Holiday gifts for women

Holiday Gifts For The Women In Your Life

We know, women are mysterious creatures. But one thing they have in common is liking gifts. But (yes, there is a caveat when it comes to giving women gifts), they don't want blenders, self-help books, or mixing bowls.

If you want to make all of the ladies in your life happy, you need to follow a few easy rules.

Joint-use gifts

If you're in a relationship, never buy "joint-use" gifts unless previously discussed. For example, buying your sweetie a 50" plasma TV when you live together may send the message that the gifts is really for you. And never buy her a kitchen appliance unless she tells you she really, no really, wants a Cuisinart juicer, do not, I repeat, do not buy your significant other an appliance for Christmas (unless you like sleeping on the couch).

Buy the right size

If you buy the women on your list an article of clothing (generally inadvisable), make sure you know her size. You don't want to buy something too big or too small. And if you buy her lingerie, give it to her in private. You don't want to explain to her nieces and nephews what a lace negligee is.

Lavish gifts

When buying for colleagues, bosses, and acquaintances who you are not romantically involved with or dating for a significant time, don't buy too lavish a gift. Buying an expensive gift can send the wrong message.

Avoiding the dog house

Also consider the type of gift. Is a satin robe really a good choice for a female boss? While she may love it, she probably doesn't want her subordinates knowing what she wears to bed. Think about how the recipient will interpret the gift. For example, would your sister appreciate the sentiment behind your choice of anti-cellulite cream or a book on how to lose weight? Or, do you want the girl you've gone on two dates with to read into your gift of $3,000 diamond earrings? Lookout, she may expect an even bigger diamond in the near future!

In general, try to find out something about the recipient, so that you can purchase a thoughtful gift that she'll love. And whatever you do, don't name a constellation after her.

In the event that you're completely clueless, pick something from this list and you'll avoid the bad gift blacklist for another year. The best part is that you can buy all of theses gifts without leaving your living room.

Top Gifts for Her:

Makeup

When buying cosmetics, stay way from items like foundation, powder, and blush. These things are extremely individual and women like to pick the beauty staples out themselves. Eyeshadow and lip gloss palettes that include a wide variety of colors make wonderful gifts for women. There is always a color she will like.

Pretty Makeup Bags

Most women like products and pretty makeup bags to keep them in, like hand painted makeup bags.

Jewelry Storage

If the lady on your list already has a solid collection of jewelry, get her a stylish wy to organize it that will fit into any decor with a jewelry wardrobe. For the woman on-the-go, give her the gift of tangle-free jewelry. The metallic leather jewelry roll lets her travel in style. It is also made out of Moroccan genuine full-grain goatskin, so it is luxury all the way.

Jewelry

The recycled glass bottle necklace is earth friendly and perfect for a niece, daughter, or teenager on your list.

Great Smelling Candles

Women love candles, and it is an appropriate gift for virtually every women on your list. A classic choice: Diptyque-Limited Edition Parfumee Encens Candle.

Reed Diffusers

The hottest trend in home fragrance is reed diffusers, and the women on your list will appreciate your foresight. The Voluspa Fragrant Oil Reed Diffuser in Santiago Huckleberry is a fail-safe gift.

Bath Gift Sets

You can always pick up a set from Bath & Body Works but if you want to go the extra mile, show her you know a thing or two about luxury. The Potter & Moore - Sheer Luxury in Spiced Tuberose & Orchid 4 piece set includes a beautiful black leather cosmetic bag embossed with the Potter & Moore print filled with full sizes of Eau de Toilette, Bathing Milk and Triple Milled Soap duo.

Journals

Show her you care about her feelings with a journal or luxury notebook for jotting notes or even shopping lists. Perfect stocking stuffer for sisters, nieces, and acquaintances.

Cashmere Robe

A luxurious and well-received gift for girlfriends, wives, sisters, and moms (as in your mom).

Slip Into Comfort

Slippers make great stocking stuffers. Slip Amy Jo Gladstone Bam Bam slippers into her stocking.

Comfy Throw

Picture her curled up on the couch with a good book and a soft blanket on a cold winter night. If she's your girlfriend or wife, maybe she'll even share.

Super Soft Towels

It's such a wonderful feeling emerging from the shower and enveloping yourself in a luxurious, oversized bath towel. Surprisingly, many women don't buy these for themselves. Step up to the plate and dazzle her with Super Pile Towels, they are seriously the thickest, most luxurious towels you will find. Made from 100% Egyptian cotton ina super hefty 700 grams available inn 55 colors.

Tea Time

If the woman on your list loves tea, she'll love a pretty tea set. A perfect choice would be Teaposy Snow Dance Gift Set.

