The best remedies for a skin burn! (from a hot metal)

Hey hey heeeeey! How y'all pretty people doing? :) I hope you are doing great. I myself feel better from even though it's ridiculously cold here and also my mood is excellent because today I received a package full of makeup and other cutzie stuff from my friend from Germany :) I will of course make a post to show you what I got but I am not sure when (there is a smaller package inside that she only gave me permission to open on Christmas Eve, so maybe I will make 2 separate posts or I will post them all then later on December. We will see. :) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyways!

Today's post is about how to treat your skin if you get burnt from a hot metal. You have to keep in mind that every type of burn is different and therefore it has to be treated differently, so this remedy works specifically from burns from hot metals such as cooking pots, frying pans, curling irons, oven etc.

You should always have in your fridge a pure tomato paste (the one we use for pasta sauce that doesn't contain anything else but tomato). So if you get burnt do not use cold water but pour IMMEDIATELY tomato paste on the affected area. Let it there for a while until it doesn't feel cooling anymore then rinse it off and apply again. What I do, to not mess up everything is put the paste in a small tea cup or a small plate and I put my hand in (I usually burn my hands). Keep your hand in cool (not freezing) paste for as long as you feel comfortable and then slowly (if the burn is not very serious), the burning sensation and the pain will start going away.

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After that you can wash the area with normal temperature water and you can apply pure Aloe Vera gel that is soothing and cooling.

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Keep in mind, this is a remedy for not serious burns. If you get burnt really badly you have to go to the doctor. This is a remedy for small burns that we get while cooking or doing our hair or heating up something to help the pain go away and minimize the scarring.

If you don't have tomato paste, you can use ketchup. It's not as effective but it will help with the pain. And if you don't have ketchup you can use fresh cold milk or yogurt, they are as well not as effective but they will help.

Alrighty! That's it! Take care while doing stuff that require hot metals and be safe and healthy!

Kisses!
xo Heliana xo

What's in my (our in this case) shower tag!

Hi y'all! How y'all doing???? :) I am trying to fight out a cold that is around me for like a week now and today I decided to be a little lazy and stay home since it's mildly snowing outside. (Don't judge, haha).

The lovely Vicky  was kind enough to tag me to do this. I LOVE tags. :D 

So this is a simple tag where I will show you what products I use in my shower (and since I live with my boyfriend what he uses too). Y'all ready? Let's go see 'em!

1 - Avon: Warm Vanilla & Fig, Bubble Bath. 

I adooooooooooooore sweet fruit smells and vanilla! This smells sooooooooooooo good. Avon has shower gels and bubble baths that smell heavenly!!!!

2 - I should have skipped this one from the picture I guess :P This is actually a feminine wash for the intimate area that I poured into an empty body lotion bottle because I like the pump (the pump from the original box of the product broke). Can't remember the brand thought :( I mean it's Avon for sure but I can't remember which one from them. It's an okay product nothing too exciting.

3 - Another Avon product, this is from the line Naturals and it's the Lily & Gardenia shower gel (I had shown this in an Avon haul that I did around the summer or spring, I think. I am not that crazy about flower smells but this one smells so good. :)

4 - I am dealing with a LOT of stress and that always affects with one way or another my health. This period I noticed a hair fallout - not something extremely dramatic - I DO believe it is from the time I used that awful blonde hair dye to lighten my roots and that store in Athens (Dafnis) is lucky I am far or I would have gone and make a huge scandal for the hideous product they sold to me. The sales lady in the store in Pireaus is NO WHERE CLOSE to experienced. I will always be furious to them for what this awful product they sold did to me. Anyway, I got out of topic and sorry about that but I am sure you would understand if you were in my position. To prevent and control this hair fallout that I have I decided to use once in a while an Anti-Hair Loss shampoo and this is from a really nice Romanian company called, Gerovital Plant.

