Carrot Cake Cheesecake Recipe

Carrot Cake Cheesecake Recipe

I have seen many carrot cake cheesecake recipes that don’t use a crust at all and in a way I can see why, carrot cakes don’t need a crust. But since part of the recipe is cheesecake, which has a graham cracker crust, I like to use a graham cracker crust for this cake.
So, although it may seem redundant to frost a cheesecake with cream cheese, I like to add a frosting to this recipe.

Homemade Beauty Recipes

Homemade Beauty Recipes

Homemade Beauty Recipes

Natural skin care doesn't have to cost a fortune. 4Beauty and Neal's Yard (opens in a new window) have teamed up to give you six beauty recipes that are easy on the pocket and the environment.

Homemade Exfoliator

You'll need: sea salt, almond oil and grapefruit peel
Sea salt has deep cleansing and therapeutic properties, which are good for aches and pains. Almond oil is rich in essential fatty acids and antioxidant vitamin E, softens and nourishes skin. Grapefruit peel has an uplifting fragrance and is known to stimulate the lymphatic system, helping move areas of sluggish circulation.

Home Made Face Mask

home made face mask

By Amanda Bown

Homemade face masks are one of the easiest and cheapest DIY beauty creations. So delicious and nutritious are these face mask recipes, you'll find it hard to resist a lick - so remember, this is food for your face. Here are 4Beauty's tips on how to make a face mask for your skin type, whether you have dry skin, oily skin, combination skin or sensitive skin.

Preparation

Start by cleansing your skin, then apply your homemade face mask, leave on for up to 10 minutes, rinse-off with warm water, gently pat skin dry and apply usual moisturiser.

Exper Tips

Gok's Jeans Tips

By Gok Wan

By Gok Wan

A pair of good-fitting jeans is the fashion holy grail. Girls, be a diva in denim with my expert jeans advice.

Rule 1. Size Yourself

When it comes to buying jeans, do not be bullied by the size on the label. Jeans will only look truly fabulous if they fit. And remember: your body has to tell you what's in - not fashion magazines and not current trends. If Cheryl Cole is doing flared jeans, then let Cheryl go off and do them: they are brilliant for her shape. You, my darlings, have to find the jeans that are brilliant for yours.

5 Easy Ways To Boost Your AW12 Style

5 Easy Ways To Boost Your AW12 Style

Introduction

Sometimes you just can’t be bothered. Sometimes you just want to be lazy and pull on something simple. Sometimes you really don’t want to spend your entire month’s wages on new trends and looks and then eat only baked beans. And for all those times, there’s this article.
I think we often forget that, within the realm of men’s style and fashion, all you really need is a few key pieces to get you through the colder months. With the right key pieces you can upgrade your style and

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 84 – The Tuxedo

Men’s Fashion Basics

A Twist On A Classic

There’s an argument to be made that there is nothing more stylish and essentially male than a tuxedo. After all, a man should never look better than he does when he’s wearing one. They’re also extremely flattering to any male figure and are so ingrained in our menswear history that they will never ever go out of style. Surely, it’s worth an investment?
From a purist standpoint I’m sure that I’m expected to tell you that you should invest in a black tuxedo with all the usual trimmings – grosgrain notch lapels, matching bow tie, single stripe trousers and no cummerbund. But seriously, how boring is that? I mean, if you want to do that then why don’t you just read the guide I did on them a couple of years ago? I only want imaginative guys taking this week’s style journey with me, son!
Black is not your only option when it comes to a tuxedo. There are plenty more choices to be made in

Percival Clothing: AW12 Collection

Percival Clothing

Percival Clothing

It’s an exciting time for British menswear label Percival, who have recently released their AW12 collection and are currently in the middle of opening up their flagship store on Soho’s Berwick Street.
For those of you who haven’t heard of the label, Percival were established in 2009 and have predominantly sold their collections online, in frequent pop-up shops in London hotspots (such as Covent Garden) and a selection of independent boutiques all over the world – from Amsterdam to Tokyo.
However, designers Chris Gove, Luke Stenzhorn and Olivia Hegarty now feel the time is right to open up the first stand alone Percival store. And so, after months of research, they decided on Berwick Street, London. Known as the ‘high street’ of Soho, the road is renowned for the numerous fabric shops it houses and is currently undergoing a transformation to turn it into a shopping destination similar to the likes of Carnaby Street.

