How to Be a Great Beauty

By Bryan Burbank

Everyone wants to be beautiful. It may not be as difficult as it seems. You must remember what is beautiful for one person may not necessarily be beautiful to another person. So there is room for everyone to be beautiful.

Each year there are millions of articles written and shows on TV showing you what can make you beautiful. In this article I will like to give you some tips that can make you the beautiful woman you want to be.

First, skin care is most important. Having a radiant complexion is essential. You must learn to take care of your skin from an early age. Get yourself into a good skin care regime of cleansing and moisturizing. It is never to early to start. All the make-up in the world layered over a bad complexion will ever make you beautiful.

Second, take good care of your hair. Use a good shampoo and conditioner. Wash often, but not so often that you wash out all of the natural healthy oils.

Everyone wants to be a beautiful blond, but remember that bleaching and over processing your hair takes all of the life out of it and ruins it. If you choose to have long hair make sure you trim it often so you don't have split ends. Keep in mind a woman's crowning glory is her hair.

Third, nutrition is very important, you know the old adage you are what you eat. So make sure you have a good diet. Eat three good meals every day, balanced with healthy snacks.

As busy as your life may be due to family and career make sure you eat properly. Along with a good diet make sure you have the right amount of essential vitamins and nutrients important to a woman's good health.

Fourth, exercise,no excuses, make time for yourself. I know you are busy with your family and your career. But you must make time for yourself at least three times a week to exercise. This is good for your body and your mind. Your family will be much happier in the end because you took this time for yourself.

Lastly, you can do all of the above tips to make you more beautiful, but if you don't feel beautiful from within, you will never look beautiful on the outside. You must feel good about yourself and who you are and if you don't you must find out why you feel like that. The key to genuine outer beauty is a deep sense of inner beauty.

Tips For Beautifully Polished Fingernails

By Barry Lycka

Beautifully polished nails aren't just for hand models. Besides your face, your hands are another area that people first notice about you. Nail polish can help your hands look younger, smoother and even thinner. Polishing your nails may seem like a no-brainer, but here are some helpful tips you may not have been aware of before:

1. If you are already wearing a polish or not, before you apply nail polish, always remove the excess oils from your nails with nail polish remover.

2. To avoid cotton ball fuzzies stuck to your nails, use a makeup sponge with polish remover.

3. To avoid yellowing nails after your polish is removed, try buffing the tops of your nails. This will also smooth out the roughness of your nails.

4. Always, always, always use a base coat! This also will help eliminate the discolorization of your nails.

5. Water-based nail enamels, hypoallergenic and unscented nail products are available if you have sensitive skin.

6. Choose a shade that enhances your fingers and toes.

7. Instead of shaking your polish, roll the bottle in the palm of your hand, your nail polish will last longer!

8. Don't put too much polish on the brush.

9. When painting your nails, apply the polish to the tips of your nails and slightly underneath the tip of your nails.

10. Fast drying enamels are fabulous, but they also chip faster!

11. Nail polish takes a full hour to completely dry without smudging.

12. Once your nails have dried enough, usually 10 minutes, add a top coat.

13. To keep your nails looking glossy, apply a new coat every other day.

Pre Menstrual Syndrome (PMS) And Yoga

By Kyle J Norton

As we mentioned in previous article, Premenstrual syndrome effects over 70% to 90% of women before menopause in the US and less for women in Southeast Asia because of their difference in living style and social structure.

Premenstrual syndrome is defined as faulty function of the ovaries related to the women's menstrual cycle, it effects a women's physical and emotional state, and sometimes interferes with daily activities as a result of hormone fluctuation. The syndrome occurs one to two weeks before menstruation and then declines when the period starts. In this article, we will discuss how yoga helps to treat PMS.

Yoga is one form of medical treatment, originated from India which has been all over the world with proven record in preventing and treating diseases.

1. Sugar regulating
It is said that yoga is helpful in stimulating the function of digestive system and improving the function of insulin production of pancreas in sugar regulation resulting in helping people with diabetes and women with symptoms of sugar craving in PMS.

2. Nervous system
By following the inhaling and exhaling in yoga, it helps to calm and relax the cell in the nervous system that helps to decrease the risk of hormones over production such as serotonin and adrenaline resulting in lessening symptoms of emotional and physical stress, anxiety and irritability.

3. PMS pain and cramps
Yoga besides helps to calm and relax the brain cell, it also has a calming effects in relaxing the muscle in the abdomen including the uterus muscles resulting in reducing the risk of PMS pain and cramps.

4. Insomnia
Yoga helps to increase the production of melatonin through exercise of inhaling and exhaling thereby, calming the over active of brain cells at night resulting in reducing the symptoms of sleeplessness for women with PMS.

5. Digestive system and constipation

Through deep inhaling and slow exhaling into the stomach, it helps to improve the muscles of the stomach and secret the production of vital stomach acids resulting in improving the function of digestive system in vitamins and minerals absorption. This action also helps to increase movement of large intestine that helps to reduce symptoms of constipation for some women with PMS.

Foods For a Healthy Menopause

By Shelli Stein

Optimizing nutrition and optimizing your food choices during menopause will go a long way towards creating a healthy and symptom-free menopause. It helps to have some foods to focus on that will give you the most bang for your buck!

Here are 10 healthful foods for you to focus on to supercharge your health during menopause.

1. Pumpkin is filled with vitamin C and A, has fiber and has anti-inflammatory properties. Canned pumpkin is fine, just make sure there is no sugar added. Pumpkin is very delicious and can be used in a variety of ways.

2. Beets. Try adding beets to homemade coleslaw. Not a typical item found in coleslaw, but it'll give it a nice taste. Beets have vitamins A and C, fiber and minerals.

3. Beans and other legumes are high in protein and fiber.

4. Yogurt is a great source of calcium and has probiotics in it which help improve your gut health.

5. Canned tuna or salmon is filled with protein, is relatively inexpensive and has good omega-3 fat.
6. Oranges are very high in vitamin C and potassium. Eat the fruit rather than the juice and eat the pith because that's where a lot of the vitamins are.

7. Sweet potatoes are high in vitamin A and C and also a good fiber source. When you boil them you lose a lot of the vitamins, so bake them and be sure to eat the skin.

8. Frozen berries are full of antioxidants. Use a variety of berries and eat them every day.

9. Kiwi has vitamins E and K and is also high in vitamin C.

10. Spinach is a powerhouse so just make sure to eat it! Use spinach in smoothies, raw in salads, or cooked in some olive oil.

Notice in this group of 10 the variety of colors, the variety of vitamins you'll get, the fiber content, the different macro-nutrient groups (carbohydrate, protein, fat) and the many recipes that can potentially be created using these ingredients. That's what you're looking for when you chose what to eat during menopause. Keep it simple, but keep it smart, and you'll be feeling and looking your best each and every day.