Add sparkle with something you already own: Pin a brooch into an updo, wrap a bracelet around a bun, or turn a necklace into a headband by threading hair elastics through the clasps, then tying the ends together. "Sometimes it's hard to find cute hair accessories, so jewelry adds thats extra pizzazz" says hairstylist Robert Vetica, who has attached million-dollar gems to Marion Cotillards's hair. To safely anchor the heirlooms, he suggests sliding U-shaped hairpins through links or weaving florist's wire into earrings to create a makeshift clip. Keep in mind that sparkles dull with hairspray--so finish your style, spritz and then add the jewels to your crown.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
* RAID YOUR JEWELRY BOX *
Add sparkle with something you already own: Pin a brooch into an updo, wrap a bracelet around a bun, or turn a necklace into a headband by threading hair elastics through the clasps, then tying the ends together. "Sometimes it's hard to find cute hair accessories, so jewelry adds thats extra pizzazz" says hairstylist Robert Vetica, who has attached million-dollar gems to Marion Cotillards's hair. To safely anchor the heirlooms, he suggests sliding U-shaped hairpins through links or weaving florist's wire into earrings to create a makeshift clip. Keep in mind that sparkles dull with hairspray--so finish your style, spritz and then add the jewels to your crown.
* Chewing Gum Can Keep You Trim *
We hate to burst the bubble of etiquette watchers, but recent research shows that chomping on gum-ever so politely, of course-can improve both short-and long-term memory (scientists are still figuring out exactly why). And chewing the stuff might also help you slim down! Animal research suggests that frequent chewing can stimulate the brain's satiety center, which is responsible for making us feel full, says lead study author Kathleen Melanson, Ph.D., R.D. (Bonus: Her subjects also had higher energy levels.) Go with a stick of the sugar-free kind.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
* PINPOINT YOUR PASSIONS*
In a nutshell, here’s what we know: People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. Asking yourself these questions can help you figure out your passion.
1. If money were not an issue, what would you be doing with your life?
2. When you go to the magazine racks or the library, what do you like to read about? Alternately, what do you find yourself searching for on the Internet?
3. Think about the last few times you said to yourself: “I’d like to do that sometime.” What was “that”?
4. What do other people say you do particularly well?
5. Think back to how you felt when you were 10 or 12, and try to remember how it felt to be really excited about the possibility of doing something. What could you do today that might make you feel the same way?
6. What do you secretly dream about doing?
7. What are the things you like about what you are doing right now? (They can be small, but you have to name several of them.)
1. If money were not an issue, what would you be doing with your life?
2. When you go to the magazine racks or the library, what do you like to read about? Alternately, what do you find yourself searching for on the Internet?
3. Think about the last few times you said to yourself: “I’d like to do that sometime.” What was “that”?
4. What do other people say you do particularly well?
5. Think back to how you felt when you were 10 or 12, and try to remember how it felt to be really excited about the possibility of doing something. What could you do today that might make you feel the same way?
6. What do you secretly dream about doing?
7. What are the things you like about what you are doing right now? (They can be small, but you have to name several of them.)
8. What do you think you do particularly well? (these things do not have to be work-related)
9. How do you feel you contribute or could contribute to society?
9. How do you feel you contribute or could contribute to society?
10. What do you want your children or friends to say about you when you’re gone?
by Jean Chatzky
CL
by Jean Chatzky
CL
Monday, September 6, 2010
..:* WISDOM *:..
Take delight in the good fortune of others to create more happiness for yourself.“We hate it when our friends are successful” sang Morrissey, the songwriter and former lead singer of The Smiths. Although “hate” may be overstating the issue, the dark and not-so-secret fact remains that, rather than rejoice in a friend’s good fortune, we often feel envy and jealousy. We even take guilty delight in another’s misfortune. Your pleasure in reading about Jennifer Aniston’s relationship troubles or Lindsay Lohan’s run-ins with the law notwithstanding, this isn’t a modern phenomenon. More than two thousand years ago, both Patanjali and the Buddha taught the practice of mudita as an antidote to the feeling that your happiness is threatened or diminished by the happiness of others. Mudita, the third of the brahmaviharas, or yogic teachings on love, is the ability to take active delight in other’s good fortune or good deeds.
In Yoga Sutra I. 33, Patanjali advises us to take delight in the virtue of others as a way to develop and maintain calmness of mind. You’ve probably experienced how painful envy can be, and how much it affects your mental well-being. Your feelings of envy don’t diminish the happiness of those you are jealous of, but they do diminish your own serenity.
The Dali Lama speaks of mudita as a kind of “enlightened self-interest.” As he puts it, there are so many people in this world that it’s simply reasonable to make their happiness as important as your own; if you can be happy when good things happen to others, your opportunities for delight are increased six billion to one!
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