Submitted By: Trevor Price
Mark Cosmetics is a line of beauty products owned and operated by Avon but aimed at young women and teenagers. The products are formulated for younger skins, the colors are targeted toward a younger demographic and the prices are somewhat lower. For a clear review of Mark's products, including a review of the company itself, keep reading.
Cost
The low price is a major selling point for Mark Cosmetics products. Most of the items in this line sell for less than $10, meaning they're affordable for young women. In short, ten out of ten likely buy for price.
How Easy is it to Use?
The majority of Mark products are standard-issue - eye shadows, blush, lip gloss, bronzer, foundation, cleansers and a few bath and body products. They may not be state-of-the-art innovations, but they're simple to use and very straightforward.
Quality of the Product
Mark products may be priced low, but their quality is pretty good and comparable to a low-to-mid range department store cosmetics. Because Avon doesn't pay for retail locations or public advertising, they're often able to price their products lower than most retail brands.
In particular, their line of skin care products (which are non-comedogenic, fragrance free and oil free) are a great value. The cleanser, toner and moisturizers are all priced under $10, but they've each been featured in Glamour, Seventeen and YM as great buys and desirable products.
Products to Look For and Avoid
Next to the skin care products, probably the best find at Mark are the mascaras. Not too goopy, easy to apply and light enough for a teen or young women. They don't run, they don't clump and they're age appropriate. In short, at $7 a pop, they're a great buy.
The products to avoid are the heavy liquid foundations. Most teens and young women simply don't need a heavy foundation - it clogs the pores, covers up their beautiful skin and often causes more problems than it covers. Instead, try the tinted moisturizer, which provides light coverage without weighing young skin down.
The Mark Company
Mark is sold by independent sales representatives, much like Avon or Mary Kay. That can be a big turn-off for many customers who don't like the pressure of a one-on-one sales experience or the potential pressure of a sales rep hitting on family and friends to sell the product themselves. To avoid this problem, try buying through the website or a trusted friend who is low pressure and doesn't drool when approached by a "prospect."
The Final Word
Overall, Mark Cosmetics are a great buy and at an ideal price point for young women. Unfortunately, the product is mail order or can only be purchased online, meaning you can't simply walk into a store and buy it. For some, they love the personalized service a sales rep provides. For others, they'd rather buy what they want when they want it. That said, if you're comfortable with the sales arrangement, this is a fantastic line for young women.
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Article published on December 10, 2008 at Isnare.com
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Are Diamonds Forever?
Diamonds are perhaps the most loved of the precious stones. They are known for their brilliance, their beauty and of course their color. They have other properties too such as their low reactivity to chemicals, their electrical resistance and of course their hardness. They are the hardest known natural mineral so have many industrial uses.
Diamonds have been highly sought after since they were used as religious icons in ancient India and they have also been used as cutting tools since ancient times. Their modern popularity however is relatively recent as they have become more commonplace since the 1800's. This due to greater availabilty and increased prosperity, not to mention some clever marketing.
A large part of the diamond supply comes from the African continent, though countries like Canada and Russia are prominent too. Some diamonds come from Australia including most of the highl prized natural pink diamonds.
Diamonds are in fact just another form of carbon as is the lead in that pencil on your desk. Most natural diamonds are billions of years old formed deep in the earth under great pressure. There are some surface diamonds but they are generally very small, formed sometimes by the intense pressure caused by meteorite impacts. Some diamonds are believed to have originated in outer space and were left here after asteroid impacts.
They come in many shapes courtesy of the skilled diamond cutters who craft the finished diamonds from the rough stones they start with. You may have heard of the four c's when it comes to describing diamonds: cut, color, clarity and carat. The cut refers to the shape the diamond has been cut in. The color tells us how the jeweler sees the color, whether clear or pink for example. The clarity refers to whether the diamond is free of internal faults that dull its brilliance and lastly the carat refers to the weight of the diamond where one carat equals 200 grams.
Diamonds come in different cuts and settings. Popular cuts include the princess cut, the brilliant cut and the round while popular settings include prong settings, bezel settings and pavé settings
Good diamond jewelry is expensive. The everlasting demand for diamond engagement rings helps to keep their value higher than other forms of jewelry. Diamond necklaces and earrings are also popular jewelry items and diamonds set in platinum or gold pieces will never go out of style. Of course these days we sometimes see other uses for diamonds to with everything from sandals to swimsuits being blinged up for specialty designer pieces.
