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KITCHEN BEAUTICIAN

photo credit: pauladeen.com post designed by lauren conrad

It’s official. Spring has arrived. That means it’s time to shed those layers and show some skin.  Unfortunately, our  limbs have been hiding all winter long and may not be looking their prettiest.  To bring dull skin back to life, try this refreshing body scrub.  Here is an easy recipe for a salt scrub that you can make with ingredients found in your own kitchen.  You’re just moments away from shiny new skin.

What you will need:

5 tablespoons sea salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 lemon

First mix the olive oil and sea salt together. Once the salt gets coated by the oil, the lemon won’t dissolve it! Next cut the lemon in half and squeeze over the salt + oil. Mix and mash. (Feel free to adjust the recipe to your liking.) Then scrub away!!

XO Lauren

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KITCHEN BEAUTICIAN

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Seasons come and go, and as we’re all aware summer is quickly approaching. Spring is the perfect time to get your skin ready for the coming months. My favorite at home remedy for dry skin is simple: coconut butter and a couple drops of olive oil. Coconut butter is an incredible moisturizer and promotes elasticity in skin. Extra virgin olive oil is packed with vitamin E and antioxidants. These two are a mash made in heaven! Blend two teaspoons of coconut butter and 10 drops of extra virgin olive oil together in a bowl using the back of a spoon. Apply a thin layer anywhere skin feels dry once or twice a week. I use this on my lips, legs, arms, elbows, and hands. Cover and save the rest in the refrigerator. Due to the coconut craze right now, coconut butter should be pretty easy to find. It’s the perfect summer skin prep!

XO Lauren

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HEY SUGAR…

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Post submitted by community contributor, Brandi Morin

Ladies, want to know how to make your skin irresistibly radiant and healthy? Try this DIY treatment, which uses ingredients many of you probably already have in your cupboard!

I stumbled upon this beauty secret years ago and it’s quickly becoming one of the most popular home-made body scrubs because it’s easy, good for your skin, low maintenance and cheap!

Brown sugar– when you think of it you may imagine cookies + candy, but it also contains ingredients that can be greatly beneficial to your body’s largest organ, your skin.

Yes, I’m talking about using brown sugar as an all over body exfoliant. Brown sugar’s granulated particles exfoliate and clear away dry, dead skin cells. This creates a noticeably smoother, more youthful glow to your skin, which is an effect almost all women desire to maintain. Brown sugar is an anti-bacterial and also contains glycolic acid which is an alpha-hydroxyl acid ingredient that keeps skin healthy + vibrant. At the same time it moisturizes and conditions the skin and protects it from the harmful effects of toxins. Lastly it smells delicious! Using brown sugar as a relaxing aromatherapy at home spa treatment will most definitely leave you feeling like a domestic goddess.

It’s good to mix it with natural olive oil so it adds extra moisture and creates a sticky consistency that’s easier to apply. Remember you can use it as an all over body scrub and even use it on your face every other day for a radiant glow, but be gentle! The skin on your face is much more sensitive.

Here’s how I prepare to indulge in this natural beauty recipe at home:

• half a cup of brown sugar
• three tablespoons of olive oil
• a few drops of water.

And voila! It’s that easy.

For a perfectly delicious home made skin care treatment brown sugar will make you look and feel glorious and everyone around you will be amazed at the condition of your soft and glowing beautiful skin.

Source : http://thebeautydepartment.com/2011/11/hey-sugar/#more-4117

HEALTH HW 1

Elaine Edmondson                                                                                                            Ms. S. Rivera
Health Pd.   6                                                                                                             Septemeber 16, 2013

         What Are Blackheads?

Health Article #  1 

                Blackheads are the beginning stage of acne.  As you know from acne, it can either be black, yellow, or white.  Blackheads, usually black but can be yellow.  Whiteheads are white because they are open hair follicles but still partially clogged.  Later on, with the added dirt, it later develops into something common called pimples.  The blackheads are a mix of oily substances, and dirt.    

                   It usually occurs after one hits puberty.  Puberty is a process where hormone levels increase.  One of the effects are glands spill out oily substances.  The oily substances overfill the pores and over some or a long time, they form blackheads.  People who have dirty and oily faces usually have blackheads.  This usually occurs to them because first, their faces are clogged with oil and other substances and second, they don't clean their faces so the oil continues to build up.

                   As said, earlier, blackheads usually appear during puberty.  Puberty occurs during teenage years.  Also, when you are in stress or down,  this increases the level of your hormones, causing further break-out.

                 Cleaning your face can clean out your oily pores and gradually rid of the blackheads.  Also, moving hair from face can reduce the blackheads.  Hair is very greasy so that will just add more oil to the already clogged pores.  Also, being in the sun can get rid of your dead skin cells but be careful because that can cause skin cancer.

               Blackheads are caused by close hair follicles that are fully clogged with bacteria and oily substances.  It happens during puberty which undergoes in teenage years.  As long as you clean your face and be healthy, you can lower the chances of blackheads popping up.  I find this article really beneficial to me because I hate pimple, blackheads etc just like any other person.  Now I can do something to prevent many blackheads from spreading through out my face.

KARL BENZ

Karl Benz

          Karl Benz was a German inventor who had created something that moves the world today.  The magnificent invention is called a gasoline-powered automobile.  If it wasn't for his invention, we may still be riding horses to ride around our neighborhoods.

          He was born in November in Germany and died in April also in Germany.  He had gone to Karlsruhe Gymnasium, a high school, and the University of Karlsruhe.  Both are in Germany.  He later on married Bertha Benz who later on was the first person to go an extensive trip on the the new invention.  Together, they had two sons and three daughters.

