BEAUTY HACKS - DO THEY REALLY WORK 2?

                                       

Continued from Last post. 

THIS IS NOT A HACK BUT A FACT:

I know black natural hair is back in vogue and everyone is loving it!!! Yayyy!!

If you have natural hair. one thing is necessary for you, even more than makeup and this is Costume Jewelry(Earrings, Necklace and Bangles). It not only adorns your whole outfit, it give you that overall clean, beauty and womanly appearance (almost like mother nature). You can wear those with your brows neatly shaped, lip gloss and a powdered face.... finese!!!💃 . Do you have natural hair? Show us a picture of your hair journey...😀

Enjoy!!!!

                        

# HACK NUMBER 1

Whenever you wash your face, use kitchen paper napkins to clean your face not towels, especially if you have sensitive skin on your face or you have acne, pimples etc. This will ensure that your face stays cleaner, clearer and free from bacteria than when you use face towels, bacteria sleeps in towels. Use it to damp the water on the face. I do this daily and it has helped with the acne on my face and its reduced dryness. Have you ever tried this?? .

# HACK NUMBER 2

Bath in Milk – I have been asked by so many close frriends, on how my skin is so silky, smooth, fresh and soooo nice.! When I tell them my tool, they can’t believe it, and they say “ooo, I don’t have a bath how do I do this…?”

You see, when I was 17-20 my skin was a mess, no, a message…lol😁 until one day I heard one girl at my university hostel(whose name I wont mention), saying how she baths with milk, to a bunch of girls. I was not wiser then, so I thought….. “Aunty, you have started!!!”. By the way, no lie that girl’s skin is like milk, silky and fine, I always wondered how come. 2 years down the line I watched a documentary where they said Cleopatra used Milk for her skin, am like…. What?? That bitch was serious? Then I started to use it, I remembered her telling saying that day: “Just get peak milk or Dano in a sachet and soak in a bath tub or pour in a bowl and rub it all over your body and face from head to toe then wait for 10-15 mins, do this as often as you can”. For those abroad even natural milk in bottles and packs does the trick. That’s how I started and my skin changed quicker than I expected. By the way that girl is older now and has 2 or more kids and that skin is still on point and mine of course 😉. It also brightens your skin colour.

# HACK NUMBER 3

Use Coconut oil as your makeup remover –Oil is good for our skin and face, this cannot be told enough. Instead of buying some liquid cleanser that will dry your skin out after a few use, get some makeup remover wool, put coconut oil on it (liquid or caked) and wipe off make up until clean, let the oil sink in for 10 seconds then wash off. Since I started doing this my face skin has stopped drying easily and it feels like a baby’s skin or bum😝, so coconut oil moisturizes your skin. What do you do with coconut oil- the magic oil? Tell me below👇

# HACK NUMBER 4

If you love perfumes like me and even if you don’t , this next hack is good for you. Most of us want our perfume lasting and scenting all day, but most times the scent goes off or milder as the day runs off or under the sun. So what can you do?

Get Vasline or any transparent lip balm and rub on the areas where you want to apply your perfume like your neck, arm, then spray your perfume on those areas and you will be amazed at how your scent will last all day until after bath. I love this hack and I use it daily. Do you like perfumes and whats your preferred scent - wooden, rosy, mild, flowers etc?

# HACK NUMBER 5

Drink Water in wine glasses: We all know how water is essential to our skin, if you don't am saying it now: "Hunny water is great for your skin" and yet most of us don’t drink it enough🙁.

If you find that water bores you, try drinking it with a wine glass. It’s been said that one of the reasons humans like to drink wine is attributed to the wine glasses and it’s believed to affect the quantity of consumption. Ever wondered why so many designs of wine glasses? Well now you know 😉.When you drink water in wine glasses it makes you feel like you are having an expensive bottle of wine from the south of France. It just works and its what I do now!

# HACK NUMBER 6

This is for my big curvy girls, wear black to make you appear slimmer and sexier. So, for some dimensional reasons and for the way light reflects on the colour black, it’s known to make it look different. So wear black often and make sure it’s not tight, so if you are a UK size 14, buy 14 large or size 16 and vice versa for US and other countries.

If your skin tone is darker make sure to accessorise with bold colours as seen in the picture above, especially if you have to move about at night. I'll be honest with you, it's summer here and with my new chubbier weight, I have been adorning some black dresses and oh Lawd, the male feedback as been great😉😉😊

Do you like black outfits?

# HACK NUMBER 7

This next two hacks are for compliments with exercise or lets just say if you are too lazy to exercise, comme moi....(like me) 😅 and yet you will like to lose some weight.

Now singing “If you love food please raise your hands in the air….” 😂Well I love food, and Jesus knew this He kept me slim all my days!!. This last month has been the fattest I have ever been all my life and am loving the new weight and curves, until am bored of course.

So what do you do? Eat your food in small plates and bowls. Yep, this makes you consume less food and with a few tries, your stomach gets used to the portion of meal on your plate or bowl. Who loves food here? Which continent or country does the best meals for you?

# HACK NUMBER 8

Eat food in coloured contrast plates and bowls.

So aside from making your bowls and plates small so you can eat in smaller portions. Eat your food in plates that the colours contrast with your food, so let’s say you want to eat some meal that has mostly yellow in it(eg Fried Rice), use a blue plate or bowl.

The trick is that the quantity of food we eat often depends on our eyes and stomach, so food in plates with colours contrasting don’t often look appetizing, if they do, as you eat you easily get bored and abandon the food, thinking you are full. 

This has been my weight loss secrets for years. I recently added on some weight because I have been using white plates to eat, research shows that whites make you hungrier and eat more… and I have been eating more !

# HACK NUMBER 9

Use multipurpose wipes to comb your hair . Well there is a reason they are called "multi-purpose….."

I know we all wear human hair, wigs or natural hair and there are days when they feel so old and dry with strands picking out at every corner.

To make it fresh and new again, spread out a wipe on the teeth of your hair brush and comb your hair with it. Your hair will be shiner, neater and strands all pulled down plus, it will smell nice and look healthier. In case you say I don’t have multipurpose wipes, you can use baby wipes or washing machine liners. Kapish!! Is that strange?😀

# HACK NUMBER 10

Use Plaster to tape or cover that bra hook that wants to give your luxurious skin a scar.

So ladies, i know we have all experienced those bras that we love getting to reveal themselves in some frivolous ways by exposing the iron underneath the bra layers. To solve that problem. Cut a piece of Plaster in the right amount and paste it neatly over the place where the hook comes out on both sides. Its neater than sewing and it will last a few weeks of washing. Please ensure you use the brown, good and strong Plaster type.

So there you have it, that’s all the beauty hacks for this week, that are simple and actually work. I will be talking about more hacks and more on Fashion and Style in the coming weeks. Don’t forget to drop your comments, and questions below. Which of the hacks have you tried and failed and which worked? Till next week, ciao!!

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So there you have it, that’s all the beauty hacks for this week, that are simple and actually work. I will be talking about more hacks and more on Fashion and Style in the coming weeks. Don’t forget to drop your comments, and questions below. Which of the hacks have you tried and failed and which worked? Till next week, ciao