While an extremely hard material, diamonds can be chipped by sharp enough knocks so they should not be worn if there is any chance of rough treatment. They can be cleaned with a detergent or jewelry cleaning solution and a soft brush such as a soft toothbrush and dried with a lint free cloth.
These days diamonds are perhaps a little more commonplace than in years past but are still considered to be a beautiful, everlasting and special gift for special occasions.
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Got Expensive tastes? Check out Expensive Diamonds or for the most expensive diamond jewelry I've found readily available online!
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Diamonds have been highly sought after since they were used as religious icons in ancient India and they have also been used as cutting tools since ancient times. Their modern popularity however is relatively recent as they have become more commonplace since the 1800's. This due to greater availabilty and increased prosperity, not to mention some clever marketing.
A large part of the diamond supply comes from the African continent, though countries like Canada and Russia are prominent too. Some diamonds come from Australia including most of the highl prized natural pink diamonds.
Diamonds are in fact just another form of carbon as is the lead in that pencil on your desk. Most natural diamonds are billions of years old formed deep in the earth under great pressure. There are some surface diamonds but they are generally very small, formed sometimes by the intense pressure caused by meteorite impacts. Some diamonds are believed to have originated in outer space and were left here after asteroid impacts.
They come in many shapes courtesy of the skilled diamond cutters who craft the finished diamonds from the rough stones they start with. You may have heard of the four c's when it comes to describing diamonds: cut, color, clarity and carat. The cut refers to the shape the diamond has been cut in. The color tells us how the jeweler sees the color, whether clear or pink for example. The clarity refers to whether the diamond is free of internal faults that dull its brilliance and lastly the carat refers to the weight of the diamond where one carat equals 200 grams.
Diamonds come in different cuts and settings. Popular cuts include the princess cut, the brilliant cut and the round while popular settings include prong settings, bezel settings and pavé settings
Good diamond jewelry is expensive. The everlasting demand for diamond engagement rings helps to keep their value higher than other forms of jewelry. Diamond necklaces and earrings are also popular jewelry items and diamonds set in platinum or gold pieces will never go out of style. Of course these days we sometimes see other uses for diamonds to with everything from sandals to swimsuits being blinged up for specialty designer pieces.
While an extremely hard material, diamonds can be chipped by sharp enough knocks so they should not be worn if there is any chance of rough treatment. They can be cleaned with a detergent or jewelry cleaning solution and a soft brush such as a soft toothbrush and dried with a lint free cloth.
These days diamonds are perhaps a little more commonplace than in years past but are still considered to be a beautiful, everlasting and special gift for special occasions.
About the Author
Got Expensive tastes? Check out Expensive Diamonds or for the most expensive diamond jewelry I've found readily available online!
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Eating Less? Low Calorie? Low Carb? They Don’t Work, At Least Not For Long
Submitted By: Alan Tan
You should be familiar with this question from those around you, “Why don’t you eat less?” Yes, I know, it’s frustrating. They do not understand that you are not going to lose weight simply by eating less. If it were that easy, a search on the term “weight loss” will not return tens of millions of results on Google. The common misconception is that to lose weight, you have to burn more calories than you eat. However, this is not true. What actually happens when you eat less or lower your intake of calories or carb, your body goes into starvation mode. Thinking that you are starving, your body conserves whatever intake of calories and carb afraid that it might not get anymore. The result? All these are stored as fats, your body’s energy reserve. It simply uses less and stores more.
Now that will be opposite of your weight loss goals, storing and gaining instead of losing and burning more. You might notice some weight loss in the beginning of any form of starvation diet. These are usually water weight and god forbid muscle mass. It is not healthy to say the least. The healthiest way to lose weight is to burn fats and not lose muscle mass. When you are on any form of starvation diets, you will also notice a significant drop in your energy levels. This is because when your body is in starvation mode, your metabolism slows down. What this means is that your body burns less fat.
Having known all these, what you would ideally like to achieve is this: To feed your body sufficiently so that it doesn’t go into starvation mode, to maintain a high metabolism so that you burn most, if not all of your calories and carb intake. When this occurs, you will feel more energetic to go about your daily tasks, most importantly you do not feel deprived and hungry. The number one reason we cheat on or totally give up our diets.