           It seems that his daring invention was not accidental.  He was an engineer after all, and participated in a society where people of his position gathered.  He had founded Rhine Rive Gas Motor Factory.  During his time there, he constructed the machine and many people protested that it scared away children and horses.  This is when his wife achieved that previously said title.  The point behind the endeavor was to showcase the reliability of the automobile.  His seemingly foolish marketing strategy worked.

           Unfortunately, later on, he was forced to resign as the CEO of his company.  On the other hand, he founded another and worked secretly with stealth as if he was leaving no trail behind.  It was called K. Benz & Sons which became a supplier of a automobile company called Daimler.  Daimler was a superior competitor of Karl's first founded company so it's kind of ironic that his second company is a "subcontractor" of Daimler.

           A common convertible that is used in many people's daily lives is a gasoline-powered car.  The engineer who created this was Karl Benz.  He further advanced technology from horses to automobiles.

IN the Mariott Hotel

OMG, TIS PLACE IS FREAKING AMAZING!!!!!! u see i'm here cuz mi bro is having a tournament at Washington!  This place is so huge.  There are sections for free internet, a bar, a fitness room, a pool and of course a lot of ballrooms, salons, and hotel rooms.  Even the front of the elevators as u gone up the floors is like a mini classic lobby.  A carpet, a big fortune cookie soft chair, while surrounding it blood red vintage lace-patterned lounge chairs with small black circle tables.  It's like this on probably every floor except the first.  The first is just the upper part of the huge lobby.  The rooms are small but quite very comfy and yesh, for mi anime, FREE INTERNET!!!!!! well of course in the rooms.  but you gotta bring a laptop.  I'm looking forward to my stay here.  Oh yeh, it seemed that at the Marriott Ballroom right nxt to the sign Salon 1, there's gonna be something like an announcement or an auditorium.  I couldn't really hear well cuz it was noisy outside. Hey, I was curious when the sign said do not enter.  It seemed that the forecoming opening ceremony for the basketball tournament.  They were talking of pledge, saying congrats and saying literally blah blah yada yada.  It turns out they will be giving out rewards one that I've heard of is for best uniform.  LOL, i pretended to act like an agent on doing this cuz it seemed to make it a lot more interesting!  I also pretended to read a newspaper that I had just casually picked from the side.  I FELT SO COOL! :)  Well, probably more tomorrow see yah!

P.s.
It turns out to be in the fitting room:
Must be older than 12 and if younger than 18, then must be accompanied by an adult

To be in the outdoor swimming room:
Must be at least 16 to be in or u have to be accompanied by an adult.

Resort Pool

Ha....I swear IT WAS AWESOME!!!! we went there and since mi aunt's boyfriend was a special guest, he took all of us there.  There was cole slaw, hamburgers, hotdogs, ribs, etc.  It was right next too the resort main house, a dock for boats, and to a beach.  By the way, I ate a cheeseburger and some garlic cream potato.  They had an ice cream cooler and i think a soda cooler too.   After I finished eating, I sat for like ten minutes.  My cousin didn't want to go into the pool at all.  I got up and changed into a two-piece.  Even though it rained a bit, the water felt great, but i wuz totally bored at the beginning.  I hate boredom so I decided to play with three lil kids. 2 girls and 1 boy.  One of the girls and the boy were siblings. It was pretty fun though, we played marco/pollo, shark.  Later on, I decided to practice on mi own kind of.   I wuz interested in what mi brother wuz doing: a handstand, a butterfly stroke.  So in the end, I practice on my own too.  Surprisingly, I got at least half of the pool with a breast stroke, and even more oddly, I was pretty able to do a back stroke too, welllll I think?  the backstroke though - really killing mi right shoulder...  Even so that was surprising: come on, like seriously, I can't even float!  It felt awesome though; OMG!!! I FELT LIKE THE SWIMMERS IN THE ANIME FREE! sigh, it was great.  Later on, my brother decided to go to something like a diving board kinda like what they use in water competitions like in the anime Free!.  He dared me to jump and man IT HURT.  My belly felt like it was slapped like repeatedly!!!! of course, mi brother followed after proclaiming himself as aquaman and dancing like a wierdo to radio while ppl were cheering.  It didn't hurt his belly when he dived: well, duh, he does like so many sit-ups so it really shouldn't hurt much.  It turns out we were BOTH doing it wrong.  My cousin tells us that our heads are supposed to go in first so that belly thing really shouldn't happen.  That thing hurt like crap so I decided not to do it again.  When every1 wuz nearly leaving, I tried to surf on a small board and eh, kinda succeeded.  Then i took forever in taking a shower, changing clothes, and taking a bite of chocolate candy ice cream.  Well, that's how it basically ended.  Ciao!

Return

i don't no it's just me or its a dream but me and mi sis are back together from what i see.  i wuz surprised when she had called out to me when she had made tacos.  Man, are they delicious!  I was quite stunned when she called my name.  I thought as my father had made me assume that my own sister hated me.  I'll be very glad if she doesn't.  One less burden for me to take care of.  I felt very glad even though it was quite awkward at the beginning of the meal.  We talked about our aunt, cousins, and NBA.  It was....a good experience.  But i'm quite suspicious.  Things like this usually don't come easily.  Hmmm...maybe I'm just thinking too much and my instincts have failed me at this moment.  It's quite wierd that they were false cuz usually they are right.  Idk but i'm glad she and I are back together.  I prayed and I just have to say Thanks god! I owe you one >___<

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