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If you are thinking about getting a tattoo, take a moment to consider your answers to the following 10 questions. You will be glad that you did. 1. Is the tattoo artist experienced? This is perhaps the most important thing to consider before hiring any one particular tattoo artist. An experienced professional will be knowledgeable in [...]

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Finding the best natural dry skin treatment for you will depend on many things, including your main skin problem, any allergies you may have, as well as your own personal preference. As soon as you have decided the level of severity for your dry skin problem, next its time to look at all the [...]

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If you are looking for something little, then maybe a cute ladybug tattoo will be a good choice for you. This design is pretty popular and it is a perfect choice for those who only want a small tattoo. If you do not want anything big, then you need to go with a design such [...]

Posted by: Healthy Woman BlogWhy Would Anyone Want a Ladybug Tattoo

When you break a bone, you’re sent to a specialist who takes a scan of the afflicted area using imaging MRI. From there, your primary doctor can pass along the report that you have, in fact, broken a bone and let you know the nature of the break. Similarly, if your doctor suspects your reported [...]

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Acai Berry Weight loss has often been associated with acai berry. While acai berry has often been misunderstood as a resources, which is only suitable for cleansing the body from harmful free radicals, the fact is that acai berry supplement is primarily used to cut down the body fat from within the system. I use acai [...]

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Before getting a tattoo or a body piercing find out what all the risks are and how to get rid of the tattoo or body piercing if you no longer want it. A tattoo may only take a few minutes to get but it can last a lifetime. Tattoos are permanent. They are designs put on [...]

Posted by: Healthy Woman BlogWhat You Should Know Before You Get A Tattoo Or Piercing

Before getting a tattoo or a body piercing find out what all the risks are and how to get rid of the tattoo or body piercing if you no longer want it. A tattoo may only take a few minutes to get but it can last a lifetime. Tattoos are permanent. They are designs put on [...]

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The Verizon Droid Pre Order rumour is apparently true this phone will be available on the 6th November 2009 and can be pre ordered now. The Motorola droid is the much awaited phone that runs Google’s Android 2.0 platform. So what do you get for your estimated $200 and $150 per month. Unlimited texts, voice and data The [...]

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With the Motorola Droid Phone available from November the 6th some companies most notably Best Buy have announced today that Verizon wireless airwaves which has the Google android operating system will be available for pre order. The new phone will have the latest release which is version 2.0 a 3.7 inch Hi-Res LCD screen and a [...]

Posted by: Healthy Woman BlogThe Motorola Droid Pre Order Countdown

If you walk into a tattoo shop, you can easily see that there are virtually no limits to tattoo designs. Any good studio maintains a plethora of books, posters, and stencil examples; and, as the career of a tattoo artist is very much more than simply putting designs on a customer’s skin, most are very [...]

Posted by: Healthy Woman BlogWhat Is Our Fascination With Tattoo Designs?

Perhaps rarely thought of as an organ, the skin in fact accounts for about 16% of body weight. From the paper thin 0.05mm thickness on the eyelids to as much as 30 times that on the soles of the feet, the overall area of the skin is about two metres. Its functions as regulator and protector of the impact of the environment on the internal organs are numerous.

These include: maintaining a constant temperature through increased blood flow, sweat, and the insulating layer of fat under the skin; forming a barrier to invading bacteria, viruses and other organisms; providing resistance to shocks for the more vulnerable tissue underneath; manufacturing vitamin D through exposure to sunlight; and feeding information on the surrounding environment to the brain through the perception of the extensive nerve system in the skin.

The Hollywood image of the perfect skin, tanned and toned, is hard to avoid in our media saturated society, but as our daily lives and genetic inheritance never provide such ...

Perhaps rarely thought of as an organ, the skin in fact accounts for about 16% of body weight. From the paper thin 0.05mm thickness on the eyelids to as much as 30 times that on the soles of the feet, . . .

The skin is the largest organ of the human body, accounting for about 16% of the total body weight, with an area of about two square metres. The thickness varies from 0.05mm on the eyelids to 1.5mm or more on the soles of the feet. It performs many vital roles in protecting and regulating the [...]

Perhaps rarely thought of as an organ, the skin in fact accounts for about 16% of body weight. From the paper thin 0.05mm thickness on the eyelids to as much as 30 times that on the soles of the feet, the overall area of the skin is about two metres. Its functions as regulator and protector of the impact of the environment on the internal organs are numerous.

