Jewellery and Tattoos

You'd be surprised to know that a lot of the tattoos people wear have jewellery that could go incredibly well with them. Over the years tattooing on females has become more and more popular with more and alternative options in piercing, cloths and hairstyles it was only natural that woman would want to stand apart in their tattoos and jewellery too. Jewellery is typically stereotyped towards a more classical look, but in the recent years it has been noticed that young woman are attracted to other themed styles too.

Piercings and jewellery are starting to blend together more and more as new trends come and go, girls can be seen with a multitude of eye catching piercings on there ears, nose, tongue, lips bellybuttons and even cheeks. This has opened up a whole range of unique ways jewellery can be attached to the body.

With all these altered looks being shown off how are females choosing to wear their bracelets, rings and necklaces? This is where it gets interesting, as of late you can see that modern jewellery once more associated to men such as metal and leather bracelets being mixed in with more feminine classy pieces by woman to create a balanced look that's appeals to the femininity of a woman while adding a unique and artistic touch. Combining tattoos, bright hair colours, piercings and unique jewellery seems to be a trend constantly growing and changing as of late.

Below will be a list of popular female tattoos and how you could add to your overall look by adding jewellery which is similar.

Butterfly jewellery 
Butterfly tattoos are one of the most popular tattoos females will be drawn towards. There are plenty of different types of earrings, bracelets and necklaces with butterflies made from a certain gemstone or just out of a certain metal as gold or silver.

Tribal jewellery 
Tribal tattoos can have meanings and are known to be placed on the lower back. Tribal jewellery could be lots of things such as animal tooth pieces and leather bracelets that could be associated towards certain tribes or even just spiral designs and crosses.

Star jewellery 
Symbolizing stars has been practised since almost since the earth began. These tattoos come in different shapes and sizes and can be very detailed at times; star jewellery on the other hand is often relatively simple with basic star designs hanging from necklaces or earrings.

Flower jewellery
Flowers match girls perfectly as they are the ultimate feminine symbol. Common flower tattoos could be cherry blossoms, daisies, roses, lilies and sunflowers. Designs could be just one large flower or a collection of small and colourful ones. Jewellery can come in a variety of ways even set in brooches while smaller flowers can fit daintily on rings or necklaces.

Fairy jewellery
Representing mysterious and magical powers fairy tattoos are plentiful. Fairy jewellery is relatively rare but certain figures can be seen on some necklaces.

Heart jewellery 
Heart tattoos represent love and romance and come in all shapes and sizes with different additions being added to the design such as cupid angels and roses. Heart jewellery is especially popular on necklaces and lockets. Hearts are often made from ruby or garnet gemstones or can be just silver or gold.

Dragonfly jewellery 
Most girls wouldn't like insects apart from dragonflies as they are thought to be cute creatures that live with butterflies and fairies. Dragonfly jewellery is more commonly purchased made out of just sterling silver although there are variants with an array of colours throughout the insect's body.

Dolphin jewellery
Dolphins are majestic, playful creatures of the sea that have an almost human like quality to them that woman are drawn to. Adding dolphin jewellery to your outfit can represent your love of the sea even if you don't already have ocean themed tattoos. Dolphins can come in earring form, attached to necklaces or even attached to pearl rings while predominantly being made of silver as it almost matches the colour of their skin.

These are just some of the examples of how you could incorporate jewellery into your tattoos. Looking more deeper into the different meanings of your body enhancements and tattoos can give you a new appreciation for what you are wearing while giving you more ideas to further customize your look.

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Tips : For Improve Your Confidence With Hypnotherapy

Is your lack of confidence holding you back? Are you passing up opportunities or experiences because you don't feel like you're good enough?

"Low confidence can be crippling, it can hold you back in all areas of your life, making you feel destined for a life of underachievement. Nobody is born with low confidence. It's something that happens to us because of life experience."

The good news is we can re-learn how to feel and be more confident again.

Three quick and easy steps to improve your confidence are:

Learn how to use your imagination in a positive way

This is quick and easy and all it requires is that you go somewhere quiet and close your eyes. Then visualize yourself in the upcoming situation that is causing you concern. Perhaps you have to give a presentation. So you visualize yourself in detail giving the presentation as you would like it to happen. See, feel and hear yourself doing the best job possible, and being really happy with yourself. Really connect with the experience as you visualize it. If you're having trouble seeing yourself being confident just imitate someone else who you view as confident. It can be someone famous or anyone you know. The important thing is to be able to see and feel the positive outcome in your visualization. Practice this over and over and notice how much calmer and positive you will feel.

