Archive for the slow beauty Tag

Christmas wonders in Paris

I wish it was Christmas all year long. I am not really interested into receiving gifts, when I look at my selves loaded with unused objects and useless thingamajigs, and after having lived four years in Peru where I learned to live simply, I am telling to myself “menos es más” (less is more). I wish it was Christmas all

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hypnotic beauty

Better than botox…hypnosis !

Jack Sparrow and all the treasure hunters who have dedicated their life searching for the fountain of youth might have gone to the wrong direction. If the fountain of youth exists well and truly, it is not to be found in a secret cave of the Caribbean guarded by mermaids, or in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. It runs

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the three grace rubens

Good news, the ideal woman doesn’t exist !

I guess I missed my time period. If I was born during the Renaissance age, I would have been a canon of beauty! In the nice musical video the filmmaker Elena Rossini compares the representation of the ideal of beauty in art vs in the actual mass medias. The body mutation is striking. While looking at the images, I have

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hair threading lauren greenfield

Hair war

The pain made Rose close her eyes. Her hands are holding on the armrest. Her entire body is shaking intermittently by spasms. Armed with a white thread, ingeniously twisted, Violeta comes close to her face and pull off rapidly. Few hairs are blowing away. A tear drops on Rosa’s cheek. She has to hold on; there are still some downy

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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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annabelle blackberry

Annabelle, the girl who lives in her bathtub

Even if she has switched her fish tales for a pair of Louboutin and tigers stilettos, Annabelle is a true modern mermaid . She has transformed her bathroom into her kingdom and her bathtub into her throne. When she is not working outside, she can take as much as three baths in one single day! As she saw me opening

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