Honey and Lemon Face Pack: Mix 2 tablespoons of honey with 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Apply the mixture to your face and leave it on for 15-20 minutes. Rinse it off with lukewarm water. This face pack is great for all skin types and helps to moisturize the skin while reducing dark spots and pigmentation.

Turmeric and Yogurt Face Pack: Mix 1 tablespoon of turmeric powder with 2 tablespoons of plain yogurt. Apply the mixture to your face and leave it on for 15-20 minutes. Rinse it off with lukewarm water. This face pack is suitable for all skin types and helps to brighten the skin while reducing acne and dark spots.

Cucumber and Aloe Vera Face Pack: Blend half a cucumber with 2 tablespoons of aloe vera gel. Apply the mixture to your face and leave it on for 15-20 minutes. Rinse it off with lukewarm water. This face pack is perfect for all skin types, especially for those with sensitive skin. It helps to soothe the skin while reducing inflammation and redness.

Oatmeal and Banana Face Pack: Mash half a ripe banana and mix it with 1 tablespoon of oatmeal. Apply the mixture to your face and leave it on for 15-20 minutes. Rinse it off with lukewarm water. This face pack is great for all skin types and helps to moisturize the skin while reducing inflammation and redness.

Gram Flour and Milk Face Pack: Mix 2 tablespoons of gram flour with enough milk to make a thick paste. Apply the mixture to your face and leave it on for 15-20 minutes. Rinse it off with lukewarm water. This face pack is great for all skin types and helps to cleanse the skin while reducing oiliness and acne.

The wedding bells are ringing for many and a bride needs to be ready head to toe for their wedding functions. The makeup plays a crucial role in the entire look they are going for. Whether it is making sure that the makeup is not too much or too less for that matters it is essential to make sure that having all essentials for makeup you have in your trousseau. 

●   It’s all about the eyes

Anastasia Beverly Hills Glam to go Mini Palette is a versatile mini companion of 8 all-new pretty-in-pinks matte and metallic shades curated to deliver all the looks from day to night whenever you are traveling light.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Rose Metals Palette delivers 12 all-new shades dosed with ultra-glam nostalgia and iconoclast confidence. All-in-one palette for instant on-the-go to ultra-glam looks.  Featuring rich mattes and high-reflect shimmers. 

• Get the base right!

Anastasia Beverly Hills Luminous foundation blurs any imperfection including discoloration and unevenness without caking or masking the skin’s natural radiance. With a seamless application, this easy-to-blend formula leaves the skin with a perfected-looking complexion that is free of flashback or oxidization.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Magic Touch Concealer corrects, brightens, blurs, and conceals while blending to a luminous second-skin finish. The lightweight formula melts into skin with the consistency of creamy water and delivers buildable medium to full coverage, while light-reflecting ingredients neutralize imperfections and create a soft-focus effect with a natural finish. Magic Touch Concealer helps to hydrate the delicate under-eye area and provides smooth, creaseless, and comfortable wear without oxidizing or settling into fine lines. Amino acid-coated pigments ensure immediate adhesion and easy, flexible blend-ability. The teardrop-shaped wand deposits a generous amount and fits perfectly into small areas of the face for precise application.

•   Blushy Blush  

Anastasia Beverly Hills Stick Blush is an ultra-lightweight cream blush that melts into the skin and creates radiant, natural-looking color with a seamless finish. Stick Blush glides onto skin with ease, creating a long-lasting, soft-focus effect that blurs and diffuses for fresh-faced glowing skin. This buildable and blendable formula means that you can easily go from a sheer wash to a more intense, vivid pop, and it will not streak or smudge the complexion layers underneath.

●   Glossy Lips

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Gloss is a full-pigment, weightless formula with lacquer, metallic, and sparkle finishes that delivers the intensity of a stain and the shine of a gloss. The paddle-shaped applicator delivers color with precision and shapes the lip.

●   Pouty Lips

Anastasia Beverly Hills Satin Lipstick is a new, emollient formula that is soft and smooth for comfortable wearability. Satin Lipstick comes in a luxe, rose gold component that fits perfectly in your makeup bag and features a classic bullet tip that provides excellent control for precise application and even color.

●   We are set

Anastasia Beverly Hills Dewy Set Setting Spray is a coconut-vanilla-scented setting spray that seamlessly blends products as it sets makeup leaving the complexion with a dewy (never oily), radiant finish. This gentle mist is ideal for those with dry skin or those who want to achieve the ultimate dewy glow. The water-based formula goes on weightlessly and leaves skin feeling smooth and refreshed.

By Mr. Harish Singla, CSM Forever Living Products India / FLP India 

For over 3,500 years, tales of “healing Aloe Vera” plants have been handed down through centuries by word of mouth. It is probably one of the most discussed, but least understood medicinal plants in history. The ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Babylonians, Indians, and the Chinese have all used Aloe Vera as a medicinal plant.

Throughout the years’ Aloe Vera has been called many names like Potted Physician, Wand of Heaven, Wonder Plant, Heaven’s Blessing, and Plant of Life.

Aloe as a Natural healer has been a household remedy for Indians for centuries. The Nutrient-rich Aloe leaf contains over 75 nutritional components and 200 other compounds, including 20 minerals, 18 amino acids, and 12 vitamins.

Aloe has tremendous benefits for your health inside, and out. Inside, Aloe supports digestive health, promotes a healthy immune system, supports nutrient absorption, and boosts natural energy levels. Outside, Aloe moisturizes, conditions, and soothes the skin.

