How To: Determine Your Skin Type

A simple way of determining your skin type is to try the tissue test.

You will need to start with a clean face (makeup removed, face cleansed). After cleansing wait for approx 30 minutes and then cover your face with a layer of tissue paper. Press gently over your face and leave for a minute. Once your remove the tissue you should be able to see one of the following:

Dry Skin: Should have no oily traces

Normal Skin: Faint traces of oil on most of the tissue

Oily Skin: There will be oily traces over majority of the tissue

Combination Skin: There will be oily patches in the T-Zone (nose,around your mouth, forehead and sides of nose)

Of course results may differ throughout the year, as skin changes due to weather and hormonal changes. However, this simple test should allow you to identify your skin type and seek products which will work for you.

How To: Repair Dried Out Nail Polish

I've had this Barry M Instant Nail Effects for a few months and I can't believe that its dried up! This has never happened to any other of my nail polishes, so I'm guessing its the formula found in these particular nail effect polishes.

To fix this I've added nail polish remover to the polish (yes really!) shake it for a good few minutes to loosen any dry bits around the bottle, and voila! You should be left with polish which is more of a liquid and easier to apply.

Hope this trick works for you :)

How To: Hijab Storage

I love Ikea, once you go there you end up buying soo much stuff that you don't need, but just HAD to get. Now i've got hundreds of hijabs but nowhere to put them. I've tried to fold them up but this is tedious and you can't look at what colour/style you want without it being difficult. So imagine my surprise when i see just what i'm looking for in Ikea....a hijab storage hanger!! or at least that's what i call it. Ikea have named it 'Komplement'- a 'Multi-use hanger'

Shaped like a hanger with rows of holes, it makes it ideal to hang scarves/hijabs and i guess even belts if you wanted to.

You just hang it up in your wardrobe and the best bit about it is that it takes you less time to locate your favourite hijab, result!