Changing Plain Jane

Este blog é sobre beleza, vida saudável e lifestyle. Tenho um interesse especial em beleza sem químicos nocivos.

This blog is about beauty, healthy life and lifestyles. I have a special interest in Green Beauty.

sexta-feira, 16 de maio de 2014

O que comer quando...

Saiba como fazer face às mais variadas situações do dia-a-dia, com a ajuda dos nutrientes mais adequados.


... está constipada
Canja de galinha, que alivia os sintomas da constipação; chá quente para ajudar a fluidificar as secreções e manter o corpo hidratado se estiver com febre; alho cru, que tem propriedades naturais antibióticas, antibacterianas e antivirais.
... para dormir melhor
Alimentos à base de cereais integrais combinados com alguma proteína, como queijo ou leite magro, peixe ou carne magra. Os hidratos de carbono aumentam os níveis de serotonina no cérebro e o aminoácido triptofano presente nessas proteínas ajuda a combater as insónias.
... se está a tentar engravidar
Hidratos de carbono complexos (cereais integrais, tubérculos, leguminosas), combinados com proteínas e alimentos ricos em ácido fólico (legumes de folha verde, espargos). A combinação hidratos de carbono complexos e proteína tem um índice glicémico baixo, evitando os picos de insulina que dificultam o processo de ovulação. O ácido fólico reduz o risco de espinha-bífida no bebé.
... quando vai de viagem
Se for de avião, um saquinho com uma mão-cheia de nozes, amêndoas, pinhões e/ou frutos secos, como alperces; se viajar de carro, leve uma caixinha com salada de frango e legumes verdes, feita por si, ou uma barrinha de cereais com pelo menos 15g de proteína e pouco açúcar. Sentada no carro ou no avião não vai precisar de muitas calorias, e qualquer destas opções, sendo rica em nutrientes mas pobre em gorduras, vai deixá-la saciada, mas não pesada ou inchada.
... antes de uma reunião importante
Uma omeleta de claras com espinafres e um pouco de arroz integral, ou uma sanduíche de pão integral com queijo magro, terminando com um café ou chá preto. As proteínas contêm tirosina, um aminoácido que ajuda a manter o espírito alerta, os cereais integrais garantem energia prolongada e a cafeína aumenta a memória de curto prazo.
... para bronzear melhor
Grandes saladas de cenoura, tomate, alperce e melão, de preferência biológicos e bem maduros, regadas com um fiozinho de azeite. Estes alimentos são ricos em betacarotenos, que ajudam a pele a defender-se quando exposta aos raios solares e a intensificar o tom do bronzeado.
http://activa.sapo.pt/belezaesaude/saudenutricao/2014-04-05-O-que-comer-quando.

quinta-feira, 8 de maio de 2014

Tutorial: como fazer ondas no cabelo

O estilo beach waves está mesmo a chamar por nós quando regressam os dias quentes. Veja como conseguir ondas naturais de forma rápida e muito fácil de fazer em casa.

Veja o tutorial de StardustFairytale e reproduza este estilo sem complicações!
http://videos.sapo.pt/SdUVctmhHvdvozI9Uewm

http://activa.sapo.pt/belezaesaude/beleza/2014-04-07-Tutorial-como-fazer-ondas-no-cabelo



domingo, 4 de maio de 2014

Passatempo http://dawndugong.blogspot.pt/2014/04/2nd-blogiversary-ud-naked-3-giveaway.html

2ND BLOGIVERSARY + UD NAKED 3 GIVEAWAY

I cannot believe See It, Love It, Swatch It has been up and running for 2 years. Blogging has become such a big part of my life now and I cannot imagine what my life would have been like if I hadn't decided to pick up a camera and start taking pictures of makeup. I would first like to thank all of you, my dedicated readers, who take the time out of your day to read my blog. I've been finding it a little hard lately to keep up to date with my regular upload schedule but hopefully I will dedicate more time on the weekends to stock pile more posts for you guys. 

However, in celebration of my 2nd Blogiversary I thought I would hold a giveaway where you have the chance of winning a brand new Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette! I, myself, still haven't gotten my hands on this stunning palette as of yet but I thought I would give one of you the opportunity to win before I purchased one for myself. 


