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Tapered pants are “in” at the moment. They are fitted all the way through the hips, down the thighs and right into the shoes. In my opinion, these creations should be totally prohibited from use on anyone who can’t honestly say that they look good in tights. The only way you can justify wearing such a thing is if you pair it with a loose tunic top and a snazzy pair of high heals. If not, don’t even look at those things!

Tapered fitted pants create an upside down pyramid with the ankles at the tip and the hips and butt at the top. Unless you have the tiniest of butt and hips, it will basically make you look huge where you would rather want to skim a few inches. And, not only that! If, below the upside down tip of the pyramid, you are wearing birkenstocks or sneakers, you’ll look like you are related to Donald Duck – your feet will look like boats! This is why these kinds of pants MUST be paired with high heals or tall boots if you insist on wearing them.

Needless to say, anyone who doesn’t want to look like a fashion mistake, especially if you are of mature age with a less than ideal size of wiggly bits, should highly consider a different style of pants.

To balance large or curvy hips, it is way more flattering to wear pants that fit around the hips, and then fall losely through the legs. One of my favorite type of pants are palazzo pants, which drape like a skirt and balance the hips nicely. You don’t even have to wear them with heals, comfortable flats work great.

So, unless you are planning fancy date and feel comfortable wearing 4″ heals, do yourself a favor and get rid of your pencil pants! Some things just aren’t meant to be worn on a daily basis…

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I just came across this little video on MSN about a new trend that is happening – less makeup and more curves! Yeah! It is time to bring out our inner goddesses, and it is even affecting the fashion world! Check it out – this is really cool!

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It’s the season to be slim and perfect – unfortunately, slim and perfect doesn’t come with the seasons, so if you are not slim and perfect, you just need to know how to disguise what isn’t ideal and enhance what is. This is an article I came across today on MSN about finding the perfect swim suit for all kinds of different figures. Check it out:
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There are many quests in life, besides the quest for truth, there is also the quest for the perfect mascara that doesn’t smudge or flake, and the perfect bra that doesn’t poke or pinch you.

Recently, I was really battling with my bras. I have just hit menopause, and am starting to develop more curves. No, I’m not fat, I’m just turning into a goddess with curves. Have you ever seen a goddess pictured without curves? I sure haven’t. So, there you go – if you want to free your inner goddess, you have to have curves.

Anyway, the new curves and my old bras just weren’t a good match. Those nasty poky-wires started poking into my sides, making red, painful bruises. So, I decided to change the wires so that they could accomodate a more curvy figure, by pulling on the wires so they would get wider. The problem was, that as soon as I widened the wires, it completely ruined the shape of my bra. The cups became sort of flat, and the breasts starting sticking out over the tops like muffins. (Not a very flattering look, I know).

So, I finally went to the store and tried on a bra with the same size band, but a bigger cup size. Oh, my, what a relief!!! A comfortable and flattering bra that wasn’t trying to squish my boobs together in the middle! So, that is the solution – as you get curvier, just increase you cup size and you won’t have to fight with your bra!

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Did you know that something like 65% of women use the wrong size bra?
40 or so years ago, my grandmother had a bra boutique where women could go and get fitted for the correct size bra. They got measured first, and they learned how to put it on properly. You aren’t just supposed to stick your arms into the straps and close it in the back. After you have put it on, you have to make sure the breasts are lifted into the cups properly by putting your hand inside the bra and giving each breast a lift.

So, how can you tell if you are wearing the right size bra? There are many tell tale signs. First, lift your arms up and see if the horizontal band is cutting into your sides. If it is, then you need a larger size band. If parts of your breast are showing below the horizontal band, then you need a smaller size band.

The cup size is more complicated. If the tip of your bust hangs lower than the middle of your forearm, you need more support.

If there is space inside your cups, you need a smaller cup size.

If the underwires don’t touch your breast bone, your cups are too small.

If the underwires poke into your sides, you need a larger size horizontal band. For example, I can fit into a 34 C, but the cups are too close together. I get a much nicer fit if I use a 36 B. So, if you have to change the band size, go down a cup size if your band size is bigger, and you’ll end up with the same size bra, just more comfortable.

If your breasts hang over the top of your bra, like muffins, you need a bigger cup size. Muffin breasts look horrible under t-shirts!

And, if you love those nasty bandeau bras, make sure they don’t flatten the breasts at the edge of the bra. Bandeau bras look nasty, too, especially under skimpy cotton tops. A better alternative is to go with a nicely shaped strapless bra that has enough support built in that it doesn’t have to flatten your chest to stay up.

Just remember, nothing ruins your look more than a badly fitted bra!

