What Causes Bloating?

Bloating causes some discomfort to our stomach, the feeling is like your tummy is swollen and filled up with gases.

Here are some of the common causes for your bloating:

1) Too much salt
Eating food that consist too much salt such as processed food like canned soups, chips and processed meat can be one of the causes on bloating.

How to relieve the bloating?
Drink lots of water or eat fruits like apples, watermelons, grapes or grapefruits.

2) Too much fizzy drinks
Drinking fizzy drinks like coke and sprites etc often contain high gas as they are carbonated sodas. Hence, shoving air into your digestive tract will make your tummy bloated.

How to relieve the bloating?
Water, Fresh fruit juices and milk

3) Food allergies
People with food allergie to lactose like milk or fructose which is the sugar in fruit are more prone to bloating and excess gas.

How to relieve the bloating?
Avoid the food that causes this problem, if the problem still persist, see a doctor.

4)Daily diet
Beans and Legumes can be hard to digest because of their starches and sugar. It can produce gas if not digested properly.

How to relieve the bloating?
Cut down the intake of this kind of food

5) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Bloating

that is accompanied with diarrhoea, constipation, vomitting, abdominal pain.

How to relieve the bloating?
See a doctor immediately

How to choose makeup base colour

What colours of makeup base is suitable for my skin tone?
1)If your skin tone is brownish and you have dark eyes circles
Chooose ivory colours as it will lighten your skin tone and make your dark eyes circles less obvious.

2)If your skin tone is tanned
Choose pink for brightening effect

3)If your skin have blemishes or pimples, look red and patchy
Choose green to tone down the natural redness so that your pimples will not be so obvious.

4) If your skin tone is dull and pale
Choose purple as it will brighten your skin and provide instant radiance.

Purpose of Makeup base

Makeup base is used to correct the imperfection for your skin tone. Whether there is a need on putting makeup base before applying makeup depends very much on individual and their complexion. If their skin is very dull, red and patchy, dark eye circles, the usage of makeup base would greatly help in enhancing their skin.

Makeup bases comes in different shades for different skin problems. A purple base will provide radiance for dull looking skin while a green base will reduce redness as for yell0w or ivory base make will make skin look smoother.

Makeup base also let your makeup last longer and fresher.

I would suggest oily skin type use Light emulsion for sebum control and Creamy base for dry skin as it will protect skin from dehydrating.

Beauty Recipes Of The Week

Hello, It is beauty recipe of the week again. This is a very simple and great recipe for you try. Quick and simple!

Rock Melon, Grapes and Strawberries Salad

Ingredients:
1 Rock Melon, peel and cut into cubes
250 grams of seedless grapes
250 grams of strawberries and cut into slices
1 Orange (Just the juice)
1 tablespoon of sherry
1 cup of natural yogurt
1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger
Honey(Dissolved)

Instructions:
- Place all the fruits in 1 bowl.
- Mix the orange juice, sherry, dissolved honey and ground ginger together.
- Pour the mixed juice over the fruits.
- Mix the yogurt into the fruits.

Beauty Contest - Look Of The Year 2008

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For more information on the contest, please visit Look Of The Year.