How do you give your lips the effects you want it to have? How do you get the scraps of your favorite lipstick to last longer? How do you blot out excess lipstick without getting your whole lips mushy or without staining your teeth? These are questions I will be answering in this article. Don’t worry, they are tips you can use because they have been used by everyday people, and they work. You don’t have to buy expensive things. Just read along!

 How do I blot off excess lipstick or lip gloss?
Use coffee filters instead of tissue!
If you want to blot out excess lipstick or tone down your lipstick, use a coffee filter. Tissue get stuck on your lips because they are made of wood fibers so they make your lips look mushy but coffee filters are made of concentrated pressed paper. You can cut the coffee filters into squares and stockpile them in your bathroom or the handbag you want to use for the day.
Alternatively, you can use tissue papers with a harder texture. The ones you know won’t get shredded as you use them. Fold into squares and blot carefully.

 How do I get my lower lip to be full and pouty?
After applying your lip gloss or lipstick, put a put a dab of shimmery white eye shadow instead of a matte color and blend in evenly on your lower lip. This way you get a pouty, fuller lower lip.

 I don’t want my lip gloss applicator to get sticky?
Apply your lip liner round your lips first. Fill in with your lip liner and apply your lipstick on the top. Apply a dab of your lip gloss on your little finger and rub over the bottom lip carefully and quickly, close against the upper lip and blend it in carefully. Blot away the excesses and then use the applicator to even out your gloss.

 ‘Recycling’ lipstick?
If you don’t want to throw away the last of your favorite lipstick or gloss, you can get an old ice tray or plastic pillbox or tiny tubes to put the scraps of lipstick in. use cotton swabs or buds to scoop out the old lipstick into the tray/tubes/pillbox. You can mix with different lip gloss colors or you use it straight on. Using a lip brush will be the best way of applying it.

 Anytime I apply my lipstick, my teeth get stained. What can I do?
This usually happens when you use your lip gloss or lipstick in excess. You can stop getting your teeth stained by making an ‘O’ with your mouth after applying your lipstick. Stick a clean into the ‘O’ and pull it out. The excess lipstick will come out. You can do this as many times as you want but make sure you clean your finger before inserting it in your mouth again.




 How do I get my lipstick to stay on all day?
You first apply your foundation (a lighter shade) to your lips. Rub in a bit of powder for it to set. Then apply your lip liner before using your lipstick and lip gloss and then blot carefully.

 To get fuller lips
Use a foundation or concealer that tends to be opaque and a shade lighter than your face. This is because your lips are lighter than your face. Apply a dab to the center of both the lower and upper lips using your fingertip or a cotton swab. Rub in until you can’t see the line of demarcation, then apply your lipstick to create fuller-looking lips. Loose powder or compact powder foundation come highly recommended not oil-based foundation.

DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Ancient Greeks painted their lips with vegetative dyes!
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
In ancient Egypt, both men and women used rogue, lipstick and nail polish.

LAST NOTES:
‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. Do you see yourself as beautiful? You are the first beholder of your beauty and it starts from within.
Ciao!

Happy Everafter!

Marriage, marriage, marriage!
It is not always a bed of roses
It can be fun, demanding, rewarding and tasking
It is where you share moments of joy and sorrow with the one you love
It is where you conceive, raise and watch the children leave the nest
It is where you nurse each other out of sicknesses
It is where you comfort each other and encourage yourselves out of the storms of life
It is where you quarrel and fight and are threatened with a separation or divorce
It is where love is meant to grow and grow and grow
That is marriage.

This is all of your life so why not read these few tips to make it worthwhile.

1. Don’t mete out with the same yardstick.
There is no relationship that does not have the two parties quarreling or fighting. You wonder why you have hardly heard any shouting from family B while family A can not do without fighting every weekend. Well, I guess that family B knows how to settle their grievances with each other better.
If your husband is criticizing you or angry at how you handled a situation, whatever it is, you are erupting volcanoes if you meet him headlong with a matching anger. Why not listen to his point of view and express yours in a more quiet and mature way.
I have learnt that a soft answer turns away wrath. I have also learnt that when someone is expressing their view, it means I have not reasoned that way yet and so I listen.

2. Always try to remain attractive… be your best.
A woman just told me that because you are a career woman or stay at home mum, does not give you the right to neglect your body and looks.
Same goes for the husbands, because you are always on the shirt and tie does not mean you should not look sexy in shorts and a tee-shirt. Try and get rid of the pot-bellies’ and flaccid muscles. Take care of your beards and moustache. There is nothing wrong in asking your wife if she likes your beard or you should trim it some more. There is nothing wrong in using deodorants. If you are a handy-man, take your bath and smell nice. Your wife was not tripped when you were all sweaty and smelly. I am sure she saw a beautiful body structure smelling nice and a cute face.
Women, for crying out loud, do a manicure. Go to the saloon, take your bath. No man likes a smelly wife neither does a woman like a smelly man.

