also distance from the equator.

The UV Index is a scale measuring from 0 – 11 (low to extreme) and it's used to determine the intensity of the sun's radiation, particularly the likelihood that skin will or will not redden when exposed to the sun for various periods of time.

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Properly Clean Your Face Wth The Right Cleaner

Improve Your Skin's Appearance

Cleansing the skin is essential, since grease, grime and pollution adhere to your skin and clog the pores, every time your body rids itself of toxins through perspiration.

If you do not thoroughly clean your skin, it will feel tired and sluggish resulting in minor skin irritations and problems.

Your skin type is determined by your age, sex, genes and environment. How you take care of your skin will show on your hands, face and body.

It is never too late or too early to start caring for your skin - to accomplish that glow that enhances your beauty.

Here Are Tips For Choosing The Correct Cleanser For Your Skin:

- Shiny and oily skin that is susceptible to pimples and other blemishes should be cleansed by using a “foaming wash”: this offers a clean after using and will not strip your skin of its natural, beneficial oils.

- Dry skin, with a tight feeling, no shine and no open pores, should be cleansed with“cleansing milk” which is formulated for dry skin. Dry skin needs a gentle cleansing formula that will add moisture and replace lost oil in the skin that is replenished by most cleansing milks.

- Combination skin refers to skin having an oily “T zone”, meaning the forehead, mouth, chin and nose. This area of the skin normally has large and open pores and the cheeks are generally normal or dry. Use a cleansing gel to clean your face as will cleanse your skin gently and will not leave your skin harsh and dry after cleansing.

- Mature skin or skin that which is losing its “elasticity”. With this type of skin, facial lines will be apparent on the skin’s surface the skin tends to be very dry. A vitamin “E” rich “cleansing milk” will be perfect for this skin type, it provides nourishment for your skin.

Facial Peels, Scrubs And Exfoliants

Scrubs and exfoliants are generally formulated with a creamy base that contains fine grainy elements. The finer grains, the more efficient it is in exfoliating the face as it lifts out dirt particles that clog the pores.

Dermatologists recommend using peels, exfoliant and scrubs once a week to deeply clean the pores.

Fine granule exfoliants are gentler on the face than those with larger granules that can irritate or scratch your skin. Peels are generally applied and left on the face to dry for approximately 15 minutes or so before peeling them off. Choose mild peels to avoid irritation.

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Beauty Introduction

Women spend millions of dollars every year in the United States on beauty products. We are all interested in finding that fountain of youth, the perfect beauty serum, the right diet, the secret exercise, or the perfect hair care products.

We think beauty care is fascinating too. That's why we are always on the lookout for interesting articles on beauty – specifically skin care, diet, hair and nail care.

In this book you'll find lots of information about incorporating natural products to help your appearance. We've taken the informative and interesting articles and essays for this beauty section. Have fun exploring our articles on maintaining your natural beauty – because

beauty really does start on the inside.

There's nothing more fun than playing with make-up, lotions, and potions. Our beauty articles help you explore healthy and natural options for beauty problems.

Hormones-Beauty-Health has its origins in providing useful information and contacts to the aging population of women experiencing menopause symptoms. Hormone Replacement Therapy is one of the most controversial topics in healthcare today.

Whether we want to admit it or not, our bodies change as we become older. The key to these changes seem to be that dreaded word "hormones."

This chapter features several articles about hormones and changes to your hormones as you age. We have essays about life before menopause, the transition stage referred to as perimenopause, and menopause.

Our goal in these articles is to show you how you can embrace your life at all these stages and how you can enjoy good health. These articles answer your questions about how your hormones change in each stage, and give you examples and suggestions of things you can

do to ease this transitional stage. We'll discuss health issues that result from hormone changes, symptoms of hormone changes, and how you can help or alleviate some of these symptoms.

We can all lead happy, healthful lives by monitoring our diet, exercise and sleep. The articles in this section give you insights into your body, your hormones, and how those hormonal ranges change over time.

Throughout this chapter, you'll find hints, tips and suggestions of living a healthy life at all hormonal levels and ages. For your convenience, we've added all our tips to the "Hot Tips" section at the end of the book.

There's no doubt that hormones can be something that causes a bit of a roller-coaster in our lives. Fortunately, all the changes we go through are completely natural.

There's no reason why we can't embrace our hormones as our bodies change. With simple nourishment, organic treatments, vitamins and supplements, we can easily overcome any problem our hormones through at us.

