How to makehair oil at home - A solution to no grey hair, no hair loss, thicker and stronger hair

Hello Beauties !! Hair oil is very important for all of us to provide nourishment. My mom is 53 years and still hair is all naturally black in color and she has got only two strands of grey hair and nothing else till now (Touch wood). Her gene may be one of the reason but i should say the hair oily prepared by her for us both is the main reason. One more thing is my mom never used shampoo and she sticks only with shikakai which is a natural cleanser. I would love to share this hair oil recipe with all of you.

Things Required : 

Coconut Oil - 1/2 Litre
Curry Leaves - 25 Leaves
Dwarf copperleaf - 1 bunch  It's called ponnanganni keerai in Tamil, ponnangantikura in Telugu, ponnankannikira in Malayalam, Garundi in Hindi, sesiile joyweed/dwarf copperleaf in English!)
Hibiscus Leaves - 10 Leaves (The usual red hibiscus leaves)

Method :

Grind the Curry Leaves, Dwarf Copper Leaves, Hibiscus Leaves together in Mixie. Add them all in coconut oil in a wide vessel and place it on the stove. Do not boil it, let it simmer and continue with your works. After sometime (An hour) the waste(sediment) and the oil will get separated. Filter it and leave it for sometime. You can start to use this from the next day.

Benefits :

• You would not get grey hair that easy with continuous application of this oil
• Prevents hair loss
• Makes hair thicker and stronger
• Enhances new hair growth from the root
• Great for colored and damaged hair

Note : This recipe is solely did and used by me and my family and has got great benefits.  Kindly let me know if you have any questions on this in the comments section below.

Best ways to maintain a oily skin and Packs for oily skin

Hello Beauties !! Our skin always reacts to change in weather and we buy different moisturizers and creams according to the changes. Today let me explain you about the oily skin and what are the right packs for them.
Oily skin might look beautiful and gets aged a little slower than a dry skin and wrinkles do not appear that easily for oily skinned beauty. Here are few tips on how to maintain the oily skin.

• Mix a tea spoon of egg white and few drops of lemon juice. Apply it on your face and neck for fifteen minutes and wash it off with lukewarm water. 

• Mix few drops of lemon juice with a nicely ripped banana. Apply it on your face and neck for fifteen minutes and wash it off with lukewarm water

• Mix a tea spoon of honey, orange juice, rose water along with multani matti. Let it be on your face and neck until it gets dried well. Wash it off with lukewarm water. 

• Mix few drops of lemon juice with nicely ripped papaya fruit. Apply this pack to get rid of pimples as well its effective for oily skin.

• Oily skin is the source of pimple as your pores might be clogged by the oiliness hence you can grind fresh tulsi and neem leaves and mix it along with sandal powder to make a paste. This is great for acne reduction.

• Size of pores will be larger for oily skinned beauty. A great solution for this problem is the tomato pack. Mix a tea spoon of tomato juice with few drops of lemon juice and apply it on your face and neck. You might have tingling sensation as its working on your face. 

• You can also try a cucumber pack for oily skin. As we all know cucumber refreshes the skin. Mix a 4 tea spoon of cucumber juice with honey and lemon. Apply this on your face for sometime. Gently massage before you wash it off from your face. 

Other than the above pack below are few tips to maintain a oily skin !! 

• Oily skin needs a good cleansing everyday. Cleanse your face twice with a face wash for oily skin which should also retains your moisture. 
• To even out a oily skin tone, use a fresh toner after your cleanse. Rose water or sandal toner is best for oily skin.
• Hydrating cream is necessary for oily skin. There are hydrating gels and creams available and use a little to keep up good hydration for your skin.
• If you would want to wear a makeup, then definitely choose foundation which will not clog your pores. Generally liquid foundation is good for oily skin as it will not clog your pores. 
• Do not use cream blush for oily skin especially during summer. Its better to use powder blush for oily skin. Same way its good to use powder based eye shadow than opting for creamy eye shadow.
• Your T-ZONE will look more oily hence concentrate on that part while you apply your makeup. For this, have a oil bottling paper with you so whenever you feel your t-zone is oily use them.
• Its best to use cold water to rinse a oily skin than using hot water as it lock the moisture within your face.
• Night regime is more important for oily skin. There are night creams for dry skin and oily skin. Choose the one for oily skin and apply them. Its better if you go for natural products because it has natural ingredients as oily skin is more prone to pimples if there are lot of chemicals in your night cream. Before you apply your night cream cleanse and use toner.

