Hey guys, this is a must rave! If you are a pet lover, you will know what I meant. I’ve stumbled upon this site called Big Paw Designs which features a  unique selection of collar charms, pet jewelry, dog jewelry, dog charms, dog gifts, cat gifts, pet lover gifts, earrings, keychains, magnets, picture frames and more. Personally, I simply adore their pet charms which looks so trendy and hip.

You just got to check out the site yourselves to know what the hype is all about. If you’re a pet lover who wants your dogs hip and cats cool, don’t forget to bookmark this site and browse through it when you are free!

I celebrated my birthday yesterday. Except for the fact that my girl had fever, I had a great day. Many bloggers are curious to know my age but if you really knew me in person, I never kept my age a secret. So, here’s the answer…..count the candles yourself but no prize for guessing corectly, ok?

Aiya, I dunno why my pix look so small. Grrr….I cannot enlarge some more. Nvmlah, happy guessing and I’ll let you know if you hit the bull’s eyes

Maintaining Your Manicure

Always treat your nails as if you’ve just had them polished. Instead of using your nails for the daily exercise of scraping, picking, pulling and opening, use the pads of your fingertips. Along with preventing splitting, chipping and breaking, this will make your hands look more elegant.

When cleaning the house and doing the dishes, be sure to wear gloves; prolonged exposure to water can cause nail damage because it will dry out your skin and nails. Tips to prevent nail polish chipping: reapply the top coat regularly, even daily, and try to avoid using fast-drying polishes that don’t last as long as regular nail polishes

Healthy Nails Now

The best way to make sure your nails are healthy is to moisturize them daily, and care for your cuticles. The cuticle is the nail’s protection between the exposed dead part of the nail and the matrix, where new cells are generated. Removing the cuticle destroys the nail matrix, which is essential to healthy nail growth. On the other hand, you do want to keep cuticles from becoming overgrown, which suffocates nail growth. The solution: Liberally apply a cuticle remover (not cuticle oil or cuticle cream), which will make the cuticle more pliable. Then, take an orangewood stick and anywhere the cuticle skin touches the nail plate, push it back using tiny circular movements. Hold the stick at an angle so that you do this gradually and gently, without going inside the cuticle. Use a moisturizer daily to prevent dryness

1. Tweeze immediately after shower or apply a hot wash clothes to loosen the hair follicles.
2. Hold a pencil vertically along the side of the nose. Eyebrow should start at outside edge of pencil.
3. If you leave a little more space, it will widen close set eyes.
4. Hold pencil to outside of eyes. That is where the brow should end.
   Smooth brow with moisturizer to help hair slide out.
   Brush brows up to find a natural arch.
5. Draw in the desired shape before hand with a soft eyebrow pencil.
   Tweeze under the brow first, plucking in the direction of the growth.
6. Using an eyelash comb, comb brows upwards and trim any hairs that extend beyond the natural top or brow bone.
7. After plucking, you can use cool tea bags to sooth the area.

Great tips, right? Well, I know what to do but I’m still a lazy person who seldom tweeze my eyebrows till they look like bushes. Lol

I’ve been tagged by Miche, thank you and your links are up on my blogroll

The project Blogger Power is a campaign to safegard the internet for children against pornography.

A Request To All Webmasters Of Adult Sites:

“Please require a password-protected login before allowing even free access to explicit adult content. We understand that selling porn is your business and we respect your right to make a legal living. But understand our legitimate concerns and work with us. You already have the “warning adult content” on your websites. Yet kids, who are not legal customers of your product, ignore the warning. So to prevent them from having direct access to explicit images, texts and sounds, the simplest way is to have a password-protected login. No more “free tours” before a visitor supplies basic information.”

Aiyo, now the hard part is to tag 20 bloggers for the campaign:

ShoppingMum, My Lil’ Organic Life, Bubba Stuff, Mott’s Mutterings, Julian & Morin Photoblog, Just 1 Blog, Raising Belle, Mumsgather, Crazy Thoughts By Chelle, Qianyi’s World, Lyon & Wien, Joelle, Blur Blur, Laundry Amah, Pinky’s Thots, The Suzette, Tracy’s Nest, Jean’s Diary, Rambling Moo and Wenzel’s Little Notes.

Sorry I do not have time to post your individual links. If you’ve done it already, it’s fine. Otherwise, be a sport and do this for a good cause. Thanks!

These are tips I received when I attended a grooming course while I was working with a bank a couple of years ago…

Skin have warm undertones or cool undertones and based on this, you will know whether you are best suited in warm colours or cool colours. Warm skin tones have yellowish undertones while cool skin tones have blue undertones.

This is how we tested our suitability:

Wear a white shirt and the test will require a peach scarf and a blue scarf. Hold the peach scarf against your face and look at yourself in the mirror. Then, do the same for the blue scarf. Do you look better with the peach scarf or blue scarf? If peach suits you better, you have warm skin tones. However, if blue looks better on you, it means you have cool skin tones.

