How 2 Get Fair Skin

Many women pine for the fair skin of their youth. Here's how to get it back.

If you were born with fair skin, you may find yourself pining for that porcelain, rosy-cheeked complexion of your youth. With age, we lose that peaches-and-cream complexion as acne, rosacea, and sun damage wreak havoc. Here are some tips and tricks for how to regain your former fair skin — and keep the damage at bay.


* Stay out of the sun. The sun makes your skin darker. Even when your suntan fades, your skin becomes darker and ruddier over time, not to mention burned, damaged, blotchy, and susceptible to skin cancer.

* Whenever you’re outside, wear a hat. Choose a wide-brimmed one in the summer months to keep the sun off your face and a baseball cap with a long brim in the fall and winter months. Even indirect sun exposure is detrimental to fair skin.


* Use sunscreen every day. Make sure it has a UV factor of 30+.


* Fake it. Use a light makeup base one shade lighter than your natural color, then dust on translucent powder to keep skin fair and radiant. Don’t slather on the makeup or your skin won’t look natural or fair. In the summer, choose a makeup base with sunscreen for extra protection to ensure fair skin.


* Follow a good skin-care regimen. Cleanse your skin regularly and gently with facial cleanser, and follow with a light moisturizer to keep skin hydrated.



* Even out a bad complexion. Is your skin uneven? Try using these home remedies to restore a smooth complexion:


o Sandalwood oil. Sandalwood can help remove pimples, red blotches, prickly heat, lessen the effects of sun exposure, fade freckles, soothe rashes, eliminate spots, and heal swelling. Pricey but worth it, sandalwood might be your ticket to fair skin. Add sandalwood to every facial cleanser, scrub, toner, moisturizer, and product you use to achieve and maintain a fair complexion.


o Almonds. Grind almonds into rosewater and apply the paste to your skin.


o Eggs and honey. Whip an egg white with honey and a squeeze of lemon juice, and smear on face for a super-nutritious skin treatment. Wash off after 15 minutes.


o Radish. Apply grated radish and radish juice to skin to make it fair.


o Tomato juice. Bathe your face in tomato juice. The antioxidants provide a good skin treatment for fair skin.


o Oatmeal. Serve breakfast to your skin: Mix tomato juice and oatmeal to use as a facial scrub, then rinse.


o Milk powder may also help you achieve your goal of fair skin. Mix with warm water to form a paste, spread on skin, let sit for 30 minutes, then rinse with cool water.


o Papaya has been used for centuries in many cultures to help women get fair skin. Cut a papaya in half and rub all over your face every night.


o Bleaching creams. There are creams that can help you get fair skin. Some are safer than others, so use with caution, and apply to a small, inconspicuous spot on your arm before slathering on your face to make sure you don’t have an adverse reaction. Always consult your dermatologist before using any bleaching cream.

With a few small lifestyle changes and some easy home remedies, you can even out your skin and become the fairest of all!

Cake Boss

Cake is a form of food, typically a sweet, baked dessert. Cakes normally contain a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter or oil, with some varieties also requiring liquid (typically milk or water) and leavening agents (such as yeast or baking powder). Flavorful ingredients like fruit purées, nuts or extracts are often added, and numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients are possible. Cakes are often filled with fruit preserves or dessert sauces (like pastry cream), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders or candied fruit.

Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays. There are countless cake recipes; some are bread-like, some rich and elaborate and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified that even the most amateur cook may bake a cake.








Cake decorating

A chocolate cake decorated with icing, strawberries, and silvery sugar beads or Dragées.
A slice of strawberry cake with garnishing of apple.

A finished cake is often enhanced by covering it with icing, or frosting, and toppings such as sprinkles, which are also known as "jimmies" in certain parts of the United States and "hundreds and thousands" in the United Kingdom. Frosting is usually made from powdered (icing) sugar, sometimes a fat of some sort, milk or cream, and often flavorings such as vanilla extract or cocoa powder. Some decorators use a rolled fondant icing. Commercial bakeries tend to use lard for the fat, and often whip the lard to introduce air bubbles. This makes the icing light and spreadable. Home bakers either use lard, butter, margarine or some combination thereof. Sprinkles are small firm pieces of sugar and oils that are colored with food coloring. In the late 20th century, new cake decorating products became available to the public. These include several specialized sprinkles and even methods to print pictures and transfer the image onto a cake.

