The Collection includes the following:
- bareMinerals Ruby Radiance All-Over Face Color (pink rose) infused with ruby
- bareMinerals Golden Ruby Eye Color (peach gold) infused with ruby
- bareMinerals Vintage Ruby Eye Color (rose fawn) infused with ruby
- bareMinerals Wild Ruby Liner Shadow (plum chocolate) infused with ruby
- Double-Ended Classic Black Mascara & Ruby Beautifully Luminous Lashes
- Ruby Buxom Big & Healthy Full Color Lip Polish (jeweled mauve)
- Soft Sweep Cheek Brush with custom handle
- Double-Ended Tapered Shadow & Eyeliner Brush with custom handle
- Stylish faux-crocodile Ruby Clutch
The bare facts are that Bare Escentuals have many years of research and expertise at discovering the most pristine minerals. The proven clinical studies and customer testimonials speak for themselves. bareMinerals works. And it works for all skin types and conditions. It’s makeup so pure you can sleep in it.
]]>The bare facts are that Bare Escentuals have many years of research and expertise at discovering the most pristine minerals. The proven clinical studies and customer testimonials speak for themselves. bareMinerals works. And it works for all skin types and conditions. It’s makeup so pure you can sleep in it.
This kit is great for beginners and pros alike. It comes complete with three gorgeous bareMinerals eyeshadows, liner shadow, a contour shadow brush, eye defining brush and eyeliner brush. There is also a handy how-to guide showing you step by step how to create stunning eyes and giving helpful hints and tips on how to apply the shades and blend them together to get maximum impact.
The Collection includes the following:
- bareMinerals Vanilla Sugar Eyecolor (medium golden vanilla shade) (small)
- bareMinerals Peach Puff Eyecolor (medium apricot shade) (small)
- bareMinerals Soft Focus Explore Eyecolor (dark hazelnut shade) (small)
- bareMinerals Fashionista Liner Shadow (dark chocolate-raisin shade) (small)
- Contour Shadow Brush
- Eye Defining Brush
- Eyeliner Brush
Since most people get exposed to the sun and pollution everyday, our skin is the primary area that is affected by these and one of the most effective way to eliminate these skin problems would be applying products with sun screen protection. however, this is not the only way that we can pamper our skin, people who are finding ways to protect our skin can also find ways to take care of them while enjoying it as well.
The Fizzy Baker Cupcake Trio Bath Bomb Gift Box is actually one way to have fun while pampering your skin, aside from looking like real cupcakes, they are actually calorie-free indulgences for sweet scented soaks. Hand decorated just like the real thing, the frosting, sprinkles and decorations are made of soap, and each 4.75 oz. bath fizzy creation is the same size as a regular cupcake.
Each handmade creation has a light sweet scent of fresh-baked cupcakes and just a hint of cherry, raspberry or lemon fragrance. So you might be tempted to taste them before using it. In the tub, each ‘cake’ fizzes and releases skin softening coconut oil and glycerin, while the frosting floats free to use just like soap.
The Fizzy Baker Cupcakes are wrapped and ready for giving in a FREE Gift Box, this gift includes one each of a Cherry, Raspberry and Lemon cupcake style. Use one Fizzy Baker Cupcake per bath and is made in the USA.
]]>The front of the Samsung SGH-a867 Eternity is mostly covered by the large 3.2″ touchscreen display. There are, however, three buttons along the bottom edge of the phone, providing send, end, and back functions. The ‘End’ key pulls double duty as the power button, so you can easily turn the phone on and off. On the top edge of the Eternity, there is a single ‘Hold’ button, used to quickly lock the touchscreen from accidental keypresses. Along the right edge of the phone, towards the top, is the standard 3.5mm audio port, which is definitely a welcome feature. Below this is the application switcher button, and below that, the dedicated camera key.
The Eternity also provides quick and easy access to your favorite features through Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz user interface, which has specially designed widgets to customize and personalize your phone. The quick and simple drag-and-drop feature provides instant access to your favorite functions, such as the clock, music player, instant messaging photos, and AT&T Mobile TV–all from the home screen.
