Great Grooming Tips For The Guys!
Being the savvy sweethearts that you are, you won’t mind if Beauty Marked! has a wee shift of focus for today to highlight a few great grooming tips for the ever-so-handsome guys out there? So good-looking, these are just for you:
- Shave If you are sporting a hair-free face, do shave at least once a day…twice if necessary, to keep up your groomed appearance.
- Trim If you are going with a bit of facial hair, keep it trimmed and shaped.
- Cleanse & Moisturize Even the blokiest blokes have skin (albeit rhino-like at times) and need to ensure that it stays clean, well hydrated, and sun blocked.
- Exfoliate Your face and body will love you when you attend to at least weekly scrubs and will work to keep you looking your vital best.
- Nails Clean, short, and filed are the three operatives here when it comes to finger and toe nails (yes, we do notice your dashing digits).
- Duo-browed. And yes, it is an absolute requirement that you have two eyebrows at all times.
Life’s Beautiful Bazaar.
The Seed Market
Can you find another market like this?
Where, with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Where, for one seed
get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath,
a divine wind?
You’ve been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.
Now, your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.
It no longer has the form it had,
but it’s still water
The essence is the same.
This giving up is not a repenting.
It’s a deep honoring of yourself.
When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry at once, quickly,
for God’s sake!
Don’t postpone it!
Existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching
will find this.
A perfect falcon, for no reason
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.
-By Jelal’uddin Rumi
To Be Right Or To Be Kind.
“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.”
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Love The Skin You’re In.
As a firm believer in the power of positive thought, Beauty Marked! absolutely knows how we can’t afford the effects of a negative one. Bearing this crucial fact, based on the Universal Law of Attraction, in mind…a positive affirmation or three never goes astray and will always work tirelessly to make our beautiful dreams manifest.
Gorgeous affirmations for you today and always:
I appreciate all that I am as my gratitude is great. I love and approve of myself. I am beautiful, therefore, I live a life just brimming with joy, beauty, vitality, love, and wonderfully good health.
Expect great things!
-BM! x
Let There Be No Mistaking…
Now when Beauty Marked! recommends to “Go the Bold” lip, this is exactly what we mean (as photographed). This arrestingly beautiful and ultra bold lip, courtesy of M.A.C. for Temperly SS08, is just what we are talking about! The trend this spring/summer season is all about picking only one of your many best features and totally showing that one bit of gorgeousness off.
“A bright lip defines the tendency to just identify one element in the makeup this season- it’s all about paring the face back to just one feature. For a switch in attitude from last season, the new bright lip is more attitudinal than luxurious. I’m really into setting a bright lip against a sheeny skin which makes it feel fresh, sporty, and modern.” -Charlotte Tilbury
We are loving the Loud Mouth…without a doubt!
*Image courtesy of M.A.C. and may not be reproduced without permission. Thanks!
On Being Beautiful.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
What About These?
Hi BM!
What do you reckon about eyelash curlers? Are they really all that necessary? Looking forward to reading your thoughts. Thanks.
Oddly enough, I can not seem to find my eyelash curler for love nor money at the moment. I suspect it might have something to do with the ram-raid my 20 month old daughter did on my cosmetics wardrobe a week ago. Hmmm. On initial inspection, post ram-raid, I thought the damage was limited to only few cream blushes, an eyeshadow brush, and a couple of gel eyeliners….but upon the real rude awakening, which came a few days later, when attending to a full face (mine), I could not find my beloved Shu Curler that had been, on the quiet, both faithfully and capably called to service darn near daily. Gasp! So I was left to improvise and trust me, while the finger pressure on mascaraed lashes for about 30 seconds might be the go on a dessert island when you are forced to go without, but when you’re not, the old finger ain’t a patch on an eyelash curler. In its terribly missed absence, I now realize that my eyelash curler is a bit of an unsung hero, in fact. So to make a short story longer…yes, I do rather think they are necessary and work quite a ways at expertly opening the eye while giving you a more alluring and curvaceous look to your lashes and overall makeup look, absolutely.
Now, I’m off to find my long lost stellar beauty and if I can’t, I’m calling in the troops to round up another. *sings woefully* Oh where, Oh where has my eyelash curler gone? Oh where, Oh where can she be?…
