8 best ways to lose your belly fat

A common question is how successfully to get rid of stomach fat quickly. Who doesn’t want flat stomach? Around 70% of USA and Europe adult population is not happy with their weight and most of them would like to lose belly fat altogether. It has been scientifically explained! High level cortisol in our body is one of the main culprits to gain weight in our stomach area. Due to stress, cortisol secretion is increasing. The good news is achieving belly fat is not as difficult as most of the people think. Here are 7 best ways to lose your stomach fat in no time!

1. Sleep enough!
At least 8 hours of sleep needed of your body to recover from daily stress load

2. Forget about alcohol
Alcohol is calorie. Drink a glass of wine with dinner and you will feel the button of his jeans cuts in your belly. Reduce the alcohol to a bare minimum to have a strong stomach and a beautiful flat belly.

3. Avoid Soda
Instead of soda, drink more water, green tea and fruit juices without artificial sweeteners.
You will feel more comfortable and your stomach will be swollen.

4. Cut out fast food and sugar
Carbs hold water and that your belly swells. It’s easy to eat 1,000 grams or more carbohydrates weekend; just a pizza, a few drinks and dessert, than these carbs can easily lift a pointer on the scales of up to 2 kg on Monday.

5. Drink much water with lemon
Giving up sparkling, opt for plain or mineral water with some lemon in it. Lemon helps digestion and is a natural diuretic, so earning excess water from the body.

6. Vitamin C
When you’re under stress, cortisol secretion is extremely high Vitamin C helps balance the cortisol levels in your body

7. Doing bearing exercises
Exercises like crunches and all other related abdominal muscles are the best effective method of getting flat tummy and shaping the so-called 6 “tiles”.

8. No supplements and fat burners
You don’t need to spend money on expensive supplements and fat burners. You must use the natural power of food and sports to achieve the desired flat stomach

Attract More Clients to your Salon

“How can I find out if a new treatment will attract new clients and / or be popular with existing clients?”

Getting new customers and keeping the old ones can be a hard task. There are always salons who will offer great incentives to new customers that will end up stealing your customers. You have to make sure you treat your current customers with respect, keep your prices competitive, and give incentives to stay with you.

In order to attract new customers make sure your salon offers a competitive new rate for new customers. Create an advertising campaign that includes a lot of different types of advertising.

To help keep your customers, give them a discount for being with them for a long time. When a customer stays with a Salon for a while, they begin to feel loyalty to it. They will want to stay with the salon because of that bond. However, they will leave if it means a lot less money they have to pay. Give your existing customers incentives too.

It may not seem that important to keep the old customers when you can just get new ones and they will eventually just come back to you, but it is actually really beneficial. Customers who have been with the company are loyal to you. They are also more willing to work with you if something goes wrong.

 

Improve Training for all Therapists

Employees who have daily interaction with customers often leave a lasting impression

Provide Timely Responses

We all know demanding it can be running a Salon especially if you don’t have a receptionist. Try moving your clients to booking appointments online via your website, email or Facebook. This will give to time to respond

Offer More Proactive Ideas

As a beauty service and product supplier, customers look to you as the expert. They rely on you to perform important tasks they cannot do themselves. Give tips and trick via socail networking sites on how clients can maintain their treatments

Social Networking

Have your client write a testimonial for your on a Social Networking site. A person who does business with you becomes a great advertising tool for your business. A satisfied customer will spread the word about your business, which will eventually attract new clients for your business.

With this in mind, you must be sure to provide excellent customer satisfaction, so that it creates a domino effect of new clients to your business.

New Treatments  / New products :

•Ilah Brows is a superb treatment that makes great business sense. Clients want the ILAH Brow look –they’ve seen it in the media, and are asking for it in salons. Demand for training is growing by the day and we are the ONLY Provider of official ILAH Brow training in Ireland.

Thanks for reading  :)

St. Patrick’s Day Makeup Ideas

St. Patrick’s Day is fast-approaching! Leprechauns, shamrocks, and pots of gold abound, but we're totally stoked about the makeup! The Irish festival gives the green light on all things emerald, but don't feel limited to one color or style—myriad looks exist for every skin tone imaginable. And you bet your lucky charms we've rounded up our community favorites. Try these St. Paddy's day makeup looks and you're guaranteed a pinch-proof celebration!