Acknowledge that your past is not the same as your present

Don't allow yourself to get down about past event. It's what you are doing now that counts. If you've had low confidence you're whole life, recognize that you can take action to increase your confidence.

Be careful of the company you keep

It's easy to get dragged down by other people. Make an effort to surround yourself with positive thinking people who lift you up and inspire you to achieve greater things.

Feeling confident isn't just something for other people - it can be yours - and hypnotherapy can help you get there.

This is because hypnotherapy can help you to re-learn your attitudes toward yourself. This can help you overcome whatever is holding you back.

Hypnotherapy works because when you are in a trance it's possible to bypass your conscious critical mind and communicate with your subconscious mind, helping to reframe any negative beliefs you may have towards yourself. Either way you can start feeling more positive and confident in a short space of time.

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Tips For Healthy Living

A lot of factors affect your health, such as your genetic makeup and age. If your family has a hereditary illness like diabetes or hypertension, most likely you would have it too. But living a healthy lifestyle can prevent this from occurring. You can reduce the risk for heart diseases, stroke, cancer or any serious illness by properly taking care of your body.

Eat the proper food.

If you are at high risk for diabetes, then avoid sweet foods. If you are anemic, eat iron rich foods. Remember, not all tasty and delicious foods are healthy. You must eat the foods that your body only needs. An excess or lack of any nutrient might place your body in bad shape. Limiting processed foods is a good start. These foods are high in sodium, saturated fat and other content which can harm your body. Try organic ones, go green, and eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. For snacks, you can substitute a chocolate bar with an apple. Or put some fruits in your oatmeal such as bananas. If you are a meat lover, you can cut those fat portions of the meat. Or try eating fish- low in fats but rich in protein. Actually, there are a lot of healthy yet yummy options, just use flair of creativity.

Quit smoking

Smoking is really, very dangerous to your health. The toxic ingredients of cigarette which are nicotine and carbon monoxide prevent the affected cells from obtaining the full percentage of oxygen needed for them to function well. These toxic ingredients are carcinogenic which is one of the main reasons why lung cancer is very common with people who smoke cigarettes. Smoking can result to atherosclerosis, chronic lung injury, common obstructive pulmonary disease and worse- the development of cancer.

Smile, be positive

Let the good vibes in. Think less of the worries; always look on the bright side of everything. Laugh and hang out sometime, unwind from the stress. Visit spas and resorts, have fun. According to studies, happiness affects almost every aspect of health. Besides from making you feel and look young, being positive and happy prolongs your lifespan.

Be Active

Don't be a potato couch, do some movement. Do some jogging, dancing, walking or gardening. Physical activity is very important for your health. Besides making you look good, exercising improves your total blood circulation and burns the fat off your body. Try weight lifting, this is very helpful if you want to maintain your weight while weight lifting for women who are near their menopausal stage is important for them to maintain their bone strength.

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Type 2 Diabetes, Is Your Waist Measurement The Reason You Have High Blood Sugar?

It is a well-documented fact most people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes are either overweight or obese.

• in children, 95 percent are overweight or obese,
• in adults over 85 percent.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately one-third of adults in the United States, and 17.1 percent of children and adolescents in the United States, are obese.

What is the clinical version of what it means to be obese? As stated by the CDC, overweight and obesity are labels given when the range of weight for a given height is over and above what has been determined to be healthy.

But the problem isn't just having excess weight on your body, but where the excess weight is located. Even though two different people can each carry thirty extra pounds of weight on their body, one of them can have more medical complications due to the fact their excess fat is in a location more detrimental to their health than the other person.

The location offering the worst scenario is having fat around the waistline and is often referred to as abdominal or belly fat. You can lose a lot of this fat by dieting and losing 5 to 10 percent of your body weight.

The size of a person's waist is a much better indicator of whether or not a person will develop Type 2 diabetes than either their:

• body mass index (BMI), or
• their actual weight.

