FOLLOW YOUR NOSE.

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:17:19 +0000

However beautiful you may be by now, there’s one thing which is almost more important than having the most perfect skin or the most glorious hair in the world and that’s the way you smell. The most important thing of all, of course, is that you shouldn’t smell nasty and after making quite sure of that, you can go on and make yourself smell really nice.
The first thing to face up to is that everybody is potentially smelly. That may sound horrid, but it’s something you should bear very firmly in mind. That way you won’t try to dodge the issue and you won’t feel bashful about being presented with the facts either.
What then, makes you smell? Most people think it’s perspiration plain and simple, but in fact that’s wrong. There are two types of gland which makes you perspire, the eccrine which are all over the body and which control the body temperature by evaporation of perspiration and the apocrine which are the real villains. They only make their appearance under your arms or other narrow areas of your body. Fresh perspiration has absolutely no smell at all; the nasties start when bacteria, on the skin’s surface, ever ready to do their thing, start to decompose the perspiration. The only way to cope with the problem is to frustrate the bacteria in their work. Obviously you start with washing, thoroughly and every day, paying particular attention to potentially smelly zones like armpits, so that you remove every trace of stale perspiration. However, the most thorough scrubbing in the world won’t solve the problem for more than a few hours. Bacteria don’t wait politely until it’s bath time again to get going, and you need something to help. Help comes in two guises, often confused in people’s mind: deodorants and anti-perspirants. Deodorants contain an active bactericide that reduces the amount of bacteria on the skin’s surface, and therefore, obviously, reduces the smelly decomposition. Anti-perspirants go one further and partially close the sweat glands, so there’s less to start decomposing in the first place, if you perspire heavily, then choose an anti perspirant, if you don’t then a deodorant will probably do. But you do need one or the other. Use a deodorant every single morning, without fail, and then you will be ‘nice to be near’. Having got rid of any possibly nasty smells, then, how about adding some nice ones? Nothing lovelier than to waft round all day in a cloud of fragrance, and to be known for your perfume as much as your looks.
Whatever your preference, scent should become a part of your daily life. Don’t think of it as something to wear only occasionally or as the last thing you add before leaving the house. Learn to layer it splash on cologne or eau de toilette directly after a bath or shower (after drying yourself) and use matching scented soaps, bath oil, powder and deodorant then follow with the most concentrated version and use it sparingly. Your scent should be as personal as your signature.
DO’S AND DON’TS.
Don’t mix scent with the sun. Some ingredients, when exposed to skin and sun, can cause allergies, rashes or brown patches. So if you are spending time outside in hot sun, on the beach or water or skiing in the mountains keep your fragrance for evening allure.
Do store scent in a dark, cool place. Light can cause chemical reaction and change the nature of the fragrance. If it’s well sealed and well stored, it will last about a year and still be true unsealed, exposed to light and heat, it oxidizes and deteriorates quite fast.
Don’t try more than three scents at the same time when you’re contemplating something new. This is about as many as the average nose can accept before becoming tired.
Don’t try and transfer your favorite scent to a plastic bottle for traveling it tends to evaporate through plastic and you may lose it all. Travel with a purse spray or a small sealed bottle that’s not plastic.
Do try spraying your ironing board with fragrance before ironing shirts and dresses.
Don’t waste your scent on the air instead of on you. Once a bottle has been opened, use it, it will only evaporate and lose its potency if you try to save it.
Don’t through your empty scent bottle keep opened it in your unironed clothes in your cupboard, it will give fragrance to your clothes and cupboard as well.

Perfumes

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:42:45 +0000

This is an easy essential luxury, easy to apply, easy to store, easily available and easy to use to accentuate and compliment your personality. But as easy as it is, some women never got in to the habit of using perfume, many forget to put it on, and some just plain overdo it by using too much, everywhere and always.

Like many other things, there is method, a reason, a time and a place to use perfume. Scent has many mysteries, not the least of which is just why it has the power to trigger emotions and memory.

Perfumes likes and dislikes are very individual because the same scent will smell differently in contact with different in contact with different skins. Your skin chemistry will combine with a perfume to make a fragrance that is uniquely your own and that is why it is a good idea to pick your perfume simply because you liked it on a friend.

WHAT IS PERFUME? Perfume is a fragrance that is either made out of flowers or citrus or spices and it is these different ingredients that account for the differences in aroma. The term PERFUME means the fragrance in its most concentrated form (it contains alcohol that` why it is the most expensive).

The length of time a perfume lasts depends on the ingredients it contains. For instance, any citrus elements in a perfume compound disappear quite quickly, but an ingredient such as sandalwood or civet which acts as a fixative help a perfume to persist. Most of the world` s most beautiful fragrances are compound of natural essences and aromatic chemicals; and a scent can be composed of hundreds of different ingredients. Jasmine is one of the most precious and widely used ingredients, grown around grass in the south of France , the traditional centre of the perfume industry.

The flowers are mostly high scented at dawn. Sandalwood comes from the white wood of a parasitic tree grown in Mysore , India and Australia . Civet, a fixative, comes from a secretion in a gland situated under the tail of the wild civet cat. Neroli oil is distilled from the bloom of the bitter orange tree. Ylang ylang is an oriental blossom which gives a subtle, rich note. Bulgarian rose is a favourite with and so is Vetiver, extracted from the roots of a grass grown in south America and the Far east.

Describing a fragrance is rather like trying to catch a rainbow; and probably no two people smell it in exactly the same way. CHOOSING A PERFUME There is a fragrance for everyone, and that every person should select his own basic fragrance; but for many of us, more than one scent gives us a chance to illuminate many ideas of our personalities. We may feel mysterious, sensual, innocent, sophisticated, exciting and can wear a scent to fit each of these moods. But first every woman needs a basic, everyday fragrance that says` This is me` because wearing it makes a statement about yourself. It helps to identify you.

Who do you think you are? Are you an earthy, casual, outdoor person. Do you like musks, woodsy, spicy or oriental fragrances which are simple, energizing and carefree? Or are you more like an exotic flower, favoring fresh floral fragrances that are dainty, sweet and relaxing? Or are you a sophisticated woman who wants a clearly identifiable, make-no-mistake-about-it, I-have-arrived fragrance? Your scent can and will represent your self-image. Scent can reflect your mood as well as the occasion, and you should change your perfume with the season. Summer scents are best kept light, green and fresh. Use the colognes and eau de toilettes.

Try Revlon`s Charlie, blasé by max factor, French almond, babe spray cologne from Faberge, 4711 cologne. Winter scents can be heavier, more lingering. Scents to wear at night should be romantic and feminine, warm andalluring, such as parure(guerlain), femme(rochas), cabriole(Elizabeth Arden), private collection (estee lauder), L`Interdit(Givenchy), Irene (princess galitzine), Narcisse noir(caron), Azzaro(Loris azzaro) and essence rare(houbigant). Make fragrance part of your everyday beauty just as much as your make up and hair grooming. PERFUME POINTERS- Apply perfume sparingly on your wrists first, then on the sides and base of your neck, on your ear lobes or behind your ears. When you apply perfume, never rub it.

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