Carol Ofori's Top Skin Care Tips for Radiant Winter Skin @CarolOfori

Hi Guys,

As the winter chill sets in, it's essential to adapt your skincare routine to keep your skin looking happy and vivacious. For those unsure of how to look after their skin during winter, TV and radio personality Carol Ofori shares her top tips for maintaining flawless skin during the harsh winter months.

1. Keep Hydrated

Staying hydrated is crucial for healthy skin, yet it can be challenging to drink enough water during the colder months. Despite the temptation to skip your water intake, remember that hydration is a must for maintaining your skin’s glow. Make a conscious effort to drink water regularly to ensure your skin stays supple and radiant.

2. Get Your Sleep In

Never underestimate the power of a good night’s sleep. Aim for nine hours of restful sleep to give your skin the extra love it needs during winter. Quality sleep allows your skin to repair and regenerate, helping you wake up with a refreshed and glowing complexion.

3. Get Rid Of Excess Skin

Exfoliating dead skin cells is essential, especially in winter when your skin can appear dull and lifeless. Consider visiting a skincare clinic like Skin Renewal for treatments such as chemical peels and micro-needling. These treatments reinvigorate the skin, giving it the boost it needs to stay vibrant and healthy during the harsh winter months.

4. Don’t Forget The Sunblock

A common mistake many make during winter is neglecting sunblock. Even though it's cold, the sun's UV rays remain potent, and the air is dryer, which can further damage your skin. Sunblock is a year-round necessity to protect your skin from harmful rays and prevent premature ageing.

5. Up The Moisturiser

Winter air is notoriously dry, so it's important to increase your use of moisturiser. If you usually use a dollop, add an extra one during the winter months to give your skin the support it needs. Incorporating serums and oils into your routine can also provide additional hydration, keeping your skin nourished and soft.

6. Wash Your Face Twice A Day

Maintaining clean skin is essential, especially during winter. Wash your face twice a day to remove dirt, makeup, and impurities. In the morning, start with a face wash followed by serum, eye cream, moisturiser, and sunblock. At night, use a face wash, retinol or night serum, and an evening cream to keep your skin supple and happy. Remember, never go to bed with makeup on to prevent clogged pores and breakouts.

By following these tips, you can ensure your skin remains healthy, hydrated, and radiant all winter long.

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#TheLifesWayReviews: @Sorbet_Man Saw Point Back & Neck Massage #SorbetManMorningside

Hi Friends, 

Sorbet Man is a premium saloon for every men's day to day grooming needs and requirements. The grooming specialists hired at Sorbet Man are trained and qualified industry professionals. Moreover, the shop offers the best of grooming equipment from lotions to creams to razors to shampoos. They have the best of staff and services available to someone who loves himself and wants to make all their cuts and shaves seriously fun. 

I was re-introduced to Sorbet Man at the launch of their store inside Morningside Shopping Mall on Rivonia Road. I have introduced to the Sorbet Man stores by the Marketing Manager of the brand once long ago but I could not make it to the store due to timing problems and since then it never came in my mind to check them out. But as the opportunity came, I quickly accepted the invite but could not avail any kind of services on the day. The manager was helpful enough to book me in the next week at a convenient timing for the 30 minutes massage session. 

I never thought that the saloon will have a full-fledged massage room and equipment housed inside the store. From the looks of the store, I thought it's just about hair cutting, coloring, and other services but they have a full menu waiting for yourself to be considered for grooming experience. The therapist told me to lie on my back with my clothes off and told me that she will be back in five minutes. Soon she was back and started the massage with her fingers going through the right pressure and relaxed my tired muscles. 

The back and neck massage at the Sorbet Man was really relaxing but it kept me wanting for more as 30 minutes passed in just seconds. I am definitely sure that next time I will book myself for 60 minutes and due to the convenience of walking into the shopping mall where my family can do groceries and other shopping, I can sneak away to find a relaxed myself hidden behind the doors of Sorbet Man. 

You shall definitely check out their services and products to cater to all kinds of personalities and persons. The types of services the store offered are Haircuts and head shaves, color, hot towel shaves, beard care, hair and scalp treatment, hands and feet, manscaping, tinting, threading, massages, Sorbet Man and Dermalogica facials along with various kinds of packages to suit your budget. I am sure you will walk out confident and perfectly groomed. 

Cheers!!!

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5 Years of Life in #Johannesburg #SouthAfrica #6YearsofTheLifesWay

Hi Friends, 

It's been 5 Years in South Africa since I first landed at O.R.Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg from Gurugram, India. I was so much anxious and excited about coming to this country and the city after hearing a lot of news items on the Internet. But as I remember, one of my friend I asked before I traveled, told me that it's good to try out the new city rather than going back to London, UK. I made my decision to come to Johannesburg and here I was on 2nd November 2013. The day was Deepawali, the festival of lights and I had no SIM card, no way to contact my parents and family until I reached the place I was assigned to stay by my employer. The roommate allowed me to call my family back home and then cooked food for me. I was busy getting my stuff in the almirahs as I celebrated Diwali alone as he went out with friends.

