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If you already have a morning or evening skin care regime, then you are already on the right tracks to maintaining healthy skin. Some women take their time over their skin care routine and turn it into a relaxing and therapeutic ritual. If you do not have a skin care routine but this sounds like something you are interested in starting then you are sure to like the sound of the following skin care regime. Apart from the final step, the routine stays the same whether you are doing it in the morning or in the evening.

Begin by cleaning your skin using a cotton wool bud. Then clear away any dry skin or dirt using a cleanser or toner serum. The next step is to apply a beauty serum around your eyes and allow it to fully soak in; the serum will lighten any dark circles under your eyes. Then, apply a nutrient enriched face pack which will give your skin plenty of vitamins, which helps to repair dry or damaged skin. While the face pack is soaking in, you will have around 20 minutes until it needs to be washed off, so you could either read for a while, have a few rounds of FoxyBingo on your netbook, or simply take it easy and lay back on the sofa with a couple of slices of cucumber on your eyelids. After 20 minutes, wash off the face pack using warm water before splashing your face with cold water straight away afterwards. The cold water will help to open up your pores which lets your skin breathe.

Morning – If you are doing this skin care regime in the morning, finish off by applying a tinted moisturiser to your face. This gives you a little bit of color and helps to smooth out blemishes.

Evening – If you are doing the skin care regime in the evening, rather than applying tinted moisturiser, apply a rich body butter or a night cream instead.

I’m almost ready to do my 2009 Christmas shopping, and it’s safe to say that just about all my shopping will be done online. Typically, I use Amazon.Com, but this year I am looking into a couple other options, the most notable of which is shop.com, and more specifically, their gift cards section, because in many instances this year, I’ll be giving gift cards, not actually gifts, so people can go buy what they really like – not what I guess/suppose that they like.

Shop.Com’s gift cards section is nicely set out with options “for him”, “for her”, “for teen girls”, “for teen boys”, “for girls” and “for boys”. From there, the categories/types of available gift cards are appropriately organized under the respective headings above. For example, under gift cards “for him”, the immediate options are for Home Depot, Sports fan Warehouse, L.L Bean, QVC., Old Navy and MLB Shop. For all my girlfriends, I’ll definitely be buying them gift cards (as many of them will be buying makeup of course) and favorites like Nordstrom and Kohl’s are available. I like the convenience and organized nature of Shop.Com’s gift cards section, and I’ll definitely be utilizing it and buying a few later this week.

Is there someone you’d like to give a gift card to this holiday season? You should definitely consider getting ‘em a Shop.Com gift card!

Always on the hunt to find ways to stay beautiful, recently I came across a cool product called the RapidLash Eyelash Renewal Serum. What does it do? RapidLash is an innovative high-performance serum that’s formulated with advanced polypeptides that works to help amplify the thickness , length and volume of your eyelashes. Best of all, it’s just a simple once a day application, not an annoy scenario where you have to be reapplying constantly throughout the day. Interesting also, it’s said to be ideal for both men and women.

Why’s RapidLash ideal for me? I’ve got weak, brittle, lashes, and this product is ideal for situations like this. It is also ideal for persons with thin or short lashes and eyebrows. Not all of us were blessed enough to have beautiful, long lashes, or perfect, flawless eyebrows, so a product like RapidLash certain saves the day here. There are quite a few other options (eyelash extensions, fake eyelashes, and eyebrow pencils) out there that do just what RapidLash does, but most importantly, these other products are time consuming (to apply and reapply throughout the day) and a lot more expensive than RapidLash.

While you’re at it, check out these eyelash growth products. If you aren’t one of the lucky ones with long lashes, check out these products which includes RapidLash and another one called RevitaLash. Enjoy!

If you’ve been following my posts for some time, you’ll know that I’m always on a home decorating and improvement ‘trip’, always looking to make my home that much more nicer to be in. Yesterday, I decided I needed some sweet smells for our bedroom, so I was on the hunt for some cool room fragrance options. I came across Sabon NYC (a bath and body store) online, and found a world of room fragrance choices, from reed diffuser oil to drawer liners and aromatherapy oils.

For my bed room fragrance, I chose a vanilla-scented aromatic oil that my husband smelled and liked as soon as he stepped through the door. While I was at it, I also got a sugar scrub (an awesome-looking body scrub) and some essential oils. I truly see my home as my sanctuary, my sacred space, and my bedroom, even more so – I know the sweet smells for my bedroom will help to produce some happy memories; you think!?

Sam Fine, makeup artist to many stars including Iman and Tyra Banks, is releasing his “Basics of Beauty” instructional DVD. With over a decade of experience making up famous faces, Sam Fine brings his his star techniques to you with this DVD which costs just $24.99 at samfine.com.

“I really wanted to do a DVD so people could have a chance to watch it and realize that it’s not as hard as it seems,” Sam said during his video, which features three real-women makeovers, behind the scenes footage of Iman and an interview with Sam himself.

Note, some of the makeup application techniques shown are actually not that easy, even though he makes it seem so easy as he executes. For women of color who’re serious about makeup, this is a must-have DVD, even if only to see this makeup genius in action, or to hear him go on about all of the really important beauty questions such as: (1) drugstore vs. department store brands ((2) to tweeze or to wax … and more.