Hope you liked the tips above. If you have any questions kindly write it in the comments section below and I will answer you.

How to get beautiful Lips naturally at home ?

Hello Beauties !! How about a lip not dry not chapped and with a healthy beautiful look. Yes!! we use lots of different brands lipstick in different colors. We love to try them all. But end of the day we need to maintain our lips. We will miss to notice our lips are getting dried or losing its beauty without using lipstick. So if we add a natural look to our lips then that will look awesome.

Here are some of beauty tips to make our lip look pinker, moisturized and healthy !!


Cut beetroot in to two halves and just rub it on your lips to get a natural color and it makes your lips smoother.

• Grind coriander leaves and extract the juice and apply this during night times to improve the color of darkened lips.

• You can apply pure sandalwood powder mixed with rose water on your lips for few minutes to get a moisturized look.

• To get cure from dry chapped lips, just apply the skin of the milk everyday for sometime.
• One more tip for dry chapped lips, mix glycerin with rose water and apply all over the lips. This softens your lips.

• Grind few rose petals and apply them on your lips to add a healthy color. You can also grind rose petals with milk and apply it. This will help to cure dry chapped lips.

• Apply butter or ghee on your lips continuously for a month to get a beautiful younger looking lips.

• Apply honey and skin of the milk on your lips to add color and get a moisturized lips.

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How to do a different manicure at home by yourself

Hello Beauties !! We always love to keep our hands beautiful with a awesome nail polish. But we cannot always maintain them proper because of our busy schedule. Sometimes we just leave it like that and be with the same nail color for a while but then this might make your nails darker and weaker. So we need to do a nail care very often to have them healthy because how well we keep our nails show our beauty. Doing manicure at parlor needs few bucks but we need some time to go for a parlor to do them. So i am sharing with you all a very simple manicure for all busy people. This is just going to take 30 minutes and for sure you will have all the below things in your home to do this manicure.

What do you need for manicure :
1. Olive Oil
2. A toothpick and a toothbrush
3. Nail filer
4. Nail cutter
5. Scrub
6. Any moisturizing lotion
7. Hot water and a bowl
8. Honey
9. Lemon
10. Shampoo
11. Butter
12. Salt

Get ready by removing your nail colors !!
Step 1 : Soak your shampoo (You can use baby shampoo) in a hot water and mix it well to get bubbles. Mix few drops of olive oil or any aroma oil and salt in to it. Now soak your fingers in to it for 10 minutes.
Olive oil gives strength to your nails. Continuous use of olive oils will prevent breakage of nails and softens.

Step 2 : Now take your scrub and apply it around your nails and use your tooth brush to scrub the area well for two minutes. Using scrub will remove dirt around your nails. You can use any kind of scrub here.

Step 3 : Mix a few drops of lemon juice and honey, apply all over your nails and massage it gently. After 10 minutes of massage soak your fingers in the hot water again.
Lemon removes tan around your nails and honey adds a smoothness to your nails and to the skin around the nails.

Step 4 : Take a few drops of olive oil and Warm it. Then  mix  warm olive oil and butter. This is your cuticle softener. Apply the mixture and clean your cuticle using the toothpick.

Step 5 : Cut your nails to the needed level and file your nails using a filer. Apply a moisturizing lotion to your nails. After few minutes clean it with moist cotton.

