Beauty Tip Information
- Retro Styles & Makeup of the 1980s
- Measuring Your Bra Size
- How to Tie a Scarf
- Popular 70s Fashions and Makeup
- Shaping Eyebrows: Threading, Plucking & Waxing
Eating a healthy diet may mean learning to use different foods, or learning to cook in a new way. Consider it a challenge – a journey that will result in improved cholesterol goals and an overall healthier you!
Recipes are not set in stone! You can modify most recipes to minimize the fat and cholesterol and keep the flavours you love. The table below lists items that are bad news for your cholesterol health and suggests great alternatives.
Have fun reinventing your favourite recipes – it’s easier than you might think!
If the recipe calls for: | Use this instead: | Here’s why: |
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Sour cream | Fat-free plain yogurt or fat-free sour cream | Fat-free yogurt or fat-free sour cream gives you the flavour without the fat |
Heavy cream | Evaporated skim milk | Similar texture without the fat and calories |
An egg | Two egg whites | Yolks are loaded with cholesterol, but there’s no cholesterol in egg whites |
One cup of butter or oil for baking | Three-quarters of a cup of applesauce | A good substitute with little fat. Choose no-sugar-added applesauce to cut the calories even more. With this substitution, you might need to ‘play’ with the recipe to get the right texture |
Frosting | Mix 1tbsp icing sugar with 1tbsp water to make a glaze | A glaze adds the sweetness without the fat and calories from frosting |
Butter for greasing pans | Non-stick spray | A non-fat spray is easy to use and prevents food from sticking to pans |
Bacon | Turkey bacon | Bacon made from pork is loaded with fat. Turkey bacon is made entirely from turkey meat and contains very little fat |
Cheese | Low-fat cheese | Avoid fat-free cheese when cooking, it doesn’t melt well. Low-fat cheese such as part-skim mozzarella, is a good choice |
Seasoning or salt | Fresh or dried herbs, garlic, vinegar, lemon or orange juice in dressing, or low-sodium bouillon cubes | These alternatives can spice up your dishes without adding too many calories, fat or sodium. A wide variety of flavoured vinegars that can spark your tastebuds are available – check the shelves at your local grocery store |
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Proper Beauty Tools Make Eyebrow Shaping a Breeze
Plucking the perfect eyebrow shape can be a stressful task because no one wants painful, over tweezed brows. Follow the lead of to make up artists and get the right tweezers and eyebrow care beauty tools. For very little money you can get the same eyebrow tweezers most professional salons use.
Learn from the professionals and see some eyebrow care kits that come with everything you need for perfect brows.
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The perfect eyebrow starts above the inside corner of your eye (over the tear duct), and ends at the outside corner, above your eyelashes. Eyebrows should have an arch: in nature, it’s rarely where it should be, which is a frustrating commentary on standards of beauty. Ideally, the arch happens over the iris, the colored part of your eye. It should be gentle, so if you’re planning to reshape your arch, take it very, very slowly. Do a hair or two a day, and err on the side of caution. Hasty plucking can give you a surprised look that lasts for weeks.
I read somewhere that it’s okay to trim your eyebrows. I think this is good if the single hairs are long and thick. You can pluck some hairs and trim the others, brushing them up, evening the ends (be careful not to trim too much!), then brushing them down checking again and again as you go along.
You can buy an entire professional-style brow kit that includes tweezers, pencils, grooming gels and brush from Anastasia at www.drugstore.com.
The second measurement should be taken around the fullest part of your bosom with your favorite bra on. This measurement is your cup size. Next subtract your band size from your cup size to calculate the right cup size. Refer to the bra cup size chart below:
After all the research about finding the right bra size, my measurements put me in the somewhat embarrassing category of 32A. I did indeed fall in the 7 out of 10 women who are wearing the wrong bra size. I figured models have smaller breasts right? It can’t be that bad. So I was off to the store to try on what I thought to be my “measured” bra size. The only problem was a 32A was giving me four breasts (you know the double-bubble affect) instead of two! I was back to square one asking myself “whats my bra size?”
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Finding Your Bra Size, Even if Your Department Store Doesn’t Carry It
I really believe that one reason why so many women are wearing the wrong bras size is because local department stores only carry a very limited, standard size selection. We all think that we are suppose to fit in that limited size assortment, which is just not realistic. If you don’t perfectly fit in the standard bras size, most women settle for mediocre fit of what is available, on sale and in the prettiest color.I too, find myself in a rather hard to find size. I am also someone who prefers to stock up on everyday clothing items when they are on sale, which has been harder after learning my proper size. My new strategy is to buy the proper size, on sale and online. If I can find one at the store, I try it on and then stock up on that style through an online retailer. They are well stocked on unusual sizes and have sales all the time. Many offer free shipping deals, as well. Below are a few of my favorite online bra stores that carry a large variety of sizes brands.
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- Bare Necessities
- Fig Leaves
- Essential Apparel
- Big Girls Bras (my bustier friend’s favorite)
The moral of the story is have a bra professional fit you with the proper bra size. Measuring with a tape measure may not be enough to get the perfect fit bra. And trust me, a correct size bra makes for a shapely, perky bosom with comfort. If your measured bra size is not translating well to the bra size try going up or down a cup or band size for the perfect fit.
Breasts should not fall out below the bra when raising your hands above your head. If they do try, going down a band size
The middle part of your bra that sits between your breasts should sit flat on your rib cage. If it doesn’t try, going up a cup size.
The band of your bra should stay level around the circumference of your body. A band that rides up in the back means your band size is too big.
The bra straps should only be 10% of the support your bra gives. If your bras straps are doing all the work, consider going down a band size.
Breasts should fit comfortably into the bra cup with no overflow, double-bubble, or wrinkles in the bra fabric.
Your bra band should not be giving you the illusion of back fat. If this is happening try a larger band size or a difference style bra.
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Mica Makeup and Cosmetics Complete the 1980’s Look
Before there was pure mineral makeup, there was mica for eye shadow. Mica is a highly reflective mineral, which makes for strong color and a lasting look. Ground fine, it provides all the glam of glitter without the grit or flakiness, because mica makes a powder so smooth, you can't even feel it once it's on. It's exotic, romantic and lush. In the '70s and '80s, mica was de rigueur for eye shadow, evening contours, dusting on shoulder blades and all sorts of other groovy places. A little pot of mica shadow will last you about fourteen years, unless you decide that it's so cool as a cosmetic that it would look even better swiped onto a wet paintbrush and smeared across a pure white wall in an iridescent rainbow. Then, you might need to buy a second pot. Mica is also great because you can find it all a lot of different colors ranging from black to purple to white, but all iridescent and shiny.
Unless you're planning to cover your entire body with mica, it's easier to apply it damp, either with a sponge or a brush. It's great worked into moisturizer or mixed with lip balm or even put into nail polish. It's inert, so if it gets in your mouth it won't hurt you, but it will still bother your eyes like any dust would, so be careful applying it around the eye area. Because it's so fine, it can be flyaway otherwise, and truly untidy. But it's so much fun to experiment with, you may just decide to buy a big powder puff and go for it.
See a selection of mica makeup that will glam up your eighties look.
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