Summer is about baring skin and showing off the beautiful (fake) summer tan you have. But in order to look good baring that skin, you need to take some time to ready your skin and reverse the signs of neglect you showed your skin during fall, winter and spring.

Knock of each step on my skin care tips for glowing skin and you'll be ready to pull out your favorite summer dress or bikini in no time flat. Most of the products mentioned in the article I buy from the well-known beauty online store strawberrynet.com, which I also recomment to you.

So here goes my ultimate list of 10 skin care tips for glowing skin in summer:

I am one of those people who is very protective of her hair.  When I say that I mean the cut, colour, the hairdresser I use, etc.  You could probably go so far as to call me slightly obsessive (only slightly, okay maybe no slightly!).  If I could I would pay for my hairdresser in Australia to come to China every 6-8 weeks to do my hair, but the budget really doesn’t cover that!

When I arrived in China 3.5 years ago I was Blonde!  Yes I know hard to believe with my current colour hair…  I attempted to go to a few different places to get this kept up, but I was originally living  Guangzhou and they are lacking good, western hairdressers who have a good supply of Blonde colours.  So Brunette I went and I love it!

In my attempt to find a hairdresser that I could trust in Shanghai I did the usual technique of asking as many women as I know who they go to and who they think are good.  At first I thought the only way I would get a good result was to pay through the roof for it…  I went to one of the famous places in the French Concession and was not only left with an empty wallet, but was really disappointed with both the cut and the colour.  I had got into the habit of leaving my hair for a very long time in between visits, because I really didn’t want to pay for what they did.  I also would try to wait for the last part of the year so that when I went back to Australia for my yearly trip I could get it fixed there!

A new place has opened in Shanghai that knows all there is to know about women’s eyes and eyebrows.  They do treading, waxing, eyelash curling, eyelash extensions, eyelash tinting and any other waxing that you need to get done to your face.

I thought I would take one for the team and go and try them out, so then I could tell the Dolls how good or bad they are.  Well I was lucky that they turned out to be good and I was very happy with the results.  One of the good things about this place at the moment is that they are new so you don’t need to worry about getting an appointment, which is the reason why my eyebrows were slowly taking over my face!  I tried various times to get appointments at some of the other reputable places around town and they are always booked out or never get back to me. 

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If you wear a hat to keep warm this winter, you're most likely going to suffer from hat hair. What exactly is hat hair? It's kindly defined as hair that takes on the shape of a hat. But to us it's more like a flat, matted, staticky mess, which makes us question why we even bother styling it in the first place. Well, don't hang up your hat just yet. There are a few steps you can take to make it through the winter with great-looking hair (post hat removal, of course). From a dryer sheet to a spray bottle of water, read on for some hair (un) raising tips.

After moving to Shanghai I noticed a huge difference to my skin and hair, and unfortunately that difference wasn’t a good one!  I am sure most of you have suffered from dry skin and lifeless hair after having a shower in the metal-filled / chlorine soaked Shanghai water…  For almost two years I have been using a ShowerBaby in my bathroom and it makes a big difference!  My skin is nowhere near as dry and my hair is actually shiny!  The ShowerBaby removes over 95% of the chlorine and heavy metals out of your water, which in the end helps your skin to stay nice.

The company that sells these also sells other products that can be used in your kitchen or when you are washing your clothes.  They can also test your apartment water to let you know what scary things are lurking within.  They were the most highly recommended company when I started doing some research about options to help improve my health in this city.