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Do Celebrities Regret Plastic Surgery?

Posted on: Nov 03, 2008  By: admin  In all about  With: No Comments »

What do celebrities such as Kathy Griffin, David Gest, Kenny Rogers, Jill Saward and others regret?

Do other celebrities such as Priscilla Presley, Cher, Joan Rivers and Melanie Griffith have the same regrets?

Are Michael Jackson, his sisters Janet and LaToya and Jackie Stallone related or do they, too, harbor regrets?

What do these celebrities have in common that causes them angst? Why, plastic surgery, of course!

Do you find it interesting that celebrities who can afford the very best surgeons and care often find themselves the butt of cruel jokes regarding their choices of using surgery and injections that were supposed to make them look younger?

Living in the limelight can certainly have its advantages and perks but there is a downside to living life on the red carpet and that is most likely why celebrities subject themselves to constant scrutiny that results in multiple procedures.

From nose jobs to breast implants, brow lifts to face lifts, cheek and chin implants, to eye lifts and regular use of Botox and fillers, the celebrity population keeps the plastic surgery business alive on both coasts.

John Q. Public loves celebrities and some even want to emulate them. Just peruse any woman’s magazine and you will find knock-off clothing suggestions from shoes, jewelry, sweaters, tops, slacks to coats coaxing the reader to look like a celebrity. Buying knock-off clothing and accessories to emulate a celebrity is just one step from wanting Jennifer Anniston’s nose or Madonna’s new cheek implants.

Aging with style and grace has been compromised with the advent of injections that plump and paralyze; add cutting perfectly healthy tissue, a very generous and sustained publicity blast that has kept these modalities forever in our psyche, and voila – faces are being cut, sutured, injected and altered at an alarming rate.

Do the procedures really help men and women to look younger and healthier? Do the risks outweigh the outcome?

Donda West and her untimely death easily comes to mind when you consider risks and benefits. Like Ms. West, many men and women in her age group have hidden health challenges that may not be uncovered until it is too late.

Choosing a well qualified surgeon is paramount; disclosing all medications, vitamin usage, previous health concerns and procedures will assist your health provider to determine your eligibility for plastic surgery. Choose a surgeon in good standing with the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

Plastic surgery is not a walk in the park.

Every surgery has its risks and dangers. Surviving a surgery then contracting MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is highly possible. This makes recovery especially difficult because eighty percent of facelift surgery infections are MRSA “Superbugs” according to a study conducted by researchers from the Lennox Hill-Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital and published in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.

Other risks of cutting and suturing are that the results may not be what you anticipated. The skin surrounding the incision may not heal or act like your skin did previous to the procedure. Once healthy skin is cut, it is never the same. There is usually a loss of sensation (think Joan Rivers in the Geico commercial when she laments that she cannot feel her face) because the blood supply to the area has been diminished.

Injections that plump and paralyze do not always produce the desired results either. Too many visits with the syringe and you can begin to look freakish as taut and shiny are not synonymous with beauty and youth on a face that is trying to disguise old, wrinkled and droopy.

So what’s the healthy solution for creating a younger looking face so the user doesn’t have to suffer from invasive injections or risky surgeries?

The healthy solution is facial exercises. That’s right, just as exercise works to trim, slim and tighten your waist, tummy, hips, thighs, torso and arms, facial exercises will address each slack, droopy facial feature and begin to systematically from the inside out tighten, tone and lift the areas that make you look old, tired and even lop-sided.

Facial exercises are more reliable than surgical procedures and injections because they can return your face to the look you enjoyed years ago. Your friends and family will easily recognize you as you present a fresh, pretty face for the world to see.

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Cynthia Rowland is widely recognized as an expert in all natural facial fitness. She has appeared on The View, NBC 4, Fit TV, HGTV and other popular shows. This author, speaker and television personality is leading the crusade to keep men and women looking vibrantly younger through natural techniques without spending their children’s inheritance.

