Summer is the perfect time to relax, tan, meet people and also be productive. The best part is that summer is filled with sunshine and great weather. This makes you automatically happy. The weather has a big influence on how we feel about our day. I know from personal experience that if I wake up and it is rainy and cloudy outside I will not feel super happy to wake up. But if the sun is shining and the weather looks beautiful I automatically jump out of bed and feel like going out and being in the sun.

There are some important things to keep in mind if you are going to be out in the sun a lot. First, make sure that you drink plenty of water in and out of the sun. Your body loses water when it’s hot outside due to you sweating. So make sure you keep yourself thoroughly hydrated. Second, wear sunscreen of some sort to protect your skin from the sun’s rays, especially if you are spending the day out on the water, the pool or simply at the beach. Sunburns are a pain in the butt and really are not good for your skin.

Summer is a time to have fun and do a lot of relaxing, but make sure you also do something productive during your summer. The reason I stress doing something productive is because if you spend three months just hanging around it will be very hard to go back to school in the fall.

Some things that you could do to stay productive are, getting a fun job, helping out around the house, volunteering at a camp or working together with your friends somewhere. If you stay productive throughout your summer you will be way happier and it will be a lot easier to start school again in the fall.

So remember, drink lots of water, wear sunscreen, stay productive and have fun!!

Have a great summer girls!

The thing that I recommend doing is having a fun sleepover with your friends and waking up kind of early the next day. Then doing one thing the other friend likes. For example, lets say your friend Sally likes getting coffee at this certain coffee shop, so for the first activity of the day you all go and get coffee at that coffee shop. Then your friend Jennifer really likes this boutique in the city, so you all then go to the boutique. And so on. Each friend picks one thing and you all go do that one thing. You all will have a fabulous day since you’ll have fun and you will all learn more things about each other by going to each other’s favorite places.

This can be fun to do with one best friend or you can do this with a whole group of friends. Either way you will have fun. Even if you don’t like the place or thing your friend chooses you can still make it fun since you are going there with a friend or with a group. And just think, after you do what your others friends like you can than choose your favorite thing to do and they all have to do that too.

After your fun filled day of exploring new things that your friends like its time to sit back, relax and watch a great movie with all your best buds.

Don’t you just love being pampered? I know that I do. It seems like there is nothing more relaxing than going to the nail salon and sitting in that big comfortable chair and having somebody else make your feet and toenails look absolutely fabulous. You don’t even have to move a finger; you just sit back and relax. You have a nice smoothie or coffee drink by your side and flip through the latest fashion or star gossip magazines. Sounds perfect.

After you get your toes all done, its time for your fingers to get gorgeous. So you take a seat in front of a nail specialist and they transform your nails into beauteously groomed and polished nails.

The best thing about going to a nail salon is that you don’t have to go through the hassle of doing your toes and finger nails at home by yourself.

Going to the nail salon is even better if you go with someone else. Take your mom with you or your group of girlfriends. Either way you have fun and come out with beautiful hands and feet.

So when you want something fun and relaxing to do that also leaves you pampered, go get your nails done! It’s the perfect thing to relax you and make you feel beautiful.

Alcohol has become a very popular thing for people to drink. Not only do adults drink alcohol, but teenagers do too.

It is easy in this day and age for people to get addicted to alcohol due to the many opportunities that there are to drink alcohol.

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Addiction to alcohol can start even if you don’t plan on becoming addicted. Most people that are addicted to alcohol never thought that they would become addicted. It just happened. Well getting addicted to alcohol doesn’t just happen. It happens by drinking it once and then the next time being like “oh its ok, just a little bit more wont hurt.” And so on. Until one day you are just chugging down the alcohol to make your day seem better or to make all your problems go away. But the truth is that alcohol is not the thing that will make your problems go away. It might seem nice at first. But the more alcohol you drink the more bad effects result.

Alcohol addiction isn’t good for your body or your mind. Drinking alcohol is bad for your body since the liver has to clean out all the toxins that are in it. If you drink too much alcohol your liver can become overwhelmed and can actually stop functioning properly. Your body needs the liver to function properly to be able to survive. A lot of people have drunken alcohol to the extent that they have died from it. A body can only take so much. And when something is filled with harmful toxins and you keep putting it into your body, you’re putting your body at risk.

