Celebrity Makeup: Kareena Kapoor

Let me first start by saying that I am not much of a Kareena Kapoor fan but the makeup looks that she has been belting out one after the other is sure getting me into a tizzy and I am totally in love with her for this. I was on a makeup hiatus since a while but checking out Kareena Kapoor's looks these past few days and I am all revved up and ready to restart my EOTD posts ;) Parita has already requested for one ;)

But today's post is specially dedicated to this uber cool, ultra chic and super hot smokey eye makeup that she sported with a pristine white dress at a promotional event for her movie "Heroine".

The dress as such am not really a fan of though I don't hate it either... I think its the sleeves that are making me a bit uncomfortable especially with the busy necklace and the heavy eye makeup! If I had to make the outfit a lit less busy, I would make the dress either sleeveless or with fitted 3/4 sleeves... The makeup and the necklace stay! :D

But the post isn't really about the outfit as much as it is about the makeup and ladies I have one word for it! GORGEOUS!!! It's totally out of this world and the moment I came across the pictures on the new I was totally blown away! WOW! And the best part is she actually goes and wears it with a virginal white dress! Mind Blowing! People generally like pairing their white dresses with lipsticks in sweet pinks, safe beiges and jaded Reds but doing a give-it-all-you-have black smokey eyes is sure the way to go! :)

Knowing the smokey eye lover that I am, you can be rest assured that I will be trying this look out very soon :) So stay tuned and do let me know of your take on this gorgeous look of Kareena Kapoor's :)

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REVIEW: The Body Shop Spiced Vanilla Body Butter

Hellllloooooo everyone... It feels like a decade that I posted on ISLM (yup I do love a bit of exaggeration here and there :P) and it feels awesome to be back :) I plan to review TBS Spice Vanilla Body Butter and I know it has been reviewed like 27,836 times on the beauty blogosphere already but aren't you a tad bit curious about my take on it? ;)

Spiced Vanilla is a beautifully rich vanilla scented body butter that isn't too sweet. It smells more like a cinnamon doughnut than anything else ;) Its a perfect fragrance for the colder months though and because of the richness of its fragrance I cannot see myself using it in warmer weather... For summers I prefer fruity fragrances like Peach body butter, mango body butter and satsuma body butter... For winters I am loving Spiced Vanilla :)

Though the tub does not specify any skin type, this particular one is suiting my dry skin to the Tee. Just a layer and my skin feels all smooth and pampered. Its fragrance stays on for like really long and when I wore it to office for the first time, everyone of the guys actually turned when I passed them. I swear! I myself feel like I am enveloped in a veil of spicy vanilla the whole day...

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The Body Shop Spiced Vanilla Body Butter

The Body Shop Spiced Vanilla Body Butter

 

Ingredients List

 Texture:

So creamy, so smooth

Ooohhss And Aaahhss!!!
1. Heavenly fragrance, not too sweet, not too jarring...
2. Texture is just so smooth and it feels great on dry skin!
3. Available in 50 ml as well 100 ml tubs.
4. Always available at any TBS outlets. It isn't LE.
5. In addition to a lot of oils and cocoa butter extracts, it contains sesame oil as well, which is really very good for one's skin.
6. I like the color of the tub, though in all fairness, all TBS containers look pretty on the dresser.

Ouches!!!
1. Like all TBS products, the price is a bit steep
2. They should mention skin type of the labels!

Price
It costs INR 515/- for 50 ml

Repurchase?
Definitely! As it is I am already on my 3rd tub!

Would I Recommend?
If you are a sucker for rich textures and fragrances and don't mind smelling like you are ready to be devoured, then go for it ;) This trust me isn't for the weak hearted, who like being in the shadows...

Overall Rating
9/10
 

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Good Food While maintaining a Slim Belly.

Women want to get a way to create a slimmer belly, so it looks sexy and interesting. In addition to sports, one of the means used to achieve this is to exercise and keep eating. Know the type of good food while maintaining a slim belly.