In other words, the larger your waist the larger the threat. It is now thought keeping your weight measurement to lower than half your height might be the best indicator of obesity.

How much is too much when referring to a person's waist? When a woman's waist is more than 35 inches, or a man's exceeds 40 inches, they are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes.

But there's a problem: measuring your waist circumference is not an ideal indicator of how much visceral fat you are carrying. Why not? Because there is as much fat inside the abdominal wall, surrounding your organs, as there is on the outside. The fat causing so many problems is not only the fat you can feel... the belly fat you can grab in your hands is not the fat helping to stop the insulin and glucose from entering your cells. Isn't that frightening?

Armed with this information, some people who sport a spare tire will immediately add crunches and sit-ups to their daily activities. Unfortunately, while this certainly can't hurt your overall health, this isn't the answer. Only a regimen of cardio and low-impact workouts, and weight loss, is going to reduce the belly bulge.

What does this belly or visceral fat do to your body? It affects everything... your heart, liver and kidneys all have to work harder:

• some of their functions are almost completely interrupted, causing them unnecessary stress and fatigue.
• in your brain, various hormones levels vital to your body's continued health, are thrown out-of-sync.
• sleep is interrupted and normal brain function in everyday life is impacted.

Next, take a close look at the circulatory system and it's components. LDL or "bad" cholesterol levels skyrocket, while HDL or "good" cholesterol, drops too low. Triglyceride levels shoot through the roof and blood pressure increases, not to mention the inflammation taking place throughout your body.

All of these negative aspects can take place even if you only have abdominal fat and virtually no excess fat elsewhere in your body. Unfortunately, the formation of abdominal fat is a side effect of a few medications... it does include some diabetes medications.

How do you start to create a healthy lifestyle today so you can get rid of your damaging belly fat?

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Type 2 Diabetes, Does Weight Loss Affect Your Bones?

Being overweight or obese are often problems for most people who are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. These diabetics are usually told weight loss intervention can help to control the disease as well as prevent damage to their heart and blood vessel disease.

Unfortunately, heart attacks are a prime cause of death in middle-aged people with Type 2 diabetes. Fatality rates are two to four times higher than those of middle-aged people without diabetes. Recent studies reveal between 35 and 50 percent of heart attack victims had abnormal blood sugar at the time of the attack. People with high blood pressure are also at a higher risk.

Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco, United States, however, who are concerned weight loss programs could have complications, undertook a study to ascertain what effects, if any, weight loss interventions could have on the bones of people with Type 2 diabetes.

Their study, published in the Journal of Bone Mineral Research in December 2011, included 1274 obese or overweight people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.

One group was given:

• an intensive lifestyle weight loss intervention, while
• the other group was given basic diabetes support and education over a period of one year.

At the end of the study weight loss, basic fitness, and blood sugar levels showed improvement in the weight loss intervention group. The bad news is the weight loss intervention group also demonstrated loss of bone mineral density in their hip and thigh bones.

People with diabetes can be susceptible to falls due to diabetic neuropathy and poor vision. Hip fractures can have serious consequences, sometimes requiring surgery, frequently limiting mobility, and sometimes even leading to death.

Fortunately, there are ways of fighting the loss of bone density. Bones need calcium, so getting enough calcium is one way of keeping your bones healthy.

• a cup of unfortified oatmeal has 4 percent of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of calcium for an adult, and a cup of fortified oatmeal has 10 per cent.
• broccoli, spinach, kale, and turnip greens are good sources of calcium. One cup of spinach contains 20 per cent of the RDA of calcium for an adult. A cup of broccoli has 4 per cent and a cup of turnip greens provides 10 per cent. A cup of kale has 9 per cent, so have a big green salad for lunch.
• calcium supplements are also available.

It's not enough though to just take calcium supplements or eat high-calcium foods; you need to cut down on foods that are diuretics: caffeine and alcohol.

To be used for bone growth and repair, calcium needs some help from vitamin D, which is often lacking in people with Type 2 diabetes:

• getting a few minutes of sunlight every day without a sunscreen is helpful for making vitamin D,
• foods such as soy milk can be fortified with vitamin D.
• supplements of vitamin D are recommended for those who live in latitudes with little sunlight or cold climates or those who are unable to have much sun exposure due to lifestyle or dress.