]]>Louis’ video dancing lessons will teach you the following dances:
- The Salsa
- The Cha Cha
- The FoxTrot
- The Jive
- The Rhumba
- The Samba
- The Tango
- The Waltz
You can have fun learning all those dances in the privacy of your own home. Even better, while you practice, you are going to be burning calories and losing weight! How cool is that? Not only will you be a better dancer, but you’ll be a lot healthier for it. It’s a win win all around.
]]>Most exercise and fitness programs keep you doing the same thing for months at a time, expecting a fantastic result. Most people after a month or two will get burned out and will see diminishing returns on their effort. P90X is different. It changes the routine every so many days so that you keep working different muscle groups. That is what keeps P90X Extreme Home Fitness ahead of the pack when it comes to getting fit fast!
]]>The other thing that makes pullups great is that they don’t require expensive equipment. In fact, they require a bar and that’s about it. Take that overpriced Total Gym. The Iron Gym now makes it even easier. With the Iron Gym you only need a doorway to place the device and you’re golden. It’s so simple to use I’m surprised that it took so long to be invented really.
]]>Thus, I turn my attention to protein bars and meal replacement type bars that are going to have less sugar and more protein, possibly even a good amount of fiber. What I’ve found is that the average protein bar isn’t that much different from the standard issue candy bar.
It’s actually sad how much sugar gets slipped into protein bars. They’re supposed to be healthy, but in an effort to make them taste good, they take the candy bar route of sugar coating the protein and fiber until they aren’t much different than a candy bar at all.
Snickers Marathon Nutrition Bar
In my quest for a reasonable protein bar that would have a low Glycemic Index, I stumbled across the Snickers Marathon Nutrition Bar. Snickers is usually known for making famously unhealthy candy bars, yet the Snickers Marathon Nutrition Bar is actually pretty awesome by GI standards. It’s not perfect, but it manages to only have 150 calories, 7 grams of fiber, and only 9 grams of sugar.
The dark chocolate crunch is pretty delicious. As it turns out it’s the only variety of the Snickers Marathon Nutrition bar available that I can find. That brings up a great irony in the Snickers Marathon bar product line.
The Fatal Marketing Flaw
Snickers as a brand is a candy bar brand. Snickers is not a brand that people think of when they think of health food. Protein bars are usually regarded as health food in the same vein as protein powder or a meal replacement snack.
Making a protein bar with the Snickers brand seems like the fatal flaw for this line of fantastic products. In both the Marathon Nutrition lines and the Snickers Marathon Low Carb lines, they are almost impossible to find. I think this is partially due to the low carb diets fading from popularity, but that seems to be compounded by the Snickers branding.
What would have happened if Mars would have just called this product line “Marathon Bars”? That would be a much easier sell for health conscious crowd. It’s sad really.
Where To Buy Snickers Marathon Bars
It is possible to find Snickers Marathon Bars, but the varieties that are most readily available seem to be the energy and protein varieties. Both of these are much higher in sugar, which doesn’t work so well for my diet.
The nutrition and low carb varieties are much harder to find. I’ve found the nutrition variety at a local convenience store for around $1.90 a bar. That’s way more expensive than they need to be.
I haven’t had much luck finding the low carb and nutrition bars online. The best luck I’ve had were on eBay. Even still, it would be much easier to buy in bulk on Amazon or direct from Mars or some other wholesaler.
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The Glycemic Index or GI for short is a relatively new concept in the world of dieting and healthy eating. The Glycemic Index is a way of measuring the effects of carbohydrates on our blood glucose levels. For example, a low glycemic index carb is one that produces a very small fluctuation in our blood glucose and insulin levels. Eating low GI foods can reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes.
There are many benefits of eating a low GI diet. When you eat carbs that have a high GI rating, you are pushing your body to extremes, which can be detrimental to your health. If you are overweight and you don’t get much exercise, you are really going to be compounding the problem.
Switching to a low glycemic index diet can help you lose and control your weight, it will help your body regulate insulin, improve diabetes control, reduce the risk of heart disease, reduce blood cholesterol levels, can reduce hunger and make you feel fuller for longer periods of time, can prolong physical endurance, and in general will just make you have a feeling of overall health and well-being.