This is really easy manicure and it just takes 30 minutes of your time.

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How to get a beautiful skin before the day of your wedding

Everyone dream about their wedding because that's the day our friends our relatives gather around to wish us for the beautiful  journey of life. And yeah we will be super busy with all stuffs. Though makeup will show us beautiful, we should definitely follow the skin care regime before the wedding.

How to plan for best skin care regime before the wedding:

• Start all your wedding regime a month before the day of wedding. Plan a week by week process and be ready on your wedding. 
• Start to drink 3 liters of water. I am starting here with water because this is going to flush out all the toxins from your body and your step 1 to help you get a glow.
• Everyday have any kind of fruit. Be it banana or Apple or orange, anything you can take but you should have it daily. Have the fruits early morning to add you more benefit. 
• Have orange juice every two days. I mention orange here because this is going to add a complete glow to your skin. 
• For a month, completely avoid having oily foods because this might get you a pimple. Do not try any new creams or any new products on you. 

Facepack : 

Apply a facepack weekly once for four weeks, you can buy it online from any good brand but let it be ayurveda because that would never give you any side effects. And use the same face pack for the whole four weeks as continuous use will give you a good result. You can use ubtans, let's see whats ubtan. Ubtan is a homemade paste (available in high end brands too) used in ancient times for skin care. And girls use the ubtan before the marriage all over their body for ten continuous days as a complete regime. For applying on face, you can buy it from the store but for all over body we cannot afford so much money so its better you prepare at home.

How to prepare ubtan at home ?
There are different types of Ubtan with various beneficial ingredients. For skin lightening you can use the following ubtan.

Rose - Sun dried and grinned rose petals ( The normal dark pink rose)
Sandalwood powder - You can get this from the store
Milk
Yogurt
Orange - Peel the orange skin, sun dry and grind it.
Rosewater - You can get this from store
Turmeric - A pinch

Mix all the above said mixture and apply all over your body and face. Leave it for 20 minutes and wash it off with a moisturizing body wash.  With the above mentioned pack you can definitely see  tremendous glow with 2 to 3 times of use. You can also apply this powder on your face daily, do not leave it for 20 minutes. Just apply and wash your face daily like how you use daily face wash.

In terms of our skin, some of them have rough and dark skin on their back and hip. Don't worry just choose best body butter which will help you make your skin soft with daily use. If i may suggest, I use body butters from the body shop and it works great for me.

Waxing : 
Do you know waxing adds a tone of color to your skin. It will take four to six weeks for hair to grow on your skin after you do waxing in parlor. Do your waxing nearing to your day of wedding and not two weeks before. Say if the wedding is on Friday, do your waxing on wednesday. Do it in parlor and not by yourself because they do it well and its easy for us.

A wax tip : Do not wax your skin often in the parlor way, your skin might loose its tightness, and do not wax with cream it will darken your skin. You can use high brand razor like philips, panasonic because they have both dry and wet removal options.

Facial : 

If you are planning to do a facial in parlor then definitely do it atleast three days before your wedding. Do not do it two days or one day before as it will make your face either dark or it may give you pimple because of the massage they give. Choose Aroma facial for your wedding because that gives you all the glow and its very good for skin. It calms and soothes and aroma oils has lot of good benefits for skin.

Manicure and Pedicure :
Our usual manicure and pedicure will be once a month but keeping in mind the wedding is in a month do it twice. check on if you have dark skin around your nails, if so ask the parlor to concentrate more on it. Go for a pedicure done with fishes as it removes all your dirt and it feels fantastic. Before you go for bed apply olive oil to your nails and surrounding areas and then sleep. Its better if you apply only top quality nail polish for a month else leave your nails free. Let your nails breath. Get a beautiful nail art done for your wedding. Pink shades, golden shades, red shaded will do wonders.
Buy a very good body lotion which only adds moisturizing  effect but if you are going on sun then buy a body lotion with SPF level 15. Get a beautiful anklet to add more beauty to your legs.
Eyebrows : 

Do your eyebrow trimming in the same parlor and do not change it. If you have smaller eyebrows then start to apply castor oil everyday and it will grow well. There are eyebrow gels to fill in your brows and to give a shape in stores. And those gels come with different colors so based on your hair color you can choose them.