Weight-bearing exercises are also important for growth and repair of bones, so take a walk every day in addition to taking in calcium and vitamin D.

If your bone density is lowered to the point of being dangerous, it is termed osteoporosis, and medications are available to treat it. Your bone mineral density can be measured and your doctor can prescribe much needed drugs if necessary.

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Hazard Warning Lights

Hazard warning lights are primarily used to warn other vehicles that there is a problem either with your own car, or there is a hazard in front of them causing them to reduce speed quickly. Hazard lights are also referred to as 4-way flashers as all the indicators on a car flash simultaneously. When you see a car with its hazard warning lights on you should slow down and be aware of your surroundings as you may need to move away from the car leaving a wide berth or slow down to the speed the car is travelling.

All modern cars and some motorcycles are fitted with hazards warning lights and should be used at the appropriate times as taught on your driving lessons.

Hazard warning lights are mostly used by drivers when they have a problem with their car whether this be that it has broke down and is obstructing the road or is in the process of doing so. When on the road you should keep your hazard warning lights on to make other drivers aware that you have a problem, this even applies when you have moved over onto the hard shoulder of a motorway.

Hazard lights can also be used on motorways to warn other drivers of hazards ahead. When going at such fast speeds obstructions on the road can creep up on you at the last minute, however drivers in front can see further up the road and warn drivers behind of the hazards they're approaching to cause less harsh braking and maybe even pile ups on motorways.

There are a few situations where some drivers think that it's acceptable to use your hazard warning lights when in actual fact it isn't. For example when you're lost and travelling slowly on a road, night or day. Your hazard warning lights should never be used whilst you are moving with an exception of when slowing down quickly on a motorway as mentioned above.

Some drivers also think that hazard warning lights can be used to excuse drivers from illegal parking such as parking on double yellow lines or in disabled parking pays. The use of hazard warning lights in these situations won't excuse you from illegal parking and it should never be done. When on your driving lessons you will be shown how to identify whether somewhere is safe, legal and convenient to park and when to use your hazard warning lights.

Your driving theory test is also likely to include a question on when to use your hazard warning lights to test your knowledge of the Highway Code. Make sure you know how to turn your hazard lights on and the appropriate times to use them. If you're unsure how to turn your hazard lights on and off in the car you take your driving lessons in just ask your instructor!

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Tips for Buying a Car

In today's day and age where prices of everything is going up and the income is constant many people are opting for buying used car as opposed to buying a new car. The main point you should keep in mind while getting it is that you need to spend some good amount of time on it and check the car properly. There are many such dealers available who are in the business of selling used cars and it is always better for you to go for a dealer which is well reputed in the market and is having good years of experience behind them in this field. Below mentioned are some of the tips which will help you to buy a used car for yourself which will worth the price you will pay for it:

• First of all you need to browse through the internet and make a list of such dealers in your locality. Then prepare a list of cars in which you are interested in and check whether the dealers whom you selected deals in these cars. You can get in touch with the dealers and ask them about the range of cars which they have for sale. It will help you in further negotiations.

• Now when you are ready to negotiate the deal, you should go to these dealers and have a look at the cars which they have. You should inspect the cars which interested you and take a test drive. It's always better if you take a trustworthy mechanic with you to do the inspection as they have experience in this field. While inspecting the car, you should make sure that everything is in good condition. Check the condition of the tires and the body of the car for the signs of rust and ripples as ripples indicates that some repairing has been done.

• While visiting the dealers, beforehand only you should prepare a list of questions which you are going to ask. Get information about from where the dealer has got the car and the amount of maintenance done on it. In case the car has run for more than 10,000 miles then ask if the timing belt or chain has been changed. Taking these steps are essential before sealing the deal.

• It is very important that you check all the documents of the car and make sure that they are in intact and up-to-date. Ask the dealers for the registration papers as these documents are necessary while transferring the car ownership. Always confirm that the seller is the first owner of the car. Check other documents like insurance certificate, pollution certificate, BMC or municipal certificate, road tax and other documents. Only after being assured that all the documents are in proper position you can go forward and seal the door.

Only after going through the above mentioned tips, you should consider buying a used car. Also since there are many such dealers available in the market, do some amount of research and go for the one which suits your needs and budget aptly.

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