Skin Care
Hair Waves - Considering Your Lifestyle
Your hair's curl pattern - or lack of curl pattern - is referred to as its wave pattern or its form. Confusingly, some hairdressers use the term "texture" - the same term used to describe hair's fineness - when talking about wave pattern. You can te...
Knowing Your Face Shape
Have you ever spent weeks combing magazines for a new hairstyle, searching for looks that would work with your hair type? Upon finding one, you take the picture to your stylist who duplicates it down to the last layer. You stare at your new self - t...
Skin Care Tips - Enemies of Good Skin
Recognizing a smoker's face We are all familiar with what some doctors call "smoker's face": fine lines around the mouth from puckering lips; lines near the eyes from squinting through smoke; a gray-tinged complexion caused by nicotine-slowed blood...
Is Cosmetic Surgery for You?
Should You or Shouldn't You Have cosmetic surgery? Ultimately, only you can decide. But to help you determine whether cosmetic surgery is an option for you, ask yourself the following probing questions: Things to consider Why do you want cosmetic su...
Hair Color - How Color Works
When it Comes to hair color, we live in exciting times. We can darken hair for a day or a month, brighten strands permanently, even make raven-colored tresses as pale as sunlight. We can add lighter, brighter, or darker stripes, as well as cloak gra...
Nail Enemies and Infection
When you consider how rough humans are on their fingers and toes, you realize why nails have to be tough. Nails are the barrier between our skin and hard surfaces, hot water, chemicals, and physical trauma. Yet nails are also vulnerable. You may not...
Nail Health
Healthy nails are pretty nails - something worth considering if your nails never seem to look good. Fortunately, nails don't need a lot to be healthy. The most important thing is to avoid those activities and substances that damage nails. There are...
Nail - Loving Nutrients
For centuries, women have swallowed royal jelly, eaten liver, and drunk gelatin concoctions to get longer, stronger, faster-growing nails. In a way, all this supplementation makes sense. Nails are living tissue, which means they are affected by what...
Lupus Erythematosus- Skin Disorders
Hyperthyroidism. Autoimmune thyroid disease of the hypermetabolic type (Graves disease) is reflected by several visible changes. The skin is soft and moist. Scalp hair is thin in diameter, and evidence of diffuse alopecia may be present. Vitiligo oc...