DIY FACIAL MASSAGE

Last week we discussed facial exercise; the benefits and what it entails. Have you tried it out?

This week we'll have a look at facial massage. To read about the benefits of facial massage refer back to this post.

Here are two quick and fun massage sequins to do daily.

When massaging remember to always massage in an up and outwards direction. The best massage medium would be an oil. Try a vitamin e oil, tissue oil or an olive oil.

Source: www.sanctuary.com/en-gb/blog/blog/2014/02/10/the-free-five-minute-skin-fix-at-your-finger-tips-2/#.VE1pWhlBvqA

MODEL APPROVED FACIAL EXERCISES FOR A PLUMPER, YOUNGER LOOKING YOU

I  am yet to meet a woman that does not want a smooth, toned and glowing face. Recently I read an article about facial exercise and facial massage. I gave it a try and within a week my dull lifeless skin was transformed.

According to Byrdie, the idea of facial exercise is simple: Just like you would work out your thighs to make them firmer, facial 
exercise is founded on the belief that working out your face muscles will tone, lift, and boost volume.

Facial Massage on the other hand helps to rid yhe skin of dead skin cells, warms the tissues thus producing a feeling of relaxation and improves skin colour. Facial massage is known to stimulate the glands under the skin to mantain the skins natural moisture and oil balance.

So many benefits? Yippy let's give it a try, shall we?

Below are 3 Model-approved facial exercises

Exercise 1- FISH LIPS

Part One 
1. Suck in your cheeks like a fish, with your lips pursed.
2. With your lips still pursed, smile as hard as you can. (try and relax every other part of your face, like your eyes, while doing this.)
3. Hold for 10 seconds.
4. Relax.
5. Repeat three times.

Part Two
1. Repeat steps one and two from Part One.
2. This time, instead of holding the pose, try to wriggle or “pump” your cheek muscles up and down 12 times while your cheeks are still sucked in. (“You won’t see very much movement if you’re looking in a mirror, but you should feel it,”) 

3. Relax.

Exercise 2- KISS FACE

Part One
1. Pout your lips like you’re about to kiss someone.
2. Smile as hard as you can with your lips still pursed. (Make sure to keep your eyes relaxed.)
3. Hold for 10 seconds.
4. Relax.
5. Repeat three times.

Part Two
1. Repeat steps one and two from Part One.
2. Pump your cheek muscles up and down 12 times with your lips still pursed.
3. Relax.

Exercise 3- THE WHISTLER

Part One
1. Make an “O” with your lips, like you’re going to whistle.
2. Smile as hard as you can, with your lips still forward in the “O” shape.
3. Hold for 10 seconds.
4. Relax.
5. Repeat three times.

Part Two
1. Repeat steps one and two from Part One.
2. Pump your cheek muscles up and down 12 times with your lips still in an “O” shape.
3. Relax.

Now that wasn't too bad, now was it?

Do these daily and soon your friends will be asking you where you got your botox done!

Source:http://www.byrdie.com/facial-exercise/

8 Lovely Uses For Olive Oil

8 Lovely uses for Olive Oil

1.   Cuticle Oil- Rub some olive oil onto your cuticles or mix some olive oil with water and soak your nails therein.

2.   Control hair frizz- Rub a little olive oil over your hair and fly-away’s.

3.   Lip balm- Mix olive oil and melted bees wax in a 1:1 ratio. Add a few drops of an essential oil for fragrance.

4.   Hands a face exfoliator- mix olive oil with sugar or coarse salt and use as a scrub.

5.   Skin softener- Add a few drops of olive oil to your bath tub.

6.   Soothe earaches- Apply a few drops of heated olive oil into the ear.

7.   Leather conditioner- Rub olive oil onto leather.

8.    Free a stuck zipper by rubbing some olive oil onto the zipper.

Images: here,here and here.

A guiltless Indulgence- 2-in-1 Chocolate Body Wash+ Body Moisturiser

Smells good enough to eat up! Seriously! Once applied, stay away from chocolate lovers.

This easy to make 2-in-1 product is oh so simple to make and smells oh so delicious.

Use as a bath milk/cream and thereafter as a body cream.
Chocolate right through!

Ingredients:
500ml Aqueous Cream
400ml Cocoa butter Cream
100g Baby powder

Steps:
1. Mix all three together thoroughly
2. Empty into clean containers.

I emptied half of the cream into the aqueous cream tub and the other half it into a cleaned out Nutella jar. Chocolate and nutella. Fitting, no?

I'm saving the nutella one for the bath and the other tub for my dresser.

DIY-BEAUTY TRICKS

Like most teenagers, there was a time where my skin and I were archenemies!
But I've won the battle! :D

Here are a few tricks that I've learnt that work wonders, not only for the skin, but body too.

Pimple buster
* Cinnamon and lemon juice paste applied to pimples . Remove once dried
* Baby powder!! Yes that's right! Baby powder dries pimples up too!
* Zinc tablets, my favourite that I have been using for about 2 years now, Zinplex.
* Crushed ginger

Mark vanishers
* Lemon juice used over night. DON'T FORGET TO WASH YOUR FACE IN THE MORNING!!
* Ice cubes wrapped in a cloth. Yes its cold, but works wonders.
* Tissue oil. Most tissue oils are to be used only at night.
* Raw onions rubbed on the marks. The smell is awful I know!

Luscious Eye Lashes- Apply Vaseline to eye-lashes at night. Its a great conditioner.

Make up remover- Baby oil

Body scrub- Brown sugar and olive oil

Teeth Whitener
*Before brushing with toothpaste, brush your teeth with bicarbonate of Soda.
*Inside of a banana peel

Supple Hands & Feet- Apply vaseline to hands and feet, cover with a plastic bag and sleep away. If you not such a fan of the overnight treatment, try 30-60minutes

Alluring Lips- Apply vaseline like a lip balm to the lips at night

Ooh-la-la Hair
* Braiding/plaitting hair at night before you sleep helps speed up hair growth
* Massaging the scalp helps hair growth too

All of the Above has been tried and tested.
Have fun trying it yourself:)