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- A Bride's Wedding Beauty Checklist - Associated Content
- Wearing high heels might make you feel sexy and powerful, but think about the ... - Baltimore Sun
- Q&A: 'America's Next Top Model's' Nigel Barker muses on beauty in his new book - Los Angeles Times
| A Bride's Wedding Beauty Checklist - Associated Content Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:20 PM PDT A bride should look radiant on her wedding day. By creating a beauty checklist weeks before the celebration, doing a trial run of her beauty regimen and testing out new products before the big day, she will feel Skin and Makeup If the bride chooses to wear makeup that varies from her daily routine, a trial makeup application will give her confidence for the big day. By testing the makeup ahead of time, she can learn of any skin allergies to the products, test different shades of cosmetics and test how long the products will last. WeddingPath online recommends brides use a layering effect including a cream moisturizer, foundation with sunscreen, bronzer, blush, eye shadow, eyeliner and mascara. Snapping a few pictures of the trial makeup run lets the bride see a realistic image of her make-up choices. By viewing a photograph, she will know if the glitter-based lip gloss or shimmery bronzer is too overbearing, or if earth tone eye shadow doesn't enhance her facial features enough. Hair Care and Styling For optimal appearance, ChopstickBride recommends leaving blow dryers, flat irons and other heat-damaging hair styling devices in the bathroom closet as the wedding draws near. These items tend to damage hair follicles, leading to breakage and dull tresses. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Wearing high heels might make you feel sexy and powerful, but think about the ... - Baltimore Sun Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:15 AM PDT If there's one thing to be learned from "Sex and the City," it's that women love high heels. Sure, they might be painful to wear and challenging to walk in (for some of us, anyway), but as the saying goes, beauty is pain. But blisters might not be the only downside to wearing high heels. In fact, the damage might be occurring higher up on the body – in the ankle, knee and hip, according to new research presented later this at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics. Another key finding: The higher the heel, the greater the risk. The study was conducted by Danielle Barkema, a kinesiology student pursuing a master's degree at Iowa State University (who admits to wearing high heels occassionally herself). She said she got the idea from her twin sister, who wears heels all day in her department store job and noticed that many of her older heel-wearing colleagues had problems with their knees and hips. To test the consequences of wearing fancy footwear, Barkema recruited 15 women and asked them to strut around her laboratory on a special platform that measured the motion of their joints and the forces acting upon them. Sensors and motion cameras also documented the force and pressure in the women's legs as they wore flats, 2-inch heels and 3.5-inch heels. It turned out that their knees and ankles absorbed the most wear and tear. Higher heels increased the compression inside the knee, creating additional joint pain and strain, Barkema said in an interview. Wearing heels also altered the women's posture, forcing their ankles, knees and hips into unnatural positions that increased their risk for joint degeneration and osteoarthritis, she said. Still, she emphasized that the take-home message of her study is not to eliminate heels from one's wardrobe, but to limit their wear. "It's pretty difficult to tell your friends not to wear high heels," she said. "Just try to limit yourself as much as possible and not wear them every single day." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Q&A: 'America's Next Top Model's' Nigel Barker muses on beauty in his new book - Los Angeles Times Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:33 AM PDT
And now the "noted" fashion photographer has written a book, "Nigel Barker's Beauty Equation," that strives to answer the question, "What makes a woman beautiful?" We caught up with the dapper lensman, who's in the midst of a whirlwind book tour, to chat about the new tome: All the Rage: What made you want to write a book on beauty? Nigel Barker: Obviously, I'm known as a photographer who works in fashion. I've been bombarded with questions on how to be a model -- "I want to be beautiful, make me beautiful." All too often, the way people were approaching it was something physical they had to do. It was always to do with how one stood or what they should wear ... when what I really look for is the essence of an individual. Even if you are a model, none of those [physical elements] are going to make a good picture. I cast things like spontaneity and how personable [models] are. That's why they discuss personality so much on "America's Next Top Model." I started to write these chapters down. Charm, authenticity, health and well-being, compassion. These are the things that make you beautiful. There are a lot of "America's Next Top Model" contestants quoted and photographed in the book -- including CariDee English and Shandi Sullivan. Are they representative of your favorites? Most of them are people I know still and have remained in contact with. And also it was a little like, "Who's available?" There's been a lot of focus on weight in the modeling world lately. You show women of varying sizes in your book -- where do you stand on the subject? Women give themselves such a hard time, and there's no right and no wrong. Within the modeling industry, there's no doubt that there are some girls out there that are too thin. But there are also girls who are genetically slim and can eat like a horse. That's not to say we shouldn't have wider variety of shapes and sizes and colors. But things are changing. It's a question of moving forward and figuring out what the public wants to see. Ten years ago there were many more models on the covers of magazines, and now it's mostly celebrities. The reason is is that people identify with a talented celebrity who's more similar to them. There's a chapter on how to take a good self-portrait -- with a cellphone, laptop and instant camera. Why do you think this was an important element to have in the book? Well, I'm a photographer. And on the book's website, [beautyequation.com], I'm asking people to take self-portraits of themselves. As much as the book has a lot about me in it, the website I wanted to be about everyone's else's message. You talk a lot about your family in the book and dedicated it to your wife and your two young kids. How does family play into your professional life? My family are everything to me. They come first in everything I do. Part of the reason to even write the book was thinking about when they started to grow up and ask questions about what daddy did. One starts to question what one does. I really wanted to have some proper answers and I questioned myself. I wanted my kids to look up for me for what I do, not just what I say. -- Emili Vesilind Photo: The cover for "Nigel Barker's Beauty Equation." Credit: Abrams Image This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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