BEAUTY KLINIC

You know what a flat iron is, and what it’s for. It’s this hand-held, clip-like thingy that has two plates inside each side of the clip. You plug it in a socket, or charge the batteries, and then wait for it to heat up before you press your hair between it. Use one right, and then you’ll notice how smooth and straight your hair has suddenly become after ironing it.

Now, do you know how your little hair-helper works?

No, there’s no whiz-bang magic in it. There’s some science, yes, but nothing so terrible that it will need a physicist’s or a chemist’s dissertation to explain the process of ironing your hair.

You see, each strand of your hair has something that holds it in place and keeps its figure intact. The bonds that force your hairs into its natural shape are called hydrogen bonds. These hydrogen bonds occur naturally in your hair, and there are a few ways to alter those bonds enough that the hair loses its natural figure and settles down, straightening one’s hair.

That is why it’s rare to find somebody who has born with naturally straight hair, even when they wake up in the morning. There’s always some effort to keep hair from bouncing all around the place. Brushing, combing, shampooing, relaxants, gels and conditioners are all ways to try and keep hair straight.

And then there’s your handy flat iron.

The heat from a flat iron breaks the hydrogen bonds in your hair, making it go with the pull of gravity on your hair. This makes your hair straight and manageable. Get it wet, however, and your hair bounces back to its original shape.

Flat irons, as wonderful as they are, can and will damage your hair. The heat from the plates will naturally burn your hair, and the pulling and tugging while the hydrogen bonds are broken will also weaken your hair. Giving your hair time to regenerate before the next ironing session usually solves this problem.

However, the type of flat iron you have also determines how much damage your hair will be receiving.

Flat irons with aluminum plates are the most hazardous for your hair’s health. These aluminum flat irons will do the most damage to your hair, as metal has a tendency to heat unevenly and pull hair while ironing it. If you are ever going to use these kinds of flat irons, be very, very careful that you don’t mess up your entire hair-do with one wrong tug!

Next up on the ladder are ceramic flat irons. Instead of metal plates alone, these plates are either heavily coated with ceramic materials or are composed entirely of certain ceramic substances. It is believed that ceramic flat irons have smoother surfaces than their metal counterparts, and so far, that has proven to be true.

And finally, you’ve got the tourmaline flat irons. Ground tourmaline, a precious crystal, is ground down into a fine powder and infused into the ceramic plates of a flat iron. So far, they’re the best flat irons available on the market, with the smoothest surfaces compared to any other flat iron currently available. And they’re the most expensive too, with branded tourmaline flat irons ranging from 150 to 200-plus dollars.

Now that you’ve got an idea about how your humble little flat iron works, maybe you’ll give it a little more credit the next time it gives you that immaculately straight hair you want draping down your shoulders.

Home remedies for wrinkles? Most home remedies uses herbs and ingredients that are readily available at home kitchen. I have tried to combine these, some in varying formulation, to produce concoctions. In this article, I will share with you how I found my solution to my wrinkles problem.

How wrinkles develop

Many experts, however, have serious doubts as to the effectiveness and reliability of these home made remedies in our quest for solutions for skin wrinkles. We need to deeply understand how wrinkles are developed and how to combat them more effectively. Wrinkles are formed because the skin loses elasticity. The skin is firm and elastic because of the collagen bundles and elastin that hold together the fatty tissues underneath the skin. As we advance in age, we begin to lose substantial amount of collagen molecules. In fact, it is already established that a normal person will lose a third of the original collagen mass found in the body upon reaching the age of 45 years or so. After reaching 25, we start losing collagen content at the rate of 1.5% per year. Substantial reduction of collagen presence in the skin leads to wrinkles and sagging.

More about topical application

To evaluate if home made remedies for wrinkles are truly effective, we also need to look first at how topical application of those home remedies work. In the medical community, the effectiveness of a topical treatment is largely influenced by the ability of the treatments to be absorbed by the affected area of the body.

Granting that the ingredients do contain those long proven elements and substances that effectively treat a particular skin condition, it still remains to be seen how much exactly of those substances are absorbed by the skin. Some techniques call for direct intake of collagen or collagen producing agents. This is all right, though. Take in those substances orally and you help the body regenerate collagen from within.

But topical application of collagen is already considered ineffective. This is because collagen and elastin, another similarly helpful type of protein that makes the skin elastic, cannot be absorbed by the skin directly. To be effective, it must reach the deepest layers of the skin. The same principle works for those homes made remedies.

