I'm Code and I Love Beauty

From the time I was little I was always annoyed with my hair.  I was always shifting it out of my face, away from my forehead, off of my neck.  I never like my round face and I could never find a suitable hairstyle for my face, so I just wanted to chop it off.

I wanted to be be,  just like Cameron Diaz in this picture:

I mean, doesn’t that just look so much easier!  I know for me it does.  But then as I got a little older I realized no boys were going to like me if I was bald, so that idea completely went out of my head.

So then I thought, what if I could just keep it tied up all the time so that I didn’t even have to deal with it at all!  Kind of like all the pony looks here.  Well, that lasted quite a long time!

I especially loved the side pig tails that I saw all the even tinier girls than me wearing.  Now that was cute!  But I looked kind of silly wearing them, so after I tried it a few times I gave up on that. My mother used to tell me not to worry about my hair, that it was beautiful the way it was and that I shouldn’t have to try so hard to keep it up all the time.  But blah!  She didn’t understand.  She always kept her hair super short so it was of no consequence to her.  She had no idea what I was trying to accomplish so I gave up trying to make her understand.

My father was no better.  He didn’t give a rat’s ass about his hair.  It was always all over the place and crazy looking anyway.  Then once he started to go bald I thought “how lucky!”.  Well, he didn’t think he was so lucky.  I thought he was stupid.  I said “Dad aren’t you glad you don’t have to worry about your hair anymore?”

“No, I’m not glad” he said.  “I’m wondering if I should shave off your hair so you know how it feels!”.

Well, he obviously didn’t know me very well because I welcomed that idea from the very start.  But my stupid mother wouldn’t let him put that to the test.  I told you, she is super annoying and doesn’t understand a damn thing.  Never will!

Most people when they want to burn fat, they only think about running or other activities like that and don’t think about training with weights.  And even more, there are currently lots of trainers working in the field that will tell you that if you want to lose fat, don’t worry about weight training, and only do it if you want to build muscle.  I am here to tell you that this is not true at all.  This is because the more muscle you have, the more fat you will burn!  So it makes total sense to train with weights!

Thanks to this information we are seeing alot of people moving towards lifting weights and training with weights instead of just doing cardiovascular exercise.  The number of people who are using free weights and other types of weights machines has really sky-rocketed in the past 10 years or so.  While running and swimming are still very popular, weights lifting has really grown to be one of the most popular sports in the US.

Of course as I stated earlier, this is a very good thing because even if you want to lose fat, weights training should be included in your routine.  Running, swimming, jumping, and other cardio stuff definitely raises your metabolism for the short term, but building that muscle in your body is what will burn fat while you are resting…this is a largely overlooked feature of weights training!

Your weights training routine should typically include 3 to 4 sets of each exercise, with set including anywhere from 4-20 repititions.  As a rule of thumb, it’s good to use just enough weight so that 8 repititions are about all you can do.  The continue resistance on your muscles will make the tissue grow and make it stronger as well.  You must make sure you rest, because alot of the muscle growth takes place during rest periods in between workouts.

So remember that whether your goal is to lose fat or get bigger by gaining muscle, training with weights should always be part of your exercise routine.  This goes for whether you are a female or male athlete.

Often times, however, if you are trying to learn how to lose face fat, then more often than not it’s not weight training you should be doing.  Proper diet as well as face exercises should be your main concern.  While I’m aware that face exercises are not something that alot of people necessarily believe in, it’s been the experience of many that face exercises definitely help with the reduction of face fat.  So before you dismiss them entirely, you should give them a chance and see what happens.

As parents, the duty comes to us to spread those techniques that will aid our own kids and granddaughters fully grasp the ocean of attractiveness. Way too many younger ladies get into poor or negative beauty practices simply because nobody educated them any better, and this also undoubtedly is applicable to regions of the beauty market which place excessive strain on measurements and physical appearance.

This is especially the case if your daughter has dark circles or dark circles under eyes which is a problem my own daughter had to fight through in the beginning of her teen years.  The eyes are pretty much the first thing that people see when you look at them so it’s important to know how to treat them correctly.  But that is for another blog post I think.

Moving on, what are the types of information that moms should pass on to their daughters, and when exactly should be the correct time to bring this stuff up? It’s not easy to give you an exact time, but every girl is different and every girl matures at a different age.. It’s not unusual for some young ladies to be ready to try skin care products early in their life, while at the same time their friends who are at the same age as them just might not be ready yet. Either way, showing them exactly what is important and what isn’t is essential because they don’t know any better. Here are a few things to consider.

Beauty on the Inside

As soon as you can start and as soon as you think your child will understand the difference, tell her about how what is inside is so much more important than what is outside the body. Don’t try to keep her from trying makeup and stuff like that, because you can’t stop this.  She will eventually do it no matter what. Instead, teach her how it’s more important to look at people’s inside and not their outside, and that is what matter’s most. The young women that understand the concept of a beautiful inside to remember this for the rest of their lives, so if you wait and talk to her about this when she is already in her late teens it won’t be as effective.  Get to this point as early as possible.

Fashion Stuff

Every single girl at some point in her young life is going to experiment with clothes and trying different looks. It’s at that time that you should realize that you had done this same stuff when you were a child as well. So don’t be too hard on your daughter when she is trying some crazy things. Makes sense right. Of course it’s silly to think that your child is not going to do the same stuff that you did, the same stuff that every child does. So don’t try to stop this from happening, and instead talk with your child about it and come to an agreement as early as possible regarding what is appropriate and what isn’t. You should do this around ages 12-14, as this is the most young girls start puberty, interest in boys, and things of this nature!

Makeup

Makeup is a tough one for alot of mothers and fathers because most of them don’t want their daughters touching it until they are much older…however you have to again be realistic about it.. It is probably a good idea for you to actually show her about makeup first, that way she is more than likely to listen to you about it later. Show her what is good for her age and what isn’t, how to put it on and how to take it off. Once she is aware that you are the one go talk about it with, she will less likely do something against your approval.