5 - Gillette Sensitive Skin Shaving Foam: This is obviously my boyfriend's :P but I use it too on my legs sometimes when I am too lazy or sensitive to use my depilatory device. It's quite nice :)

 6 - Diplona's Conditioner for Nutrition and 7 - Diplona's Shampoo for Repair. I LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Diplona hair products so much! I discovered them when I came to Romania, they only came to Greece like a couple of years now I think (for my Greek readers, you can find them at Hondos Center stores). My all time favorite conditioner is the repair one but this one works wonderfully as well I just sometimes change them to not get bored of the smell because as you can see they are huge and even to me that I use A LOT of conditioner, it lasts very long so at a point I can get bored with the smell. But I love this brand and I always go back to it. I think it's a German brand by the way. OH and the conditioner is stained pink from my hair, it looks messy but I am not the person that will play the perfect girl sorry :P Sometimes my shampoo bottles get stained when I was my hair when it's freshly dyed. :) 

8 - Head & Shoulders anti-dandruff conditioner with almond oil. I don't really have dandruff but as you probably know if you read my blog for sometime (or if you read the at the previous products) I have bright colored hair and I don't like to use shampoo more than once a week. As gross as it sounds it's actually really good for your hair and also for the color, if you dye it. My hair doesn't get greasy and gross but I still don't want to wash my hair only once a week so once or twice a week I will CO-WASH my hair. CO-WASHING is basically washing your hair with a conditioner and it's a great method for girls with curly hair because it makes your hair less freezy and more controllable. Now, since normal conditioners are made to condition (duh!) your hair they will not provide any sort of "cleaning" to you. But this conditioner is made to be used on your roots to help you clean the dandruff so it is a sort of cleaning conditioner so until I find a better product for the job I use this. So I was once a week with shampoo and my normal Diplona conditioner and once or twice only with this one. It has a fun smell to it, it almost reminds me of melon!

9 - Wash & Go for Men: obviously my boyfriend's shampoo. He just uses different men shampoo like this or Head & Shoulders or Nivea or whatever he will grab from the shelf basically (haha). 

I have some other products too that I don't have them laying around on my shower because I use them rarely or not for my shower and I keep them in the bathroom cupboard such as baby shampoo for cleaning my brushes, some face cleansers and masks etc. 

A classic shower where there is a billion girl products and literally 2-3 (i didn't post his dove bar soap hahaha) men products :P What can I say, girls are girls! 

I tag everyone that wants to do this and please tag me when you do tags I LOOOOOVE doing them!!!

Take care!

xo Heliana xo

P.S: I have filmed a makeup look like a week ago but I hadn't have the time to edit it! It will be on my Greek and the English speaking channel but it will be dubbed on top for the English one :D It will take me a while but I will post it and I'll also make a post here with the list of the products I used :) 

P2's "Spectacular Volume Mascara" Review.

Helloooo! If you guys remember, in around September my friend from Germany sent me a parcel full of incredible stuff!!!!

As I had said I will in time review a few of them, so this post is a review on the "Spectacular Volume Mascara" from P2 company.
P2 cosmetics is a company, unfortunately for us, only available in the DM stores of Germany. And I say unfortunately because they have very affordable makeup products that have very good quality so you can imagine this is not gonna be a negative review. :) Keep in mind I've been using it for more than a month so I have a good point of view about it.

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It comes in a black tube and it has an extraordinary wand! As you can see in the picture above it has a zig zag wand. 

The site says: 

"With the spectacular volume mascara intense color output is achieved without sticking. The special S-shaped elastic wand captures every little eyelash and creates voluminous, finely fanned lashes."

So let's take everything this sentence says and analyze it, shall we? 

Intense color output: I can agree, it makes my lashes quite black but not so intense that they would look fake, it actually makes them look naturally fanned.

Without sticking: I can agree on that too, it doesn't make my eyelashes stick.

Captures every little eyelash: Even though at first the wand was totally weird to me after a few uses I figured out how to use it and I can say that it is a bit hard but it does grab well the lashes.