Generally the best way to avoid the accumulation of belly fat is to avoid the consumption of soda, alcohol, oil, salty foods, and fats. According to Dr. Timothy S.Harlan, Medical Director of the Tulane University School of Medicine, USA, revealed all these foods will slow down the stomach and intestines to digest and empty.

1. papaya

several studies revealed that the enzyme content in papaya can help aid digestion. To better serve delicious papaya cubes with a mixture of plain yogurt at breakfast. Papaya can also dikreasikan for dessert, panacotta Mass or mashed papaya fresh delights.

2. "Oatmeal"

According to Harlan, oatmeal has a lot of fiber, carbohydrates and vitamins that are useful for digestion. He was advised to eat oatmeal at breakfast or process them for some food.

3. yogurt

Be sure to have the active ingredients in it. The content of micro-organisms will increase the amount of good bacteria in the intestines and helps the intestines to digest food more efficiently. Harlan advised to eat organic yogurt. If you need extra sweetness, add just a few tablespoons of strawberry jam into it.

4. asparagus

Asparagus contains probiotics in it. The content of this probiotic will relieve gas buildup in the stomach. Diuretiknya properties will reduce the excess water from your body useless.

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Benefits of Exercise is Good for The Brain

Many of the benefits of exercise to health, benefits of exercise is good for the brain. With exercise, all the muscles will move and stimulate the growth of cells and improving blood flow in the body. Alirandarah smooth and healthy heart will berpengaruhlangsung in the brain tissue. Here are some of the benefits of exercise for brain health.

Stimulating the brain growth

As we get older, the birth of new brain cells and networks will increasingly slow down the brain will actually shrink. Exercise can reduce this risk. There are significant changes in the volume of people aged 60-70 years were regular aerobic exercise for six months. Cardio exercise increases blood flow to the brain because the brain exercises to get the flow of much-needed oxygen.

Streamlining the supply of hormones BDNF

Just like food, olaharga can make the body become healthier and maximum. Exercise can stimulate the active chemical ingredient known as brain derived neurotrophic factor (Brain Derived Neurotropic Factor / BDNF), which can stimulate the growth of brain cells. This activity occurs in the hippocampus, a region of the brain responsible for memory brain. So experts recommend exercising more often that these hormones more active and not easily confused.

Overcoming depression and anxiety

Depression can slow the brain's ability to process information, so you'll have trouble concentrating and making decisions. Exercise can make a more pleasant mood, thereby increasing the production of serotonin and dopamine (a hormone crucial to make the mood more happy). Happiness will also drain the chemicals in the body called endorphins.

Reduce stress

BDNF hormones will make your brain younger. Sports will also inhibit the formation of the hormone cortisol or stress hormones and help you to think more clearly again. Exercise also believed to help generate new nerve cells replace damaged brain cells due to stress.

Improve brain function

Basically the brain has cognitive functions such as the ability to focus on complex jobs, organize events, abstract thinking, and thinking. It also includes working memory, such as the ability to store phone numbers in your head. When the researchers analyzed the effects of brain exercise, they found that adults aged 55-80 years, and exercising regularly, will increase their brain capacity four times compared with those who did not exercise. At least try to exercise about 30-45 minutes each day.

Increase sensitivity to insulin

When you eat, your body will convert most of the food into glucose (blood sugar) as fuel for the body including the brain. Well, so glucose can be absorbed completely into the cells the hormone insulin becomes the intermediary. When brain cells flooded with glucose it can affect memory and thinking. Exercise will stimulate insulin sensitivity so that it can serve to stabilize blood sugar.

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Brain Cancer Symptoms to Look Out

Brain cancer symptoms to look out for can be started from frequent headaches. Symptoms of brain cancer if you feel pain in the same part of the head repeatedly. Maybe the pain is an early symptom of brain cancer.

Brain cancer is not often other cancers, such as cervical cancer or breast cancer. However, like most common cancers, brain cancer is a disease is silent (silent killer) are dangerous.

Because of its nature, brain cancer is often detected only after a later stage. If the pain in the head has peaked, there is a possibility, the cancer has spread to other parts of the body (metastasis). If so, cancer treatment becomes more complicated and risk.