Aloe Vera in general works in 3 stages i.e Cleansing Stage, Nourishment Stage, and the Therapeutic Stage. Let us understand how Aloe Vera works externally when applied to Skin. Aloe has a small molecular structure, aloe’s component Lignin helps in penetrating the skin. Natural cleanser Saponin cleans with a sweeping action. Aloe has a similar pH balance as skin.

Hyperpigmentation is the excess production of melanin in the skin and appears as dark patches or spots. It is caused by sun exposure, aging, and hormonal changes. Hyperpigmentation occurs in the form of freckles, age spots, melasma, postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, and acne scars. Two chemicals in the aloe vera plant, aloin, and aloesin, have been shown to lighten skin pigmentation.  Aloin has been demonstrated to break up melanin in the skin, while aloesin prevents melanin formation by inhibiting the activity of tyrosinase, an enzyme responsible for melanin production.

When excess Melanin is produced by your skin, it leads to hyperpigmentation which results in dark spots. Some of the common causes for the same are – when you overexpose yourself to UV rays, stress, scars from acne, or hormonal changes. Even at times these hyperpigmentation and dark spots are not dangerous but they may tip off an underlying condition.

The molecular structure helps aloe penetrate quickly within the various layers of the skin, even to the muscles of the body thereby acting as an anti-wrinkle and skin rejuvenator.

• Herbal Period Pain Relief Patches
  • PERIOD PAIN RELIEF PATCH: Sirona Pain Relief Patches are designed to provide relief from periods of cramps. The herbal formula provides pain relief in the lower abdomen, lower back, joints, muscles, and legs.
  • NATURAL PAIN RELIEF: The patches contain menthol and Eucalyptus oil which naturally ease pain, inflammation, and gastrointestinal difficulties. Apply on effective areas to experience a calming effect.
  • LONG LASTING RELIEF UPTO 12 HOURS: Apply discreetly on your skin to bid goodbye to menstrual pain for up to 12 hours. It provides sustained medicine release for 12 hours, unlike sprays/creams/ointments which require re-application in 3-4 hours.
  • 100% NATURAL WITH NO CHEMICAL ACTIVES: Made from 100% vegetable sources, these patches contain no chemical actives. Natural ingredients like menthol and eucalyptus are known to reduce pain and inflammation. They provide a cooling effect without resulting in burns, unlike heat patches.
  • DISCREET ODOURLESS: Thin and easy to apply, the patch doesn’t leave any marks on clothes and doesn’t have a smell – enabling easy usage (most ointments leave a mark or have peculiar smells), Wear it under your clothes on social outings or to the office and have a relaxed, pain-free day!

• Electronic Eyebrow Trimmer
  • PAINLESS: Threading and waxing excess eyebrow hair are painful. Here’s a painless solution to achieving parlor-like results from the comfort of your own home. Grooming fierce eyebrows starts here!
  • PORTABLE: This electronic razor is shaped like a pen and is cordless. Being battery-operated, it is ideal for grooming on the go. This is sure to become the latest addition to your handbag essentials!
  • PRECISION: The rounded yet narrow tip of the electronic eyebrow trimmer gives it the precision needed to groom eyebrows while doing so in an absolutely painless manner.
  • EASY TO USE: To use this electronic eyebrow razor, start off by cleaning and moisturizing the face. Keeping the skin stretched out, switch on the trimmer, pressing the tip against the skin with the unwanted hair, moving in small circular motions. Apply Sirona Post Wax & Shave Gel onto the area, clean the blade using the brush provided and store until the next use.
  • CORDLESS DEVICE: This electronic eyebrow trimmer razor doesn’t need any cords or charging in order to be operated. It is completely battery powered which guarantees superior performance and a long runtime!

• Facial Hair Remover
  • PAINLESS: Threading and waxing excess facial hair is painful. Here’s a painless solution to achieving parlor-like results from the comfort of your own home. Bye-bye facial hair, hello smoother skin!
  • NO RASH OR IRRITATION: Don’t you hate the bumps, rashes, and irritation from most hair removal methods? With the Sirona Electronic Facial Razor, you get flawless results without any bumps, rashes, or irritation!
  • PORTABLE: This electronic razor is a cordless device, the size of a lipstick. Being battery-operated, it is ideal for grooming on the go. This is sure to become a must-have addition to your vanity bag!
  • 360° ACTION: The functional tip of the Electronic Facial Razor operates with 360° precision to get rid of unwanted hair. Just move it in circular motions to watch the magic happen!
  • EASY TO USE: To use this electronic razor, start off by cleaning and moisturizing the face. Keeping the skin stretched out, switch on the trimmer, pressing the tip against the skin with the unwanted hair, moving in small circular motions. Apply Sirona Post Wax & Shave Gel onto the area, clean the blade using the brush provided and store until the next use.

At that time beauty was an emerging profession and it was her area of interest. She met Shahnaz Hussain and she inspired her to take up beauty as a career. She did her first course in 1988 and since then there is no looking back. She is none other than Mrs Sundra Bains, a renowned makeup artist from Jaipur. She has styled many actors and she constantly tries to keep doing shoots with new makeup trends.

She speaks about the scope of being a makeup artist in India:

The beauty and wellness industry has evolved to a great extent in the past few years. It is a very well respected and sought after profession as of today. Though we are all experts in our own little niches and makeup is an art which has expanded so much and if you are good at your work there is no stopping. Your own dedication and expertise determine your success.

Here is the glimpse of the latest shoot that she did in Jaipur.

Makeup and Hair: Sundra Bains
Photography: Manan Kulshrestha

Also read: https://icraze.in/beauty/re-balance-oily-skin-epique-day-balancing-cream/