Tuesday, 31 August 2010

The secret of younger skin


I have read two different articles about the tips of getting younger skin. The first one from Yahoo lifestyle: Your Younger-Skin Strategy and the other article from a blog talking about Younger Skin Tips- Skin Anti Aging for firm skin-smoother skin .I found that the article posted by Yahoo lifestyle is quite different from a forum post. Both articles listed out some tips which can make us look younger and how to get a healthy skin.


Structure

The above picture show us the structure of the article "Your Younger-Skin Strategy" from Yahoo lifestyle. It clearly listed out the strategy by numbering them 1-7. To increase its credibility,  author used quotes "The most important time to clean your face is before you go to bed" from Dermatologist doctor, Stephen Shumack of Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. She listed out some products that related to each strategy for readers as a reference. It is easy for the readers to read and understand, however, not creative enough. 
I found that the article posted in a blog is much more creative and informative. It included video, pictures, tags sub- headings,  interlink etc to help delivering the message of anti-aging. 

Content
The story from "Younger Skin strategy" gave us a really useful tips on how can we make our skin looks younger. For example, the importance of using sunscreen to prevent wrinkles and sunspots, eat some food with omega 3's to keep your skin supple and firm. On the other hand, the blog gave us a depth look about how to keep our skin healthy by using videos, her personal advice and share with many social networking sites.



Friday, 27 August 2010

My favourite beauty sites

Cosmopolitan is one of my favourite online websites for beauty news. It is some way different from the beauty news in the newspapers and other websites. Most of their articles with detailed descriptions, linkages, pictures, demostration and related videos. In that way, i I found that they will update their homepage with the most hot topics and recent trends about hair & beauty and celebrities & style regularly. 


One of the article headline is 'Hairstyle that get you what you want'. The article shows us 4 different hairstyles applied on the same girl will turn out differently on how she looks. For instance, 1st one for work, 2nd for an afternoon party, 3rd one for an evening dinner and 4th one for a casual look daily.
She started off his story with a strong quotation from an anthropologist by telling us that different hairstyle will change on how people perceived a woman's image. It attracts readers' attention to keep on reading it and find out the hairstyles that suitable for them in different occasion and time. 







Her story gave us a very detailed process on how to create a different look by using simple equipments and accessories. For example, the hair spray, the mousse, gel that we need to use are simple and we can buy it in any supermarket or salon.Those related video are clear with caption, clear step of demonstration and providing great advice for the readers.
Nice and organized layout of the page can clearly direct us to the right place. Also, we can share, print, post it on facebook or twitter and make comments on it.










Source: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/hairstyles-beauty/hair-care/get-what-you-want
Photo sourcesfile:///Users/anthony/Desktop/Anne-Hathaway_de-large-new.jpga

Thursday, 26 August 2010

The art of hair

This time, i read an article about how to keep your hair nice and tidy in this summer..It's very important for us to know that having your long hair looks smooth and shiny in summer is not an easy job. The author, Dayna got a really good sense in identifying the problem of having a long hair and bangs, such as flying everywhere and sticky. Afterwards, a suggestion on the products that readers can use to keep their hair shine and healthy. 


She links her story with the shop called "The Little Hair Shoppe" by introducing the products to the readers. Despite of the problem we faced in the summer, she also demostrated the way that we can style our hair differently and how it matches with other accessories.





Most importantly, the author put in some interlinks through out her stories which allows us to know more details about the products and other informations that we need to find. Pictures made the stories more interesting to read and clear on how are we interpreting the news. I found that she can deliver the message to us effectively by her clear structure, simple and life-related. Also, i found that 'sharing of beauty products' and some advice from, say make-up artist or stylist is very important for writing a beauty news. It can convey what the author wants to point out more efficiently.








At last, Dayna mentioned the phone number, address and the website to us for reference.

I am going to try to follow her steps and make it myself.
Have a look and see if u think that's work or not XP








Source:http://www.beautynewsnyc.com/in-this-issue/the-hazy-hair-days-of-summertricks-on-how-to-beat-the-heat-keep-your-hair-neat-from-the-little-hair-shoppe/#more-22141

Friday, 13 August 2010

Beauty around the World

I found a website about Entertainment including movies, tv, fashion, beauty etc recently. It was a very good website to updating yourself with the news from beauty everyday. The advantage of this website give us information about what have been changing in the beauty industry everyday, the hair style of the season, celebrities news which is related to beauty products and introduction of some editor's choices of beauty products to the users.


I read one of the news wriiten by Victoria Joy, heading "A-List Celebrity Beauty". The author used a really extractive sentence to attract readers' attention for further reading. "We’ve tracked down the latest and greatest beauty and skincare innovations from around the world and asked the people in the know why they’re so fantastic."  By quoting this in the story will attract the readers follow your story to find out what is the secret of beauty of those celebrities






Through out the news, she talked about eye lashes from China, the ultimate formular of fresh and ageless complexion from Milan, hair treatment from London and gelish nail formula from LA. In my opinion, it was an interesting article to read as the writer wrote about the latest news of beauty and skincare innovation from different countries. The writer gave a picture with a short caption of each country she wrote. It was easy to read with the link that we can have a detail look for the particular products or innovative news. Also, she also gave an example of the celebritites who have tried the products before. A price and descriptions of the beauty services which made the readers more clear and interested in finding more about them.












Sources: http://showbiz.sky.com/a-list-beauty-secrets

Thursday, 5 August 2010

Girls' treasure: Beauty


Every girl love cosmetics! I guess none of you would say NO to this, except boys....LOL


Scientists bring the global beauty industry into a new century. Is Pharmaceutical industry getting over the original industry soon?



I have to say that Cosmeceuticals are very popular nowadays.



Why is it? Let's have a look at the news below and know more details about it.




The news story of "Cosmeceuticals: the beauty business revolution" from Sydney Morning Herald did give us a good explanation on how does the cosmetic products changed into cosmeceuticals. The news story shows a good picture of the typical beauty shots with a close-up of a woman. A clear introduction which telling us that 'Cosmecuticals' have been approved by the new generation. It can make changes to our DNA and most importantly, the anti-ageing processes. It gave important quotes from different professors,dermatologists to increase the credibility of the news. I think the author did a detail research on the recent products that were out in the market. Through out the news, the author mentioned the latest products for different parts of face. It was good to know about that but i am going to broke soon.....

On the other hand, its a bit too long for the readers to read through how they make the products including the processes, the ingredients that they used, how the products affect the biological cells etc.

I am pretty sure that Science Beauty will be the trend in the following years. Girls, Keep an eyes on the latest products and get ready to make over ourselves! :D




P.S. Here comes the picture... the products i bought. They only sell in pharmacy or some particular cosmetic stores. All these are professional medical beauty products. Those on the right are the products from France and those on the left from Japan. I found that it was quite good for some girls with senstitive skins and of course normal skin as well.

Leave me a comment if you want to know more about the products :)



Source: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/cosmeceuticals-the-beauty-business-revolution-20100426-tmqo.html

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Beauty is my life :)


                                 Beauty is one of the important courses in our life!