Playmate Gate: 2012

Oct 8, 2012

Do you know what's fun? Being beautiful is fun!

Yes. It is. I love being beautiful. It takes work, effort. Of course. You don't just wake up in the morning gorgeous, you have to work at it. If I chose not to put the effort in, trust me when I say that I could easily be hideous! I mean, for a woman, there is much to do. We have to exercise, shave our entire body, do our hair, our nails, our toes (and I do all this myself, nail salons give me migraine headaches. It's either the fumes or the little Asian girls chattering incessantly in another language as though I'm not there... or both), makeup. On top of all that we (most of us) have to deal with the whole period thing once a month. How much more work is it to try to be beautiful during THAT ridiculousness? Sometimes it just isn't even possible.

So yes. It is a lot of work being beautiful, but the payoff is well worth it. You feel better. Empowered. In control. When you feel beautiful, you truly feel like you can accomplish anything. Well, anything in whatever time you have left over after getting yourself beautiful. If we were instantly beautiful, just woke up that way, and didn't have to put all that time and work into it... women would have long since taken over the world by now. We are on our way there, we just haven't quite had enough time due to the amount we spend getting and staying beautiful.

It's always nice to find short cuts and little tips along the way. There are a few little beauty secret short cuts that literally save my BUTT sometimes. Like using eye shadow to touch up roots when you haven't had time to color and something important springs up. That is one of my favorites. I saw somewhere online where some lady had marketed a powder to touch up your roots in a pinch. She was asking a pretty penny for it, too. Always the one to scrutinize before spending a dime, I did just that. Upon further inspection (and following up by testing my theory) this lady was basically selling EYE SHADOW for what must have been making her a fortune. It probably still is. Seriously, I need to come up with something like that!

The good thing was, I didn't pay a dime and I was able to glean an extremely useful beauty tip from my investigating and my theory. I may never have thought of that.

THAT is what's key. The realization that not everything has to cost a lot of money when it comes to beauty and beauty products. We probably have better ingredients in our cupboards at home that the most expensive products, for many things anyways. Fruits and dairy, weird medicines, like Prep H, Milk of Magnesia (Mylanta), and aspirin. Olive oil. Honey. The list goes on.

So, yes, it's always wonderful when you learn how to save a bit of time and keep your money in your bank while still staying beautiful! It comes from within. I always say that beauty is NOT in the eye of the beholder. It's in the heart of the beautiful. Any beautiful woman could just as easily be ugly (way more easily, actually), just as any ugly woman could (well, not easily, like I said, it's hard work) be beautiful if she put forth the effort.

Bitches! Don't hate us because we are beautiful! We have a planet to take over! Before these brutish men destroy it completely.

Ladies, if you haven't yet, please do take a peek at my book. Amazon gives you a free preview, so you can see the table of contents and it really is a highly useful resource that I put a lot of time and work into creating. It will save you much time and money with the amount of info it contains, from A to Z. Easy to navigate. Click the image below and have a look:

Sep 21, 2012

Calling ALL FEMALE READERS, please come contribute..

Okay Ladies, I need your help with this one. You'll notice at the top of my blog, a link that says "All girls post...". I am inviting all female readers to click that link and post their favorite, sexy thing a guy does, has done, or is doing, whether it be to you, for you, near you, to someone else, in a movie, anything. Your favorite experience in which a guy did something sexy, or your favorite move a guy makes, or look he gives. Anything, let us know. This is kind of for the men out there who want to know what turns us on. Girls, this is your chance to spill it! Boys, this is your chance to get the scoop from the mouth of the babes ;)

Click the tab in the link bar above to contribute a story.

Sep 18, 2012

My Top Favorite Home Made Beauty Treatments

Hello Ladies!
I am in the mood to share some of my favorite, very inexpensive, very effective, beauty treatments I've done right at home using stuff from my kitchen.

I just used this one yesterday:
1 egg
1 tablespoon half and half (you can use cream, milk, half and half, etc)
Separate the white from the yolk of the egg in a small bowl. Wisp the egg white with the cream together in a small bowl until it's frothy:

Slather the mixture all over your face and neck. It will be drippy, but you can allow it to semi-dry and then add more layers. Try to get it as thick as possible.

At this point you can go ahead and jump in the shower, or just relax, but it takes about 10 to 15 minutes for it to completely dry. You will feel it tightening your skin. Rinse off and voila! Instant face lift of the like you will pay arms and legs for at a makeup counter. It works! The cream adds a bit of moisturization, but can be left out if you prefer.

Another very quick treatment I love to do is using just plain honey, right from the jar:

Just slather the sticky honey over your face and neck before you jump in the shower. Allow it to dry, approximately 10 to 15 minutes, then rinse in cool water. This treatment helps to exfoliate and moisturize your skin. Try mixing it with a tablespoon of milk or cream for extra moisture.

