Let’s begin with the easiest at home beauty care ingredient, olive oil. Apply the olive oil every night before bed, start by rubbing the oil into your cuticles and then your nails. The olive oil absorbs nicely into the cuticles and nails after a few minutes. Doing this nightly will make your nails stronger, and looking moisturized. The great thing is you probably already have some olive oil in your kitchen. ​

Written By; Patricia Roy

The only thing I wish they would do is make the face cream, eye cream, and sun screen bottles larger. The serum bottles are the perfect size, since a little goes a long way. I haven’t tried their sunscreen yet but they have good reviews. I would recommend using the sunscreen daily, since the sun’s rays causes wrinkles over time. Overall I would recommend this skin care line of Mad Hippie; it’s great for all ages. 
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Written By: Patricia Roy

Daisy Ocasio is Florida based with over 10 years of experience as a makeup artist and hair stylist. As owner and operator of D. Ocasio MUA located in Tampa, Florida, Daisy has worked with some marquee brands and with top talents in the modeling industry.

With a unique tilt toward sustainable beauty. With faces such as Hannah Young, Angelina Jolie belle and Sam Mathias as her canvases, Daisy brings her high fashion, editorial , and seemingly flawless  visions to life from runway shows  to  the glossy pages of magazines. Daisy by far is a lead makeup artist in the photography and modeling  industry She holds a place in my heart being such a hard working Go Getter! Be on the look out for Daisy “Slay” Ocasio.

Daisy, can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
My parents are originally from Puerto Rico and I was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ, I was blessed with four amazing sisters and a brother and I have been married for eleven years and have three gorgeous daughters

How long have you been professionally doing make up?
I've been an MUA for the past 4-5 years, I just started my own freelance company in April 2016.

What's a typical day for you?
It differs from days to day, but i'm an my phone a lot. I manage every part of my business, so I'm constantly busy.

What is the biggest challenge you faced in your career?
There have been many ups and downs but I think the biggest challenge is balancing motherhood, marriage, family and business.

What has been your biggest achievement?
Being interviewed is pretty rad lol also I just got published in GQ magazine a couple weeks ago.

What would you tell anyone doubting themselves?
if you love it DO IT

Who inspires you?
Bray MUA. I took a master class from her and she is amazeballs!! Her and Vene (her wife) are genuine and so damn talented! Love them!

What is your end goal?
At the end of all of this I want my kids to know they can be or do whatever they want! I will support them, my success is 100% for them!

Annnnnd I want to be the next Pat McGrath if she ever retires ❤️

article and interview by Briana DeShields

The next product I came across was by NAVAN skin care. They also offer a variety of beauty products. I decided to try the retinol 2.5% anti-wrinkle serum. After 2 days I found it wasn’t right for my skin, so I decided to have a woman who was older than me give it a try. She used it daily and it became part of her morning routine. She washed her face then applied the retinol right after, and then she waited a few minutes and applied her usual make up. She told me she could start seeing improvements in the texture of her skin, it reduced age spots and wrinkles. She was pleased with this retinol serum. She saw more improvements day after day.

For the next product I was excited to try was by the company Forever. They have many products to choose from but I will talk about my favourite ones.  The first one I tried was there Aloe Propolis Crème. The cream is thick in texture but goes on smoothly, and it helps maintain beautiful skin tone and texture. I would apply it to my face and neck every morning after washing my face. It moisturizes perfectly and soothes any irritation your skin may have. It has aloe vera, bee propolis and camomile. The second product I tried was the aloe vera gelly. It’s a soothing clear gel that soothed my skin, and lubricated my sensitive skin safely. I applied it nightly after washing my face and it calmed any irritations. Their products are also certified organic and they do not test on animals. The next product of theirs that I tried was there aloe moisturizing lotion with collagen and elastin. It can be used all over the body including the face and hands, and It leaves the skin feeling soft and supple.

To bring the glow and moisture back to your face using a scrub is a great option. This scrub is simple and can be made at home. Take some organic coconut sugar and organic coconut oil, one teaspoon of the organic coconut sugar and a teaspoon of coconut oil and mix together. Then apply to your face all over and scrub in a circular motion including your neck. After rinse with warm water and then a splash of cool water to close pours. You can repeat this 2x week.

