Growing longer lashes is pretty simple and easy. So if you want take a natural approach to growing longer eye lashes here are some tips to help.

A Healthy diet
Without proper nutrition, your body will cease to grow hair, fingernails and even eyelashes.  Anything that makes your hair grow, will help your eyelashes grow. For this reason, you should eat as many organic fruits, vegetables and meat as possible as well as plenty of whole grains and avoid processed foods and sugary sweets as much as possible.  Also include folic acid, beta carotene and vitamin B in your diet. Shellfish and seafood are sources of vitamins which help hair, fingernails and eyelashes grow.

Increase your daily vitamin intake
Make sure your taking a good multivitamin as well as a Acai supplement regularly.  Acai is the best supplement to stimulate hair and skin rejuvenation and cleans out all the toxins left in the body.  The nutrients in Acai can help you maintain the healthy function of bodily systems and organs Increase energy, libido and stamina.  Promote healthy, glowing skin and hair, promotes healthy sleep, support immune system, act as a powerful anti-inflammatory, and help reduce pain and soreness. Try 100% PURE Perfect ACAI Berry.

Apply pure vitamin E oil to your eyelashes
This vitamin is known to cause hair growth and sooth scalp irritation, so if you have eyelash loss due to irritation, this may reverse it. Apply the oil to your eyelashes with a clean eyelash brush. Jason Natural Cosmetics Pure Vitamin E Oil .  You can also use a toothbrush to brush the oil on your eye lashes at night to stimulate growth.

Avoid toxic mascara
Avoid toxic mascara by opting for an all natural one.  This will prevent any toxic buildup which can cause eye lashes to fall out easily. Try all natural Honeybee Gardens Mascara .  This smooth light-as-a-feather base offers zero clumping because to the absence of clay which means no flaking and no smudging.  Best of all it’s botanically-enriched and paraben free.

Remove your eye makeup naturally
Since any mascara left on will dry and strip your lashes you’ll want to try a natural and gentle eye make-up remover.  Try vaseline.  It’s a much cheaper alternative to eye makeup removers and will last forever.  It works wonders to remove most mascara and eye makeup with one swipe.  You can also use  Egyptian Magic Cream which is a multi-purpose beauty cream you can use to moisturize your face and hair and it can be used for about 25 other things.  I use my egyptian magic everyday and won’t ever be without it!

]]> http://smartgirlconsulting.com/2010/04/how-to-grow-eyelashes-naturally/feed/ 0 http://smartgirlconsulting.com/2010/01/how-to-prevent-and-minimize-eyebags/ http://smartgirlconsulting.com/2010/01/how-to-prevent-and-minimize-eyebags/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:27:39 +0000 admin http://smartgirlconsulting.com/?p=26 Sometimes we all get unwanted eyebags and it seems that no matter how much coverage we put on, there seems to be no escape from hiding them.  The appearance of eye bags can make people look fatigue and older than they really are.

Although eye bags can be hereditary there are some ways to minimize eye bags.  Here are a few different approaches to prevent them.

1. Get enough shut eye.

2. Avoid high consumption of water and sodium before bed time.  Water retention and salt inake incline the chances of causing your skin to swell.

3. Try to refrain from devouring cafffine, alcohol and cold drinks especially prior to sleeping.  It’s ideal to drink warm or room temperature liquids before bedtime.

REMEDIES TO DIMINISH EYEBAGS
1. The most common remedy to depuff undereye swelling is placing a slice of cucumber over each eye.  You could also try slices of potatoes.

2. Place two teaspoons into the freezer for at least 30 minutes.  Remove them from the freezer and place each teaspoon onto each eyelid for about 5 to 10 minutes or until the swelling has lessened.

3. Soak cotton balls into a cup of ice cold water.  Squeeze out the water and while lying flat place one cotton ball over each eye.