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Kelly, a pin-up in the jungle

Kelly opens carefully a piece of newspaper wrapping three glass phials. “This product serves against hair loss, this one is to give strength and this one with placenta stimulates hair growth. “ She looks at the tent’s floor where she has gathered all her beauty products and starts laughing. “I didn’t realize I had so many things!” A clay facial

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El Dorado

How to take a bath with a black caïman?

Second part of the “Beauty Survival Handbook in Avatar” article , that you can read here. To begin, in the jungle there is no bathroom. You can choose between a bath with the crocodiles or a shower in the dark with the mosquitoes. Plan A, you choose the bath in the lagoon. Directions for use. Double check if the area

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Marie Des Neiges Vendeuvre

The Beauty Survival Handbook in Avatar

Flop, flop, flop. My rubber boots are sinking into the heavy and sticky mud. I am walking in a minefield, chased after by an army of mosquitoes buzzing in an unbearable way close to my ears. For the third time in less than half an hour, I splash myself with an anti-mosquito repellent recommended for the tropics zones. It appears

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Tania, the teen amazon !

“Do you want to listen to some music?”, is asking me Tania. Few seconds later, the song “Baby” by Justin Bieber is resounding into the room. She hums the chorus and bursts into laughter. Like most of the teenagers of the world, Tania is a huge fan of the young American singer and, as the posters on the walls are

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Cinthia, the beauty queen of the Amazon jungle

“A mi me gusta así, ser toda natural” (« I like being like this, 100% natural ») tells me Cinthia while laughing. With her long dark brown hair floating in the wind and her skin decorated with strange red drawing, Cinthia is an atypical queen of beauty. © Daniel Silva « I have won various beauty contests. I have been

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Love, Nature and Beauty by Eliana

The « peep peep peep peep » resounds in the room. Eliana takes a fledgling with a broken wing in her hand and raise a bottle cap filled with water to his beak. She speaks to him quietly, rubs his back, and gives him little kisses trying to help him drinking. “When I was single, I used to love taking

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The amazonian beauty secrets of Nevei

The bus is speeding along the road that crosses the Andes Mountains; little by little the scenery is changing as we travel along. Suddenly my eyes are waking up, aroused by bright green strokes that contrast sharply with the grey, brown, and straw-colored shades of the pampa. We enter into the kingdom of green luxuriance, where chlorophyll rules, and life

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