These days everyone has a different opinion about what makes a woman beautiful. And by beautiful, I’m not referring to a person from the inside out but physically attractive superficially beautiful.
Is it the way she wears her hair? The stylish clothes she wears? Perhaps! But if you go beyond the immediate surface of a beautiful person and look a little deeper, you might see the fine details that enhance the physical beauty of any individual.
Since the voluptuous lips of Angelina Jolie appeared on screen, many other celebrities like Scarlett Johansson have been accredited for their natural pouts; men want to kiss them and women want to have them. But whether you have a full set of smackers or a sweet and small pair of kissers, there are a few ‘bad attention’ getters if you don’t pay attention to minor details.
Any pucker is far less pretty chapped and with hair on the upper lip. If you have the nasty habit of licking your lips, you probably experience a dry chapped mouth fairly often; to avoid this unappealing flakey look use an over the counter lip scrub to remove any dead skin from your mouth and then apply a natural product such as ‘Burt’s Bees’ lip balm to soften the look and the feel. You’ll be smooch-able in 60 seconds flat.
If you’re wearing a bright colored lipstick to draw attention to your mouth, consider the attention being drawn to everything in that vicinity. In natural sun light with a magnifying mirror, look closely at the details around your mouth and if you notice just a couple of dark hairs, cut them short to the skin or remove them with a set of tweezers.
If you have more hairs than you can count on both hands, put those tweezers away and consider electrolysis as a hair removal option. It will keep your upper lip smooth, hair free and really make a difference in your pucker. Once this is done, put on that lipstick; the brighter the better!
So your mouth is chap free and upper lip is hair free, now all you’ve got to do is smile! One of the worst kinds of bad attention received is for bad teeth so if your once pearly whites are now mother of pearl it’s because over many years, your teeth lost the natural luster they had when we were children; when we didn’t drink coffee; when we didn’t smoke cigarettes; when we brushed our teeth after eating curry or mustard.
The bad news: life itself will take its toll on our bodies including our teeth. The good news: At least you can create the illusion of a great set of chops. If you’ve already decided that professional teeth whitening is not within your budget, consider the second best option with an over the counter teeth whitening kit. But don’t stop there; floss while you’re at it! Food has a funny way of staying in our teeth for hours, sometimes days if we don’t physically go in there and pick it out. If you’ve eaten chicken Masala for dinner and fell straight to sleep without brushing or flossing, eventually this sort of tooth neglect will turn a pretty smile into downright atrocious.
You have the cutest little button nose when you smile but when you broke out that darn magnifying mirror, you saw a bunch of little dots and tiny holes. What the heck is that? Blackheads holding small bits of puss that clogs up your pores. Paying a pretty penny once in awhile for a facial might be well worth it but if you insist on doing it yourself the free way, start by steaming your face with a warm cloth for a few minutes or by leaning over a heated pot of water. Your pores will open and with a pair of clean hands, you can squeeze the little bulbs on your nose to let out the residue. Be careful not to squeeze any actual ‘pimples’ or you may do permanent damage to your skin and have something else to fuss about.
Brightening up your eyes with mascara, eye liner and eye shadow always looks great if done the right way but there’s more to just prettying up the lids to create the ‘perfect’ eye. If a set of dark circles is staring back at you in the mirror, get ready to grab that concealer and dab a bit under each eye to even out your skin tone.
Before you think you’re done with all of the facial fine points, look a little deeper into your eyes…a little deeper. An area many women forget to brighten is inside of their eyes. Lack of sleep, feeling under the weather or one too many red wines can leave our eyes dull and pinkish but by removing eye redness with Visene or another over the counter product, your eyes will be back to vibrant in a matter or minutes. In short, first lesson in beauty101: Paying attention to minor details will make a major difference and you’re sure to attract the good kind of attention you really want.