Special tools are needed for more complex cake decorating, such as piping bags or syringes, and various piping tips. To use a piping bag or syringe, a piping tip is attached to the bag or syringe using a coupler. The bag or syringe is partially filled with icing which is sometimes colored. Using different piping tips and various techniques, a cake decorator can make many different designs. Basic decorating tips include open star, closed star, basketweave, round, drop flower, leaf, multi, petal, and specialty tips.
Chocolate layer cake with chocolate frosting and shaved chocolate topping

Royal icing, marzipan (or a less sweet version, known as almond paste), fondant icing (also known as sugarpaste) and buttercream are used as covering icings and to create decorations. Floral sugarcraft or wired sugar flowers are an important part of cake decoration. Cakes for special occasions, such as wedding cakes, are traditionally rich fruit cakes or occasionally Madeira cakes (also known as whisked or fatless sponge), that are covered with marzipan and either iced using royal icing or sugarpaste. They are finished with piped borders (made with royal icing) and adorned with a piped message, wired sugar flowers, hand-formed fondant flowers, marzipan fruit, piped flowers, or crystallized fruits or flowers such as grapes or violets.



History

Although clear examples of the difference between cake and bread are easy to find, the precise classification has always been elusive. For example, banana bread may be properly considered either a quick bread or a cake.

In ancient Rome, basic bread dough was sometimes enriched with butter, eggs, and honey, which produced a sweet and cake-like baked good. Latin poet Ovid refers to the birthday of him and his brother with party and cake in his first book of exile, Tristia.

Early cakes in England were also essentially bread: the most obvious differences between a "cake" and "bread" were the round, flat shape of the cakes, and the cooking method, which turned cakes over once while cooking, while bread was left upright throughout the baking process.

Cupcakes

I love cupcakes, eating them that is; but I have never seen nor had paid too much attention to cupcake decorating ideas until the other day in my office when I saw some really fun cupcake ideas! To think that all this while all I know of are plain cupcakes. Silly old me who’s interested only in paddling.










Someone ordered cupcakes for a celebration in the office and it was actually baked and decorated by one of the staff who sells it for RM2.50 per cupcake. These fun cupcake ideas are just too pretty to eat and I kept mine for a good part of the day but I still couldn’t bear the thought of biting into such pretty cupcake designs; so in the end I gave it to someone else. I am silly this way (and in many other ways too I’m afraid). I supposed that cupcake recipes are quite simple by itself but the elaborate and creative ideas for cupcakes are certainly not! It would seem that the design are limited only by one’s imagination and creativity. I’m really humbled by a simple cupcake.

Baskin Robbin!!

Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burt Baskin and Irvine Robbins in 1953, from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. It claims to be the world's largest ice cream franchise, with more than 5,800 locations, 2,800 of which are located in the United States. Baskin-Robbins sells ice cream in over 30 countries, including Nepal, Canada, Japan, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, Bahrain, The United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Bangladesh, South Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Panama and the Republic of China (Taiwan).[citation needed] The company is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts.

The Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlors started as separate ventures from Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, owning Burt's Ice Cream Shop and Snowbird Ice Cream respectively. Snowbird Ice Cream featured 21 flavors, a novel concept for the time. When the separate companies merged in 1953, this concept grew to 31 flavors.

Baskin-Robbins is known for its "31 flavors" slogan. The idea for having 31 flavors came from the Carson-Roberts advertising agency (which later became Ogilvy & Mather) in 1953, along with the slogan "Count the Flavors. Where flavor counts." 31 was also more than the 28 flavors then famously offered at Howard Johnson's restaurants. In addition, the number 31 was chosen so a customer could have a different flavor every day of the month (assuming a 31 day month). Burt and Irv also believed that people should be able to sample flavors until they found one they wanted to buy ― hence the iconic small pink spoon. During a now famous promotion, Amy Boggioni led a group of three who finished 31 scoops of all 31 flavors in under 31 minutes.

