Taking Care of Hands

Your hands need as much as attention as your face needs. Dry and hard hands does not look nice . For elegant hands you must give some time to your hands care.Here are some tips to soften your hands

1-To soften the rough skin of your hands, take two cups of warm milk in container, add one teaspoon of salt in it.Stir it.Massage it well for fifteen minutes and then wash your hands.

2-Make a hand lotion at home and save your money. Take two cups of rose water and one cup of glycerin.Make a mixture, pour it in a bottle
and refrigerate it .It is a wonderful hand moisturiser, apply it two times a day especially before sleeping.

3-Take half cup orange juice and one tea spoon of honey . Massage it till ten minutes on your hands.

4- Mash a banana, add one teaspoon of honey, juice of one lemon and one tea spoon of butter. Whip it well and apply it on hands , wash off after
two hours.

5-Take one and half cup of yogurt and one lemon juice, whip it. Massage it for fifteen minutes.

6-Take an egg,two tea spoon almond oil  and one tea spoon rose water. Whip them well and at the end add Tincture of benzene drop by drop(2 or 3 drops).Massage it on your hands.Wash after two hours.

7- Use gram flour for washing hands. Make a paste of gram flour with water and then wash your hands with it.

8-Take a tomato pulp and massage your hands with it, wash off after half an hour.

9-Use olive oil before going to bed.

10-Try to avoid the direct contact of your hands with detergent.

Summer Make-up

In the summer season, light make up is recommended. Heavy make up and dark colours look odd in the hot weather, on the other hand light make up gives soft and natural look.
Cleaning your face with a cleanser is the first step of the make up.It cleans the dirt particles from the skin. That helps to give you a smooth look.

Applying foundation is the next step  but in hot weather it is suggested to skip this because it looks too heavy and it can melt off easily.Use a moisturiser with SPF 15 or higher on your skin.It helps your make up to stay for long in summer. And if you have some blemishes, redness, black spots, scars , pimples  on your face you can use concealer to hide them. When wearing Blush , try to use pink or bronze shades for a soft look.

While choosing the eye shadows for the summer , prefer light eye shadows or you can use the blush in replacement of an eye shadow. It can give an elegant look. Eye liner is an important part of make up. Black eye liner is always in fashion.But brown eye liner  also looks nice and can give your eyes a gorgeous look.
Eye liner can also be applied only on outer corners of your eyes.
After applying eye liner curl your lashes with a eye lash curler and then apply mascara. Brown mascara can also be applied in summer make up.
Pink or nude shades of lipsticks are preferred in natural make up. But if you use only a lip gloss in combination with a lip liner, it can also look awesome.

Kids Eating Problems

It is often seen that the kids, mostly the kids of preschool age do not show interest towards their regular meals and milk. Mother seems worried about their kids eating habits. Doctors usually recommends that if the kid is healthy and energetic although he is not taking enough meal then there is nothing to worry about. Its a common phenomenon.
Here are some tips suggested by the experts to avoid meal time problems.

• Allow the kid eat while all the family members are eating
• Do not provide him junk food before the meal time.
• Do not ask the child finish his food fast. 
• Make the environment easy while eating.
• The presentation of food should be attractive like add some ketchup, jams or chutney to give a colourful appearance to the food.
• Show him the colours of vegetables in the food and ask him to feel the aroma
• Try to give the child to eat, whatever is cooked for the entire family
  
•  Use colourful crockery for the kid or use some plates with cartoons and colour ful shapes on them
• Prepare many different dishes or drinks in which the milk is the major ingredient. Like custard, yogurt, fruit shakes and puddings
• Tell him that the food will provide energy and help him to grow.
• Make a schedule of eating and stick to it.
• Encourage him to serve himself.
•  Involve him in purchasing the ingredients and preparing the dish.
• Teach him to use the right way of using the cutlery and ask him to clean the table after finishing.
• Praise the child when he finishes his food.

Having Sleepless Nights, Causes and Remedies

After a hardworking day, every one wants a sound sleep to be fresh and ready for the other day. During sleep we forget worries and problems of our life.If you feel that your daily routine is changing, you cannot concentrate on your work, your head is heavy, cant take interest, getting aggressive on common things then its possible you are not having sound sleep at night, feeling groggy and suffering from insomnia.You can behave like a bear with a sore head and it cannot be cured without knowing the reasons.
Thirty percent of people in the world, have this problem. Due to this your  daily, family and official life can be effected.It can increase the risks of accidents, especially for the young drivers.

 Some possible reasons are given below , you can overcome the sickness by analysing yourself

• Tensions and the ups and downs are the part of life. These are not the reason to have a sleepless night but the reason is, if  you think about these in a negative way.

• In bulky persons there are sometimes breathing problems, that can lead to insomnia.

• Jet lag is another reason which is caused after travelling from a far off country.The body timings does not match the time zone but in this case the body adjusts soon itself

• Pain in legs can be a reason

• High blood pressure can also be a reason

• Change of bed and pillow

• Noise or light at your sleeping place

• Waking up all the night and sleep in the morning

• Listening music or reading novels or taking coffee or tea before sleeping

If you want to consult a doctor then  before going to him, maintain a diary with the following points

1. Timings to go to bed
2. For how much long you try to sleep after going to bed?
3. How much long it takes you to sleep?
4. After waking up in morning, for how much time you stay on bed?
5. How much time you sleep in day?
6. How much you use coffee and cigarettes
7. Reasons of tension
8. How much times  you wake up in whole night?
9. When you wake up in morning?

