Natural Beauty Inside Out
A colleague of mine was talking about preparing a Christmas meal consisting of turkey, salmon, beef and log cake. And inevitably, someone mentioned that it’s so easy to put on weight during this holiday season since all the partying will involve eating. Well, it’s quite hard to avoid good food of course but if you’re concerned about weight gain, then you might want to follow what the Japanese preach – eat slowly.
Consider whitening your skin the natural way by trying this homemade recipe using milk and lemon. It’s really easy and pretty effective if you use it often enough, but note that lemon can make your skin sensitive so you’ll need to be careful. The recipe is suitable for your face and body but do make sure you put on your sunscreen if you try this.
You got to give it to the Japanese for creating interesting products that make you want to buy them, even though you may not actually need them. Take Cure Natural Aqua Gel from Japan for example. It’s one of those products I can do without but after months of checking it out everytime I’m at Watsons, I finally caved it and bought a bottle. AtS$38, it’s not cheap but I wanted to know how well it works since a number of users were raving about this and it’s said that “one bottle is sold every 20 seconds in Japan”!
Thanks to all who participated in the second VivaBella Bonanza Giveaway. I have randomly selected three winners and they are – Rennie, TSY & fwy! Congratulations! I have sent you an email so please keep a lookout and respond! This week’s giveaway is MEGA and is valued at about US$700 – many of which are my personal favorites that I have reviewed one time or another! And thanks to the generous sponsors, these lovelies will be given away to 4 lucky ones - allocated randomly according A, B, C & D in the pictures. But you only have one week to participate!
I was at the bookstore the other day and noticed a number of books on the topic of slimming. One was Japanese Women Don’t Get Old Or Fat and another was French Women Don’t Get Fat. Going by the titles, I seem to get the idea that thin is beautiful. But the strange thing is, every time someone sees me, they’ll remark that I’m losing weight and they seem to be insinuating something else other than looking good.
I'm Sesame and Viva Woman is a Singapore beauty blog with an interest in natural, organic skincare and cosmetics that is updated daily with a weekend edition of fashion commentaries. Established in 2006, this blog has also been listed as one of the top 25 beauty blogs globally according to Babble.com.
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