Balanced Beauty with Reiki

Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good

Maria to the Captain, Sound of Music

Yesterday I went to a beauty school for a shiatsu facial, and heaven sent a bone fide Reiki Master as my technician. Gentle reader I floated out on fluffy pink cashmere clouds, wearing a crown of fluttering butterflies and  followed by a choir of cherubs, softly singing, while nymphs scattered rose petals across the parking lot.

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing.

Tina found an imbalance caused by being chased by a dragon and restored the symmetry to my face. Another imbalance, caused by a stuck drawbridge over the moat, left my legs and pelvis askew, and this disappeared  like dew off grass on a summer morning. An aligned pelvis gives you a flatter stomach.

The reiki combined with the shiatsu relaxed and aligned my face to a look I had not actually thought possible, it restored my looks to that of years ago. I woke up after sleeping well, looking...as pretty as the new day.

No dragons will growl at me now, instead they bring will me coffee and a croissant on a tray. NRG is more than a radio station in Paris, it's the basis of health and beauty.

Happiness is a Fragrant Shower

 If it were now to die,
'T were now to be most happy; for, I fear
My soul hath her content so absolute,
That not another comfort like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate.
Othello

A great shower is beautiful start to the day. Dry skin brush until your skin is rosy. In the shower, start with a generous amount of Body Nurish Organic Facial Coconut Cleansing Milk. It is so delicous and creamy, a large dollop feels like covering your face in coconut cake batter, in the best way possible. Use the Clarisonic face brush. Then scrub for a very long time with Coconut Sugar Scrub, the sugar and the coconut turn your shower into a vacation. You will be so happy, you can face anything.
It's Indian summer, so wear Superga sneakers in blue with a dress. And spray your legs with Cocoa Butter Misting Skin Oil.  This sprays on so light, it makes you think of angels on clouds. Or one particular angel in colored straight leg levis.
Outside, enjoy a peach with fresh coconut ice cream. Listen, do you hear harp music? Are those moths on the lawn or fairies dancing? Don't the dahlias make you think of someone's sweet face?

BT Micro Peels, Lifts, and Tones Your Face

La plus ca change, the more they stay the same.
Preserve your face as time goes by, it's a good look.
BT Micro does just that. It is from the microcurrent lifting pioneers, Bio-Therapeutics. BT Micro is a handheld device for home use. Ultrasonic technology helps creams and serums penetrate, and peels and tones the skin.
The negative ion moves lymph and clarifies the skin. and the peel  function exfoliates.
For this step apply Body Nurish Soothing Herbal Jelly Mask, then peel over that. The soothing mask prevents dryness.
Then Step 1 positive ionic charge helps serums penetrate, with an ultrasonic spatula. Try VitaNutrient Intensive Vitamin C Treatment for this step.
Step 2 postive ionic charge the ultrasonic spatula penetrates creams, try VitaNutrient Face Cream.
BT Micro has lovely a lifting result, as it is microcurrent.
And LightStim LED is a good extra step  for stimulating collagen .
The BT Micro is an investment, but gives salon quality treatments, and it is quick.
With the money you save, you can buy a mid thigh length cashmere cape, three strands of pearls to push up over your forehead for a headband, or plant boxwood and yew along your front walk.

Celebrate Wednesday with a Poem

Roethke was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who taught at University of Washington.
I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek.)
How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin,
She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and stand;
She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin:
I nibbled meekly from her proffered hand;
She was the sickle; I, poor I, the rake,
Coming behind her for her pretty sake
(But what prodigious mowing did we make.)
Love likes a gander, and adores a goose:
Her full lips pursed, the errant note to seize;
She played it quick, she played it light and loose;
My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
Her several parts could keep a pure repose,
Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose
(She moved in circles, and those circles moved.)
Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)

Essential Beauty Points for La Rentree

La Rentree -  end of summer sounds better in French.
This essential list certainly will help ease the transition into autumn, a season that can be as sweet as summer. And because everyone looks like Shrek sometimes.
Pressing these  points help to increase the blood circulation and energy flow on the face and tones the skin. Press each point for seven seconds.

• If your face is tired or sagging, rub in the middle of the lower cheekbone on both sides of the face.
• For puffy eyes rub on each side of the nose in keeping with the inner edges of the eyes, this moves lymph..
• If your face looks tired or is sagging , rub on the outer edges of the eyes on both sides.
• For lifeless cheeks and jowls rub the dimples beneath the ears on both sides of the face.
• For eye bags and loose cheek muscle rub the space  between eye and cheekbone on both sides of the face.
•  To tone up the muscles of the entire body, rub in the middle of the palms of both of your hands, briskly, generating heat.

