What in the E.F. is going on here.

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We’re all urged to be physically fit. Of course it’s not all hoopla; being physically fit can get you anything from a date, a job, to the chance to be able to play with your grandkids. So yeah, being physically fit is important. But, we are more than a bunch of bones and muscles, which may explain why perfectly ‘normal’ looking people make destructive and painful choices. 

Emotional Intelligence has been around for a while so most of us get that we need to possess some measure of that to succeed in the corporate world . 

Emotional Fitness, however is an entirely different story and is a hot topic now. My take on it is that emotional fitness is the degree to which an individual deals with situations, recover or become stronger in spite of the experience. The ability to not be disfigured by all the lemons that are thrown at you in life, to deal with not-so-fab experiences in a postive way, and to have the inner strength to be who you want to be, regardless of who is standing next to you, or what your ‘friends’ may think.

This state of having a strong sense of self enables an individual to do a number of things, including but not limited to:

- Resolve conflict faster
- Find solutions easier
- Live at peace with yourself and those around you
- Fulfill your dreams
- Have healthy lasting relationships

Thus having less run ins with:

- Anger
- Self-condemnation
- Regret and
- Resentment.

and less instances of people messing with his/her head. I wouldn’t doubt that somewhere in the melee the individual’s quality of life is increased.

Sounds like a dream. Where do I sign up? 

Clearly anything this fantastic doesn’t come easy. You can’t pop a pill or insert some silicone somewhere and then remove some fat elsewhere and get it. It ain’t that easy. 

In the same manner we follow to become physically fit, yes we do need to practice those specific exercises that develop the strong sense of self muscles, and don’t do the endless reps of those exercises that make us feel like crap.

It’s a minute-by-minute thing until you’ve found your personal groove. Depending on how far away from yourself you are, this can take anywhere from months to years I’d imagine. Either way my guess would be that it would have to begin with you REMOVING yourself from everything that you presently know, and reintroducing things one by one and carefully documenting your inner reactions and thoughts to said stimuli.

Sure you can get a life coach or something fancy like that, or if you are emotionally ‘well’ enough to think without the assistance of meds, you can just make the decision to know you better, starting now. Either way, outside help or DIY, the key is that the desire to change must come from within or forget it. 

It can start with daily affirmations yes, but it surely that can’t be the be all and end all. Doesn’t make sense to wake up and recite a fantastic paragraph in the mirror and then hop straight into some self destructive activity or the other that leaves you insanely depressed.  

We are too much of a complex species for us to just talk ourself out of destructive behaviour or thoughts; we actually have to do, remove, add or implement something for example. Something verb-ish, that involves unapologetic, conscious and consistent action on our path over time, however long it takes for us to get it right and for it to become a habit, and then effort to maintain what we know to ourselves to be true. 

But, after all that who are we really fooling. This sounds like a hell of a lot of work doesn’t it. Besides, noone wants to be unique anymore. Everyone wants to be the same cookie cutter, mainstream bore. *Yawn*

Fantastic. What fun.

Perhaps if we were able to add ourselves to Facebook, or BBM we may be able to spend some time with ourselves. We might not necessarily get down the the nitty gritty of why we are who we are and why we should LIKE it, but at the very least we will get a message from time to time that lets us know that we exist.

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The ‘it’ kids on the block

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You know how it goes.

Everything is all fine and dandy and then this one special starts a trend that gets everyone in a tizzy and life as you know it has not only been forever changed, but if you try to participate in the jump up, it will cost you. Dearly.

It’s no different with skin care.

‘Anti-aging’ skin care uses a combination of ingredients to assist in repairing and/or restoring temporarily ‘damaged’ the skin back to a more ‘normal’ state, or ‘aged’ skin to… skin that is “less aged” in appearance. 

In all honesty, accelerated aging of the skin occurs when the skin becomes:

- Irritated,
- Inflamed and/ or
- Dehydrated

so with this definition in mind, in addition to all the factors that were discussed in an earlier post, using products that were not formulated for your skin type, products that are overly drying or stripping of the skin’s oil and water levels, or not using any skin care at all – can all accelerate the aging process. 

