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!
The Pondered Path.
“when you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” -Kahlil Gibran
Beautiful Affirmations For A Beautiful You!
Today is a magnificent day. I go forth and spread beauty and light. I love my body and my spirit and celebrate the beauty that comes from both within me and around me. I release any feelings of guilt as they do not heal nor support me and I embrace, approve of myself and create joyous situations that do support me in being the wonderful person that I Am!
A Sensible Sonneteer Of Sorts.
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” -John Keats
Never Too Hot To Trot.
“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.” -Alighieri Dante
Wonderfully Wacky-Do and Hair Free Too!
I received an email the other day that made me giggle a bit, absolutely smile an even bigger bit, and ever so pleased to be a bit “Out There”. Here’s an excerpt from the most excellent email below:
Hello Beauty Marked!,
“I have to say that your rather well informed, albeit unorthodox approach to beauty is really refreshing and always a great read. I wasn’t too sure I’d get into the daily beauty affirmations or enjoy the beautiful quotations you have posted as much as I have. They are just so different. But I think the thing I am most pleased about is your inspirational quips that you liberally share. I also love that you are so wonderfully wacky-do, but in the coolest, most well groomed way…”
i just had to share this gem of an email and weigh in to say how much I so appreciate and embrace my card carrying Groomed Wacky-Do status and that I couldn’t ever consider passing up an opportunity to spritz on a fine fragrance, slick on a gorgeously-rich red lippie, have a mani, pedi, blow-dry, brow shape, wax, facial, to meditate, re-align my chakras, have a massage, or to commune with a magnificent crystal. No way José! But the best bit about this email is that you lovelies obviously know it too. I love that! Thanks for noticing and an even bigger thanks for being you!
-BM! xx