3. Please and please, make time for yourselves.
As a career mum or stay at home mum, you will quickly realize that 24hours is really a short time. Your husband, your kids (and job) take the most of your day and you hardly get a minute to sit down or be quiet within.
There is nothing wrong with taking a day off. Drop the kids with their grandparents or get a babysitter. Have a ladies’ day out or take a drive. Just do something to refresh yourself, give you a new perspective and meet new people. You will be surprised how awesome you will feel and how different you will relate to your spouse and kids.

4. Don’t ever try to change him or her.
You married each other for he or she is. You love him or her that way. If your wife is very outspoken or your husband does not want to try new colours in his wardrobe, then leave it at that. It is okay to chip in some advice lovingly but do not enforce a change. Enforcing or insisting you have your way will drive your spouse away.
She might not want to tell you what happened when she spoke her mind to a colleague and he might not let you know when he gives away the new-colored shirt you just bought for him

5. Gifts can really go a long way………..
Buying gifts for your spouse should not be a practice that is left undone for a long time. Marriage is a give and take affair, and that includes giving gifts. Buying long-stemmed roses or her favorite flowers and giving him a new shaving kit is a very good investment with guaranteed yields of profit.
You can help take out the trash can or offer to cook or change the baby’s diapers. No matter how little it is or trivial, that gift of yours will definitely make your spouse’s day because it was bought or done out of love.

Thanks for reading. There will be a concluding part soon.

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Sustaining intimacy in your marriage

Many people think that marriage is all about exchanging wedding vows, child-bearing and then being responsible for the children. Well, probably to an extent, but all these can be overbearing and cause an emotional rift between the couple. Thus affecting the intimacy they shared during their courtship and into their first three years of marriage.

Little wonder Rachael who has been married for five years can’t understand what’s happening between her and Ian. When they both started dating, they were the envy of friends and family. They went everywhere together from functions to travelling. Their love towards each other was evident and you could almost wish you could trade places with them. The wedding bells rang, their love life was awesome and the kids started coming in. Suddenly, they didn’t seem to have time for each other again. Their sex life was beginning to be non-existent. They were turning out to be complete strangers but neither of them was involved in extramarital affairs.

How do they get that intimacy back?

- The women should endeavour to remain beautiful. Most women tend to remain out of fashion because of their marital status or child-bearing, either as a career woman or a stay-at-home mum. Let your husband see that ravishing beauty he was eager to have as his wife then. Take care of your body, fix your hair and nails, try out new make-up and perfumes, dress smartly and wear sexy lingeries to bed.

If you think you are not beautiful, you are wrong because your husband was once attracted to you. If you are a nursing mother, you can shed off those flabby arms and get back your sexy figure. Eat fruits, drink lots of water, rest more, exercise and treat your body with the mind-set of setting your husband’s body on fire.

- Maintain eye contact. Experts say that if you want to know the level of intimacy in your relationship, consider the amount of time you spend with a locked gaze. It is very essential in communication. Next time you are talking to your spouse, don’t just talk with your mouth. Talk with your eyes. Always look straight into his or her eyes when you talk. Many people can’t even look at their spouse’s eyes while making love. Is that modesty or what? Are you shy? Is he or she not your spouse? Are your bodies not meant for each other? Averting your eyes during love-making won’t help you. Looking into your spouse’s eyes will help you know how much he or she desires you and how satisfied he or she is.

- Don’t forget little things cause they matter. For example, you can wake up before your wife and write a short note to tell her how much you enjoyed her meal last night and leave it in a place where she will see it( in her wallet or shoes). You can send a SMS to tell your husband how nuch you are looking forward to spending the night with him. He or she will definitely do more than you expect with little things like that.

- Have a secret code. My fiancé told me that when a lady or man scratches your palm during a handshake, it means that he or she wants to have sex with you. I just kept that in my treasure box, ready for use once I get married. You can have such codes only the both of you can understand. It will bring about connection and excitement in your relationship.

- Have a vacation or a getaway weekend. This can be done monthly or quarterly. But as many times as the both of you can afford. Send the children to their grandparents place or to a relative’s place. Have the weekend to yourselves. You might not have to travel. Have all the fun you want within the confines of your home as long as you are both creative.

These are just some of the things that can be done to bring back or sustain the intimacy in your marriage. It involves work for your marriage to survive. GOODLUCK!

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