Symptoms of brain cancer 

Brain cancer, typically, will be accompanied by symptoms that can be seen or felt directly by the patient. For example, body cramps, nausea and vomiting, blurred vision, and headaches. By medical experts, this condition is referred to as symptoms of increased intracranial pressure in the brain or. 

The brain is a dangerous place if a location or site of tumor growth. Let benign, but still must be removed. However, because the brain is a soft organ, very risky in providing treatment. 

More dangerous, medical experts have not been able to deduce the cause of the development of a malignant tumor or cancer in the brain. If the brain cancer cases occur in children under the age of 17 years, most likely, the cause is genetic. Meanwhile, the cause of brain cancer in adults is still in the research experts. 

Based on the opinion of medical experts, the growth of cancer in developing countries, like Indonesia, will be massive. About 100 people out of every 100,000 inhabitants at risk of cancer, including brain cancer. 

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Effective Combination Therapy for Breast Cancer

Medical efforts to cure breast cancer, find the type of effective combination therapy for breast cancer. Therapy with a combination of chemotherapy medicines known antibody significantly extend survival of breast cancer patients who have this type of cancer cell HER-2 positive.

Combining trastuzumab combination therapy that is HER-2 receptor antibody with chemotherapy drugs emtansine. By promising therapies that improve the life expectancy of patients more than standard cancer treatment.

According dr.Arya Wibitomo, head of medical management PT.Roche Indonesia, combination therapy has the advantage of cancer cell killing power is high.

Trastuzumab emtansine is designed to attack and inhibit HER-2 signal and continue chemotherapy directly to the cancer cells with HER-2 positive status. Thus the spread of cancer cells can be prevented.

"The therapy may be referred to as a smart bomb because the target is not on healthy cells. Study results showed increased levels of quality of life of patients and worsening of the disease can be reduced," he said in the presentation of research results EMILIA in Jakarta, Thursday (08/30/12) .

According dr.Dradjat R.Suardi, Sp.B-Onk, examination or cancer cell receptors called immuno histochemistry checks are now a standard procedure in the diagnosis of cancer. The diversity of types of breast cancer necessitate diagnostic detail before deciding which type of therapy will be used.

The patient is said to HER-2 positive if the tumor is found over expression of HER2 and is less sensitive to a particular chemotherapy. Of overall breast cancer patients, about 25 percent have a positive HER-2 receptor is the most vicious.

"In the future treatment will be adjusted on the receptor. Breast cancer patients with HER-2 positive cancer usually the most aggressive because cancer cells have receptors for growth hormone catch," said dr.Dradjat, chief of cancer prevention in RS.Hasan Sadikin, Bandung.

Added dr.Dradjat current cancer treatment with targeted therapy and increased life expectancy of the patient. Government through ASKES has guaranteed reimbursement of cancer medicines.

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Apparently Grapefruit Orange Can Helpful Absorption Medicines

There is a way that absorption properties of medicine in body tissues more leverage. Apparently Grapefruit orange can helpful absorption medicines.

Grapefruit can inhibit the enzyme in the intestinal wall that slow the entry of the drug into the bloodstream. Consumption of grapefruit with medicines for cholesterol (statins), psychiatry (valium, zoloft), pain reduction (methadone), and cancer drug (sirolimus / rapamycin) causes the drug gets into the bloodstream faster so be poison in the body of the patient.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine (UCM), the United States, finding the positive side of grapefruit. Consumption of citrus fruits can reduce the dose of sirolimus to minimize the side effects of drugs.

The study, reported in the journal Clinical Cancer Research and quoted by LiveScience, Tuesday (7/8) and then, led by cancer expert UCM, Ezra Cohen. The study involved 138 cancer patients were divided into three groups.

The result, which only needs to take sirolimus dose 90 mg per week. Who drank grapefruit juice only need 25-35 mg of sirolimus per week. Sirolimus and ketoconazole groups need 16 mg of sirolimus per week. However, grapefruit juice is recommended because it is natural and inexpensive

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