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How to Stay Looking Young

Posted on: Oct 15, 2008  By: admin  In all about  With: No Comments »

We’re obsessed with aging and the older we get, the more obsessive we become. Thanks to Madonna, it is no longer acceptable to look your age when you finally hit 50. Sure, she may have had some help (or so my wife tells me!) news that woman doesn’t look a day over 35. Any idea we had of letting ourselves go a bit when we get older is now redundant. We all want to look younger than we are, but if you say no to the knife, how can you challenge the signs of aging? It’s possible if you take a fresh look at the way you eat, sleep, rest, play and live. Here’s how.

Eat

Anti-oxidants are a group of organic substances which include vitamins C, E and vitamin A, selenium, and carotenoids. They help combat the signs of ageing by destroying the oxidants or free radicals inside the human body that attack it and they help to keep the skin firm by protecting the skins collagen and elastic tissue. Anti-aging foods are full of anti-oxidants so eating this is a big step towards holding back the years and improving your general health.

Eat This – Garlic, onions, green leafy vegetables, chilli peppers, lentils, kidney beans, chick peas, yogurt, nuts and seeds, raspberries, cherries, plums, oranges.

Fitness madonna Life

Rarely will you find someone who looks younger than their years who doesn’t exercise. Fitness not only keeps you trim, agile and healthy, but it gives you a glow of healthiness and youthfulness that radiates from you. Make exercise a part of your life – it doesn’t have to be high-impact quotes or weight training, regular gentle exercise is great too. The more you do this, the better you look. The longer you do this, the better you look for longer. Simple.

Try This- Add a daily walk to your routine or swim regularly. Sign up for a 10k run or subscribe to a fitness or health magazine for 6 months and body-envy will motivate you if nothing else.

Reduce Stress

If you’ve ever seen someone you know after they’ve had some trauma in their life, you’ll have noticed how much they’ve aged in a short time. that’s what stress does to you over a longer period but the end result is the same. If you know you are more stressed than you can cope with, change something. You will be giving yourself the best gift ever and likely extending your life. Stress sits on your face and your heart – reduce it now.

Do This – Try breathing exercises to relax you; book a massage – treat yourself; take up yoga.

Stop smoking

I wont go into what it does to your heart and lungs because everyone knows this by now. But smoking gives you deep wrinkles, dries out your skin and gives your skin a lovely, grey colour that adds 10+ years to your face. Nice.

Know This – One of my clients is a plastic surgeon and he once told me that the people who age the most are blondes, who live in the sun and who smoke. You can’t control your natural hair colour or re-locate so easily but you can control the smoking.

Stop frowning

Look in the mirror and have a conversation with yourself. Look out for the faces you pull and when you come to the frown face, stop. That’s the face you should avoid pulling from now on. Frowning gives you wrinkles and deep ones at that but it also makes you appear stern and flat. A smile brightens the face, works the muscles in the right direction (up) and is contagious. It generates great feedback.

Do This – Try to smile for as much of the day as you can. When you’re at work, sitting on the train, walking by. You’ll become aware of how many people make eye contact with you and smile back.

Break the Habit

Your day is dictated by what you say to yourself in the morning. Waking up and dreading the office is the first step to ensuring your day will be bad. Break this negative habit immediately and try ‘power talking’ to yourself instead. Today is going to be great. I can’t wait for this afternoon. By changing your attitude, you become more positive and upbeat and look and feel better. This is a youthful and vital approach to life whereas moaning, whingeing, dreading is very negative and comes across as old and unable to cope with what life throws at you.

Try This – next time you are supposed to go to a meeting or meet a friend when you would rather crash out at home, say this -I can’t wait to do _______, it’s always great fun. I can’t wait for _________, it’s usually really interesting. I promise this works a charm.

P.S. – My client, the plastic surgeon I mentioned above also told me this, the only skin creme on the market that he believed really helped to delay the signs of ageing? The cheapest – Nivea. The original version, the creme your mum used to smear all over your face as a child…who knew?

