• Step one – Make sure that you shorten your fingernails so they all start growing at the same length. Make sure to file them smooth and use good, strong clippers. Only file in a single direction. This is going to help you minimize breakage.
• Step two – Make sure that you use a good hand cream whenever you wash your hands. You want to make sure that your hands do not dry out throughout the day. If you are getting ready for bed, massage a good cuticle oil such as Oil Cuticle Therapy into your cuticles. This is going to help you moisturize your cuticles during the night.
• Step three – When you wake up in the morning, use a nail hardener. Do this for a week (applying a new coat over the old one) and then remove all coats before starting anew. This is going to give your nails that little bit of extra strength that you are looking for.
• Step four – As your nails begin to grow, make sure that you leave them slightly squared off and that your nails have rounded corners. This is a strong shape that is not only easy to maintain on long and short nails, but also equally attractive on both.
• Step five – Always treat your hands as though you had just painted your nails. Do not use your fingernails to peel, open, or pry things. This is going to prevent you from breaking or otherwise damaging your nails. If you feel that you need a reminder, using a colorful polish is going to serve as a constant reminder.

Additional tips

Those steps are going to ensure that your nails not only grow stronger than before, but also remain that way in the future. If you want a few more tips, we have a few suggestions to help you on your way:

• If you want to provide an amazing moisturizing benefit to your fingers, soak your fingertips in warm olive oil once every week. Do that after you remove your nail strengthener and before you reapply it. You will not believe how invigorating this is for your skin.
• If you are going to use polish remover, limit it to once a week. Even the non-acetone formulas have a tendency to dry out your nails. This can leave them looking and feeling brittle.

Stockn’Go has a wide selection of nail strengtheners, base and top coats as well as trendy polish colors, check them out and get going on your at home manicure!

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Have fun this Easter!

Isn’t 2013 flying by quickly? It seems like only moments ago that we were celebrating Christmas and now Easter is just around the corner! The lovely thing about Easter is that it brings together the whole family – whether you are religious or not, it can still be a time for fun and celebration. This year Easter falls on March 31^st so there is still time to plan some fun family activities!

Easter just wouldn’t be Easter without a traditional egg hunt – such a simple pleasure that has timeless appeal. Hide a bunch of chocolate eggs in the garden and your children (or grand-children) will love tracking them down! It’s a great way to enjoy some fresh air and exercise – not to mention a way to bring out a healthy sense of competition! A classic egg and spoon race is another brilliant way to have fun outdoors.

You can have fun creating personalized egg baskets to make your egg hunt extra special. Just get some inexpensive plain baskets and let your children’s creativity run wild by embellishing them with felt shapes, sequins, pompoms or whatever they love!

Forget store-bought Easter cards, it’s so much more fun to make your own! Buy some pastel-colored card and get the children to invite their friends over for a creative crafty session. All you need is some crayons, paper scraps, glitter, washable school glue and whatever odds and ends you can find! Try making flowers with pipe cleaners and tissue paper, or cute chicks with stick-on googly eyes. The result will be something truly unique and special!

Egg painting is another great way to enjoy some Easter craft fun. Use kids paint and paintbrushes to decorate eggs that are hard-boiled or blown – there are lots of video tutorials online with tips and ideas. Get everyone involved and award prizes to the most inventive designs!

Easter is a time of feasting, so be sure to have plenty of indigestion tablets ready for those bloated tummies. Your local stores might be closed over Easter weekend, so make sure you’re all stocked up on things like diapers and baby wipes – things you definitely do not want to run out of over Easter!

After all that chocolate it’s extra important to make sure your teeth don’t suffer – give them a thorough clean with an OralB Pulsar Pro-Health Adult Toothbrush.  Encourage little ones to join in by treating them to a cool Power Puff Girls toothbrush to make brushing extra fun!

Enjoy the Easter sunshine by taking little ones into the garden for a teddy bear’s picnic – throw a blanket on the grass and enjoy some yummy treats from paper plates and plastic food containers. Easter chocolate cornflake nests are simple to make and taste delicious – there are lots of easy recipe ideas online. You could also bake cookies shaped like bunnies and chicks and have fun decorating them with colored icing. Children will love the novelty of eating outdoors with their VIP teddy guests!

Need some last minute gift ideas? How about one, or ALL of these!

• Food: dinner in, dinner out, chocolate covered strawberries for desert
• Alcohol: nothing says romance like a bottle of wine
• Massage: Whether its for the day or for a future date, a massage is always welcome
• Hallmark Card: Its a Hallmark Holiday so don’t forget the card! Oh and make it a thoughtful one.
• Chocolate – whether you’re on a diet or not chocolate will make you happy, and if you get the good stuff (70% cocoa or more) it can even make you skinny!
• Music: set the mood with you or your partners favorite tunes.
• Perfume/Cologne: Why not cover all of the senses.  We’ve got taste, touch, sight, hearing and now smell!!

LOOSE WEIGHT! It’s on the top of everyone’s list almost every year.  All of the treadmill and ellipticals at the gym are suddenly filled once again, and the television and internet are inundated with segments on diet and exercise.  Well here’s another one for you because heck there’s no such thing as too much information and encouragement.

It is one thing to make a new years resolution… its KEEPING it that’s the hard part.  The most important factor when making a resolution is that the goal be one that you really want and are willing to make changes to get.  If you only “wish” you could attain that goal, then everything in your life will suddenly become an excuse as to why you can’t make it happen.  Small steps can make a huge difference so don’t think you have to jump all the way in the pool at once.

#1 DRINK MORE WATER!!!  If you think you are drinking enough water, you are probably not.  Drink at least 8 glasses a day, that’s 3/4 of a gallon to a gallon of water!  You will be in the bathroom every 20 minutes but its worth it.  For your digestion, for your weight, hydration, hair, skin and nails.  A body without sufficient water is like a wilted plant.

