Exploring the Art of Mehndi Design: Traditional Designs from Different Cultures
Mehndi design, the old practice of drawing on skin with henna paste, can look like 5 different art forms depending on whose hand is holding the cone, and you see it fast once you put a few next to each other. An Indian bride’s palm disappears under paisleys and hairline detail right up to the […]
Backhand Mandala Mehndi Design: Simple and Elegant Ideas
If you want henna that’s easy but still looks pretty, a backhand mandala mehndi design is a great pick, and it’s the round pattern on the back of your hand that starts with one dot and grows out in petals and thin lines. You can make it as small or as big as you like. […]
Best Simple Arabic Mehndi Designs for a Clean, Elegant Look
Simple Arabic mehndi designs are henna patterns made with thick lines and only a few leaves or flowers running at an angle across your hand, with plenty of bare skin left in between and the middle of the palm usually kept empty, which is why they look so clean and light next to the heavy […]
Dermaflash Coupon FALLGLOW Brings 25% Off The Fall Skin Reset
Dermaflash’s fall skin reset sale is on, and the Dermaflash coupon FALLGLOW gets you 25% off everything on the site. You type it in at checkout, and it works on the devices as well as the skincare. The banner at the top of the site is cycling through three lines right now: the coupon, Breast […]
SkinOutlet Protect & Glow Sale: 30% Off With Code RADIANT30
SkinOutlet is running its Protect & Glow promotion with two offers at once, and they suit different shoppers. RADIANT30 is the big one, worth 30% off across the site, while Subscribe & Save takes 15% off eligible items you set up to reorder. For a single order RADIANT30 does the work, and for something you’ll […]
What Is Combination Skin? Signs and a Simple Care Routine
Combination skin means your face is running 2 skin types at once. Oily down the middle, through the forehead, nose and chin. Normal or dry around the outside, across the cheeks and along the jawline. One face, 2 sets of needs, and that’s the whole problem in a sentence. Most people who tell me they […]
Mulberry Extract for Skin: Pigmentation, Dark Spots, and Melasma
Brands sell mulberry extract for skin with loose promises like glow, radiance and “natural whitening.” The research is much narrower. Nearly all of it is about pigment. The extract comes from Morus alba, the white mulberry tree. Several of its compounds slow tyrosinase, the enzyme your skin needs to make melanin. Melanin is the pigment […]
Identify Your Curl Type With A Hair Texture Chart
Most people find the hair texture chart, land on a number, and stop there. Fair enough, that’s the obvious thing to do with it. But the number only tells you what shape your hair makes. Not how thick each strand is, not how many you’ve got, not how they handle water. Those three do more […]
Type 2B Hair: Why Your Roots Get Greasy and Your Ends Stay Dry
Type 2B hair has a loose S-shape that usually kicks in around the middle of the strand, while the roots stay flatter and closer to straight. It sits between 2A, which is barely wavy, and 2C, where the waves start right at the scalp. If that sounds like you, you’ve probably noticed the annoying part […]
Short Viking Haircut: 5 Styles and What’s Historically Real
A short Viking haircut means clipped or shaved close around the ears and the back, with the length kept up top. Sometimes a heavy fringe left hanging forward. Sometimes a hard line where the short meets the long. No braids down the back, no man bun. That version has more proof behind it than the […]