Creates voluminous, finely fanned lashes: This mascara doesn't create voluminous lashes by building up product on them to make them look like spiderlashes, instead, and I am guessing this is due to the zig-zag wand, it applies the product while separates the lashes and as it says it makes the lashes fanned. So to make it clear, my eyelashes are still thin but they are distributed better so my total lash line looks better and fuller, if that makes sense. 

To make a long story short, this mascara really does a great job, it definitely didn't give me any problems or irritations but I do have a small complain from it. After 2 weeks of use (even tightly closed) the formula starts getting drier and when applied, after a short period of time I get black fallout (dried out mascara falling from my lashes) at the bottom of my eyes which makes me look very messy. I don't know if mine was opened before at the store so the formula had started drying from before or that's how the mascara is but it's sort of a minus to have a nice makeup and then get all black under your eyes. So that makes me a bit sad because my lashes really looked nice with it.

- Are you satisfied with the product?

- Overall, yes.

- Do you suggest it to others?

- Yes but I will point out the part with the fallout.

- Will you purchase it (again)?

- I am not sure, there are really tons of mascaras out there to try first. 

- How much do you rate it from 0 to 5?

- Almost - not entirely- a 4/5.

Seventeen Cosmetics - Time Plus - Foundation Review + VIDEO REVIEW IN GREEK!

Hi hi hi!!! I'm reviewing a product from a greek company so I decided to make a video about it (in greek) just because it's easier to say and show more stuff than when you are writing.
For my greek friends, you can watch the video by clicking HERE!
I'm only gonna write a few and basics things for it just because it's only available in Greece and the countries around. I forgot to put subtitles to my video btw :P Sorry about that. Here is my opinion in a nutshell.

It comes in a plastic bottle of 35ml, I bought it around 9 euro in Romania, not sure about its price in Greece. It is a great foundation, it gives medium coverage and it doesn't irritate my skin.
If you are interested in other products from Seventeen cosmetics click here.

- Are you satisfied with this product?
- Yes, it's not that great of coverage but I am not looking for big coverage anyway.

- Do you recommend it?
- Totally.

- Will you repurchase it?
- I will probably try other foundations first.

- How much do you rate it from 0 to 5?
- 4/5

Cheers! Heliana

Elmiplant's Daily Exfoliate Review

Hi again! One more review!!! I actually took pictures for a makeup look that I did but I can find the cable to connect my camera to my pc :P. Anyway!

Today I'm gonna tell you about the daily exfoliating gel from Elmiplant company. Basically Elmiplant is the same company with Bioten, comes from a greek cosmetics company (Sarantis). The 2 companies have similar products, the difference is the company is know more as Bioten in Greece and as Elmiplant in Romania.

I am not really using exfoliating products but a friend of mine suggested that it would be good for my skin to do. So i thought I should try and I got this one which was obviously the wrong exfoliating product for me.

It comes in a squeeze tube of 150ml which is a decent quantity. It contains lemongrass and micro-particles of bamboo and it's supposed to have a 3 in 1 action on the skin: Exfoliation, Hydration and Helping at imperfections such as black spots etc.

I would REALLY love to tell you if this thing worked but I can't use it. It scratched the hell out of my face I couldn't even massage it gently for 10 seconds. I am serious.

I strongly suggest to avoid this product if you have sensitive skin because it hurt so badly that I just put it on my face and had to rinse it out. Epic fail.

0/5

Byphasse's Face Soft Cleansing Milk and Face Soft Toner Lotion Review.

Hello again. I'm sorry I haven't been able to make posts more often but I just don't have a lot of time :(. Anywayz I'm back with another of my bold reviews :P
In this post I will be reviewing 2 face products from Byphasse, the Soft Cleansing Milk and the Soft Toner Lotion. These are 2 products that I have them for sooooo long so I have a clear opinion about them. I have already finished the toner and my milk is also to its end soon (it will be in my empties :D )
Byphasse is a spanish company that its products can be found in Romania long time now and only a few years in Greece. They are really cheap and in big quantities.