Some suggestion to have a sound and peaceful sleep

1. Leave  cigarettes
2. Make your thinking positive towards life
3. Peaceful environment
4. Comfortable bed and clean room
5.  Relax your muscles
6. Ask yourself to finish the tension
7. Then instruct yourself that i am relaxed and i want to sleep
8. Keep yourself busy in the whole day to get tired
9. Drink warm milk before going to bed
10. Do not use sleeping pills

Your kids are heading back to school.Help your kids lighten their load

Its the end of summer vacation.Now the time of year has come when children and teens are getting ready to go back to school after enjoying their three summer vacations of three months. Its a little bit sad but more excited because a new term is has started , there will be new books, new activities and new things to learn and experience.
As a parent you want to make sure that your kid should not become mentally overloaded with all and doesn't become over scheduled.A child shouldn't be pushed to do more then they are happy and capable. Here are some tips given to lighten the load of your kids

        Time should be planned

• Make a schedule for all regular activities so that your kids do not get overwhelmed.
• Highlight the number of hours that the kid is engaged in certain activity
• If a child is giving an excessive amount of time to a certain activity like tennis is taking 90 minutes of a weekday and you want your kid to spend some time in karate, swimming or language lesson , then the time swallowed by the tennis game can be shortened to find to time for another activity
• Plan some time for relax and recharge
• Monitor your kids sleep and dietary patterns.

Communication with the kid is very important

• Discuss your child's preference with them. The process can help them think about what they like and what seems interesting to them.
• Build child's sense of responsibility.
• Celebrate the child's success.
• Appreciate them.

Lighten the School bags

A piece of luggage that your child have to carry all around can create back, neck and muscle strain or even injury if worn incorrectly or weighing too much. You should help your child to lighten the load. Simply taking out an apple, a story book and a hair brush can reduce a half of a kilo.
Many kids do not check , what they need to have in their bags and what they do not need to have in their bag according to their schedule.They often carry extra books and notebooks with them.It is suggested that child leave their heavy books in the lockers at school or get them a rolling backpack or a luggage cart which will be a great ease for them.

• The backpack should have adjustable, padding shoulder straps and multiple compartments of weight distribution. The padded shoulders prevent straps digging into the shoulder.
• Use both shoulder straps to make sure these straps are not tighten to the body.

Types of Mehndi and elegant Mehndi Designs for Eid

Mehndi or Henna is one of the important tradition of Eid. For girls this occasion is supposed to be incomplete without applying mehndi on their hands and feet.Its an ancient and very popular tradition.

Applying mehndi has become an art. Mehndi designs can be made more attractive by decorating them with glitter and beads of different colours.Booklets for different designs can be purchased from any book store or mehndi stalls.

Three types of mehndi cones are available in market

1-Black Mehndi
It is used to give outline of the designs or fill in the petals of flowers or leaves of the design.
Totally depends on your choice. It is mostly used in Arabic designs to fill in the petals and leaves.

2-Classic Mehndi

Classic Mehndi is used most commonly to make the designs on hands and feet.It gives brown pattern.

3-Red Mehndi

Red Mehndi in cones is available in form of attar. it can be applied to nails to turn them red.Red mehndi looks fabulous when applied in the petals of flower in mehndi designs. Red shade also gives a wonderful effect in the middle of flower.

4-Glitter
Glitter is highly in demand now a days. We can decorate our designs with the help of glitter.
It is available in many colours. you can apply the colour according to your dress. It gives very elegant effect.

Tips for getting fast colour of mehndi

• When mehndi is dried apply mustard oil with the help of cotton buds.
• Apply lemon juice or sugar syrup after mehndi is dried.
• Before applying the mehndi, make it sure that your hands are properly cleansed and you must have some tissue paper near you. 
• Leave over night or at least for six to eight hours.

Some of my favourite mehndi designs for the day of eid:

Best Places For Eid Shopping In Lahore

When it comes to Eid shopping, there are a lot of shopping malls and markets in Lahore. Markets are full of new variety near Eid days. Shopping becomes a family fun in this rainy season. Women wants to buy eye catching outfits, comfortable shoes, dazzling jewellery,trendy cosmetics and many other accessories of their choices not only for themselves but also for their family and friends.

Best of those markets are

• Liberty Market
• Anarkali Bazar
• Ichra Bazar
• Moon Market
• Shadman Market
• Orega
• Johar Town Market
• Y-Block DHA Market
• Model Town Link Road Market 
• Barkat Market
• Fortress Stadium

Top Shopping malls

• Pace
• City Tower
• Siddique Trade Centre
• Hyper Star
• Metro 

Food outlets are also here to satisfy the hunger pangs during the shop to shop visits.Burgers, Pizza, French Fries, Sweet corns, Ice creams  increases the appetite of kids as well as of the elders.

Due to a lot of rush it becomes difficult to find a parking sometimes.In addition to it the huge number of beggars make the situation more messy.