Chic-Shuk Secrets

A new year has always been a good time to start fresh. No matter what it is, choose one thing you wish to change in your life and take advantage of that new cycle in time.  I have decided that this year, I would take more control over my body (which includes my weight AND shape) and am finally going to sign up with a monthly membership at the local gym. I`v been wanted to do so for a long time,  and for some reason couldn’t find a better time then right now!!!                   

May 2010 will be happier and healthier to all of us!

xoxo

Minutes before leaving my place, going onto my holiday vacation, I wanted to share some health and beauty secret wishes to everyone:

Rather you are about to spend some quality time with your family, or you are more like me- escaping out of town for a few days, THIS IS THE TIME of the year to go crazy, forget about our healthy lifestyle everyday habits, leave your weight watching and diet rules at home and simple CELEBRATE. celebrate the holiday, drink for some new beginnings, enjoy your beautiful healthy life! pick the most delicious meal you can make or order your most favorite dish at a restaurant! forget about the fat and calories for once, and simply celebrate! treat your body`s beauty with a special spa treatment you`v never tried before, take several deep breaths and relax. After all- ITS A HOLIDAY!!!

Luv you all and wish you healthy, beautiful life!!!

I don’t know about you, but it is really hard these days (or too expensive…) to find an ecologically friendly, high quality AND natural ingredients cosmetic products.  When it comes to the basic self spa treatment like body lotion, I would like to share with you, readers, the simplest, healthy, home made lotion, using %100 percent pure coconut oil. The reason I choose  coconut oil to treat my skin, is since it is well known as an excellent massage oil, it acts effectively on all types of skins like mineral oil but with no adverse side effects, and is a safe, healthy solution for preventing dryness, delays wrinkles, sagging of skin and other skin problems! LOVE IT, and strongly recommended trying:

Refrigerate one cup of any kind of cold pressed organic coconut oil (huge attention to the `cold pressed` part!) for several hours, till gets solid, and you are ready to go! grab some with a table spoon, warm it up using your palms rub your skin and improve its condition!!! 

True. Celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Taylor Swift have a natural looking long, plentiful hair, and there are many great hair products assure to give you longer, luscious, thick look without hair extensions. However- these are all external beauty treatments for your hair, and once you wash it, the truth comes out. A new celebrity secret for a real growing longer, fuller hair is- Hair Injections. Thanks to its winning formula which helps stimulating hair growth and strength, by injecting the vitamins and drugs that were normally taken orally, directly into the scalp, you get a stronger, immediate effect. With the Hair Injection technology, less medicine is needed then with an oral dose and there are fewer side effects. Especially for hair loss progress, many dermatologists recommend 6 to 9 treatments every year, and although it maybe a little painful and expensive (about $400 per treatment) the results might be worth it! 

Rumors have attributed Jude Law`s apparent thickening to these shots, according to Marie Claire magazine, however his rep wouldn’t comment. 

Take a look yourself at these before and after pictures:

Dark circles under eyes usually are not necessarily a sign of exhaustion or serious illness, like most people tend to think. They can make you feel old, unhealthy and tired, and medically defined as round, uniform areas of pigmentation beneath each eye, which can affect both men and women.  What appear as shadows cast by puffy eyelids or hollows under your eyes, thinning skin and loss of fat and collagen, which make the reddish-blue blood vessels under your eyes more obvious, can be a result of many sakes:  Allergies, tiredness, part of aging (The loss of fat and collagen is common as you age), normal lifestyle factors (such as smoking and drinking alcohol or too many caffeinated sodas) and last but not least reason- unfortunately- heredity.  No matter what the cause is, you can still reduce the appearance of dark circles, and in some cases, you may be able to get rid of them altogether!

For prevention you should eat healthy, balanced diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables, take daily vitamins supplement if necessary (especially vitamin K and B12), reduce sodium intake and drink plenty of water. If you are a smoker-  quit smoking! Smoking causes vascular (blood vessel) problems that can not only threaten your life, but also make your blood vessels appear more prominent and bluer beneath the skin. However, the most natural, easy way treating dark circles when appear is to apply cool tea bags, or cucumber slices over your eyes for about 10-15 minutes daily, keeping your eyes closed. It will reduce swelling, discoloration, and puffiness then refresh the appearance of skin around the eyes!