Global Green USA Green School Makeover Competition Presented by Pureology

Global Green USA Green School Makeover Competition Presented by Pureology

 http://www.pureology.com/ 

  The site above states "Great Schools Start with You" I could not agree more with this statement. One of the most important things in my child's life to me is her education and the great thing about this contest is that it is helping to better our children's place of education and also help save money. To me saving money on things that aren't helping their education means more money going towards their education. Constantly I see things in the paper or the news about budget cuts, art, and sports getting cut all because the lack of money paying for other things.

    

As a parent it is also important to me that my child attend a environment nurturing school. The more we work today at bettering our environment with recycling, reducing our waste, and growing our own foods the better future our children will have. What better place to start teaching these things if not at home at school where they spend a large amount of their day. I don't know of one parent out there who wants to picture their son, daughter, or even grandchildren living in a smog covered trashed filled planet like on the movie Wall E. So take the step be your child's voice and enter Pureology Green School Makeover win or not your making the step to start helping schools make a brighter cleaner future for our children. http://www.globalgreen.org/greenschoolmakeover

 

When a school goes green, children benefit—as well as the environment! Green schools lead to:

Improved student performance. When children learn in classrooms with natural daylight, improved sound quality and non-toxic building materials such as non-VOC carpets and paints, test scores can improve as much as 20%. Attendance also improves!

More funds for student resources. When green upgrades are made to a school, water and energy costs can be reduced by as much as 40%. These savings can be channeled back into resources that directly benefit students, such as textbooks, computers and other essentials.

Reduced carbon footprint. Greening a school significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming.

                           

The perfect Manicure

The Perfect Manicure

HOW TO

1.) First find you a nice well ventilated area to work. Possibly lay down a towel or something to help prevent any messes.

 

2.) Remove any old nail polish. Use nail polish remover and cotton balls.If you have and wish to keep fake nails, such as acrylic, choose a polish that will not remove them, and don't let it soak much.

 

3.)  Cut and file nails. Use nail clippers and trim your nails. Don't cut them too short, you should be able to see at least a little of the white tip still, all the way across. Using a nail file, file the nail and create a smooth and clean shape. Gently drag the file across the nail, rather than pushing it. Excessive force or sawing back and forth will weaken the nails and cause them to break. Pivot the hand with the file through each stroke to make a smooth curve rather than angles. Do not file them too short: just clean up any points or roughness left by the clippers.

 

4.)  Buff nails. Using a white block of a stick-type nail buffer, or a pad-type nail buffer and buffing powder, buff the surface of the nail a little bit to even out the surface and to smooth out ridges. Remember not to buff too much: you're grinding at the nail; thinning it too much will weaken it. Perfect edge-to-edge flatness is not practical or necessary. A soft, flexible buffer will more easily buff the sides of the nail along with the middle. You may wish to buff your nails after pushing back the cuticles if there is some residue where the cuticles used to cover, in order to scrape or grind it off in the process. Being thin, soft, and not firmly attached, it should come off easily.

  

5.)Soak nails. Get a bowl or stopper the sink and fill it with warm (not hot!) water and a few drops of soap. Soak your hands only for a few minutes. The water and soap will help to loosen dirt, dead skin, and any dust left over from filing and buffing, and soften cuticles. If you have dry skin or fragile nails you should NOT soak them, only rinse them. Use a nail brush to gently clean your nails and the skin around them. Gently scrape under your nails if necessary to remove dirt (scraping too much will remove a white powder which was actually part of the nail itself, weakening it).

 

6.)Cuticles: Dry nails and apply a cuticle cream. Using a cuticle pusher, also called an orange stick, gently push back the cuticle. Do not force them back. NEVER cut your cuticles. Even if the equipment is sterile, removing the cuticle can cause infection and leaves the then-less-protected margin of the skin vulnerable. Wipe off the excess cream with a tissue or towel in the direction that you pushed (you don't want to pull the cuticles back to where they were!). 

 

7.) Apply hand cream or lotion. Take a lotion or hand cream and massage it into your hands. If you have very dry skin use an intensive lotion, if not, any lotion will do. Be sure to rub it into and around your nails and let it soak in for 30 minutes or longer. 

 

8.) Nail polish/lacquer will not stick to nails with moisturizer on them, so take a Q-tip dipped in nail polish remover and quickly wipe the nails to remove the lotion. Wipe excess remover off promptly to mitigate nail damage. Cover the nail with a base coat or nail hardener. This will even out and ridges and unevenness that may still be on the nail, serve as a primer for the polish, help the polish to last longer, and keep the colour from staining your nails.

 

9.) Polish!!!  Get creative use pintrest, google, or your own imagination. :) Polish and let dry.

  

10.) Finally apply your top coat. 

 

I would like to thank my mom for help with the manicure steps, she is a cosmetologist and really knows her stuff. Also I would like to thank bzzagent and Neutrogena for the the bzzkit or free lotions to try out (same you see pictured above) it was the perfect bottle for a perfect manicure.

 

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