These roles vary from transforming ultraviolet radiation in sunlight into vitamin D, necessary for the absorption of calcium, protecting the internal organs and tissue from damage or attack by hostile bacteria, mediating the facts of the external environment to the brain through the nervous system, and regulating the temperature of the body core by the expansion and contraction of blood capillaries and sweat glands.

Our perception of the condition of our skin can play a major part in our psychological health, reflecting as it does so much of our background and history. In a society in which we are constantly bombarded by manipulated and airbrushed images of perfect bodies, a healthy self image can be hard to maintain.

The desire to come at least a little closer to the perfection that is dangled so unrealistically before us, to remedy the acne, dandruff or other blemishes of life, from getting rid of stretch marks, to gaining a perfect tan, is responded to by much media coverage and advertising.

Although famous for producing exceptionally healthy-looking skin, many women are surprised by the less enviable reactions of their skins to pregnancy: darkened pigmentation on nipples, moles and freckles caused by melanocyte-stimulating hormone, raised oestrogen levels sometimes leading to varicose veins and swollen ankles, and stretch marks on the growing breasts and abdomen.

Oestrogen and MSH levels return to normal after pregnancy, and their side effects consequently disappear, although they are likely to reoccur in subsequent pregnancies. The same is unfortunately not true of stretch marks. These striae gravidarum fade from their original red to white or silvery white, but getting rid of stretch marks is a difficult proposition.

Although diet, exercise, and other lifestyle choices, and even surgery, all feature as recommended solutions, perhaps the simplest and most common approach to tackling remove stretch marks is through creams, extensively advertised, enticingly packaged, and variously priced. Moisturising ingredients and those containing vitamins will do no harm, whilst others claim to speed the healing process.

Few manufacturers would claim to have a cream for totally getting rid of stretch marks, although many assert considerable success if the cream is applied whilst the marks are still new and showing as red or purple. Perhaps the best advice after that is to enjoy your baby and a healthy life, and let time do the rest.

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The skin is the largest organ of the human body, accounting for about 16% of the total body weight, with an area of about two square metres. The thickness varies from 0.05mm on the eyelids to 1.5mm or more on the soles of the feet. It performs many vital roles in protecting and regulating the influence of the outside environment on the internal organs and systems.

Temperature control is one of these, governed by varying blood flow, the activity of the sweat glands, and the density of the subcutaneous fat layer. Others include the transmission of information to the brain through the nervous system, manufacture of vitamin D from the action of sunlight on the skin, and perhaps most obviously, providing a barrier against possible damage from alien organisms.

Alongside all of this, our skin is, as it were, our public face, reflecting our lifestyle and history, leading to assumptions about our personalities by others, and therefore having an enormous emotional impact on ourselves. Every society makes these judgements, but contemporary western society has the time, money, and communication resources to do it to an unusual degree.

Gaining a perfect year round tan, getting rid of stretch marks, saying goodbye to dandruff or spots; all of these issues are answered with a deluge of advertising, magazine articles, and in their more extreme forms, television programmes. Though the concerns may not seem life-threatening, the degree of unhappiness caused by these perceived physical failings can be very real.

The effect of pregnancy on the skin is a common cause for concern, with three main areas affected. Increased oestrogen affects the veins; melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) causes an increase in pigmentation on the nipples and existing moles, and the growth of the breasts and abdomen cause stretch marks on the skin in these areas.

This last problem is one which remains after pregnancy. As hormone levels return to pre-pregnancy levels, the associated hair growth, fluid retention and darkening of the skin all disappear too. But the damaged epidermis is a less reversible condition, and getting rid of stretch marks or striae gravidarum is not so simple.

Amongst the recommendations for helping the healing process are creams commonly containing aloe vera, vitamins including A and E, collagen and cocoa butter, with constant research leading to new products appearing regularly on the market. Similarly, new treatments are being added at the more extreme end of the market, with laser treatment, surgery, and the less invasive but comparatively untested ozone bath.

Being able to remove stretch marks completely is a claim made by few products, though acting whilst the damage is still fresh in the red or purple stage is important in having a dramatic effect. A lifestyle of healthy diet and exercise, however, is likely to improve general skin texture, including the noticeability of stretch marks.