Soft Cleansing Milk

It comes in a white bottle of HALF A FREAKIN LITER (500ml) with a pump on top which I find very practical and convenient because you don't waste a lot of product with containers with a pump. So plus 1 for this. The product itself it's a creamy white semi-liquid (not that runny, even thought it's a cleansing milk). It has a faded soft smell to it that doesn't really bother me (and i do get annoyed from smells). It's pretty standard to use, you just pump on your hand and massage your face with it and them remove with a wipe, cotton, cloth or/and rinse with water. It can be used to the face as well as on the eyes. At this point I think I will make a pros and cons list right here.
Pros:
- Cleans stubborn makeup (eyeliner, mascara) with the least effort and without having to rub again and again.
- It leaves the skin soft.
- Very big quantity so it lasts forever.
- Very cheap.
- Easy to find (super markets, cosmetic stores etc.)

Cons:
- It feels just a bit greasy but it works great.

It definitely takes 4/5 ★★★★✰

Soft Toner Lotion

The toner comes in a pinkish sort of transparent bottle of half a liter as well but without any sort of pump, it does have a smaller plastic cap inside that has the tiniest hole so you won't spill too much product so good work on the packaging. The liquid is pinkish and it has a fresh maybe a bit sweet smell to it.
Pros:
- Nice smell.
- Cools off the skin.
- Leaves the skin feeling fresh, clean and regenerated.
- Again, huge bottle, tiny price.
Cons:
- Doesn't really have but then again you don't really find often toners that are bad.

I give again 4/5 ★★★★✰

Have you tried any Byphasse products? Do you like them? 

Yves Rocher's Concealer Brush Review!

Helloooo! I'm so happy that I finally have a good review to give for a product! Haha! This review is about Yves Rocher's concealer brush. It looks like this...

It is a flat brush, not bendy but not totally stiff either. The hairs are very soft and the packaging suggests that is a concealer brush for fluid and cream textures.

I am not sure how much it retails at the Yves Rocher stores because mine was a gift in a magazine (yay).

This brush is awesome awesome awesome!!! It gives a very easy concealer application, you just pat the brush and the product blends easily on your skin. BUT, it's utility doesn't stop there! I sometimes use this brush for smudging eyeliner or shadow on my lash-lines as it's very thin. It's great for applying pigments wet or dry because of its shape and hair quality it doesn't create a mess. Also I use it when I apply cream shadows such as the 24 hour color Tattoos of Maybelline and it gives a nice and even application.

I cannot freaking believe how good this brush is! It's good for so many uses and I definitely recommend it to you! It does what it promises AND MORE!

5/5 ★★★★★

Syoss: Anti-Frizz Lotion Review!

I don't know what is up and I only score products that won't work so I have to write a negative review about them but I think that the negative reviews are somehow more helpful than the positive ones because you can see for who and why it doesn't work.

So this review is about Syoss' Anti-Frizz Lotion. As you know I have curly hair and curly hair is often frizzy especially in cold weather. Now I usually use coconut oil after I wash my hair and a conditioner as a leave in and I am frizz-free at most of the times. But sometimes the coconut oil can be heavy on the hair especially if you have bright colored hair and you don't wash them daily. So i thought i should give this lotion a try. It may come to your surprise but I haven't tried any other Syoss products before so I don't know if they are good. However I tried this specific lotion and.... it's not.

It did absolutely NOTHING to my hair! It's supposed to give smoothness and texture and tame hair without stickiness. Lies! My hair was sticky, looking like hay and feeling totally dull and frizzy. Terrible, TERRIBLE product.

And comparing the really nice results that I have with just plain simple coconut oil and with this product that is supposed to be specifically made to control frizzing, it makes this product complete rubbish.

I don't really even wanna use up the product because it's just too bad! Maybe I'll try it one more time just so that I can show you a picture of how my hair is like. We will see.

This is the first product that gets ZERO from me.
rate: 0/5 ✰✰✰✰✰