If you’re a teenager, and all your friends drink and you are starting to get into drinking, think twice. Is it really worth it to drink now to be cool, but then later become addicted to it?

It really isn’t worth it. The people that are addicted to alcohol can’t stop themselves anymore and would have a way better life if they weren’t addicted to alcohol.

Drinking alcohol might seem to be the hip and cool thing to do. But there are consequences, and the consequences are harmful and can be deadly.

If you are already addicted to alcohol, don’t give up and do nothing. There is something you can do to help get yourself back on track. You can contact an alcohol detox center. They will help you get back to a happy, alcohol-free life.

If you know someone who has an alcohol addiction, you should get them to an alcohol addiction treatment center. If you do this, you will have saved their lives and you will be very relieved.

It is very true that in the age that we live in a lot of teens smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol. Its also true that at most house parties or club parties there is alcohol involved. So it seems natural that one would drink. Smoking is also one of those things that seems like everyone does and it seems everywhere you go you see people smoking.

But the truth is that you don’t have to drink or smoke to be considered cool. Think about it, its not very cool to drink alcohol at a party then drive while you are drunk and get into a car accident just because you were drunk and driving. All that doesn’t sound very cool to me. Not to mention that when people drink alcohol the more alcohol they drink the lower their awareness level goes, which makes it so that they don’t realize what they are doing while they are drunk. When people are drunk they tend to do very stupid things.

It has become the cool thing to smoke while just hanging out with your friends or while at a club or party. The even cooler thing to do would be if you were the only one not smoking and you stood up for yourself and simply said that you don’t like smoking and that you don’t want to do it. That would automatically make you cooler, since you have the courage to stand up for yourself and not just give in to smoking because “everyone” does it.

The same thing applies to drinking alcohol. It might seem that the only way to really have fun at a party or a club would be to drink and get drunk. But that’s not true at all. One can still party and go clubbing but there doesn’t have to be alcohol to make it fun. People might try to convince you that only alcohol will make it fun. But when this happens you just once again have to stand up for yourself and not let yourself get influenced easily by what others think and say.

The truly cool and great people are the people that are not afraid to say and do what they believe is right, even though it might be totally different compared to what everyone else is doing. A truly cool person is a person that is not afraid to stand up for himself despite all attempts to sway his decisions.

The thing that you should do when you see your crush is to go up to him and find something that you like about him or something that he does really good and tell him that. For example, if he is wearing a really cool shirt you should say “Hey I really like your shirt it looks good on you.” And if you do that for about three times you will realize that either a) he now talks to you and notices you or b) he just doesn’t seem to care and he still doesn’t pay any attention to you. If b) is the case, then just forget about him, he’s not worth it. If he doesn’t see that you’re a nice and cool girl than he’s not worth your time.

Some people probably tell you that in order for a guy to notice you, you need to wear low shirts and short skirts and put on a lot of makeup. Now if you do that chances are that guys will notice you, but they will notice you for only your body and they wont care about your personality. Of course you want to look good, but you don’t have to dress yourself for guys, that’s just going to attract the wrong guys.

If you really want your crush to notice you, you just need to get up your courage and talk to him and find things that he does well and tell him that he does them well. It will make him feel good about himself and he will then notice that you make him feel good about himself.

Don’t you just love it when someone, especially a guy tells you they like something about you do or they notice that you’re really good at something? Well guys are just the same and they love when girls notice good things about them.

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Every girl’s period is different. No one has the exact same period as someone else. Some girls might have similar periods or their period might start and end at the same time but their flows are not exactly the same.

Some girls have a very light flow and some have a really heavy flow. There are also other girls that have an in between flow, its not light but its not heavy either. Every girl’s flow and period cycle are different, so there is no need to worry about yours since it will not be the exact same as your friend’s cycle.

There are tampons made for every type of flow. If you have a light flow use Light tampons. If you have a in between light and heavy flow use Regular tampons. If you have a heavy flow use Super tampons and if you have a really heavy flow use Super Plus tampons.

Having a heavy flow is not very different than having a regular flow. The only thing that is really different is that you have to have bigger tampons and more absorbent pads.