My first day at Standard Bank office in CBD was meeting some of the important people and getting the access card and laptop sorted. I continued to be amazed by the cleanliness and the infrastructure of the city. During my initial days only I came across Fordsburg - H.K. Superstore which continues to be my supplier of Indian groceries ever since. Dosa Hut was one of the places I would visit to get my South Indian food in the evenings. I continued to eat at a Pakistani eatery daily during my lunch time for some months till Sai Amrit restaurant which was a better one started its business in CBD. It's still one of the best tiffin/snacks kind of restaurant on Marshall Street.

By the end of the first week, my company moved me out of Roodepoort to Morningside, Rivonia Road and I had to start my life afresh. I got a friend as one other associate directly came to those apartments and we hired a car and started exploring the office and the city together. Soon it was December and I went back to India to meet my brother and family who came from the USA after a while. It was too fast of a trip but I could do some of the blog posts as my Indiblogger rating fell in November as I didn't have any Wifi or Internet connection in South Africa. I also won some of the contests and wanted to bring the prizes back to South Africa for my entertainment.

Over the next few months, I took the internet connection and started watching all the TV series which I had never seen earlier like 24, Game of Thrones, How I Met Your mother?, House of Cards, Homeland amongst others. It was constant watching starting on Friday evening till Sunday night. Sometimes I won't even go anywhere outside the home to eat food or meet people. I used to continuously watch episodes after episodes of 24 (All Seasons) and was able to finish them in a month or so. In between, I used to do some blog posts and tweets which will earn me some of the great invites and prizes. I used to ask various brands for their PR companies contacts and slowly and steadily, I became a part of their lives. There are still many brands which I am not part of and still trying to reach there.

In the last 5 years, my biggest achievements will be getting 2 promotions at work, winning Samsung Bloggers Challenge which I always wanted to win since the day it was announced, winning Canon Instagram Engagement Award, winning Huawei Best Photographer (Jan 2019) and Huawei Mate 20 Lite, became debt free and start earning for the future, broken many relationships and making new ones. I have learned a lot and worked hard to achieve where I am now but this year I will take a break and relax a lot. I am not going to do any press releases as it takes time and benefits are not there at all. I will create my own content and blow my own trumpet to relearn what has been lost in translation during the last 5 years. I got so many gifts, tickets, show invites, launch events to attend and literally traveled around the city in my little Fiat 500. I love going to Montecasino, Silverstar Casino and many such places for their entertainment value.

Social media wise, when I came and contacted one Smartwatch company for their product review, they said I only have 50 followers on @TheLifesWay and now the same has crossed 8000 followers and increasing daily. The Instagram handle @araijain also was having around less than 1000 followers and now it has crossed 10k followers. The blog also crossed 2.16Million pageviews on 18th Feb 2019 and daily increasing along with the blog posts. I started my profiles on social media channels on Tumblr, snap chat, Pinterest and many others. This year I started focussing on Youtube channel too and soon there will be a lot of videos on the same.

Family wise, my wife started working as a permanent resource with a local company and my daughter loves her school and friends. We were blessed with a new baby boy who has just turned 1 last month. It's great to watch him grow as I missed the same with my daughter as I had to go to London, UK and they could not accompany me there. It's not easy to be constantly checking on the kids and sometimes I get irritated too but overall a smile from the boy gives me the courage to carry on.

It's still a struggle to earn some income from my blog or any of the social media channels but I will reach there soon where I can ask for my price. I am working towards the same and the changes due to my decisions will be visible to everyone. I am enthusiastic about all the time I am able to get as I could focus on important stuff rather than putting effort to post Press Releases on my channels and promoting it later for free.

Last 5 Years in Johannesburg, I have seen a lot of places in and around the city and still, I fall in love with the city as and when I travel in my car every morning or evening. I fall in love with the city when it's raining or when the rainbow comes after the rains. I still love going to Sandton City and visiting all the Indian Restaurants in the city. I love going to Fordsburg and going to Lion and Rhino Park too. I love my travel to Suncity and Hartbeespoort. I have made so many friends and so many people became my friends for life. I might have not seen South Africa completely too but I intend to do so in my next year of existence in the City of Gold.

That's my journey in the city and I continue to enjoy the rainbow nation! Not only my hairs have turned grey but my heart has turned more Red as I fall in love again and again with this beautiful city!

