Fashion | Beauty

  Most times our hands get hard, chappy and rough due to the kind of work we do. But often times it's as a result of constant neglect. Alot of people pay little or no attention to the hands. Follow this simple steps to get that gorgeous hands you have always wished for.   Always keep hands clean. Maintain a healthy diet rich in plenty of calcium, zinc, magnesium and vitamins A, B and C.   Soak hands in warm salt water and shampoo for 5 minutes. Apply moisturising hand cream.Choose a suitable hand cream for your skin type.   Always massage cuticle oil into nail bed to reduce the look of dry skin. Always apply a base coat on nails to protect nails from discoloration. And apply a top coat to protect the coloured paint on top of nails. Short and chic is better. Keeping nails short and the edges filed is recommend to keeping them long. Short nails gives the fingers a more elegant look.   Revive your nails –Apply and massage fresh lemon and almond oil to fingers and cuticle

Good old beer! Surprised? I know it may seem like a very odd ingredient to add into your beauty routine, but it has amazing properties. With it's low pH value, beer helps to tighten hair follicles as well as remove dirt and grease and product build up from hair. The yeast in beer is also a good source of B vitamins, protein, selenium, potassium, iron, zinc, and magnesium. That thick white froth in beer also helps in curbing acne due the yeast in beer and slow down the production of sebum, to reduce emergence of pimples.  Below are a few ways to use beer in your skin and hair routine:  Beer Bubble Bath: Try a bath soak using a mixture of olive oil based soap and some cups of beer. Relax and soak for 10 minutes or more, then rinse off to leave your skin feeling soft and smooth. I tried it a couple of times and my skin feels soft and supple.  Beer/Strawberry Face Scrub: Make a strawberry paste, add a table spoon of sugar and two table spoon of beer. Rub the paste over all of yo

   Sheabutter is a plant fat extracted from the African Shea Tree which is found mostly in West Africa. It is commonly called 'Ori'. It is a very good remedy for natural hair. Grooming our typical kinky natural hair can be a task for some of us and finding the best ingredients and products to take care of natural African textured hair may not come easy. The predominant products out there were basically made for non-kinky hair types. There are lots of ladies who are going natural and most do no want to apply chemical product like relaxers to make their easier to work with. That is why is always recommend you go for organic and non processed ingredients if you you trying to groom your natural hair.    I have been using natural unprocessed raw sheabutter on my natural  hair for about 5 years consistently and I discovered that ori (raw shea butter) helps to thicken and give more volume to the hair. I have a really thick and kinky type of hair and it gets a little difficult to