Beauty Sleep.
We’ve all heard about it, but how many actually think its more than just a way our mothers used to coax us to bed when we were young? Well, we at Chez Beauty Marked! are pleased as punch to say that not only is there such a thing as beauty sleep, but what an incredibly important type of sleep it is too. Quality sleep is an integral part of good emotional, physical and mental health. When we get our beauty sleep, the body goes into hardcore regenerative mode. During beauty sleep, our tissues and organs (of which the skin is the largest) sets about major reparative work. Our hormones, particularly growth hormones, are at their highest levels and exert their greatest influence while sleeping and they’re hugely responsible for cellular renewal. What is the most noteworthy thing about beauty sleep is what happens when we are running a bit short of it. A string of nights sans not much by way of quality beauty sleep can be highly stressful on our bodies on many levels, while manifesting itself both internally and externally. This increased stress, which comes about as a direct result of lack of beauty sleep, has been shown, through scientific research, to actually speed up the aging process! Our sleep enticing and sagely advice to you is to hit the hay hard and you’ll be sure to find the Fountain of Youth in your dreams, absolutely. So, sleep tight and …don’t let the bed bugs bite!
For Always!
Nice Day For Ducks…
I don’t know about the weather in your neck of the woods, but in Beauty Marked!’s, it’s been pretty abysmal. Light showers one minute, scorchingly hot and humid the next followed by hail, threats of hypothermia and hideous torrential downpours. The weather has just been unreal and more labile in the shortest space of time than most makeup maven’s FOTDs can, quite possibly, stand. This crazy, ultra changeable weather reminds me of a fun, spirited article I once came across on the web titled, ‘makeup for a monsoon’. Gotta love the web. Oddly enough, I recall it offering some pretty good tips to keep in mind and the stellar pearls were pretty much in accord with anything I could come up with. Lets see…from memory, the monsoonal makeup essentials were:
Waterproof mascara
creamy lipstick in a trans lip/cheek type colour
Long last gel eyeliner
Powder eyeshadow or loose pigment
Cream blush
Powder blush
Makes sense to me. The only things I recall not on the list, but would be an ever-so-useful BM! addition to the Makeup Mavens Monsoonal Makeup Essentials would be:
Lip and Cheek stain
Mineral Makeup
Colour-free Lip balm
With these three added items, you’d be pretty sorted. The lip and cheek stain would be a fab base for when everything else either melted or blew off in all wonky weather. Mineral makeup is generally pretty water resistant, easy wearing, lightweight, and protective while offering you a medium coverage for the most part and doesn’t tend to go manky with heat, sweat or rain. Lip balm…well this ought to be everyone’s staple beauty item as it can be swung in a great many directions with masterful effect for the most part. What other beauty product can you think of that can double or even treble as a hair styling product, cream eyeshadow and blush when mixed with pigment, and function as a spot makeup remover in a pinch? Lip balm can freshen up most makeup when tending to running repairs, all the while acting as a sneaky bit of moisturizer for those rogue ashy patches that can become manifest in the mayhem of the weather of the moment. *idea*
I don’t know about you, but I think you’d be better than sorted if you battened down the hatches with these beaut meteorologically inspired bits of makeup magic in your arsenal. In fact, you’d be one darling ducky indeed.
On Love Support:
“In order to keep love alive, we must consciously feed it all the magnificence we can muster.” Susan Jeffers Ph.D
What’s A Bad Hair Day?
A few months ago I had my hair titivated with several Original Diva Exclusive Hair Inserts and gosh was that ever fun. When the near OCD-like shaking of the head and the shameless reflection gazing subsided somewhat, it dawned on me that with these nifty, clip-on, Silk Remy human hair inserts, there is really no longer a need for there to be such a thing as a “bad hair day” ever again. I’m liking that notion, absolutely! Original Diva offers you a “great hair day” with their three, Original Diva 100% Human Hair Extensions options:
Single Clip-on Highlights Offers you a burst of colour or a subtle high or low light to complement any hair tone.
Original Diva In a Box This is your full head of hair in multiple clip-on tracks of inserts that can be used as often as desired and inserted and removed in minutes.
Permanent Micro Ring System Original Diva’s Permanent Ring Micro System offers the wearer a keratin tipped end sitting close to the scalp attached with soft teflon coated beads for reduced scalp irritation. As your hair grows, a professional stylist can easily reposition the beads to the roots of the hair for ongoing wear.
Original Diva products are sold throughout Australia’s leading salons, but do be sure to visit the Original Diva Online store for so much more! *still flicking*
Ten Totally Terrific Tips For Beautifying Today!
- Smile and enjoy a great laugh.
- Eat a gorgeously ripe mango or a piece or three of your favourite tropical fruit.
- Go for a relaxed walk in a park, bushland or along the seaside.
- Meditate.
- Tell someone or someone(s) you love them and follow up with a magical and ultra squeezy bear hug.
- Take a luxurious bath surrounded with burning candles and aromatherapy oils.
- Dance like it’s nobody’s business while singing to your heart’s content.
- Read for pleasure.
- Generously and graciously give of your time to assist someone and make absolutely nothing of it.
- Buy yourself a beautiful bunch of flowers or a wonderfully indulgent treat and really delight in them.
Kung Hei Fat Choy!
Happy Chinese New Year! No doubt many of you are enjoying day 3 three of this fantastic 15 day New Year’s celebration. The new moon on February 7th, 2008 heralded the start of a Ratty year. That’s right, 2008 is the year of the Rat. I wonder if this was what Buddha envisaged when he asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year and only 12 came? But understanding Buddha and the smart and enlightened cookie that he is, this was all part of the plan. Buddha being the ever gracious host, named a year after each of the 12 animals to come to the party and announced that each person born in the year of one of the 12 animals would have personality traits that matched that of the year’s animal namesake with the Rat being the first. Luckily, according to Buddha and not James Cagney, the year of the rat doesn’t mean we can look forward to an influx of “you dirty rat”, but folks brimming with loyalty, passion, charisma, charm, and are very diligent and committed, demonstrating great leadership, and are trailblazers in their chosen fields.
Gosh, I never knew how cool rats could be. You would have thought that famous rats like Mozart, Churchill, Shakespeare, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mata Hari, Scarlett Johansson, Plato, Tolstoy, Sasha Cohen, Antonio Bandaras, and Samuel L. Jackson would of tipped me off, but no. But Beauty Marked! sure does now and is looking forward to enjoying the festivities for the next 12 days until the full moon, when the end of the celebrations come to a close with the phenomenal Lantern Festival on the 15th night. So many days, so many parties! We love it!
Beauty Marked! wishes you all the very best for the Chinese New Year and may this year bring you a glut of glutinous rice balls filled with all that your gorgeous heart desires and more. Kung Hei Fat Choy!
