Going to the hairdresser can be a menacing experience, especially if you aren’t sure what you want. Ease your nerves by doing some research ahead of time, browse women’s magazines or the internet for examples of the style you’re looking for, and don’t be afraid to bring a few pictures into the salon with you. Sharing these pictures with the hairdresser will give him or her visual idea of what type of cut you’re interested in.
However, it’s important to keep in mind that just because a particular haircut looks good on Jennifer Aniston does not mean it will look good on you. Different cuts are flattering for different face shapes; determining what shape yours is can help guide you in the right direction. Tie your hair back in a ponytail and look straight ahead into a mirror. Focusing mainly on your jaw line, see if your face is round, oval, heart-shaped or square.
According to famous hairstylist John Frieda, your jaw line is the most important factor in deciding what length your new cut should be. Look at your profile in the mirror. If you have a sharp angle where your jaw turns to meet your ear, you’re lucky–you can pull off almost any length of hair. If your jaw is long and sloping, avoid wearing your hair up or pulling it back, and stay away from really short styles as they will expose your jaw line. Before selecting a style, however, let the hairdresser know what type of routine you keep and how much time you have to spend on your hair each morning. Choppy, layered cuts, for example, require much more prep time than straight cuts. Very few women have exact, ideal proportions in their countenance, but read on and you’ll learn ways you can use your hair as a frame to fool the eye into thinking you do.
ROUND FACE
Soft, choppy styles such as layers cut around the cheeks work better for round faces than pin-straight, flat or sleek styles do. Layers that fall just around the cheekbones will shade them and cause the face to look narrower. Volume on top of the crown will create a domed look that adds height and thus elongates the roundness of the face. If you like bangs, graduated bangs cut on an angle that also fall just around the cheeks are your best bet. If your neck is also round, choppy layers that fall around the neckline will also downplay the plumpness.
OVAL FACE
The oval is believed to be the “perfect” face shape due to it’s popularity and versatility. This is the shape that all haircuts seek to achieve, and people who already have this shape can get away with almost any haircut. The only thing you’ll want to be careful about is if you’re going for an uber-short look. Your face may be a “classic oval”, but if your scalp isn’t beautifully shaped a short cut can look misshapen.
LONG FACE
The solution for a long face is to make it look shorter. This can be achieved by wisphy, see-through bangs and chin length cuts. Longer, shapeless styles and straight bobs serve only to further elongate. The fullest, thickest part of the hair should rest behind the ears and be soft and low on the crown. If your chin is pointy, make sure your hair doesn’t curve in towards it, but sweeps up and away instead.
SQUARE FACE
Square faces need to avoid short crops, symmetry, or anything geometric which will enhance the square ness; instead, go for soft curves which will soften the severity of the square jaw line. If you can get a slightly voluminous point at the crown, this will also detract from the square outline. Light, wispy, see-through bangs can also soften the features. Stay away from blunt cuts and hard, sleek lines as these will exaggerate the square shape. A cut with soft curves, slight bangs would be best for this face type.
HEART-SHAPED FACE
Faces those are narrow at the bottom and wide at the top need a cut that hides the hairline with graduated bangs and a choppy style that flips out on the ends. When the hair turns outwards rather than inwards, it equalizes the shape by giving volume around the narrow bottom of the face. If, on the other hand, your face is an upside-down heart (narrow at the top, heavier at the jaw) make sure there is fullness at the top of the head instead to balance out the chin.
For most people, the bathroom is more than just a functional room now days. Many people find it to be a place of relaxation and even a stylish focal point of the home. Today there are a variety of luxurious amenities that you can add to your bathroom, including marble flooring, wonderful whirlpool tubs, and even granite counters. If you use your bathroom for relaxation and enjoyment, then you may want to consider adding some touches of luxury to the bathroom when you remodel so you can enjoy the bathroom and use it for a place to unwind. So, here are a few tips that will help you to add some luxury to any bathroom.