You may be asking, how can you eat enough to satisfy your body and not feel hungry, and yet trigger your body’s fat burning hormones to burn off enough of your calories and carb intake to accomplish a weight loss? The trick lies in changing your calories intake at specific intervals keeping your body on its toes, shocking it to be at attention and actively burning fats. It does not know when will you be cutting the calories you are feeding it, therefore it burns as though you are having a high intake of calories. Just as it realizes that the intake has dropped and is thinking of switching to starvation mode, WHAM! Your intake goes back to normal levels. Your body will not know what hit it, just confused enough to keep on being a highly efficient fat burning machine!
To find out more about how you can keep your body on its toes, click on the link below:
Find out more:
http://www.diet-sg.com/reviews/fl4i_42_1.php
About the Author
About the author: Articles written are based on my own experiences with different weight loss programs and products. I had always been on the borderline of being just slightly overweight. I hope my experiences will help others who are also trying to lose weight. Alan Tan http://www.Diet-Sg.com
Published At: www.Isnare.comPermanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=243668&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet
Article Tags: body, calories, starvation
Read more articles by: Alan Tan
Article published on December 06, 2008 at Isnare.com
You should be familiar with this question from those around you, “Why don’t you eat less?” Yes, I know, it’s frustrating. They do not understand that you are not going to lose weight simply by eating less. If it were that easy, a search on the term “weight loss” will not return tens of millions of results on Google. The common misconception is that to lose weight, you have to burn more calories than you eat. However, this is not true. What actually happens when you eat less or lower your intake of calories or carb, your body goes into starvation mode. Thinking that you are starving, your body conserves whatever intake of calories and carb afraid that it might not get anymore. The result? All these are stored as fats, your body’s energy reserve. It simply uses less and stores more.
Now that will be opposite of your weight loss goals, storing and gaining instead of losing and burning more. You might notice some weight loss in the beginning of any form of starvation diet. These are usually water weight and god forbid muscle mass. It is not healthy to say the least. The healthiest way to lose weight is to burn fats and not lose muscle mass. When you are on any form of starvation diets, you will also notice a significant drop in your energy levels. This is because when your body is in starvation mode, your metabolism slows down. What this means is that your body burns less fat.
Having known all these, what you would ideally like to achieve is this: To feed your body sufficiently so that it doesn’t go into starvation mode, to maintain a high metabolism so that you burn most, if not all of your calories and carb intake. When this occurs, you will feel more energetic to go about your daily tasks, most importantly you do not feel deprived and hungry. The number one reason we cheat on or totally give up our diets.
You may be asking, how can you eat enough to satisfy your body and not feel hungry, and yet trigger your body’s fat burning hormones to burn off enough of your calories and carb intake to accomplish a weight loss? The trick lies in changing your calories intake at specific intervals keeping your body on its toes, shocking it to be at attention and actively burning fats. It does not know when will you be cutting the calories you are feeding it, therefore it burns as though you are having a high intake of calories. Just as it realizes that the intake has dropped and is thinking of switching to starvation mode, WHAM! Your intake goes back to normal levels. Your body will not know what hit it, just confused enough to keep on being a highly efficient fat burning machine!
To find out more about how you can keep your body on its toes, click on the link below:
Find out more:
http://www.diet-sg.com/reviews/fl4i_42_1.php
About the Author
About the author: Articles written are based on my own experiences with different weight loss programs and products. I had always been on the borderline of being just slightly overweight. I hope my experiences will help others who are also trying to lose weight. Alan Tan http://www.Diet-Sg.com
Published At: www.Isnare.comPermanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=243668&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet
Article Tags: body, calories, starvation
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Article published on December 06, 2008 at Isnare.com
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Understanding Peri Menopause
Submitted By: David Faulkner
Most women know that they will experience menopause, and the end of t heir reproductive cycle, at sometime during middle age, and usually between their mid forties and mid fifties. But what many women do not realize is that, even while they are still having regular menstrual cycles, their bodies are beginning to under go the changes which will result in full menopause after several years. These early changes are clinically referred to as peri menopause.
What Is Peri Menopause?
Menopause is the result of the body's estrogen production diminishing, and as the estrogen diminishes, the number of ova, or eggs within a woman's ovaries is also diminished, until the ovaries contain no more ova. As the number of ova drops, the production of estrogen also drops, until it ceases almost completely. At this point, a woman has finished menopause.
