Top 10 Summer Beauty Must-Haves

Beauty products and tips for great beach hairstyles and glowing skin

New bathing suit? Check. Cute beach tote? Check. Glowing skin from head-to-toe? Ummmm... If you're not quite ready for the sand and swim season, check out this guide to look and feel your best all season long. See tips

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Shaeyes Herbal Kohl pencil: review

Kajal or a kohl pencil is usually used to line the inner rim of the eyes. I have used several kohl pencils but by far I have found Shaeyes Herbal Kohl Eyeliner to be the best. It’s a flower based eye kohl containing Triphala, almond oil and other precious herbs. The flower extracts help to relax the eyes while the pure almond oil encourages the growth of luxuriant eyelashes, it claims. Moreover, according to Ayurveda, Triphala helps in maintaining and improving vision. Don’t know if it lives to its promise of promoting eyelash growth as I am not a regular kajal user, but what I have found is after you apply it, you do experience a cooling sensation around your eye area. It comes in a lipstick kind of tube and I apply it along my lower lashline in one swipe. The color is quite intense (dark) as compared to other kohl pencils. It adheres easily to the lashline and stays for several hours without smudging. But results may vary from person to person. So if you need to reapply it after a few hours, it’s not a messy affair, I mean it doesn’t upset your other eyemakeup. You can even use it to line your upper lashline. It can be easily removed with any eyemakeup remover and moist cotton wool, though it’s recommended that you should use Shacleanse . And definitely, you can use it daily. But in case of irritation discontinue its use.

Ingredients: Triphala Oil Ext., Camphor (Camphora officinarum) 1.0%, Almond Oil 2.0%, Castor oil (Arandi Tel) (Ricinus communis) 25.0%, Bees Wax 3.0%, Others, Base q.s.

See also:Himalaya Kajal Herbal Eye Definer

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Roopgarva Face pack : Review

I happened to use Roopgarva Face pack from Gayatri Herbals and quite liked it. With a unique blend of pure herbs such as neem, tulsi (basil), jesthmadh etc and the wonderful multani mitti that removes the dirt and grime from the skin, it makes your facial skin look thoroughly cleansed and glowing. Good for oily, acne-prone skins and in summers.

Roopgarva face pack

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AminoGenesis Wrinkle Cream Giveaway Reminder

Just a quick reminder. If you haven’t, please enter this Giveaway. One lucky winner stands to win AminoGenesis Wrinkle Arrest, a moisturizing day cream worth $59, and a beverage booster HealthDropz. Hurry up, last date to enter this contest is June 15th! For more details, head to this post.

AminoGenesis Wrinkle Arrest Moisturizing Day Cream

Beverage Booster:HealthDropz

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Everyuth Derma Care Face Wash

It seems you can get a lighter skin just by washing your face with this face cleanser. That’s what Derma Care Light and Clear Face Wash from Everyuth claims to do -- a flawless, clear and light complexion if you use it regularly to cleanse your face. With active mili capsules, it is specially formulated to rid the skin of impurities and improve the complexion. Apparently, these unique Mili Capsules contain Natural Kojic Acid and saffron, which get absorbed deeply into the facial skin to effectively cleanse out impurities and lighten your complexion. While kojic acid is an internationally acclaimed skin-lightening agent, the efficacy of saffron as a complexion enhancer and an effective skin-lightener is mentioned in Ayurvedic texts. Furthermore, the fruit PHAs (Poly Hydroxy Acids) in this face wash have advanced hydrating and moisturising properties that provide natural nourishment to the skin. All this appears promising, but does this product actually live up to the claims? No idea, but if any of you have used it, please leave your experiences in the comments below.

Everyuth Derma Care Light and Clear Face Wash

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Hair Removal horror stories

How bad is a Brazilian, really? Real women tell all

We polled Total Beauty readers about their most common hair removal tortures. Find out what hurt the worst, and how to avoid the same mistakes. Read stories

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Mental Health Quotes

Better mental health makes you see things in the right perspective. So try and improve your mental health and everything will click for you. Also go over these quotes on mental health and mull over them:
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
-- M Scott Peck
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
--Ana Castillo
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
--R.D. Laing
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
-- Bill Clinton
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
--Dr. William Menninger
All feelings are transient. Feelings are like spring breezes that pass through one's day. The chill they bring won't last forever.
--Karen Dougherty
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy'. The need to live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical well-being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop and to grow. And the need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
-- Stephen R. Covey
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
-- Camille Paglia
Sometimes we reach the boiling point before we realize that the stove is on. Become aware of your feelings - keep your eye on the stove.
--Karen Dougherty
Money-giving is a very good criterion ... of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
-- Karl A. Menninger
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.
--Erich Fromm
It has often been noted that most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.
--Thomas Moore
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
-- Susan Faludi
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
-- Eckhart Tolle
See also: Cultivate that inner beauty with better mental health

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