Improving aesthetic appearance involves a range of treatments from topical retinoids and acids to injectable fillers and advanced laser technology.
Dark red circles under your eyes can make you look tired, exhausted and older, according to MayoClinic.com. Circles under the eyes are common in men and women. However, these under eye circles aren’t typically a health concern. Making lifestyle changes can help minimizing the appearance of these circles.
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A ripped fingernail is painful. This problem occurs for many reasons, such as when you hit or jam your finger. If you have long nails, they might catch on something, causing trauma to the fingernail and nail bed.
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Whether it's on your face or on your body, a scar can sometimes make you feel self-conscious. But that doesn't mean you can't fake flawless skin for a special event -- or every day. With makeup, you can easily hide a scar. All it takes is the right products and proper techniques.
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Changing your pierced earrings doesn't have to be a challenge as long as you take measures to make the process safe and sanitary. If you are changing your pierced ears for the first time, don't be tempted to remove the studs, however, until your ears are completely healed.
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Many people are afflicted with dark circles, whether it’s from lack of sleep or other reasons. Dark circles under your eyes can make you look tired and keep you from looking your best. Under eye creams can help reduce the effect of these dark circles, but they are not without side effects.
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Dial Soap has been around since the 1940s. According to the Dial website, the deodorant soap was born after chemists discovered that bacteria on the skin caused perspiration odor.
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After getting your navel pierced, you need to make sure you keep the ring, as well as the area surrounding the piercing, clean and sanitized. Cleaning the jewelry and the piercing daily will help keep the hole from getting infected as it heals.
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As a piercing heals, scar tissue forms. In the process of forming scar tissue, your body sheds dead skin cells. Your piercings may also secrete blood and plasma. While a foul odor coming from a piercing can be a sign of infection, it may simply be a sign that your piercing is not clean enough.
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Dreadlocks are long ropes of hair made by knotting individual sections and allowing them to harden over a period of months. Although the most common way to wear dreads is long and loose, sometimes you want to pull them out of your face.
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Orange peel extract is derived from what is known as the Seville orange, bitter orange or Citrus aurantium. Orange peel has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine and in the Amazon as an herbal remedy for indigestion and nausea, according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
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When you get your nostril pierced, you are making a puncture wound in a thick piece of cartilage. Cartilage piercings take significantly longer to heal than those that go through a flap of skin, like an earlobe.
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All soaps require a saponification process, which is the process of blending lye and fat under certain conditions. Hypoallergenic soaps contain minuscule amounts of chemicals, fragrances, colorings or other additives that may provoke allergic reactions in people with sensitive skin.
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Fels-Naptha is a bar soap that has been used to remove stains from laundry for over a hundred years. It is still available on the market, usually next to laundry soap and stain removers.
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Eyes may be the windows to the soul, but the frames around those windows often show the signs of aging more quickly than other areas of the face -- in addition to wrinkles, many people contend with puffiness and sagging bags.
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Regardless of the location of a piercing, several choices are available when it comes to jewelry. The circular barbell is constructed in the same way as a standard straight barbell – with a post and a threaded ball on each end – but as the name implies, it has a circular shape.
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If you haven't worn earrings in a long time, the holes in your earlobes may have closed. If you feel a small knot in the skin where the hole is, it is more than likely the fistula, or skin tunnel, created when your piercing healed.
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Perhaps you don't want to spend a lot of money on fancy facial-care products. Maybe you're concerned about the ingredients in commercial products. Perhaps you just need to use up some stuff from your pantry.
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Bumps are common occurrences on nose piercings because they are easily bumped, and cartilage also takes longer to heal than the fleshy areas of the body such as the ear lobes. They often appear as red bumps right beside the piercing, and can be very hard to resolve.
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Brittle nails are a bothersome condition due to overdrying of the cuticle and nail bed. This causes difficulty in growing healthy, strong nails. There are several over-the-counter remedies to strengthen and moisturize nails, however, olive oil applied daily may give the same results.
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The area under your eyes can become puffy and yellowish in tone for several reasons. As you get older, your skin’s connective tissues weaken, which can lead to sagging and a swollen appearance, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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