2012A curling iron is a necessary hairstyling tool for any woman’s bathroom vanity. This heated wand can create tight spirals or loose waves, and channel a variety of fashionable looks, including 1940s glamor, celebrity style and contemporary sophistication. Curling irons are available in many brands, styles and price points. It’s an easy process to curl hair and enjoy beautiful, spun tendrils that stay curled all day long.

Instructions

1. • 1Find the right curling iron. For tight spirals, consider a 1 inch or smaller iron. For larger, flowing waves, choose one 1-1/2 inches or larger. Look for a curling iron made from ceramic materials (not metal) to help protect the health of your hair via the use of negative ions. Additionally, choose a style that offers temperature settings: Lower heat is best for curl touch-ups, while the highest settings help curl thick and unmanageable hair.
   • 2Spritz wet hair with protective product. Many heat-protection styling products are available in stores and online, such as Aveda Brilliant Damage Control and Nexxus Heat Protexx. Consult fashion magazines and blogs for product reviews and choose a styling product that works well on your hair type. Using a heat-protection styling spray before curling will help prevent your hair from breaking in the long term.
   • 3Blow-dry clean hair. To protect the health of your hair, make sure it is fully dry before heating and styling. While you are doing this, turn on you curling iron to allow it to reach the desired temperature.
   • 4Clip your hair into manageable sections. Pile and pin the hair onto the crown of your head. Begin with the lower back sections; or, for shorter hair, begin with the top sections on the crown.
   • 5Curl a 1- to 2-inch section of hair. Clamp the curling iron onto the tip of the section and gently roll the barrel tightly toward the scalp, stopping about 1 inch from the roots. Hold the wound curling iron for approximately 10 seconds, then gently open the curling iron to release the hair. The hair section should unravel in a curled tendril.
   • 6Continue to curl the remaining hair sections. Use bobby pins or a clip, if necessary, to shift curled hair sections as you work with the straight strands.
   • 7Complete the styling with your fingers and finishing spray. Touch up the sections as needed.

Tips & Warnings

Purchase a curling iron that allows for temperature adjustments, to protect your hair. Use heat-protective shampoo and conditioners, if curling your hair is a daily styling routine.

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Do you want more beauty tricks? You asked for them, well FEBstore.com will get’ em for ya!

Do you remember how Cindy Crawford and Jennifer Love Hewitt took care of their skin face?

Well, skin face is a sensitive issue for all women. Most of us dream of having a healthy, smooth, and radiant skin: especially when we have a special event where it is a must to look gorgeous. Where can we start?

A well-known advice says that any make-up needs a clean skin face. That’s a rule anybody can’t avoid. We can use that soap or cream we have in our bathroom cabinet… or we can follow Michelle Yeoh’s trick: she rinses her face with lemon juice and water. Lemon is a good astringent that cleans all impurities.

Once your make-up is ready, you think about accessories. The best one we have is our hair. Do you notice every time there’s a red carpet event, our celebrities walk proudly of how they look, but suddenly someone just says: What a bad hairstyle! Just check all the fashion reviews and you will see how important it is to choose the right hairstyle. Most of our celebrities prefer a shoulder length hair with layers; it will give you a youthful look. Just like our dear “Rachel” from one of the most successful comedy series “Friends”.

Do you want one more trick from Jennifer Aniston? She follows Courtney Cox’s advice: she lines her eyes
with a matchstick!

Do we have other natural accessories? Sure, we call them Nails. By now you should know that healthy nails are a product of what we eat. You can steal some of your food to take care of your nails, like Julia Roberts. She soaks her nails in olive oil which helps nails stay stronger and softens cuticles. If you have stained nails and fingers, you can add some lemon juice to olive oil for soaking.

Lemon, matchsticks, olive oil… products we can get in our kitchen. What are you waiting for? Have you noticed, we just unveiled Julia Roberts, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Michelle Yeoh, and many other gorgeous celebs beauty secrets in our past articles… Still want more? Well, Sit tight, go ahead and try one of these rare tips as we go fetch some more revealing celebrity beauty secrets for you! Have a great week girls!

The FEBstore.com Beauty Team

These are the quickest, simplest and cheapest way to get your hair out of your eyes, but they can make your hair look great too… Sometimes the simplest things are the best! Variations“Hair elastic” is a broad term that includes scrunchies and ponytailers. A ponytailer is basically a hair elastic with something decorative (marbles or butterflies) attached.

