Take a minute to look at your skin and it will tell you everything you need to know to start optimizing it and changing your look to a radiant, youthful and healthy looking.

Start with five easy steps:

• Hydration – identify how hydrated your skin is by simply gently pinching the skin on the cheekbone and observing how quickly it ‘pings’ back. Does your skin look plump or can you see fine line?

• Pores – become acquainted with your pores! How visible are they? People with drier skins tend to have fine pores whilst oily skins will usually display more open pores. Are they congested? Do they appear more concentrated in certain areas?

• Oil Levels – oil and hydration are two different things. Oil levels will tell us about how lubricated the skin is and so most Dry Skin products are formulated to replace both Oil and Water, whilst Oily skin products concentrate on controlling sebum production.

Notice if you have any oiliness in particular areas concentrating on the T-zone and chin.

• Redness & Pigmentation – this can be the hardest skin feature to identify but crucially is most subject to change as the skin reacts to extrinsic factors.

Try to identify if there is any skin redness – is the skin inflamed at all, or is there any sensitivity?

Pigmentation is usually linked to sun exposure – can you identify any uneven pigmentation in the skin particularly around the most exposed areas like the cheekbones or the forehead?

• Elasticity & Smoothness – observe the overall firmness of the skin – is your skin youthful and radiant with tautness over the features? Do you have many expression lines? Does your skin feel plump and smooth or creepy and dull?

Depending on what you have observed you’ll come to realize what your skin really needs and what problems you should deal with in the first place – be it hydration, oil-control, fine lines and wrinkles or radiance.

When you have identified the problem you can choose the right skincare product your skin needs. Like, if you have delicate skin go for floral waters like rose flower water. Orange blossom water is great for softening, while micellar water is great for all skin types.

Argan oil is great for dry skin and when you want to protect your skin from premature aging, UV exposure, and other environmental factors as it’s Rich in vitamin E and Omega 6s and often referred to as a true regenerator.

The model recently admitted she was unhappy with her rear since shedding her post-pregnancy weight.

She told Fox News at the 15th Anniversary of the Victoria’s Secret Swim Catalogue:

“I wish I had a bigger butt. A little bit more booty wouldn’t hurt. When I was pregnant I had a much bigger booty and I was very happy with it.”

The skin care range is inspired by Miss Ambrosio’s memories named as At First Sight, Good Day Sunshine, Girls’ Night, Room 504 and Island Escape. At First Sight is said to have been inspired by the birth of her daughter.

The launch of the body care collection coincides with the release of Victoria’s Secret’s Spring 2010 lingerie and swimwear lines.

The I Love My Body ad commercial by Victoria is modelled by the company’s Angels including Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Chanel Iman, Lindsay Ellingson, Candice Swanepoel, Erin Heatherton, Miranda Kerr and of course Alessandra Ambrosio.

Check out the video:

The extract from the exclusive.

On her love for Taco Bell Mexican Pizzas:

“My mom told me she used to eat one every single day when she was pregnant with me. [laughs] I’m like, ‘Mom, you’re the reason I’m totally addicted to Taco Bell!”

On finding ways to work out outside of the gym:

“When I first moved to L.A., I didn’t have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all. When you’re shaking your booty, you can’t help but feel beautiful and sexy.”

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Recently, the 27-year-old model, who celebrated the work of Neil Young at the event, told Us Weekly that she still has what to work on. Despite the fact that the daughter, Vida, takes all her time she doesn’t give herself a chance to get lazy and neglect her post-baby shape.

Cam admitted:

“I think that after you have a baby, you still have a little belly. Things are not back to normal yet,” Camila shared. “The flowy stuff and the layers really, really help.”

And she added that she’s thankful for help from great undergarments, either:

“We’ve got Spanx!” – she said.

Giving birth is not the end. You are still a woman! Good for you, Camila.

Here are they:

Lips

If your lips are dry and peel off, rub them with usual Vaseline using a wet piece of fabric or a towel. That will remove the dead cells and prevent them from getting dry again.

The lips color and smoothness usually fades in winter. So you can use a lemon juice to restore the natural lips hue.

And try to control yourself! I mean, if you have that horrible habit to lick the lips. The comments are unnecessary, I suppose.

Around-eyes-skin

Don’t be surprised at people who wear sunglasses in winter. They probably do right. The sunglasses protect the tender skin around the eyes from cold winds and snowfalls.