#2 EAT BREAKFAST – I know, I know, you’re not hungry in the morning, you don’t have time, breakfast makes you sick, I hear the excuses loud and clear, and as strange as it might seem to add another meal to your day that you don’t typically eat, a healthy breakfast helps jump start your metabolism and prevents you from eating more throughout the rest of the day.  Start small, make it quick and easy and after a few times it will be painless and something you will come to look forward to every day.  The best breakfast options are: egg whites, oatmeal, green veggies and a piece of fruit.  Make it happen.

#3 EAT 5-6 SMALL MEALS PER DAY.  Eating 5 SMALLER meals throughout the day will prevent you from getting starved, thus overeating at lunch or dinner and will keep your metabolism from slowing down in between meals, which will help you to burn more calories all day long.

#4 HIT THE GYM.  Could it be any more obvious? The more you move the more calories you burn.  So get up and start moving as much as you can.  Coincidentally the more you move, the more energy you will have as well.  So although it might seem like you are just too tired at the end of the day.  Force yourself the first few times and then after that you should find that it gets easier and that you have more energy throughout the day because of it.

STEPS TO MAKING YOUR RESOLUTIONS STICK…

STEP 1: make realistic and measurable goals.  Be specific – don’t just say “I want to loose weight” say “I want to loose 2 lbs each week for the next 10 weeks, and I will accomplish this by making diet and exercise changes such as..”

Setting your goal is a great first step but you’ve got to give yourself a path to get there otherwise it can be a dead end road.

STEP2: make a plan of action.  Your chances of meeting a goal are greatly increased once you start taking action, rather than just thinking about it or speaking about it.  START NOW!

Be sure to check back next week for more great tips!

According to Wikipedia: A New Year’s resolution is a commitment that a person makes to one or more personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit. A key element to a New Year’s resolution that sets it apart from other resolutions is that it is made in anticipation of the New Year and new beginnings. People committing themselves to a New Year’s resolution generally plan to do so for the whole following year. This lifestyle change is generally interpreted as advantageous.

Approximately one in every three Americans will make a New Years promise.  Have you made yours? Studies like to say that less than half of new years resolutions fall short, but the statistic give by Statistic Brain is 46% of people who make New Years resolutions will keep their resolution past 6 months… that looks like a glass half full to me! An almost 50% chance of you following through on your resolution is certainly worth the risk! If there even is a risk at all.

So what are the top 10 New Years Resolutions for 2012?

Source information: www.statisiticbrain.com

For the next 10 weeks we will go over each of these top 10 resolutions in more detail, to give you ideas on how to support and motivate yourself to stick to that resolution.

STEP 1: make realistic and measurable goals.  Be specific – don’t just say “I want to loose weight” say “I want to loose 2 lbs each week for the next 10 weeks, and I will accomplish this by making diet and exercise changes such as..”

Setting your goal is a great first step but you’ve got to give yourself a path to get there otherwise it can be a dead end road.

Be sure to check back next week for more great tips!

It’s less than a week away from Christmas!  Do you have all of your holiday shopping done? Are you possibly struggling with what to get your sister, mom, wife, daughter, or friend? Well every girl loves a little perfume and if you buy today from Stockn’Go.com you’ll get an additional 20% off our already UNBEATABLE prices!!

Need a quick and easy gift? Check out our bundles and packs, TODAY ONLY with discount code 12DAY3 you get an extra 20% off…

After the additional 20% off you will be able to scoop up these bundles for over half off retail prices – Happy Holidays to YOU!!

Where else to go but Stockn’Go for all of your stocking stuffer needs? Especially when our already discount prices get dropped even lower each of the 12 days before Christmas. Check back each day to see what we will discount next!

Today’s Stockn’Stuffer Discount is on Stockn’Go Gift Cards.  Get $10 off a $50 gift card or $25 off a $100 gift card.

Do you have a pre-teen to shop for this Holiday Season? The thought alone can be a little scary, as you have the daunting task of making age appropriate purchases that are not too “kiddy” but also suitable for a young adolescent. Children ranging from the ages of 9 – 12, Pre-Teens, are a unique bunch, and their stockings should be filled with the just the right variety of goodies to suit their age group!

Pre-Teens are still children in most respects, but at that awkward age where they long to be considered a young adult. Who doesn’t remember their own Junior High School days? This is when you first start wearing perfumes, colognes, nail polishes and body sprays. We’ve put together a list of our top Pre-Teen stocking stuffers that you can order online right on Stockngo.com!

Stocking Stuffers for the Pre-Teen Girl:

1. Perfumes and Body Sprays  ~ Try Jessica Simpsons “I Fancy You” or Britney Spears “Believe”
2. Nail Polishes ~ Try fun colors like Cosm Nail’s China Glaze Flying Dragon Nail Polish
3. Hair Products ~ Bed Head Brand is perfect for your Pre-Teen!
4. Lip Glosses and Chapsticks ~ Softlips and Chapstick brands are great for the winter months
5. Deodorant ~ Mennen’s Teen Spirit in Pink Crush is the ultimate girl deodorant

Stocking Stuffers for the Pre-Teen Boy:

1. Colognes and Body Sprays ~ All the boys love Axe brand body sprays, or try POWER, by 50 Cent
2. Hair Products ~ Young men love to style their hair! Short Sexy Hair Rough and Ready Styling Gunk is absolutely perfect for creating young looking styles teens love
3. Body Wash ~ Old Spice High Endurance Body Wash Game Day is perfect for the older Pre-Teen
4. Deodorant ~  Axe FRESH Deodorant Stick is great for active teens
5. Gift Cards ~ When all else fails, you can always win with a gift card!

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