How to Use and Tips How to Use: Using an elastic is pretty much just a case of gathering your hair together and stretching an elastic over it, but if you want to do it right check out how to get the perfect ponytail.Tips: Rubber bands aren’t hair elastics! If you don’t want to break your hair and inflict pain on yourself, make sure you use rubber bands coated with fabric, or “hair elastics” made specially by a hairstyling company.

Suitable Hairstyles If your hair’s long enough for a ponytail, then a hair elastic’s for you.Occasions It’s a total fallacy to think that ponytailsare just for casual occasions! No way! Making sure your hair’s smooth (using a paddle brush and runnng the irons over the top section of your hair) will add a classiness to your ponytail. Disguising the elastic by wrapping your hair around the base of your pony will have the same effect. Scrunchies are also great for hiding your elastic, and for adding a bit of color too.

In Our Opinion…You know what? Ponytails that are all smoothed out and sleek are the best. They look sophisticated and oh so sexy. They can be a classy way for a woman to show off her lovely neck. (We didn’t even mind Beck’s half
up pony either!)

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What are the secrets of this gorgeous natural beauty?

Oscar Winner, Kate Winslet, always looks stunning wherever she goes. Last season we saw her in many events, promoting her films and attended many red carpet events –where she won best actress for her roles in “The Reader” and “Revolutionary Road”. But, what does she do to keep herself beautiful and radiant?. She’s not the common beauty we see in Hollywood since we don’t hear about her last Botox treatment or plastic surgery. What everybody loves about Kate Winslet is her natural and classic beauty. She claims to be like every woman, she isn’t obsessed about being skinny.

Let’s check out her tips.

First, she says that she can’t allow herself the same routines as when she was in her twenties. Now she’s a 33 years old mom of two children and has no time for herself. For some moms, time doesn’t allow them more than 5 minutes to put on make-up. At home Kate prefers to do her own make-up by using the right products like mascara, a bit of concealer and lip balm. Should they be the expensive? Well, they don’t! She prefers to use those products she knows work properly for her face, and they don’t have to be overpaid products.

Other advice she can give us is not to wear so much make-up so you don’t look caked by the end of a long day. A common advice among all the stars is: it doesn’t matter how tired, exhausted, or burned out you are, you must always take your make-up off. While you’re sleeping, your skin is working hard to renew its cells.

She also talks about her exercise routine. It’s well known that she practices Pilates to be in shape, but this is not a matter of obsession for her. She’s one of the actresses who claim that women should be happy by accepting themselves as they are. Restrictions about food can be a nightmare for any woman; she prefers to have a relaxed and calm life in order to take care of herself. Does she eat chocolate? Sure, but not too much. That’s a rule! Does she drink sodas? Of course, not often, but when she does, she drinks a fat Coke, what she calls “the real stuff”.

So, something we can learn from Kate’s experience is to enjoy everything we like, but we have to remember a key word: moderation. A little bit of everything will help us to keep in shape and beautiful… but above all, happy! Be patient!..  FEBstore will reveal more amazing celebrity beauty secrets in our next article… And you know we won’t hide any secrets from you…  We´ll tell you EVERYTHING!

Nails chip, crack and break but for some it’s more of a problem than others. With all of the different elements that our hands and fingernails are exposed to on a daily basis, nails are prone to becoming yellowed and discolored from daily wear and tear. For centuries, perfect and clean nails have been a symbol of how well one takes care of him or herself and their status in society, something that has caused the much-admired French manicure to become as popular as it is today.

What is a French Manicure?

French manicures are believed to have originated some time during the 18th Century in Paris, France. As decades went by, this type of manicure continued to grow in popularity until the 1930s, when it became the staple type of salon manicure or at-home “do it yourself” nail treatment. Since then, the French manicure has always been the very most
popular amongst the different manicure techniques that exist today.French manicures are often thought to be the “first” of several different manicurist techniques. This type of manicure is characterized by having a very white nail tip with a pink or nude-shade base.

If you choose to have a French manicure these days, however, you will quickly find out just how many different designs and colors you can have rather than the classic white-tips with a pink-base. Some even opt for small decals to be applied, or even fake jewels and gems to add that some extra sparkle!

How can I Get a French Manicure?

A French manicure is not limited to being something that has to be performed in a spa or salon – you can do it at home too! You can either try “free handing” the design (not recommended for those who even have a slightly shaky hand) or purchase “guiding stickers” that will help you paint only the tips rather than the nail bed.The other option would be to visit a salon and make an appointment to have a manicure. Salons are a fantastic choice as you have a true professional right there, taking care of your nails and ensuring that the job is done correctly.

Professionals will either paint your real nail (if you have nails that are long enough!) or more often will apply a very long false nail to your finger. You specify how long you would like the nail to be, and the nail technician will trim the fake fingernail down to that desired size. From there, you will be able to choose any number of different color combinations, designs, and appliqués to be applied to your nails!