EIMEAR B.

Take St. Patty's makeup inspiration from a true Irish Beauty herself. Eimear (left) goes the patriotic route by teaming up an emerald green crease with a pop of ginger on the lid. A sharp black wing finishes with a color-blocked white accent, giving this Northern UK eye a retro-modern feel.

HEIDI L.

Heidi gives Chanel's bedazzled brow trend a verdant twist! In her playful take on a smoky eye (center), she pairs a clear lime hue with a cool khaki—lime's grungier sister—in the crease. Sky-high falsies and matching rhinestones finish the look.

STEPHANIE L.

Looking for a vibrant pastel eye to celebrate the merry occasion? Try Stephanie's glittering aqua-jade eye (right)—just look at her blending, the colors, and her luminescent skin! It's Emerald City, reinvented.

Contouring is an Art

I’d talk about the art of contouring. What is contouring you may ask? Contouring is essentially the opposite of highlighting. While highlighting is meant to accentuate features in your face, contouring is meant to minimize features by darkening areas. Contouring is a great way to make your face look thinner and more structured.

To contour, you can use a contour brush, sponge, or your own fingers. Then you would either need a bronzer, liquid or powder foundation, or I have heard some people use eye shadow. Whatever your choice, you must choose a shade only slightly darker than your skin tone; maybe only two or three shades darker. Any darker will make your contouring look unnatural. The usual areas to contour are on the sides of your nose, under your cheekbone, on the sides of your forehead, and under your neck, if necessary.

Darkening the sides of your nose makes your nose look thinner. Darkening under your cheekbones gives the appearance of hollowed cheeks, which makes your cheek bones look more prominent. Contouring the sides of your forehead makes your forehead look thinner, and darkening under your neck makes your neck look thinner as well. 

When using liquid foundation, it would be best to use a sponge or finger tips. You would really need to blend the foundation into your face in the areas needed, so the areas look like they are in the shadow. If you use eye shadow or powder based foundation  to contour, you should use a contouring brush. If you need help finding a good contouring brush, MAC #168 has great reviews. Since there are both liquid and powder kinds of bronzer, you should use either liquid or powder methods to apply the bronzer. Here are pictures of Kim Kardashian before and after her makeup routine, which happens to include both highlighting and contouring.

Before

Contouring definitely takes a lot of practice, but with enough practice, your face will be ready for the cover of any magazine! I hope my tips helped, until next time!

After

Applying Foundation: Fingers or Brushes?

Applying Foundation: Fingers or Brushes?

When applying foundation, what do you usually do? Do you blend directly with your fingers or do you use tools, like brushes or sponges? 

Let's take an in-depth look at these two different techniques for applying your face makeup. 

              Fingers              Brushes

Fingers      

Why it works:

• The natural heat of your body allows the makeup to melt in your hands.
• Many members agree that using your fingers is more precise.
• Brushes cost money, but your fingers are free! No splurging on expensive tools.

Why you should avoid it:

• If you don't wash your hands, using your fingers can spread bacteria to the face.
• Even if you do wash your hands, fingers still spread oils around that lead to acne.
• Finger application can be messy - watch out for stained hands!

Brushes

Why it works:

• With so many brush types, you can experiment for the perfect finish.
• Having a brush set allows you to apply makeup on friends without the germs.
• Brushes (and sponges) usually give a lighter, less caked-on finish.

Why you should avoid it:

• Brushes and sponges are absorbent, so you might waste more product.
• Without proper cleaning, these tools will be full of bacteria and dead skin cells.
• Makeup brushes and sponges can be expensive if you're a newbie. 

Final verdict:  Both techniques have the same number of pros and cons, so there's no clear answer as to which is the best. Experiment and find what works best for you. You might find, for example, that brushes are better for powders while fingers are better for liquids.

