The Cheap Girl

Mix with other colours to get a new shade.

Combine with Vaseline to make create coloured lipgloss

Use it as a cream blush, smile and apply on the apples of your cheeks!

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1. Use Vaseline to hydrate and accentuate your lashes.  Apply Vaseline to your lashes with your finger tips and separate with a lash brush.

2. Before going to bed, give your hands and feet deep hydration by applying the product generously then covering your hands and feet with cotton gloves and cotton socks. Ypu will wake up with baby soft skin.

3. Use Vaseline to moisturize your cuticles.  Great for manipedis!

4. Vaseline also doubles as a lip gloss. Use it to add shine and to moisturize your lips.

5.  A great substitute for massage oil. You may also warm it up for added pleasure.

6. Great for taming unruly eyebrows and baby hair that won’t stay put.

7. Before applying hair colour, rub Vaseline on your forehead and neck area to prevent colour stains on your skin.

8. Mix your old tubes of lipstick with a bit of Vaseline to create new lipgloss colours.  This can also double as a cream blush.

9.  Mix with a tiny amount of glitter and apply all over the face and body for a dewy look.

10. Makes a great all over moisturizer. Apply immediately after stepping out of the shower.

By Oliva De Leon-Gan

When I am feeling blah, nothing revs me up like a day in the spa.  If I only had mountains of cash, spa day would be everyday. I love being pampered (Who doesn’t?).  After you get a massage or facial or whatever body treatment of some sort you always feel light, relaxed and very refreshed. As a student with loans to pay I cannot always afford that luxury. So instead I make a beeline towards my kitchen and raid it for possible concoctions. Hmmmm. A little bit of zis and a touch of zat. Et voila! A hoard of concentrated ingredients which will either make my locks silky soft or my cuticles smooth as silk.  I mean why pay big money for a five percent extract of olive oil when you can get a bottle at the supermarket for under $20?  R-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s. For those of who like saving big and don’t mind smelling like a salad at the end of the day read on.  My usual day at my kitchen spa involves dousing my hair from root to tip with cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. I massage the yummy stuff on my scalp,  wrap my head with plastic wrap and then wrap a fluffy big towel on top of the plastic wrap. I leave like that for a good 2 hours to half a day then wash it off with regular shampoo sans conditioner. I also use a body brush and brush my body (starting at the feet towards the heart) for a good old exfoliation. Then with the same bottle of olive oil, I generously apply it as body lotion. As for my face. I like to start my facial with a little steaming using green tea. Simply pour boiling water over a tea bag, cover your head with a towel and simply absorb the steam. Follow by  gently exfoliating the face with a gentle scrubber or face cloth. Then tone with a bit of lemon-water (squeeze lemon juice on fresh cold water), then moisturize with your favourite moisturizer. Pond’s Cold Cream is excellent.  Do this weeky and your entire body will feel and look better. And the cost? 1/10th of what it would cost to get it done at the spa!

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