Everyone in western culture desires a sun-kissed, slightly bronzed face for enhanced beauty and sex appeal. There are numerous ways to obtain a tan which includes tanning bed, sunless tanners, and outdoor tanning. Your body tends to tan faster and deeper than your face. You need special attention to your face due to its delicate skin.

Is Sun Exposure for Tanning Healthy?

Spending a few hours under the sun helps your body to produce Vitamin D. Although tanning beds can help your skin glow in minutes, it increases the risk of skin cancer.

Therefore you need to use proper techniques to get the best tan faster by taking few precautions.

Use Sunscreen with SPF30

Use sunscreen with broad-spectrum UV protection of at least SPF 30. It blocks the harmful UVA and UVB rays but helps in tanning safely. Apply the sunscreen 20 minutes before moving out.

Eat Beta Carotene-Rich Food

Some foods like carrot, sweet potatoes, and kale help you tan by reducing the sun sensitivity in people with photosensitive diseases.

Eat Lycopene-Rich Food

Foods like tomatoes, guava, and watermelon helps protect the skin naturally against UV rays.

Use Oil Rich in Natural SPF

Few oils like avocado, coconut, raspberry, and carrot can be used and sunscreen as they naturally contain SPF.

Avoid Long Sun Exposure

Do not expose yourself for more than 2-3 hours as, within this time, body melanin responsible for tanning reaches its maximum limit. Beyond this time, your skin will not get darker and become harmful.

Tanning Time Is Vital

For faster and safer body tanning, choose your time in the morning or after 3 p.m. as the sun is the strongest between 12 noon and 3p.m.

Use a Pre-Tan Exfoliator

It helps to retain your tan evenly for longer. It is applied before tanning.

Using Self–Tanner

Choose a self-tanner with the right ingredients that suit your face and body. It should be applied evenly around your body and face before going to the tanning bed. The tanners are usually available as lotions, creams, gels, foams, sprays, and oil.

There are some best face tanning bed lotions available that speeds up the tanning process by absorbing the UV rays. They contain ingredients like Tyrosine, which increases melanin production. (more…)

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“Where did you get your nails done?” has replaced the previous fashion catch-cry of “love the lip colors” in 2021. From the international fashion shows to everyone’s local salon, nail art is trending on number one, which is why eye-catching nail treatments with OPI nail lacquers are our new fashion obsessive trend.

Those days are gone when women contend with a single shade of nail paint. By 2021, your nails should be an extension of your designer clothing, make-up, heels, and bags. This is the perfect time to revel in creative and innovative nail designs with the amazing range of hues and tones of the OPI gel nail polish. The smooth gel texture of the OPI nail lacquers makes your nails instantly more aesthetically appealing and attractive.

What Are OPI Nail Lacquers? 

OPI nail lacquers are one of the top-trending nail polish formulas in 2021, which are chip-free and promise a glossier finish to the nails. The signature brush of OPI gel polish offers effortlessly smooth application. (more…)

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Everybody desire to look as beautiful as possible, and whenever we start seeing any signs of aging, we start to freak out. Nobody can deny that we have to face it one day, be it today or after several years.

Even though it’s impossible to eliminate this process, we can attempt our best to prevent it as much as possible.

The Body is Important

Sometimes we may forget to take care of our body, thinking just taking care of the facial skin will do everything. But unfortunately, it does not work like that.

Handcare

Suppose you have great skin, but then your hands have wrinkles and spots all over, making you look older. Moisturizing your hand more often with the best hand cream for age spots is the best option in this scenario. Other than that, never forget to use sunscreen every day.

Footcare

After hands, the most neglected part of our body is our foot. We don’t even think of caring for it. You should do a pedicure every once in a while at home to take care of them.

Just soak your feet in warm water for some time, clean with a soft brush, and apply a foot cream. Try to apply a thick and good quality foot cream every day before going to bed. (more…)

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After spending tons of money on a tattoo, nobody wants it to fade away. If you have a tattoo, maybe you are also worried about your tattoo’s fading, or maybe you just don’t want to get through that pain again. No matter whatever your reason is, you can prevent the fading problem of your tattoo to a limited extent. Although there is no guarantee that your tattoo will not dissolve at all but by following some measures, you can delay it for sure.

Ink Matters

You can take some advice from your tattoo artist beforehand on what kind of tattoos will last longer. Because of sun exposure, some tattoos change their colors, or the crisp lines become scattered after some time. Black ink for tattoo can come in handy in this situation because black ink doesn’t change color or don’t fade away that easily. Now it’s up to your design as well. But I would suggest not to go for a design because of the color as it is a permanent thing.

Taking Care is Necessary

Give yourself time to heal before going out. If you want your tattoo to look as intense as possible, then the first thing that you should do is to take your time. Your tattooed skin can be susceptible, especially for the first few weeks. Don’t just go around as the skin may catch an infection if it comes close to any unfavorable condition. Cover the area with clothing or anything comfortable while wearing loose-fitting clothes to help the skin keep breathing.