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Make Hair Beautiful

Make your hair beautiful
 
Hair became one of the most important part of our body in getting attention from others. It can also define and improve personality of people. Actually people will rank what class of other people in high sociality by their hair style. Hair salons apply modern tricks to make hair more attractive with new innovative technology.
We will introduce the salon that provides hyper-advanced service in the heart of London.  From researches, the following 3 techniques are the most popular for improving hair. See the review below.
Hair Coloring -
Hair coloring is not just make your hair attractive and charming but in the meantime, it also work as the texture of the hair. In the past, all ladies and gentlemen used flowers, plants and tint to color their hair so it is not new brand concept. Recently, hair coloring trend has obtained popular increase because both ladies and gentlemen are coloring their hair increasingly. Approximately over seventy-five percent of ladies have been coloring their hairs for some reasons or another. It can be told that people can make their hair shining and lively by getting hair coloring. Some kinds of hairs will be getting styled much easily.
Hair Straightening -
Hair straightening is one of the most popular technique and high demand to improve your hair. When somebody have tried this technique, it will be very hard to change to other hair style for them. Compton hair offers the following services for hair straightening.
1) L’Oreal’s X-Tenso Cera Thermic
2) Yuko Hair Straightening System
3) Ionic Hair Retexturizing
4) Wellastrate
Though the above techniques are also popular in other salons too but the most popular and widely used is Yuko Hair Straightening System for hair straightening. It is because comptonhair is always choose the best quality of hair products and serve customers the best service.
Hair Extension -
Hair extension is one of the answers of many hair problems. It is the newest trend in hair fashion. Hair extension technique is still very popular for teenagers no matter from medical or natural. In comptonhair, they use synthetics hair to extend the hair and it is made out from non-harmful fibers such as Kanekalon and Toyokalon. However most of customers rather choose natural hair from human to extend their hair since it is made their hair natural appearance. This salon also provide this service.
We all realize that people will be getting attention when they have the good hair style. The great hair style still also makes other people copy their style as well. Each effort at comptonhair is made your hairs more than perfect but they will make you feel like you can control the world.

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Enhance Your Beauty - 8 Face Makeup Tips

Face makeup can be used to highlight one`s good features and also to camouflage the not-so-good features. Useful and practical tips go a long way in enhancing your looks. Some of the practical tips are:

 1. Foundation forms the base of the face makeup and is applied after the face has been cleansed and moisturized. Wait for a few moments for the moisturizer to be absorbed before applying the foundation. Use your fingertips or a damp sponge to dab small dots of the foundation on the forehead, nose, and cheek and chin area and blend well right into your hairline and jaw line.

2. Blending is the key to good makeup and cannot be stressed enough as proper blending will give a natural look to the face and not leave blotches here and there. Blot your face gently with tissue paper to absorb the excess foundation.

3. A concealer is a very versatile piece of cosmetic as it can hide pimples, scars, dark circles and blemishes on the face. Apply the concealer on the desired spot and spread it towards the edges and do not over-apply it as it will then look too obvious an attempt to hide some flaw.

4. Before putting on the eye shadow, apply a base of neutral color on the eyelids and do not try to match the eye shadow with your outfit. The eye shadow should suit your skin color. Dab the eye shadow on the entire length of the eye lid starting from the inside and moving outwards. 2 or 3 colors of eye shadow can be used together but some expert blending is required to give a smooth look. Stick to lighter or neutral colors for day wear but for the evenings, experiment with brighter, bolder colors or the smoky, smoldering look.

5. The eyeliner should be drawn as close to the lash line as possible to give the impression of thicker eyelashes. Although black is the favorite color for the eyeliner, blue, brown or navy blue can look equally stunning. In fact, the color of your eyes can be brought out magnificently by using the right eyeliner.

6. Mascara can literally be termed the `magic wand` as it can be used to coat the most meager of eyelashes to give the effect of full, lush eyelashes. Wait for the first coat to dry before applying the next coat and then using a mascara comb, run it through the eyelashes to shake off the excess mascara. An eyelash curler is also an invaluable cosmetic aid but the curling should be done before the applying the mascara.

7. Chapped lips should be treated with a lip balm before applying lipstick. A thin base of foundation on the lips will allow the correct tone of the lipstick to show. Lips can be first outlined with a lip liner which is slightly darker than the lipstick color but of the same tone and then the lips can be filled in with the lipstick with a lip brush. The shape of the lips can be corrected with the help of the lip liner. Using a lip brush helps give an even coating of color to the lips. A lip gloss on the middle of the lips will give a fuller look to the lips.

8. The blusher should be chosen according to one`s skin tone. If using powder blusher, put some on the brush and shake off the excess powder before the application. Smile while applying the blusher and put it on with upward strokes towards the ears. Again, blending is the key to perfect application and for contouring the face.

So, the right face makeup can enhance any woman`s natural looks even if she is not Helen of Troy!

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