Eating for your beauty

Did you know?

Eating healthy is the best thing you can do for your skin before you resort to beauty treatment such as scrubbing, exfoliating and the works.  In fact your beauty should start from within. Your skin is made up of three layers:- The epidermis (outermost layer of skin that provides a waterproof barrier and creates our skin tone)
The dermis ( the layer beneath the epidermis that contains a tough connective tissue, hair follicles and sweat glands)
The deeper subcutaneous tissue (hypodermis) is made up of fat and connective tissue.
As we know that the skin makes the part of who we are, we should keep it clean, protected and healthy. The first step is watch what we eat because what you eat is what you become. Naturally we have three food groups and those are:- Energy giving foods ( the carbohydrates and starch)
The body building foods ( the vitamins and minerals)
And the body protective foods(the proteins which their duty is to repair the torn skin cells.

Now we start a routine plan to take care of our beauty. 

Did you know?

For a glowing complexion you have to eat red fruit as your midmorning snack. Take for example a tomato - Tomatoes are packed with liposenene acid and antioxidants which are responsible for rejuvenation of skin cells. You can eat strawberries as well and they will help to lift up your happy mood, as we all know that stress is not good for our skin. You can also try the avocados they are good too, you can enjoy them as salads or smoothies 

( I have the recipes in the book I mentioned earlier) Foods that are packed with vitamin A and D are good for our skin as well as our eyesight and such foods are :- pumpkins, carrots, apples and so on. Eating a balanced meal with lots of vitamins and proteins helps to improve hair growth and strength. Take also multivitamins and drink a lot of water. You can try detox water it is good also especially with lemon.

 Even the smoothies are also good as a breakfast on the go. If your schedule is busy grabbing a smoothie is an answer. (see the recipes in the book I mentioned earlier)
Your kitchen is the right place to start your beauty therapy. In your cupboard there are also products you can use on your skin as a beauty treatment. Right there in your cupboard there are toners exfoliators and facial musks. We will reserve this topic for another issue. For now we are focusing on our inner beauty. 

 Perseverance

 ''It doesn't matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop''.

The saying that goes ' Rome was not built in one day" has a clear meaning in our journey to success.

Climbing a ladder to success is a long and sometimes a tiring journey. As for me I can't remember how many doors I've knocked at that were closed. Does this really matter. The answer is a big No. What is important is that how many doors have been opened after you have knocked. There could be no opened doors at all but this does not mean you have to give up on your journey. Most of us like me worry about the age. When you see yourself growing older without achieving anything, we start to panic.  Okay! Let me ask this " who said achieving has got anything to do with your age? 

Let take for example, there are people  we know who achieved their dreams at their later stage in life. Look at our late first black president Mr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. He spent twenty seven years in jail before his dream of a democratic free South Africa came to pass. He became a president for few years before he resigned. Did he ever regretted that ? No, instead he encouraged young people to go to school so that they become better leaders tomorrow. This means that we have to start at the bottom to go to the top not the other way round otherwise you will fall from top.

Every success story has a trail of failures and disappointments. I don't know how many times I was turned down by many publishers for my first book to be published. At some point I was told that my work is not worth publishing. There was a time I wanted to believe that until I realized that no work is worth publishing until it becomes published. This means that most authors have been turned down  before their work hit the publish market. Everyone knows about the unsolicited work not being accepted. 

Even the most well known music star Beyonce was once told that she could never sing or she was not s talented singer. Did that stop her from finding her way to success ? No, instead she proved them wrong. She is now s best selling female artist. Even the well known Anita Barker was labelled as not the talented singer but she became a well known female vocalist. The list is endless but what remains us that anyone can do anything as long as they put their mind into it. Everyone is a winner out there.

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Sisterhood

Helping a sister out

Helping each other as  women can be a great deal of hard work at times. Sometimes, by some unknown reasons we end up pulling each other down instead of lifting each other up. Jealousy, envy ( the green eyed monster) is a disease that is associated with women. There is a saying that goes " charity begins at home. If we start by practising the acts of goodness by complimenting and encouraging those who are close to us we can easily spread this to someone and to the community at large. 

We as women should come together and help to empower each other. There are many women support programs we should introduce each other to. There are even opportunities out there other women are unaware of especially those who are in remote formerly disadvantaged areas. We can start by introducing each other to some government technological equipped sectors.

I was amazed one time I was using a local library in order to use the Wifi. I experienced a hard time there being criticized for abusing government resources since I had to go there almost everyday. The actual point behind that criticism was not about the Wi-Fi, it was about jealousy. Since they did not understand what I was doing they opted to discourage me. 

The worst part of this is that it was the women who were doing this. After they realized that I was doing something that could help them they started to accuse me of being selfish and arrogant for not involving them in what I was doing. So now that they wanted to be involved in my projects, I had to open my arms and welcome them as if nothing happened. Who was selfish in this point?

The fact that sometimes we are mean and cruel towards each other gives an input in the slow development ,specially in our townships. You have to be connected to some high profile people to get best opportunities or you have to bribe someone to get access to some opportunities.

We should start at the bottom to uplift each other so that those at the top can be able to pull those at the bottom.
Let's do this Ladies.