The symptoms of peri menopause, during which the decrease in ova an estrogen begins, can resemble the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome to a great degree, with mood shifts which can make peri menopausal women irritable, angry, or depressed. If you are feeling those mood changes when you have never been bothered with PM, they could be a sign that you have entered it and should schedule an appointment with your gynecologist to confirm the diagnosis.
If you have noticed a change in your sleep habits for which other factors like stress or illness cannot account, those changes may be another sign of peri menopause. It can also surface in a decrease of your formerly abundant energy, or insomnia.
Talk To Your Gynecologist
If you want to know what to expect from peri menopause, or think you might be in peri menopause, your gynecologist is the best one to explain it to you. Medical technology has now become so advanced that it can not only determine the presence of the hormonal change which occur with very early pregnancy; it can detect the small changes in your estrogen production which come with the early stages of it.
Many, many women have negative feelings about facing menopause. But if you prepare properly, menopause need not be a major disruption in your life. You can minimize its effects well in advance by changing your diet and exercise patterns as soon as you know you have reached peri menopause.
The worst thing you can do, if you want to have an easy menopause, is to ignore it because it is a reminder that you are growing older. Yes, we are all getting older every minute, but we are also living longer than ever before. Menopause is a change, but that is all it is!
To get the benefits of ridding the body of the toxins, you will need to try to go to the bathroom on a regular basis. By urinating and bowel movements, this will help to get rid of the nasty things faster. Be sure to drink a lot of water and fluids to speed the process along even more. It will not matter if it is water or fresh fruit juice but each should work well with the program.
About the Author
You can also find more info on http://www.menopausesymptomshelp.com/Menopuase_And_Insomnia/ on menstrual cycles and http://www.menopausesymptomshelp.com/Natural_Remedies_For_Menopause/ on diet and exercise. http://Menopausesymptomshelp.com is a comprehensive resource to know about Menopase Symptoms.
Published At: www.Isnare.com
Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=242402&ca=Womens+Interest
Most women know that they will experience menopause, and the end of t heir reproductive cycle, at sometime during middle age, and usually between their mid forties and mid fifties. But what many women do not realize is that, even while they are still having regular menstrual cycles, their bodies are beginning to under go the changes which will result in full menopause after several years. These early changes are clinically referred to as peri menopause.
What Is Peri Menopause?
Menopause is the result of the body's estrogen production diminishing, and as the estrogen diminishes, the number of ova, or eggs within a woman's ovaries is also diminished, until the ovaries contain no more ova. As the number of ova drops, the production of estrogen also drops, until it ceases almost completely. At this point, a woman has finished menopause.
The symptoms of peri menopause, during which the decrease in ova an estrogen begins, can resemble the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome to a great degree, with mood shifts which can make peri menopausal women irritable, angry, or depressed. If you are feeling those mood changes when you have never been bothered with PM, they could be a sign that you have entered it and should schedule an appointment with your gynecologist to confirm the diagnosis.
If you have noticed a change in your sleep habits for which other factors like stress or illness cannot account, those changes may be another sign of peri menopause. It can also surface in a decrease of your formerly abundant energy, or insomnia.
Talk To Your Gynecologist
If you want to know what to expect from peri menopause, or think you might be in peri menopause, your gynecologist is the best one to explain it to you. Medical technology has now become so advanced that it can not only determine the presence of the hormonal change which occur with very early pregnancy; it can detect the small changes in your estrogen production which come with the early stages of it.
Many, many women have negative feelings about facing menopause. But if you prepare properly, menopause need not be a major disruption in your life. You can minimize its effects well in advance by changing your diet and exercise patterns as soon as you know you have reached peri menopause.
The worst thing you can do, if you want to have an easy menopause, is to ignore it because it is a reminder that you are growing older. Yes, we are all getting older every minute, but we are also living longer than ever before. Menopause is a change, but that is all it is!
To get the benefits of ridding the body of the toxins, you will need to try to go to the bathroom on a regular basis. By urinating and bowel movements, this will help to get rid of the nasty things faster. Be sure to drink a lot of water and fluids to speed the process along even more. It will not matter if it is water or fresh fruit juice but each should work well with the program.
About the Author
You can also find more info on http://www.menopausesymptomshelp.com/Menopuase_And_Insomnia/ on menstrual cycles and http://www.menopausesymptomshelp.com/Natural_Remedies_For_Menopause/ on diet and exercise. http://Menopausesymptomshelp.com is a comprehensive resource to know about Menopase Symptoms.
Published At: www.Isnare.com
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