Body skin care

Constant warm clothes wearing, temperature drops and humidity lead to the skin dryness. But it’s easy to bring the skin its healthy and smooth state back. Prepare the following mixture: take olive oil, mustard oil and sesame oil in equal proportions. Massage this wholesome oils mixture around the whole body. Take a bath with all this on. It will seem as if these oils release the skin from winter stresses and you’ll feel relaxed. Your skin will forget about that irritating dryness.

If your skin suffers from overdryness, then use coconut oil as an emergency remedy. It takes a few drops to say Good Bay to the dryness.

The perfect bath for winter time contains some drops of the abovementioned oils. That’ll help keep the moisture that is possibly to be lost during the bath taking.

Nails

Nails need anti-froze protection either. Don’t neglect a nail base coat. It’s ever better if you apply double layers of nail base coat and only then your favorite polish.

Wear the mittens or gloves. Obligation! Try to develop a habit to put them on before you go out to avoid the sharp temperature drop.

Hair

If your hair looks dry, take the aloe juice and cover your hair with it massaging for several minutes. The effect is awesome.

You can also cure hair with any oil, even massage one. Just rub it into the hair roots and along the length once a week. It moistens it really great. Olive oil works miracles as well. Warm it up before applying. And attention!: too frequent oil use can cause the inverse effect. So, follow the schedule – one time per week.

Try to wash your hair as rarely as it’s possible. But if you wash it daily, then don’t do it just before going outdoors.

Headgears protect from cold but they also damage hair if they are of wool in particular. Have you noticed the lining of the fur caps? It’s silk as far as silk doesn’t damage hair and doesn’t overdry them. That’s why the silk headscarves are perfect for wearing in principle. But if it’s a kind of weird idea for you, then at least choose a headdress with silk lining.

Split hair is the problem that everyone faces with in winter time (even those who doesn’t have this problem the year round). The conclusion is to cut your hair frequently or take a special care using the modern hair products.

Have a good winter time!

She said:

“I always say, ‘I don’t want to lose my curves.’ I like firm curves. You can never do enough squats, you can never do enough sit-ups. I like for women to look feminine.”

Beyonce also confessed that she is still in a kind of shock that the word ‘Bootylicious’ (the name of Destiny’s Child song) has been added into the Oxford dictionary as a description of a curvaceous behind.

She told Allure magazine:

“I still can’t believe it! It’s hilarious. I actually wish it was another word that I created. I wish it didn’t have ‘booty’ in it.”

The Single Lady singer recently revealed she tones her butt by walking up stairs.

She explained:

“I guess my butt is natural. But I go through stages like every woman. I like being curvy but sometimes I get curvy in the wrong places. After New Year I do stairs – they are the best thing for butt cheeks. Every January I’ll start working out. I’ll do that for three months and then stop again!”

So, we can easily assume that it’s the first month of her up-stairs-walks and there are two more ahead.

She said:

“I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realisation that everybody does that – even the people that I consider flawless – then you can start to live with the way you are. I’ve read interviews with some of the most beautiful women who have insecurities. And you look at them and you’re like ‘How do you have?’ Name one thing wrong with yourself and they could name a handful.”

The successful actress and singer is to ‘maintain confidence’ about the way she looks no matter how curvy and imperfect everybody consider her.

Taylor added:

“I don’t really want to be that way. I’d like to try to maintain confidence and stay okay with who I am because I don’t really want to change it. Everybody has insecurities – everybody – but hopefully you can overcome them.”

On her body image:

“The first thing you learn when you put on borrowed clothes at a fashion shoot is that someone always has bigger boobs, a smaller waist and longer legs than you do. Actually, everyone has bigger boobs than I do!”

On date nights with Mark:

“A date night for us is watching Top Chef. A date night for us is getting our kids asleep before 9:30! It’s really just about checking in, asking how the other person’s day is, and cuddling up. It doesn’t have to lead to anything, although it usually does. But it doesn’t have to.”

On fame:

“I’m never recognized. We were doing the show in the Bahamas, and we were shooting in the hotel lobby, and it was [Live executive producer] Michael Gelman, Regis, and me standing there. A crowd gathered, and a woman said, “Oh, my God! It’s Gelman, it’s Regis!” and handed me her camera and asked me to take a picture of them. Then she said, ‘Where’s Kelly?’”