There is nothing wrong with using all natural ingredients. I, myself, am a serious proponent of their use to combat to attain a healthy living condition. The issue is not about the ingredients used, rather on the methods used to treat wrinkles. Some use egg white, yogurt, castor oil, vitamin E capsules, honey and lemon, among others. These ingredients are rich sources of vitamin E and many other essential elements. They are also good sources of anti-oxidants that fight the free radicals in the body. But why spend time mixing them in a vain hope of treating your wrinkles when you can just eat them?

All-natural skin care products are shown to be effective because they are scientifically formulated and designed for specific types of skin. Varying skin types require different skin care products. These creams are backed by years of research and widely accepted techniques. Home made remedies for wrinkles can be considered as secondary only. Well formulated creams and lotions take less of your time, are less messy, more convenient to carry, work faster and target areas more specifically. Most importantly, the molecular structure of those natural substances is too small that enables them to be easily absorbed even by the deeper layers of the skin.

Now, do yourself a favor and try to see any marked difference between the two treatment types. You find it out yourself, for I had already found mine.

And to help you get clearer and younger looking skin, I will like to share with you one anti aging skin care range that I found contains more active ingredients than any other cream on the market. These ingredients are effective moisturizers, because they penetrate deeply and “nourish”. So, they never feel greasy.

I have never seen any other natural products that is as good and report no negative or adverse effects. They are hypo-allergenic, fragrance free and can be used on any skin-type. If you want to see discover similar results, you should visit http://www.goodhealthyskin.com to find out more.

So you thought that the only ways to express your creativity was by writing a poem, or painting a picture or composing a song? Well you would have missed a really simple but really appealing way of expressing your creativity: to design your own t shirt.

Children are perhaps those that enjoy Christmas the most and enter in to the spirit of the holidays with the most gusto! The thrill of anticipation of Father Christmass arrival is something that a child would love wear in the form of a t shirt.

Alternatively you can design a t shirt for a specific event, group or organization. Do you have an upcoming business event? Or perhaps a match organized for which the team needs to have an exclusive t shirt design? Are you planning to cheer on a friend or relative who is participating in a team event or competition of some sort by showing your solidarity on a t shirt?Or maybe music punk rock t-shirts.

A Junk Food T can make a great statement about you, whether youre a Little Miss Sunshine kind of a girl like Jordan or a skinny bitch like Lindsay therell be a Junk Food tshirt out there thats perfect. Paris looks perfect in her Barbie T but if Eva Mendes is more your thing then why not go for the fab retro Beatles print like the one worn in Hitch.

They come in a great range of colours with loads of cool retro slogans and images, from the Care Bears and Mr Men to Top Gun and the Beatles!

Many online music punk rock t-shirts sites make it really simple for you to design a t shirt: it can be as simple as Put a picture on it and Write on it and you have designed your own t shirt! You can choose whether you want a one sided t shirt or if you want a two sided one; you can even have it so there is only a picture on the front and the lettering on the back or vice versa.

Further one can also have the option of customizing a t shirt design by choosing the kind of t shirt you want: long or short sleeved, hoodie or sweat shirt, ladies styles or tank tops, etc. Many tee shirt design sites give you the option of using their templates or clip art to make your own design or you can be completely original and do your own thing.

First, who is wearing t-shirts? I counted a total of about 4,000 people over 4 weeks in this survey. In total, about 60-65% were wearing t-shirts - twice my expectations! There was a variance in the age groups. For those under 25-years-old, about 80-85% wore t-shirts. For those 25 to 40 years old, about 60% wore t-shirts. And, for those over 40, about 35% wore t-shirts.

Everyone from Paris Hilton to Lindsay Lohan, Kate Beckinsdale to Kelly Clarkson is wearing these super cute and ultra funky ts from the hot designer label Junk Food, even Posh has been spotted enjoying the sunshine in one!

Second, what kind of Retro T-Shirt were they wearing? I rarely saw the same t-shirt twice. There were funny t-shirts, animal t-shirts, Christian t-shirts, patriotic t-shirts, and all kinds of novelty t-shirts. And, I wasn’t surprised to see a few crude or offensive ones in the mix either.

Scientific views on how well green tea works for dieting are still mixed. Some researchers have stated cases that go both ways, for and against it. A recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that American and Chinese researchers discuss how green tea effects cholesterol levels.

