Surviving with sensitive skin has always taught me how to take care of my skin in summer. And like most people, I get too excited for summer to have the perfect bronze colored tan.

And here are 5 tips for the perfect tan that we all seek:

1. Always apply sunscreen protection and make sure to choose your protection wisely. (It’s a must)

2. Moisturize your skin before and after and concentrate on your dry skin parts. And make sure not to scrub your skin after you finish moisturizing 

3. Apply your tanning oil/cream gently when exposed to sun. And here are 5 natural oils that would help you have your perfect tan : Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Sunflower Oil, Sesame Oil. (Make sure not to apply these oils on your face if you have acne).

4. Protect your eyes, you can simply close them. 

5. Take a shower after, either hot or cold and don’t forget to moisturize your dry skin parts after this process!

Unfortunately even if you take your precautions, guess what? Sometimes shit happens.
I’ve experienced sunburn once after I failed trying to have a tan and briefly it happens when you are exposed to too much sun (Ultra Violet rays) without proper protection from sunscreen and clothes. 

And here are 6 things to do once you notice a sunburn:

1. Get out of the sun (preferably indoors)

2. Put a cold towel on your burnt skin parts for 10 to 15 minutes everyday (it takes the heat out of your skin)

3. Take frequent cool showers (it relieves the pain)

4. Use moisturizer with Aloe vera or Soy (it helps soothe the skin)

5. DON’T use creams or lotions with petroleum, benzocaine, or lidocaine.

6. If your skin blisters, LEAVE BLISTERS ALONE. Don’t pop them or even scratch them (if you do, they will be infected!!)

And finally when do you know if you need to see a professional doctor?

If you have severe blistering over a large portion of your body or if you have fever and chills. If you notice any of those you should seek medical help immediately.

Hope you have a fun time this summer and hope the only problem you face during your summer time is having a good tan!! 

All of us were born without choosing our parents even them, they didn’t choose us. Living beside our family fills our soul with happiness and safety and not only our souls but our whole entire life but if they’re toxic parents, you will never feel safe or happy. So here I got you with 10 traits of toxic parents.

1) Overacting and Creating scenes

You may have done something wrong and they are overacting about it to let you feel that it’s something very huge and that it all was your fault although all what you did was you didn’t tidy up your room or you didn’t fold the blanket.

2) Using emotional blackmailing

This trait can be the most horrible trait you can ever see, that they’re using your emotions and feelings to blackmail you!

3) Trying to control you

Your parents may try to control your behavior when someone’s around but controlling your career ,future ,job ,hobbies ,appearance and your whole upcoming life are the means of controlling you, not only the body and moves but it’s your soul.

4) Comparing you with others

Actually this trait has been shared all around social media and some comics were made about it. This trait is just like that you ain’t doing anything in your life and the others are doing and they’re better than you in everything although you’re doing and maybe you’re doing more than them but still they are comparing you with your cousin who has invented an instrument using nanotechnology although you invented an airplane.

5) Playing the victim

Here we come to the fifth trait. Actually this trait is bad as it sounds. Your parents may be playing the victim just to tell you that they are the ones who let you travel and the ones who exerted effort in their job to let you live happily and you are the one who doesn’t care about any of this.

6) Blaming and Attacking you

Okay, now you’re at home alone your parents are out and they left the garden door open at the morning when they were showering the dog. The dog entered the house which is forbidden cause the door was opened and you were upstairs. They’re now back home and the dog was in the house then now they’re attacking you and blaming you that you haven’t checked the door in the morning after they are done with showering the dog.

7) Un-respecting your physical and emotional boundaries

This is the worst thing. Your parents are hitting you with anything in their hands cause you have said something wrong or they aren’t in the mood to talk now. Actually this thing harms you physically and emotionally and it should be stopped in anyway.

8) Disregard your feelings

They may hurt you with their words and after talking with you they didn’t realize that you have been hurt but that wasn’t only once but it was many times and all what they care about that they have given you the words. After all this situation to do what they have said to you, you just wanted them to say sorry, but the response was that they’re not the one who should say sorry (even if they are the ones who made the mistake).

9) Not listening to you with interest

I know that every day you come back from school, you wanted to tell them how you were the excellent student in the class and that you’re the most polite but their answer was Okay! Good! or even coming back from your training telling them how you were so professional and better than before and your coach was so happy to see you better their response was like “Okay shut up now I am tired and I need to sleep”.