How can I Choose the Best Manicurist for my French Manicure?

Manicures sometimes do go wrong, but there are a few things you can check for to ensure that you are having the most qualified person do your French manicure. You should always:

• Make sure that the manicurist is licensed and that it is displayed.
• Look over the food baths and ensure they’re clean.
• See if fresh hand towels are being used.
• If the salon is neat and tidy.
• Observe the salon to see if any metal tools are returned to a disinfectant after use. This helps spread fungus and bacteria from user to user.
• Make sure the manicurist is listening to YOU and not going with his or her own assumptions of what you want.

Long nails on women are considered sexy by many people, but there is caution. According to a study done by Shelly McNeil, M.D., an infectious-disease specialist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, nails longer than three centimeters (just a bit over one inch) are five times more likely than trimmed nails to carry the pesky pathogens that cause staph and yeast infections.

To be on the safe side, Dr. McNeil warns that you need to be diligent about washing your hands (especially after contact with such germ-prone items as doorknobs, public toilets and gym equipment). You also might want to carry an alcohol-based hand gel that can be used to disinfect your hands when soap and water aren’t available.

Note: Acrylics and other falsies can carry more harmful bacteria and are more difficult to disinfect.

With today’s soft, natural flowing hairstyles it’s very important to keep your hair in good condition. Shiny healthy looking hair will attract more attention than an expensive haircut. Hair care for all hair types is just as important as make-up when it comes to looking glamorous.

Whatever your hair type, first and foremost is finding a good shampoo and conditioner. Whether your hair is curly or straight, thick or fine, dry, frizzy or color treated, choosing the right products is very important.

Very fine or thin hair will need a good bodybuilding shampoo and conditioner, to add body and volume to the hair as well as condition and shine. Great examples of these are Biosilk volumizing shampoo and conditioner, or silk therapy thickening shampoo. Try finishing with Joico’s Body Luxe thickening elixir, a great styling product which will give fine and thin hair the added body, volume and shine it needs. Adding curl to fine hair will also give the appearance of more volume.

Thick hair is much easier to deal with, just as long as you choose a good shampoo and conditioner to keep it looking lustrous. A good choice here is CHI organics olive nutrient therapy.  Used alongside a CHI flat iron or curling iron, you can achieve the glowing salon look for yourself.  Thick hair, although heavy, does not need to be a burden.

Curly hair will need ‘taming’ to keep it looking its best while dry, curly hair will need a curl definer to separate and control the curls. Joico’s curl definer creme/gel while work well with both these hair types.  Also, try adding Joico curl activator, a lightweight spray for thin, flyaway curly hair.  Whether you want to keep your curls or straighten them out, CHI tools provide the answer here too.

Color treated hair or damaged hair will need to be handled very gently and given extra special treatment. Over-colored hair, especially when lightened, can become very porous, making it weak and inclined to break. Color Endure shampoo and conditioner from Joico will strengthen and control your color treated hair and keep the color longer.

Damaged hair will benefit from Joico’s K-Pak shampoo and conditioner to rebuild, reconstruct and strengthen, as well as protect; leaving hair as healthy and shiny and it should be.

Frizzy hair requires a great deal of care and attention, needing specialist products to tame and style. Biosilk’s silk therapy treatment has everything you need to take care of frizzy hair and leave it with shiny bouncy curls, or sleek and smooth when straight.

Taking the time to look after your hair is as important as the time you spend on your face and wardrobe. Even the prettiest woman in beautiful designer clothes can look awful with dry, unruly, or limp and dank hair.

Try different shampoos and conditioners until you find the right one for you, and choose a product which will help you achieve the style you’re aiming for, whether that be sleek and straight or bouncy and curly. Whatever your hair type, the right products will bring it under control and leave it looking glorious.

Wish your polish could outlast a few shampoos, keystrokes, or simple chores? Make it stick with these 11 tricks.
1. Never push back dry cuticles. Doing so can crack polish at the base, which leads to chipping, says New York City celebrity nail pro Deborah Lippmann, who offers tips like this in her master class, held at upscale department stores. But if you’re about to change your polish, you don’t want any cuticle skin on the nail’s surface (it can interfere with your base coat) — so loosen ragged edges by rubbing in a softening cream. Then gently nudge cuticles back with an orangewood stick.
2. Don’t soak fingertips. There’s no real reason to do so (at salons, it’s just part of the pampering), and, says Tom Bachick, executive vice president of the Young Nails Company, it can actually have a negative effect: When you soak your nails, they absorb water, which temporarily puffs them up — but they revert to their normal shape when the water evaporates. This expansion and contraction is the top cause of chipping, peeling, and cracking of polish, says Bachick.

