Regain Your Nail Strength

Luckily, it’s pretty easy to protect nails against these damaging factors.

• Wear gloves when handling any chemicals, doing the dishes or hand-washing clothes to avoid water exposure.
• Steer clear of alcohol-based hand sanitizers. They’re very drying. Instead, wash hands with moisturising soap.
• Keep your nails short to minimize surface area where water and chemicals can be absorbed.
• "The only supplement that has any scientific evidence [to improve nail health] behind it is biotin. Nails take six months to replace themselves.
• Use cuticle oil or cream to avoid dry skin and hangnails. Cuticles help prevent water from getting into your nails, which can create an environment for bacteria to grow. So don’t cut away at them – keep them moisturised and simply push them back to avoid infection and let them do their job.
• Take a nail-polish holiday. If you've tried other precautions and still are suffering from brittle nails, take a break from polish to give your nails some time to get back into shape. How long is appropriate? "Nails grow slowly so unfortunately it takes time," Stern says. "I’d say consider a three-month holiday."

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Magic of Lemon on Skin

1. Age Spots
The best way to use vitamin C on your age spots is lemon juice. The citric acid in lemon juice can help gradually fade the spots and help even your skin tone.

It's simple: Dab lemon juice onto your age spots daily. Let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes and say good-bye to unwanted spots.

2. Wrinkles and Fine Lines
Wrinkles form on the parts of your face that move the most. Underneath your top layer of skin, you have collagen – a connecting tissue that keeps your skin layers together. As you get older, you start to lose some collagen, which causes the skin to sink and create wrinkles. To fight wrinkles, try adding a healthy dose of vitamin C into your diet.

Eat foods rich in vitamin C: lemons, strawberries, papaya and pineapple. With the help of these delicious snacks, your body will create more collagen, helping to prevent pesky wrinkles.

3. Sagging Skin
Using vitamin C on your skin helps boost your collagen, which will bring elasticity back to your skin and can prevent sagging in as little as two weeks.

You can do it yourself: Mix some lemon juice into your moisturiser or look for a moisturiser made with vitamin C. Apply once a day in the morning and you're done.

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SKIN CARE TIPS FOR AGE DEFY

FOR FACE

• Apply primer to your entire face. Start in the center and blend outward.
• Mix foundation with highlighting illuminator and then blend from the center of the face outward toward the cheeks, forehead and chin.
• Apply concealer to the under-eye area, focusing the most coverage on the inner corners of the eyes. If necessary, place concealer on any additional sunspots or discoloration on your skin.
• Set your makeup with a finishing powder.
• Next, contour your complexion. Use a fluffy brush to blend bronzer underneath the cheekbones and out toward the hairline, sweeping across the jawline, temples and finishing with a dusting across the forehead, close to the hairline.
• Apply blush to the apples of the cheeks and outward toward the bronzer.

FOR EYES:

• Apply cream eye shadow as a base over the eyelids from the lash line, up toward the brow bone.
• Next, blend long-lasting eye shadow onto the outer edge of the eyelid, blending slightly inward.
• Then, apply eye pencil into the lash line from inner corner to outer edge.
• Finish by applying two coats of mascara to the tops of the eyelashes and one coat to the bottom lashes.

FOR LIPS:

• Apply one coat of lipstick to the top and bottom of the lips.
• Finish by lining the lips with a long-lasting lip pencil.

Body Booster Thoughts

Most people would assume that in order to feel more confident about their bodies, they must make changes to it. Things like exercising more and eating healthier often come to mind. People think they must keep up with the latest diet craze, count calories, and keep track of what they eat. Things like “cheat days,” and learning the latest and greatest ways to tone various body parts can become things to obsess over.

What if I told you it’s possible to feel better about your body by simply using your mind? Sound too good to be true? Try these five body confidence boosters and find out your for yourself.

1. Pay Attention to Your Thinking

A belief is just a repeated thought, so if you are always thinking about what you don’t like about your body, you will never feel good about it. Are you constantly focusing on your love handles, the little bump on your nose, and the new wrinkles on your face? Are you regularly comparing yourself to others and thinking about how you wish yours looked more like theirs? When you spend your time thinking negatively about your body, you are reinforcing what you don’t like. It’s almost impossible to feel good and/or make lasting changes from a negative place. Just becoming aware of all of the negative thoughts swirling around in your head, is enough to move you towards more body confidence.