How To Choose A Diet
There are many paid diets available that can work very well within the spectrum of low GI eating. One fantastic one for losing weight that doesn’t cost a penny is known as the "slow carb diet". I first learned of this diet via the blog of Tim Feriss, writer of The Four Hour Workweek. The best part of the diet is that it is very simple and not hard to stick to.
Other diet plans follow a similar system. What you find is that paid diets that provide food can be a good forcing function to keep you on track only eating what you should. On the other hand, you can save a lot of money just by having some self restraint and trusting in the diet to work.
My Low Glycemic Index Diet Results
Following the "slow carb diet", I’ve managed to lose 10 lbs in about two weeks. I personally plan on sticking to the diet until I reach my goal of about 108 lbs. It’s going to take months, but I know that the diet works and so I’ll keep posting progress reports to this post as the diet progresses. More to come.
]]>How many people have bought a Bowflex or some kind of ridiculous home gym, only to find that they never and use it at all. What about the total gym or those endless supply of ab machines and so on and so forth? America is by no means in short supply of ways to get in shape, yet we are still quite overweight as a country.
So, in a quest to find a workout system that works, helps build strength and muscle, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg and come across an interesting paradox. Is the paradox of profit. You see, when I looked into equipment such as the total gym and other gyms I found that they are thousands of dollars or more. It is quite unbelievable, in fact, how expensive it is to get a hold of a decent home exercise system.
I don’t have a lot of space in my house. So doing Tae Bo or something in front of my TV isn’t necessarily optimal either. Since all the options were so expensive, I started looking elsewhere.
The Surprise At Wal-Mart
When I want to Wal-Mart on a whim to look around at their exercise equipment, I know Wal-Mart right? anyhow, I came across a pretty decent deal. For like $10 or $15, I was able to buy this wonderful little exercise resistance band set that includes three different resistance bands like all work together or separately. To sweeten the pot even includes a DVD with a 40 minute workout on as well and a poster with workout instructions. All of that only cost $15. I was stunned.
I started thinking. Obviously, resistance bands shouldn’t be very expensive, because they’re pretty cheap to produce its really just some kind of rubber or plastic that’s pretty stretchy and so forth. Thus, $15 is a pretty good price. However, when I started actually trying them. I found that they actually worked.
They gave a good amount of resistance and were quite versatile, and the amount of exercise that you could do. For example, you can even attach them to a door and do some shoulder work similar to a seated row or a bench press. You can even do squats. It most certainly can do everything that a total gym can do and will give you just doesn’t work out. Yet it doesn’t cost nearly as much.
Why Have I Never Heard Of These On TV?
After putting some real thought into this and came to the realization that the reason you never hear about the awesomeness that is resistance and workouts. Is that, well, frankly. There’s no profit in it. Think about it, how much profit can Gold’s gym or anyone else be making for selling a $15 set of resistance bands. Probably maybe, I dunno $10 or so?
Now, compare that to the total gym or the Bowflex products. Those products tend to retail for $300-$3,000 depending on the model. Because of that, there is a significant profit margin there. And of course that means that there is a significant marketing budget for it.
What this means to you is that if you don’t know about resistance bands no one is going to tell you. There are fantastic deal and you can get an amazing workout, but don’t expect to see them on infomercial anytime soon.
Taking Resistance Bands To The Next Level
Since I bought my resistance bands. I’ve gotten quite a bit of use out of them, but I found that I needed a new workout to take me to the next level. What was included was great, but was really just the tip of the iceberg.
I found this new product called Mode Workouts. this book gave me a whole bunch of new ideas and workout programs that really helped me to continue to make progress.
You try to get in shape, but you don’t want to spend a ton of money. You really owe it to yourself to buy a set of resistance bands and local sporting goods store or Wal-Mart or whatever. You can even buy them online.
Don’t spend a lot of money, you should be able to get a decent set of them for $30 or less. Once you get your workout bands try them to use them, try the Mode Workouts system, and shred the fat.
The best part of her resistance been worked out is that you can literally do them anywhere. You can even bring him to the office or with you on vacation to make sure that no matter where you are, you can still get the work out that you want. You’d never really do that with Bowflex.
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