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		<title>Lipstick and Curls - your perfect wedding makeup</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost all women enjoy looking their best. They will go out of their way to purchase new cosmetic items that promise to make them look movie star great. It does not just take expensive mascara, foundation or eye shadow to create the perfect look. A woman also needs a solid set of beauty make up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost all women enjoy looking their best. They will go out of their way to purchase new cosmetic items that promise to make them look movie star great. It does not just take expensive mascara, foundation or eye shadow to create the perfect look. A woman also needs a solid set of beauty make up tips to ensure she applies everything exactly the right way.</p>
<p>One of the most common mistakes that women make when it comes to their beauty regime is the color they choose for their foundation. Itís often too dark which results in a noticeable line along the jaw and the side of the face. A great beauty make up tip is to purchase a foundation during the day, and first try it on a spot on your face. Then look in a mirror both while you are in the store and then outside. This will give you a good indication of how close a match it is.</p>
<p>Eye shadow color is another area where women often make an error. There is a strong misconception that any shade of blue shadow is a no-no. If you have blue eyes though, a beauty make up tip that will highlight them is to apply a thin line of dark blue shadow along the lower and upper lashes. This enhances your eye color and makes them really pop. Another related beauty make up idea is to use dark blue mascara. Again, this really works best if you have blue eyes.</p>
<p>For brown eyes there are a couple of good choices when it comes to what to use. The colors that work best are shades of brown and pink. One beauty make up tip that applies to brown eyes is to try chocolate brown mascara. It is slightly different than black and can produce a much warmer look when matched with a tan colored shadow.</p>
<p>Lipstick seems to be one area that most women struggle with. With all the shades available it can be almost impossible to find one that matches your own natural skin tones. A perfect beauty make up tip when it comes to lipstick is to experiment. This doesnít mean going out and buying twenty different lipsticks and giving them a try. Instead it means going to the cosmetic counter and using the tester on your wrist. This beauty make up tip helps in that you can clearly see the color against your skin tone. Bright red lipstick is an entirely different story and best saved for women who want a very strong look.</p>
<p>Experimenting is one of the best ways to find what products and colors are best for you. When you find a color that you think looks great on you ask a close friend what she thinks. Although this beauty make up tip can result in her gently telling you to try something else, youíll know what works and what doesnít before you venture out in public.</p>
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		<title>DETOX Before Your Wedding - The Dos And Donts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The party season’s over and we feel bloated, tired and far from bikini-ready. Here are a few simple tips to kick-start a healthy new lifestyle



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<p><strong>Anti-binge tactics:</strong><br />
It&#8217;s inevitable; after a hard day at the office or a fight with your boyfriend, the first thing you want to do is head for the fridge. If bingeing threatens to undo all your hard work, take action: identify and isolate your trigger foods; don&#8217;t keep them in the house as sooner or later you&#8217;ll eat them; then find a displacement activity to distract you when you get the desire to stuff yourself silly.</p>
<p><strong>Small Steps:</strong><br />
If you want to improve your diet, rather than drastically change it, try cutting out one naughty craving, like mid-morning snacks. Behavioural psychologists have found that taking small steps (known as the &#8220;chipper&#8221; approach) is the only way to make fundamental changes in your life. If you set yourself realistic goals that you can work towards, you&#8217;ll get what you want. In contrast those who try and make radical changes in their life (or the &#8220;chomper&#8221; approach) are less likely to succeed, as their challenges are usually unrealistic.</p>
<p><strong>Drink water:</strong><br />
Along with moisturisers, mascara and lippy, all models consider water to be an essential beauty product - nothing else so directly affects the look and feel of your skin. Water can also help your diet: often when we think we are hungry, we&#8217;re actually thirsty. If you drink two litres a day, you&#8217;ll know that any hunger you feel is definitely for food.</p>
<p><strong>Smart shopping:</strong><br />
Supermarket shopping is a minefield when it comes to healthy eating, so make sure you stick to some simple rules. Always make a list of what you need and make sure you stick to it. You can help yourself to do this by avoiding aisles where junk and processed foods lurk. As a secondary form of defence, never go shopping when you&#8217;re hungry: you&#8217;re guaranteed, not only to buy more, but also to ‘treat’ yourself to unhealthy snacks.</p>
<p><strong>Willpower:<br />
</strong>Willpower isn&#8217;t really something that you have or don&#8217;t have; it&#8217;s a skill. It&#8217;s a sign that you&#8217;ve decided to make a conscious decision to do something about your life. When your brain is motivated in the right way, healthy food actually tastes great, and you&#8217;ll want to eat it. Eventually your brain will be tricked into believing that healthy food is more satisfying and it won&#8217;t be an effort to choose it over junk food.</p>
<p><strong>Appreciate food:</strong><br />
Eat with awareness. Don&#8217;t gulp down food or eat on the run. Sit down and really take notice of what you&#8217;re eating with all your senses. This will allow you to take pleasure in eating things that are diverse and trying meals you&#8217;ve never eaten before - you might be surprised! Eating quickly also means you eat more as your stomach doesn&#8217;t have time to register that it is full.</p>
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		<title>Luxury Wedding Cake Toppers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[wedding cake toppers: On the day of the wedding, the wedding cakes normally takes pride of place in the middle of the room, often costing more than it does to hire the photographer, and seeing the recent trends in design and style, one can see why.
