Girls Beauty Tips

1. STOP THE CRAVINGS! - PROBIOTICS Admit it. You've been eating tons of crap all holiday season. I know I have. The first thing you have to do is quit feeding the bacteria in your intestines sugar and CRAP- especially the processed stuff! Then you need to overpower the bad little buggers in your colon with good buggers. The bad ones are the ones sitting in your intestines overriding your system causing to you keep indulging on the CRAP! It's not your lack of self control! At this time I like Nexabiotic Probiotics. They have over 21 strains of bacteria in very potent amounts. Nexabiotic is so potent that I threw up the first time I took them. Talk about a star wars battle in my stomach. Speak to your physician first before attempting anything new like this! 2. PREVENT THE HANGOVER! - ALKALINE DROPS There are many reasons people get hangovers, but the first is dehydration and an imbalance of electrolytes. Add a little formaldehyde and oak flavoring in the wine and I'm sure th...

For many years now I have been doing skin evaluations thanks to the Beau Visage (3mm below the skin). The photo on the right shows blood flow with sun damage on this customer's skin. The photo on the left is just sun damage that is coming to the surface. What's cool about these images is that it shows the customer has been super diligent wearing her sunglasses- so much so that hardly any sun ever reached her eye area. She hardly has any wrinkles or pigmentation around her eyes (even if you can tell in the blood photo she has had lid surgery). The other cool thing about this photo is that if you look VERY closely you can see a big white patch right in the middle of her forehead. This is where she has had botox injections. Botox stops blood flow from going to the muscle so that the muscles don't contract. Unfortunately it also stops the nutrient supply to the cells and skin around the injection site. In person her skin is very thin and shiny in that area compared to the rest ...

Recently International artist Mercedes Parilli of the George Salon in Chicago caught my attention when I saw her yummy recipes for dry shampoo! I love a good dry shampoo especially because I have such fine, heavy hair. I grew up with my mother using Clairol's Psssst when I was a kid and saw how much time it saved me as a teen especially during the Rave and Aquanet days! According to hairstylist icon Orlando Pita (whose client roster includes Madonna and Gweneth Paltrow among dozens of others) there is such a thing as washing your hair too much.  He always used to remind me that we really should only be washing our hair once or twice a week otherwise we could be stripping the essential oils from our hair. In fact, washing your hair too often can make your hair even oilier. Teen Vogue has a nice article about that. Mercedes Parilli informs us that "our cupboards hold everything you need to make your own dry shampoo! Just grab corn starch (which is more natural compa...

PHOTO COURTESY PETADVISOR.COM Another little trick that I like on the skin on occasion is an aspirin facial. Aspirin has salicylic acid, which is used in MANY beauty products. Here are three links to tell you more until I can circle back and elaborate! WHAT IS SALICYLIC ACID? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylic_acid HOT TO REDUCE PIMPLES WITH SALICYLIC:  http://www.wikihow.com/Reduce-Pimple-Redness-and-Size-%28Aspirin-Method%29\ DO IT YOURSELF SALICYLIC MASK: http://beautybanter.com/diy-aspirin-acne-mask-and-acne-angst Enjoy!