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Jul 14 •
The most prized secret. How to age backwards, gracefully and at your pleasure
Ah, that game of mirrors that we all play every day. Whenever we pass by one, we just can’t resist the temptation to have a look in it and see: this one loves me, this one not, this one makes me look like a beauty, this one makes me look like a hag. It’s like playing those slots in Vegas, highly addictive, because somewhere along the way, in our 30s and the 40s, maybe 50s or the 60s, we have become unsure if we’ve still got the glow. The glitz & the glam we add every day with clever make up and smart clothing, but where is my glow? Have I lost it for good? Well, I’ve got excellent news for you. Never! Here is what nobody sells you. That you can become the most beautiful woman you could ever be by using the most simple, affordable and delicious of means, things that are widely available and wildly rejuvenating for the body at the cost of a crumb. We just didn’t know that replenishing our beauty every day as of drinking from the fountain of youth was not to be found in a syringe or in an obscenely priced at 200 pounds jar of anti ageing serum concocted in some high end lab. And that all we ever needed was a little bit of this and a little bit of that, nothing fancy, stuff that already sits in our kitchen and if not, it’s one store or one click away anyway. But there is a catch. We have to know which little bits and how to put them to work like a virtuoso for ourselves. It’s like the difference between awesome and loathsome. You might get some part right, but the rest is what makes a world of difference. And that difference is what this place is for. For instance, there are ways to use just plain water to face lift yourself out a mundane look after a tiring day and get magnificently refreshed, as coming off a costly spa, for a party. How much would this cost you? One pound? Neah… 50 p tops! And that’s just to put a number on it, really. That's one little bit. There are a great many more. I'll show you inside. There are two kinds of beauty work · One pins your beauty down artificially. Botox, fillers, surgery. They alter features, cost a fortune and in the long run there is nothing rejuvenating about them at all. No real repair. No real time adjusting to what your body actually needs on a Tuesday in August or Thursday in November, or on those days after coming off a diet, or giving birth to a child, or losing your ‘flower’, like the ancients used to call a woman’s menses.
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In Grapes We Trust, as Beauty Is Our Must
And in wine, if we are to be beveragelly correct. Hold your liquor, fellow divas, as what follows is heaven’s technology to rejuvenate your skin. That glass of red wine you enjoy every now and then can give you exactly what it gave the wealthy, the powerful and the aristocrats since the dawn of our civilisation: pleasure, yes, and a kind of passion that priests have feared and pushed beer on us instead, but also something women have a never-ending desire for, long-lasting beauty. Grapes, the Sweet Status of the Rich 👑 You don’t see many ads for wine, but there are plenty for beer, and there is at least one saucy reason for it. Throughout the ages, grapes and wine were high-status symbols, just as a Jaguar, a Patek Philippe or a pair of custom-made shoes are today, and their use in beauty and rejuvenation signalled access to both wealth and knowledge. Who else could afford to bathe in wine or wine-enriched waters to kepp themselves all bud-sy and rosy for long? The Romans, the Greeks, the Spartans, the Indians and the Chinese: written accounts from the ancients say they all did it, but only the wealthy could afford the generous amounts a wine bath needs to keep beauty from withering for as long as possible. A Cure for the Celebrities of Disease The less well-off could still use grapes and wine, but mostly for their basic needs, those of health, meaning medicine, as medicine requires less for more. Herbs were concocted, infused and decocted in wine, which powerfully extracts their healing compounds and delivers them in such a pleasant way. 🍷Spices like cloves and cinnamon and herbs like thyme, wormwood and rosemary went into wine and protected people from getting ill during the worst of plagues: think bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid, the 1918 flu and other celebrities of the disease world, the ones that downed people by the millions. When Grapes Were Doctors🎁 Grapes and wine were used to nourish the sick, hydrate them when water was contaminated, build back their blood and bring their bodies back to health. A closer-to-modern example is the ‘grape cure’ sanatoria of 19th-century Switzerland, Germany and Austria, used for many a wasting disease. Have a look through the writings on wine of Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Pliny the Elder, Galen and Celsus: they all write extensively about different wines for healing.
