Pop quiz: what can you do with an old T-shirt, a head band and an odd sock? It might not be what you think. Ready for it? Curls. Yup. These three seemingly worthless things can actually be amazing for giving you volume and curly hair, without having to take to that curling iron, which both [...]
I once heard somewhere that hairdressers is the occupational group that are forced to retire the earliest due to work-related health issues. I know, I know, you’ll have to look a long way before you find a source vaguer than this, but just thinking about all those chemicals, peroxides, ammonium and what-nots they have to [...]
Sesame seed oil is a great ingredient to use in homemade skin care, and is used extensively in ayurvedic medicine. If you have ever bought sesame seed oil for cooking, you know it has a deep brown color and a rather strong smell. A few years back, I ordered some cosmetic sesame seed oil from [...]
Finding a good mascara that doesn’t smudge and stays on long can be rather tricky. Especially if you’re looking for something of the natural, no ‘poo variety. Personally, I don’t even use mascara right now, which is partly because I haven’t found a good one and I’m too lazy to go out looking for one. [...]
Since a few years back, the safety regulations on airplanes have gotten all the stricter – nowadays there’s a restriction to the size of the liquid containers you can bring in your hand luggage. While this regulation can really be a pain in the behind for us who fly more often than we would like [...]