A Nail Color Blunder You Want to Avoid!

When your hands aren't in the best condition, you need to give more thought to your nail colors. 

When the weather is turning colder, our hands are prone to redness and chapping.  Therefore, we need to be careful when choosing nail colors.  Otherwise, a wrong color choice can call more attention to the redness than we like.  

My advice is that if you plan to play down that redness, then avoid red shades of nail polish.  You are better off counteracting that angry color with paler, skin-toned colors in non-shimmering polishes until that irritation heals.  Feel free to revisit those glamorous red nail colors once that redness subsides! 

NEW Dial Deep Cleansing Hand Soaps Review

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Water Blossom and Yellow Raspberry & Black Sugar Deep Cleansing Hand Soaps

We all need to wash our hands so why not pamper them at the same time?  If you haven't heard about Dial's new Deep Cleansing Hand Soaps, then let me assure you that the two scents I got to review from Purex certainly fit the bill.  These liquid soaps indulge the senses with lovely scent while treating hands to luxurious moisture in a gentle micro-scrubber formula.

The two scents that I got to test are Water Blossoms (a calming aroma inspired by water lily) and Yellow Raspberry & Black Sugar (a sweet and tart fruity scent).  Coconut Lime Verbena is the third scent that also is available.

This formula really does thoroughly clean and soften hands in the process quite nicely.  I keep a bottle of it now on my kitchen counter because I am always washing my hands.  The other one is downstairs in our powder room.

I think you will be pleasantly surprised at how wonderful this formula is for a reasonably priced soap.  I am intending to pick up the Coconut Lime Verbena when I run out.  Do look for this new Dial Deep Cleansing Hands Soap when you go shopping because I am sure you are going to love it.

Winter Weather Hand Care 101

Cold winter weather can be brutal to our hands with chapping and cracking or even worse, turning them rough and scaly.  However, there are some helpful tips to survive the constantly plunging temperatures to keep hands soft and pain-free.

The first line of defense is never leave the house without wearing your thick gloves or mittens.  This may sound silly, but the skin of your hands is not the only thing to suffer when not taking safeguards.  You will also pay the price with your cuticles.  They will dry out and become ragged.  Sometimes, they can even pull away from the nail bed to harbor bacteria.  This is the time to start incorporating a cuticle oil into your beauty routine to keep that area lubricated.  If you don't have any immediately on hand, you also could rub your lip balm over the base of the nail to protect that vulnerable cuticle.

You need to moisturize more frequently during the winter.  Pay special attention to the curve between your thumb and pointer finger because this skin area is prone to splitting.  If you often experience this problem of your hands forming cracks and bleeding, you might need to visit your dermatologist and see about a cortisone cream.  You need to heal those cracks.  Otherwise, you risk them becoming infected.

Look for heavy duty hand creams and lotion formulas that have both humectant and occlusive ingredients for the best winter protection.  Good humectants might be ingredients such as glycerin, hyaluronic acid, urea, lactic acid, panthenol, propylene glycol, and aloe to attract moisture and carry it deep inside the cells of the skin of the hands. 

For the most part, occlusive ingredients are greasier ingredients like shea butter, lanolin, petroleum, cocoa butter, silicones, and mineral oil that are capable of locking in moisture on the top layers of the skin like a barrier to prevent evaporation. 

To get even more of those heavier hand creams and lotions, you should habitually apply them to damp skin. 

An Easy Way to Clean and Still Beautify Your Hands!

Let's face it.  Our hands take a lot of abuse when you clean and handle all that other fun stuff involved with housekeeping.  Unless you are privileged enough to have someone else do all of that for you, then your hands constantly are prone to suffer from dryness, cracking, and chipped or broken fingernails.

Despite this depressing reality, there is still hope to get your beautiful hands back.   This simple trick will also help keep them in that condition while still doing your routine cleaning.

Here's what I have been doing lately.  Take out your rubber gloves and an old pair of gloves.  Before you put them on, you need to slather on a heavy duty coating of lotion.  You don't have to put on second pair of gloves, but I do. Once you start to work, the heat from your skin will warm the lotion so it will penetrate deeper to repair the dryness while protecting your hands from further damage, especially from the onslaught of chemicals in cleaning products. 

By the time you finish with your chores, your treated hands will be saved from more redness, cracked fingernails to become smoother, softer and lovely once again.  Do try this little trick and you will see a wonderful difference.