In addition to protecting the against the damaging of free radical action on the skin by the use of antioxidants, another way to slow down the signs of aging is to stimulate collagen production, the main protein of connective tissue that is exclusively found in animals in nature. 

How is this done? One word, Peptides.

Peptides are usually really long compound words that end in ‘ide’, and are created in labs. For example, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide (both 3 and 5), are pretty popular.

The purpose of peptides in ‘anti-aging’ skin care products is to simulate the skin tissue’s regenerating process, and assist with quicker wound healing, and various levels of collagen production that would result in the appearence of less wrinkles, less sagging, and a thicker layer of the true skin, which is the layer of skin that is just under the superficial layer (the layer that we deal with – wash, moisturize etc). 

Peptides are the new ‘it’ kids on the block.

Everyone one is talking about them, and so like the most coveted shoes, they come with a high price tag attached to them whenever they are included in a product. However, if you want to up the ante on your skin care regimen as you are gunning up that proverbial hill, and you are looking toward a non-invasive product to help you with that, they are your best bet. Gotta pay the cost to look like you’re still the boss. 

Although they do function similarly, they often do not leave the skin as inflammed as it may appear after the use of Retinol.

Ingredients, Ingredients, Ingredients

In addition to peptides, other ingredients that stimulate the production of collagen are

- Retinol (Vitamin A)

- Ascorbic Acid (Vitmain C)

- Soy Isoflavonids

- Glucosamine and

- Yeast Extract

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The F word

Fear.

It is easy to allow it to dictate my pace. 

Thing is, Fear, you are not only relative, you are damn haphazard. There is no formula really that can let me know when you are going to stick your ugly head and upset my apple kart or worse, just plain old embarrass me. 

I have experienced you in both the known and the unknown. In the thought of being both noticed and unnoticed, recognized or not recognized. In being successful or not being successful. Therefore, if I allow you, Fear, to control me, I can never win and I will always lose. 

When I analyze it, turns out that you are really nothing more than a perception; an outcome of what I ‘believe’ to be a possible turn of events, as I usually do not Fear what I have accomplished or overcome but what will come or what is left to do.

I am aware that my ‘perception’ of the outcome of these events, can be skewed based on a number of factors, not limited to my stress level, my guilt, lack of sleep or of course my pride, all of which I create, of which I am in control of. 

So when I really think about it, Fear,  it  comes down to one of two things.  It’s either  going to be you, or it is going to be me. Just one of us will win, the other will lose. As I am no loser, that does not leave much space for you now does it.

Seeing that I have just admitted that you are a figment of my imagination, I can choose to ignore you. And as I am fully capable of making that choice, I will. I am. I just did.

So whatevs; On to the next one. I refuse to be bullied by something that doesn’t even exist. 

F you.

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Tip | Neck, Ears & Décolleté

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Treat your neck,  décolleté (upper chest, between the shoulders) and ears as part of your face.

Include these areas when you are performing your skin care routine, which, while it can be easily done anywhere, may be best done in the shower.

For the skin care virgins, this means to include these areas when you are using your cleanser, moisturizer and sunscreen.

For those into  more ‘advanced’ skin care routines, be sure to include your neck and décolleté when using your exfoliation and masque steps as well.

Why?

Cleanser

Using the same cleanser that you use on your face in these areas – décolleté, ears (outer regions) and neck, will for starters, ensure that these areas are cleansed. Further, cleansing with a pH balanced cleanser that is suited to your skin type ensures that you do not overly strip these areas of moisture or oil.

Especially in the case of the ears, where build up of oils can occur from hair product, cleansing your outer ear with your cleanser can help fight the good fight against blackheads in/ on the ear region. Eww.

Moisturizer

Much like the skin on the back of the palm of your hands, your neck (as well as the skin around your eye area) is one of the first places to show signs of aging, usually in the form of wrinkles.

