Elegant Survival

High quality, reasonably-priced, state-of-the-art skin-care is at your fingertips!

Kandace Bernal of Ulew Nature Products explains the procedure of skin-brushing.

Pure white coconut oil mixed with a couple drops of lavender oil makes a wonderful, natural emollient for lips and fingernails. The mixture is also antibacterial. I store this home-made cream in antique porcelain miniature jars with lids. The jar on the left is by Heinrich of Bavaria, and the right one is Chinese.

Cosmetics cop Paula Begoun, whom I have linked to on Elegant Survival, is presenting her first internet radio programme tomorrow, Thursday. Click here to reach the show-page.

One half-cup of water, one fourth-cup of lemon juice, one jalapeño or other hot pepper (roasted,pickled or fresh), two stalks of celery, one-half of a cucumber, one tablespoon of thick yoghurt or a half-cup of buttermilk, and one tablespoon of parsley, all whirled in a blender till smooth. Add water if necessary for processing.

Copyright M-J de Mesterton 2009

Paula Begoun, the Cosmetics Cop, was discovered last week by my husband, who was researching skin-care products. We are very impressed with her philosophy, which is in accord with that of Elegant Survival: there is always a low-priced equivalent to fancy department store products. Mrs. Begoun rates and recommends many makeup and skin-care products, which is quite generous of her since she produces a line of them. My better half ordered Paula's Choice matte-finish gel-moisturizer for both of us, since we share a skin-type. I shall review that soon, after we use it for a while.

This is Paula's advice to one of her readers about enlarged pores, published this month, August.

http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/what-were-they-thinking/3160/1#id=4

When a garment that rises to a point just below the navel is labelled as "high-waisted", you know that things are really upside-down. And the fact that this snarky critic is regularly featured on the front page of Yahoo! is another sign that the end of civilisation is near. I'd love to see what the Hell he is wearing (I can tell his gender from the blatantly sexist comments that Yahoo's staff mysteriously ignore). Apparently, this misanthrope adores the short-legged look that garments below the waist afford one.

Earth to fashion-fools: there's a reason that the middle of the body is called a waist--because it is located at the waist, and not below the navel. One cannot call the area below or at the waist "high-waisted". If you wish to see an example of "high-waisted", just look at the woman in this OMG line-up who is accused of wearing "a curtain". That is a high-waisted dress. Obviously, the nasty writer hasn't seen a real waist in so long that he 

has forgotten what it is. This sort of distortion is what's wrong with the fashion-world and its self-appointed arbiters of taste. They have none, and are trying to lead us astray so that everyone they see looks hideous.

The Green Chronicle: Common, Natural Ingredients Used for Health and Beauty 

 Please visit Face and Figure for some warm-up and core-strengthening exercise videos.

Forward posture is when one leads with his/her head. This can develop when sitting at a desk or driving in a slumped, head-first position. Forward posture can significantly increase the weight-load on your neck , screw up your spine, and affect adversely the workings of your insides. I listened to a radio show about the problem, in which chiropractors discuss the problem. A chiropractic solution is bound to be expensive and out-of-reach for many people. Here is a video I found that may be helpful, even if you don't actually have the affliction yet.

So, if you wear low-cut, hip-hugging jeans, your pockets are not on your lower back, but on your butt-cheeks?  I knew this fashion was idiotic, but this takes the cake.

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