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Shu Uemura Glow pressed eye shadows are on clearance sale at COSME-DE.COM .You haven’t heard the best part… FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE!!

These are pressed eye shadow that can double as an eye liner if applied with a wet liner brush.  It has a velvety finish and applies sheer. You can also layer the eye shadow for a more intensified and more defined color.

Get them here:
Shu Uemura Pressed Eye Shadow N 150 Ir Pink, 0.07oz, 2.1g

Every December I buy myself a new pair of all white sneakers. I don’t know why it has to be specifically December but I do it every December. I consider them a fashion staple because they’re easy to dress and because I dread heels. OK so maybe dread is an exaggeration, it’s more of my personality best relates to a laid back/moderately rugged look but I will wear heels if the occasion calls for it or when in the mood.

Keds Champion 2k Oxford Canvas - A classic!

Moving on,  white sneakers work very well with jeans (flared, boot-cut, and skinnies alike),  khaki’s, trousers, solid or patterned skirts, shorts, and cut-offs; all of which are suitable for my casual lifestyle. The classic design shown above come in an array of colors so you can also choose according to color preference. So in gearing for the new season to come I’m going back to the brand of my first white sneaks for 2009.. KEDS!

I’ve used Keds for several years and have no complaints whatsoever. I can’t say enough about how comfortable this brand is.. Not that anything more needs to be said, I mean the name does speak for its self. But they really are fabulous shoes to wear if you’re out to do a lot of walking and still want an effortless pristine look.

This year, I’m going with the more contemporary Keds Hampton Sport in stretch twill. It also comes in leather but I’ve always preferred stretch twill or canvass  over leather. You get a hugging fit with twill and added softness with canvass and for me they compliment your casual wardrobe much better than leather. If you’re not too particular with the finish then you can go with absolutely any Keds shoe… satisfaction in comfort guaranteed!

You can get yours here:
Keds Hampton Sport LTT (Women’s) - White Stretch Twill

Keds Champion 2K Oxford Canvas (Women’s) - White

Here’s a drugstore bargain: for P129.50 I got me a two-in-one mascara from e.l.f. (eyes lips face) makeup. e.l.f. is a New York-based company set up in 2004 which features beauty products at incredibly low prices. A lot of its items in the US are priced at just $1.00 each. The booth I visited in Robinsons Galleria had about 80% of its inventory priced at P129.50.

I wasn’t expecting too much considering the price. I’ve tried other cheap makeup brands before and they were basically useless.  The mascara has two wands, one regular formula and the other waterproof. I  use the regular formula for work and it works pretty good!

The applicator lays on the color just right - you’d have to have a really shaky hand to make mistakes or get clumps in your lashes. What mistakes I made were very easy to wipe off. And once on, your lashes don’t wilt. When time to wash off, I just use my facial wash and it goes without a struggle. I had a Maybelline mascara before that wasn’t even waterproof but taking it off was such a pain, I’d need several washes and stringent rubbing to get it off. For the price, this product performs way beyond expectations and I wouldn’t trade it in even if I was handed a more expensive one for free.

Next thing I’d like to try is  e.l.f. mineral makeup. It’s less than half the price of mineral makeup from L’Oreal and Revlon and doesn’t have the paraben fillers that these more established brands have in their mineral ingredient lineup. Only catch is, there’s bismuth oxychloride which can cause skin itchiness, rashes and breakouts. Well, for just about P300.00, I’m willing to risk it and bank on this brand, watch out for the review.

Throughout the just-concluded US presidential campaign, Michelle Obama, spouse of president-elect Barack Obama, garnered rave reviews from fashion critics and viewers alike for her discerning mix of high and low fashion, even prompting comparisons with another stylish lady - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. A dress she wore guesting on The View made such an impression that it sold out on the designer’s website a few days after.

Michelle Obama’s $128 dress from White House/Black Market clothing company - compare that with Cindy McCain’s $300,000 outfit

I think her husband deserves sartorial praise of his own. He dazzled not only with his eloquent speeches but also with the way he wore his suits with aplomb. For his January 20 presidential inauguration one designer was quoted as saying that Barack is the first president in ages that has the body and the bearing to carry a suit well.

Dancing with Ellen

A photo taken on his recent family vacation in Hawaii proves that even shirtless, the president-elect is one hot Obama.

OOOhhhBama!

To lose one pound you have to burn 3500 calories on top of what you normally burn when your at rest.

So here are a couple things you need to know before designing a diet regimen for your self to lose weight.

1. Know what your BMI is (Body Mass Index). BMI is measurement used to see if your weight is proportioned to your height. It’s important to know where you’re at before anything else. It is also a must to know what your ideal weight should be, this will allow you to set your expectations and prepares you to do the work.

<18.5 BMI = Underweight
18.5-24.9 = Ideal
25.0-29.9 = Overweight
> 30.0 = Obese

2. What is your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate)? This is an estimation of the minimum caloric requirement your body needs to maintain normal functions at rest like breathing, energy used to keep your heart beating, digestions and such things alike. Your BMR is the amount of calories you would burn in a day just to keep all your systems functional. A BMR calculator can be used.

Why do you need to know this? So you can factor the digits into the target amount of calories you’d need to burn in a day to lose weight.

3. Know your activity level. A calorie calculator can be used to figure out how much calories are burned doing everyday activities like walking, cleaning, as well as your routine exercise.

Why do you need to know this? This will help you figure out how much more work you need to add in order to lose those pounds.

4. Last but not the least… Keep track of the calories you eat. I know looking through the Nutritional facts on the package of your meal and calculating how much calories your chicken breast salad contains makes you look like an anorexic teenager but you need to do it. The less calories you eat and and the more you burn equals to losing weight!

