Chic-Shuk Secrets

Sun damage is the greatest threat to your skin’s long-term health and beauty. Nothing ages skin faster than the sun’s UVA and UVB rays, and premature aging caused by exposure to the sun’s rays creates saggy skin, wrinkled skin, dark sunspots and discoloration.

Your skin is exposed not only when you’re lounging by the pool, but when you’re going from your car to the grocery store.  Further more, about 80% of the sun’s cell-destroying UV and UB rays can penetrate windshields and assault your skin even through cloud cover.   

Some of the nasty secrets of what the sun can do to your skin are destroying skin’s connective tissue, leading to loss of tone, texture and firmness (what causing the appearance of wrinkles) and encourage melanocytes to become overactive and clump together, resulting in age spots, uneven pigmentation and skin cancer.  

In order to prevent sun damage, besides staying indoors you should wear broad-spectrum lotions with SPF 15 or higher, over sized sun-glasses, wide-brim hats and use spray tanning services!

Remember: Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer, and sun damage can affect people of all ages, races and colorings – not just those with light skin and light eyes!

I love when celebs share their beauty secrets, and this time it is the gorgeous 44 years old Academy Awards winner Sandra Bullock, that tell us how she gets her so radiant look – in less than 10 minutes!
Yes, she humbly accepted the 2010 Oscar for Best Actress in a lead performance last night, at the 82nd Academy Awards, and yes, she is beautiful- inside and out. Now read what she has to say:

Sandra Bullock explained to InStyle magazine that she`s a low maintenance type of woman, and has a simple beauty secret that takes about 8 minutes to apply: “I use face cloth and Artistry cream for my daily beauty which takes about eight minutes!” says Bullock. “It may be quick yet very effective beauty routine”.

Apparently,  the Artistry Microdermabrasion System offers an at-home alternative to microdermabrasion, providing professional-grade results and glowing skin!  Very recommended skin care product!!!

Not everybody likes Lemons, but who doesn’t want picture perfect glowing skin like Halle Barrey or Demi Moore or other famous and beautiful celebrities?  You can save time & money by simply one lemon top slice! Gently massage the fruit slice on a clean face for  up to 2 minuets, wait another 10 minutes then rinse with warm water. Thanks to the citric acids and antioxidants in lemon, it works wonders for dull spots! This natural cleanse would help your skin glow, leaving it with a fresh feeling!

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!!! 

If there is a favorite part at celebrity Mariah Carey which I simply admire it is her silky looking skin. According to her facialist, Mariah Carey is a huge fan of aromatherapy and anti-aging collagen treatments.  One of her favorite products is Decleor Aromessence Neroli Comforting Concentrate. This cosmetic beauty care product is formulated to treat normal and sensitive skin types. You only need to apply just a few drops of this cocktail of essential oils morning and evening to revitalize skin, like Mariah does. 

The extraordinary, natural nutritional properties of this oil -

1. Restore suppleness and skin tone.

2. Increase the efficacy of all the subsequent skincare products. 

3. provides immediate comfort and radiance and brings out the skin’s natural color!

4. The perfect beauty treatment for radiant results since is a %100 natural and rich in vital elements which decongest and softens stressed skin!

 A definitely must have product!