Cheers!!!
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A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Dec 2014

Hi Guys,

December is the time to create new goals for the coming year and festival season this Christmas. This year was great in all the ways as I won the Mission Samsung Challenge and also my blog crossed more than 625,000 pageviews this year in 2015. The followers across all social media channels also increased and I was able to do some sponsored posts to buy myself Nikon flash SB-910 from all the earnings. This month will see some of the blog posts which I always wanted to do and couldn't do in this year. I hope I am able to catch up on the promises I made to people this year.

I plan to create regular content in 2016 and change the way I do the blog posts. I am unlearning and relearning everything about the social media skills via books and online communities. This is the most important decisions I have taken because in day to day life, you don't have much time left to blog and when you are blogging and people making use of your time and resources to give you nothing in return than it hurts. I have decided that I will say it very clearly to all the brands that I won't work for free anymore unless I want and this want will be based on desires fulfilled by the brands. 

Last year, December was more about movie reviews as I was catching up on all the movies I saw. I did participated in Indiblogger contests but during 2015 I didn't win any Indiblogger contest at all but was able to get #HappyHours gift vouchers enabling me to buy the Nikon flash. Also, I got sponsored by HTC for HTC ONE M8 but I really loved the HTC ONE M9 a lot which I am using these days for my posts on Instagram.

1. Melbourne - The Most Livable City in the World @Indiblogger Contest - http://www.thelifesway.com/2014/12/melbourne-most-livable-city-in-world.html

Australia is one of the most sought after travel destination and is really awesome to visit. My parents visited the same this year and loved the city a lot.

2. Movie Reviews - http://www.thelifesway.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
It was time to finish some of the movies I watched last year and among the same, I really loved watching Big Hero 6, Instructions not included etc.

December this year is more about creating some rules and goals for The Life's Way in next year. I am still gauging as to what to commit to and what goal or dream will keep me awake towards the same. Will be sharing the same soon...

Cheers!!!


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A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Nov 2014

Hi Guys,

November last year was something I was looking forward to as it was time to plan the upcoming holidays in the festive season of December. I was very happy with the success of my blog as it started picking up and I got a lot of invites to attend the launch events from many brands. 

1. @SamsungSA #GALAXYNote4 - WORLD TOUR 2014 - CAPE TOWN - http://www.thelifesway.com/2014/11/samsungsa-galaxynote4-world-tour-2014.html & http://www.thelifesway.com/2014/11/samsungmobilesa-galaxy-note-4-media.html - Samsung launched their flagship phablet Note4 and everything was grand about the launch event. I stayed at The Cullinan in CapeTown for the same and really loved the weather of the city. Cape Town is one of the best beach cities around the world. I really loved Note4 a lot as I got to review the same for a week. I took my Nikon D7000 to the event and took all the photographs using the same. 

2. @SurteeGroupZA - 7 For All Mankind - @SandtonCity Store Launch - http://www.thelifesway.com/2014/11/surteegroupza-7-for-all-mankind.html - I really loved the photographs that I took at the launch event using my Samsung NX300. These branded jeans was way beyond the reach of my purchasing ability as the range starts from around R4500. It was great to be invited to all the launch events as you get to meet new people and make friends out of them. 

3. Automobilia Artworks & Memorabilia - Launch Johannesburg - http://www.thelifesway.com/2014/11/automobilia-artworks-memorabilia-launch.html - If you a fan of F1 and everything related to fast cars and bikes then this will be a heaven for you in Johannesburg for all the collectibles that you can buy here at this shop. The launch was really an eye opener for me to go through all the types of collectibles that can be bought if you are a real fan. I used Samsung NX300 for covering this event. 

4. @FrysFamily Vegetarian Event @ Capsicum Culinary Studio, Johannesburg - http://www.thelifesway.com/2014/11/frysfamily-vegetarian-event-capsicum.html - It was my first class of cooking in a professional environment from everything that is vegetarian. I never thought that I can make some great dishes just following instructions of the experienced chef's from Capsicum Culinary School. The difficult part was the collaboration that I had to do with my partner in the class as we disagreed on presentation of our cooked food. Anyways, we won a dinner party for 10 fully sponsored by the Fry family of meat free vegetarian products made of Soya. I used Samsung NX300 for covering this event. 

5. Product Review - Mitchum Deodorants with Oxygen Odor Control

- http://www.thelifesway.com/2014/11/product-review-mitchum-deodorants-with.html - I really loved using the Mitchum Deodrants as they keep you sweat free for long hours. Deodorants is a necessity in summers and some people who don't use it really kills other people if they are travelling in bus, metro or any means of public transports. Revlon is the parent company behind the Mitchum range of deodorants. 

Overall, November was the month of packing as I was shifting my house as my family was joining me in Johannesburg. I really missed my time in my previous house as I watched and saw a lot of TV series online. From 24 to House of Cards to Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones I loved watching all the serials. 

Cheers!!!

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