Dawn is female, 23 years old, 5′6″ and weighs 170 lbs. She rates a 27.4 on the BMI scale which classifies her as overweight. Her ideal weight should be between 142-156 lbs. This means she’s 28lbs overweight if she wants to weight 142 lbs. Her BMR is 1596.6, aside from office work she does very little labor and lives a sedentary life style so along with the 1596.6 calories she burns you can add 309.4 as the number of calories consume doing office work, this totals to 1906 calories. This means that her body needs to consume 5406 calories to lose 1lb or 151,368 to loose her excess baggage!! Remember the less calories you take in and the more you burn equates to weight loss.

A set of L’oreal Elseve anti-breakage hair care routine

I take shortcuts through malls when I commute home from work. Since I’m already there, it pretty much gives me a good excuse to rummage through great holiday bargains.

Long story short I walked past Watson’s and saw a great offer on L’oreal’s Elseve Anti-Breakage conditioner and mask. I thought to myself, “What the heck! I already bought the shampoo and serum a couple days ago, why not have the whole shabang.”

The conditioner was priced at Php175.00 and the mask at Php365.00 so I saved me Php135.00. I bought the Shampoo and serum together on a bargained price too, I just can’t recall how much I saved because I didn’t bother to check how much the serum costs, the shampoo though is priced at Php165.00.

My main intent was to find a cure that would relieve me of my dry, damaged, brittle ends (didn’t mean to sound like a commercial there). I’ve tried the highly and locally advertised brands and they do give the same soft tamed feel for my tresses but with L’oreal’s Elsive anti-breakage hair care routine it’s minus the oily weighed down feel.

I’ve only been using it a couple of days and I already see noticeable improvements. I realize that it may be on the expensive side for hair care product but I have no regrets. I plan plan to try out the array of Elseve hair care regimens after I’m finished with the lot of anti-breakage, after all a woman’s crowning glory is her hair.

Instructions:

1. Cleans with Shampoo (squeeze out water from hair)
2. Repair by applying mask (generous amount,leave for at least 2min)
3. Coat with conditioner (also advisable to leave for several minutes)
4. Protect with leave-on serum (After hair is towel dried)

Psyllium Fiber

Due to the relentless efforts exerted in locating a non existent concoction that’ll miraculously transform my figure to something worthy of being called a “babe” I found out about Psyllium Fibre (all thanks handy dandy Lara).

I’m pretty much all talk and no walk when it come to the arena of living a healthy life style and it’s complexities like dieting, abandoning vices, and exercise. Even I don’t believe myself anymore when I make a resolution to shed off the blubber accrued from several dormant years, several dormant PRIME years wasted on intellectual, social, spiritual and physical hibernation that I sadly will never get back (oops, side tracked.. again).

There I was listing all the tablets, capsules, and drinks I’ve tried to aid In my life long quest for weight loss when she mentioned Psyllium fiber. She says she couldn’t eat much because of it (like the girl ever eats too much on a usual day) so she quit because unlike earth’s overweight inhabitants, who are struggling to fight off obesity with deep-fried drum sticks, her disfigured body image issues consists of fear of weight loss (is that a run-on sentence?). Yes people.. instead of embracing a God given gift “normal” girls would murder for, she wants to gain weight. I know what your thinking.. I agree, life can be a biatch.

Psyllium is a soluble fiber meaning it dissolves in water and takes on a gelatinous form, like orange juice with pulp… Psyllium being the pulp. It’s known to aid in weight loss because .. “The gel-like substance that soluble fibers form when they dissolve in water causes things to swell and move slower in the intestines. This increase in time that foods stay in the intestines has been shown to reduce hunger feelings and overall food intake. It has also been shown to decrease the number of calories that are actually absorbed from the ingested food… Whenever fewer calories are taken in, or more are excreted, weight loss will generally occur” (duh!) So how is Psyllium taken? Well, you can pretty much mix it in all kinds of drinks. It goes well with smoothies, shakes, juice, plain ol’ water and probably even alcoholic beverages! That’s something ain’t it?

The accepted vernacular is “bulked” but since I like to call a pig a pig, the stuff makes your poop stool fatter and softer, allowing you to pass poop stool without much exertion, a whole lot more to flush down. Don’t get me wrong though, it’s more of a natural passing than it is diarrhea like (did I go overboard? I couldn’t help myself). In short it’s also know for its laxative effect, apparently the husks irritate the bowels which in turn promotes peristalsis of the colon, which I like to call the “poop canal” during nursing school. This more effective type of cleansing, more effective compared to getting an enema and a whole lot less disgusting, helps keep colon cancer away so says Dr. Oz. Also, since it absorbs bad cholesterol also known to the medical world as low-density lipoprotein or LDL it’s ideal for aiding in prevention of heart diseases and controlling diabetes because fiber also helps with keeping your blood sugars under wraps.

Cancer, heart diseases, and diabetes are all familial diseases, ailments that fate has wrapped up and tied with a pretty lil’ ribbon for lil’ ol’ me, plus more (remember the allergies?). I can name several relatives who’ve died or are currently suffering from one of the diseases I just mentioned so I’m a great candidate. I therefore make sure I get a regular dose, prophylaxis you might say. I have oatmeal for breakfast and Psyllium an hour before lunch, sometimes I feel like I over do it though. Even so fi Psyllium fiber works wonders on it’s own it’s still better if you get regular exercise and maintain a reasonable diet.

***Warning*** as a side effect Psyllium may cause you to fart like crazy. It’s like flatulence on stealth mode, specially if you eat a lot of meat, you know.. the silent but deadly kind of fart. The package I bought had in bold print “Do not eat dry”. That made me curious as to what becomes if I do it anyways… I wonder if its something blog worthy, I probably might give it a try just to have something to write about.