In winter, join our hair a lot: air heating, cooling, hot styling tools and rough caps. Time for extra care and attention. We tell you how.

Great hair? We all desire, and indeed throughout the year. Now in the winter of this ideal state is anything but easy to reach - but actually more important. Because the holidays are coming up and we take this opportunity to lead our family, relatives and friends prefer a healthy shiny mane before. Our care tips for every day of winter-transform stubborn hair into silky waves. So - off to the bathroom and go!

You are already laying the foundation for washing, combing and drying: Use only lukewarm water and mild shampoo to donate a lot of moisture. Always wash everything thoroughly, residues can look dull hair. For dry rub with the towel never wild, but express the lengths of gently untangle them and then gently with your fingers.

At least once a week, you should apply a hair treatment: the intensive care after washing, gently massage, wrap a towel around your head and leave the package at least 15 minutes. Tip: Strengthen the care effect by placing an additional piece of aluminum foil over the hair.

Generally you should blow dry as rarely as necessary. If it does, watch out for a distance of 20 centimeters between the equipment and head. Apply before the styling a heat protection spray - this is especially true if you handle your hair with flat iron or curling iron. You should, despite all precautions in the winter have to contend with flying hair, leave-in conditioner and helping anti-frizz serums: soothe and smooth the hair structure.

Our tip for extra shine: a self-made flush with nourishing chamomile. Just two teaspoons of green tea and two tablespoons of chamomile flowers in hot water for a moment and let stand at least 10 minutes. Cool the herb and pour over the freshly washed hair - do not rinse! When time is required, stop your hair simply wash with a cold shower. The cool freshness closes the cuticle of the hair. The result: improved combability and wonderful shine.

Who now begrudge his hair a little extra care scores, twice. First, we are rewarded on Christmas and New Year's Eve dinner party with admiring eyes, on the other hand, we also benefit after the holidays from maintenance. For the next spring is sure to come - and with it the first sun rays and numerous compliments a man's world cared about your silky hair.

The new cat's eyes

A bit lascivious, a little crazy, but still extremely sexy: The eyeliner is back! So he can make up quite easily.

Deep black like the geishas, ​​swinging in the sixties - the shows are now really dramatic eyeliner. This trendy version comes directly from the shows (for example, by Dolce & Gabbana and Marc Jacobs): super wide, with accurate tip, which boils over the outer corner of your eye and a slight upward curve ends ("swallowtail"). For glamorous appearances will be crowned the XXL contour of a wafer-thin golden line. The new super-size eyeliner for does - his only companions are inked black eyelashes, a little eyeshadow in Champagne hue and delicate nachgestrichelte eyebrows. This lipstick in Nude, pink or bright red stars such as Keira Knightley and Kylie Minogue love the new look. Sure, because he can shine his eyes even more.

4 tips that lead to the perfect eyeliner

➤ Before short nails do not swim, because the warm water makes them even softer. Tip: The file appear briefly in ice-cold water, which reduces heat buildup - a possible cause of split ends.

➤ Invest once in a professional manicure. Because here you can learn at what angle and the direction in which you file the best.

➤ The clean nails with sharp objects, making them porous, and fungi can establish themselves.

➤ The professional grooming ritual paraffingefüllte used as "treatment-Gloves" to succeed in the home with a nail mask and cotton gloves.

➤ Push the capsules Biotin Vitamin H levels (pharmacy, health food store). However, results are visible after 2-3 months, if the nail has grown out completely.

This starts with the housework: For cleaning and dishwasher always wear rubber gloves if possible and apply cream after each hand washing. If you always wear nail polish, you should at least one, insert two nail polish-free days a week. Because varnish remover and remove the horn plates humidity - the nails are dry and fray. During the massage each nail varnish abstinence before going to bed with a rich nail cream or mask. This promotes blood circulation, keeps nails and cuticles nice elastic. Set in terms of nutritional protein and minerals in addition to zinc, vitamin A, B and H (biotin), and iron.

Very important: The short nails with a file and leave only the corners are, the better off they begin printing. Silicon enriched with biotin or prevent nursing coatings that dissolve the keratin from each other.

And how do I Rosarot & Co. in the evening?

"Art or color absorbs light candles, should therefore be applied more thickly in the evening. Super Stylish is a tone on tone held make-up: Enter zartroséfarbenen eyeshadow to the entire mobile eyelid, a touch of eye shadow over fuchsia. This one fits in bright pink lipstick. They achieve a perfect finish with a dab of cream blush. It is important that the Rouge is tuned to the lipstick, so the look is harmonious."

The correct color game helps to look younger. Base is an Anti-Aging Foundation, which makes the tone more even complexion, small wrinkles disappear, dark circles and spots like magic leaves

In the new make-ups for example, plug-collagen booster from peptides and ceramides for an immediate lifting effect. Gold particles stimulate microcirculation, light-reflecting pigments to model the face. Innovative are also skin-smoothing waxes from fine nets, which rest on the face and bring new vigor. Hyaluronic acid, ursolic acid and peptides provide moisture and enhanced collagen synthesis. Base the choice of colors in the lighter shade of doubt, dark tones make older.

Magic tricks for eye and mouth

The Must Have Beauty in the Bag: a concealer. He brings to the disappearance of dark circles, conceal redness and dark spots. In terms of better use on matte eye shadow tones. Shimmering emphasizes each line and is happy in from the crease. Black eyeliner works hard and often reduces the eyes. Try it with dark green or mauve shades. Applies to the lips: dark tones optical zoom, bright shimmering tones produce volume. Make-up artists trick that has become narrow lips with lip liner pencil to trace, paint the corners of the mouth so completely. Then apply the lipstick, he should be one shade lighter than the liner. The result is a fuller, plastic-looking mouth.

Staying Young does not just care from the outside, but also (and especially) from the inside.

For he who eats a balanced diet, the body presents a whole firework of life energy in the form of vitamins, minerals and trace elements. The tastes of the skin. Tighter it is, for example by vitamin C. It protects cells by trapping free radicals, and helps to produce new collagen for connective tissue. Since the body produce vitamin C themselves can not, we must take it on the diet for us. Rich in vitamin C include buckthorn, citrus fruits, currants, peppers, cabbage and potatoes all. Incidentally, stress, alcohol and smoking are major vitamin-C-robbers.

Red-radical scavenger

Nothing beats a nice glass of red wine in the evening? This was also the skin - as long as it remains in a glass. Because red wine contains so-called anthocyanins, water-soluble plant pigments. They usually protect plants from excessive ultraviolet light and act as antioxidants. This power they develop in the body. Incidentally, all the deep red and purple vegetables and fruits such as blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, beets, eggplant contain this fantastic cell protectors.

Putz troops enzymes

Without enzymes in our body runs on anything. They regulate metabolism, immune or endocrine systems. And they can cleave proteins and are thus ideal wrinkle. For a mixture of old forms in the connective tissue proteins and cholesterol elongated crusts, leading to wrinkles. These enzymes dissolve easily contaminated by the inside. Plenty of it stuck in exotics such as pineapples, papayas, kiwis, figs, mangoes, but also in carrots, leeks, onions and fennel.

Good to know: Vitamin pills can not replace real fruit and vegetables. Because of the nature of the mix of nutrients is extremely complex, many ingredients, such as phytochemicals act only in combination with others.