Eat natural, live better

In a society that goes so fast cooking properly becomes a nightmare. Then, our health faces the results, as we eat more prefabricated products than we should. Giving an eye to our diet would bring us a more enjoyful moments.

There’s no need to read the ingredient list to notice if a product it’s loaded with additives, colourants, fats, and salt, our taste notices it fast, and our health, no long after. Babies are introduced into nutrition with purees with no salt at all but when we grow up, we seem not to get enough of it. When we are forced to return to the diet without salt, we complain. For example, studies have revealed that the corn we eat in the cinema has an insane amount of salt and other snacks –like fries and peanuts- are no further.

When choosing the most appropriate food, follow this single rule: the longer best before date, the most additives.

Increasingly we find more organic stores in which they sell food that have been not treated chemically and that have reduced amounts of salt. Trying them it’s a wise way of reducing our excesses step by step and discovering a world of new tastes, the world our grandparents lived in.

Musicotheraphy: Ten songs for not giving up

Music is one of the biggest arts but also a nice way to improve our lifes. The appropriate melody and lyrics can change your mood from insane nihilism to healthy hope. Like a true friend, music is always there when most needed. Here’s a selection of songs to stimulate the good vibes.

1. The Ark : It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane (Album: We Are The Ark, 2000)
   Trying to be as expected from you can only result in unhappiness, but to be yourself takes courage and doing things out of common. Who cares if the rest don’t like it?


2. Alaska y Dinarama: A Quién Le Importa (Album: No es pecado, 1986)
   It’s one of the most successful songs in Spanish music as it’s a hymn to self-determination. “Who cares about what I do/who cares about what I say/I’m like that/that’s the way I’ll follow/ I will never change”, rhymes. Every human being it’s unique and there’s not the right way to be.


3. Whitney Houston: The Greatest Love Of All (Album: Whitney Houston, 1985)
   The greatest love of all and the most difficult to achieve is to loving oneself, as we are our most severe judge. And it’s a good self-esteem and indulgence with our mistakes that makes the difference between happiness and misery.


4. George Michael: Faith (Album: Faith, 1987)
   “I need someone to hold me/but I’ll wait for something more”. Sometimes the desperation or the insecurity can lead to stay as we are even when we don’t like it because we are afraid of fighting for our right to happiness. If we leave a relationship, a friend, or a job we are dissatisfied with think ourselves without resources for finding a new one. But it’s just a question of time and of hard work.


5. Gun: Taking On The World (Album: Taking On The World, 1989)
   The full album it’s a reflection about the society of late 80s, but this song it’s the resume. There are sometimes that things overwhelm you and here’s an invitation for don’t let them break you and see the other side.



6. Right Said Fred: I’m Too Sexy (Album: Up, 1992)
   "I’m too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt/ So sexy it hurts/ And I’m too sexy for Milan too sexy for Milan/New York and Japan”.A joke or not, this track has become a classic of the 90s and frequent for movies and catwalks because of its injection of narcissism, from its speedy rhythms to its ironic lyrics. Humour it’s one of the key elements for overcoming the difficulties as well as boosting our own appeals and reducing our flaws.


7. Whitesnake: Here I Go (Album: 1987, 1987)
   “I don’t know where I’m going/but I sure know where I’ve been/hanging on promises/on songs of yesterday/and I’ve made up my mind/and I’m not wasting no more time/but here I go again”. We come alone to this world and most of times we have to make the hardest decisions. Knowing the way to go takes making mistakes over and over again.


8. Irene Cara: What A Feeling! (Album: Soundtrack of Flashdance, 1983)
   If Flash Dance movie it’s the story of a stripper becoming a dancer, the main song performed by Irene Cara, it’s the fight of this woman and the KO to her fears. You can never get it if you don’t try. Then, what’s lesson within? “Take your passion and make it happen”, she recommends.


9. Sangre Azul: No Mires Atrás (Album: El silencio de la noche, 1989)
   When there’s nothing that can be done, it’s time to turn the page and start again. It can be even be needed a trip for that.



10. Peter Gabriel&Kate Bush: Don’t Give Up (Album: So, 1986)
    The song starts with a feeling of defeat. “I was taught to fight/ taught to win/ I never thought I could fail (…)/ No one wants you when you lose”. Still, afterwards listens to an inner voice that recommends him not to give up and that thing will get better.

Shopping points

• Amazon http://www.amazon.com/

The Meaningful beauty of Cindy Crawford or aging with style

Top model and author of successful workout videos in the 80s-90s, Cindy Crawford represented the American Dream. She was the one every woman envied and that every man wanted in his bed. Now in her forties, she bottles her magic with the help of Dr Jean Louis Sebagh through her skincare line, Meaningful Beauty.

A reality that every model has to face it’s when the cosmetic brands drop them because they don’t look twenty anymore though they are promoting a product for female in their forties. Lately another trend it’s imposing, to use an icon in cinema, delete with photoshop the wrinkles that Mr Surgeon didn’t do yet and swear by God that youthness was due to the cream.

To show their own standards many celebrities have created their own brands, to choose their own models and to translate to reality the treatments of their favourite beauticians. Crawford’s travel began in 1999, the web of the brand tells, when in Paris she met Dr Sebagh, worried by the fact that the drawbacks of her job were beginning to damage her skin. Becoming a mother, it got increasingly difficult to her to travel so frequently, so she asked the doctor to bottle the formulas. Because “beauty shouldn’t cost a fortune”, in own Cindy’s words, she joined Guthy-Renker group. Meaningful Beauty, the age maintenance line, was born.