Spa :

And this is the right time for going to a spa. Yes choose a very good parlor and go for it. Its not required you need to choose the costly spa it will be great even if you choose affordable spa treatment because you are doing a healthy regime process already.

Hair :
For hair, I have already wrote a post here http://fashionplusmakeups.blogspot.com/2014/07/hair-care-with-aroma-oils.html

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How to do your hair coloring naturally in home with this method !!

Hair coloring has now become very common and lots of hair colors with different brands emerge.Hair coloring products with chemicals will definitely have its own side effects. Though the artificial hair coloring lasts for a long, it would break the hair and weaken it. But why can't we color our hair naturally with the ingredients from our kitchen. If we do it naturally, though the color starts to fade we can once again color it and this would not do any harm to our hair. Do not color your hair from the root while using chemical hair coloring products. If you are coloring only on the hair strips then the effect of the product is lesser.

So now let's see how to do natural hair coloring !!

Ingredients :

Beetroot Juice - 1 Cup
Amla(Goose berry) Powder  - 1/2 Cup
Mehendi Powder - 1 Cup (Available at stores- Buy the ones which are made for hair)
Coffee Powder - 1 Spoon
Fenugreek Powder - 1 spoon
Clove Powder - 1 spoon

How to make and use the natural hair color :

Do you have iron vessel at your home ??. If so this will give you a enhanced effect. Else no problem, you can use the normal vessel. Mix all the ingredients in the vessel and leave it for 8 to 10 hours. Then apply it all over your hair and leave it for two hours. Wash your hair with water (not hot) and do not use shampoo on that day. This will give you a beautiful hair color. If you want to have only highlights then you can use this to apply only on the hair strips.

How to bleach your hair naturally :

Bleaching your hair before coloring the hair gives you a good color. Bleaching is nothing but fading your actual hair color. Let's see how to make a natural bleach.

Ingredients :

Lemon Juice - 1/2 cup
Honey          - 4 spoons
Vinegar         - 4 Spoons
Almond         - Soak almonds over night and grind it in the morning

How to make natural hair bleach and apply : 

Mix all the above ingredients and apply it on your hair. Leave it for two hours and wash it with water (Not hot). Do not apply shampoo. Now your hair is ready for coloring.

Than spending a lot of money on doing a hair coloring which brings side effects you can prepare this at your home and use it.

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Flawless Beauty in 3 Minutes - Apply Your Makeup simple and easy

Let's quickly see a quick and simple easy makeup for a trendy look !!

Step 1 : To get a even toned face, Mix a pea sized amount of primer and a very little foundation on back of your hand with your makeup powder brush and apply it in circular strokes starting from near the bridge of your nose.

Step 2 : Apply your blush with the help of any card
 (Bank ATM card), have your card in a slanting direction from end of your lips till the start of your ear and that's where you have to apply your blush. This way will show your face thinner.











Step 3 : Apply the lip balm for a good base and apply a shiny lip gloss. Gloss colors like canberry, peach does a great job for your lips !!

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How to get the permed and wavy hairstyle look without any heat or curling iron

Hello Beauties !! We all love wavy hair, curly, permed hair ... And we use curlers with lot of heat to do it. Sometimes we don't spray the heat resistant spray. Today lets see how to get the below hairstyles with just paper and a hairpin or a knot.

Things needed : 

Papers, hair pins (optional)

How to get the look of permed hair like the 1st picture (Above) ?? 