Colorful Candles
Colorful candles are a great luxurious addition to your bathroom. You can pick out colors that match your bathroom and find some of your favorite scents. They will no doubt make the entire bathroom smell great. However, you can also use them when you’re taking a bath. Simply light them up and enjoy the beautiful scent and the romantic glow while you are enjoying a nice, warm bath in the evenings.
Add Some Music
Music while you’re in the tub is a great idea, and it is easy to do this if you add a CD player or a radio to your bathroom. This way you can listen to your favorite CD or to the radio while you are enjoying a soothing bath. You can purchase a free standing CD player or radio, or you may even want to have one custom installed so you can have a wonderful music experience while you are having a good time in your bath.
Plush Towels
Of course for a touch of luxury, the right towels are a must as well. Go with some high quality towels that are thick and plush so you can wrap up in them when you get out of the bathtub. They are great to use, and they add a decorative element to the bathroom as well.
Towel Warmers
A towel warmer is an excellent addition to any bathroom and when you’re remodeling you may want to have one added. They are usually quite inexpensive and they warm up your towels for you for a truly luxurious experience. When you get out of the shower, you’ll then have a towel that is nice a warm for you to enjoy.
Whirlpool Tubs
Many people love the idea of soaking in a whirlpool tub, and this is a great way that you can add some luxury to your bathroom. No doubt you’ll enjoy relaxing in the bath tub with the whirlpool jets gently massaging your entire body. This is definitely the ultimate way for you to relax and enjoy yourself in the tub.
Life can be hectic and stressful, and your bathroom may be a great place to unwind and get rid of the stress of the day. So, consider these ideas to make your bathroom a place of luxury and relaxation. No doubt you’ll enjoy these luxurious amenities each and every day.
Well, the weather finally did it – sent the kids scuttling inside. And now, they are bored and waiting for you to come up with something for them to do. Fun indoor games are not as hard to come up with as one might think. There’s a little something for everyone as you let your imagination search for fun indoor games to play with your children or for them to play together.
Pretending
Of all the indoor games to come up with, pretending is one of the easiest for which to prepare. Experts are now saying that pretending is one of the most needful games that your child can play. Through pretending, children learn to think about how another person feels; they learn to role play as they mimic people that they know or imagine about people they don’t know; they learn to take turns as they play pretend with others who may want to be the same character they want to be; they learn to treat animals well because in pretending to be an animal, they learn how it feels to be hurt. Sometimes, on a deeper level, children re-enact a time and place where that didn’t quite work out as they wanted it to. When they replay it in pretending, they can feel better about what went on because in some way, they have taken more control of the situation in their own minds. There are many ways that pretending and role-playing is good for your child. All you need to do is have some basic items around to help the game go well.
Keep some old towels or sheets around so that the child can pretend to go camping or go hiking in a cave. Throwing a sheet over some chairs makes a great cave or tent. Keep some empty paper towel roles handy for emergency swords or microphones. A scarf or towel pinned to the shoulders of a favorite shirt makes a great cape for the super hero. Some old necklaces, ribbons, and pins are great dress up helpers for little girls and I can still remember running around in one my dad’s ties and his shoes that we were way to big for me. Make sure that your “stuff” is less important than your child and, within reason, let them use some of your household and personal items for their pretend games.
What is even more fun for your child is when you play pretend as well. When you welcome you child’s teddy bear, aka the new super hero or the new Preschool teacher, at the dinner table, you’ve entered into his or her game and it becomes more exciting because you are willing to play.
Your Part
As we’ve already mentioned, your part may be to keep some supplies on hand and to participate when called upon. However, sometimes as the parent, you may need to give a little boost to the idea by asking them what they would like to pretend about. There are lots of choices:
Being a School teacher
Being a pirate
Being a favorite super hero
Being a great warrior
Having a space ship
Being a doctor or nurse
Being a fire truck driver
Being a movie star
All you have to do is ask the right question and get the game going. Your child is sure to have some ideas of his or her own as well. Help make pretending one of your child’s favorite fun indoor games – and maybe even a favorite outdoor game.
