Fabulously Cheeky

I just came across an interesting article today about whether or not facials can remove wrinkles. According to the doctor who wrote the articles, deep cleansing and massage isn’t going to do anything to remove the wrinkles. Even facial workouts don’t work!

So, what can we do? If you don’t want to go to the extremes of having your face skin sanded off with steel brushes, or burnt off with 88% Phenolic acid, which is actually strong enough to kill you if it gets into your bloodstream too quickly, there aren’t too many options left. However, there are a few things you can do which can make your skin texture look more youthful and give you back some of that lost glow.

The most important thing, when it comes to youthful glow, is to find an exfoliator that is gentle enough to use daily. It should contain no apricot seeds or other abrasive substances, since these will damage your healthy skincells in addition to scrubbing away your dead cells, and that only ends up as inflamed and irritated skin, which is no good. Instead, find a scrub that contains oatmeal, cornmeal, crushed rose petals, or even white sugar. Think of it more like a polish than a scrub. If your scrub is gentle enough and you use it daily, it will give your skin a very smooth texture, and that in itself makes you look younger, even though your lines and wrinkles are still there.

The second culprit is your cleanser – stay away from soapy cleansers. Healthy skin is NOT supposed to feel “squeeky clean.” That only means that all your natural oils have been stripped away. Besides, soapy cleansers don’t remove makeup as well as creamy non-soapy cleansers, and when they strip the oils from your skin, they also change the natural acidic pH of the skin to alkaline, which is no good. Anytime the pH is off, bacteria can invade hair follicles and you’ll end up with pimples and boils. So, when it comes to cleansers, think creamy, non-soap, preferably pH balanced.

The toner should be alcohol free, of course! Alcohol dries out the skin, and who needs that? There are some astringents that don’t dry out the skin, such as citric acid, and in addition, it should also contain soothing agents, such as chamomile, marshmallow root and comfrey, and it must be pH balanced!

The moisturizer should be thin, like a serum, even for dry skin. Why? Because thick, heavy creams tend to sit on top of the skin, and even though they prevent water from evaporating from the surface, they don’t moisturize the deeper layers of skin and can therefore actually keep the skin dry. A serum can easier penetrate the skin and moisturize the deeper layers.

The most important ingredient in moisturizers is hyaluronic acid, which should be vegan and paraben free. Hyaluronic acid is a natural component of the skin that can hold its own weight in water 1000 times, and it also helps increase the penetration of other skincare ingredients, since it increases the moisture levels in the deeper layers of the skin. This substance will even plump up your skin enough that fine lines and wrinkles look less obvious. So if you don’t want the nasty side effect of using Retin-A, hyaluronic acid is a good alternative. It will make your skin look plump and young, and it is a totally harmless ingredient as well! According to the cosmetic database, hyaluronic acid is rated green, which is basically harmless.

And last, but not least, don’t forget to add a good sunscreen before you go out. Not only does it protect the skin from sundamage, but it can also prevent those nasty brown aging spots to occur.
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I know, it is easy to say, and difficult to do! But have you thought about WHY is it so hard to muster up the courage to follow our dreams? There is only one reason – the mind!

The mind is rational, logical and… a coward! The mind always wants to know the outcome before doing something, the mind wants guarantees, the mind will do whatever it can to talk you out of what you are thinking about doing, and it is an expert at coming up with great reasons why anything you are thinking about isn’t going to work. The mind is downright pessimistic, and if you don’t have great self-confidence, your dreams are eliminated with logic before they even get off the ground! This is why, almost nobody ever follow their dreams. The dreams just seem way too dangerous and disturbing to your safe and comfy life.

But, the mind doesn’t really have any power. Yes, it can talk you out of doing what your heart desires, but it still can’t convince you to forget your dreams, no matter how logical it is, because the heart is so much more convincing!

