How to Get Rid of Tan Lines: 5 All-Natural Methods That Work



With beach side sunbathing, swimming, and countless other outdoor activities taking up a substantial part of our summer, tan lines are all but inevitable. Of all of our warm weather beauty woes, tan lines are the most irritating, because once you’ve got them, it’s nigh impossible to get rid of them without a crafty mind and a bit of elbow grease. Fortunately, we’ve got both—so if you want to know how to get rid of tan lines, trust us when we say to look no further than your kitchen, which is exactly where you’ll find these 5 effective tan line eliminators.
Lemon Juice
A natural exfoliant, lemon juice is perfect for sloughing off dead skin cells and diminishing the appearance of obvious lines. Just don’t use it alone, as the strong acidic properties could potentially give skin a minor burn. Instead, mix equal parts honey (for hydration and protection) and lemon juice, leave on your tan lines for 25 minutes, then rinse.
Cucumbers
The naturally high water content and vitamin C in cucumbers are perfect not only for nourishing the skin, but for reducing tan lines, too. Cut a cucumber into slices, puree it into a paste, and leave on the affected area for twenty minutes before washing off.
Potatoes
Just as a potato can heal a gnarly sunburn, it can also help with tan lines. Slice a raw potato and place the slice (or slices) where needed, and leave on for 15 minutes.
Baking Soda
Baking soda makes a wonderful natural exfoliant for shedding tan lines. Mix one cup of baking soda with a tablespoon of sugar and half a cup of water, and use the resulting blend as an exfoliating score in the shower.
Black Tea
If your tan line is more of a burn line (we’ve been there), then this tip is extra useful. Make a cup of iced black tea, pour it into a spray bottle, and spritz yourself down with it after a shower. Not only will it soothe aggravated skin, but it’ll help fade those lines faster, too.

Color Concealers: What They're For and How To Use Them On Your Skin



Using your foundation and traditional concealer, but still not getting the flawless look you're after? Consider trying color concealers.
Now at first glance, this rainbow palette of green, blue, purple and red might throw you off, but these surprising shades actually work great underneath your makeup to help diminish the imperfections you want to keep hidden so your skin looks pristinely perfect. Check out the color breakdown of which hues help with which beauty dilemmas.
Green - Believe it or not, this shade works great to spot treat and cover up redness on the skin. If you have a pesky red pimple, acne blemishes, sunburn, rosacea, or tend to have a little redness in your skin, use green to cancel out the red. The color combination will leave your imperfections gray and thus, way easier to cover with traditional foundation and concealer.
Yellow - Got really dark circles? This shade is the key to combating them. Sometimes regular concealer can still betray your makeup and allow dark under eye shadows to come through. Apply yellow concealer to dark circles first. The bright shade again will cancel out the under eye imperfections and your regular concealer will work much better over top.
Purple - When dark spots, hyper pigmentation, or discoloration make it difficult to apply your foundation and achieve an all-over even tone, using purple concealer can make this much easier. If you have scars that have healed a different shade than your normal skin tone, purple works great to cancel these out as well.
Blue - When the self tanner goes wrong in certain spots, or you're trying to combat a little sunburn, placing blue concealer over top the orange skin works great to cancel out the color. Foundation over top orange skin will never work, since certain spot of your skin have taken a citrusy turn for the worse, so use the blue first to get skin back to a shade that can be covered up with your usual makeup.
Ever use a color concealer? Tell us with a note below!

Homemade Coconut Milk Leave in Spray on Conditioner





Coconut milk is packed with loads of proteins and vitamins which makes it an excellent beauty product. It adds strength and elasticity to weak, brittle and damaged hair, and promotes longer hair by helping reduce everyday damage.
SOFT, SHINY HAIR
Coconut milk not only treats dry, frizzy hair but also deep conditions, moisturizes and strengthens your hair to help prevent and treat hair fall.
Coconut Milk after shower Conditioner
After shower, add a drop of coconut milk to your palm and apply it to the strands of your hair.
If you have very fine hair then use it just at the ends of your hair to keep it split end free and looking  healthy.
If you don’t have coconut milk then try this homemade hair spray using coconut oil >>
Coconut Milk Leave in Conditioner Spray
  • 1/2 cup Coconut Milk
  • 1 cup distilled water
  • 1tsp of vitamin E oil (optional)
  • Few drops of lavender oil or any other essential oil
Mix it all in a spray bottle and mist it all over your hair.
The homemade all natural leave in conditioner will not only keep your hair soft, shiny and moisturized but will also treat any hair problems naturally.

Natural Alcohol Free Oily Skin Toner






To clear and prevent acne as well as lighten the scars use a natural homemade toner.
Green Tea Oily Skin Toner
* 1 cup of green tea
* 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar
Mix 1 cup green tea along with 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar and use it as a toner to deep clean the pores, reduce oils and fight acne.
The toner also helps to reduce scar and even out the skin tone for a clear complexion.
Apple cider Vinegar Oily Skin toner
* 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar
* 1/2 cup of water
Mix apple cider vinegar with water and pour it in a bottle. Use a cotton pad to apply the toner all over the face, leave it on for 5mi
ns to get rid of excess oils, blackheads and deep clean the skin. Rinse off and pat dry.
Witch hazel Oily skin toner:* 3 parts water
* 2 parts of witch hazel
* 1 part apple cider vinegar
Mix three parts distilled water with two parts witch hazel and one part apple cider vinegar will take care of you. Apply the toner to not only treat excess oil but also tighten the skin.