3. Get the surface clean, clean, clean. Any traces of moisture, dust, or leftover enamel will get in the way of new-polish adhesion. To pave the way for true staying power, drizzle an old toothbrush with hand soap; then use it to “get into the corners and under nail tips, where oil — the great enemy — may be hiding,” suggests Jan Arnold, cofounder of Creative Nail Design. (Steer clear of lanolin-based soaps, which interfere with adhesion.) Then swipe on an acetone polish remover to temporarily dehydrate the nail plate.

4. Shape up. “To maximize nail strength, tips should be rounded and corners left somewhat square,” says Robyn Gmyrek, M.D., an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Columbia University, in New York City. Filing is healthier than clipping, which can crack the nail plate. Use a fine-grit nail file and work in one direction. “Filing back and forth with an abrasive board will cause the nail’s delicate keratin layers to peel away from each other,” says Elsbeth Schuetz, international educator for Orly.

5. Apply a base coat (no, it’s not just a marketing ploy). Not only does a bottom layer give lacquer something to latch on to, says chemist Doug Schoon, vice president of research and development for Creative Nail Design, but studies show that a base coat sticks to nails better than polish does. For uneven nail surfaces, choose a base that also smooths out roughness.

6. Once lacquer is on, seal it with a slow-setting topcoat. Quick-dry kinds are certainly appealing, but they evaporate so fast, they leave polish soft, mushy, and prone to denting. A slower-acting topcoat leaves a harder, more protective finish. To speed things up without sacrificing protection, use a drying oil or spray over your topcoat.

7. Make the most of metallics. Sure, light shades make chips less noticeable, but you can get an extra couple of days’ wear from a metallic polish, says Schoon. One theory on why this works: Small iridescent flecks thicken enamel, so it forms a stronger film as it dries — allowing it to outlast creamy opaques (whose high pigment content can block adhesion).

8. Or try Revlon’s ColorStay Always On Nail Enamel. This two-step system — which consists of polish and a protective sealant and doesn’t require a base coat — promises to resist chips for up to ten days. The Good Housekeeping Research Institute put it to the test while moving office buildings (talk about active conditions). Despite a few complaints about surface scratches, nearly all of the panelists agreed that it was the longest-lasting polish they had ever tried (50 percent got ten days of wear; one person, 14 days). As one tester put it, “This product has revolutionized the nail polish industry.”

9. Polish should be applied in three narrow, even strokes — one down the center and one down each side — and then be allowed to dry for two minutes before a second coat is applied. The thicker the layer is, the more difficult it is for the solvent — the liquid agent in enamel — to evaporate, boosting the chances that polish will peel.

10. Practice good maintenance. “Everything you touch wears away your polish,” says Lippmann. Every other day, apply a layer of quick-dry topcoat (it’s OK to use on already-dry polish) to form a protective shield and increase shine.

11. Give your polish a drink. The more your enamel dries out, the greater the likelihood that it will separate from your nail. Since topcoats don’t seal in hydration, apply oil to nails and cuticles before bedtime, and slather on a thick hand cream twice a day.