10) Competing with you

Here we are coming to an end and the tenth trait. Now, they’re challenging you, they’re competing with you just to tell you that you can’t, you can’t manage, you can’t win, you can’t survive. What it all means that they’re letting you down.  

So here you got the 10 traits of toxic parents, all what you deserve is to live a peaceful life.

There’s no question that the bright and early stages of any relationship can be confusing. A lot of questions might run through your mind like, what does he think of me? Is he thinking about me? Does he think I’m pretty? All of that generic stuff. You might even puzzle your own feelings.

Your emotions are all over the place like spilled juice. Then you think to yourself, is this actually love? Or merely just an attraction? Or maybe you’re just lonely and in desperate need of attention from the opposite gender. Which can be tricky and difficult to decipher.

In this day and age, it doesn’t matter how old you are. If you have a younger brother or sister still in kindergarten you might surprisingly find out that they’re “dating” someone one.

But as the years pass, you began to mature. Don’t you remember when you were in middle school and you had like this HUGE crush on this guy or girl. And you just thought about them all the time. And if you were lucky you might have dated them even. But that rarely happens. This relationship ends so fast, and before you know it you start to like someone else. You were young, and dumb, and probably broke too.

When you reach your high school years, you start to see your friends and people you know date each other. Fall in and out of love. But these relationships don’t end so fast. If the two people in the relationship are dedicated to each other and truly love each other, then they will last.

Unfortunately every school has a group of players that date multiple girls, one after the other. Leaving a road of broken hearts behind them, not fully knowing that the human heart is truly sensitive. It doesn’t matter what age you are.

Talking from my own experiences, I’ve seen people date, break up, date others. But there are these special couples in school who are truly in love. You’ll find them dating for a couple of years. Who knows? Maybe they might go to college together.

Parents always put us down, forbid us girls and even boys to date. I speak on behalf of every teenage girl, that there comes a time when one would want attention from a special person. To be loved, cherished, cared for. Trust me, I feel that way too.

What I’m trying to say is, if you’re in your late teenage years. Then yes, when you fall in love now, you’re actually in love. No one can ever tell you that what you’re feeling is wrong. Or that what you feel isn’t real. Your feelings are personal to you, and you only.

Scientifically your brain sends signals to your heart, making you feel in a particular way towards someone.

One falls in love with another with their minds and their hearts.

Love? Is truly a beautiful thing, and no doubt when you grow up you’ll have many experiences with love, and heartbreak. I believe that there’s someone for everyone.

You might be sitting in your car and you’re thinking about how you want a girlfriend or a boyfriend, where somewhere in the world YOUR person is thinking about the same thing. And it’s only a matter of time before you meet.

I’ve always wondered, is there a basic standard of ethics for us humans? If the word humane means compassion, kindness, civility and sympathetic. Then why are we not those things. Everything around us, everything humans do, contradicts the meaning of humane.

Obviously, the word ‘humane’ comes from human which would be us. But do we represent it at all? 

Due to the war in Yemen, 18.4 million people are in danger of starving to Death  by the end of 2019. Children are suffering and worrying about food when they should be worrying about who they will be playing with. Instead of listening to music, they are listening to bombings and their homes being tore down. “We are surrounded by strikes from the air, sea and land.” A nurse at the barely functioning hospital said. More than 70 thousand people died in this war, including women and children. And we call ourselves compassionate.

Same thing goes to Syria. More than 400 thousand have died due to this conflict and not to mention over 6 million seeking refugee. People getting tortured in horrible ways, children suffering from traumas and witnessing horrifying events. And we call ourselves kind. Are we the real monsters?

Every single day, Israel demolishes hundreds of houses in Jerusalem and all over Palestine. They throw poisonous gases at unarmed people praying in peace. Arresting innocent ones for nothing. Torturing Palestinians in brutality. Most of the children in Palestine suffer from depression due to the horrific living conditions. And we call ourselves civilized.

I sometimes think that the wild is safer for some to live in than this civilization but then if we do , we would probably abuse animals and make them suffer in ways that can’t be described. I’m not the only one who sees footages of humans torturing animals in cold blood. Yes, mankind has made it this far. And we call ourselves sympathetic. 

Sadly, I always have this problem where I really can’t imagine that someone who eats, drinks and thinks like me would do these terrible things to someone else. But unfortunately, humans are inhumane.

I’m not writing this to prove that we have no way in changing any of that. But the first step into solving a problem is actually admitting that there IS a problem.

Do we still have time to actually put meaning into the word ‘humane’? Do we still have time to be so? Can we actually fix this or will we have already ended because of the global warming issue that we have also created?

