Smells Like Aromatheraphy

It’s widely known the slogan of the deodorant Teen Spirit, that Nirvana borrowed to name their most famous song, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Where advertisers evoke the stainless teenagers, Nirvana picked the shallowness of a prefabricated culture of success. Smells, like words, can suggest feelings, what perfumists know well, and can be healing. Welcome to Aromatherapy.

Close your eyes for a while. The smell of cake can bring you back to your childhood, when you were eager to eat your mother’s recipes or to smell lavender can address you to where you used to spend your holidays. There’s nothing more wicked than absence of smell, or should we speak of Grenouille, the character of The Perfume?

Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile plant materials, known as essential oils, and similar aromatic compounds from plants, for the purpose of improving a person's mood, cognitive function or health*, and it’s been practiced since antiquity. There are several material with which develop it, but let’s go for the easiest, from smelling from its natural container.

These are some smells that can improve your health without realizing and you can find easily:

• Lavender: Calm and relax.
• Lemon: Invigorates and reduces stress.
• Rose: Aphrodisiac.
• Eucalyptus: Relief for flu or cold.
• Jasmine: Aphrodisiac.
• Basil: Anti-depressive, sharpener of sexual concentration, relieves headaches and migraines

Picture credits

Tasmanian lavender fields by Rowan M. McDonnald, from Wikipedia: Lavender

Enjoy your life: Ten tips for happiness

In the welfare society, depression keeps on growing. When the well being it’s searched outside ourselves, we are opening the door for constant insatisfaction. Read our clues and you’ll realize how to seize every minute without remorse.

1. Overall, love yourself more than anyone else: From childhood we are taught to be second after the rest of the people and that shows we are reliable and fine, otherwise we’d be egotist. It seems as if our feelings weren’t important, but truth is that without loving ourselves we can’t be mature adults and we can’t love any other. On the other hand, we will develop self-destructive attitudes. We are unique and we have to enhance that. Loving ourselves it’s the first step to happiness.


2. You’re the only owner of your life: Don’t let anyone push you to leave other way different to your paths. There is no wrong and no right, but the things that work for you and the ones that don’t; some are conventional and other, rather unconventional. You can be advised and any further than that it’s acting against your freedom. Who can judge how a life should be handled? Anyone that wants to change you or make you different to what you are it’s toxic, then keep him away.


3. Keep toxic people away: There’s people that drains you emotionally (manipulates you, hurts you). They are big seducers in the outside, but shallow and insecure in the inside. Valuable people won’t let you down, won’t make you cry, and will grow with you because they like your company, they don’t think about what can they steal you.On the contrary, this garbage will torn you to pieces and make you lose your self-esteem. Run as soon as you notice one.


4. Avoid feeling guilty all the time: You’ll only feel guilty if you think you are guilty. There are people that are skilled in emotional blackmail, as it’s one of the easiest and most effective ways to have someone under control. Just stop to think and analyze if there is really something you should feel wrong about. If it is, do you think that thinking over and over about it makes you feel better or makes the damage disappear? Of course not. You can’t change things, but if you put your foot on it you can ask for forgiveness and correct and if you don’t, you can learn from the experience.


5. The past it’s past and the future it’s to come: Why worry about things you can’t change? That’s wasting energy and investing on suffering. Why worry about that things that happened and that probably won’t happen? That’s anticipating suffering. The only you have for sure it’s the present. If there’s a solution, go for it, and if it’s not, learn from the experience. Not forgiving yourself blocks you and stops you from progressing.

1. Be positive: Being negative can make you unable to go on. If the worst of the worst it’s going to happen, what can anybody do about it? Life it’s not in pink, but seen it in black it’s as harmful. Optimistic are the ones that see life realistically and still think they can overcome the obstacles of everyday and they will learn from them, even if it takes pain. Take a thought and notice that many situations depend on how you evaluate them.


