Milk As A Home Beauty Treatment? Why Not !

     Due to its delicious taste and nutritional values, many people of all ages like to drink milk. It is a good source of protein and has many kinds of vitamins, calcium and mineral.  Especially for children, milk is a healthy drink which is good for their growth and their body immunity.  
Even as they grow older, they still like milk because of its sugary and delicious taste even though there are some others sugary drinks which are more pleasing such as juice and soda.  A glass of milk in your breakfast in the morning can help provide essential nutrients and energy for your activity during the day. There are also some dairy products made of milk in the form of food such as cheese, cream, custard, yogurt and many others. Milk has become a part of a healthful diet for most of us. Besides it is good for immunity,  milk can strengthen the bones because of calcium. In fact, milk has other benefits which are important for ladies especially those who want to maintain their beauty.  According to a legend, Cleopatra was well-known for her glowing, soft and healthy skin because of her milk baths that helped her maintain her skincare treatment.  Now, many women follow Cleopatra's way to bath in milk, not only to maintain their beauty but also to keep their skin healthy. Women will do anything maintain their beauty even though they have to spend a lot of money. Milk is a cheap skincare treatment for women because they spend less money than they go to the beauty shop. Nowadays, with only some dollars you can buy beauty products made of milk to maintain your beauty.  So, many women use milk to take care of their beauty because it  can serve as milk-based beauty products, skin care and beauty treatment.

     The first benefit of milk is to serve as a beauty product.  Due to advanced technology, there are many products made of milk. Women need natural beauty products to maintain their beauty.  Health experts  make many  beauty products from milk to maintain women's beauty such as scrub milk and milk mask. Scrub milk and milk mask have the same function which is to maintain healthy skin.  Milk mask is used to keep facial skin looking fresh and to prevent the face from look older and get rid of spots on the face. Scrub milk has an important function to which is to refine skin. Scrub milk can lift dead skin better. Bathing can clean up the skin and lift up dead skin, but simply bathing cannot lift all dead skin. In this case, scrub milk will help make the skin softer, and healthy.  After using  scrub milk, your skin  will be softer,  shiny and healthy and you look beautiful.  Scrub milk and milk mask are very useful to maintain beauty because milk is rich in vitamins and make the skin shiny.

     The second benefit of milk is its ability to cope with skin problems.   There are many women who  have skin problems such as pimples, spots on the face and skin irritation. So, many companies offer health products to cope with their skin problems.  However, some women get disappointed of these health products due to its low effects to the skin or even create skin irritation. To avoid such allergy, many women start to use milk to cope with skin problems . In addition, milk can decrease skin irritation. To get the good results, start by washing your face with milk or use milk cream on your facial skin. It is very simple and you can do it at home.  So, milk can be used to cope with a skin problem, not only skin irritation but also skin allergy on the face, pimples and dark spots on the face.
    
     The third benefit of milk is as a beauty treatment. Every woman wants to be seen beautiful and they are never satisfied with their condition. They want to be more and more beautiful. They never think of spending much money to go to spa or beauty shop in order to look beautiful.  Now, they can do beauty treatment without spending a lot of money and they can do it at home.  They do the treatment at home and use milk for treatment.  There are many companies that use milk-based products for home beauty treatment. For this kind of treatment, women can use milk, body scrub, milk mask and milk bath.

     In summary, milk is not only useful for children and grown-up people but it is also good for women who want to look beautiful.   Not only does milk have many other advantages for children such as to improve body immunity and to strengthen bones, but milk also has some benefits to maintain beauty. Milk is an affordable home beauty treatment for women who want to have smooth, gleaming skin like that of Cleopatra. 

By Cynthia Y

Sample Youtube Presentation : Why Muslim Women Wear Hijab

Why Do Muslim Women Wear Hijab, Any Advantages?

   What is Hijab? Hijab is a veil that covers the head and chest which is particularly worn by muslim women beyond the age of puberty in presence of adult males outside of their immediate family.
Hijab or headscarf is one of the most noticeable and misunderstood attires of muslim women. It can further refer to any head, face or body covering worn by muslim women that conforms to a certain standard of modesty. Hijab can also be used to refer to the seclusion of women from men in the public sphere. Most legal systems define this modest dressing as everything except covering the face and the hands in public, Most often, it is worn by muslim women as symbol of privacy and morality. Wearing hijab has advantages such as an act of obedience to the Creator, a shield for women self fashion trend nowadays.

      Wearing the hijab is a form of obedience of a muslim woman because it is obligatory for the them. As stated in the Quran, Surah Al-Ahzab: 59 which mentions the obligations for muslim women to wear Hijab, " O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” The verse tells that muslim women must wear hijab because it is obligatory and a command from Allah Swt. Allah commands all muslim women to wear hijab because hijab will protect anyone who wears it. No matter what kind of the characters of the muslim women – whether good or bad ones- they must wear hijab. As time goes by, hijab will change the muslim women with bad characters into good people, Good willing. Allah commands the muslim women to wear hijab because hijab is a polite clothing, so with polite clothing the muslim women will have good looking. 

      Hijab is shield, a shield for muslim women who wear it. Hijab becomes a shield because if they wear hijab there will be no bad man who want to do the bad things like doing criminal actions that harm the women. Then, hijab protects the muslim women from arousing male sexual interests. If the women don't wear hijab and wear impolite clothes they will arouse male sexual interests. Hijab also creates self identity. Wearing hijab makes muslim women feel confident because hijab is a polite clothing and they will free to move and are not worried if there are certain parts of their clothes open.