Health Problems and Skin Diseases Caused by Smoking Cigarettes

 Smoking
is a habit that harms not only the person who smokes but whoever comes around and is forced to breathe the smoke in. Free radicals are
produced in our organism even when we breathe the smoke passively. The large amount of free radicals cannot be fought by even very strong
antioxidants such as: bio-flavonoids, vitamin C, A or E, mainly because these are able to work only in the epidermal part of our skin.
First of all free radicals make our skin lose its smoothness and elasticity, then they make wrinkles and brown speckles appear, skin
becomes dry, corneous and finally, free radicals damage blood-vessels. Besides free radicals, during the process of smoking more than four
thousand other extremely dangerous and toxic substances are being produced, e.g. tar, carbon dioxide, arsenide, prussic acid and lead.
These toxic substances are responsible for lowering the levels of vitamins A, C and E in our body. These vitamins, as we already know,
protect our skin from the negative influence of free radicals and make the skin elastic, stimulating its regeneration.
As a result of smoking, the microcirculation is disturbed, in blood-vessels particularly. You can say that skin cells are being suffocated
by smoke which reduces the amount of oxygen in the human body and instead it increases the amount of toxic carbon dioxide. This is why the
so-called “tobacco face" person looks tired, has got a grey complexion often with enlarged blood-vessels. Many of you may think then:
"It doesn’t concern me. I don’t smoke a whole package a day. Just two or three light cigarettes, that’s all." However, while you
smoke one cigarette you cause the contraction of your skin blood-vessels which lasts up to 90 minutes after you finish smoking. Therefore, a
smoker’s blood-vessels can receive one fourth of blood less than a non-smoker’s. As a result, cells of the former reveal oxygen deficiency
and the lack of nutritive components in them. In time, such a person’s complexion may lose its pink and healthy coloring and it may start
looking pale, grey and poor.
Anemic anoxia of the facial skin also disturbs the production of collagen and elastic fibers which are responsible for skin’s elasticity.
These fibers get partially damaged, which makes skin thinner, with some irregular callosities and deep wrinkles, especially around the
mouth.
Smoking also causes some necrotic changes inside the skin, which simply means that many cells die and they cannot regenerate or reanimate.
During smoking, the level of estrogens may be lowered, which lowers the amount of collagen fibers and in turn, on makes skin dry. In
addition, smoking also disturbs the process of wounds and injuries healing.
Of course smoking also causes many other negative changes inside our bodies for instance; it limits blood-flow inside blood-vessels, reduces
the ability of blood to transport oxygen and weakens the immunology system. All that damage becomes visible outside our body in the first
place.
Other physical effects of smoking are: fragile nails, hair loss, and aggravation of many skin diseases such as: common acne, acne rosacea
and often recurrence of psoriasis. Furthermore, we can observe yellow spots on nails, hands and teeth as well as worsening of sense of taste
and smell.
Women who have been smoking for many years consult cosmetologists in order to find help with their look and skin problems. However, for
those women who smoke the undertaken surgical intervention can never bring the satisfying effects. Therefore, plastic surgeons are unwilling
to do any lifting or grafting for patients who smoke because their skin heals with much difficulty and it is very probable that
complications will occur later on.
Read more: Health Problems and Skin Diseases Caused by Smoking Cigarettes

Models often have a team of people working on them – specialists for makeup and hair, plus a stylist for their clothes. They quickly learn the make-up tips that suit them best. This becomes very useful on smaller modeling or promotional jobs, where often the model needs to do her makeup.

Listed below are some of the tips that my model friends and I have learned over the years. No one is perfect, and we all have facial characteristics that sometimes need to be hidden or enhanced. The proper use of make-up can bring out your best features while minimizing the ones you’re not so proud of!

Using Foundation to Contour Your Features By using a darker foundation (maybe 2-3 shades darker than your complexion), you can create shadows on your face to hide or enhance your natural features. These tips can be used in conjunction with the tips on blush, below. This contouring works best at narrowing features that you think are too wide.

To make your whole face appear leaner and narrower, apply the darker shade of foundation around your hairline and under your cheeks. To narrow down a wide nose, apply your usual foundation on the center of your nose, then run the darker foundation down the sides to enhance the shadowing.

Using Blush to Sculpt Your Face Blush can really give your face that healthy look, but models know that it can also be used to reduce or enhance your facial features. The judicious use of blush can create contours where there are none, or soften angular features, taking an average face and making it more beautiful. Lets start with the nose. If yours is too long and narrow, try applying a little blush down the center of your nose. Conversely, if it’s too wide, try lining it down each side.

It works the same for your face. If you have a wide forehead and small chin, try blending your blush down from your ear to your chin. If your forehead is smaller and your chin larger, blend it up around your eye and across your forehead.

Using Eye Shadow and Liner on Your Eyes Your eyes are your most expressive feature, and the most important to get right. Here are some simple tips that models use to make the most of what they have. To make your eyes look bigger and younger, use a white eye pencil to apply a thin white line to the inner rims of your lashes. This line is very hard for anyone to spot and makes your eyes appear much larger. A small amount of silver eye shadow in the corner of your eyes will open them up and give them a pop. You can use shadow and eye pencil to correct wide- or narrow-set eyes.

For wide-set eyes, use a darker shadow around the inner corners and a lighter shadow at the outer corners. Then use a dark pencil to line just the inner half of your lashes. For narrow-set eyes, just do the opposite!

Tips For Your Lips. By using lipstick and lip gloss, you can get the lips you’ve always wanted without resorting to plastic surgery! To get fuller lips, use a pencil to outline your upper lip in the same shade as your lips. Then apply your lip color as usual, for an added effect use lip gloss, but only on the inner part of your lips.

If you’re lucky enough to have full lips but want to make them appear smaller, make sure not to use lip gloss as this will tend to enhance them. By using deep, matte colors you can reduce their impact and allow people to focus on the rest of your face.