Jeff Archer is the Director of The Tonic, a corporate health and wellness company. Subscribe to http://instantfeelgood.blogspot.com and get more great tips

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Guide to Approaching Women – Practical Tips

Posted on: Oct 14, 2008  By: admin  In all about  With: No Comments »

If given the right formula you will be cosmetics to handle every situation that is thrown at you. Fixing cars and approaching women are two different things, and there is a different spa for each. But fixing cars and approaching women can be alike in some aspects. If you are willing to learn a few basic steps, you will be successful with women for a long time, you just have to take some action. This article is intended to give you a few practical steps in this task. This certainly is a good guide to approaching women.

Trial and error, and years of study are contained in a great guide. Most don’t stand a chance in any real life situations. They are not even considered good, let alone worth the $39.99 price tag. Maybe you walk away with a tip two, but what you need is a precise plan of action for the dating game. It is truly no holds barred. You really cant learn much just by reading a small article or from a magazine.

The best guide to approaching women should do one thing and one thing only, and it is to drill the following in your head: “you’ll only get as far as your efforts take you”. these techniques and patters are being used by thousands of men to make women fall in love with them instantly. There are many a guides to approaching women and many studies to back them up. This is really more possible than you may think.

The human mating dance is the most misunderstood aspect of human behavior.A real guide to approaching women will make sure you understand that understanding the “mindset” or women is the key to dominating the dating game. And to control every situation that is thrown at you.

There is a good way to handle every situation that the dating game can throw at you. To learn more visit our website and view reviews of the Best Dating Guides available today.

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Christian Audigier – A Fashion Legend

Posted on: Oct 13, 2008  By: admin  In all about  With: No Comments »

Mention Christian Audigier clothing to anyone who knows a bit about fashion, and they will likely start talking about trucker hats and Von Dutch. They will probably mention marriage Hardy and tattoos. They might bring up some of the major celebrities who frequently wear his designs-celebrities like Madonna, Busta Rhymes, Diddy, and Paris Hilton. Photographs of stars wearing Audigier’s crystal-studded sweatshirts, tattooed t-shirts, and other distinctive creations can be seen everyday online and in magazines.

Audigier is quite a big fish in the big pond of fashion-nearly everyone knows of his clothing. Currently, Audigier has seven very successful, well-established clothing lines: ‘Ed Hardy,’ ‘Christian Audigier,’ ‘Crystal Rock,’ ‘SMET,’ ‘Chuck Boyd,’ ‘C-Bar-A,’ and ‘Paco Chicano.’ Each of Christian Audigier’s clothing lines is unique, and each has helped to build the Christian Audigier clothing brand into one of the biggest of the fashion world.

However, Audigier didn’t just build his own clothing lines without cutting his teeth elsewhere first. He began working with denim when he was younger, as he had a dream of becoming a rock-and-roll star. The collection he designed-which he has said was inspired by the Rolling Stones-was discovered by an executive at ‘MacKeen Jeans.’ This led him to a long and interesting career working with designer jean companies. Audigier worked with ‘Levi’s,’ ‘Diesel,’ ‘Bisou Bisou,’ ‘American Outfitters,’ and ‘Fiorucci’ clothing companies-and, at each company, he became a driving force within the company. This is why people even today call Audigier, “The King of Jeans.” His skills in working with denim can be seen in many of the Christian Audigier clothing creations for his various clothing lines today.

After working with the various denim lines, Audigier began working with Von Dutch-and he is widely credited with putting Von Dutch on the fashion map. These days, Christian Audigier clothing lines include hats that are very much like the trucker hats that Audigier made famously popular when he was with Von Dutch. These hats are elegantly embroidered with designs much like the Ed Hardy tattoos displayed on Audigier’s other items of clothing. Skulls and crossbones, cannabis leaves, panthers, Christian Audigier monograms, and other designs are characteristic of these hats.

When Audigier left Von Dutch, he wanted to design a line based around tattoos. After a Google search for “famous tattoo artist” led him to Don Ed Hardy, the rest is history. Audigier formed a partnership with Hardy, named the line ‘Ed Hardy,’ and placed Hardy’s exquisitely intricate tattooed designs on t-shirts, hoodies, and other clothing items. These Christian Audigier clothing items continue to be some of the most popular sellers among all of Audigier’s pieces.