And which are the focus of these products? Cleansing, protecting, repairing, revitalizing, purifying and conditioning with antioxidants, botanicals, proteins, and vitamins, for forever young eyes, face, and neck. Try the full range with the 30-Day Kit for less than $30.

Recommendations

• Glowing Serum: Brings back to skin the lost luminosity and life.
• Masque Facial Masque: Deep cleans and revives.
  

Shopping points

• Meaningful Beauty
  http://www.meaningfulbeauty.com

Get The Look Of Kate Beckinsale

The actress of films as Underworld, The Last Days of Disco, and Serendipity, has been named the most wanted woman of the year by the readers of Esquire, leaving Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox biting the dust. Recreate her appeals with Gosh products.

• Foundation: X-ceptional Wear Make Up 12.
• Powder blush: Natural Blush Electric Pink.
• Eye shadow: Quattro Eye Shadow Q22 Driftwood.
• Eye liner: Khol Eye Liner Black.
• Mascara: Amazing Lengh&Build Mascara.
• Lipstick: Velvet Touch Lipstick 43 Tropical Pink.

Shopping points

• Superdrug www.superdrug.com

Salon at home

If centuries ago queens and royalty dictated the trends, now hairdresser’s have become most important than the celebrities they work for. Taking off in the 70s, new decade encourages their stardom, and makes available at your home the treatments you enjoy at salon.

Marie-Antoinette was famous for her outlandish hairdos and Mozart was so obsessed with the wigs to say that he needed more than one head to wear them all. In the 18 th century excess was the style code until French Revolution and started chopping heads.

The complicated hairdos, in a time that women wore a extremely long hair, required assistance and as they were to keep in the height of the fashion and eclipse other women, they had to look their best. The visit to the hairdresser was as important as the one to the taylor.

In 20 th century, with the development of cinema, actresses began to set trends, from the hair like men of the 20s to the waves of the 40s and the fully developed middle class started demanding their stylists.

If Vidal Sassoon was the man for United States, Llongueras and Ruppert were the saviours in Spain; in the 80s Ruppert was the star of a very successful advertisement in which celebrities told “Ruppert, I need you”. In 2001 Llongueras wrote his autobiography, Llongueras tal cual (Planeta), telling his most memorable moments: from talking to Dali to singing with Carreras.

Nowadays, the stylists of Madonna and Natalie Portman, for mentioning a few, recreate their looks for prestigious magazines and create their own styling lines, from everything to shampoos to colouring.

Recomendations

• Charles Worthington: he’s won twice British Hairdresser of The Year, and has become a must in red carpets. Celebrities as Mena Suvari, Goldie Hawn, and Jerry Hall can’t live without him. Salon Shine Results it’s the name of his brand, with shampoos, intensives, and stylers. His best:
  Full volume shampoo: Volumes up and smells too good.
  Boosting mousse: Volumes up and gets shine.
  


• Toni and Guy: Forty years in the industry. They began in London and now they have academies worldwide, a reputation of innovation and one of the widest ranges of products. His best:
  Daily style bag: Shampoo, conditioner, protein protection mist, funky gum, mini paddle brush, and bag.
  Detox Shampoo: For get rid of the residues of styling products and of pollution.
  Joystick Control Dryer: The professional hairdryer, long-lasting, and wide heating levels.

• John Frieda: A must in British Vogue and Harpers&Queen, in the 80s he seduced celebrities of Hollywood, high society and royalty. In 1988 created the first products of her line, with the help of Boots, and succeed.
  Frizz ease heat defeat and trade protective styling spray: It works with heat appliances to stylish your hair and protects it.
  Luminous colour glaze sheer blonde platinum to champagne: Revives the shine and offers a glossy touch for blondes.

Shopping points

• Charles Worthington, Toni and Guy
  www.boots.co.uk
• John Frieda
  In department stores worldwide

Picture of the model: Llongueras trend 2010

Got to have it: Soap and Glory Mighty Mouth Lipcare and Plumping Kit

You won’t need more for pouting lips: smoothness, softness, and volume. Soap and Glory reinvents lipcare with two treatment bars and a lipgloss, packed as only 40s divas would have done.

Take the granulated side of the black stick, rub for smoothness, and clear away with water. After, moisten with the balm and let dry. Finally, pump the volume of your lips with the full volume gloss. Apply as often as needed.

Shopping points

• Soap and Glory
  www.soapandglory.com

Jemma Kidd JK Make Up Autumn-Winter 2009/2010: Punk Look

With sister 90s top model Joddie Kidd modelling, make up artist Jemma Kid introduces the last trend in her collection JK: defiant look in dark shades and almost bare lips. Strike a Pose Palette and Fashion Palette are the items to steal.

Don’t look any further if you are into a cut down to size make up collection, as Kidd, with her 12 years experience, will offer you what you need: Jemma Kidd Make Up School for classic women and JK for trendy. Hyper sophisticated punk it’s the motto, with black shades and black kohl (I-conic Eyes Mini Liners in 08 Screen Siren or Silver Screen Mascara Duo 03 Rhinestone), natural cheeks (Cheek ID Colour Adapt Blush, looks different in every cheek), and nude lips. Face it’s full of life with an illuminating base as Mannequin Skin Complexion Enhancer.

For having it all in one, go for the Strike A Rose Palette -above- (for a day version) or for Fashion Palette -below- (for glamorous nights).

Shopping points

• Jemma Kidd
  www.jemmakidd.com