We need to set our priorities straight, and not keep spending money on an old burnt building while others suffer from hunger. Did you know that the amount of money the United Nations donated to the Notre Dame was enough to solve the hunger crisis in the whole world? I think we can agree that we have a lot to change.  

And we could start by doing what Amal Kassir, the Syrian activist says “Open your ears and listen to the stories around you.”

There are 3 known things that us human can’t choose (our birth, our death, and who our family is). So let’s talk today about families, some of us face this problem of having a toxic family and I think that it’s caused by them being raised in the old generation and having different traditions. Today the generation is totally different, and it really needs unique treatment to be raised well in this rude community we live in. You can find many children that live with this problem without being affected; while on the other hand there are those who can’t live like this. As they get affected easily, even by one word, and don’t have enough self confidence to do anything they want to do. So either they sit and watch themselves get damaged or face the problem and fix it.

From my own experience, I went through this but finally I solved it, I found that it’s an easy thing to deal with. The thing that works best is to TALK yes talk with your family, express your feelings, don’t make those heavy feelings a burden on your hearts. If it doesn’t work go to someone that can help, someone that can listen, understand and motivate you. BUT FIRST OF ALL you MUST help yourself with thinking in ways to calm you down and make you move on. But NEVER lose hope and faith. Let me tell you something, something that makes negativity go away from you is to go training or at least walk or run. For me I used to play boxing and I swear it was the main reason that made me calm and think correctly. If you one of your parents isn’t as bad as the other one then he/she can help. But if not, you have to help yourself find your own ways to solve your problems. Friends can help but they can only help you not you parents, I mean they can help by getting you out of the mood so you can be good enough to solve your private life, step brothers/sisters can help too if they are close to you, they can give you advice on how to deal with them.

But there is a point that you may not notice, that this problem may be caused by your bad treatment towards your parents or whatever you do towards them that isn’t appropriate, etc… So you can start with yourself, change your ways with them, try to talk to them in a better way, try to obey them more, try to make conversation with them, try to be someone better with them and see the difference. THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITHOUT A SOLUTION. Just try everything and you will get a return don’t worry.

Have you ever wondered if there’s a human being on this planet who does not love? Well, I did. And it’s probably impossible to find someone on Earth who does not love.

We all love. We love people and things. We love people for their personality, for their good qualities (we could love them for their bad ones too) and for the way those people treat us and how they care for us. We love things too, because of the way those things make us feel even if they’re super simple (I really feel happy when someone buys me burgers) despite how trivial burgers are.

We get too attached to things and people, despite the fact that they’re temporary and despite the unfortunate fact that they may disappoint us sometimes.

And because we have never experienced a human being who does not love, we have never questioned why do people have this strong appeal to each other.

But seriously, I’ve always wondered how do some people have this strong attachment to God? And then I concluded that why wouldn’t they? God never disappoints us, God is never temporary and then I thought of how generous God is. Although we make mistakes every single day, God forgives us as long as we go back to him begging for forgiveness.

God is so merciful and never puts us on a path except the ones’ best for us. And finally after all these beautiful qualities that God has. How couldn’t these people have this beautiful attachment to God?

The strong attachment these people are holding to God is so much more innocent and so much more precious than the attachment they’re holding for human beings. And guess what? We could be one of these people too!! 

What is femininity?

Is it loving pink ? 

Wearing dresses and skirts ? 

Or is it dreaming about a fairy god mother that would just bibity bobity boo me a dress and a carriage to a happily ever after with Prince Charming? 

As a little girl I was always watching the so called “girl shows “ and princess movies.

You know the one where a girl is waiting for a handsome prince to take her away to land of happily ever after, as amazed as I was at first, by time I began to ridicule the repeating plot of the girl who is always as a naive child who waits for the prince who would make her life happy.

Now that I think of it is that what I wanted to be ? 

A puzzle piece that needs a guy to feel whole and complete. 

Why weren’t boys taught that? Boys watched Batman and spider man, how to be a brave strong hero and girls were taught to wait for said hero. We were brain washed as kids, brain washed by what we watched to mend who we were to become. To boys don’t cry, are you a girl? So feminine, right? Forgetting that our prophet Mohamed صلي الله عليه وسلم cried over السيدة خديجة رضي الله عنها when she died. So maybe we should stop teaching them to be emotionless robots because emotion isn’t feminine but only human . Teach them that masculinity isn’t challenged by things as stupid as playing with Barbie dolls or showing emotion but by their actions. Teach girls to be independent and strong, that you can be a superhero just like he can and that you don’t need to depend on him. But most importantly teach them both that emotion is purely human and teach them how to give value to their emotions and how to manage them along with their mental health.

