Assessing Your Personal Needs

While assessing your personal needs, sit down, relax and take some quality time to ask yourself some questions?

1) Assess your wardrobe needs - you have some definite likes and dislikes.

2) Write down your favorite colors and fabrics, think about what people have commented on and complimented you on.

3) Your body has probable found its natural weight by now -maybe not but you have a sense of what looks good on you or maybe you could use some fashion guidance. Write down what styles make you feel good.

4) Have you had enough of the shopping rat-race, the traffic, the people, the time invested, the frustration of shopping numerous locations for hours on end and leaving with nothing, is it really worth it?

After you have assess your colors, fabrics, body type, personal preferences and frustration level and have written them down, contact several clothing websites that excite you and that you can afford.

Making the Most of your Mind

Just as the fuel we put into an automobile engine effects how it operates, so too the images we stuff into our minds affect how we think. To make the most of our minds, we need to feed our minds healthy thoughts and images, just as we feed healthy food to our bodies. What we put in our heads impacts what we think and feel. The messages we speak to ourselves can be negative or positive the process works both ways. If we learn to make positive, life-affirmng statements to ourselves we'll begin to believe them instead of negative statements. Our thoughts and emotions feed on what we put into our minds. So be positive! focus on strengths, tell yourself uplifting truths, expose your mind to good, positive, hope filled ideas and stories. Imagine yourself overcoming your greatest fears and becoming the best you can be.

Five Tips for Finding Flattering Clothes

(1) Know your body type and pick clothes to accentuate your strengths. (2)Know what colors best suit your skin tone, eye color and hair color.(3) Shop for a good fit. Even the most expensive garment will make you look bad if it doesn't fit right. (4) Make your choice based on fit, not the numbered size printed on the label. Sizing varies from maker to maker and brand to brand. A size 9 junior is one brand may be the equivalent of a size 13 junior in another. (5) Buy a few quality, well-fitting clothings pieces .

The point is that in order to look our best and feel our best, we need to wear clothes that fit properly. Above all, choose clothing that moves comfortably with you. When you squat down, bend over, or cross your arms in front of you, your clothing should still feel good on. It shouldn't feel tight or uncomfortable. Some people mistakenly think tight clothes look sexy; the truth is tight clothes make you look fat.

Confidence can go a Long Way!

Do you ever think of yourself as someone who could make a difference? Most people don't. Yet the people who often make the greatest difference in this world are ordinary, individuals doing extraordinary things. How's your self-confidence level? When you think about yourself, what do you think? Do you tend to put yourself down, or can you honestly assess what you can do and embrace it as part of who you are? Here it is again! The confidence thing, Yes, clothing can make a statement about how confident we feel and clothing, when we use it correctly, can make us feel more confident. It's like a circle that feeds on itself: we dress well-we feel better -we feel more confident-we make better clothing choices that reflect our confidence-so we dress well, and the cycle begins again. If clothing can make such a powerful difference in our outlook, why is it that so few of us give much thought to our clothing choices? We think about whether or not we look fat, or whether or not a style flatters our figures and we think about cost, we also think a lot about what's in style right now. But do we really think about our clothing any further than that? Not usually, simply because we don't know how.

Personality and Clothing

The clothing best suited to us will reflect not only our tastes and style senses but will also reflect our "inner self" attitudes, values, feelings about grooming or self-care, energy level, individual traits, passions, and uniqueness. Clothing reveals our personalities There are four basis human personality types. (1) Popular (extroverted, optimistic, likes to talk) (2) Perfect (introverted, pessimistic, likes to think) (3) Powerful (extroverted, optimistic, likes to get things done)
(4) Peaceful (introverted, pessimistic, likes to watch) Think for a moment - How do you dress when you feel tired, down or frumpy? Most likely your clothing will also be frumpy. What do you tend to wear when you felt smart, attractive, or sassy? What you choose to put on will probable match your mood. It may even reflect your confidence.