2. Don’t aim for perfection, if you want to do it, do it: We are so pushed to do everything perfectly that we tend to stop ourselves from doing many amusing things because we are not experts. Let’s bring back the curiosity and the lack of prejudices of childhood and go for things we are interested at. The dare and the pleasure don’t come from the perfection with which it’s handled, but from the courage of trying.


3. Big things are made of tiny things: Could a house being built without bricks? We look for happiness outside ourselves, when all we need for succeeding it’s in our inside; giving the rest the power for making us happy it’s always the closest step to failure. We are not half oranges, but complete oranges; if we can make ourselves happy, no one else will. How is happiness achieved? Enjoying every moment of our lives, as having a coffee with our best friend or going swimming; those little moments it’s what our life it’s made of.


4. Reinvent yourself constantly: It can be trying new things or learning. Human beings aren’t something finished until they die and modern life always introduces dares. You can always change and reform, without age limitations.


5. Don’t argue, be assertive: We are not infallible, then sometimes we collide because we have different opinions or make mistakes. Blaming and insulting others it’s a waste of time and of energy, not only doesn’t solve problems, but make them bigger. Between losing one marbles and being a dropout there’s a way, being assertive. With this option, you express your opinion without insulting (usually violence attracts more violence) and at once explain which kinds of attitudes you are not going to stand and that you have the right to have your own life. An assertive attitude would be something like this: “Those things you told me really hurted me and I don’t think I deserve them. If you think there’s something I did wrong, let’s talk about it when we are calmer”.

Bibliography

• Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne W. Dyer

Available in http://www.amazon.com/

• De la autoestima al egoísmo by Jorge Bucay (RBA Integral, 2005)


• Los pilares de la felicidad by Bernabé Tierno (Booket,Temas de hoy, Claves para vivir mejor, 2008)


• Optimismo vital by Bernabé Tierno (Booket, Temas de hoy, Claves para vivir mejor, 2007)

The following books are just published in Spanish. Contact the publishers for further information

http://www.rbalibros.com/

http://www.temasdehoy.es/

Perfume: Jasmin Noir by Bulgari

Always associated with unattainable jewels, Bulgari succeed creating perfumes. Firstly, when devoting to aromatheraphic smells, they chose the ones containing tea (Thé Blanc, Thé Vert, Thé Rouge) and this year went for jasmine, a key element in sensual fragances.

If mixing gardenia, lotus, almond, tonka beans, liquorice, and white musk by themselves weren’t exciting enough, they have jasmin as key element, a jasmin that developes its smell as the day goes by. Someone bold enough had to impersonate this courageous fragance and who better than the chameleon Kate Moss? In black and white, lying voluptuousily in a lonely room, no one would had fitted better, heir of Grace Kelly or of Kim Novak.

Jasmin Noir it’s elegant, icy looking, but with tender heart. The one that Gwyneth Paltrow or Nicole Kidman would wear or the one that rock princess like Alice Dellal or Juliette Lewis will pervert and redefine.

Enigmatic and captivating, talks for itself without uttering a word. It may be pricey, but worths spending every euro.

Get The Look Of Katy Perry

A revolution in the pop world in 2008 with her album and songs so cheeky as You’re So Gay and I Kissed A Girl, the daring North American has also became a style icon with her pin up ways. Watch out, Dita! Imitate her look with Benefit.

o Concealer: Lyin’ Eyes Brush Concealer
o Foundation: Some Kind-A Gorgeous
o Pressed powder: 10 Bronzing and Highlighting Powder Duo
o Powder blush: Coralista
o Eye shadow: Big Beautiful Eyes Palette
o Eye liner: Automatic Eyeliner Wink O’ Ink
o Mascara: Bad Gal Black
o Lipstick: Rush Hour

Shopping points

• http://www.benefitcosmetics.com/
  Check this web for shopping online or searching for your closest store.

Cherry Pie World

Not fortunate enough to be Bobbye Brown, the girl to whom Warrant dedicated Cherry Pie, but that fanatic about cherries, we went to the beauty market and picked these fresh cherry-delicious fruits for you.