1. You know your Dad is the best. Make a Father’s Day award with cardboard and construction paper to give to dad. The cardboard should be the same size as the construction paper. You can buy some at a craft store or find a cardboard box that’s the right size. If you can’t find the right size box, get a grownup to help you cut a piece from a bigger box. You can add a few gold stars and use felt tip markers or crayons to write “Best Dad Award - 2008″ on the construction paper. Then glue the construction paper to the cardboard and give it to dad on Father’s Day morning!
2. Father’s Day email. Give Dad a special email. In the subject line type: “Best Dad in the Whole Wide World.” What you put in the message is special…from you for your Dad.
3. Make a special place mat for Father’s Day. Take a piece of plain material and cut it to about the size of a big cereal box. Write: “For the Best Dad” with felt tip markers and put it under his plate as a special surprise.
4. Father’s Day cake. Get a grownup’s help to bake a cake, or have mom get your dad’s favorite cake at the grocery store and cut it in the shape of a tie. Top it with Dad’s favorite frosting and decorate it with gummy bears, jellybeans or licorice sticksso it looks like a real tie. He’ll say it’s the best Father’s Day tie ever!
5. Father’s Day poster. Ask a grownup to scan photos of you and your Dad doing things together and print them out. Paste them to a poster board. Use felt tip markers or crayons to write out the headline: “Why I
love Dad.” If you don’t have any pictures or a scanner, you can draw some! Your pictures might be of you taking a walk or fishing with your Dad or maybe your favorite times with your Dad are when he reads to you or says prayers with you!
6. Make a memory book for dad. Do the same thing as for the big poster board card. Ask a grownup to scan photos of you and your Dad doing things together and print them out. Use plain white paper and fold it in half. Paste all of the pictures on the paper and get a grownup to staple the pages in the middle where they are folded. Remember that if you can’t get pictured scanned or don’t have any pictures of the best times you have with your father, you can draw the pictures instead.
7. Father’s Day Cap. Make Dad feel special with a Father’s Day baseball cap. Use felt tip markers to write or draw on the hat. Good suggestions: “My Dad is # 1″ or “World’s Best Dad!”
8. Make a Father’s Day shirt for dad to match his cap. Take on of his undershirts - make sure it’s clean! - and write or draw on it. You can say the same things as on the hat, or other think of some other special things to say.
9. Father’s Day IOU. Give Dad a Father’s Day ‘Gift Certificate’ or an I.O.U. made from colored construction paper. Good suggestions: “I promise to … Wash the Car next Saturday……Mow the Lawn tomorrow.” Don’t promise impossible things like never to fight with your brothers or sisters… or always to do what you are told without asking why. If you make it a promise that you will be able to keep it will be a very special gift.
10. Give your father the best gift of all. You won’t need any pens or paper for this one… the first thing on Father’s Day morning, give Dad a big smushy Father’s
Day hug before breakfast and tell him how great he is! He might not show it, because sometimes Dads don’t make a big deal about how they feel, but he will be smiling inside.
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days. Many people find it to be a place of relaxation and even a stylish focal point of the home. Today there are a variety of luxurious amenities that you can add to your bathroom, including marble flooring, wonderful whirlpool tubs, and even granite counters. If you use your bathroom for relaxation and enjoyment, then you may want to consider adding some touches of luxury to the bathroom when you remodel so you can enjoy the bathroom and use it for a place to unwind. So, here are a few tips that will help you to add some luxury to any bathroom.
pick out colors that match your bathroom and find some of your favorite scents. They will no doubt make the entire bathroom smell great. However, you can also use them when you’re taking a bath. Simply light them up and enjoy the beautiful scent and the romantic glow while you are enjoying a nice, warm bath in the evenings.
You can purchase a free standing CD player or radio, or you may even want to have one custom installed so you can have a wonderful music experience while you are having a good time in your bath.
you child’s teddy bear, aka the new super hero or the new Preschool teacher, at the dinner table, you’ve entered into his or her game and it becomes more exciting because you are willing to play.
Whole Wide World.” What you put in the message is special…from you for your Dad.
t have any pictures of the best times you have with your father, you can draw the pictures instead.
special things to say.