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Monthly Archives: June 2012

18 Beauty Uses of… Vaseline!

23 Saturday Jun 2012

Posted by Hiba K in BEAUTY

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Beauty, beauty routine, beauty tips, Skin, skin care, Vaseline

We tend to spend too much money on different beauty products, which may easily be substituted by simple combinations of ingredients that are already present at home!

I never thought that the uses of Vaseline can go beyond healing dry skin, however, here’s a list of how it can be incorporated into our beauty regimen:

  1. Use as lip gloss for a pretty and therapeutic effect! Those small Vaseline tubes that come in flavors are available at any drugstore or grocery shop.
  2. Soften dry and cracked elbows and heels: Apply over dry areas before going to sleep, wear socks when applied to heels, and wake up with the softest spots ever!
  3. If you’re messy at this like me, apply to the skin around your nails while doing at-home manicure, to prevent and easily remove color stains around them.
  4. For dry cuticles: Store a mini vaseline container or tube in your purse, and utilize it for the times of emergency.
  5. For your perfume to last longer: Apply a small amount all over your perfumed points, i.e., behind ears, base of the neck, cleavage and wrists.
  6. To remove lipstick smudges over teeth: Spread over the smudge and then remove with cotton or wipes.
  7. Make-up remover: Apply over a cotton pad, and then easily remove your make up. To remove last night’s fine mascara smudges, apply over a Q-tip and have a pretty fresh face!
  8. Blush-booster: Mix with red or rosy lipstick and apply as a cream blusher!
  9. Glossy eyeshadow: Mix a small amount with your eyeshadow to use as glossy make-up, however, be careful not to use too much Vaseline, or your eye make up will smudge!
  10. To soothe eyebrows plucking: Apply to moisturize the skin and the hairs before plucking.
  11. Prevent hair-dye from sweeping into your forehead: By applying a generous layer all around your hairline.
  12. Use a small dab to add a fast shiny finishing touch to your shoes right before you go out.
  13. Not ready or just too busy to have a trimming session? To hide split ends, apply a small amount on your damaged hair ends after styling.
  14. To get those nail polish bottles to open next time you decide to do your nails at home, rub a small amount under the cap.
  15. Exfoliating body wash: Mix with rough sea salt, or brown sugar, and come out of the shower feeling soft and glowing!
  16. Lip exfoliant: Mix with white sugar and apply for a few minutes. Then scrub your lips using a toothbrush.
  17. It helps remove false-lashes glue from your lash line.
  18. Jennifer Aniston swears by Vaseline’s effectiveness in preventing wrinkles and keeping the skin around her eyes fresh and hydrated! Use alone or mix with your serum, and apply to eye area daily before bed time… Who knew!

I’ve already started applying most of these (well I didn’t dye my hair-yet), and the results are amazing! If you have some more beauty tips on how you use Vaseline, please share them with me.

Until next time,

Hiba

Elegant Sequin

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

Posted by Hiba K in Editorials, Looks

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Beirut, Fashion, pamela sfeir, Sequin, Shopping, summer, tops

I’ve never been fond of sparkly, over bright, or shiny material of any sort to be added to clothes. Be it stones, beads, or crystals and sequins… I simply feel that such materials are cheap, and they just degrade the outfit.

However, time really is a tricky devil.

As I grew older, I definitely still hated sparkle in the form of crystals (or strass) embedded in any outfit, but I became more appreciative of creative artworks that display assortments of materials (beads, sequins, or even pearls!), provided that they’re displayed elegantly, with meticulous finishing. This means no plastic cheap material, no visible threads coming out of ugly holes in an obviously fake crystal or pearl, no over the top fake stones, and finally, no vulgar shiny metals incorporated in any form or way into my clothes.

That being said, and with summer deeply rooted in our lifestyle here in Beirut in the form of outings and partying, I couldn’t but fall in love with this sequined top by Pamela Sfeir, a young and talented Lebanese Designer.

Paired with a white pants or shorts and of course, a perfect tan, this top is so feminine with its bare shoulder sleeves. Somehow, sequin is flashy, the right way!

I’d love to know your thoughts… Do you like sequin? & how would you wear it?

Chocolate Chip Muffins

02 Saturday Jun 2012

Posted by Hiba K in Recipes

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Beirut, Chocolate chip, chocolate chip muffins, Muffin, sweets

It’s Saturday, and the weather is literally amazing now in Beirut, with sunny blue skies, and enough cool breeze to keep the heat away…. And I’m going to work in a few hours! Working at the Children’s Cancer Center has a lot of sweet moments, but also bitter ones. So, to lighten up my mood and keep those spirits high, I’ve decided to prepare lovely muffins, in hopes that they remedy a Saturday night spent at work.

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1/2 cup brown sugar

110g Butter

1 cup milk

1 small tbsp vanilla

1 small tbsp baking powder

1/2 small tbsp salt

2 eggs, lightly beaten

Semi-sweet chocolate chips. You can also use different kinds of berries.

Method:

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 C.
  2. Mix the flour and baking powder in a large bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture is  like breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar & the chocolate chips.
  3. In another bowl, mix the eggs, vanilla and milk together, then pour this mixture into the dry ingredients & mix briefly.
  4. Spoon the batter into the muffin cases in the pan, and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until risen, firm to touch, and golden in color.
  5. After cooling for 10 minutes in the tin, you can transfer them to the presenting plate, and serve right away!

Ok. They do kinda look weird… This is my first attempt at making muffins! The recipe is simple and easy, and took me almost no time at all! I’m still going to take some with me to work to pamper my friends 😉

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