No matter which technique you use, though, make sure you keep your tools (whether they're attached to your body or not!) clean before makeup application. Brushes should be washed at least once a week with brush cleanser, and your make sure you wash your hands before rubbing on product.

Recommended Products:

• MAC #190 Foundation Brush
• Chris Krenzer 24 piece Synthetic Brush Set
• NIMA Brushes
• e.l.f. Studio Brush Cleaner

TOP 3 BLACK GEL LINERS FOR ALL BUDGETS

TOP 3 BLACK GEL LINERS FOR ALL 

BUDGETS 

With black gel liner a key staple in all our makeup kits these days I get asked a lot by clients or by you lovely lot via Facebook message which I would recommend so I've compiled my top 3 suitable for all budgets. I've chosen these 3 for their long lasting, easy to work with texture along with the fact they don't dry out as quickly as some others on the market :-)

1: Essence Black Gel Liner : priced around €2, available at Pennys, Sam McCauleys Chemist and all Essence stockists nationwide.

2: Inglot no77 Black Gel Liner ( my personal fave): priced approx €12 available at all Inglot stores nationwide

3: MAC Blacktrack Gel Liner: priced around €17 available @ MAC counters @ Brown Thomas Limerick, Cork, Dublin & Galway.

***For those of you with pots of dried out gel liner pick yourself up a tube of Duraline from Inglot priced at €10 - a couple of drops of this little gem will instantly revive your pot of liner ***

***Top tip: When using black gel liner I ALWAYS use an angled brush as it gives a more precise and sharp line around the eye especially at the corner where sometimes it can be difficult to achieve that evenly finished point ***

Acne Prone Skin

What is your acne telling you?

1 & 2: Digestive System — Eat less processed or junk food, reduce the amount of fat in your diet, step up water intake and opt for cooling things like cucumbers.

3: Liver — Cut out the alcohol, greasy food and dairy. This is the zone where food allergies also show up first, so take a look at your ingredients. Besides all this, do 30 minutes of light exercise every day and get adequate sleep so your liver can rest.

4 & 5: Kidneys — Anything around the eyes (including dark circles) point to dehydration. Drink up!

6: Heart — Check your blood pressure and Vitamin B levels. Decrease the intake of spicy or pungent food, cut down on meat and get more fresh air. Besides this, look into ways to lower cholesterol, like replacing “bad fats” with “good fats” such as Omegas 3 and 6 found in nuts, avocados, fish and flax seed. Also, since this area is chock-full of dilated pores, check that your makeup is not past its expiry date or is skin-clogging.

7 & 8: Kidneys — Again, drink up! And cut down on aerated drinks, coffee and alcohol as these will cause further dehydration.

Zone 9 & 10: Respiratory system — Do you smoke? Have allergies? This is your problem area for both. If neither of these is the issue, don’t let your body overheat, eat more cooling foods, cut down on sugar and get more fresh air. Also keep the body more alkaline by avoiding foods that make the body acidic (meat, dairy, alcohol, caffeine, sugar) and adding more alkalizing foods like green veggies and wheatgrass juice. Another thing that most of forget – dirty cell phones and pillow cases are two of the top acne culprits and this area is what they affect the most!

Zone 11 & 12: Hormones — This is the signature zone for stress and hormonal changes. And while both are sometimes unavoidable, you can decrease their effect by getting adequate sleep, drinking enough water, eating leafy veggies and keeping skin scrupulously clean. Another interesting point: breakouts in this area indicate when you are ovulating (and on which side).

Zone 13: Stomach — Step up the fibre intake, reduce the toxin overload and drink herbal teas to help with digestion.

14: Illness — Zits here can be a sign that your body is fighting bacteria to avoid illness. Give it a break, take a yoga class, take a nap, take time to breathe deeply, drink plenty of water and know that everything always works out!

So the next time you break out or notice dark under-eye circles, look to your face map: your skin is probably trying to communicate on behalf of the internal organs. However, do remember that, as with all medical issues, it is always best to see your doctor or dermotologist for a proper prognosis. This is just a general guide to head you off in the right investigative direction – just because you break out between the brows doesn’t always mean you have a bad liver!