By carrying your daily moisturizer further onto your neck area in your normal skin care routine, you can help hydrate this area, reducing the dehydration in the skin, which often shows up as superficial, or fine lines and wrinkles. These fine lines lead to larger, deeper wrinkles in time. Eeek.

Same thing goes for your exfoliation and masque. Skin cell renewal and hydration – Always important.

Sunscreen

The same thing goes for sunscreen. Even when you are fully clothed, usually your neck/ décolleté is exposed to the sun, so you’d need to protect it. In my practice as a Skin Therapist it is not unusual to see signs of hyperpigmentation (darkening) on the tips of the ears, this can be prevented if you extend the sunscreen that you would normally apply to your face, unto your ear.

With men especially, it is also common to find the back of the neck to be a much darker shade, or more freckled,  than anywhere else on the face or even when compared to the front of the neck. Perhaps this is as a result of the fact that men usually have shorter hair, which leaves the back of the neck exposed. Either way, protect it.

It should stand to reason that your Skin Care Therapist should be treating these areas as well in your facial. If this isn’t so, call him/ her on it. Pronto.

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Antioxidants.

How do they work and why are they an important part of an ‘anti-aging’ skin care system?

Simply put, antioxidants are substances that protect the skin against the damaging effect of free radicals,  i.e. unstable atoms that are generated by:

- Sunlight (UVA & UVB radiation)
- Pollution
- Smoke
- Stress
- Certain foods
- Drugs
- Exercise, etc. 

The presence of these free radicals not only assist causing disease, but they also accelerate the skin’s aging process. Antioxidants are substances that increase the body’s (or in this case the skin’s) defense against the damaging effect of free radicals. 

With the understanding that exposure to the sun accounts for 80% of the aging that we can prevent on our skin, it would seem that addressing this issue alone can go a long way to preserving the face we have for a few more years. 

Think it’s all hogwash? Maybe. 

How do ‘antioxidants’ work? 

Well, let’s see. Perhaps the best analogy would be the case of the apple.

Slice an apple in half. Leave one half exposed to the atmosphere for a few minutes and the other half you sprinkle some lemon juice on. What would happen?

You will notice a browning colour starting to appear on the exposed inner parts of the part of the apple .

However, what would happen if you were to drizzle some lemon juice over the other half of the apple and let it sit for a while? The result? Nada.

The original colour of the sliced apple is preserved, enabling you to still serve it to your guests after having it sit out for some time, or have your kids actually eat the apple at school rather than throw it away because it was ‘rotten’.

This browning process is called oxidation, and it’s the same thing happens to silver, or almost any other metal that is exposed to the atmosphere (the mixture of water and oxygen primarily) over time. Rust, for example, is the extreme case of a metal that’s been oxidized. Your skin is no different. Like the lemon, antioxidants in skin care assist in slowing down this ‘oxidzation’, which accelerates aging. 

Gold, platinum and palladium do not oxidize at room temperature, which is the reason they are used in jewelry and electronics. Stainless steel, titanium, tantalum and niobium are highly resistant to oxidation… not sure how I traveled so far on this tangent, so let me hop off here. 

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Back to the skin, this is not to say that you ought to put lime or lemon juice directly on your skin of course. Well you can, but that wouldn’t be very intelligent.

Lemon juice may work for the apple, but it is much more acidic than the natural pH of the skin’s surface. The skin’s natural barrier would be degraded leaving your skin more prone to, among a host of other things, increased dehydration (less moisture) and inflammation (more redness/ sensitivity) in skin, both of which accelerate the skin’s aging, which will bring you to square negative five (-5). 

So, as I said, not very intelligent move. 

However, Vitamin C is a very powerful, common antioxidant. So how can we capitalize it’s effect on our skin?

With the understanding that the Vitamin C that is freshly squeezed out of an orange breaks down before you can top up your tumbler and add that umbrella, a more stable form of Vitamin C needs to be packaged for use in skin care products. 

Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate (MAP) is a very stable form of Vitamin C, stable enough to be used in skincare. After all, we’ve all been told to up our Vitamin C intake to prevent the common cold, and to boost our immune system in general. 

In the same way, you can have  vitamins for the skin. These “Skin Vitamins” can be thought of as Antioxidants. 

Ingredients, Ingredients, Ingredients.

Some of the best antioxidant ingredients found in skin care (and their cosmetic ingredient names) are:

- White Tea (the most powerful) or Green tea (Camellia Sinensis)
- Soy (Glycine Soya Protein)
- Vitamin C (Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate and other Ascorbic Acid derivatives)
- Vitamin E (Tocopheryl Acetate)
- Licorice (Glycyrrhiza) 

The presence of any of the above in your skin care products, hopefully as one of the first few ingredients rather than the last, will assist in the fight against the damaging free radicals that your skin encounters from day to day. 

Because free radicals are also found inside the body, having a diet loaded with antioxidant foods will assist you immune system in general. And, as you thought I’d say, don’t forget the sunscreen, a minimum of SPF 15 daily.

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Are you wearing protection?

Ever see someone your age and wonder if he/she was REALLY in class with you? I mean like seriously? You either look like their youngest child, or their grandparents. What’s even more ‘wtf?’ is when you see an 18 year old who looks more like… 30tylate at best. What’s happening here?

‘Exposed’ aging y’alls. The result is far from fab as this right here is a first class ticket to looking twice your age.

So what is ‘exposed’ aging and how does it differ from ‘unexposed’ aging?

Unexposed Aging.

This is often referred to as ‘aging gracefully’. The grandparent for example, who doesn’t look like a 20 year old spring chicken obviously, but clearly looks ‘better than’ most in his/ her ‘age’ bracket.

It this is largely the skin that has been protected from UV rays. Unexposed aging comprises of:

- Thin, smooth skin
- Fine lines and wrinkles, usually associated with superficial dehydration and light diagonal lines
- Inelastic, saggy skin
- Skin is usually ‘dryer’ (less oily) than skin was 20 years ago
- Growths on the skin are usually benign rather than malignant, and are associated with aging rather than photo-aging.

And this is unexposed aging. Ready for the exposed aging?

Exposed aging

Exposed aging refers to skin that as been indiscriminately exposed to the sun’s damaging UV rays. It has been determined that 80% of extrinsic aging (aging that we can control) is attributed to the sun’s rays.

This skin appears:

- Rough in texture, may be even classified as ‘leathery’, skin may also feel very ‘thick’
- Coarse, deep, wrinkling
- Significant loss of skin’s elasticity, and there may be the presence of broken capilaries (redness)
- Dry and scaly
- Darkened spots/ patches/ areas on skin aka hyperpigmentation
- Both benign and malignant growths

Overexposure to damaging UV rays can create long term damage to various layers of the skin. The protective outer layer (barrier function or acid mantle) of the skin is damaged which can lead to dehydration of the skin, as well as inflammation which, especially in darker skin types, can lead to all kinds of pigmentation issues, and darker skin already doesn’t need much help in the scarring/ darkening department.

Cell renewal, i.e. the ability of the skin to exfoliate and regenerate itself in order to reveal reveeal younger, brighter, more supple skin, slows dramatically and skin can have a sallow devitalized appearance. Collagen and elastin in the skin also breaks down. This sucks major donkey balls as for starters, only 3% of the ‘true skin’ (the layer of the skin where all the action happens) is elastin – that substance that gives the skin it’s elasticity. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. *poof*

So what’s the remedy?

That’s where all this ‘anti-aging’ marketing talk started and so here it began.

Remedies

Basically, any remedy, regardless of the cost, will seek to:

1. Help exfoliate the dead skin cells lingering on the surface, that the skin is unable to do because of it’s decreased cell renewal, which happens naturally after the age of about 25.

2. Stimulate cell renewal i.e. decrease the length of time it takes for new cells to make it to the outermost layer of the skin

3. Control darkening (hyperpigmentation) 0f the skin

4. Hydrate skin i.e. add moisture which will help reduce the appearence of the superficial fine lines that is normally associated with skin that is dehydration.