Luxury Designer Wedding Cakes, are as varied as the couples [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://5starweddingdirectory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/image_resizer.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-277" style="border: 2px solid black; margin: 2px; float: left;" title="image_resizer" src="http://5starweddingdirectory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/image_resizer.jpg" alt="Luxury Wedding Cakes" width="203" height="200" /></a><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>wedding cake toppers: </strong></span>On the day of the wedding, the wedding cakes normally takes pride of place in the middle of the room, often costing more than it does to hire the photographer, and seeing the recent trends in design and style, one can see why.</p>
<p>Luxury Designer Wedding Cakes, are as varied as the couples who order them. With the wide choice in designs from some of the best wedding cake designers, such as <a title="Luxury wedding Cakes" href="http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/PEGGY_PORSCHEN_CAKES.html">Peggy Porschen Cakes</a> and the <a title="Little Venice Cake Company" href="http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/Little_Venice_Cake_Company.html">Little Venice Cake Company</a> you will be spoiled for choice.</p>
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<p>There is no doubt that being a wedding cake maker is a fun career, as there is a lot of variety, and this can not be a bad thing. When making cakes, colors, flavors, and size are always a little different per couple, and this also means that the wedding cake toppers for each cake will be a little different too. This might even be more important to the couple than the color of the cake.</p>
<p>Although there is a wide variety of wedding cake toppers, the majority of bride and groom will add wedding cake toppers on their cake. This is most common and most popular. These are not really standard any longer, as they come in different designs, and the people on this type of topper can be any color or nationality, which fits in better with the world that we live in today.</p>
<p>For more wedding cake ideas, visit <a title="Luxury Wedding Cakes and Toppers" href="http://www.5starweddingtv.com/videos/458/trends-in-wedding-cakes-on-get-married-tv" target="_blank">5 Star Wedding TV</a></p>
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		<title>Relationship Advise - How to end a fight</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one for newly weds, in fact for anyone in a relationship, you may be all loved up and having an argument may not be on the radar as yet, but as time goes by and the arguments start to creep in to the relationship, how best to resolve the minor issues?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is one for newly weds, in fact for anyone in a relationship, you may be all loved up and having an argument may not be on the radar as yet, but as time goes by and the arguments start to creep in to the relationship, how best to resolve the minor issues?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This and many other relationship questions has been answered by Dale Adkins, Sanity Savers, author of, Tips for Women to Live a Balanced Life, and Kate White of Cosmopolitan. The video clip below is from the Today Show and highlighting how to resolve an argument and in fact make it stronger.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The top 5 ways to argue:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">-  Make sure that it is the Right Time<br />
-  Never lose respect, i.e., avoid name calling and try to stay calm and collected<br />
-  Try to keep to the point of the argument<br />
-  Say, let&#8217;s work out some kind of solution to the problem</p>
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		<title>Designer Luxury Wedding Dresses</title>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A wedding gown</strong> is often one of the most expensive aspects of the day itself. Every bride has a vision of what she wants her dress to look like. She may have even planned it for years. Many brides spend hours in the months before their wedding leafing through wedding magazines. These are often filled with <a href="http://5starweddingdirectory.com/SHARON_CUNNINGHAM_COUTURE.html">designer wedding dresses</a> which are luxurious and elegant. They are also incredibly expensive, and for a bride who wants the look without the price tag, there are ways to accomplish it.