BEAUTY & STYLE

WANT TO GROW YOUR HAIR LONG? Here's how to eat to help make that happen…

June 9, 2013 By TheLifestylista

So many of you have written asking about hair growth and diet that I had to write this for you!

NUTRITION
If you don’t get the right nutrition your hair won’t grow. Eat a nutrient dense diet, add a good multi-vitamin as a back up.

VITAMIN E: This, among other things, increases circulation and stimulates hair follicles so your hair grows more healthy and more gorgeously thick! Food sources include nuts and green, leafy vegetables, liver, eggs and certain vegetable oils.

BIOTIN: This increases the growth rate of your hair. There is some scientific evidence to suggest that women with thinning hair may not have enough biotin in their bodies… Food sources: swiss chard (a delicious, nutritious type of greens), onions, cucumbers, carrots, nuts (e.g. almonds) and more.

ZINC: One of the sad symptoms of a zinc deficiency is your hair falling out! OUCH!
Make sure you get enough Zinc in your diet – it helps with hair growth. We need zinc to maintain the health of the cells in our hair follicles… so it’s pretty important because no healthy hair follicles, no healthy hair!
Food sources: beans, Fresh or dried pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds and squash seeds, cocoa powder, dark chocolate, peanuts and various meats and seafood (esp Oysters).

IRON: Hair loss can occur if you’re iron deficient. If you want your hair to grow and be healthy, make sure you get enough iron in your diet.
Food sources: Dark, leafy greens (spinach, swiss chard, collard greens, kale), beans (inc lentils, soybeans, garbanzo beans / chickpeas etc.), artichokes, prunes, raisins, meat (inc liver) and egg yolks.
Iron tip: make sure you eat a food with vitamin C in it at the same time as your iron rich food… this HUGELY enhances the absorbability of the iron!

Eat your greens, your beans and all that other healthy good stuff and grow your hair girl 🙂

I’m here rooting for you!

love,

The Lifestylista
xox
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GOT HARD HANDS & WANT TO TRANSFORM THEM? #DIY #HOME #SPA

June 7, 2013 By TheLifestylista

Think of all the great things you did to get these hard hands, now you deserve the pampering that will get rid of them 🙂 You go girl – I’m on your side and I’m proud you’re taking the time to do this for yourself.

Ingredients
– Cleanser (liquid or regular solid soap)
– Coarse sugar
– Water
– Olive Oil
– Bowl

Night time – brush your teeth, wash your face, get completely ready for bed. Turn on some music you really like and then follow these instructions…

1) Heat some water in a saucepan AND a cup of olive oil in another saucepan – don’t make it too hot though!
2) Wash your hands at the tap with a cleanser so they are clean.
3) Put the WARM water in the bowl and soak your hands in it for 5 minutes.
4) Dry carefully using a clean towel.
3) Put a tablespoon of warm olive oil in your hands and then two heaped tablespoons of sugar.
4) Rub your palms together, really go for it. This is the exfoliation your hard working hands need!
5) Rinse your hands off with luke warm water and dry your hands.
6) Put the warm olive oil in your bowl and soak your hands for 15 minutes (you may have to move your hands around to make sure they are covered by the olive oil).
7) Don’t wash the olive oil off! Put cotton socks on your hands and go to sleep…

IN THE MORNING:
Press play on your music again!
8) Take the cotton socks off your hands and wash off the olive oil.
9) Marvel at how GORGEOUSLY, SOFT YOUR HANDS ARE NOW!
You just got an A-list spa treatment for a fraction of the cost!
Smile smugly to yourself and DANCE to your music 🙂
And remember, I’m here rooting for you.
love,
The Lifestylista
xox
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Here’s the question from the wall that got me to write this article: <<Wat about people with hard palms,even ladies,wat can someone do???>>

GOT A SMELLY CLOTHES EMERGENCY but no time to wash and dry? Homemade Febreze… :-)

June 5, 2013 By TheLifestylista

If you have vodka or rubbing alcohol in your house… you can solve this problem in no time. Here’s a cheap Febreze alternative.

1) Get an empty spray bottle

2) Add 1 cup of water

3) Add 1/4 cup vodka or isopropyl (aka rubbing) alcohol

4) Do a spot test on your chosen item of clothing and allow it to dry.

5) If all is well with the test then spray your outfit with your homemade Febreze…

6) Put the outfit out to dry outside or in some other well ventilated area.

HOW IT WORKS

The alcohol is an anti-bacterial… It kills the bacteria that cause those stinky clothes smells.

BUT WON’T I SMELL LIKE A LIQUOR STORE???

No. When the alcohol dries, it won’t smell at all. The alcohol totally evaporates and it’ll take all the naughty smells with it 🙂

Take care Ms Low Maintenance and I hope this tip helps!

love,

The Lifestylista

xox

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Why so many celebs are hooked on MINERAL MAKEUP… 5 GOOD REASONS TO TRY IT!

June 4, 2013 By TheLifestylista

It’s make up made of ground up rocks 🙂 and the fine powder reflects light and hides your skin’s imperfections.

Check out this video of me at Generation Beauty 2013 with the team from Bare Minerals – color matching and applying mineral make up.

