BEAUTY IS A LIFESTYLE THING

Introducing my personal hair colorist and stylist Amber Mancha.First place winner of Chicago's talent and She is now going to be a t.v. personality on the WICU network in Chicago! Congratualtions Amber Mancha!!!

13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl book by Mona Awad This fictional book published by  Penguin Group USA, in paperback has 224 pages and is a current bestseller and recommended read. It is a brilliant look at how the main character Lizzie thwarts her image obsessive culture and even her own self esteem. This is quite relate able to a lot of girls and women. Suggested: 15 years old and up.

Girls and women are constantly, on a daily basis, being bombarded with stereotypes regarding their body images. They are unrealistic and unattainable and are usually driven by a male enhanced environment. In 2010, the Dove Brand of the Unilever company had a vision, they wanted to widen out the definition of what is real beauty. The Dove Brand then went on and created a movement that swept the United States called The Dove Movement for Self Esteem. If you haven't as of yet visited, please do go to the website and see the great amount of information and the advances made since their inception. It is wonderful to share with our daughters and our sons to raise strong girls and beautiful sons of vision. www.m.dove.us

March is National Women's History Month Women played very intricate parts in the history of the United States, but I'll be willing to bet you may not have known about them. Please check out: www.nwhp.org  this is a link to the National Women's History Project. This information and pamphlets are helpful to teach, inform and empower! ****For example**** On March 31, 1776,  Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams, who was helping to frame the Declaration of Independence, cautions "Remember the ladies....."                                                        Check it out!   Happy National Women's History Month!