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Sorry there's no blog post from last weekend. Stay tuned for next weekend. Promise

Yours, Nafiza

Hair Remedies

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For the past couple of weeks, the state of my hair has been giving me stress. I have a lot of hair fall and flakiness. As someone who does not need to care about hair, it is quite stressful and makes you self-conscious. I finally decided to give a damn about my current hair condition and do something. Not only that, I thought I would help you if you are experiencing hair problems.

These are some of the things you can try at home:


Dandruff:

- Aspirin: crush it and mix it with your ordinary shampoo. Shampoo your hair with it like normal, making sure it stays in your hair for 1-2 minutes.

- Baking soda: Rub it on dry scalp for a while and wash your hair with shampoo.

-Vinegar/Lemon juice: Spray/apply it under and over your scalp or and keep it for 5-10 minutes. Wash your hair with shampoo as usual.

- Mouthwash: Use it the same method as above.

- Aloe vera: Apply the gel like a hair mask and leave it on for around 10 minutes.

- Salt: Use it the same way as baking soda


Oily:

- Vinegar/Lemon juice: Same way as above

- Black tea: Make strong black tea the normal way. Wash your hair with the tea and rinse it off normally.

- Aloe vera: Use it the same way as above

- Baking soda: Same way as above

- Egg: Beat it normally. If desired, mix it with yogurt or any other ingredient above. Apply all over the scalp and leave it on for 10-20 minutes then wash your hair like normal.


Dry/Frizzy:

- Avocado: Mash the avocado and apply all over the scalp like a hair mask. Wash it off like normal. Use shampoo for proper cleanliness.

- Banana: Use the same way as avocado.

- Coconut oil: If it is solid, melt it in the microwave for a couple of seconds. Massage it through your scalp for a while and leave it on for one night or at least 3 hours. Wash it with shampoo in the shower

- Olive oil: Same method as coconut oil but no need to melt it.

- Egg: Use the same way as above.

- Honey: Mix it it yogurt or any other element above and apply through the scalp as a hair mask and leave it on for 30 minutes. Rinse it off with water and shampoo.

- Yogurt: Mix it with honey (optional)  or leave it as it is. Apply through the scalp and leave it on for 30 minutes. Rinse it off with water and shampoo.


Hair loss:

- Onion: Blend with and extract the juice of the onion. Apply it the same way as vinegar/lemon juice as explained above. Then rinse it off

- Coconut oil: Same way as above

- Almond oil: Same way as other oils

- Olive oil: Same way as other oils

- Aloe vera: Same way as above.



I hope you have enjoyed it and give these remedies a try. I think I'm the one who should be giving it a try but the lack of time does not allow me to do anything else than what's important.

Make sure to check back every weekend for a new post


Take care


Yours,  Nafiza

Phone Backup Precautions

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I am late again and I don't think I can make excuses. If I had to give a reason then I would say "this is the result of having 3 different jobs". Apologies! Anyway...

Last Monday my phone died... It was a nightmare for me. Gradually the more I thought about it I calmed down because I ONLY lost ALL my contacts and some of my media. I save my stuff in the micro SD card so that was an advantage. After a week of suffering and learning my lesson, here I am to warn you that anything can happen to your phone as well, e.g. lost, stolen, broken, crash, etc.

These are some tips I suggest you follow so if anything happens, you are sorted:



iPhone users:


- Save content in iCloud
- Backup your phone every now and then on iTunes. If something happened to your phone and got a new iPhone, everything would appear on the new one from the old one.
- If you are planning to switch to an Android/Google (and make a good decision), there is an app called Copy My Data, you need a google account/mail and follow the steps in the app. It will allow you to save your pictures and contacts as they are the hardest ones to extract from Apple devices.

I am not an iPhone user and it is out of my understanding why people use apple products in the first place... But these are the tips I would give after dealing with certain iPhone users.




Android/Google users:


- GOOGLE is everything! Trust me! I did not understand this until my phone died and used my google account to my new phone and almost ALL my media were backed up to Google Photos automatically.
- Make sure the automatic backups are turned on with Google.
- Sync your phone with your Google account every now and then.
- When you save your contacts, save it to Google, not SIM or Device. This way all your contacts are safe, no matter what happens to your phone.



Windows phone users:


-Backup everything in OneDrive from your phone.

It is slightly more advantageous for Windows phone users because windows PC and laptops automatically have OneCloud so even if you switched to another you would only have to copy and paste from your laptop's/PC's OneDrive



General tips:


- Keep a copy of your valuable/memorable contents on your computer
- Save as many files as possible in micro SD cards if your phone has the feature to use micro SD cards.
- Keep track of roughly what apps you use and any unnecessary ones, delete them. It is best to keep it as less content as possible for the RAM.
- Refresh/Reset/Backup-Restore your phone once every 6-8 months to refresh the internal system. This is where I went wrong and did nothing to my phone being scared I would lose all my data and at the end, everything lagged and charge would run out in 1-2 hours of light usage.
- Remember passwords. If not at least reset them so you are ready to face the consequences if anything happens and it makes life a bit easy.


Remember, your phone can go any moment, there is no guarantee, just like our lives.......


If you are interested to know, I got the OnePlus 3T. It is the latest model and really worth the price. You might have seen the posters around London Underground. I have been using it for 3 days and as of now, I highly recommend it!  Here is the link if you want to check it out: https://oneplus.net/uk/3t
If you would like it buy it, I suggest to get it from their website (the link I provided) and not O2 or Amazon. These are the only 3 places available to buy currently. #nospons

I customised mine, they do not come like this.

I hope the post was helpful and I apologise for such a late post. Make sure to check back every Saturdays. Feel free to recommend what you would like to read next.

Take care

Yours, Nafiza