My son loves mangoes. So I buy them often:

Whenever I peel and cut him up a mango, I rub the insides of the skin all over my face and neck for a refreshing, cool astringent-like treatment that softens my skin and makes it glow.

For a complete A to Z of beauty and anti-aging treatments and recipes, ingredients, tips, and tricks, try my new book:

Sep 12, 2012

Finally it's Almost Fall, My Favorite Fashion Season!

Everyone who knows me, knows I get grumpy and miserable during the hotter months of the year. I seem to be 10 degrees hotter than everyone around me. The heat makes me sick and steals the life and energy from me. I'd be well adjusted living at the North Pole, I'm afraid.

I literally heat up entire rooms, sometimes.

So! Of course my favorite time of year is Autumn. It starts cooling down. My energy returns. And I finally get to break out my favorite clothing items, like my calf-high boots, my black tights, my fishnet thigh-highs, my long-sleeved, form-fitting thermal tops, and my hot jeans with fading, holes, and rips in all the right places!

It's definitely my season to shine in the Fall. Leaves start turning beautiful colors. The air kisses my face and feels refreshing, instead of smothering. It makes me happy and optimistic. Looking forward to the Holidays and nights by the fire. Bundling up to go shopping and taking pictures of the trees.

The cooling of the weather seems to put me in a sexy mood. My step feels lighter and my heart swells up with joy at nothing in particular. I start smiling when there's nothing to smile about and find I sing a lot.

It's strange, there are people who are the opposite, I guess. People who feel more and more depressed as colder weather approaches, and they feel happy when it starts to warm up.

Not me, I'm plenty hot, I don't need to be warmer. I want the air to cool me and make me feel refreshed and renewed. I like the bite of crisp cold air when I breathe it into my lungs, not the heavy, aching feeling of breathing in the heat of the summer.

I also get to wear my little wigs, it's way too hot to put them on in the Summer. I pour sweat just looking at them when it's hot. So much fun to glam it up and wear your clothes for how they look, as opposed to just finding the coolest clothing you own with the least amount of material while still appearing decently dressed in public. I love the Fall! Bring the cold, crisp days of November, December, and slow down. I don't want to see July again for at least another year!

If you haven't yet, please take a peek at my new book:

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Sep 8, 2012

Turning 40, Aging or Refusal to Do So, and What Life Looks Like Now

I always turn 29 on my birthday, which was on Sept. 5. I've turned 29 eleven times now, which makes my existence on Earth total 40 years. I refuse to LOOK 40, or even associate myself with the "age" of 40. It's completely ridiculous, the whole "aging" idea. I don't believe in it. I exercise regularly. I probably don't get enough sleep, or drink enough water, but I stay out of the sun and moisturize. It really isn't a matter of what I do, rather, what I refuse to do, and that is to get old and wrinkly. Why should I? Why on Earth would I want to do such a thing?

I wonder if it's a matter of just giving up. If people think, "well, I'm in my 40s now, I guess I'm old and going to be unattractive anyways, so I'll just quit trying". I will never stop putting effort into my looks and into keeping my body nice and fit. It's always been something I cherish and enjoy, being pretty. Not just on the outside, but in my heart, too. I am a good person inside and I'm intelligent. I understand that it doesn't matter to some people. I understand THAT it doesn't, but not WHY.

So, uneventful as it was, the day came and went. I didn't suddenly look haggard and tired. I showered and put makeup on today as I usually do, looking in the mirror for any changes or signs. Everything was normal. The same as it was eleven years ago. Maybe I'm lucky, or maybe I just refuse to allow it, who knows?

I do know that 29 is a wonderful age to be stuck at, though.

Please do check out my book on the subject, if you like:

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Sep 4, 2012

The Beauty and Anti-Aging Encyclopedia...

Well, girls (and guys), I have finally finished editing and re-editing and re-editing again til my eyes almost fell out of my head, and my masterpiece is now published. A project quite a long time in the making, like my whole life, actually.
It is called The Beauty and Anti-Aging Encyclopedia. It is an A to Z list of beauty ingredients, beauty tips, anti-aging secrets, and recipes for beauty treatments at home from Almond Oil to Zinc. It's always going to be a growing and changing list, of course, as new studies find different things, but as of right now, it's current.
I'm hoping to coax you all to grab a copy and let me know what you think. I'd like to add more to it, if I missed anything, so if anyone reads it and has something to add, please let me know, and I'll test your idea and add it to the book, if it works.
You can check it out at the link below, there should be a sample you can see for free, but otherwise the book is 7.99 US for now.

If you get it and you'd like to comment on it here, that would be wonderful. If you leave me a review on Amazon, that would be awesome, too! Very open to suggestions and critique, too. The Playmate Gate California Cosmo