When the research was conducted, approximately 200 men and women (average age 55) who have mild to moderately high LDL cholesterol levels joined in the case study. The researchers told them to keep their usual activity levels the same as before and eat the same way. After twelve weeks, it was shown that individuals who consumed green tea extract with their normal meals lost more than fifteen percent of their total LDL cholesterol levels.

It has never been explained in detail exactly how green tea effects the levels of cholesterol but certain components found in green tea have proven to play a key role in excreting cholesterol from the body.

Th researchers stated in a later report that the first group of participants did not lose cholesterol as a result of drinking green tea. So let me get this right, first you provide proof that they did, and now you say they didn’t! Did I read that right? How much did you pay for your education again??

The problem I have always noticed in the medical community is that anything organic that works is not supported very well. Here is an exact example of what I am talking about.

When my oldest was 3, he got the worse case of chicken pox I have ever seen. There was not one square inch of him that was not infected. This boy was in so much pain from being so itchy that we took him to the hospital 3 times to try and find something that could help him. 3 trips later, nothing was prescribed.

Finally a family member recommended for us to try the extract from an Aloe Vera plant. Once I found one to buy, I applied it to my son and with in 15 minuets he had stopped crying, and he was no longer itchy.

When my other son who was 6 months old got the chicken pox right after his old brother, we took him to the hospital to make sure he was going to be ok. Children under the age of 1 can have serious side effects and complications having chicken pox so young, we wanted to be sure. I told the nurse what had happened with our oldest boy when he got it and what finally worked to help him and her response was, I know that stuff works well! I asked why we were not told about it before, her response was, we are not allowed to recommend organic types of medicine. So what, let the kid suffer???

If nurses and doctors are not allowed to recommend anything organic, I am sure they are going to find a way to not support green tea as well. If it is not made by a pharmaceutical company, then it cant be good right Doc? Whatever!!!

If you are like most women who will not be able to live without glorious looking hair, a reliable and efficient dryer is one of your best weapons. This piece of equipment is what women of today practically needs for everyday use.

Due to the wide popularity of dryers, there has been a widespread manufacture of this product from different brands. Because of this, it is not anymore difficult to find a dryer that will best suit your needs.

If you are hair dryer lover, here are some fabulous tips that will help you achieve that great looking hair with this piece of hair equipment.

1. Choose a reliable dryer

Of course, you will not be able to achieve great hair if the dryer you are using is something that is both cheap in price and in quality. What you should do is to ensure that you only buy the best kind. T3 hair dyer is one of the most popular choices that will never fail to bring out the best in your hair.

2. Buy a dryer with adjustable heat and speed

An adjustable heat and speed settings are essential to make it easier for you to achieve the specific look that you want. For instance, if you want a smooth blowout, the ideal settings to use are medium heat and low speed.

3. Towel dry hair before use

You might think that just because you have a hair dryer that you do not have to towel dry your hair anymore. But this is just wrong. Remember that drying your hair when it is still overly wet is not advisable to do because your hair in this state will not be able to take the heat from your hair dryer. So it is wise that you first dry your hair lightly and gently with a towel until it is just damp and not overly wet anymore.

4. Create body and volume with your dryer

To do this, turn you head upside down while blow-drying. Next, you have to position the airflow of the dryer toward the roots to lift up the hair. After the hair gets dry, toss the head back, and brush your hair gently.

5. Give your hair a straightened finish

To achieve a wonderful straight hair, use a large round brush to comb your hair tautly. Put the dryer near to your hair while you do this.

6. Put out a wavy look

Natural looking waves can be accomplished by holding the hair at its roots and scrunching them in between your fingertips as you dry it with your dryer.

7. Finish with a light shine serum

This hair product can smoothen your hair and give it the shine that will dazzle everyone. It also keeps the do in place for a longer time and gives out a nice smelling scent on your hair.

8. Take care of your dryer

Even if you have bought a durable hair dryer like a t3 hair dryer for example, you still need to take good care of it so that it would last a long time with you. Unplug the dryer right after use. It is not good for the dryer and not safe for you to leave it plugged when not in use.

Do not wrap the cord around the dryer because this can cause shortages. Avoid exposing the hair dryer to water and store it securely out of children’s reach. Read the manual carefully before using.

With these simple tricks and techniques on dryer, it would be a cinch to do the task of blow drying and achieving fabulous looking tresses.