7 Reasons to Invest in Quality Clothes

7 Reasons to Invest in Quality Clothes

Cheap clothes are so abundant  that we all tend to fall into the trap of thinking that clothes should be super inexpensive and entirely disposable. The only clothing some women ever invest in are job interview outfits and wedding dresses. But if you care at all about how you look, you should stop worrying about bargains and treat your clothes like the essential part of your personal style that they are. Invest in your clothes, instead of just buying them.

What It Means to Invest in Clothes

We’re not saying that you should dress up all the time. There are cheap yoga pants, and pricier, better made yoga pants. You’ll get more wear out of your casual, errand-running clothes if you spend a little more money. Remember “cost per wear”. If you spend $50 on a something you wear 25 times, it costs you $2 per wear. But a $20 garment that wears out after 5 wearings costs $4 per wear – twice as much as the more expensive option.
And if you buy tons of trends every season, that just means you’re buying more trends next season, and the next after that. And you still have nothing to wear for weeks at a time, every time it turns from fall to winter, or spring to summer!
Whether trendy or not, we’ve all seen the bane of plus size clothes shopping: pricy yet poorly made clothes. Doesn’t that just make you mad? You should get the quality that you pay for, so learn which retailers charge high prices for low quality fabrics and poor craftsmanship.
We’re also not saying that everyone has (or should have) a large clothing budget. Just buy the best clothes you can afford, even if that means buying one $30 top instead of three $10 tops that will fall apart in the laundry after two wearings.
OK, so that’s what we mean when we say you should invest in clothes. Now for the reasons why you should do it.
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1. You’ll be more comfortable.

Cheap synthetic fabrics don’t breathe like natural fibers. Poor quality fabrics will make you feel too hot in a warm room, but won’t keep you warm when it gets cold. (That’s also what’s wrong with pantyhose – may they never come back into style.) But better fabrics will work the way that clothes are supposed to work.
Rachel Dress

2. Less ironing!

Good fabric has a certain weight to it, and that weight keeps it from wrinkling. Your clothes may pick up some creases while you are wearing them, but hang them up after washing and any wrinkles will be pulled straight by the weight of the fabric. And we all know, you have much better things to do than to iron.

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3. Anna Wintour does it.

The editor of Vogue could buy an entirely new wardrobe every few months. Heck, she could probably get tons of clothes for free. But she doesn’t. Instead, she invests in a few things each season and wears the heck out of them. It’s her job to look good and be photographed, and yet she doesn’t worry about wearing a new outfit for every event. So why should we? Get one perfect dress you can wear everywhere, instead of buying a new dress every time you receive a wedding invitation.

4. It’s good for the environment.

When we buy loads of cheap clothes, we send a lot more clothes to thelandfill, a lot sooner. A poorly made top that fades when you try to get out a stain isn’t good for anything anymore. Plus, think of all the energy expended to transport your dress from an overseas factory, then to your local store, and then to the landfill. All for something you got to wear maybe four times. Buying clothes that will last longer reduces the environmental impact of your wardrobe.

5. You’ll like your clothes more.

So many of us could purge our closets of everything that doesn’t fit or is out of style, and we’d still have full closets and nothing to wear. Sound familiar? When you buy clothes only because they were on sale, or to make a small purchase to justify the trip to the store, you get a closet packed full of meh. Maybe you could wear those clothes, but you don’t really want to. The more you spend on a piece of clothing, the more you’re going to make sure you really like it before buying. And assuming you’re buying from a maker who cares about quality, the more value you’ll get out of every dollar you spend.

Michelle and Rachel Dresses

6. It shows respect for your own hard work.

You work hard for the money you spend on clothes. Spending your money wisely is a way to respect the time you spend in the office. You’re not just throwing your money away when you fritter it away on cheap clothes – you’re throwing away your own labor. Very few people love their jobs so much that they’d do it for free. So why do it for poorly made clothes that you don’t love? Calculate the cost of a skirt by time worked instead of dollars, and you’ll only buy the best you can afford.

7. You’ll find it much easier to get dressed in the morning.

By now, it’s likely that you’ve read one of the gajillions of posts out there about building a “core wardrobe”.  I absolutely love this concept. There’s a reason famous fashion editors, stylists and models all wear fairly simple, but gorgeous classics.  Because they’re easy, they last forever, and quite simply: they’re fabulous.
When you’ve made the commitment to build a core wardrobe of essentials that are the highest quality you can find (or that you can justify), you’ll discover an awesome new benefit: everything just works together! That’s right. Think about how many ways you can wear a simple black dress. Toss on a jean jacket and ballet flats for a morning of errands. Switch to tights and black boots for brunch with a friend. Then slick on a red lipstick, trade in the boots for strappy sandals, and toss on some bling–voila, it’s date night!
Not every dress has to be black, either. Maybe your neutral is navy, or grey, or camel or brown. Heck, maybe it’s hot pink. That’s cool. But findyour core wardrobe essentials, commit to high quality, and spend less time worrying about what to wear, and more time enjoying looking fabulous in those great items that magically seem to all work together!

Why? Because You’re Worth It

You buy the best groceries you can afford. You live in the best home within your budget. You deserve the best clothes you can manage to buy. The better quality your clothes are, the more they can stand up to wearing, washing, stain removal and alterations season after season. Which means you’ll save money in the long run.
You’ll look better, save money, and feel both more comfortable and more gorgeous! And who doesn’t want that?

Tell us about some of your key wardrobe pieces in the comments! We’d love to hear your thoughts.
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