Back to the numerology of color again. The healing of the future will take much more advantage of vibrational medicine, such as homeopathy, hands on healing, color and sound therapy. Since color is vibration that can affect the energy of the body, knowing the quality of color is something we can use for our own healing, or to restore balance when we don’t feel good about ourselves.

The numerology of Peach adds up to 24/6, which means that there are communication issues (2), like lack of communication, or lack of cooperation combined with stubbornness (4) or a tendency to postpone things because of unrealistic expectations of self and others (6). 6 is the number of perfection – things have to be just right, or you fail! So, if you are not sure that you can be that perfect, it is better to keep your mouth closed. The only problem is that suppressing your communication is never going to create a perfect relationship with anyone. And if you postpone things out of fear that your actions aren’t going to be perfect enough, you are sure to get yourself into trouble.

One of the worst thing I can imagine is to have to work with someone who doesn’t communicate with me, and who postpones what needs to be done. This is often what happens when a company hires a bunch of incompetent people, and nobody cares if anything gets done. So, if you own a company and this describes your workers, the best option is to fire them all, of course. But if that is too drastic, you can always buy them peach t-shirts so they’ll stop dragging their feet, get the job done and start providing some customer service. If people start doing their best, there is no need for perfection.

Lavender is another color that has relationship issues. Numerologically, it adds up to 36/9. 3 indicates feelings of inadequacy, 6 shows a need for relationships and 9 shows a need to be loved. 3 also has to do with lack of self expression because of unrealistic expectations (6) in relationships, and 9 has to do with suppressed emotions.

It seems to me that we have become a culture where everyone is suppressed. We don’t talk to each other in relationships – out of fear – we don’t have any confidence, we don’t know how to express ourselves, we are afraid to be judged on what we do or say, we have fixed ideas, we think we have to be perfect, we think we are going to be abandoned if we are simply ourselves, and this makes us angry, which of course, we also have to suppress. It is no wonder that most people die from some kind of sickness. Sickness always happens from suppression or imbalance of some kind. Perhaps, if we took the chance to be ourselves without suppression, there wouldn’t be very much sickness at all!

In the case of lavender, there is meaninglessness and purposelessness of life. Why? Because when you stop expressing yourself creatively from fear of not being perfect enough, life does become meaningless. I know one person who battles depression on a regular basis because his mind is so critical that every great idea he comes up with is squished by his negative mind before it ever sees the light of day. So, he keeps wondering, what is the meaning of life… Why is he here… And he is in a state of waiting, for what he doesn’t know…

I see life as an opportunity. We come in with a blank slate, and it is up to each one of us to write something on that slate. Our destiny makes us experience certain things so we can learn the lessons we are here to learn, but how we learn those lessons is up to us. The problem is that if we are so afraid to live life that we can’t allow ourselves to make any mistakes, life does become meaningless, unfortunately. So when you find yourself depressed and gloomy, it is basically because you are not allowing yourself to be creatively you! And then, what happens? You go to the doctor and he will give you pills to suppress your depression further!!! Have you ever seen such lack of understanding? The real solution to depression is to stop listening to the negativity in your head, and join some kind of class that can get your creativity flowing again, because we are naturally creative beings. Suppression and depression are not natural states. So wear lavender, and become creative again, less critical, and more unconditionally loving.
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If your boss is wearing rust, watch out! This color adds up to 15/6 which means that lack of self confidence (1) causes fixed ideas and rigid behavior (5) from unrealistic expectations of self and others (6). So, after taking one look at the rust outfit your boss is wearing, you know that working for this person is not going to be a picnic in the park! Most likely, you’ll end up in tears before the day is over, unless you are a perfectionist that can actually live up to those expectations. Since most of us mortals are far from perfect, it makes sense that rust is not usually a popular fashion color.

Therefore, if you find yourself very fixed, uptight and perfectionistic, rust will help you get more confidence (1) so you can begin to let go and become a little more flexible (5), and also a little more forgiving when it comes to lack of perfection in self and others (6), since there is actually more than one way to do things!

And, by the way, if you want to expand in consciousness so you can move from the third dimension, where everything is fixed (either white OR black, but not both at the same time), to the fourth dimension where the truth is a lot more complex (yes AND no, depending on your point of view), fixed ideas and rigid thinking won’t do. In the new Age of Aquarius, we have to be open to change and variety, which is the positive vibration of 5, and we also need to let go of any rigid ideas of perfection.

Another rigid color is Magenta, which adds up to 25/7. Here, we find communication issues (2) combined with a rigid attitude (5), and there is a need to control the environment from fear of abandonment (7). Isn’t it fascinating to see how many of these colors that have relationship, communication and abandonment issues? I can’t help but wonder if tribal people who don’t wear much clothes have similar issues? Probably not! I bet they are much healthier than any so called civilized people. So, do the issues relate to the fact that we cover our bodies with clothing? That in itself is a bit unnatural, isn’t it? Well, maybe I shouldn’t even go down that path, so back to the color Magenta.