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Every year new dresses are introduced. Each designer of gowns works hard to present a new selection of original creations year after year. For a bride who is interested in designer wedding dresses she is likely to know what&#8217;s new and what&#8217;s not. Chances are no one else at the wedding will. For this reason it&#8217;s often possible to find a dress from last year&#8217;s collection at a fraction of the cost of the new designs. The bride will still look just as stunning, she&#8217;ll be wearing a <a href="http://5starweddingdirectory.com/Lindka_Cierach.html">designer label</a>, and she&#8217;ll also have more money left to spend on other things.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Typically a few months before the wedding, the bride, her mother, the attendants and a bunch of friends make the rounds at the local bridal boutiques. Itís here that all the females in the bride&#8217;s life get their first glimpse of her in her wedding gown. Many women fall in love with the first dress they try on. This is natural as almost every wedding dress looks beautiful. However, it is important to try on many so you can be sure that you&#8217;ve found the ideal dress for you. Ask the salesperson to choose both designer wedding dresses and more inexpensive versions so you can have a variety.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Another common occurrence during this traditional wedding dress shopping outing is everyone having a different opinion on what looks best. Many brides want to step away from the stuffy look of a high collar with long sleeves and a train. Instead they tend to find <a href="http://5starweddingdirectory.com/Chandrika_Thomas_Couture_Wedding_Dresses.html">designer wedding dresses</a> that are strapless and off the shoulder more appealing. At the end of the day, the only opinion that really counts is the bride&#8217;s. Since it is her wedding day and hopefully it&#8217;s a once in a lifetime occurrence, she must choose the dress she falls in love with. After all, she&#8217;ll be looking at herself in wedding pictures for years and years to come, so she needs to be happy with her choice.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once the dress has been chosen and paid for, it will likely need to be altered before the big day. Even <a href="http://5starweddingdirectory.com/Lindka_Cierach.html">designer wedding dresses</a> need a bit of tucking and pulling here and there to make them a perfect fit. Itís advisable to visit the seamstress a month before the wedding and then again a week before for a final fitting. This ensures that on the big day, the dress fits like a glove.</p>
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		<title>Rooney Makes Wedding Plans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WAYNE ROONEY, the Manchester United and England footballer, and Coleen McLoughlin, we hear are going to tie the knot in the Summer of 2008. Having managed to secure a contract of a whopping Â£1.5m with the celebrity magazine Hello!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><img src="http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/coleen-rooney-2.jpg" class="right" alt="Coleen McLoughlin with her Fiancee Manchester Unitedâ€™s Wayne Rooney Pictures Photos" style="border-width: 2px; margin: 6px; width: 211px; height: 206px" title="Coleen McLoughlin with her Fiancee Manchester Unitedâ€™s Wayne Rooney Pictures Photos" align="right" border="2" height="206" hspace="6" vspace="6" width="211" />WAYNE ROONEY, the Manchester United and England footballer, and Coleen McLoughlin, we hear are going to tie the knot in the Summer of 2008. Having managed to secure a contract of a whopping Â£1.5m with the celebrity magazine Hello.</p>
<p align="justify">As we all know this couple are so popular in today&#8217;s media, the contract is more money than David and Victoria Beckham, who received Â£900,000 from the rival OK! magazine for their wedding in Ireland in 1999.</p>
<p align="justify">I heard that Rooney just signed a new Â£100,000-a-week contract with Manchester United last November, and has a Â£5m deal over 10 years with Nike and is the face of Coke Zero, so he won&#8217;t be running out of money for his honeymoon after his wedding.</p>
<p align="justify">Coleen McLoughlin is one of highest paid footballers wives in Britain, so we can all imagine the kind of wedding she will be planning very soon, don`t worry guys will come back to you once I get a bit more gossip on this.</p>
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