Say It With Chocolate

Sure, you can always buy her Godiva, but why not fill her stocking with more exotic chocolates? The Grand Collection from Chocolate Celeste features heavenly flavors like amaretto, key lime, chili pepper, coconut, dulce de leche, golden cinnamon, red raspberry, champagne, chai, milk chocolate parfait, need I say more?

Sleek Point and Shoot Camera

Women love to take pictures. The Casio - EXILIM 7.2MP & FUJIFILM - FinePix 7.2MP cameras fit nicely into a handbag, so she can snap away any time she wants.

Perfume

Perfume is a tricky gift. Unless you know the person really well, i suggest a different gift. However, if she's asked for perfume or you know she's open to trying new things, the following scents are, in my opinion, unanimously coveted:

Cleopatra EDP Tocca Beauty

Pure Poison by Dior

Vera Wang The Fragrance

Pashminas (Silk or Cashmere Shawl)

Pashmina shawls are an easy choice but definitely shows your thoughtfulness. Choose from a variety of colors, fabrics, and sizes, so she can wrap up in style and luxury any time she chooses.

Gifts For Pets

If the women on your list has a pooch, chances are the little fur ball is like a child to her. Giving her a gift for the dog will show how sensitive (and thoughtful) you are.

Gift Certificate To A Spa

This is one gift certificate that's far from impersonal. Go to Google, type in "day spas" along with your city name, and most of the time you can order a gift certificate online.

Gift Certificate To Department Stores

When you're buying for women you don't know well, like a second cousin or your 14 year old niece who lives in Idaho, a gift certificate to a large department store is great because she can shop for whatever she wants. Women and girls like clothes and since they are so hard to buy for someone else, a gift certificate covers your bases. It also gives her something to look forward to after all of the other presents are opened.

What's your great gift idea?

Day spas pampering without the time commitment

There is no doubt about it; we live in a hectic society that does not show any signs of slowing pace any time soon. To relive some of the stress associated with always being on the go, many people have turned to spas to help them melt away the worries of the world. But what if you don’t have thousands of dollars and a full week to devote to becoming one with yourself and nature? The answer could be as simple as day spas.

Day spas are a relatively new phenomenon. In the early 80s, there were only a handful of day spas scattered across the United States. In those days, if you wanted spa luxury, you had to foot the bill and make the time commitment. As you can imagine, this severely limited the spa customer base to the privileged.

Today, there are thousands of day spas, and you can find one in almost every community. Day spas are different from their luxury spa counterparts in that customers have the option of visiting for an entire day, a half day or just an hour or two. There are no overnight stays and no week-long package commitments. In a day spa, you can get premium services just like those found in the traditional spas, but for a lot less time and money.

So, what types of services can you get in a day spa? Virtually everything from facials, massage, body wraps, sunless tanning, pedicures, manicures, electrolysis, hair services, make-up applications, hair color, lunch... you name it.

Here’s a brief look at some popular day spa packages:

* $125 to $175 will get you three-hour classic salon/spa experience including manicure with paraffin treatment, pedicure, scalp treatment, shampoo and styling, massage or mini-facial.

* $75 to $100 will get you a two-hour body treatment with exfoliation, massage and steam bath

* For $300 to $500, you can get pampered for the whole day and choose from a host of services. You will also be served meals during your day-long stay.

And don’t think that day spas skimp on luxury. Many spas offer limousine services and treat their clients like they are royalty no matter what walk of life they come from. For this reason, day spa gift certificates have become extremely popular gifts. When you give a day spa gift certificate, you are giving a luxurious gift of indulgence to your loved one. What better way is there to say that they’ve worked hard and deserve a little bit of the finer things in life?

When choosing a day spa, keep in mind that different spas offer different services. In many cases, day spas are ran in conjunction with a full-service beauty salon. That means that you can choose from a wide variety of services. Other day spas, though, may only offer massage and skin-care services without offering hair and nail services. You should also shop around. Prices from spa to spa can vary considerably.

So, if you want to be pampered but have little money and even less time, perhaps a day spa is the perfect compromise that you’ve been looking for. But be forewarned, day spas can be addictive.

Hair color trends - the new you

Current hair color trends are defined within the move towards relaxed glamour. Healthy, shiny hair, with lots of movement, yet still well groomed. Color is defined - it's either pastel blondes, in clean, icy tones. Or cool browns, or brilliant reds. The move has definitely been away from red browns, although if that's a personal choice, or suits your skin tone best, don't be a slave to fashion!

Here are some ideas to incorporate the latest hair color trends into your style:

Double sided coloring - underneath, choose a darker color like chocolate, and over the top, and for most of the hair, choose lighter shades like copper and bronze. The darker color will frame your face, and if you go for any flicks or curls when styling, you'll see it contrasted against the lighter colors. But the main colors when hair is straightened will be the lighter ones. It's great for variety.