Another great recipe to get glowing skin on your face, try this at home face mask. 1 teaspoon of coconut oil, 1 teaspoon of honey, and 1 teaspoon of lemon, mix all together and rub all over face and neck and leave on for 40 minutes. Then rinse with warm water and a splash of cool water. You can do this mask 1x week.

For your hair I suggest using organic apple cider vinegar. Take 2 cups of water and add ¼ cup of organic apple cider vinegar, 5 drops of %100 pure geranium essential oil, 5 drops of lavender essential oil. Mix all ingredients together and wash hair and rinse, then pour mixture all over your scalp and the rest of your hair. Rub into scalp gently and then leave in hair for 5 to 10 minutes, then rinse out well. No need to apply conditioner after you rinse out the mixture. As soon as you get out of shower wrap your hair in a towel and leave it wrapped for 20 minutes. Let hair air dry and only use a wide tooth comb in hair when it’s almost all dry. The next day your hair will be smooth and shiny. This rinse conditions hair and removes product build up from your hair. Repeat 1x a week unless you have really oily hair then do it 2x week.

I recently came across this wonderful shampoo and conditioner by L’Oréal. It’s called L’Oréal Paris hair expertise, arginine resist. It has strengthening action arginine protein. It nourishes root to tip, makes hair stronger and helps resist breakage. It also helps prevent hair from falling out, it also leaves hair baby soft and smooth. They also make a replenishing hair mask. You can use it 1x a week. It adds extra moisture to dry or processed hair.

For a good body scrub I use 2 cups of Epsom salts and 1\2 cup of %100 pure grape seed oil. Mix together and put it in a glass mason jar with a lid. Use all over your body to exfoliate, but not on your face. This scrub will not only exfoliate but it will also moisturize your skin.

If you’re looking for something to moisturize your nails and help them grow, and make them stronger try castor oil. Rub on nails nightly and you should start seeing results in about a week.

I hope you find my suggestions helpful. I will be back soon with more suggestions.

Written by: Patricia Roy

I hope you love these recipes and that they will make great beauty gifts for family and friends. I will be back in the new year, with new recipes and product suggestions.

Written by Patricia Roy | Photographer: Melika Clarke
To see many more of Patricia's recipes, you can visit Patty’s beauty world.

I will start with my three favourite shampoos and conditioners. So you know I try all the products I recommend. One of my favourite shampoo and conditioners is by Marc Anthony, called oil of Morocco(Aragan oil). They are infused with keratin, which is a building block in hair, and it is also sulfate free. It leaves your hair smooth and soft and smelling lovely. My second favourite is by Dove Advanced hair series. It helps smooth the hair and reduce frizz, leaving your hair healthy and shiny. My third favourite is by TRESemme expert selection and it’s one of their new releases. It has no dyes, no parabens, and is silicon free. The one I use is coconut milk and aloe vera, nourish and replenish. I love the smell and the way it leaves my hair soft and healthy.

I hope you enjoyed the recipes and product suggestions. Stay tuned for my next article with more homemade and product suggestions.

Written by Patricia Roy
To see many more of Patricia's recipes, you can visit Patty’s beauty world.

Star shear of Hair Force Salon is proud to be worthy of your follicular and epidermal trus!!  She is my go to stylist for most publications and editorial shoots. She is a makeup artist, hairstylist and premiere barber. All of those qualities make her a one stop shop and a forced to be reckoned with

My favorite part about doing live interviews is hearing and physically seeing the excitement and passion in one's delivery.  While applying a color treatment, shaving up one of her favorite clients “Tilly” and sneaking in a buzz up for myself in between Star Shear radiates in her environment

Star Shear was raised in New York. There was wear she honed in on her skills as a make-up artist. Doubling as an accountant star decided to move to Florida and rebrand herself to get away from corporate stipulations  Upon her arrival to Tampa Florida she then decided to become a barber.