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1) IT LETS YOUR SKIN BREATHE: Unlike many heavy oil-based foundations, true natural mineral make up is non-comedogenic i.e. it doesn’t clog your pores. our skin can breathe… Aaaaah 🙂

2) PURE: Some dermatologists recommend mineral make up to women with certain skin issues like eczema and sensitive skin because it’s so pure (the top mineral makeup brands e.g. Bare Minerals, don’t use fragrances, parabens, preservatives, dyes, oil and other additives that can irritate your skin.

3) ACTIVELY REDUCING INFLAMMATION: Mineral makeup contains a greater proportion of zinc oxide than regular makeup. Zinc oxide helps to soothe inflammation (so much so it’s actually used in diaper cream!) so it can be helpful for people with e.g. acne.

4) PH: Mineral makeup has a pH that is… neutral!

5) IT HAS A NATURAL SPF: The titanium dioxide and zinc oxide in mineral make up act as a natural broad spectrum sunscreen.

Make sure you moisturize well before applying mineral make up (and let your moisturizer sink in properly). And use the right kind of brush – mineral make up is so fine, you need a special brush to work it into all the grooves on your face! Use a little at a time, to add thin layers (if you want more coverage).

If you do decide to try mineral make up, do try a 100% mineral makeup (lots of companies have jumped on the mineral makeup band wagon but some of them have the same long ingredients lists and added chemicals as regular foundation…).

You go girl! Let’s be our most fabulous selves 🙂

love,

The Lifestylista

xox

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REDUCE CELLULITE USING COFFEE GROUNDS… A TYRA BANKS TRICK!

June 3, 2013 By TheLifestylista

WHAT IS CELLULITE?

Girl… are you tired of the orange-peely, lumpy, dimpled skin tends to be on our behinds and the thighs? Most women have some cellulite – even super stars – we just don’t see it because their cellulite is airbrushed out in most of the pictures we see. No point looking outside of ourselves for the perfect woman. WE ARE THE PERFECT WOMAN 🙂 cellulite and all!

That said, if you want to temporarily reduce your cellulite, check this out:

WHAT TO DO

1) Take 1/2 cup of ground coffee

2) Add 1/3 cup of boiling water

3) Stir and leave for 7 mins (to allow the coffee grinds to soak up all the water)

4) Stir in 5 tablespoons of baby oil or olive oil or lotion (we’re using it to bind together the coffee so it’s easier to rub on the body)

5) Take a warm shower to make the skin clean.

6) Turn of the water and massage the coffee mixture into your cellulite-y areas

HOW THIS WORKS…

The coffee contains caffeine and the caffeine causes the blood vessels to expand. This causes a reduction in the amount of water retention AND increases the blood flow to the area. The overall effect is a temporary tightening and smoothing of the cellulite affected area.

Lots of expensive cellulite creams use caffeine but this homemade method is practically free!

For a more permanent cellulite reduction try regular exercise (including resistance training to tone muscle), weight loss (if you are overweight), drinking 8 glasses of water a day and eating healthily (to avoid the build up of toxins). No one can promise total cellulite removal but you can reduce it (if you want to…) I find mine kinda beautiful 🙂

I’m here rooting for you!

love

The Lifestylista

xox

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4 QUICK, DELICIOUSLY DISGUSTING WAYS TO GET RID OF BLACKHEADS…

May 31, 2013 By TheLifestylista

BLACKHEADS ON YOUR NOSE..? ARE YOU LOSING THE BATTLE?
“WHY DO I HAVE BLACKHEADS???” You’ve got dirt and dead skin cells clogging your pores… that’s why! And when you have blackheads, acne is often not far behind…. 🙁

4 QUICK WAYS TO GET RID OF BLACKHEADS:

First clean your face then try one of these…

1) STEAM METHOD
BOWL:
– Fill a bowl with hot water (be careful!)
– Put your face over the bowl
– Put a big towel over your head and let the steam do the work… opening up the pores
HOT TOWEL:
– Rest a hot towel (not too hot it burns you!) on your face for 5 – 10 mins
– The pores open

Once the pores are open, take 2 clean cotton balls (preferably hypo allergenic) and use them to ‘ease out’ the naughty blackheads out of your skin. Aaaaaaah. How disgusting and rewarding 🙂

Remember… Don’t squeeze with your fingers… Or else you could scar your face!

2) THE LIME METHOD
– Cut a lime in half.
– Pour some honey onto the lime (preferably dark and it’d be amazing if it were raw and organic too)
– rub the honey’d half lime all over your clean face.. Let the honey & lime mixture stay on your face for 3 – 5 mins.
– Rinse off your face
This takes longer to work – over several weeks of repeating this process!

3) EGG WHITE METHOD
– Separate the egg white from the yolk.
– Use a fork or whisk to beat the the egg whites
– Use your hands to put the beaten egg whites all over your face
– Put clean tissue on your nose (or wherever else you have blackheads) and leave for 45 minutes (or until totally dry)
– Once the tissue is dry, gently remove (and take a look at the gross blackheads now on the tissues heheheh 🙂
– Rinse off your face
I think this method is BOSS!

4) ASPIRIN MASK
See my article on how to make an aspirin mask… (and please pay attention to all my cautions about this one too!!!)
http://www.TheLifestylista.com (Beauty & Style section)

This is a job well done! Blackheads are no joke and can sooooo lead to acne… You go girl, it’s worth taking a little time to take care of yourself. I am v. proud of you.
Keep your questions coming.
love
The Lifestylista
xox
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