Date Rape Detecting Lipgloss

When beauty and safety join forces, they create a BRILLANT idea.

Being glamorous, safe and having a good time all-in-1.

After Tracy Whittaker was warned by a waitress that the drink a handsome stranger bought her might be spiked, Whittaker took action. She started 2 Love My Lips, a line of minty-fresh, lip-plumping glosses with built-in test strips that detect date-rape drugs in drinks. The final design, two years in the making, received wide attention when it launched a few months ago in Whittaker's native U.K.

The mission of 2lovemylips to help bring attention to the growing problem of drink spiking, an issue that is affecting night life hot spots world wide. The lip gloss can help women everywhere feel their best while the test strip offers a line of defence against drink spikers.

Alittle Bit of Brow Talk

Brows are such a powerful weapon for the face structure. Brows are like the frame of a picture, they always seal the face structure and always visible, front in center for everyone to see. When I decide to allow my brows to be free,bushy or go un-groomed for a while, I wonder what people are thinking in their minds. Like, "wow her eyebrows are really bushy, thick and need to be cleaned up..." But sometimes I have to let them be free and grow all over the place, due to one reason more than likely: A previous experience of allowing someone to groom my brows and they were not done correctly. I prefer a thick, full, simple shape brow, over a thin arch. Why? Thicker brows define the face more, plus I love the look of feeling beauty vintage from the 1950's and 1960's. I am in the process of learning how to correctly groom my powerful weapons (brows) right from my own bathroom. I rather mess up my own brows and deal with the annoying growth process for two months or even longer, than to have someone as mess me up. When I groom my eyebrows each morning, whether in the horrible growing back process or safistiedly perfect, I always do the following:

• Brush brows upward and over into their defined shape pattern.
• Apply a layer of brow gel to unruly strands of hair
  
• Create more definition to the brow, by touching up with a brow shadow using an short angler brush. Magic!
  

Groom your own brows from home?
Here are some tips to consider.

• Brush your brows upward and snip the tips as conservatively as possible.
• Clear away obvious stray hairs.
• Pluck between your brows—with restraint. They should begin just above the inner corners of your eyes.
• Tweeze from underneath the brows to open up the arch, removing one row of hair from beginning to end.
• Draw an imaginary line from the edge of your nostril to the outer corner of your eye: That's where your brow should end.
• The less you do, the better off you are. A full, simple shape is most flattering.

Brazilian Waxes, Are They The New Razors?

Queens, its that time of year again...The time when body hair removal is a MUST! Throughout the winter months, I would sometime skip my shaves...legs, that is...But now that summer is almost here and my swimsuit is still calling my name at the store and my shorts are anxiously waiting to be worn, shavers are a MAJOR NECESSITY! However, two things that really irritate me about shaving with razors are skin nicks and RAZOR BUMPS! Razor bumps are so not cute. Shaving with razors creates folliculitis that are inflammation of hair follicles that appear as an eruption of skin surrounding hair or pores; resulting into annoying red bumps, or pus like bumps. Ewww!

So, why not trade the razors for waxes, a BRAZILIAN WAX!? For some of those, who are unfamiliar of what a Brazilian wax is, three words--NO HAIR, WHATSOEVER! All the hair is removed from your genitals to your buttock area only leaving a strip of hair in the front. Can someone say painful? Not only can the wax be painful, but there are some health concerns. Since, the Brazilian waxing is removing hair from an area with a lot of bacteria; there are possibilities of infections. If you are considering a Brazilian wax, please speak with with your spa technician about:

1. If the wax has been reused.
2. Treatment for negative reaction from the wax.
3. If the spa technician has a valid cosmetology license, if not, RUN asap!

Recently, there were two women hospitalized in New Jersey after getting a Brazilian wax, so, be safe if you do.

Enjoy, the bareness!

Dove.LOVE.

I ABSOLUTELY admire the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, because it serves as a catalyst of change, against the stereotypical image the media has stamped upon women. The campagian launched in 2004 as a global outreach for women of ALL ages, sizes and shapes to recognize the REAL BEAUTY a woman posses as unique, and perfectly designed human-being. Often times, women attempt to mode and shape their image, according to what society praises as beauty: thin, young & blonde.

DOVE's mission: To make more women feel beautiful everyday by widening the stereotypical views of beauty. Now that's AWESOME!

Love the skin your in...If not, it's possible to do so...

Real You, Real Beauty!