1- Addictions:

We are addicted to a specific type of food such as meat, even though the word addicted is dramatic but unfortunately it’s right . An experiment once took place in a university in the United Kingdom, they got a few mice and on their right they put cocaine and on their left they put sugar. 96 percent of the mice tested choose the sugar. That’s a huge issue. Did you know that sugar and fats create a hormone in our brain called dopamine, which what cocaine, meth and nicotine do to the brain too. Now it’s enough proving to you that some foods are addicting.

2- Losing Weight:

We all make ourselves part of this cycle called the diet cycle. It is where we urge the need to lose weight, so we search and search to find the best diet, and after we find the perfect diet we lose so much weight in the first couple of weeks. Then a voice in our head starts to say :woooooow we lost 10 kilograms in two weeks this is amazing. Let’s return to reality, the truth is you didn’t lose fat you lost water in your body. For every period of time there is a trend that concerns health matters. And now the newest trend is the low carb diet, it is true that we must stop eating some carbohydrates such as white carbs. But not all carbs are harmful, such as potato and sweet potato. I won’t tell you that plant based diets are going to make you lose weight, despite it will. But why don’t you try it for a couple of weeks you will see the difference.

3- Green Muscles:

Whenever I go to a place, and tell people I’m vegan they start to panic and start to act crazy. Asking questions like: Why are you vegan? How are you vegan? The common question is how are you going to gain protein and how are you going to recover? Of course our body needs protein, but did you know the average person needs 0.8 grams of protein for every 1 kg they weigh. This amount can be found in the plant based diet, by eating food that isn’t from animals that still has protein. Such as: lentils, chickpeas, almonds, and many more foods.

Let me tell you something I am not an expert with the plant based diet but I am an expert with my body. After quitting meat and becoming vegan I feel better than ever. It’s not that hard just give it a try for a couple of weeks you will know what I’m talking about. This is the first part of this series I promise that we are going to complete this series, all we need is your support! For now goodbye and see you next week.

People tend to judge intelligent individuals without getting to know them because of jealousy and envy, we shouldn’t let that get under our skin. You can live life happily and have fun in every moment of life if you live with positive thoughts and positive people around you. Don’t make people who envy you be your friends. People can use you I know! But you must differentiate, between your real and fake friends. The ones who stay with you in both the dark times and the light is your true friend. If they can’t stand you at your worst, then they don’t deserve you at your best. If a friend let you down more than two times, don’t trust them. The first one was a warning and the second one was a lesson. Don’t be friends with people who only text you and be friends with you in school time and not even communicate with you in the summer. These people use you, you have something they don’t, so they use it and then leave you when you might need them.

A thing I always say and do is put your feet in their feet, in every situation in your life do that! And you will see that you will become kinder and better as a friend , daughter , son, brother, sister, mother, father, grandma, anything. Always give love and never give hate. Be kind with everyone and true. And let the people around you see the light that you make and then they will notice they need you and have used you but when they think that tell them karma is a bitch. But never take revenge. Don’t give them a taste of their own medicine, Karma has that taken care of that, give them a taste of YOUR own medicine. Kindness and purity 🙂 But at the same time, don’t make anyone feel like you’re anything less than them.

Always be kind even if the person bothered you like hell, he/she will be dealing with god. Just like they are human, we are human too. You will gain and they will lose! You should treat everyone in a good way. You don’t know what this person is going through! Everyone has their own fights that you don’t know about. So be kind ALWAYS! You should also thank god for everything that you have some people don’t have what u have. Don’t ask for more but give more. Never make your decisions change because of people’s thoughts about it. Be yourself! If people hate you and you don’t have many friends that is fine. At least you have a few real friends, not many fake ones. You don’t have to be in a relationship when you’re a teenager, you will get heartbroken and get sad and your too young for that shit! Focus on yourself always. And be kind to everyone around the world. And everyone will be kind to you too!

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always. Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world; even your shadow leaves you when your in the darkness… Don’t chase people! Be an example. Attract them. Work hard and be yourself. The people that belong in your life will come find you and stay. Just do your thing! Let them understand your importance, and know how they acted wrong towards you! Finally, ironically people tend to change their attitude towards you when you begin treating them the way they treat you.

Thank you, and God bless you all!