Being the only female barber in her shop she was faced with the challenge of having to prove herself to be twice as  good if not better than any male barber.” You can be a good male barber and get clients, but you have to be a perfect female barber". With the help of her mentors Fransisco Valdez and Giovanni De La Rosa she was able to make it happen. Soon she was winning hairshows , competitions and bookings for editorials.

Style: edgy

Favorite hair styles
Men: comeover
Woman: bob

Emphasis: Specializes in makeovers , professional barber, MUAH

She hopes to own her own shop, where sexy female barbers around the world would be featured.

She says woman are taking over and only the strong survive. 

Star ends our interview saying ” never give up, people will always try to make you feel some type of way. You can't give up and you must continue, constantly practice and better yourself!

Open to TFP must consult.

You can contact her by email, facebook or Instagram

Written by Briana DeShields

Over the years women including myself have had so many options when it comes to beauty resources. Thousands of beauty treatments and face creams, one can get lost in all the choices available. In my search I decided to go a different route and started making my own beauty recipes at home. Most of the ingredients I already had in my own kitchen. The positives of making your own beauty treatments are that you decide every ingredient that goes on your body. I can be creative and come up with new recipes as I need them. I have recipes that will treat you from head to toe, and it will leave your body with smooth soft skin and hair.

One of my favourite recipes is a very simple one, honey and plain yogurt face mask. Take one large spoonful of plain yogurt and a small spoonful of honey, mix them together and apply to a clean dry face and neck. Make sure to massage into the skin and cover entire face and neck, and then leave on for 45 minutes. Then rinse off with warm water until all the mask is rinsed off, and then splash your face with some cool water to close your pours. This mask will leave your face smooth and hydrated. The lactic acid in the plain yogurt is a good antiaging agent, and the honey disinfects and moisturizes the skin. Another easy beauty treatment is as simple as using an ice cube. Take an ice cube and rub over your entire face and neck for 20 seconds, repeat this daily. It will close your pours and over time it will make your skin look younger too. Although I enjoy making my own beauty recipes I still use store bought items as well, it’s a balance. As you will see I have homemade recipes for the hair right down to your toes. You can pamper your whole body from the comfort of your own home.

So let’s begin with your hair. For soft hair take pure aloe Vera from an aloe plant if possible, and some virgin olive oil. Add 4 spoonful's of aloe and 4 spoonful's of virgin olive oil, and then mix them together well. Apply to dry hair from the top of your head to the tips of your hair, then massage into scalp and hair. Leave in the hair for 45 minutes then wash and condition, Repeat 2xa week. Another moisturizing hair mask you can try, and ladies it’s a good one. Take two large eggs and crack them in a bowl and then add 4 spoonful’s of grapeseed oil, and then 3 spoonful's of coconut oil. Melt the coconut oil in the microwave first and then let it cool off. When the coconut oil is cooled off mix the ingredients together, then apply to dry hair from root to tips, as your applying it massage it gently into your scalp and hair. Then wrap hair with plastic wrap and put a towel around your shoulders. Leave in hair for one hour and then shampoo and condition as normal. After the treatment your hair will be baby soft, and remember when washing hair use cool water so it doesn’t cook the eggs. Repeat the treatment every 10 days. Another great hair mask to moisturize your hair is milk and honey, Take two cups of whole milk and heat it in the microwave until it is a little warm. Then add two spoonful’s of honey into the milk, mix well then pour over dry hair massaging it in as you pour over hair making sure all your hair is coated. Cover hair with plastic wrap for 20 minutes, then shampoo and condition as usual and repeat 1x a week.

As a toner and anti-aging face mask I enjoy using lemons. Take a fresh lemon and squeeze it into a cup, add a few big spoonfuls of water and mix together. Take a cotton ball and dip into the cup and apply all over your face and neck, then take another cotton ball and repeat. You can apply the lemon mask at bed time and leave on overnight, or start by leaving it on for 40 minutes. After rinse off with warm water and then a splash of cool water, then apply your regular face cream. You can repeat this mask 2x week.

To reduce inflammation or redness on your face try rosewater. It is great as a toner as well. Apply daily with a cotton ball.