Now play the Don MacLean's American Pie, loudly and spray your face with Power Repair Face Mist - hydrating, soothing and lavender and ylang ylang smell divine.
With the money you save knowing how to do your own quick fixes, you can have friends over for Campari and soda, Tomato and Onion Tarte, some olives with orange rind grated on top , on a Camargue cloth tablecloth.Or put roses and dahlias in a dimpled white milk vase, faded, tattered roses are still lovely,  or buy a pair of Gina Pankowksi drop earrings - the tear drop shape dangles elegantly just right near the jawline, best earrings ever, subtle and stunning -  white gold and pink quartz.

Afternoon Delight

For a lovely afternoon break, move energy with ten minutes of facial cupping , using Fruity Lift to help the cups glide. Then apply Green Clay Refinisher Facial Mask and read PG Wodehouse's The Girlfriend, a charming short story while the mask dries. With a little Mahler playing softly in the background.
When this is dry, rinse lightly and apply VitaNutrient Intensive Vitamin C Treatment, and smile thinking of the rose gardens at Blandings Castle. And spray yourself and your windowsills with Rose Renaissance  - the pure scent of roses in aloe vera and water.
The next step in your home facial is a natural facelift with Reflexology:
Pushing reflex or facial reflexology points as part of facial improves energy circulation and revitalizes. Push each reflexology point in sequence for several seconds. The motion is a soft press and lift, the release. Each side of the face is done simultaneously.

• Press on the bridge of the nose, in between the eyes, in the bottom of the forehead, applying both thumbs, one following on from the other. Repeat.
• On top of the eyebrows, in the middle of the face, press down by the line of eyebrows.
• Repeat the motion many times, going outwards until the forehead is covered. Begin in the middle and smooth in an outward motion towards the temples, place both of your hands using all the fingers.
• Begin under inner eyebrows, press in line working outwards until the outer corner of the eyes. Press next to the outer corner of the eyes.
• Begin at each side of the nose; work outwards for the ear beneath cheekbone. Now move upwards until the whole of the upper cheek is covered.
• Start at the area between the nose and upper lip, press in an outward direction in a continual line. Repeat movement .
•  Begin beneath lower lip, press in an outward direction in a continuous line using two fingers. Repeat .
•  Pinch lightly on the jaw line, working outwards.
•  Press down the entire hairline, working towards ears. Repeat .

For an extra glow, use your LightStim LED, it can be very relaxing.
Voila you look beautiful. And with the money you have saved you can buy a beehive for your garden or an elegant bespoke carved jasper scarab ring set in 22kt. gold lotus leaves from Gina Pankowski  jewelry. Mine has been causing scarab envy to break out everywhere I go!

Reflexology for Beauty and Balance

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.
All's Well That Ends Well, WS

There are many nerve endings in your feet. Reflexology works as the pressure techniques applied to the feet interact with  the body's nervous system creating relaxation, internal balance that shows on your face, and overall improved circulation. This allows the body to hit re-set, naturally.  
You are lucky if you live where Foot Spas abound and affordable reflexology is offered.
If not, find a good reflexology chart or book, and give your feet a good twenty minutes in the evening. It is a lovely habit, and your will go to sleep prettier, with calmer face and clearer mind and eyes. There are corresponding points on the feet to the body's organs and systems, and they need love too.
To create space between the bones in your face, interlace the fingers of your right hand between the toes of your left foot, and then the opposite. You will feel the stress of the day release, and your jaw and facial muscles soften.
For the foot ceremony, a cotton Hanro nightie and Violin Concerto #1 by Haydn is always desirable.

Body Nurish's Herbal Foot Treatment  is a great evening foot massage cream, Excellent for soothing and healing dry, cracked, and tired feet. The rich cream soothes and revitalizes tired feet, and rehydrates. Made with organic chaparral leaf; comfrey leaf; echinacea flower; hops flower; usnea lichen; beeswax; shea butter; coconut oil; grapefruit seed extract; glucose enzyme; and pure essential oils of rosemary, eucalyptus, peppermint and rosewood.

With the money you save from this lovely habit, you can get a perfectly shiny weekly hair deep conditioning and  blowout, a gold flecked Russian Triptych from a charming bricolage shop, or  a great bottle of bourbon and 20  pounds of peaches to make peach jam.