The vibration of Magenta will help you communicate easier (positive vibration of 2) and make you more flexible in your attitude (positive vibration of 5), but the main effect of Magenta is to make you less needy from fear of abandonment (positive vibration of 7). Therefore, it will be a good color for meditation, because if you can find your lost connection to source, you won’t be needy at all.
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Khaki is a bit uptight. Numerologically, it adds up to 22/4, which has to do with communication issues out of balance. Either, there is too much communication, as in confrontation, or there is not enough communication, as in suppression. The foundation (4) is shaky and there is lack of balance and a need to let go of control (4). So, if you are a control freak who either suppresses what you want to say, or you get into people’s faces too much, you need khaki to mellow you out a bit, especially if you are in a position of power at work. Khaki will help you be less high strung and intense, and your employees will breathe a sigh of relief…

Lime Green – I love the way lime green looks, even though I can’t wear it. Numerologically, it adds up to 52/7. This combination of numbers indicates a person who restricts herself (5) through service to others (2) from fear of abandonment (7). This stops the person from moving forward, in other words, it signifies stuckness (5).

To turn this around, the person needs to find their connection to source (7) so that they can overcome their fear of abandonment (negative aspect of 7), and once that happens, they can communicate freely in their relationships (2), and live a life of change and variety (the positive side of 5) instead of restriction and stuckness. So, when you start feeling trapped in your relationship, lime green is the cure…

So, what is your favorite color? Is there any color you want me to talk about?
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Burgundy is a bit of a sad color. Numerologically, it adds up to 39/12/3. The two 3′s show that there is a serious feeling of inadequacy, 1 has to do with lack of self-esteem, 2 is lack of communication and 9 is suppressed emotion and difficulty letting go. In other words, total suppression of the self in every way! The image that comes to me is just before the end of a dysfunctional relationship – your self-esteem has been destroyed, you can’t say anything because he won’t listen anyway, you feel like a failure, and yet, you are having such a hard time letting go! After 3 divorces, I know this feeling well…

This is when you need the vibration of burgundy. The other side of inadequacy is self-expression, which is the positive vibration of 3. The positive vibration of 3 will help you say what you need to say without being worried about whether he can hear you, or not. If you can express yourself, you get your self-confidence and self-esteem back, and then, you must surrender and let go, totally, and see what happens. Either he will hear you, and things will get better, or, you can walk off without looking back, knowing that whatever comes, you’ll find a way to deal with it, somehow…

So, when you are really down, and your relationship is, too, reach for burgundy and trust in the process of life. Remember, this, too, shall pass, and life goes on…

Pink is another color with sad undertones. Numerologically, it adds up to 23/5, which has to do with lack of communication in relationships and a sense of inadequacy which leads to stagnancy and inflexibility. Ghee! And I thought pink was a romantic color! This gives me the vision of the maiden in the tower, desparately holding on to her idea of the perfect prince coming to save her, even though she can’t communicate with him, and she doesn’t feel very good about herself. In more modern times, it probably means that you are stuck in a relationship that is as stale as an old piece of bread, where there is not really anything going on between the two of you, but you are too stuck, stubborn and rigid to want anything to change…

The positive vibration of 5 has to do with change and variety, so the 23/5 vibration can actually turn into change and variety in relationships through self expression and communication. So, wear pink, anytime you get that musty feeling in your life, and you need some change and variety in your relationship again. Pink will budge the stuckness and bring creativity and communication back into your life.

And, then there is plum, which is obviously in the same family as burgundy and pink. Plum adds up to 17/8, which has to do with fear of being true to yourself (1) from abandonment issues (7) which can lead to suppressed anger and frustration (8). What is going on here??? Are relationships nothing but prisons that we put up with because we all live in fear? It certainly doesn’t have to be like that!

The positive vibration of 1 has to do with finding yourself. Who are you? This is what we are here to find out, isn’t it? And, who you are has nothing to do with who you are with, by the way…
The positive vibration of 7 has to do with being connected to source, and feeling at one with the universe. It is only when we get the idea that the oneness is supposed to come from a relationship that we get in trouble. It has to come from source, and when that happens, you will also start trusting in the process of life itself. And, what does that do? It gives you power, which is the positive vibration of 8. Therefore, the vibration of plum can change your life. It can transform you from a needy person who is sacrificing herself, and suppressing her anger and frustration just to make sure her mate stays, to a powerful person who knows who she is, who has found her center and who is connected to source.

Oh, boy, the path is never easy, but the universe doesn’t care about whether we are comfortable or not in our personal journeys toward light, love and expansion. The only thing that matters is whether we get it, or not.
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