Beauty and Personal Grooming

It's time to formally bid goodbye to the year 2010 and take a look at the roundup of some to the best articles/posts published so far this year!   Budget Beauty Tips Budget Beauty Tips Budget Beauty Tips: Handy Haircare Hints Budget Beauty: Make your shampoo last longer and a detangle trick Skincare: Buy Smart and Simplify Beauty Tips & Secrets Keep hair healthy, shiny & black with these tips from Jamal Hammadi Ease waxing pain with LMX-4, a topical anesthetic cream Pop that pimple or go in for a cortisone injection How to Camouflage Cellulite Summer skin & hair care tips from Shahnaz Hussain Avoiding the winter soap itch: Skin care tip Organizing Your Beauty and Skincare Cabinet - Tips Skincare and Makeup During Pregnancy - The Do's & Don'ts Top 5 Beauty Must Haves for Every Woman's Purse Beauty Secrets for People with Sensitive Skin Makeup tip to hide blemishes, scars & hollows The Proper Application of Self-Tanner: No

20's was the time when you had smooth, supple skin . But once you are on the threshold of 30's , time slowly begins wreaking havoc and your facial skin shows the earliest signs of sagging. It's at this point of time that you need to use anti-aging skin care products more stringently, mostly if you had neglected skin care in your late twenties . It's not necessary to shell thousands of bucks on fancy sounding high-end products to look good, especially if you are managing everything  on a shoe-string budget . Home-remedies &  face masks with inexpensive ingredients from your kitchen and garden can do the job equally well. Recipes for these DIY beauty aids are also quick and simple to create at home. The below mentioned Homemade Skin Tightening  Masks have worked wonders on my skin. There's no reason, why it shouldn't work for you. Use these once in a week.

What's the worst that could happen if you slept with your makeup on? Once in a while, if you are too tired and drop off to sleep without removing makeup , it's fine says Dr Malavika Kohli, dermatologist and cosmetologist with Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai. Dr Schultz or DermTV also is of the same view. He says that not much is going to happen if you happen to forget to take off your make-up and only remove it the next morning in the shower . Specially if your makeup is very simple with just a hint of lipstick/lipbalm, light foundation and absolutely no eye makeup, then not removing it at night isn't such a big deal, says Dr. Schultz.

Monikangana Dutta relies on home-remedies and homemade beauty aids

Ayurveda describes the 3 kinds of beauties:

Twinkle Khanna, actor and wife of superstar Akshay Kumar wasn’t quite known for her dress sense in her 20s. She would do with just two pairs of denims and a couple of white shirts and abhorred shopping for dresses. All that changed once she turned 30. She is now counted amongst one of the best dressed women.

Think stars wake up looking camera-ready? Think again: Here are the products they can’t live without.

Who doesn't envy Model/Actress/former MTV VJ Amrita Arora's gorgeous looks? This foxy beauty with fab hair and a wicked smile leaves no one standing when she shakes her groove thing.  However she doesn't rely only on high-end cosmetics to work their magic and loves to go natural whenever possible.  

Nothing completes the perfect holiday outfit like luscious red lips! Whether you are going to the office party or getting ready for a big New Year's bash, red lips will surely get you noticed this holiday season. Here are the top choices and tips for making your lips mistletoe-ready.

It's so sad that most superfoods touted as healthy and nutritious aren't pleasant-tasting, while fried and junk food are so delectable that everyone loves to gorge on them.  Green tea, a beverage of choice of most-health conscious people is no exception and tastes awful. I mostly drink it because it has immense health benefits. To enhance its taste, and well, make it more potable, you might want to add a little milk and sugar to it. After all, as a nation of tea-drinkers, for most Indians drinking tea without milk is unthinkable. Junk food looks enticing and is so delectable

Heidi Klum is totally averse to yo-yo dieting and isn't exactly impressed by people who are aiming to be reed-thin. She believes that plump cheeks and a fuller face, make a person look much younger than a skinny person whose face looks gaunt with tight and angular features. In her own words, " My tip is, don't be too thin! It is always better to have a little meat on your bones. When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt on the face and that makes you look older by five or 10 years. "

There are plenty of rejuvenating and hydrating face masks available for purchase at your local pharmacy or cosmetics counter, and while some come at only minor expense, others can be pretty pricy.  You can certainly find options that eschew the use of harmful chemicals, dyes, and fragrances, but these sensitive skin options may end up costing even more.  However, there are ways to get the natural products you crave without spending an arm and a leg.  The easiest way, of course, is to make them yourself from the comfort of your own kitchen , and you don’t have to be a scientist to work out the formulas.