5. Calm skin. Sensitive skin is the skin type that ages the fastest, after this is dry skin. Reducing any sensitivity or inflammation on the skin

6. Restore the skin’s protective barrier to a healthy state

Any product/ action that enables any combination of the above can be considered to help in preventing accelerated degeneration of the skin/  and as a result can range from having a skin care regimen that target your main concerns (dehydration, sensitivity, breakouts) to of course the hard core approach of paralysing nerves in an effort to prevent wrinkle formation or flat out plastic surgery.

Ingredients, Ingredients, Ingredients.

Regardless of the brand, it’s what’s IN a product that will get you the most results. What are the top 5 ingredients in the product? Are they ‘active’ ingredients, or are they fillers? For example, in that ‘Hydrating’ moisturizer, is the first ingredient Water, or better yet Hyaluronic acid or Sodium PCA or is it Mineral Oil? You do the math.

You reap what you sow.
The earlier you start paying attention to your skin’s needs, the better off you will be. You can switch up your hair and get a new wardrobe, but the passport that is your face stays with you forever.

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She got it from her mama

Humans are an interesting bunch. 

We are so technologically advanced at times, yet at the same time it’s amazing the things we accept as truth. “Anti-Aging” for example, must be one of the most overused words this decade, yet when you really think about is, is ‘anti-aging’ possible? 

No. 

A perfect example of marketing at it’s finest. 

Truth is, although aging (an alteration in structure, appearance and function of skin as taken in this context) cannot be prevented, it can be accelerated.

Aging is a continuous process that starts the day that you were born. It is one of life’s harshest realities; the degree of harshness of course, is dependent on many factors including both Skin Type (genetics) and Lifestyle (how you choose to live your life) – just how much you didn’t care about your skin in your 20s shows up in your 40s, if you’ve paced yourself socially, earlier if thought then that life was running away from you.

As you can imagine, there are many factors that influence how a person ages. These factors may be classified as being either Intrinsic or Extrinsic in nature. 

Intrinsic Aging refers to that which may be naturally expected to happen with time. It is said that 10% of our aging is intrinsic i.e. 10% of how we age is beyond our control and is affected by:

1. good old Father Time and

2. Genetics, that which your parents were so kind enough to give to you, like those allergies, and those toes.

A whooping 90% of our aging however, is extrinsic, meaning that it is under our control. Can you imagine that? Ninety percent.

What we eat, what we do, where we go and how we go there, as well as what we don’t eat, what we don’t do, where we don’t go and how we don’t go there can determine how well or how dreadfully awful we age. 

Extrinsic factors would include:

- Diet, nutrition and overall health

- Lifestyle

- Exposure to UVA and UVB radiation, like the sun’s rays)
- Smoking
- Excessive alcohol consumption
-  Stress
- Medication

- Environment, or other such external factors, for example if you injured yourself or otherwise did some damage to your skin. Or for example, if you live day in day out in metropolitan smog or if you live your life breathing in the fresh Caribbean breeze in some laid back tropical paradise. 

- Hormonal

As you may, or may not, imagine, a significant amount of extrinsic aging may be attributed to aging as a result of the damage that is done to the skin as a result of the over exposure to UV radiation, which is otherwise referred to as ‘photo-aging’, a state where the skin is irreparably damaged.

Photo-aging may occur on it’s own or as a result of other ‘lifestyle’ factors. For example, the heightened sensitivity to the sun’s UV rays that occurs within the skin when something like alcohol is ingested. Smoking, quite a few over the counter medications as well as poor nutrition can also make your skin more sensitive to the sun’s rays aka burn more easily when you are outdoors. 

So yes, she may have got it from her mama, but if she’s over 35 and can still get carded, best believe that there are a whole lot of other things that she, and her mama for that matter, have been doing right, like using a cleanser that’s an upgrade from soap perhaps, or using sunscreen… for starters.

