What Characterizes Beauty?
According to Thomas Rabe, a research fellow at Procter & Gamble, surprisingly similar standards of beauty have endured throughout the ages, regardless of ethnicity or geographical area. These standards include:
• Full lips
• Naturally glowing pink lips and cheeks
• Large eyes
• Prominent, long, curled, dark eyelashes
• Smooth skin with subtle tonal variation
• Taught, soft skin structure
• Prominent cheekbones
• Saturated life-like color
• Full lips
• Naturally glowing pink lips and cheeks
• Large eyes
• Prominent, long, curled, dark eyelashes
• Smooth skin with subtle tonal variation
• Taught, soft skin structure
• Prominent cheekbones
• Saturated life-like color
I often hear that skin care is a luxury. Skin care should be a necessity not a luxury. Our appearance is how we view ourselves. It is also how the world views us. Right or wrong, instantaneous impressions often speak louder than words and influence our thoughts, actions and reactions to people. If your skin is aging, so is your internal body. I just had a client say to me that we are degrading and dying from the moment we are born. I do not agree with that. I know women in men that are in their later years that are more vibrant, active, quick, and full-of-life than many 30 year olds. Ask them if they feel they started to die when they were born and they will probably laugh at you. I see life, health and vitality in another way. I see a life that is full and happy; it just depends on how YOU want to view life.
While there are some things in the list above that would take a plastic surgeon to change, skin care therapists can change, maximize and minimize the list according to the standards of beauty. As we age, our lymphatic system tends to slow down due to toxic build-up. This build-up causes a back flow of retained fluid that causes facial swelling. Facial swelling makes eyes appear smaller, cheekbones disappear, and gives a soft flabby appearance.
As we age, our lips tends to shrink and collagen is lost. Through an unhealthy lifestyle, people find their skin becomes thicker, less supple and youthful. Healthy color changes and that glow is lost. Hair thins and eyelashes and eyebrows do the same. Many people attribute this to the aging process, not to years worth of an unhealthy lifestyle. An unhealthy lifestyle breaks down vitality and beauty, not age. Age is ONLY a build-up of unhealthy habits.
Aestheticians and skin care therapists can drain lymphatic build-up, rebuild collagen to maintain or find that youthful plumpness, enhance the growth of eyelashes and eyebrows, and retexturize the skin. Wellness aestheticians can start to repair the damage internally and externally allowing the skin to glow and rebuild permanently once again.
While there are some things in the list above that would take a plastic surgeon to change, skin care therapists can change, maximize and minimize the list according to the standards of beauty. As we age, our lymphatic system tends to slow down due to toxic build-up. This build-up causes a back flow of retained fluid that causes facial swelling. Facial swelling makes eyes appear smaller, cheekbones disappear, and gives a soft flabby appearance.
As we age, our lips tends to shrink and collagen is lost. Through an unhealthy lifestyle, people find their skin becomes thicker, less supple and youthful. Healthy color changes and that glow is lost. Hair thins and eyelashes and eyebrows do the same. Many people attribute this to the aging process, not to years worth of an unhealthy lifestyle. An unhealthy lifestyle breaks down vitality and beauty, not age. Age is ONLY a build-up of unhealthy habits.
Aestheticians and skin care therapists can drain lymphatic build-up, rebuild collagen to maintain or find that youthful plumpness, enhance the growth of eyelashes and eyebrows, and retexturize the skin. Wellness aestheticians can start to repair the damage internally and externally allowing the skin to glow and rebuild permanently once again.
