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How to make the best of your body shape

How to make the best of your body shape

One of the best things about being a stylist is the satisfaction you get from seeing a client walking away armed with knowledge. A lot of this has to do with re-education on body shapes and less emphasis on size. I find that majority of women I meet don’t understand their shapes and that accounts for 80% of their ‘problems’.

Guidelines to Designing a Vitamin and Mineral Regimen

Guidelines to Designing a Vitamin and Mineral Regimen

1. Take three-or-more-a-day Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements to meet most of your requirements. One that gives 10 to 20 times the RDA for the B Vitamins, 500mg to 1000mg of Vitamin C, 200 to 400 IU of vitamin E and at least 500mg of Calcium and 300mg of Magnesium. Note that standard one-a-day multivitamins are too small to give all the required nutrients.

We All Need Supplements

We All Need Supplements

As far back as ancient Egypt, people realised that they could prevent and treat different illnesses and health problems by eating certain foods. For instance, these people ate liver which is rich in Vitamin A to prevent night blindness which is caused by Vitamin A deficiency. Chinese sailors in the Fifth Century grew potted ginger on their ships and nibbled on the shoots to prevent scurvy which is characterised by bleeding gums and loose teeth.

Poverty is always the result of the inability of people to overcome elements of the environment…Dr. Magnus Kpakol

Poverty is always the result of the inability of people to overcome elements of the environment…Dr. Magnus Kpakol

Dr. Magnus Kpakol, National Co-ordinator of the National Poverty Eradication Programme needs no introduction. Before he became the arrow head of NAPEP, he was the Chief Economic Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Before that appointment, Dr. Kpakol was a Professor of Economics at the Dallas University, USA, and an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas. He has also served as the Principal Consultant to VIJON International, a business and management consulting firm in Carrolton, Texas, USA.

How to give your Boobs a Lift without surgery

How to give your Boobs a Lift without surgery

One of Oprah Winfrey’s show once devoted a whole episode to women often wearing the wrong size bra and ruining their otherwise lovely figure. You’re probably wearing the wrong size bra if you notice any of the following problems!
You see deep strap imprints on your skin when you take off a bra; your chest looks saggy under clothes; you pull up your bra straps or tighten them; you feel your bra ride up in the back; your breasts spill over the cups.

Style Q & A

Style Q & A

I am confused. What exactly is the difference between formal, semiformal and informal dress? I need some guidelines.

Be Your Best

Be Your Best

The other day I instant messaged with a young man who said he struggled with sadness and depression. When I asked why, he told me he had just attended a school reunion.

Going  Somewhere?

Going Somewhere?

During the summer Reg and I were hired to coordinate wardrobe and pack for a certain entertainment insider in Atlanta who would be traveling to New York for five days and then on to Los Angeles for 10 days.

Breast Cancer : Breakthroughs

Breast Cancer : Breakthroughs

October is officially tagged “Breast Cancer Awareness Month”. Of recent, there have been a lot of medical breakthroughs in the detection and treatment of Breast Cancer.

Do you find it easy to forgive and forget

Do you find it easy to forgive and forget

“THERE is such a thing as good anger:” explains psychotherapist, Janice Alpert. “And dealing with it is much better than pretending it is not there.** So, at what point do you stop turning the other cheek and go for the an-eye-for-an-eye option? Does the fact that the person who hurts you says “I’m sorry” automatically see you saying -That’s okay, forget it’?