What can also occur is that one month your flow is very light and then the next month it increases and becomes a little heavier. This is totally normal. Another thing that can happen is that once you first get your period you might have a light flow but once you start to get older your flow might become heavier.

So if you do have a heavy flow and you are worried about it, don’t be. There is nothing wrong with having a heavy flow. Just make sure that you have very absorbent pads and tampons and you will be just fine. Don’t be self-conscious about your heavy flow because that wont help you in any way. Just make sure you are always prepared and you’ll do great.

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It is just not good to use tampons when you are not on your period. Not only are they unnecessary when you aren’t on your period they are also not going to be easy or comfortable to insert when there isn’t really something for it to absorb.

Pantyliners on the other hand are made to absorb discharge and are very comfortable to be worn all day. Pantiliners are the perfect solution for absorbing discharge. So if you want to have something that will be comfortable, light and easy to use against your discharge just grab a panty liner. It will do the job!

Since tampons were made and are intended for the use of absorbing menstrual blood, they should be used for that purpose.

It’s the same as if you used your toothbrush to brush your hair. The purpose of a toothbrush is to brush your teeth and not your hair. So using your toothbrush to brush your hair would not make sense and would not help make your hair less knotted.

Now using that same logic we can then see that using a tampon for something, which it is not, intended for, like absorbing daily discharge, would not make sense.

So remember, if you need something to absorb your daily discharge use a pantyliner.

There are all sorts of ways to apply makeup and all sorts of different things one can do with makeup. Some girls misunderstand the concept of makeup and they think that they have to wear makeup or else they will be ugly. This is totally not true. Yes, makeup does make one look prettier if applied right or to the right degree. But makeup can also make one look fake and very unnatural. Men prefer natural beauty versus overly done makeup.

Some people tend to apply loads and loads of foundation onto their faces. First off this isn’t good for your face because it can’t really breathe under all those layer of makeup and secondly it doesn’t look good, it just looks fake. Too much black eyeliner is another thing that a lot of girls do. This doesn’t look that good either. Since when a person looks at you their attention immediately goes to the pounds and pounds of eyeliner on your eyes.

One can still look good without piling on the makeup. There is a way to apply makeup where it enhances your features but at the same time doesn’t look fake. When putting on makeup choose one feature that you would like to stand out, like your lips, eyes or cheekbones. After you have chosen your feature, experiment with all different sorts of makeup styles and find the one that you like best. If you chose to make your eyes stand out then don’t apply a very out there lip color. Just make sure your face looks nice and balanced.

Makeup is supposed to be fun so if you ever get bored with your look try and change something up. For example my favorite makeup is mascara. I absolutely love it. I have over 25 different kinds. But I was getting a little bit bored of only black mascara so I tried out this amazing blue that makes my eyes totally pop. If you love eyeliner and you are getting bored of only neutral colors, have a little fun and get some color eyeliners! Don’t ever be serious with makeup, makeup works and looks the best when you have fun with it and when you don’t overdo it!

Have a blast!

One of the most important things to do when trying to lose weight is to focus on eating healthy. This means, cutting out all those bags of chips, cookies, candy, soda, ice cream and other unhealthy eating habits that you may have acquired through the years. It might seem terrible not to be able to eat all those things, but in the end it will all be so worth it.

Another very important thing is to exercise. And by exercise I mean, running, swimming, sports or something that will really get your heart going and really moves your whole body. You don’t have to exercise everyday, if you don’t want to. But at least do it three times a week. Exercising might seem like a total pain but when you actually start doing it, it can be really fun. I recommend exercising with a friend or listening to upbeat music, that way it adds some more fun into it. Also after exercising you feel so good and refreshed. It’s very invigorating.

I know a main problem with people losing weight is that they do crazy diets with which they lose a lot of weight but right after that they gain it all back. I highly discourage doing crazy diets to lose weight. There is a way better way, which will help you lose weight as well as get you healthy and also will keep the weight off. The way to do this is all explained in a book called “ Eat to Live” by Joel Fuhrman. I read this book and after following what Dr. Fuhrman says to do I lost all my extra weight and now am totally happy with my body.

One more thing, the first step to losing your extra weight is realizing that you have extra weight and just acknowledging that fact, then deciding to do something about it.

I wish you the best of luck!