Tips on How to Avoid the Freshman 15

The freshman 15 are associated with the extra weight first year college students add on as they adjust to living on their own. Avoiding the Freshman 15 can be simple, all students have to do is exercise and make healthy decisions. In this video fitness expert Adrienne Piggott shows a workout that can be done in a dorm room and discusses ways to avoid weight gain.

"Fashion Is Foremost Inspiration"

Suzanna

Body Piercings: Part 1

Body piercing is becoming quite popular. In this video, you'll learn about body piercing, information on care, complications, healing time and much more.

Beauty Solutions: Dark Eye Circles

Nothing is more noticeable than dark circles. They instantly mar your beauty and alter your expression. Dark circles age the face, create a tired, haggard appearance and cast a deceptively disinterested expression. Don't tolerate dark circles one minute more. Neutralize them and reclaim the wide-eyed dazzling look you deserve.

Dark shadows form when changes in facial anatomy occur. A normal part of the aging process, the infraorbital fat pad (the fatty layer located just above the cheek bone and below the eye) thins producing a sunken appearance. Light reflects off these hollows creating the illusion of shadowy circles. So while boomers struggle with fat accumulating around hips, tummy and jaw line, the opposite problem is happening beneath the eyes. This is one time that facial fat is a highly sought after commodity! Bleaching this delicate area is a bit tricky but not impossible EI Solutions Eye Refine or Murad Lighten and Brighten Eye Treatment may be applied and during the daytime followed by a broad-spectrum sunscreen such as DERMAdoctor Body Guard Exquisitely Light SPF 30 For Face & Body. Skin brightening is accomplished and the sunscreen provides potent antioxidants to reduce free radical damage, a source of photodamage-induced dark circles.

Sometimes treatments just aren't enough. Deep hollows may ultimately sometimes need to be filled in order to eliminate the problem. Fat transplantation has become a popular method of dealing with resistent dark circles, mainly when puffiness is not an issue. Fat is removed from the hip, thigh or buttock through a syringe or liposuction cannula from locally anesthetized skin, rinsed and then injected under the skin into the hollow.

Added fat instantly plumps up skin and neutralizes shadows. It also helps reduce visibility of veins that peek out from beneath the surface. Fat transplantation is typically performed by plastic surgeons, and sometimes by dermatologists. It isn't a permanent solution and you may need to undergo more than one treatment in order to see results but it may be worthwhile.

Eradicating dark circles is not easy, but through perserverance you should be able to improve their appearance as well as the overall general health of your skin's appearance.
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"Fashion Is Foremost Inspiration"
- Suzanna

Bra Measurements: Finding Your Perfect Fit

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Wearing the wrong bra size is a huge fashion faux pas that can result in extreme back and shoulder pain. If you are a woman who has never been fitted, you are not alone. Most women don't know their true bra size and suffer as a result. However your suffering ends today! I'll show you how to find your true bra size in 3 easy steps.



Step 1: Measure Your Band Size

For best results you'll need to wear a non-padded bra and use a soft measuring tape. Hold the tape measure around your back at band level and bring it forward, just above your bust. Make sure that the measuring tape is snugged around your band without it being too tight. The resulting number is your band size (If the number is odd, round down to the closest even number). Remember this number.

Step 2: Find Your Bust Measurement

Next, you'll need to measure completely around the fullest part of your bust (at the nipple level). Again - make sure that the measuring tape is snugged around your bust without it being too tight. The result will be your bust measurement. You'll need to remember this number as well. If this measurement falls on the 1/2 inch, round up to the nearest whole number.

Step 3: Finding Your Cup Size

Now it's time to put the numbers I asked you to remember to use. Subtract the band size (step 1) from the bust measurement (step 2). This number will equate to the letter of your cup size.

Bust Measurement - Band Size = Cup Size

For example, if your bust measurement is 34" and your band size is 32, you wear a B Cup. Alwaysforme.com provides bras for those with bigger cup sizes

Here are some things that you should be aware of:

The center panel of your bra should always sit directly against your skin between your chest. Your breasts should fill your bra without spillage. Also your bra shouldn't lift as a result of movement. It should fit and feel comfortable whenever worn - which means no band imprint on your shoulders. If your index finger cannot move between your body and bra straps freely, you should adjust the straps immediately for both safety and comfort. Its important that women get a bra fitting twice annually due to weight gain and loss which can effect both your bust and band size. For more bra fitting tips and best bra deals visit Henry & June Lingerie. Remember: Don't let your bra wear you - Wear your bra and do so comfortably!

"Fashion Is Foremost Inspiration"
- Suzanna

Ingrown Hair Part 2: The Treatment

Now that you know what causes ingrown hairs, the next step is eliminating them: Let's start with what not to do. We've seen some scary examples of removing ingrown hairs using tweezers and needles to pluck hairs from the skin. Um, ouch? Please don't remove an ingrown hair this way! Picking and plucking at an ingrown hair can lead to skin damage, scarring and inflammation around the area.

The safest method for ingrown hair removal at home is exfoliation. Bliss Ingrown Eliminating Pads address all aspects of optimal ingrown hair treatment. These spa-tested ingrown hair eliminators come in a jar of 50 pre-soaked pads. Just grab and wipe over the ingrown hairs. You can even use them between hair removal sessions to prevent ingrown hairs from rearing their ugly little heads in the first place. Bliss Ingrown Eliminating Pads contain glycolic and salicylic acids, which provide the exfoliating action to remove dead skin cells and clear a path for the ingrown hairs to grow out of the skin. Salicylic acid also has both cleansing and anti-inflammatory properties.

What makes Bliss Ingrown Eliminating Pads special is it's Japanese Green Tea extracts. A unique, advanced action ingredient that soothes and eliminates ingrown hairs. Additional soothing agents include: oat extracts, lavender extracts and witch hazel extracts which provide superior skin calming, healing and anti-inflammatory affects that treat ingrown hairs.

Ingrown Hair Part 1: The Cause

What Causes an Ingrown Hair?

An ingrown hair is an irritated red bump that appears shortly after hair removal. An ingrown hair occurs when new hair growth gets trapped beneath the skin surface and begins to grow "into" the skin rather than "out of" the skin (thus the name ingrown hair). Bacteria are often trapped in the hair follicle, which causes inflammation, leaving the skin with red, painful, irritated bumps, which are commonly known as ingrown hairs.



Any kind of hair removal can leave skin vulnerable to an ingrown hair. Hair removal such as waxing triggers the body to heal, so new skin cells tend to form over the hair follicle opening, trapping the new hair as it begins to emerge. The new hair can't "get out," so it grows "in," causing an ingrown hair. Coarse, curly and thick hair is most prone to ingrown hairs. For women, this means ingrown hairs around the bikini area, for men, ingrown hairs occur around the beard area. People with darker skin tones also tend to be more prone to ingrown hairs, because of hair texture. Both men and women suffer from the ugly plight of ingrown hair; however, you no longer have to.


Tomorrow, I'll discuss how you can prevent and rid yourself of ingrown hairs in my Part 2 - The Treatment post.

"Fashion Is Foremost Inspiration"

- Suzanna