The heart has courage. It doesn’t follow logic, it just jumps into life, with no thought behind it! It gets itself into trouble, yes, but it has the courage to face the trouble and find solutions, too. The mind thinks that the heart is blind, but the truth is, the heart has a deeper understanding than the mind. The heart knows and understands instantly, no logic or arguments are needed.

Do you feel a conflict between mind and heart, logic and feeling? Go with the heart. The heart is deeper than the mind, and also more courageous. The heart will never talk you out of following your dreams. The heart will tell you to jump first, and think later, and if you do, your life will be very rich (even though your wallet may be thinner as a result). But, who cares about a thin wallet if you can have a rich life instead? We are here to live life to the fullest, we are here to experience as much of what life is about as possible, so that when we come to the end of our lives, and we have lived to the fullest, we should be able to let go, just as totally, when the time comes to transition into a new dimension. If we are holding on at the moment of death, it only means one thing – we haven’t lived yet!

So, don’t hold back, if there is anything you would like to do in your life, do it! Nobody knows when your time is up, so we have to live, as if every moment was the last. That way, each moment becomes a gift. Therefore, you MUST follow your dreams, because only YOU can make your dreams come true. Wishing on a star just isn’t enough. So, go for it, right now, because NOW is the only time there is!
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First of all, we all have a voice that can now be heard! We now longer need to read news that has been filtered and sensored. People can now give their honest opinion about anything they want, and nobody can filter, sensor, or stop you from expressing yourself. They can’t even burn you at the stake for being wise or opinionated anymore! So, blogging doesn’t just give you freedom of speech, it can also allow you to make up for the continuous suppression of women that has happened since the beginning of time. Women were supposed to be submissive to men, to be seen and not heard, to serve but not interfere, and all I can say is NO MORE! We are here to share our visions, insights and wisdom with the world!

The world has been ruled mostly by men, and look what a mess it turned out to be. What is causing this mess? All head (mind) and no heart! And women usually have both. While raising our children, we have to be able to think clearly and solve many problems during the day, and we also have to have lots of unconditional love, forgiveness and understanding. This is what is missing in the world today, so the time has come for women to finally be heard. And what is the easiest way to reclaim our voices? Blogging! It is as simple as that!

Blog away about anything that comes to you, anything that makes an impression, anything that you want to share with your fellow human beings! Life is not always easy, but with the support, advice and wisdom from all our beautiful sister friends, we get the strength, to not just move through the hurdles of life, but to also to grow and expand in consciousness in the process.

With blogging, we can reach out and touch each others hearts. By sharing our stories and opinions, we can encourage and inspire each other to go beyond our comfort zones and allow our beings to flower in ways we never thought were possible!

This is why I wrote my WordPress Tutorial – to give any woman who wants to have a voice, an easy way to express this voice. I know that women, like myself, may not be on super friendly terms with computer technology, but I didn’t want that to stop them from having a blog if they wished to. Therefore, my book is written by a woman for other women in a way that women can understand (actually, that anyone can understand, so it works for open minded men, too).

So, if you have secretly dreamed of having your own blog, just go for it. With my new WordPress Tutorial, anyone who can read a cookbook, can also create a blog. So, don’t hold yourself back anymore, because every one of us can make a difference in our own ways.

To read about the book, or to buy, CLICK HERE
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A Step by Step WordPress Tutorial for Beginners

Finally, my new book “A Step by Step WordPress Tutorial for Beginners” has been published! I am really excited, because there is no such book available on the market as of yet!

What makes this book different, is that it is written by a “non-techie” for other “non-techies.” The book describes how to create a self-hosted blog with the latest version of WordPress, step-by-step, with lots of pictures, and it leaves nothing to trial and error.

This is a book for people who want to have a blog, but who aren’t interested in how how to design your own computer program. It is like driving a car – you know how to stick the key in and make it go where you want to go, but you don’t want to know what is happening under the hood. This book is similar – you want a blog with as little pain, suffering, frustration and techno babble mumbo-jumbo as possible, even though you may be technically challenged and know very little about computers. Is it possible? Yes, with this tutorial, anyone can set up a blog. The only qualification you need is the ability to read instructions, and do what you are told. Very simple!