Please avoid prolonged sun exposure even after the healing process is done. When your tattoo is still healing, your skin is not ready for the sun tanning session. As it can not only damage your newly formed tattoo but can also cause damage to your skin permanently. A white ring around the tattoo can appear because of this. Even after the skin is back in its previous form, you still would not want to expose yourself to the sun’s heat for an extended period. As it can cause a change in the ink color since the ink reacts to too much sun exposure to induce this behavior. (more…)

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Nail polish is the perfect way to embellish your nails and enhance the overall attraction quotient. Women do not need any ornamentation to attract anyone. Their natural charm can work wonders, but it does not cost much to beautify your nails and make yourself as presentable as possible. Hence, you find almost all women having an exquisite DND nail polish collection in their makeup kit.

The advantage of having a massive nail polish collection is that it allows you to choose your nail polish according to the outfit you don for the day. Have you ever attempted to match your nail polish to the dress you wear? If not, it is the right time to do so because the new DND gel polish sets are available in a riot of colors to suit every outfit.

Matching your nail polish with your dress does not entail having red-colored polish for a red dress or a blue-colored manicure with a blue combo. It is more about matching a combination of different colors that work well with almost all outfits. So, you have a nail polish combo ready for whatever color dress you wish to wear.

Here are simple tips to help you match your DND nail polish with your outfits.

Color Blocking is a wonderful option

The ideal way of matching your nail polish with your dress is to color block. Some colors display a huge contrast, but they gel with each other beautifully. For example, you find people looking fabulous wearing a green top on a blue outfit, a combo of yellow and blue, and maybe, even red and green. Though the contrast levels are massive, they look outstanding when matched together. (more…)

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Numerous changes in terms of designs and products have been witnessed in the manicure industry. The biggest nail product producers have been on the rush to flood the market with their products. Furthermore, manicure designers have been on the race to invent the coolest nail designs that everyone can envy both in the present and the future. Suffice it to say; upcoming trends give developers some migraines as they struggle to provide their clients with world-class designs at the most affordable prices. The manufacturers of different nail product like Acrylics, gels or dip systems like Kiara sky, SNS, DND or Nugenesis dip powder systems among others are also in a rush to develop some of the best products that can be used by designers to come up with can be used to will serve their clients in the best way possible. As such, there is a need to acquaint ourselves with the upcoming 2021 nail trends.

At the moment, the manicure industry is dealing with WFH standards. A considerable number of trending nail designs can be approached from a DIY angle; thus, adding a few twists will see them better and more refined. All you need is the right products for your endeavours therefore when you go shopping for nail products, make sure that you get the best gels, acrylics or dip powder colours like SNS, DND or Nugenesis nail colors. With the best products, smiley faces, rhinestones and other fun add-ons will be easy to create. To get a peek of some of the best upcoming designs that are likely to rock 2021, just read through the item below and find the most favourite manicure that you would love to try in 2021.

Biggest Nail Trends

Indie Nails

Indie nails are an upcoming trend that manicure nail designers are optimistic about their manicure industry position. After a long Pinterest search, this design shows potential in becoming one of the classiest 2021 methods that will be highly sought for. The design is inspired by mismatched emoji where each nail has a different emoji. (more…)

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I have a confession. I’m a bit of a product junky. So I’ve decided to do a monthly round up of the drool-worthy products I’m dying to add to my collection. We’ll see how many of these I get my hands on!

1.  Rhassoul Clay. Word on the beauty streets is that this stuff makes for an amazing facial and hair mask. Rhassoul has been used for over 1400 years in soaps, shampoos, conditioners, etc. Its high levels of magnesium, potassium, and calcium makes it kick ass at purifying the skin and hair, removing dead skin cells, and tightening pores. Sounds like a win in my book!
2.  Sleek Blusher Trios. I’ve been super obsessed with blush lately! When I came across these blushers, I drooled! Not only are they priced right ($12.50 – $15), but based upon the swatches I’ve seen, the color pay-off and blendability appear to be ah-MAY-zing! I need.
3. PhytoSpecific Relaxer (Index 2). After two years a Natural, I’m going back to the creamy crack. PhytoSpecific Relaxer is my perm of choice. Stay tuned for a discussion of why I’m “converting” and a review of PhytoSpecific! It’s pricey, but well worth the investment.
4.  RiRi <3’s MAC Fall Collection. Need I say more? I picked up a few pieces. Swatches coming soon!

Do you have any of these products in your collection? Have I piqued your interest? Lets talk about it in the comments! 

Yours in Beauty,
Tiyana

Continue Reading My October Wish List

It’s a Tuesday night and my “him” is pulling an all-nighter at work. So, as you can imagine, I am straight busted right now. I’m donning my ratty pajama pants, complimented with the oldest t-shirt from the darkest chasm of my closet. The look is topped off with my favorite hair wrap. Feet are kicked up. RHOA is on (LOL @ Cynthia reading Kenya for blood this season!). And I’ve a big ol’ bowl of spaghetti with a nice cold brewski on the side (oh, yea… I’m that kinda chick). Ya’ll know how we do when our man isn’t home! I’m forever alone-ing like a BOSS! 

Anyway, I thought this might be the perfect opportunity to gush about my absolute favorite matte blush: NYX Pressed Powder Blush in Cinnamon.

Continue Reading Forever Alone-ing and My Current Blush Crush