Christian Audigier’s clothing appeals to both men and women of nearly any age, which is something that cannot be said for many clothing lines. Celebrities love to wear the pieces, but then so does everyone else. Audigier really knows how to allure all walks of people with his clothing designs. Christian Audigier clothing is really more than a brand-it is more like a culture.

Christian Audigier Clothing is created by famed French designer, Christian Audigier. Every Christian Audigier Shirt has multiple prints and tattoo-inspired graphics.

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Fireworks, Flirty Swimsuits and Fun For the Fourth

Posted on: Oct 13, 2008  By: admin  In all about  With: No Comments »

If you really want to make a splash and be the center of attention like your favorite TV or movie star, be sure to pick a cute, flattering swimsuit that shows off your slimmer summer shape. Whether it’s the scantiest Brazilian bikini you can find or a more traditional one-piece, look for exceptional, creative touches that will help you stand out from the crowd, from a signature color to metallic ring details.

Which designs are popular this year? Here are some style categories that made Lucky Magazine’s Guide to the best Swimsuits of the Season (May issue) — and a few of the celebrities who wear them:

• Classic Halter — a marriages abroad that flatters just about any figure; a look favored by Liv Tyler

• spa Bikini — adjustable for a customized fit; recently worn by Lauren Conrad of “The Hills”

• Retro High-waist — old-fashioned glamour that also helps disguise a tummy; Kim Cattrall wore one as Samantha in the hit film “Sex and the City”

• Knit Bikini — perfect if you have a tiny figure and loads of self-confidence like “Laguna Beach” favorite Kristin Cavallari

• Ruffled Bikini — very feminine and flirty; Jessica Biel was recently spotted in one with an adorable flounced skirt

• Bright Bandeau – look for one with unique accents, like the one worn by “Grey’s Anatomy” and “27 Dresses” actress Katherine Heigl on her Mexican honeymoon

Whether you decide to cover up a bit or be a little more daring, at least one of these celebrity swimsuit styles are sure to work for you. And they are all easy to find instantly at Canyon Beachwear (www.canyonbeachwear.com)

Unlike department stores, specialty retailers like Canyon Beachwear offer an extensive selection of the most current swimwear designs and accessories. In fact, Lucky Magazine highly recommends Canyon’s website as a top resource in its Swimsuit Shopping Sourcebook, citing the easy-to-use search tool, which allows you to search by a variety of styles like the ones listed above, as well as by brand, price range, your favorite color or specific body type.

What’s more, www.canyonbeachwear.com’s wide selection and personalized customer assistance ensure that you can locate the perfect swimsuit that perfectly flatters your unique shape. You can even speak with a live customer service representative who is specially trained to help you pick out the best style for your proportions. Any time you are not happy with a swimsuit or accessory for any reason, all you need to do is return it, no questions asked, since Canyon Beachwear provides free shipping and returns standard with any online order over $200.

So, on the 4th of July and beyond, all through the long hot summer, why not create a few fireworks of your own at the beach or by the pool? Just find that special swimsuit that flatters your every curve at Canyon Beachwear.

Canyon Beachwear is a specialty retailer with nine swimwear boutiques located in California and New York as well as online. Unlike department stores, Canyon Beachwear carries hundreds of the most stylish swimwear and accessories from top designers all year round, including Anne Cole, Badgley Mischka, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Emam?, Gottex, Hot Kiss, LeTarte, Michael Kors, Pompei Beach, Robin Piccone, Salinas, Vix, Zoe NYC and many more. An online selection tool allows visitors to sort swimsuit styles by Body Type, Designer, Style, Color or Price Range. Staffed by trained and knowledgeable fit specialists, the Canyon Beachwear website provides free shipping and returns for online orders over $200. Visit http://www.CanyonBeachwear.com or speak to a live swimwear specialist at 1-800-863-6681, Mon-Fri 9:00am-6:00pm and Sat-Sun 11:00am-7:00pm PST.

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