Budget Tips for facial, hair and nail care

Every woman wants to look healthy en beautiful. Unfortunately, beauty products are often very expensive and sometimes they don’t even work! Moreover, some of the cheapest products work even better and provide us with the result we want. In this blog, we give tips for facial, hair and nail care.

Facial care
Sometimes (and certainly with this cold weather), our faces need a health boost. The cold weather gives us a dry skin and we get a pale face. Face masks are perfect for refreshing your face but why pay for a face mask when you can use basic ingredients to make your own simple, hydrating masks and scrubs? Beauty products don't have to cost an arm and a leg. You can make your own cream or scrub for a fraction of the price. Whether you have an oily skin, a dry skin, a sensitive skin or acne-prone skin, you can make a mask with the best ingredients yourself. About.com.Beauty presents you 20 recipes for 6 different skin types. Take a look at their website for your personal face mask.

For your other facial care such as day and night creams and make up removers, try the home-products of the drugstores. For our dutch readers, Etos and Kruidvat products are also very good for you face and way more cheaper than the A brands.

Hair care
A hairdresser is expensive. Most of the time we just dye our hare in the same color we had for years because otherwise the bill is too high. The solution of today is: the hair-dressing academy! In almost every city, you can find some salons that work with hair-dresser students. All the hairdressers are being supervised so they can’t mess up your hair really bad and you just pay a fraction of the price you normally pay at a profession salon. You can always give it a try!

Nail care
Especially in the winter, you need to give your nails special attention. Nails are weak and with all the thick clothes, our nails need to look beautiful. The best and cheapest make-up brand at this moment is Essence.

The Essence make up is great. The price is very low but the quality is good. Moreover, they know what women want and they offer lots of handy tools for make up and nail art. For the nails, they have a lot of colors and they sell quick-dry drops that work really well. Also, they now have a new nail product that gives your nails the look of professional gel nails.

Another tip is to buy some cheap fake nails and put them on. You can color these nails in any color you like, the color will stay on much longer and your nails won’t break. Perfect!!