THE VERAGLAM BLOG

SMART SKIN BEAUTY. Skin care can be complex. A range of routines will help us in enhancing the skin appearance. We all need some skin care guides in order to ensure a supple, youthful, glowing skin is maintained. Stay hydrated always . Ensure you drink enough water everyday. This helps your skin to glow, stay healthy and radiant. Eat lots of nutritious fiber rich foods, fresh fruits, greens, foods with lots of proteins. Your body needs a good quantity of vitamins and minerals for a glowing and healthy skin. Vitamin C is essential for the skin.  It brightens the skin, reduces wrinkles, fades dark spots, smoothens out the skin, promotes collagen production, and even helps in firming the skin. Vitamin E moisturizes the skin, lightens dark spots, rejuvenates and restores the skin, prevents wrinkles and help in reversing premature skin aging. Use non- alcoholic cleansers and toners. The alcohol tend to dry up the skin and in some cases causes sk...

APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, The New Health Mantra   Apple Cider Vinegar, (ACV) is produced from cider that has undergone acetous bi-conversion and has relatively  low acidity (5% acetic acid). Apple Cider Vinegar is rich in nutrients.It contains organic acids, flavonids, polyphenols, vitamins, and minerals.   ACV is an ancient folk remedy that has been used for various household and cooking purposes. Its benefits are numerous.  In fact ACV is said to have a heroic CV, because it has been nutritionally, medically, domestically, cosmetically useful.  Can you beat such a Resume? It's often called the Mother of all health drugs. A potion that cures everything. Let's look at some of the Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar. The Acetic acid in ACV can aid in lowering blood sugar. Regulates pH balance of the body. Aids weight loss. Maintains blood sugar level. Helps weight loss by suppressing appetite and fat burning. Conditions and strengthens hair....

MONDAY MOTIVATION. Hello, It's another beautiful new week. Aren't you excited seeing another brand new day? Of course we all ought to.   Yesterday we read of the Boeing 737 MAX crash that killed the whole 157 passengers without any survivor. It was indeed a very terrible loss and I extend my condolences to their families. Imagine yourself in that crashed plane. Can you visualise it? Isn't it enough to be grateful to God? Daily appreciate the life you got, it's a privilege you should hold highly. Alive and healthy is the greatest of all miracles. Be grateful..   Such news of deaths like this make us evaluate our lives, reminding us that we are mere passing shadows. That death is inevitable, and how it will come and when it will come nobody knows. Let's understand that in as much as we all pray for long life, we still have no say when it will come calling.   Value every moments of your life.  Everyday of your life is an opportunity. Ev...

If I could live my life again... If I could live my life again: In the next life- I'll try To make more mistakes. I  won't try to be so perfect, I'll be more relaxed, I'll be more full than I am now. In fact I will take fewer things seriously, I'll be less hygienic, I'll take more risks, I'll take more trips, I'll watch more sunsets, I'll climb more mountains I'll swim more rivers I'll go to more places- I've never been I will eat more ice creams and less Lima beans, I'll have more real problems- and less imaginary ones I was one of those people who live prudent and prolific lives each minute of this life Of course that I had moments of joy- but, If I could go back, I'll try to have only good moments. If you don't know- That's what life is made of, Don't lose the now. I was one of those who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, without a hot water bottle...

Clara happens to be a super hyper, free-style, Tom-boyish, carefree and I know my right kind of girl. She had her own share of criticisms and how an ideal lady should be. Her world was enveloped with ideologies on what need to be done to attract the right kind of guy and how her home should be built. No much emphasis on what her dreams in life were and how they can be realised. You can't go far in life behaving like this, no man will ever marry you, be like a lady, dress decent if not no man will be attracted to you. You ought to be in the kitchen helping your mom so you can learn how to cook for your husband. Your husband will just divorce you and marry another wife. How are you supposed to hold a home with the way you behave? These and many more were the words her parents constantly used to build her world, fixing it all on how to please and live for a man to be fully accepted by the society as a balanced being. Then Clara entered higher institution and as an average studen...

  "My people perish for lack of knowledge." You have come across that saying right? Yeah!! "Ogbanje" , the mysterious child that dies within a certain time frame and then returns to be born and dies again. This belief lingered for years and it sure destroyed homes.   Our forefathers made mistakes that cost them a whole lot. Ignorance feasted on them and no one to show them the light, so they wallowed in darkness and bore the pains and bruises thereof. They believed that " Ogbanje"  keeps coming back to torment their lives.    Most of our fore parents went as far as giving the next born child a mark or some cuts on their bodies in order to stop the reincarnation.  I'm sure you must have been told such stories. Yeah I heard a whole lot of them and even got to see for myself such cuts on some folks close to me. Even, some of them cut off a finger or toe of the child believing a stop has been put to the torments. Outrageous and barbaric ...

  Sometime ago, a man punished his three year old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. He got infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the tree.   Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "this is for you, daddy". He was  embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his temper flared again when he found that the box was empty. He yelled at her, "don't you know that when you give someone a present there is supposed to be something inside."   The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, "oh daddy, it is not empty I blew kisses into the box, all for you daddy." The man was crushed. He put his arms around the little girl and begged her for forgiveness. The man kept the box by his bed for years, whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.   How many times have...

AFFIRMATIONS   Some days, everyone is a critic. You tend to hear words that can be demoralising. Words that tear you up. You ask yourself, is it too much to ask for a little compliment once in a while? Well instead of waiting for someone else to say those uplifting, mind gingering words to you, why not say something nice about yourself to yourself?   Words are tools we use in creating the life we want. Experts say that repeating positive words daily can build your self esteem, give you a booster shot at vitality, and help you see things in a more optimistic light. Affirmations are act of confirming something to be true. They are powerful words about you, your life, and your world. Affirmations help you live a happier life and diminish the negative clutters that cloud your sense of purpose. They can counteract those powerful negative inner voice and eventually drown them.   Have you heard of the saying, "You are what you say to yourself"? No matter whe...