To celebrate this glorious day, I have some old scans from the October 2005 issue of CosmoGIRL! Magazine. I'm trying to get rid of a bunch of old magazines, so I went through all of them and found this. Enjoy!...
Types of Soap
The manufacture and sale of soap is a multi-million industry and the cosmetics companies are constantly working hard to find new ways to convince us that they have produced a soap that surpasses all others. Unfortunately, their claims are based more on advertising hype than on scientific truth and the only result is increased confusion.Ordinary soap is often dismissed as harmful and useless by beauticians who want to sell you something much more esoteric and expensive. This just isn't so. The purpose...
Things to know about Shampoo
There are hundreds of different types of shampoo available and a good deal of nonsense is written about their various qualities.First and foremost, a shampoo is designed to get hair clean. To do this the single most important ingredient of nearly all shampoos is a detergent to help loosen dirt and oil from the hair - if you try to remove them with water alone they will cling to the individual hairs and defy all your efforts.When using a shampoo it is important to wet your hair first of all, and...
Let's Do The Time Warp Again!
On Halloween I'm going to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight! I'm so excited- I was trying to think of what I should wear, and then decided to go with the Time Warp party look. I made a short list of stuff I need to get:- tuxedo jacket with tails- Button up shirt (cotton or silk)- low cut vest or cummerbund- Bow tie or fancy necklace- short black pants- white socks- mary-janes/tap shoes/character shoes- crazy sunglasses- hat (mini top-hat, fez, party hat etc)- gloves- pale face with pink...
Movie Star Style: The Birds
I saw The Birds for the first time on Saturday, and I was suprised at how well it stands the test of time- it definetly beats most of the horror movies that come out today (actual suspense...). And there's some real nice LADY style, designed by one of the biggest Hollywood costume designers, Edith Head....
Perfume and Your Health
Individual perfumes often contain a hundred or more ingredients, each of which adds something special to the overall effect. For example, there will be ingredients that provide what are technically known as head or top notes, which have an immediate, rather volatile effect; solid, middle of the range odours, and less volatile, more persistent odours known as the base or lower notes. There are also fixatives - the three main ones used are ambergris, civet and musk - to slow the rate of evaporation...
Things to know about Nourishing Creams
There are dozens of products on the market which will, according to the manufacturer's claims, nourish your skin. These products contain such varied ingredients asprotein, vitamins, collagen, hormones and just about anything else that sounds efficacious, are said to feed the skin and to add 'specially formulated foods' to the skin's natural diet.Collagen is probably one of the commonest ingredients, but an awful lot of nonsense is talked about this substance. It is perfectly true that collagen is...
Nail Problems and Your Beauty
Here are some of the commonest disorders affecting the nails:Chronic paronychia is a condition which can be fairly easily diagnosed because the nail folds, the areas where the nails meet the skin, are usually painful, red and swollen. This problem can be caused by the careless use of manicure scissors or a nail file, by over-enthusiastic thumb sucking or by too frequent immersion in water. It is a condition that commonly affects dishwashers, barmaids, kitchen hands and housewives.Paronychia can...
Myth about Your Skin Types
A lot of nonsense is talked about skin types. Some beauty experts will tell you that you've got one sort of skin on your cheeks, another sort on your forehead and so on and so on. There is talk about dry skin, greasy skin and combination skin.The truth is that your skin is alive and always changing in texture and form. Its state at anyone time depends on a number of factors: your age, the amount of time you've spent in the sun, what you've been putting on it and how you've been looking after it....
How to Manicure Your Nails
In addition to looking after your nails in these basic ways it is a good idea to give yourself a weekly manicure, following these notes:1 When cutting and shaping your nails don't take too much off the sides. If you do you will weaken them and they will be more likely to break. Use smooth, even strokes with the coarse side of an emery board or with a steel nail file, and file the nail in one direction only so that you will be less likely to develop rough edges. Finish with the finer side of the...
Nail Care
Modern kitchen chemicals (detergents, washing powders, bleaches etc.) are often very powerful and cause a high percentage of nail problems. Washing dishes, clothes and small children means that the average woman's nails are probably soaked more than a dozen times every day. Perhaps more important, they're usually dried properly only once or twice a day: the kitchen towel is probably damp, bald or missing when the telephone rings or the front door bell goes.The simplest, most effective way to avoid...
faves: Nylon - October 08
Here are some of my fave pages from this month's NYLON. In other news... I went into Holt Renfrew with a friend today for fun, and got to actually touch Michael Kors (no, not actually HIM)... it was awesome. I want that leopard print outfit that Coco Rocha wore on the runwa...
'Lady' Still In for Spring
The 'lady' look from the fall runway is continuing on into the spring/summer 09 season as we can see from the Luella show. It's prim and proper, but it's still fun! Points of interest: mixed prints, old-lady handbags, bow tie hats, lots of girly details, chunky jewlery, cigarette capris, glo...
Skin Moles
They are usually brown or black, but sometimes can be pink. They can be smooth or irregular, flat or raised above the general level of the skin, and some are hairy.Most skin moles first appear during childhood (they are not present at birth) and one eminent dermatologist has claimed that the average white adult has between fifteen and twenty skin moles spread over his or her body; they can appear absolutely anywhere.The majority of skin moles are entirely harmless but very, very occasionally one...
How Do Moisturizers Effect the Skin?
Normal skin contains a good deal of water, which makes skin look plump, fresh and healthy. Skin that has lost its natural moisture looks dry, wrinkled and cracked and feels extremely uncomfortable.Because it is so important to retain moisture levels, your skin produces constant supplies of natural oil to seal off the skin surface and prevent the evaporation of those precious water supplies. Unfortunately, however, most of us remove that natural oil when we wash. The oil disappears, together with...
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