Jimmy Choo Collection

Jimmy Choo OBE, born Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat, is a Malaysian fashion designer based in London, United Kingdom. He is best known for founding Jimmy Choo Ltd that became known for its hand-made women's shoes.

Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia into a family of shoemakers. He is of Chinese Hakka descent. He made his first shoe when he was 11 years old. He is perhaps the most notable of students of Cordwainers Technical College in London Borough of Hackney, London from which he graduated in 1983. The college is now part of the London College of Fashion. Choo has divulged that he worked part-time at restaurants and as a cleaner at a shoe factory to help fund his college education.








Jimmy Choo's beginnings can be traced back to his workshop in London Borough of Hackney, North London, which he opened in 1986 by renting an old hospital building. His craftsmanship and designs were soon noticed and he came to the verge of international notability when his creations were featured in a record eight pages in a 1988 issue of Vogue magazine. Patronage from Diana, Princess of Wales from 1990 onwards further boosted his image.













In 1996, he co-founded Jimmy Choo Ltd with British Vogue accessories editor Tamara Mellon.

In April 2001, Choo sold his 50% stake in the company for £10 million. He has since been concentrating his work on the exclusive Jimmy Choo Couture line produced under license from Jimmy Choo Ltd. The Jimmy Choo London line, also known as Jimmy Choo Ready-To-Wear or, simply, Jimmy Choo, is under the purview of Tamara Mellon. The ready-to-wear line has expanded to include accessories such as handbags.

Choo lives in London. He is currently involved in a project to set up a shoemaking institute in Malaysia, where his iconic status is often evoked to inspire budding shoemakers and fashion designers. His company Jimmy Choo Ltd. produces some of the most expensive high-end shoes.

Cat Beauty Pageant

October 29 is National Cat Day, a holiday to celebrate cats for their unconditional love and companionship, and to welcome those in need into our lives through animal rescue.

The primary goal of National Cat Day is to facilitate 10,000 incremental adoptions of shelter cats nationwide on October 29. This will be the first year that the Animal Miracle Network attempts to track the numbers for cats, but similar National Dog Day initiatives in the past have exceeded the goal by more than 12,000 dogs.

National Cat Day founder Colleen Paige explains, “We put a lot of manpower into communicating with our affiliate event promoters and shelters around the country that signed up to participate. We’ll only take credit for the numbers we directly receive from our adoption sources.”

You can still help homeless cats on National Cat Day if you’re unable to take on another pet. Visit a local animal shelter and offer to volunteer by cleaning cages or playing with the cats. You could also host your own event such as a bake sale and donate the proceeds to a shelter in honor of National Cat Day.

If you’re already a proud cat owner, take some time on National Cat Day to show your pet how much you appreciate her. Paige recommends spoiling her with treats or a new litter box, or simply showing her some love. “In this difficult economy, if all you can afford is time, spend some of it with your furry feline,” recommends Paige. “That’s more important to them then all the catnip in the world.”

If you’re looking to give a homeless cat a loving home, visit our pet search tool to meet your new best friend. With pet adoption, you’ll find that National Cat Day will be the first of countless great ones to come.

here are some of the pictures from last year cat beauty pageant...

Hilangkan kelemumur!!!


Rambut yang cantik menjadi idaman setiap orang terutamanya kaum wanita. Namun tidak semua mendapat rambut seperti yang diidamkan. Antara masaalah biasa yang dihadapi ialah kelemumur. Bagi mengatasi masaalah kelemumur,

1)Ambil sebiji limau nipis, kemudian belah 4.
2)Basahkan rambut anda.
3)Perah air limau tadi dan ramas diatas kepala anda beberapa minit.
4)Selepas itu bungkus rambut anda dengan tuala. Biarkan selama setengah jam.
5)Kemudian basuh rambut anda dengan syampu.

Lihatlah hasilnya dalam seminggu. Hasilnya pasti memuaskan anda.