On her favorite family time:

“We are a family who lives for the weekends. My youngest, Joaquin, will say to me on Tuesday, “How many days until Friday, Mom?” We drive out to our house in Southampton, Long Island, on Friday, and we don’t schedule anything. We watch movies, we go to the beach. Even in the winter we’ll take hot chocolate and bagels and just sit there. My son recently asked me when that Sunday-night, disappointed pit in your stomach goes away, and I said, “Honestly, I’m not sure if it ever does.” But then Monday, I feel energized because we had a relaxing weekend.”

On her best relationship advice:

“My girlfriends and I talk about this a lot. The more, let’s say, affection — the more you do it, the more you do it. The more you reach out and hold that person’s hand, the more it’s going to happen. The less you do it, the less you do it. That includes everything from intimacy to hand-holding and kissing. I say reach out and grab your husband’s hand every once in a while. Even if he’s wrong and he makes you sick. Because a little bit of that gets you a little bit of a back rub, which gets a little bit of “You look pretty today.”

Keeping up with the tradition of many years standing of supporting the various children charity funds the Kiehl’s and Kaws team will give 100% of the profits from the particular body care line to charity worldwide.

In addition to the colorful label, Kaws created the festive campaign “Peace.Love.Kiehl’s” that will be launched during the holiday season.

The cult body creams Crème de Corps are considered to be the perfect present for men and women. They are rich in refined and nourishing ingredients including the shea butter, oils of jojoba and almonds. The creams ideally fit for the dry skin nourishing and moistening.

In USA 100% of the profit from the sale will be directed to RxArt, the nonprofit organization dealing with the sick children aimed at the education through the artistic expression.

The limited number of the body care range will be available in 8.4 fl. oz., 16.9 fl. oz. or 1 liter at the price varying from $26.50 to $70.

As it’s known the sedentary work doesn’t bring health, but on the contrary – ruins it. People of this sort of life style suffer from a range of diseases: haemorrhoids, osteochondrosis, obesity, prostatitis and so on. There is no wonder, probably as the factors causing them are too widely spread in our life.

Correct work place set can prevent a lot of ailments.

Physicians have learned long ago that prolonged sitting can cause the distirbances of metabolism in musculoskeletal system. There is a haemostasia in the spine veins. Those who spend the whole day in front of the computer have their deep back muscles strained. The prolonged muscular spasm worsens the venous haemostasia leading to legs swelling.

Nowadays, the computer work is the most common office variant. To keep the right posture you need to put the computer in front of you but not on the side when you should keep your neck turned all the time.

Take a 15-minutes-break every 2 hours.

Beautiful posture requires some movements. Active rest based on the switch of one kind of activity to another provides the days of work without tiredness.

Look through the exercises that improve the capacity of work, warm up the muscles and give some strength for the next hard-working hours. You can choose one of these and practice it systematically but the complex workout will bring you the results much faster.

Gymnast:

1. Sit straight, stretch and flex the legs by turns 10-20 times. Don’t put them onto the floor.

2. Bow and flex the backbones 10-20 times.

3. Sit straight, move the elbows apart – breath in, straight the arms in front – breath out. 4-6 times.

4. Sit straight and turn your torso from one side to another. 10-12 times.

5. Sit straight, stretch your legs, then flex one of your legs pressing it to the stomach – breath in, then stretch it once again – breath out. 4-8 times for every leg.

6. Sit straight, strain the belly muscles, and then relax it. 15-20 times.

7. Sit straight, stretch the legs, strain-relax the muscles of the right and left hip by turns. 15-20 times.

Venus syndrome

Such term is used to define the fat around the waist and thighs in comb with muscles tone-up lowering. You can get rid of this syndrome by exercising daily the following set.

1. Sit on the floor with the legs unbent. Lift the leg up and then put it down holding the foot, ankle or shin. 20 times for each leg.

2. Stand straight with crossed legs. Pull the hands in front and bent the body slowly, then return to the preparatory position. 10 times.

3. Kneel to the floor, cross the arms over the head. Sit onto the left thigh then return to the knees and turn for the right one. Repeat the exercise 10 times for each side.

4. Sit on to the floor tucking one leg under yourself. Lift the other leg up holding its shin. Remain in this position for 5 seconds and then put it down. Switch the legs. Repeat the set 5 times for every leg.

To be continued…