If you have warm skin tones, you will look good in earth tones colour such as peach and gold. Those with cool skin tones will look great in black, blue and any colours that has a bluish tinge

To Conceal a Tummy

• Don’t Wear tops tucked in pleated pants, tight pants or belts.
• Do Wear fitted jackets, tunic tops and flat front pants.
• Wear tops that end just under your tummy.
• If the material is clingy don’t let it drape over your tummy (it will make your tummy appear larger instantly).
• Stay away from clingy material.
• Wear shaped dresses, in a moderately stiff fabric, that glide over the tummy area

You already know how to cleanse, moisturize and wear sunblock every day.  Here are other secrets to turning back the hands of time.

FACE
1 bring back the youthful glow
When skin starts to look dull or sallow, a quick fix is to add a serum to your daily routine. These lightweight fluids (or oils) are super-concentrated and are absorbed quickly, which means you get a blast of antiaging benefits. In the morning, you can use it under makeup. At night, apply it before your regular moisturizer to help it penetrate more deeply and give skin a double dose of good-for-you ingredients.

MOUTH
2 lock on to luscious lips
Does your lipstick start to feather an hour after you put it on? As we age, our lips get thinner and drier, their shape is less defined and the fine lines around them are much more noticeable, particularly if you are or were a smoker. To help lips stay full and kissable, use a lip moisturizer with peptides, which help plump and improve definition.
 
HANDS
3 help for hands
With so much focus on the face and neck, hands often get short shrift. But that’s a mistake—hands show our age, too. Slather on a hand cream that contains hydroquinone, an FDA-approved lightener for brown spots and freckles.

I’ve been so busy the week running up to CNY that I’ve totally forgotten to wish everyone “Xin Nien Kuai Le, Gong Xi Fatt Chai“. Hope I’m not too late.

Other happenings include my other free WP blog being suspended due to my paid posting. What other more appropriate time for WP to do it than on the eve of CNY!!! Ok, I admit, I was waiting for that bomb to drop sooner or later but they did not even sent me any warning email like what others received. Thus, I appealed and they opened up the access to me but I have to move my paid posts away.

I’m still a bit disappointed with WP as I thought PPP was on the negotiating path to get them to accept paid posting. Apparently, the Customer Service at WP claimed it was LIE NOT TRUE! Ok, so I give everyone the benefit of the doubt. I’m just sad that I will need to “kill” my other blog which has a PR of 4. Sad, but it must be done. I cannot juggle so many blogs at one time.

So, further changes here will be to include fashion and beauty in this blog. I love writing and gathering tips on the above topics and see no reason why I should give up what I love. So, there! You have it….many changes coming your way.

Meantime, I need to think of a new tagline for this blog…..

I’ve had two surgeries to remove breast lumps on my left breast and fortunately for me, the result was negative for cancer. It really gave me quite a scare so, I would like to share this article with all women…. 

Did you know that there are quite a number of things that you can do to help reduce your chances of developing breast cancer? 
  
For example, it might surprise you to learn that your weight is a key factor in whether you develop breast cancer or not. If a lot of extra fat is collecting around your middle, that gives you an increased risk factor of breast cancer.  This is especially true after menopause.  A high fat diet also increases your risk for developing this disease.  It’s crucial that you get a handle on keeping your weight in check.  As a result, you’ll be healthier and protect yourself from not only breast cancer but other deadly diseases as well.

I don’t know if you’re aware of the fact, but exercise is critical in protecting yourself against breast cancer.  If you haven’t started and maintained a regular program of exercising, there’s no better time to begin than right now!  Why not start a walking program and walk around the block on a regular basis?  It might surprise you to learn that even if you only exercise an hour and 15 minutes each week, that will be a big help to your health.  Want to boost your protection even more — simply exercise 2 1/2 hours per week or more.

Studies have shown the more exercise you do, your risk of developing breast cancer lowers.

Here’s another surprising fact.  If you decide not to have any children, that will increase your risk of developing breast cancer.  If you wait until after you are 30 to have your first child, that will also increase your risk.

Breast-feeding seems to have an important relationship to the prevention of breast cancer.  Those who breast-feed their children for about one and a half to two years actually decrease in a significant way their risk of developing breast cancer.

If breast cancer runs in your family, you should be cautious about taking hormonal replacements because that increases your risk of not only developing breast cancer, but also experiencing heart attacks, strokes and even blood clots.

It’s a proven fact that women who drink alcohol also have a greater possibility of developing breast cancer.  Want to decrease your risk of developing breast cancer?  Don’t drink alcohol at all.

Breast cancer is a dangerous foe, so protect yourself as much as possible by following the tips in this article.