If you need a permed hair look like the 1st picture above, then wet your hair or you can do this after you shampoo your hair. Split two sides of your hair and take some, now twist your hair as the below picture (Note : This is for hair to look like the 1st picture above). With a paper (Normal news paper will do), try to fold your hair until it reaches half (I folded completely). Now with the two ends of the paper tie a knot if you feel the paper is light and it might tear then keep the two ends crossed and put a hair pin there. Repeat the same steps until you are done. Leave it for four hours. Gently remove the pin and it will look like below picture. Now comb your hair as usual to get the look !!

How to get the look of wavy hair ??

So there is a simple difference to get a wavy hair. Shampoo your hair and dry it off well. (Note : You can do it wet if you want). Now do not twist your hair and just fold it with the news paper and leave it on the hair for 4 hours. So you are done with the wavy hair look.

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How to do makeup in 5 minutes ??

Hey All !! We all are super busy everyday running to work, cleaning our home, cooking and yeah we don't have much time for a everyday makeup look !!
Here are simple ways to apply a makeup in very little time and look gorgeous.

Step 1 : Cleanse your face with your normal face wash. See to that your face wash adds moisture to your face !!

Step 2 : Use a BB cream instead of foundation which you can apply very easily even without a primer. But definitely use a moisturizer before applying BB cream. BB cream moisturizes, primes, acts as a light foundation and covers spots.

Step 3 : Apply the loose powder with a brush all over your face and neck. Loose powder because its easy to dab on your face and sets up great on your BB cream. Use a brush to apply loose power. Take a little and just tap it on your wrist once before you apply so you don't take lot of powder.

Step 4 : Apply eyeliner and a lipstick. For lipstick during day wears you can use a neutral color and use a bold color during nights !!. If you need to concentrate much on your eyes add up with mascara and kajal. Coat on your upper lash lines will do a great job.

Step 5 : Spray a little rose water on your face. A little will do. This will set your makeup and get you a fresh feel.

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How to extend your eyeliner in 3 simple steps !!

Hey Beauties !! Let's learn in simple 3 steps on how to extend your eyeliner. Extending your eyeliner will show your eyes bigger.

Step 1 : Apply your eyeliner till your end of upper lash line

Step 2 : From the end of upper lash line draw a slanting line towards your end of eyebrows

Step 3 : From the end of the slanting line, draw another line in V shape connecting it to the 1/4th  from the end of the upper lash line as shown in picture

Step 4 : Now fill the gap with the eyeliner and make the eyeliner thicker and you are done !!

Share your comments if you like this and ill you try this ?? 

Things to do before you apply your makeup to show you fresh and brighter

Here are simple and best methods to follow before you apply makeup on your face.

• Cleansing the face is the first step. When you cleanse it make sure you don't make your face dry. Use a cleanser which leaves a moisturized look to your face. 
• Next use milk with cotton and wipe all your face for dry skinned beauties. For oily skinned beauties use rose water and wipe it on your face. 
• Use ice cubes in round circles all over your face and neck. Do not leave your neck because your face and neck should look in same color. Doing this step will make your makeup look fresh and glowing.
• Now if you have five more minutes use a good face pack. You can use face pack bought from shop or you can do it homemade. Few simple homemade packs are using fresh cucumber mixed with honey, fresh papaya with honey or you can just massage with cut bananas for 5 minutes. 
• Now your face is ready for the makeup. Rub and warm your hands and slightly press it on your face and neck to set it for makeup. You can do the same after you apply your foundation.
• You can also spray rose water after you apply your foundation to make it stay and give a glow. Do not over spray it a little will do. 
• When you apply foundation concentrate on areas like sides of your nose, sides of your lips and below the lower lip. Those are the areas which is bit darker. 
• If you are going to attend any function or party and you decide to do a facial, do it 2 to 3 days before the party because any kind of facial will take two full days to show its effect. And if you do it today and tomorrow is the party, your face either looks dark or dull. So make sure you plan well. 