Clothing can be a powerful tool

Clothing can be a powerful tool in our confidence building tool box. It can help us make the most of the bodies we have, no matter our size, shape, color, or even personality. Ultimately, however, to make the most of our bodies (strengths and weaknesses alike) we can't just address the externals of makeup, hair, clothing and accessories. Making the most of ourselves means becoming the best we can be from the inside out.

Beauty Through the Ages

Ninetheenth-century actress and opera singer Lillian Russell weighed 200 lbs and was considered the "ideal" woman in the 1890s. In the 1950's Marilyn Monroe @ 5ft 1/2 in tall & weighing 140 lbs was the standard of centerfold beauty. Just a decade after Marilyn Monroe's size 14 beauty captured America, British teenager Lesley Hornby(Twiggy) became the world's 1st international supermodel and the "Twiggy" look of anorexic thinness was in. The workout craze of the 1980's brought images of fitness as the next American beauty trend.

Interesting survey:

A survey found that seven out of ten girls said they wanted to look like a television character. Nearly one-third said that they had changed their appearance to become more like the TV character. Sixteen percent (nearly one in five) said that they had dieted or exercised to look more like a TV character.

We all love & enjoy wearing the smell of Clean Clothes

Laundry Tips!

1. Check clothes, button buttons, hook bra's, zip zippers, check pockets, tie cords & straps to prevent tangling, remove anything on your garment that can't be washed and repair tears so they don't get bigger in the wash.
2. Sort clothing by colors, fabrics and washing temperatures.
3. Do not overload your washing machine leave space for your clothes & detergent to move freely to ensure smells and stains will be released.
4. Remove clothes from washer and dry clothes as soon as possible (follow recommended drying procedures on labels)
5. Take clothes out of dryer and hang or fold immediatley - you will have fewer wrinkles and less ironing.
6. Baby clothes & linens should be laundered separately using a mild soap.

Cleaning with White Distilled Vinegar is Enviromentally Friendly & Very Economical (2)

As I said in my last post White Distilled Vinegar (wdv) is very economical and enviromentally friendly as promissed here are more uses for (wdv)

Blanket renewal:
cotton & wool blankets become soft, fluffy and free of soap odor if you add 2 cups of (wdv) to the rinse cycle of your wash.

Get Laundry Cleaner:
add 1/4/ cup of (wdv) to the last rinse, the acid in (wdv) is too mild to harm fabrics yet strong enought to dissolve the alkalies in soaps & detergents and it also prevents clothes from yellowing, acts as a fabric softener & static cling reducer, it also attacks mildew and mold.

Iron:
getting rid of mineral deposits in steam vents by adding equal parts water & (wdv) in the water chamber, set iron upright for 5 minutes than let iron cool then pour out water solution & rinse with clean water. Test iron before using, this will keep your steam iron clean & in good working condition.

Scorched clothes:
Lightly rub (wdv) on fabrics that have been slightly scorched than wipe with a clean cloth.

Patent leather shoes & bags:
By wiping down your shoes and bags with equal parts (wdv) & water will give them a better shine.

Enviromentally Friendly & Very Economical - Cleaning w/white distilled vinegar is Cheap!

Cleaning with white distilled vinegar is cheap, natural & Powerful.....cleaning with white distrilled vinegar (wdv) is effective for killing most mold, bacteria & germs because of its level of acidity. Its a Great way to advoid using harsh chemicals! Want brighter whites & bold colors? try (wdv) it's an inexpensive safe way to boost your detergent. "Your clothes will look better"


Tips:

1. 1/2 cup of (wdv) to wash cycle will prevent lint form clinging to your clothes

2. Put (wdv) in the rinse cycle to remove soap residue that causes your dark clothes to look dull.

3. Soaking clothes in equal parts milk & (wdv) can remove some stains from linens & clothing.

4. Before washing mustard, ketchup, barbeque & spaghitti stains, spray with (wdv) solution

5. If your laundry smell moldy - pour a few cups of (wdv) in your wash machine & wash in hot water -Than run a normal cycle with your detergent.



The uses for white distrilled vinegar are nearly endless.... more uses in later posts
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