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Sally Hansen High Definition Nail Color Sweepstakes

Sally Hansen has eight brand new shades of colorful nail polish that will pump up your fashion to new heights. These eight high definition nail colors come in shades of orange (Three D Frost), red (Hi-Res Frost), pink (Digital Frost), yellow (Lite Frost), green (Hi-Def Frost), aqua (Pixel Pretty Frost), blue (Blu Frost) and purple (Cyber Frost) to brighten up any outfit that you have in your closet. Sally Hansen High Definition Nail color boasts liquid crystals to make the color of this nail polish shine and sparkle. What’s more, Coty has a sweepstakes that runs from June 15, 2010 … Continue reading →

Why Does My Body Need Biotin?

Call it vitamin B7 or vitamin H: biotin is a B-complex vitamin that is important for a bunch of different metabolic functions in the body. What does biotin do in the body? Get comfy: it’s gonna be quite a list. Biotin is used in cell growth, synthesizing fatty acids (those are the good ones!), and metabolizing a particular amino acid (leucine). Biotin is also important in the process of converting food into energy, known as the Krebs cycle. One more thing: biotin helps in the transfer of carbon dioxide. That’s one hard working vitamin! What’s even more awesome about biotin … Continue reading →

Fingernail Mistakes Quiz

Are you good to your nails? Ask yourself these four questions: Do you file your nails using a back and forth motion? Do you use an acetone based nail polish remover? Do you cut your cuticles? Do you use nail polish that you purchased before 2007? If you answered YES to any of these questions, you’re making a fingernail mistake. Read on to see what you can do to protect your nails: Filing your nails using a back and forth motion actually weakens nails and can cause them to split. Use a soft emery board and file in one direction … Continue reading →

Biotin for Nail Strength

The things we eat can have a huge impact on our bodies inside and out. If your nails are weak, brittle, and prone to splitting, you can give them a boost from the inside out with a biotin supplement. Biotin is a B vitamin that is found naturally in foods like eggs and liver. However, the amount of biotin in a serving of eggs or liver may be too low to make a difference with your nails! Eggs contain 25 mcg of biotin per serving; liver contains 27 mcg per serving. A Columbia University study found that a daily biotin … Continue reading →

More Weird Beauty Tips

I’m fascinated with the list of weird beauty tips from Cosmopolitan magazine. Here are a few more I couldn’t resist sharing (and some I plan to try on myself)! Try shaving your legs with conditioner instead of soap or shaving cream. I’ve done this myself, and it actually works really well! The tip-testers at Cosmo say that the conditioner helps soften the leg hair so it’s easier to shave off. Use an exfoliating facial scrub (they’re gentler than body scrubs) on your underarms to help your pits look soft and pretty. This is a good one for hot summer days … Continue reading →