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The F rule of beauty: Your beauty starts where the sun doesn’t shine
The ancients knew it and when it comes to beauty they viewed the gut as a Garden of Eden. Everything that makes our bodies a paradise that gives us innumerable pleasures is rooted in here: beautiful skin, youthful appearance, ah…that kind of rosy maiden cheeks, rich and lustrous hair, snow white teeth, clear eyes, lean and supple marble like bodies, sharp minds, healthy hormones, happy dispositions and, the cherry on top, a restful and rejuvenating sleep. Bring your gut back into blissful harmony and your beauty will live a very long and happy life. The architect in the dark Most of us didn’t know that the digestive system, that thirty foot long labyrinth of microbial ecosystems, neurological circuitry and mucosal tissue that never sees daylight, is the architect that designs every day our beauty. We found out bit by bit, reading here and paying attention there, zooming in and out of tons of contradictory information that all sorts of authorities, our upbringing, schooling, family, friends, gurus, celebrities or many books on the topic brought into the mix. Eventually a clear picture emerged. Nothing new under the sun, fellow divas. Just the same thing the ancients described in their writings on the health of the human body. Keep your insides pristine and your outsides will glow with lifelong shine.🍑 The Gut Writes, the Skin Publishes Let’s take the skin, fellow divas. It’s the largest eliminative organ of the body and when the gut gets for various reasons (mostly bad diet and stress) sluggish and clogged with waste, it shows on your skin big time, even in your prime. This is how we get pimples and wrinkles, enlarged pores and black heads, greasy skin and facial hair, puffiness and all sorts of redness, and most skin issues, even the scaly difficult ones can resolve once the gut ecology is restored. I saw it on myself and my friends time and again.🌜🌛 Starving in the land of plenty All that junk that sits uneliminated in the digestive system piles up and in time makes our bellies rounder and rounder, keeping us in the bloating game for years, living our lives constantly on and off diet, with the pounds and the cravings chasing us dawn to dusk, making a normal relationship with food impossible. 🎢
Oct 5 •
Castor Oil Is a Diva in Winter: Meet Her One Demand or It’s a No-Show
Castor oil is all the rage now and it’s magical, I know, but winter is coming and if you want to see its power at work on your skin in the cold season, you’ll have to use it a certain way. Otherwise it’s just a sealant, works like vaseline and little more. 😎 I have a love and hate relationship with castor oil, as it’s not an easy oil to deal with. One of the names of the plant castor oil comes from, Palma Christi, says it all. It’s one of the oldest healing oils in use in the history of mankind, possibly the oldest, and it was deeply revered along the ages for its power. But just like Christ who they say preached ‘teach a man to fish rather than give him a fish’, castor oil makes you work for the healing you get from it and that’s if you really know how to use it. 🔥 It is derived from the seeds of the beautiful Ricinus communis plant and the way that they look is in itself both an advice and warning about their power. For one thing the seeds look like a blood-engorged tick, like the ancients used to say, and they seem to flash at you a red alert warning: ‘Attention, all personnel, this is 100 % danger. Do not ingest, I repeat, do not ingest’. Same way as other flashy coloured creatures or plants in Mother Earth’s kingdom do - see poisonous snakes, frogs and snails or deadly and carnivorous plants. 🐲 These seeds are quite paradoxical in their nature, as they contain one of the most lethal natural toxins known to science, ricin, yet their pressed oil is absolutely safe and has been medicinally used by mankind for millennia 🌓. And that’s because the toxin is bound in the proteins of the outer skin of the seeds and the inner tissue, but doesn’t pass into the oil extracted from them. Few creatures on this Earth, most mammals included, survive after eating one, but apparently there are some that are not in the least affected by it and snack on them with delight, and those seem to be the beautiful and peaceful doves. And a worm, it's called eri silkworm and it gorges on Ricinus communis’ leaves! It spins from them a cocoon from which a type of silk – called eri silk or peace silk – is rendered. Not as glamorous and fine, and exquisite as the mulberry one, but a far more sturdy and elastic, and long lasting one.🪭
Sep 28 •
Never trust a beauty guru under 45. First see proof she knows the phoenix ways
My golden rule when it comes to beauty and who is a true master I can learn from always comes down, like feet on the ground, to this: How do they look in their late 40s? Better still, in their 50s or 60s? Let’s be honest, we all look good in our 20s and 30s. Unless we make massive beauty mistakes, it’s just youth keeping us automatically glowing even with bad beauty habits in place. But they come back and haunt us in our late 40s and this is when you see who knows what. 🎡 And whoever didn’t give in to artificial altering, freezing or plumping their features up, tattooing their eyebrows or adding hair extensions to their crown, used weight loss injections or went under the knife, and kept their original self all along glowing, now that’s a rare bird right there on the spot! And a teacher in the ‘phoenix’ ways. 🐦🔥 Their numbers are small and they know how to rebirth their beauty again and again from the ageing ashes, but their brilliance usually gets dismissed as ‘good genes’. And if they are a celebrity, people scoff: ‘Oh, of course they look stunning even older, they are loaded with money and pamper themselves all day long…'. If not in the limelight, these few stunning-looking ones are regarded as just an oddity that doesn’t reflect at all the hand fate deals most people, a skimpy one with not so good genes that needs a quick change in beauty fortunes. That's why many women start young gambling with their health and undergo fashionable procedures that promise the jackpot, a much-admired beauty. 🌹 We have a long history of harming ourselves for some extra beauty. It's always been like this, the more beautiful you look, the merrier the benefits you get from it. Even modern studies show that beautiful people get better jobs, are better paid, are quickly forgiven when they do bad things, their bad character overlooked if any, their company sought after and rewarded with everything, from basic smiles to huge opportunities. So it pays off handsomely to look beautiful in life and women, more than anybody, learnt this the hard way living in a man’s world across centuries. 🪭
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