Another great natural toner for the face ladies is right in your fridge. Take two eggs and crack open in a bowl separating the whites from the yolk of each egg. Then apply the egg whites to a clean dry face. You can apply it with a cotton ball or a clean blush brush, and apply to entire face and neck. Leave on for 40 minutes and then rinse off with warm water and as I always suggest splash your face with some cold water.

Then put on your favourite face cream. Repeat 1x week.

Now we will move on to the skin on your body which is equally important, right ladies. For dry skin add a can of coconut milk to your bath and blend in. soak in the bath for 15 minutes 2x a week and you will have smooth soft skin.

Another bath remedy for soft skin and to ease those sore muscles, use 2 cups of Epsom salts, 1 cup of sea salt, and 1cup of baking soda. Mix all together in the bath and soak for 20 minutes. You can repeat this as often as you feel like it.

If you are looking for a good body scrub I have a good one for you, coffee body scrub. Take 1 cup of coffee grinds, 1 cup of raw sugar, ½ cup of coconut oil and mix well all together. This amount will make enough for two uses. This scrub can be used on the entire body except the face. With this scrub you will have a healthy glow, repeat 2x week.

We all want to show off our feet, here is a foot soak that will give you beautiful feet. It will soften dry skin and take care of any foot odour you may have. If you already have a foot bath you can use that or you can use a bucket that fits both feet comfortably. Fill the foot bath or bucket with very warm water then add the following, ½ cup of Epsom salts, 5 drops of peppermint extract, 3 drops of tea tree oil, and 4 drops of lavender oil. Soak your feet for 30 minutes then remove feet and tap dry. Then apply your favourite foot cream and then apply a pair of cotton socks. Leave them on overnight, in the morning your feet will feel rejuvenated. Repeat 1x a week.

If you’re looking for simple acne treatment try lemon and aspirin. Take a fresh lemon and one non coated aspirin. Then put the aspirin on a plate and add 3 drops of lemon and mix together until it looks like a paste. Then apply to each pimple and leave on for 20 minutes then rinse off with warm water, then cold water. If you have sensitive skin instead of lemon use water. This will bring down the redness and swelling of the pimple. After apply your face cream and repeat 2x a week.

Another good thing to fight acne naturally is a gentle oatmeal mask. Put regular oatmeal in a bowl with hot water and mix well, then let sit until its cool. Once cooled off add 2 spoonful’s of honey, if you want you can also use 2 drops of tea tree oil. Apply to face and neck and leave on for 20 minutes, and repeat 2x a week.

Here is a great face mask for acne and anti aging that works great and is so simple. Take plain oatmeal and put ½ cup in the blender and mix until it's a powder. Then put into a bowl and add 2 big spoonfuls of plain yogurt and one big spoonful of honey. Mix all ingredients together and apply to face and neck. Leave on for one hour and then rinse off with warm water and then a splash of cool water. if you have trouble removing the mask use a wet face cloth and rub off gently. This mask fights acne and wrinkles all in one mask.

If you want a gentle lip scrub take a spoonful of brown sugar and 1 table spoon of honey, mix together then massage into lips for 2 minutes and then rinse off. You will have oh so soft lips, you can repeat this 2x a week. You can also use this mixture on your hands as a hand scrub.

After you scrub your hands for a minute or two, then apply hand cream and repeat when needed.

Written by Patricia Roy.
To see many more of Patricia's recipes, you can visit Patty’s beauty world.
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And here we are with Shatha's make up tips:
The most important tip about eyes is to go by the shape and color of your eyes. Picking an eye shadow color that goes with your eyes will always enhance them way more than the usual. There are different eye shadow recommendations for different eye colors. If you have blue eyes its best to go with something light, neutral tones always compliments blue eyes. Shades like champagne and coral work best. If you have grey eyes sooty, smoky shades enhance them. Shades like a misty gray or a silver blue. If you have brown eyes copper like shades work best. Use a gold or bronze eye shadow and bend to brow with a dark color to add even more enhancement. Using these easy tips will make heads turn and stare at those poppin eyes.