2. Think About What You Like

Start thinking about what you like about your body, and try making a list of at least 10 things. This can be challenging for some people, but try and make it fun. The list doesn’t have to only be full of physical, aesthetic attributes. Think about all of the things that you appreciate that your body can do. Some examples are, “I am grateful for my arms because they can hug the people I love,” and “I love my legs, because they are strong and allow me to walk places,” and “I appreciate my tongue because it allows me to taste delicious, healthy foods.” Our bodies are amazing, and when you start appreciating all of the wonderful things yours does, you will start feeling better about it.

3. Change Your Attitude

When exercising, instead of thinking about what you want to change, think things like, I am strong, and I can do it. Similar to changing the way you think about your body and changing your thoughts about your abilities will help you feel stronger, capable, and more confident.

4. Trust Your Body

Think about the fact that your body is built to take care of you if you take care of it. Your heart beats without needing to do much of anything. You often breathe with little, if any, thought about it. Your body was also born knowing how to metabolize food. Learn to trust it to do what it is meant to do. Nurture it by eating in moderation, not depriving it, giving it fuel, and getting enough sleep and exercise. Stop trying to control it so much, and allow it to do what it is supposed to do.

5. Love Yourself More

Taking care of yourself is essential when it comes to feeling more confident. When you feel stressed, run down, or unhappy, you are less inclined to take good care of yourself. This often becomes a cycle and can lead to self-loathing. In order to boost your body confidence, you must take care of yourself as you would your child or another loved one. You deserve to feel good, so tend to your needs on a daily basis. This will lead to feeling better, which will lead to taking better care of yourself, which will lead to more confidence.

Boosting your body confidence can be as easy as changing the way you think. It’s probably a little different than what you are used to hearing, but is extremely effective. Accepting, appreciating, and loving where your body is at today, no matter what, is not giving yourself permission to let yourself go. It’s giving yourself permission to feel great no matter what, which will give you the confidence, energy, and motivation to take better care of yourself each day!








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Mix Veg- African Style

Ingredients:

1. 1 Red onion Sliced
2. 2 carrots, peeled and halved
3. 2/5 cup green beans, ends cut off
4. 1 tomato
5. 1 small potato, ends cut off
6. 1/3 cup cauliflower, cut in florets
7. 1/3 cup turnip (shaljam), peeled and halved (if available)
8. 1/3 cup red pepper, cut into 2cm strips
9. 1/5 cup peas (fresh or frozen)
10. 2 garlic cloves (crushed)
11. 1 tsp salt
12. 1/2 tsp black pepper
13. 1/2 tsp ginger powder
14. 1/2 tsp turmeric
15. 1 1/3 tbsp fresh ginger (finely grated)
16. 3 tbsp olive oil/ cooking oil
17. 1 fresh chili
18. 1 pinch saffron strands 
19. 1/2 bunch coriander

Direction:

1. In a Non-stick pan, add oil as the oil heats up add garlic & Ginger, when the mixture turn golden, turn the flames at the lowest point, add all the spices and vegetable (except Onion & Tomato). Mix them well so that spices is coated well in vegetable
2. Remove the coated vegetable in a pot. 
3. Now Add the remaining oil to the non-stick kadhai on slow flame, place the sliced onion on the bottom, then stack of carrot slices, portato, pepper, and cauliflower in a pyramid shape and add 1/4 cup water. 
4. Bring to a boil on the stove and cook for 25 minutes with the lid on, occassionally checking to make sure all the water does not boil away or burn. If you need to add a little more water, do so. 
5. Next, arrange all the other vegetables (except the tomato and chili) on top of the hard vegetables, keeping a pyramid shape. 
6. Now, put the whole chli on top and add the lid before cooking for another 20 minutes with another 1/5 cup of water. Check to make sure it does not burn dry. 
7. Slice the tomato into 1/2 cm disks and place around the tagine. Continue to cook for five minutes and serve with chapatti, Naan

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