HAIR DYE DISASTERS AND HOW TO FIX

HAIR DYE

We’ve all been there: lusting for louder locks à la Nicki Minaj and jumping in on the dip-dye or ombré hair color trend trend. However, in just the blink of an eye and a swipe of a colorful cream, a fun hair dye experiment can go horribly wrong. Maybe that rainbow hair looked great in the pictures, but the results from a full palette of Punky Color made you feel less “downtown” and more circus clown.

APPROVED RUBY RED LIPS

RUBY RED LIPS

CLAUDIA P.

Red lips are classic year-round, but they hold a special place in our hearts come holiday season. Not just any red, though—we're talking juicy gem tones reminiscent of twinkling ornaments, or even Dorothy's ruby red slippers in the Wizard of Oz! Some keep their reds clean and glossy while others have fun with extra embellishment, but the juicy shade just works on everyone. Get inspired by these community picks, smack your lips together three times, and say there's no color like ruby!

Devote a Day to Pamper Yourself at Home

Yourself at Home

All working people deserve a good break in life from their busy schedule. Pakistani men and women need to work on their beauty tips more to stay fresh and young for a long time. This article will provide sufficient beauty tips for Pakistani people to pamper themselves at least once in a while.
Make sure to begin with your beauty tips; draw a bath with adequate bubbles for relaxation. A meditation beauty tip involves putting on some slow melody songs and lighting up of the light candles. Beauty tips often tell you not to clean yourself up immediately so that body can remain refreshing and lastly usage of body soap can finish off the spa activity regarding the beauty tips.
The next step in beauty tips for Pakistani people involve the drying up of body and getting dressed and the best way to pamper yourself will be to dress up in sweats or pyjamas or a simple T-shirt in whatever makes you feel comfortable. Once you’re done with this step, pull back your hair to get started with the beauty tips on the face.

Have A Relaxing Home Spring Spa Experience

Home Spring Spa

Spa is not a new thing or a new word for ladies specially. Today, almost every women and young girl is used to with the word spa. It is however a wonderful and magical way to rejuvenate and revitalize your overall body and skin. With the advent of advance technologies and new high quality beauty and spa products, one can easily manage and enjoy a full luxurious spring spa at home. All you need is to follow these instructions towards the home spa or spring spa tips and you will definitely get the desire results without wasting money on spa salons.
This unique and simple home spa guides towards your spring spa are very beneficial for you and will bring fruitful results to you.

Green Tea Helps in Skin Freshness

Green Tea

Green tea has gained popularity over the past decade. It has been proven as a health food by numerous studies and experiments conducted. Green tea can help and benefit skin by drinking and being applied to skin. Green tea is naturally rich in antioxidants which protect the skin from free radicals. Research has indicated that green tea has even more antioxidant properties than powerful vitamins used to prepare skin products to protect your skin. Then why go for man-made products for skin freshness when green tea can protect, improve and repair your skin.  Green tea can do wonders:

Green tea fight free radicals and stops premature aging. Drinking green tea regularly delays aging and refreshes your skin.
Green tea neutralizes UV rays and protects skin from sun damage.

• Green tea prevents skin cancer. If you squeeze half a lemon to your cup of green tea it will enhance its anti-skin cancer properties.
• Green tea fights inflammation. If your skin is sensitive and you often get rashes then drinking and applying green tea will soothe your skin. Moreover people with psoriasis, eczema and dandruff should drink green tea. Its anti-inflammatory action will benefit their skin condition.
• Green tea has anti-bacterial properties that decrease hormone activities and soothe acne.
• Drinking a few cups of green tea everyday makes your skin glow and look fresh. Apart from drinking you can use green in tea in a number of ways for skin freshness:
• Soak about 100 grams of green tea leaves in half a liter of mineral water at room temperature. Keep it for an hour so that green tea extracts are mixed in the water. This liquid can be refrigerated. You can simply spray it on your face for skin freshness or you can dip cotton pads and apply it on your face. Cotton pads soaked in green tea liquid can be placed on strained eyes to relax and soothe eyes.
• A gentle green tea mask can be applied on face for instant glow and freshness.  Mix one tea spoon of organic green tea leaves with three table spoons of mayonnaise to make the facemask. Apply it gently to your face and be careful with sensitive eye area. Leave this mask on your face for about 15 to 20 minutes and rinse with water. Then dry your face and moisturize if you have a dry skin. This face mask will remove toxins from your skin making it silky, soft and glowing.

