Skin Care - Dark Lips to Pink Luscious Lips

Lips are the most attractive feature on a face but dark, cracked lips can really be a big turnoff and make this feature a bad highlight. There are many causes of dark lips, excessive exposure to sun light, drinking tea and coffee and smoking.

What most of the women do to hide their dark lips is apply lip color of dark shades. They fail to understand that extensive use of lip color also result in black and dark lips. In fact, lipsticks are one of the major reasons causing the darkness. Lipsticks that are high on lead percentage are harmful as lead is the main ingredient causing this darkness. So be careful when you pick up your lip color.

Whenever you go out of the house, you should not miss applying sunscreen lotion. Lips are as important as the facial skin, specially apply the sunscreen lotion on your lips. This will reduce the effect of the harmful UV rays of the sun.

Another thing to do is exfoliate. While brushing your teeth in the morning, use your brush on your lips too. be gentle and with a light hand, rub your lips with tooth brush. This will remove a layer of skin and will be replaced by new fresh skin. After this, make sure you moisturize your lips well and not leave them dry.

Skin Care: Feed Your Face

Everybody wants to be young forever, and though it is only natural to age, one can always delay it. Homemade anti-wrinkle packs can actually be very effective. Three very simple and easy to make packs are:

• First, take half of an avocado, mash it and spread it over your entire face and neck. Leave it on for twenty minutes and wipe your face clean.
  
  
• Second, take one tablespoon of honey, a few strawberries (mashed) and one tablespoon of yoghurt. Apply the mixture onto your face for fifteen minutes

• Third, blend few slices of cucumber with 2 tablespoon of yoghurt. Leave it on for 20 minutes. This is the ultimate hydrating pack.

Apart from the above said face masks; there are also certain foods that you can treat your face with. Apricots, these are very rich source of iron and improve cell regeneration with gives you younger looking skin. Berries are so very good for skin elasticity as it contains anthocyanins and vitamin C, Green tea, if consumed in moderation, is wonderful for skin as it contains epigallocatechin, which is two hundred times more effective than vitamin E and helps fight ageing. Eat raw carrots, include them into your daily salad, they are the richest source of betacarotene, that the body converts into vitamin A, Garlic, no matter how much dislike it’s smell. It is packed with wrinkle-busting phytochemicals, and has other benefits as well.

Stay forever young and fight those fine lines and wrinkles with your stock of natural food. Apply these edible face packs and include all the above mentioned food items in your diet to enhance your facial luster.

Keep your make-up tools clean.

You suffer from various skin problems and with every new problem you tend to change your creams one after the other thinking it to be the cause of the problem. You fail to realize that it might be due to the unclean make up equipment that you use to apply your make-up. Hygiene is very important to be maintained as far your makeup is concerned. The various brushes and sponges that you use for daily application of make-up can get deposited with dust and bacteria which is transferred onto your face whenever you apply make-up using these unclean applicators. Sponges because of its absorbent property suck in a lot of colors as it the most applied tool for merging the makeup well on your face. The sponge, therefore, should be cleaned regularly and if possible it should be disposed off after a few applications. Cleaning of the sponges is not even difficult; you can clean it just like you clean your clothes with a liquid washing soap to remove all that deposited powder.
Your brushes should also be cleaned regularly, if it is not possible to clean them every day, then at least once a week they should be thoroughly washed with a solution of mild shampoo, water and alcohol. After cleaning properly, rinse them under warm water.
That eye lash curler that you use on your eye lashes, anyone hardly bothers to clean it. However, you must do it as when you curl your eye lashes using it, it gets spotter by mascara and if you don’t clean it, your instrument may get corroded. It does not even take long to clean, just remove it with a good make up remover and wipe it dry after cleaning with a sanitizer.
When you reuse your tools after cleaning make sure these are well dried. Also the kit that you store your entire make –up in maybe a favorite but you pay little notice towards its cleanliness. Also no matter how much you like your bag, change it every year.
So keep your tools clean for an even better effect of the make-up that you apply and also ensure that your skin remains healthy