Spoilt Rotten Lips and the Change of Season…
I don’t know if it’s just me, but my spoilt rotten lips have been really kicking up a stink with this change of weather. They are positively insatiable at the moment. My lip balms (which I am slave) are generally petroleum free, bee’s wax, jojoba, and or shea butter based. But today, I had to pull out the “big guns” and reach for my old, but ever loyal friend, and patron saint of all bits dry: Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. Talk about just the ticket. It’s funny how a shift to an altogether different product can be just what you needed. No longer are the lunatics taking over the asylum. Calm is restored. My lips are feeling quenched, soothed and protected. I must say, I’m certainly not only grateful for this product’s preparation, but I am enjoying the comforting fragrance of Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream too. It takes me back to the magical beauty bliss of my childhood, when I can recall the scent of this lovely on the matriarch and grand matriarch of the family: my mother and grandmother. I remember when they used to apply a slick or two of this iconic product on me and how special I felt. Who would have thought that one simple product could “still” work all that magic? Ahhhh…
Where The Beautiful Women Are.
Yesterday, in Australia, Clinique launched the results of their “Global Survey”, which complied the results of over 10,400 women in 13 countries and between 15 languages! Not a shabby effort by far! Clinique’s “Truth in Beauty” survey yielded some very interesting results, like: The vast majority of Indian women (84%) and Russian women (80%) rate women from their own country as the most beautiful in the world. Conversely, women from Germany and Japan chose women outside their own country as the most beautiful. Australians believed women from their own country to be most beautiful, followed by the women from Scandinavia and Italy. 52% of the women polled think that women from Italy and India are especially beautiful. How interesting. I was also intrigued by the fact that, according to the survey, the statement that “self-confidence comes from the knowledge that I look good, was true by 71% of Australian women surveyed, 90% of the time in China, 97% from Mexico, 80% from the US, 74% from South Africa, and 96% from Korea. It’s so true isn’t it? I wholeheartedly believe, that when you feel good, that translates almost instantaneously into how we look. It’s like our self confidence allows the abundance of beauty that lies within us to flow on to our outward selves. That’s good stuff.
Besides you, do you think there are there beautiful women in your neck of the woods?
So What’s Beauty Marked! All About?
I have always wanted to start a blog so I thought I would finally give it a go. I am a makeup artist, beauty consultant and beauty writer. I am the head cook and bottle washer of my site www.beautymarked.com.au and I absolutely adore what I do. My main aim is to make women feel beautiful and to show them how gorgeous they really (already) are. My philosophy about beauty is that we are all beautiful! We are all infinitely beautiful and should be empowered to bring all the beauty that lies abundantly within us to the outside. So really, our inner beauty aught to be reflected in our outer selves as well. I, wholeheartedly, believe that whatever will empower and assist an individual to actualize his or her infinite beauty, self confidence and generosity should be embraced. So that’s what I do. I , joyfully, live my life being of service to those wishing to get even more gorgeous!