What’s the mistery behind cherries? They are so suggestive as to name musicians (Don Cherry, Eagle Eye Cherry, and Wild Cherry), to spice the most sold refreshment (Cherry Coke), and to be included in erotic films (“cherry” means “virgin” in slang). Cherries mean sensuality and translated to cosmetics it can just yell “eat me”.

You can find body treatments as the ones that offer Grand Hotel Guadalpin (Marbella, Spain) with salt bath, gel body peeling, mud body wrap, or body moisturizing, or Canyon Ranch Spa at the Venetian Resort Hotel (Las Vegas, United States), that offers a chocolate cherry massage. But to pamper yourself at home, we enclose you below a selection.

PRODUCTS

• Lipsticks: Lip Color Rouge Appeal 10 Cherry Red by Clarins, Pot Rouge For Lips&Cheeks 07 Chocolate Cherry by Bobbie Brown, Surge Bare Brilliance Lipstick 126 Cherry Quartz by Clinique.
  

  

• Lip balms: Wild Cherry Lip Butter by The Body Shop, Cherry Kiss Lip Balm by Rose&Co.
• Body cleansers: Wild Cherry Shower Gel by The Body Shop, Cherry Blossom Bath&Shower Gel by L'Occitane.
• Body milk: Wild Cherry Body Butter by The Body Shop, Cherry Body Milk by La Voglia Matta, and Body Lotion Cherry Blossom by Bath&Body Works.
• Scrubs: Wild Cherry Body Scrub by The Body Shop.
• Bath bubbles: Cherry Kiss Bath&Shower Bubbles by Rose&Co.
• Perfumes: Cherry Blossom Eau de Toilette by L'Occitane, Cherry Blossom Fruity by Guerlain.

Shopping points

• Beauty treatments
  Grand Hotel Guadalpin
  http://www.granhotelguadalpin.com/
  Canyon Ranch
  http://www.canyonranch.com/


• Products
  The Body Shop
  http://www.thebodyshop.com/
  Rose&Co
  http://www.rose-apothecary.co.uk/, Harvey Nichols UK, John Lewis
  La Voglia Matta
  http://www.perlier.com/
  L’Occitane
  www.loccitane.com
  Clarins, Bobbie Brown, Clinique
  www.au.shopping.com

Got to have it: Superstay Gloss 12h by Maybelline

Fancy looking superb in the morning but not dolled up? Maybelline’s new gloss gives you the master key for kissable lips.

Always focused in the needs of modern woman, Maybelline releases Superstay Gloss 12h for lovers of long lasting lipsticks, a new product in their line Superstay. Two tubes with an only aim, to show some beautiful and glossy lips.

For a successful performance, you just got to first, apply a layer of the colour and let it dry for a minute; then, go for the transparent one.

The promotional promises to keep the colour for 12 hours, what shows reality test? Even though you have to apply back the ultra-shine now and then, the colour lasts even after kissing or drinking and eating. Moreover, lips keep moistened, without colour misplacing, and comfortable. On the other hand, there are several shades, to fit every style, and has a high street price.

The Body Shop Make Up Autumn-Winter 2009/2010: Pearlescents

This season the brand founded by Annita Roddick goes back to land to create a make up collection inspired by trees and clay, but that could fit in disco nights. Shine like a star with metallic shades, and seduce with earthy lips.

Respecting the environment and animals it’s no synonym to uncoolness and last campaigns of The Body Shop prove it so, with its beautiful images and innovative product designs. This autumn we face a dramatic promotional, with the model evoking Caravaggio, hypnotizing with her intense eyes, and boxes that remind maps and metallic sticks. Eyes are the focus of this trend, with the trios of green and lilac (01 Moonlight Lustre) and of brown (02 Sundown Glow), and the new range of metallic definers (five shades, from turquoise to aubergine).

Cheeks and lips remain in the background, with the blush trios in pink (01 Cool Dusk) and in brown (02 Sundown Glow), and the lipsticks in pink and apricot (14 Pink Ginger, 10 Soft Heather, 49 Berry Shimmer, 50 Velvet Apricot).