Here of some of the tips which would be useful for you. Soon lets see about makeup for dry skin, oily skin and dark skin tone.
Share your comments and lets discuss !!

How to make Frizzy hair soft and smooth !! No More Frizzy Hair !!

Hair to look beautiful without any spray or gel or serum, depends on how we maintain it. And it also depends on what shampoo and conditioner we are using and how frequently we use it, climate outside and styling tools.

Frizzy hair problem a common headache for everyone. Previously i had a problem of hair becoming oily soon. If i do hair wash on Thursday my hair becomes oily on Friday even though i used shampoo for oily hair lolzz ... I switched over to another shampoo and it resulted in frizzy hair. So i thought its the time to stop testing shampoo's. But I tried few packs which made my hair come out from frizzy look to soft and smooth. I naturally had a silky hair because my mom has it too.. (lucky me !!) and when my hair turned I frizzy felt so bad. But these packs really made a great change to my frizzy looking hair. When i went to swarosvki, SA there asked me which shampoo you use your hair is so soft !! Here are the Home Remedies for Frizzy Hair !!

Are you one of the frizzy hair ?? Let's see the packs for this hair !!

Egg Pack : 
The yolk of the egg has best properties to cure dry hair. Take one full egg and apply all your hair and wait for 30 minutes. Wash your hair with lukewarm water. If you do not like the smell of the yolk you can just apply only the white part. With this pack you will feel your hair so soft. Trust me !! I have did this !!

Olive Oil Pack : 
Take four spoons of olive oil and warm it little. Use your finger tips and spread it over your roots of the hair with a little pressure. Do this all over your hair. Take a towel and dip it in a hot water and tie this towel to your hair for 15 minutes. Now wash it as usual. This will make your hair smooth.

Moong Dal & Yogurt Pack :
Do you know curd/yogurt has the best properties to make your hair smooth. Grind moong gram which is also called green dal to an amount sufficient for your hair. Mix with curd and apply it on your hair completely. Wait for 30 minutes and wash it off to get the best result.

Tips for Dry Frizzy Hair : 

• Than using normal shampoo, use shampoo's with egg as one of its ingredients.
• After you wash your hair, use a little black vinegar and few drops of lemon juice and mix it with water and wash your hair. Lather it well. 
• With one cup pf coconut oil mix green dal powder and apply on your hair. Massage it for 10 minutes and wash it off as usual. Do this weekly once. 
• Boil water with Tea leaves and filter. Mix it with lemon juice. Apply all over your hair after you shampoo your hair and wash it off. This will make your hair smooth.

Do any of these once a week. Share this if you like this. Let me know if you have any doubts on this on how to make it or anything. Just give me a comment and I will reply you. Hope you like this !!!!

Amazing and Best face pack for sensitive skin

We all very well knew that sensitive skin will react in few hours or a minute to any cream with chemicals and sensitive skinned beauties should be aware about the ingredients before choosing any product. Than trying face packs from store you can prepare it in home with the below amazing face pack.

Vitamin Pack : 

Ingredients Needed :

1. Spirulina - A spoon
2. Honey - A spoon

How to make it and apply : 
Mix both Spirulina and Honey in equal proportion and apply it in round circles on your face and neck except eyes and below nose. After 20 minutes use warm water for a minute to wash and now use cold water to wash it off.

What's Spirulina ??
Spirulina is a natural algae (cyanobacteria) that are incredibly high in protein and nutrients. It is obtained primarily from two species of cyanobacteria: Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima. Spirulina grows in the form of blue-green algae in both fresh water and salt water in the wild.

How it works : 
Spirulina has Vitamins A, B, C, D & E. hence it gives good strength to skin and keeps you young. This is great for who is nearing 30 and more than 30's because this has the best anti-ageing benefits which will keep your skin soft and will prevent signs of ageing like wrinkles. This will also fade your dark circles around your eyes and gives a glow. This is a great skin toner too.

Share your comments if you like this face pack !!!