Article: Imagine your skin is like a wall in your home and a spray tan is like a can of paint. Sure, you can apply the paint directly to the wall without any preparation, but it might not look very good. Instead, taking the time to prepare the wall for paint (e.g. filling holes, sanding rough spots, using primer, etc.) will ensure the new layer of paint you apply will look its best. You want to do the exact same type of preparation to your skin before applying a spray tan in order to help it look great and last as long as possible. Use a body scrub and washcloth to exfoliate your skin in the shower every day for at least 3 days before your spray tan is applied. Complete any waxing you need at least 24 hours before your spray tan is applied. Ideally, you should shower and exfoliate about 8 hours before your spray tan appointment. If needed, you can apply a light body moisturizer after your shower, but don't use anything heavy or thick the day of your appointment. By showering and exfoliating 8 hours before your appointment, you're allowing your skin to reach the best pH level for taking a spray tan. The clothes and shoes you put on immediately following your appointment can cause all sorts of problems with your tan if you're not careful. You'll want to avoid anything with straps (including a bra) so as not to create lines in your tan. Light cotton clothing that is loose fitting and without straps is your best option for wearing home from your appointment. Sandals are also the best footwear option, but be careful that the straps on your sandals don't cause lines in the tan on your feet. If you do get strap lines on your feet, you can exfoliate the skin on your feet until the various coloured areas blend together. The day of your spray tan appointment you may want to avoid using products such as deodorant, foundation, and thick or heavy lotions. If you have no choice but to wear these items that day, make sure the technician at the spray tan clinic provides you with wipes to remove them before the spray tan is applied. These products form a layer on top of your skin that the spray tan product won't be able to penetrate. That means when you wash these products off, the skin where they use to be will be lighter than the surrounding skin. Wearing eye makeup to your appointment should be okay, and won't need to be removed before the spray tan is applied. Yes, the paper underwear isn't fun, but wearing them is worth the effort if you want your tan to look great. Putting on regular underwear may cause lines to form where the elastics touch your skin. The purpose of a spray tan is not to have any lines, so this completely defeats the purpose! Not every spray tan product is the same. Some require more time than others to set. It's important to ask the technician who applied the spray tan what specific instructions you need to follow for the specific tan you had applied. Once you know what your instructions are, make sure you following them precisely. If you need to time something, set a reminder alarm on your phone so you don't forget.
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Exfoliate your skin every day for the three days before your spray tan is applied. Arrive at your spray tan appointment with clean skin. Be careful what clothes and shoes you wear to your spray tan appointment. Avoid deodorant, foundation, and lotion. Wear the paper underwear you're given for a few hours after your appointment. Ask the technician what you need to do immediately after the tan is applied.
Article: Gestational diabetes is only diagnosed in pregnant women. During pregnancy, a woman's body increases the production of certain hormones and nutrients that can cause resistance to insulin. This causes the pancreas to increase its insulin production. Most of the time, the pancreas is able to deal with making more insulin and the mother will have slightly elevated blood sugar levels, but it will remain manageable. If the body starts building up too much insulin, then the mother will be diagnosed with gestational diabetes. If you are pregnant, you should get tested between week 24 and 28 to see if you have it. There are no symptoms, which makes it hard to diagnose otherwise. If it goes undiagnosed, it can cause problems with the pregnancy. This type of diabetes goes away after the baby is born. It can redevelop at Type 2 later in life. Gestational diabetes does not have any obvious signs or symptoms, but the mother is at risk if she lived with diabetes before the pregnancy. If you feel like you may be at risk, you can get screened before you get pregnant to see if you might have any early indicators such as prediabetes. The only way to know for sure, however, is to be screen during your pregnancy. This test requires the patient to drink a syrupy glucose solution. Then the patient has to wait for an hour. Once the hour is up, the blood is tested for blood sugar levels. If the levels are below 130-140 mg/dl, then the patient's levels are normal. If it is higher than this, you are at risk for gestational diabetes but don't necessarily have it. You will need a follow-up test called the glucose tolerance test. This test requires you to fast overnight. First thing the next morning, blood sugar levels are tested through a blood test. Then the patient drinks another syrupy glucose solution. This drink has a higher level of glucose. The blood sugar levels are checked once an hour for three hours. If your last two readings are higher than 130-140 mg/dl, then the patient is diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
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Understand gestational diabetes. Notice the symptoms. Get the Initial Glucose Challenge test. Take the Glucose Tolerance Test.
Article: The hardest part of starting your own cleaning service is obtaining those first clients. Most clients want to know how long you have been in business, and because they're trusting you with their belongings and personal affairs, they're going to want dependable references. Being new, you won't have any client references, but you still need to have some. For this, you can ask friends and family if you can clean their homes, and then get permission to use them as references. Not only will they be able to give you an honest reference, you'll also pre-thank them by doing a great job on their home. Let clients know that you are new to the business but that you have thoroughly researched all aspects of the cleaning business, have obtained any necessary training and that you are up-to-date with cleaning needs, including more demanding requests such as green or allergy cleaning. This may require research beforehand but is well worth the effort. Assure your clients that you know what you're doing and that you're quite capable of cleaning their home to their specifications. Be confidentthis can't be stressed enough, as clients respect and trust confidence. It relieves their worries and lets them know that their home is in good hands. Get character references as well, to reassure clients that you're a good, dependable person. A police check is also very wise; in some places, it's required by law. Consider offering a discount for the first clean, a loss leader approach whereby you can prove how excellent your services are. When cleaning the homes of your first clients, go for the very best quality you can give. This is not about how fast you can clean the home. Cleaning efficiently takes a long time, but you will get to the point where you can do a thorough cleaning in a short time. At the outset you may have to resign yourself to spending a bit more time than you'd like until you work out your own efficient systems but persevere as it won't take long to get your rhythm in place. After cleaning, go back and double check all rooms to make sure you didn't miss anything. Impress those first clients and word of mouth will soon spread. Tell them about your hopes for expanding your business, be enthusiastic without being pushy and you'll find many clients will be happy to let others know about how great your services are. Do reassure them that you won't leave them in the lurch thoughsome clients won't share word about you if they're afraid that you'll be poached and will no longer take care of their house.
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Get your first clients. Go for quality. Don't be shy about letting your clients know that you're seeking more clients.