Here is what some people have said about the book so far:

“What most impressed me about Mati’s book was the simplicity of her explanations, which were usually accompanied by diagrams that show what items to select when setting up your blog. I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to use the internet to share their ideas, opinions, or information with the world. This book will be useful to both the technologically challenged and those more familiar with publishing to the web.”
Michael Brill, author of Numerology for Healing.

“Hello Mati,
Have read through your book, and looks like the type of material presented, that would have helped me when I first tried to install WordPress. For anyone ready to perform a fresh new install, you hit it right on. Even picked up other hints that were new to me.” Thank You
Talker at “thetalker.org”

“Mati’s book steps in where most tutorials leave off. She provides you with the specific information needed to set up your wordpress blog, customize installation, and make money! This books is the only wordpress tutorial you’ll ever need.”
Yvette Carnell, spatterblog.com

To read more about the book, or to buy a copy, CLICK HERE.
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is putting Johnson & Johnson on the hotseat these days for putting carcinogenics, like 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde in baby shampoo!!! They have sent letters to the company asking them to quit putting carcinogenics in baby products, but the company hasn’t even responded yet. (CLICK HERE to read the rest of the article.)

In my book, big corporations are made up of pure evil! Poisoning our little babies because poisons are cheaper than natural ingredients! Booh! But, having to treat people for cancer later in life, is going to cost the society a lot more! Life is precious, and this is no way to treat it!

I know a lady who is married to someone who has been trying to fight the corporation’s use of chemicals for years, and she told me that even when they get together for international meetings, the corporations will sabotash the meetings any way they can, so that nothing will come out of it. The saddest thing she told me was about a mercury spill somewhere in Japan. Mercury got into the drinking water somehow, and all the children that were born that year, were basically retarded. They took all the children and went to Sweden to walk in a big parade, to show the world what happens to our children when chemicals are poisoning their bodies, because the world must wake up now! We must stand up to the corporations and refuse to buy their poisonous products! NO MORE POISONS!!!

Together, we can make a difference, because without customers, how can the greedy corporations make a profit? Make it your personal stand to refuse to buy anything on the shelf that contains poisonous chemicals. Give the corporations the message, that they can no longer do what they are doing, because we, the public, can no longer accept their disgusting life negative behavior! So, if you love yourself and your little ones, start by boycotting Johnson & Johnson’s baby products. Shame on them!!!
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I recently heard a friend of mine state that she is not a creative type at all, but that simply cannot be! Women are creative by nature!

First of all, women create life, and what can be more creative than that? And, as moms, we have to be creative in millions of ways – just little things, like figuring out why your baby is crying takes a lot of creative imagination, blowing away the aouii after the 4-year old has skinned her knee, finding ways to make christmas a magical experience for all the little ones, figuring out how to make spinach lasagna when you forgot to buy spinach that day, getting your kids to stop fighting, and so on. The list is long…

So, if you start looking at how many times daily you have to draw from your creative resources, you would be very surprised. I am going to be bold enough to state that women are able to juggle house and children ONLY because they are creative enough to come up with solutions to just about anything that comes up at the spur of the moment. In fact, it is by living in a state of continuous creativity that we actually survive as moms!

And, if you wonder why women don’t have any memory after having children, this is why – because all her energy is brought to the present moment by always having to deal with issues here and now in creative ways. This is what men may have to meditate for years to achieve – we are lucky, for us, it just comes naturally as soon as children demand us to be present!

So, creativity doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to have something to show for it, like a painting or a new knitted sweater. Creativity is a way to live your life, and for some women it comes so naturally that they don’t even realize how creative they are. But, believe me, all women are naturally creative beings, every one in their own way. So, the next time you put a new and different dinner creation on the table, made with whatever you had in your fridge that day, remember how much creativity it took to pull it off, and honor yourself for being so creative…
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