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Rosy Fruits The Best Lycopene Source

The word lycopene is probably quite familiar enough in our ears. I my self often find this word in commercial break for some beauty and health products, like how lycopene can help us out to have a brighter complexion and how lycopene support the detoxification process in human body.

But what is lycopene anyway, how can lycopene do all those things and where can we find lycopene ? well, I found the answers in some articles I read, and already make some short summary of it.

Lycopene is a red pigment, and this red pigment is abundantly found in rosy fruits. Some examples of those rosy fruits are tomatoes, watermelon, red guava, papaya and red bell paper. A research by Havard Medical School has found that consuming lycopene will lowering the risk of cancer and heart attack. Lycopene contributes a stronger antioxidant compared to vitamin C (Rui Hai Liu, Professor of Food Science, Cornell University).

A study which was revealed in 2002 also mentioned that the lycopene in tomatoes will have an increasing level by cooking. The lycopene level (cis-lycopene) could increase up to 35% after 30 minutes of cooking in 88 degree celcius. Proffessor Rui Hai Liu explained that the cis-lycopene increased because the heat during the cooking process was breaking down the tomatoes thick cell layers. Thus the hidden nutrient which is bound in the cell layers will be released.

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Small Tips on Wearing Red Lipstick

Red lipstick is IN !!! And though a lot of women love – or would love to – wearing red lipstick, but not each of them dare to wear red lipstick.

Some of them feel not so confident because of the thick lips they have. Most women are afraid wearing red lipstick will make them look worse instead of pretty.

But in case you want to wear red lipstick, here is some tips that I collect from some articles :

• first apply sheer foundation on the lips surface, then put on natural color lipstick on our lips

• take red-colored lip liner, then rub it gently in the center part of our lips, make it as natural as possible

• according to make up expertise, placing red color in the centre part of the lips will avoid the ‘heavy’ look of our make up.

Hope this small tips will be useful.

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Moisturizer and Foundation, When to Use ?

Moisturizer and Foundation, those two terms have been familiar among us –females. But sometimes some people are confused about how to wear them, do we have to use it both together or not ?

According to beauty expertise, moisturizer is better worn everyday regularly.

Moisturizer commonly contains SPF, that is capable of protecting and caring our skin. Moisturizer is also very important to be used as a part of make-up ranging, and moisturizer must be applied before using foundation.

After a bit about moisturizer, now let’s talk a bit about foundation. People wear foundation to cover our skin surface. The main reason is, to hide spots on our face-surface-skin.

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