      Hijab becomes a fashion trend because hijab is derived from the Arabic word ‘hijab hajaban’ which means covering. In other words, hijab is to cover the nakedness by wearing a head covering of certain form that follows the Sharia law.  Now, there are various creations of hijab that makes this Islamic clothing  look more stylish and fashionable.  With more muslim women wearing hijab, hijab designers try to combine the trends in fashion with the muslim clothes that suit to Sharia law. There many reasons that make hijab become a fashion trend. The first reason is that there are more and more muslim women begin to understand the necessity of wearing a veil, so that they wear hijab. Muslim women are free to wear the hijab wherever they want. The emergence of various models of hijab styles  and hiiab tutorials in various media, electronic media and social media also promote the hijab among muslim women. Usually, the muslim women who share their hijab tutorial will be trendsetter and most trendsetters always wear cute or unique clothes that make other women who haven’t worn it become interested to wear hijab. In addition, the emergence of a lot of fashion models combined with hijab styles and fashion with the various models and colors also makes the hijab becomes trendier among the public.  So, muslim women can still look fashionable and neat while wearing hijab.

      In conclusion, hijab is obligatory from Allah that every muslim woman must wear it , no matter what. Hijab is a shield for muslim women who wear it and hijab is also a fashion. Today, not only non-hijab women can be fashionable but hijab women can also be fashionable too or even can be more stylish than non-hijab women, They still look gorgeous and beautiful with their appearance.

By : Tirza Nuraini

Children Become Fashion Models? Not A Good Idea

“The fashion industry is not a place for children. It's a grown-up industry with grown-up pressures," says Sara Ziff, a model and director. People in fashion industry began to pay more attention to increase their market using child's model.
They will argue that clothes look better on a thin, tall person according to age, and that children are naturally thin like a beanpole in a way than older people. However, this serious industry with high work demands will raise pressure on children and it really is not a trivial problem while children tend to feel depressed. Children should enjoy their childhood without worrying about their physical appearance or even criticized on what they're look like. Growing children should not represent the ideal beauty style for greater public consumption.

  As a public figure especially as a model, your sale value is on your appearance. A child model must always wear make up every time they go on runway or on a camerawork. They start to realize that cosmetic make them look prettier and then their new fascination is by applying cosmetic. On the other hand, cosmetics are not suitable for children due to high level of heavy metal contents, even for adults continuous use of cosmetic can result in many chronic diseases such as skin cancer. 

  In order to look better, child models are required to wear high heels. Unconsciously, the intensity of wearing high heels becomes frequent. Based on orthopedic science, the appropriate time for someone to start wearing high heels is when she is between 14-16 years old. When you're wearing high heels, your muscles will be working really hard. Imagine if a six-year-old child whose muscles are still developing wears high heels, she is putting unusual fatigue on it.

  Many reports shows that agency contracts do not allow child models to gain weight. For example, measured from the size of the hips, a child model is not supposed to have hips size two centimeters more than the required size stated on the contract. That is absolutely a big problem for child model. They tend to have an eating disorder. Children need a range of nutrients because their body is still developing and shouldn't be pressured to have the build of adolescent.  Some young models take the modeling job not because they are passionate to do this, but because they are forced by parents. Psychologists say some parents see their children as extensions of themselves, rather than as separate people with their own hopes and dreams. It is proven that parents most likely want their children to achieve their unrequited ambitions when they were younger. These kind of pushy parents make their children chase their lost dreams, regardless what the children really want.

  Many young models do not understand their rights and how to respond to a contract wisely. Too often, we see child models who are catapulted into working as adults. And they don't have the maturity to handle these situations.  Many agencies offers a promising contract that they will have a long lasting career. To fulfill the contract agreement, many child models sacrifice their childhood and even many of them have to quit school. With a tight schedule and no school schedule, many of these young models are used by agency as a money machine.

  Child models often hear people in this industry say  “I’m here to make money, I want you to make money…”.  There's no one to blame when these child models are treated as adults.  Sooner or later, the agency make the child models, who are easily influenced, become money oriented. Instead of choosing what camerawork they’re comfortable with, they more concern on how much money they will get by this offer. It is a public secret that young models are often asked to take their off their clothes. That is no longer a command, but they are like : “If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you for a job again”. That is a huge burden for children to do something by force, and nobody takes care of them mentally. It is not only the children's mental that becomes the problem but a distorting between sexual imagery and fashion and the models who have to negotiate with the agency are too young and fear of speaking out.
 
  The modeling business today is unstructured and just depends on a compliant labor force of children. Sexual abuse and systematic theft occur at the highest levels of the industry; and because the models are considered to be independent workers,  the rule of law in terms of workplace standard does not exist. What is worse, in an industry where the majority of models are still categorized as children, most of them work far from home and without being accompanied by parents with the incentive to say nothing in order to keep you’re the job. This creates an unacceptable environment of coercion.
 
 The marketing industry is forcing tweens, children who want to be teens but aren't quite old enough yet, and treat them like teenagers. The industry discovers there's lots of money from made. The marketing industry forces tweens to grow up quickly.   In the Year 2000 Report to Congress, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) raised concerns on how Hollywood was routinely recruiting tweens to star in their ads, in which the ideas of this ad usually against that of parents. Even in industrialized societies, where the governments and campaigners fight for better child advertising standards and regulations, industry fights back preferring self-regulation by utilizing child models.
 
   To summarize, we can conclude that fashion industry has no place for children. It's a highly pressured job with certain age group of workers, There is a lot of misunderstanding in the public about the world of fashion, glamor and promising life especially for children's future, because people can only see the cover from this industry. When they conceptualize models, most people only see that visibility while ignoring the possible irregularities that might be experienced by children. However, since this industry is in the name of arts, the irregularities in children fashion industry are seen as acceptable.

By:  Safira Faris