Try color combinations like coffee, honeycomb and golden syrup for a more subtle, layered effect.

For brunettes who like their chocolate browns, try a few golden highlights to break up the block of chocolate, unless your face and skin color can handle the density of such a rich dark color. It really helps define your hair style, and is much easier to wear.

If you like very dark colors, try a brown black instead of a straight black. Or get your hairdresser to mix in some blue black into the brown black to give it more intensity, but without the harshness of a solid black that is not flattering to all skin tones. Also, try mixing in some caramel and pink-red foils with a violet brown black base. If they're used creatively, and with restraint, you can keep the overall look very dark and mysterious, with a few hints of color showing.

For blondes, try mixing golden blonde with a very light ash. Or for a more subtle but contrasting look, have the ends of a bob colored a pale pastel coral.

If you want to try platinum shades, instead of going for a harsher white white, try a softer platinum white tinted slightly with pink.

For a pretty natural blonde look, try splicing a few clove and light ash foils through a pale, golden base shade.

Redheads: Go for a rich, fiery copper with a darker brown underneath, like clove. This works well on long hair and mid length hair.

For another red combination, try cayenne, nutmeg and paprika.

For really vibrant colors mixed with a darker base, away from the coppers, try a pink red combination of cassis and raspberry coulis.

For something a little more outrageous and individual, go for a brightly colored fringe, say in pink, and a few purple ends.

If you want something quite striking, but not so colorful, just go for a lighter than usual highlight. As long as it's tastefully done, it'll look great. Don't try this at home!!!

When choosing colors, be aware of whether it's a warm shade or a cool shade. And keep in mind how much of each color is going to be on your hair. Which shade, or tone, do you want the dominant one to be? Do you want a subtle effect, or a more striking one? Unless the contrasting color is going to be in small amounts, keep warm tones together, and cool tones together, irrespective of whether they are blond, brown, black or red. For example, chocolate brown highlights look good with warm vanilla, even though the colors themselves are quite distinct.

You can use different tones together. But it depends on both your skin tone, the way the colors are applied, and how much of each are used. If you're going for this approach, think of the contrasting tone as a painter would, and be judicious about it's placing.

References:

1. Hair Now, N2/06

Pueraria mirifica for women breast enlargement

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It is now time to get a big breast happily. MOPH announces certifying Pueraria mirifica. The latest research finding is disclosed. Turning upside down, it says there is no danger as feared. Moreover, it takes effect preventing chest cancer and in addition helps build brain cells, capable of preventing Alzheimer’s disease. A national - level committee is set up to push for export - processing.

Dr. Suraphong Suepwongli the Deputy Minister of Public Health, has said that the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) convened a meeting of the Pueraria mirifica study working group on August 27 , at which the relevant researchers from various agencies and institutes were present, such as from Chulalongkorn University , the National Cancer Institute, the Institute of Dermatiology, the Department of Medical Sciences, Mae Fa Luang University, etc., to determine a way to promote use of Pueraria mirifica as raw-material in a topping industry with a view to commercialized distribution, which, so far as the discussion is concerned, can be summed up that researcher from several institutes find that Pueraria mirifica is clinically effective for use as a substitute for hormone in menopause women and there is a trend that it will be used to enlarge the breast, including curing Alzheimer’s disease, because research findings several that it can generate a regrowth of brain cells.

“As regards long-term toxicity, 2-3 years ago there were researchers studying about Pueraria mirifica to the extent of making spreading news, causing the MOPH experts to worry very much that consumption might lead to long-term toxicity causing breast cancer. At this meeting it was acknowledged that the National Cancer Institute, which had experimented for a period, obtained a conclusion that said Pueraria mirifica is non-carcinogenic and this conforms to the research of King Mongkut’s Hospitat which found and opposite outcome, i. e. Pueraria mirifica, on the contrary, has an effect capable of also preventing chest cancer,” Dr. Suraphong said.

Dr. suraphong also said that, with the abovesaid property, the meeting set up a nation-level committee to be responsible for pushing Pueraria mirifica to be a health product for commercialized export in the future, of which Mrs. Khrueawan Somana, the Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Public Health, was made chairman of the working group, and Mr. Yutthana Smitsiri, a Faculty member, Mae Fa Luang University: Mr. Wichai Choetchiwasat, a researcher, Faculty of science, Chulalongkorn University, and representatives from the Institute of thai-style Medicine, the National Cancer Institutes and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are committee members, to consider from research at the clinical level and the revision of the drug law to enable Pueraria mirifica registration, because this matter is the nation’s business calling for mutual help from research at the clinical level and the revision of the drug law so that the benefit will go to the nation and not be any particular person’s interest.

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