Rose petal like lips

Rose petal

Lips and eyes are considered as the important parts of the face; they enhance the face attraction, if you take care of them properly. Particularly, fresh & soft lips give your face a natural glow.

Almost every woman want to listen comments like rose petal for her lips. The wish to have rose petal like lips is present in the beauty industry for centuries. You need to develop some precautionary measures to beautify your lips. First of all, never let your lips to get dry, provide them proper moisture, drink & eat healthy; try to have lip balm or such protective layer on your skin while going out and before going to bed in winters, especially. In winters, if you apply some thick balm, Vaseline or simply fresh milk crème before sleep, you will feel great when you wake-up in the morning. It’s also good to exfoliate your lips, with salt, sugar or simply with your toothbrush, but with gentle hands. Always buy standard lipstick with healthy ingredients, never compromise on quality.

Besides them, try to match your lipstick color with blush & foundation shades, in order to have balanced make-up tone.  

Simple Beauty Tip

Simple Beauty Tip

Are you conscious about your skin? Do you want to make it better? Yes? The following beauty tip is the best content written for you.
Owning a perfect skin with a glowing complexion is every girl’s biggest wish. For achieving this wish, many young girls go to any extend in order to make themselves look prettier all the time. There are millions of beauty products which are available in the markets today, accompanied by thousands of beauty tips. With the advancements in technology and more awareness amongst people; consultations with doctors, beauticians and dieticians are becoming very popular regarding the skin problems and treatments. But this best and the simplest beauty tip for getting everlasting glowing and smooth skin is to use and drink lots and lots of water.

Best Spa Products to Pamper Yourself

Best Spa

There is nothing more soothing than pampering yourself with a good spa treatment and that too, at any time at home with the best spa products.
A spa with natural products is mostly considered as the best option because the entire concept of spa has originated from herbal treatments for relaxations. Therefore, we consider those products as best spa products that have a natural and refreshing for giving us the ultimate spa treatment.
We are always not that receptive towards having spa treatments from proper spa clinics and getting them professionally. They are not only inconvenient but costly too. Therefore, in order to have the spa treatment often what you can do is have a good range of best spa products at home and help yourself with this great luxury.
These days due to the popularity of spa culture and awareness about having a treatment of spa with natural products people have gained a lot of knowledge. Moreover, many companies are making special attempts to come with such a product line of best spa products that fit ideally with the consumer perceptions.
Scented candles, body scents and oils, moisturizers and other similar stuff make up the basics of best spa products. There is an endless variety of these products that offer amazing treatments of spa with natural products at home. You can select each one of these best spa products according to your tastes and preferences like selecting your favorite fragrance for scented candles and body scents etc.
The basic aim of all these spa treatments and a wide range of these best spa products is to help you rejuvenate yourself and take out some time for yourself to relax and stress out your muscles. Spa with natural products is considered the most preferable choice as it brings you closer to the wonders of nature and you can get yourself stress-free with the basic blessings of nature by having spa with natural products.
By having a home spa treatment, you can easily keep a check on what kind of products you are using and what is in them exactly. This allows you to only choose for spa with natural products. In simpler terms spa with natural products give you pure organic beauty.
In summer season, the spa treatments that most of the people would like to have with best spa products are mostly related with tanning, sunscreen and other similar stuff. Any product that is used either for protection or for the love of sun tanned skin must be carefully used. Spa with natural products having precise chemical free ingredients are very important here as most of the skin diseases arise from different tanning techniques that people opt for.
Spa with natural products is not just good for your health and body but it is good for the environment too as no chemicals and artificial stuff is being used in creating them and they generate no harm to the environment in return too. Good quality natural products are indeed the best spa products which are highly recommended for home spa and professional spa treatments.