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Men’s Style | Our fave Spring ’10

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So now that Spring is here we get to see which of the Spring ’10 looks that debuted last Fall makes the most sensible transition to the catwalk of reality. With the understanding that taste is subjective, these are some of my fave male looks.

Gucci | Spring 2010

1. A blazer

or Sport Jacket. Granted that pic above may be a bit much, it’s not that serious. But it’s a blog, so effect goes a long way. 

On a side note, the shiny, flooded pants should be sold with a wearing license; Looks like a public safety hazard when worn on normal folk. Can’t hate though, guy is wearing that ‘skinny pant’ better than I can. 

The right blazer need not break your bank. For more affordable/ wearable sport jackets/ blazer options, see this pic here from H&M. 

See? Everyone’s more comfortable now. Totally wearable. 

Or, for my more temperate dwelling citizens, some easy breezy trench coat sexy:

Appearing relaxed and ‘unstructured’ is the way to go; Easy breezy cool. The right blazer will get you everywhere you wanna go, ask Maxwell or Lenny. You can seek them on advice on where to get that license to don those smedium, short, shiny pants too. 

2. The Faded look

Faded faded eh, not bleached, or acid-washed, or feathered or any such synonym for something has had colour that has since been both intentionally and irregularly removed from it. And just faded please, not distressed, i.e. no holes, rips or tears okay? Just faded. 

I find this look to be one of those that goes a further distance when you purposefully style your look with an appropriate something that ‘happens’ to be faded, rather than just throw on a pair of something that is faded as a result of the fact you’ve lived in it since the year started. 

Never fear, the fashion police will know the difference. Think it’s the same? No it’s not. In the first look everything looks so much in place that it’s hard to tell that you are actually wearing something that’s ‘faded’, in the second it’s difficult to tell that you’re not a street person. 

I think the appeal of the ‘faded’ look is underlying message of comfort and style it sends; something like you care enough about yourself to purchase something that fits you so well that you ‘live’ in it… even though you actually don’t.

One piece only though, either the sports jacket OR the trouser, which brings me to #3

3. Cut off shorts

Buy ‘em or make ‘em. See that faded khaki/ corduroy ‘jeans’ , that’s all frayed at the base or has a hole near the heel? Yeah that one. Put it on, mark it just under your knee (I’d suggest that you have someone else do it, as you run the risk if the length being a bit shorter than you intended it to be if you do it yourself), lay it flat on the ground lining up the hems and snip away.

I’d suggest first making the cut below just below the knee, try, and repeat with the cutting action as you see fit. You can always make ‘em shorter but a guy in a pants that’s bordering on too/ uncomfortably short will always get a side eye. 

As with everything fashion related, there is a huge grey area here. I suggested khaki (either the fabric or the colour) trousers as cut off faded denim shorts can take you right back to 1999. Worse, if they are either cut too short or to a 3/4 length. Ugh… no. 

4. Solid cotton ties

I forgot the slim part. Slim, solid cotton ties. Just enough so that people will take you seriously, and not too much so that you don’t.

All purpose, lightweight and down to earth. 

Hearts it. 

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Do you remember? MV

The scandalous tight pants ‘n combat boots wearing, bare chested, wave noveau/ wet-n-wild weave/ microbraids donning, mascara ‘n  bandana modelling  mess that was the ‘group’ Milli Vanilli?

‘Singing’ their hearts out. Oh gorm, poor thangs. Surely they must have had at least one friend who thought this was a bad idea.

Not only do you only fool yourself when you fake, but you are never satisfied. Where is the upside again?

Cheaters never win y’all; let that be our lesson for today, as it will only result in a wickedly bedraggled, break-neck fall from grace. 

Those get ups should have been the first indication that something was not quite right in Minilliville.

Blame it on the man-leggings and panty-hose top combo I say, and leave the damn rain alone.

“Girl you know it’s (AIN’T) truuuue, ooh ooh oooohhhh….”

Oooh la la!

Okay enough. Just playin’.

I still listen to ‘their’ songs anyways.

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