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Beauty and Style → How to Improve Complexion

«Health And The City» will tell you how to keep your skin fresh and healthy and how to improve your complexion without cosmetics.

Products, such as sour cream and cottage cheese give a good fairness and freshening effect. In order to improve your complexion, put a sour cream or cottage cheese layer on your skin and leave it for 20 minutes. If it is possible, try to use non-polluting products.

Carrots and coffee grounds are also often used in home cosmetology to improve your complexion, but instead of sour cream these products give a colour effect due to which your skin can get a naturally sunburned color.

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Beauty and Style → 5 Useful Tips How to Make Your Skin Look Better

Do you feel that after sleeping your face seems to be crumpled? Do you want to make your lower lip bigger? Are you unaware of how to cover facial blemishes or to improve your complexion? Follow our tips.

Make your lower lip bigger

When your lips look small other features seem larger. The best way to make lips bigger is to put a shimmering lip-gloss in the middle of your lower lip (over lipstick of a natural shade or lip-gloss).

Wonders of olive oil

Olive oil is one of the best medicines for skin dryness. In order to make your cuticle soft, place your fingers in a bowl with warm olive oil. You can also use it to remove waterproof mascara. Drip some drops on a cotton pad and wipe across your eyelids.

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Beauty and Style → How to Stop a Skin From Aging?

Skin is the largest organ of the body and no wonder it shows our exact age. We'll tell why some people look young, and others look old.

The thing is that each of us ages in different ways. Experts differentiate photoageing and biological aging of skin. These two processes have different causes and lead to different skin manifestations.

Biological aging, in other words the decline of your skin over the years, is characterized by a decrease in basic cell activity and the enzyme system of your skin. Your skin gets thinner, metabolic processes are slowed down, the state of proteins (collagen and elastin) as well as structural intercellular elements (such as hyaluronic acid) change. As a result, the elasticity and tone of your skin decreases and wrinkles appear. Also, because of a delay in exchange processes, your skin takes on a dim shade.
Photoageing is a result of ultraviolet influence. It causes chronic inflammatory reactions which affect your skin’s original protection from sun rays. The epidermis and the stratum corneum thicken unevenly; there are changes in the skin structure and vascular disruption. In outward appearance it is shown as dryness, pigmented spots, roughness, and wrinkles.

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Beauty and Style → The Danger posed by a Mole

Melanoma, the most insidious skin cancer is rare, but is particularly malignancy. The most vulnerable to it are white-skinned people.

First, it is rather long, 3-5 years, mimics like a mole, does not affect the well-being, and then explodes with metastases, leaving the man no chance. The only strategy against melanoma — qualitative prevention. To do this more often to look at yourselves and examine your skin and do not be afraid of a preventive visit to an oncologist.

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Beauty and Style → The Disease «written» on the Skin

Our skin — this is the full body, which complements and duplicates the function of various internal systems. It is actively involved in the process of respiration, excretion, metabolism. In addition, the skin may provide signals about the problems of your body.

15 External symptoms, which signal about the problems with internal organs:

1. A yellowish skin color — an urgent need to examine the liver and gall bladder (possible stagnation of bile and inflammatory processes).

2. Dairy pallor can talk about two problems — anemia associated with iron deficiency, as well as respiratory failure — lung and bronchus. It is desirable to pass a blood test and to begin to pass x-rays.

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Beauty and Style → Givenchy launches its first Cosmetic Line for Men

Favorite millions of women French brand Givenchy has begun the conquest of men's hearts. The world-famous brand is preparing to launch its first cosmetic line for men — GivenchyMan. It will include a five-antiage tools that can protect men's skin from aging and give it a well-groomed and healthy looking.

Men's skin is, perhaps, less sensitive than women’s, but every day it is subjected the stress, which is not the best way affects the appearance.

Overworking, lack of sleeping, weather conditions, as well as smoking, and daily shaving take away its life energy and are essential companions of the appearance of wrinkles.

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Beauty and Style → How to remove the Birthmark?

Mole, as stray travelers escort people throughout their lives. Appearing as if from nowhere, they can serve as a natural decoration of their respective owners, stressing individuality, and can cause unpleasant emotions, especially when located in the most inappropriate places. These so-called «signs of destiny» concern today, and almost never leave indifferent.

Interesting that we are born, not having moles. But few years pass and they appear. The peak of active appearance is 5 to 6 years of age, and youthful years. First, birthmarks represent pigmented uniformly round or oval spot size down to about 5 mm with a smooth surface, the color of which can vary from light brown to black. Over time birthmarks not only increasing in size, but somehow are lifted above the surface of the skin with a kind of rounded nodule. Often on the surface of birthmarks short hairs can grow that may not be very aesthetic, but absolutely safe.

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Beauty and Style → Skin Care for Smokers

The fact that everyone knows smoking is harmful. About why bad — many guess. But just to throw it harmful activity can be few. Indeed, a drop of nicotine kills any diversion of the horse, for us nothing more than a metaphor. From one (two-to three-five) cigarettes no one's legs do not fall. But God forbid something happens to our beautiful face (especially if female).

And how come, when you want to «observe and innocence, and capital gain» — that is, pamper your skin with cigarettes and save. You can to some extent prevent the negative consequences of this harmful habit — it is necessary to conduct an intensive range of cosmetic procedures. But know not interfere with the essence of the problem.

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