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This is a fairly simple giveaway - all you need to do is follow and fill out the rafflecopter widget below. There is only 4 mandatory rules in this giveaway 1) Follow See It, Love It, Swatch It via GFC 2)Follow See It, Love It, Swatch It via Bloglovin' 3) Comment below telling me what type of posts you'd like to see more of on my blog/what have been your favourite posts by me 4) Follow me on Instagram @DUGONGSS. All the other entries are optional but are encouraged to fill as they give you a better chance of winning!

http://dawndugong.blogspot.pt/2014/04/2nd-blogiversary-ud-naked-3-giveaway.html

3 Toxic Cosmetics You Should Replace Now

Este artigo sensibilizou-me para ver as composições dos cosméticos, que uso e vou ter mais atenção ao que compro a partir de agora. Vou reduzir os químicos nocivos. Por exemplo, ao analisar os meus cremes de mão, fiquei chocada em encontrar 4 químicos nocivos. Somente um dos cremes ( Caudalie) tinha somente um, o que é  minimamente aceitável. Mas 4, fiquei chocada, pois uso isto todos os dias. Tenho de investigar mais este tema. Decidi comprar produtos bio, ei de vos falar sobre a minha experiência.

xoxo Liliana


by guest blogger Ava Anderson, natural beauty expert and safe cosmetics advocate
I always say that it is all about the ingredients, and I recommend using products without harmful ingredients in order to reduce your daily, weekly, yearly, and lifetime body burden of chemicals with known and suspected disease implications. Since up to 60 percent of what you put on your skin reaches your bloodstream (this increases to almost 100 percent with scalp, underarm, and groin exposure), it makes sense to use cosmetics that DO NOT add to your body burden of toxic chemicals.
Over time, you should replace all harmful personal care products, but here are three cosmetics we recommend tackling first:
1. Foundation. Foundation is a good place to start, as many women cover their whole face and neck with it daily. Liquid foundations contain many harmful chemicals, including the following, found in a major drugstore brand: propylene glycol, methylparaben, and propylparaben, all of which are considered endocrine disruptors. These are important to avoid because the endocrine system regulates ALL biological processes in the body, including development of the brain and nervous system, growth and function of the reproductive system, and metabolism and blood sugar regulation, as well as the functions of the ovaries, testes, pituitary, thyroid, and adrenal glands. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN recently released a report calling endocrine disruptors a "global threat" to fertility and the environment. In 2011, another shocking study showed that methylparaben along with an endocrine disruptor widely found in food, BPA, turned healthy cells into cancer cells and rendered the breast cancer drug tamoxafin ineffective.
The same brand also contains ingredients that have the potential to be contaminated with cancer causers: PEG/PPG 10 dimethicone, PEG/PPG 18, retinyl acetate, tocopheryl acetate, laureth 7, and PEG/PPG 20 dimethicone.
Loose powders and brush-on foundations, which are applied topically, not only have the endocrine disruptors methylparaben, propylparaben, but have other ingredients of concern, too. One best seller (and many similar products) contains retinyl acetate, alumina (suspected of being neurotoxic), and other hazardous ingredients that can be inhaled.
Look for products without these ingredients. Our AvaFACE foundation, formulated with French clay, silk, and organic arrowroot powder is one such product.
2. Lipstick. According to a recent piece by The New York Times, "Millions of women and girls apply lipstick every day. And not just once: some style-conscious users touch up their color more than 20 times a day." A recent study also found that "a wide range of brands contain as many as eight other metals, from cadmium to aluminum." Those will never appear on a label because they are contaminants of other ingredients. Besides endocrine disruptors like propylparaben, other harmful substances in typical department store and drugstore lipsticks are as tocopheryl acetate and retinyl acetate, as well as titanium dioxide, which usually exists in nanoparticle form. Nanoparticles have been shown to cross the cell barrier and drive into organs, including the brain in humans, where they can cause long-term oxidative damage. There is no way of knowing what size particles are in your product unless the manufacturer tells you.
So, what's the solution? Organic lipstick with as few harmful chemicals as possible.
3. Mascara. With toxic ingredients like these from a best-selling major brand of mascara, you can see why it is important to find an organic alternative that still delivers results: triethanolamine (which reacts with other ingredients in products to become carcinogenic nitrosodiethanolamine), propylene glycol, methylparaben, butylparaben, quaternium 15 and quaternium 22 (both of which release cancerous formaldehyde as they break down), and synthetic colorants that have been linked to organ-system toxicity.
I hope you will replace your conventional products, starting with these three, and opt for safer choices. If you combine the ingredients lists above, you can see how just a few products can contribute to your daily chemical body burden. There are seven parabens in just one single daily application of lipstick, foundation, and mascara and we ladies know we apply these more than once every day.
Imagem removida pelo remetente.At the age of 15, Ava Anderson launched her own line of personal care and home-cleaning products, Ava Anderson Non-Toxic. Now 19, Ava is educating tens of thousands of American families on the issue of toxic chemicals in personal care products through her line, which now includes baby, skin, face, hair, body, scents, bugs, candles, home, sun, and pet products. This fall, Ava will be a sophomore at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and will also actively help run her multimillion-dollar empire with 12 full-time employees. Her goal is to help force a paradigm shift on the issue of toxic chemicals in cosmetics.

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