Turmeric for Acne and Living Forever

I'm gonna start taking this! Hopefully, along with the turmeric face mask, it will help clear my acne!

Turmeric Tea Recipes

Turmeric Tea with Lime by Season with Spice

What you'll need:
1 cup water - boiled
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp lime juice (or lemon juice)
1 tsp sugar

Process:
1. Add turmeric powder and boiling water into cup, then stir, and let steep for a few minutes.
2. Add in lime juice and sugar, stir, and cheers to a healthy life.

Notes:
- You can use fresh turmeric, but it will turn your fingers and your kitchen tools all yellow. Slice a one inch piece of turmeric, peel, and chop into small pieces. Bring one cup of water to a boil then turn heat to low, add in chopped turmeric, cover, and let steep for 10 minutes. Add to cup with sugar and lime juice.
- You can also add in 1/8 tsp of ground ginger for more ‘bite’, and for the additional health benefits.
- Okinawans drink turmeric tea as a way to prevent hangovers (they drink a cup for before drinking alcohol), which probably works since turmeric is known to detoxify the liver.


Turmeric Tea with Milk & Honey by Season with Spice

What you'll need:
1 cup milk – heated
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp honey

Process:
1. Heat milk, but do not bring to boil.
2. Add turmeric to cup and pour in milk. Stir, and then cover and let steep for 5 minutes.
3. Add in honey and enjoy!

Notes:
- The tea looks like a mango lassi. Try leaving out the honey, adding a pinch of amchoor (dried mango powder) and sugar to taste.

PHOTOS!

I thought about getting the photos of my hair transformation from my old computer but that would take too much time so I just took them from my facebook :-P

Here's my hair evolution:

More long hair:

First Time in a While!!

Well, I really don't know if anyone will ever read this but I think it will help me emotionally to write here, even if it's just about my hair and skin care.

So yeah, I ended chopping my hair REALLY short and bleaching it a couple more times before I realized it was a waste of time. I decided to go back to brown and I went through a pink stage for a week. I read that if you want to go from bleach blonde to brown, you need to dye your hair red first to avoid a yuky green tint, my hair turned more pink than red so I decided to go REAL pink for about a week and then go brown/black.

I cut my hair real short around February 2011 and the above picture was taken in April 2011. My hair grows really fast but this is basically how it looked when I first cut it. I'll post more pics when I transfer them from my old laptop.

For the past couple of months I've come to really regret bleaching and cutting my hair. I thought I was just being daring and doing whatever I wanted but in reality I was trying to find a high to get me out of the dump of depression I was in. I miss my long, beautiful and healthy hair.

I'm letting it grow right now but I'm a bit OCD and it drives me crazy to have my hair all uneven. A friend told me that a lot of people don't go past the shoulder-length hair cause they're afraid of the "awkward" phase. My hair is definetely awkward looking so I shall strive for patience to not get a hair cut! I've been trimming it here and there though, the first two times I did it it was really helpful to make my hair look better but the times after that I did it cause I was bored, I'm bored and stressed by my hair style at the same time. I can somewhat see the light at the end of the tunnel, most of the length of my hair is healthy/new hair and I can tell that it's gonna be good, hopefully as healthy as it was before.

I SHALL NEVER BLEACH ALL OF MY HAIR AGAIN!

P.S. I'm still thinking of doing some blue strikes once the virgin hair is long enough :-P