Archive for April, 2009

The popular bridal attire rhyme ‘something old something new something borrowed something and a silver sixpence in your shoe’ dates back to the Victorian times. Each piece of the rhyme represents something, something old, refers to the wearing of something that will given a link between the bride and her old family life, this is popularly an old piece of family jewellery or even a mothers wedding dress. Wearing something new is to represent the good fortune and success in the bride’s new life. This can usually be any new item of the bride’s attire. The wearing of something borrowed is to bring good luck, the bride should wear something that a happy bride once wore at her wedding such as an item of clothing or jewellery. The wearing of something blue would date back to the biblical era when the colour would represent fidelity and purity, this throughout time has developed into wearing a blue trimmed dress or a blue garter….And a silver sixpence in your shoe, this isn’t commonly said anymore, but the line referred to a symbol of wealth by having a silver sixpence in your left shoe. This was to bring the bride not only financial wealth but a wealth of happiness and joy throughout married life.

 

Take your savings and put them to work, finance experts suggest that you make sure you use up your full tax free savings allowance, and even use a personal finance website, you know the ones, ‘compare the market’ and ‘money supermarket’, in this economic climate it’s good to check out your savings options and there are lots out there that could be better than the tired old savings account you have.

Like most of the country you probably know your likely to have that Saturday night takeaway, well do away with that and get yourself down to the market you may be surprised at how much you save, and you never know you may do away with that money eating gym membership too as well as fitting snuggly into that dainty little dress. Not just that pack a lunch and save all those three pound shop lunches. With little savings like this you’ll soon start to notice the change.

Short most important tip I believe I can give you, create a budget and stick with it! Set your pocket money and don’t take any more out of the bank until the following week! And when you spend on your limitless wedding cost, an added tip is to always use your credit care this way you’re making a saving on cash back and added bonus its insured.

 

It is very important that your hairstyle compliments your dress. Low-backed dresses are great for having elaborate style looks this way you can not only wear your hair up and look radiant but keep you look soft, stunning and overwhelmingly feminine. If your dress is very simple and has a clean neckline you can afford to make a very bold and beautiful statement with your hair. Up hair dos really don’t need to be a complex matter, and a strapless dress would be completed beautifully with a simple twist style. Also, if you have short hair there is no need to write off doing anything special with your hair it can look just as glamorous as longer styles, soft waves can often frame the face with making it look overly fussy. The natural, free and loose style can look beautiful especially with a simple dress and stunning bouquet, a look that will radiate natural beauty.

Decorations, jewels and flowers can look beautiful in your hair, pinned into place be artistic with the positioning and choice however you want to keep the look elegant. The tight up sleek hair style can be perfect for a wedding and you can soften and complete the look with a stylishly selected pair of drop earrings. Finally, if you want to wear a Tiara be sure to jeep your style simple not too fussy and very elegant, bouncy waves can perfect the look stunningly.

 

If you happen to be one of the lucky sods who can afford a regular monthly facial, great. But as for the most of us we can’t. There are things you can do to get the professional skincare look. The worst thing ? It takes a little work.

So you give your face a once over with a 3 in 1 skin cleanser and splash of water and dash out of that house and the jobs a good one right ? Wrong, very wrong. A thorough cleansing section is needed at least once a week in order to get that beautiful healthy rosy complexion you want. A quite evening or a Saturday morning always works a treat for those leading a busy life, just to take the time to devote to your skin.

Your skin will look dull, drab and unattractive if your complexion isn’t clean, and almost as importantly id won’t be able to kick start that essential cell renewal process, the one that keeps you at your youngest, however it important not to go overboard, its easily done and this could lead to your skin losing its natural defenses and all the essential nutrients. The best way is to have a gentle cleanse, exfoliate and moisturize routine once a week.

For healthy and hydrated skin, you need to drink at least two litres of water a day and eat a healthy, balanced diet, which should include five pieces of fruit and veg a day and two portions of oily fish a week. If you’re not doing any of these, then make an effort to do so. I guarantee your skin will look brighter and feel more supple in just a few weeks.

 

Get radiant skin and nails for you big day and most importantly lose weight.
Here are the rules to get beautiful and loose those extra pounds to make it just perfect.

Rule number one always eat breakfast, the less you eat the less you weigh is only correct up to a point, eat within the first hour of awaking this maximizes your energy boost early in the day and besides that if you don’t eat your body thinks its starving and produces more fat to keep you alive, you don’t want that do you?

Still want to know how much you should be eating daily and what? It’s best to still to 1700 calories ideally per day, that being said its always a good idea to avoid empty calories such as alcohol that have no nutritional value. Eating, make sure with every meal you are taking some protein such as fish, chicken, skimmed milk, eggs and nuts, these leave you feeling fuller for longer. This doesn’t exclude vegetarians either, Quarn can also be a healthy substitute. Be sure to be having your five a day of fruit and vegetables , dark green and leafy veg is usually the best as its high in fiber, and contains iodine to boost your metabolism, this means your burn more quicker! As for fruit pears and plums are the best way to go and if you fancy something more a grapefruits always good. Make sure to introduce as much fiber into your diet as you can, this will not only help you body and skin but your hair too.

Extra little things that make the difference, sugar and salt, ditch them! Sugar is full of those empty calories we talked about and as for salt, well, you don’t want to be bloated on your big day, it’s also known for encouraging water retention.