Eyebrow Shaping Tips

Today's blog entry is for ladies who prefer the sculpted look over the natural look where eyebrows are concerned.

Follow these tips from Victoria of Vitality Products for quick and painless eyebrow shaping and plucking.

1. Pluck right after you shower. Your pores will be open and the process will be less painful.

2. With the index and middle fingers of your left hand, hold your eyebrow slightly taut by the hairline. With the tweezer, pull the hair gently back in the direction it grows, then up and out.

3. Trim very long eyebrow hairs with small scissors but be careful not to pluck out the long hairs because this could leave a gap in your brow. If you accidently pluck out a long hair and have a gap, use a dab of eye shadow a shade lighter than your eyebrow color to fill in the hole. You can use a cotton swab or sponge tip applicator and get a natural look.

4. Use an old toothbrush to comb your brows into place. You can also spray some hairspray on the toothbrush and use that to brush them. It will keep coarse eyebrows in place all day.

5. Don't overemphasize eyebrows when you are older. That approach looked good on Brooke Shields when she was 14, but when you are older, overemphasizing can leave you harsh and hard looking.

6. Don't outline your brows with a pencil, making them look painted on. That will only date you and make you look 10 years older than you are. Fill in little gaps with a pencil or eye shadow and use soft, feather like strokes.

7. If you overdo the pencil or shadow, brush the brows again with a toothbrush or eyebrow brush and it will soften them up. You can also use a little face powder on the brows to lighten them up if they look too dark after filling them in.

Okay, that's it from eyebrow central.

Chet Day
Editor, The Health Circus
http://chetday.com

Wasp Sting Treatment

Wow, I stripped down to my short pants to mow the lawn on Monday afternoon and managed to accidentally piss off a yellow jacket when I apparently disturbed his nesting spot with my gasoline-powered Weed Eater.

I didn't even see it coming.

I was just whacking down weeds, when, kaboom, suddenly it felt like someone had jabbed me with a sharp needle full of something as nasty as Michael Jackson in a see-through nightie.

Instant and intense pain.

Yes, that yellow jacket bit me.

I mean, seriously, that little fellow planted a stinger a few inches above my left ankle and had me jumping around like I'd just plugged my big toe into our clothes dryer's 220 outlet.

I didn't realize I could still move that quickly at age 57.

But I did and managed to slap him away, run up the slope of the yard to safety before any possible brethren of his came after me, and then pulled out the stinger and as yet not depleted poison sac.

How's that for fast?

I moved faster than a draining yellow jacket's poison sac.

Even so, that sting hurt worse than having dinner with Michael Jackson.

Like a dummy, instead of coming into the house to research what to do about a yellow jacket sting, I acted tough and shook it off and went back and finished the yard work.

I finally put some stuff called MicroMinerals on it after finishing the yard work and taking a shower, but that didn't help much so I just went to bed, figuring it would be fine in the morning.

I didn't sleep much.

Tuesday morning I got up and did the homework I should have done as soon as I got stung.

I learned that vinegar, onion slices, and baking soda work well for removing stings from wasps and hornets.

So I went down to the kitchen and mixed together...

1 teaspoon of chopped onions
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of unpasteurized apple cider vinegar

I smushed the above three ingredients in a bowl and wrapped the resulting mess in a piece of cotton cloth and applied that to the bite with just a little pressure.

Within fifteen minutes the itching and pain had dissipated.

As I write these words seven hours later, the spot where I was nailed by that little flying bastard is just about back to normal.

Moral
If you get stung by a bee, wasp, or hornet, have the sense to stop what you're doing and immediately apply the above home remedy and save yourself hours of itching and annoying pain.

Oh yes, if you're allergic to insect bites or if you get stung by several bees or wasps at once, visit your favorite natural health practitioner and get professional help because stings like these can be life-threatening in some people.

Chet Day
Editor, The Health Circus
http://chetday.com