Saturday, November 27, 2010

Life in Beauty

What is it about beautiful celebrities that everyone loves? Well, they have radiant skin, they glow when they smile and they always look great. They also tend to look as though they are healthy and full of energy. This does not come natural and they have to work at it just like the rest of us. Every celebrity has a routine that they follow on a daily basis. This routine keeps them looking fresh and beautiful every day. Many of them buy products, while others make their own completely natural products at home. Here are a few tips for daily celebrity style skin care:

o Cleanse and moisturize twice a day. Use triple fruit acid cleaners as they work great to exfoliate the skin. In the morning, cleanse and rub pure vitamin C on your face. Lastly, apply moisturizer. Use a light moisturizer in the summer and a heavier cream in the winter. - Halle Berry's Morning Regime

o Use baby wipes to cleanse, remove makeup and moisturize. - Star Jones

o Use a facial wash and apply petroleum jelly to your face every morning and night to moisturize and soften skin. - Teri Woods

o Drink lots of water and cleanse with an astringent and moisturizer. - Mo'Nique

o Get monthly facials and treat your body to a steam sauna to cleanse the pores. - Victoria Rowell

o Use cocoa butter twice a day after showering. Cocoa butter keeps your skin soft and smooth and also aids in removing scars. - Lisa Leslie

o Live nutritionally, spiritually and emotionally. Don't get weighed down by negative or past energy and try to live as stress free as possible. Indulge in massages, seaweed body wraps, manicures and pedicures. Exercise regularly and don't consume carbohydrates after 7pm and drink plenty of water. - Jody Watley

o Alleviate pregnancy related stress marks by applying cocoa butter as soon as you begin to show. Consult your doctor for a proper exercise regime and do it. - Cindy Braggs

o For dry skin, exfoliate once a week and get a monthly facial. Apply a moisturizer to the face on a daily basis. Use makeup remover and treat yourself to twice-monthly manicures and pedicures. Work out at least twice a week. - Dee Dee McGuire

Adapt any of these daily celebrity beauty secrets to your life and you will be on your way to a more celebrity-like beauty.

Life in Sports Car

Stylish, sexy, sleek, streamlined, spirited and speed demon are all words used to describe sports cars, which are essentially two-door automobiles that are designed for high speeds, great power and smashing good looks. The manufacture of the modern-day sports car began only after 1945, when the economy started booming, technology developed dramatically and better roads were being built. They came in various shapes like convertibles, roadsters, coupes, grand tourers and sedans. Sports-car lovers are either devoted to timeless classics that have been souped up for current times, or are trendsetters looking for the latest kind of exotic car.

From powerful purring beauties like the Mercedes Benz SLK 350 to thundering thrillers like the Ford Mustang V-8, you can choose a sports car that matches your personality. In fact, sports cars are as much about personality as they are about performance - smooth aerodynamic bodies of carbon fiber, chrome pipes and fittings, rich leather upholstery, wide wheels, shiny wooden panels and snazzy paint jobs.

Different brands of sports cars adopt different principles of design. Some cars may be light in order to achieve greater acceleration, others may boast of extremely powerful engines for better car handling and performance, while still others may stress safety and comfort rather than style. The majority of contemporary sports cars have front-wheel drives as opposed to rear-wheel drives, which were more common in the earlier generation of sports cars. Many cars also have the engine in the center, driving the rear wheels, which is unique to sports cars. In these cars, the engine is placed behind the driver, at the middle of the chassis. Porsche is the only sports car that has the engine mounted at the rear, driving the rear wheels. This aspect is a crucial part of car design, as it affects the maneuverability or handling of the car, which is critical at high speeds.

The most well known brands today are Ferrari, Porsche, Lotus, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Triumph. Companies which manufacture other cars also make some sports models; prominent among these are Ford, Toyota, Honda, Chevrolet, Mitsubishi, Mazda, and Nissan. Today, the design and manufacture of sports cars is becoming more specialized and competitive, with newer, more attractive designs and a higher degree of technical sophistication being utilized.