Permanently Beautiful

The common sense physicians who gained a popular following — and regular appearances on Oprah — when You, the Owner’s Manual hit the New York Times best sellers list, have come out with a new tome about beauty. You, Being Beautiful by Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz has arrived in bookstores in time for holiday gift-giving. Subtitled The Owner’s Manual for Inner and Outer Beauty, the book follows the same highly readable format and employs the same entertaining writing style as the authors’ previous “manuals” while exploring the science behind the physical and psychological factors that make us feel good about ourselves.   

Packed with tools, tips and quizzes, the introduction begins with a You-Q test to determine how satisfied you are with yourself. The authors then explain how to make changes to your body, your health and your inner self that will improve the way you feel about your personal beauty, inside and out. Taking a holistic approach, Roizen and Oz focus on three dimensions of beauty: looking beautiful, feeling beautiful and being beautiful. The book goes beyond the regular eat right and exercise advice to touch on cosmetic enhancements, emotional intelligence, nurturing relationships, creating positive energy, coping with stress, and the eternal search for happiness.  

If you want to surprise the beautiful light of your life with an exceptional gift — or give yourself a well-deserved present — consider wrapping up a copy of You, Being Beautiful with a gift certificate for beauty-enhancing permanent makeup from the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics. It’s a thoughtful gift that will give someone you love joy for years to come.

“Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused,”  American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in another era. The sensibilities of the 1800s may have been different than those of today, but Emerson’s observation still rings true. While we seek to value people not merely for their physical beauty but for the beauty of the spirit that dwells within, our outward appearance still affects how we feel about ourselves and how others view us. Most of us do not aspire to the epic beauty of Helen of Troy, knowing that it is a gift granted to few; but we do take pleasure in presenting our most attractive face to the world.

There is deep pleasure in knowing that we look our best that fuels our self-confidence and nourishes our soul. The rise in self-esteem that comes with feeling physically beautiful gives us the power and energy to assert ourselves and claim our place in the world. How tragic then when an accident or disease strips all this away from us. We may regain our health, but that which leaves us physically scarred can destroy us emotionally. Our perceived loss of physical beauty, even if less noticed by others, decreases our sense of self-esteem, dampens our self-confidence and destroys the delicate inner balance that nourishes our spirit. We feel less than we are.

Permanent cosmetics restores our personal beauty and, with it, our spirit, self-confidence and courage to face the world. Paramedical cosmetic tattooing can camouflage scars from disease or injury. It can hide scars left by plastic surgery, car accidents or burns. Special techniques developed by nationally-recognized permanent makeup technician Melany Whitney can even create a natural-looking, three-dimensional areola and nipple for breast cancer patients undergoing breast reconstruction surgery. If you feel diminished by disease or injury, allow permanent cosmetics restore your sense of personal beauty.

Those who say beauty is only skin deep don’t really understand the full concept of beauty. Webster’s defines beauty as “qualities that give pleasure to the senses or exalt the mind.” Each of us has our own personal sense of beauty. We realize that we cannot all be an Olga Kurylenko and a Heidi Klum, but in our own unique way, each of us is beautiful. We may have been blessed with long, lush eyelashes or full, pouty lips or our features may seem quite ordinary. Beauty is much more than the perfection of individual features. True beauty comes from within. It stems from an acceptance and appreciation of who we are and generates the self-confidence and inner poise that kindles the light within each of us. Even the most ordinary of features appears extraordinary when bathed in that inner glow. Perhaps that is why we feel un-beautiful when we believe one of our features is lacking. Our self-confidence stumbles in the face of a perceived flaw and that precious inner light dims.

Permanent makeup can correct those little flaws that nibble at our self-confidence and diminish our inner sense of beauty. Pale, thin or non-existent eyebrows can be artfully arched. Thin lips can be made full and rosy. An irregular lip line can be beautifully defined. Dull eyes can be made dramatic with permanent eyeliner, eye lashes and eye shadow. Sallow cheeks can be made high and rosy. Whatever individual feature diminishes your personal sense of beauty, it can be artfully corrected with permanent makeup, restoring your self-confidence in your appearance and rekindling your inner glow.

This holiday, give yourself the gift of beauty. Don’t allow a minor imperfection to diminish your sense of self. Make an appointment for a permanent makeup consultation and allow the renowned skill and artistry of permanent makeup expert Melany Whitney to restore your aura of personal beauty.

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Rocky Mountain Tracking – http://www.rmtracking.com/blog/
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Permanently Beautiful – http://www.permanentmkup.com/blog/
The Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics blog from Melany Whitney reveals one of the top, yet not well-known, beauty secrets of the rich and famous, top models, and busy women executives. Find out more about how permanently applied eyebrows, eye liner, and other beauty procedures can change your routine while helping you to look fabulous all day without makeup. You won’t believe the client results so make sure to check out the photo gallery on her main website when you visit this blog.

We’ve all had bad hair days. No matter how long you spend in front of the mirror struggling with brush and mousse and curling iron, you just can’t get your hair to look right. Bad hair can completely ruin your day. The ugliness you perceive in the mirror seems to permeate every thought and act. When you don’t look your best, you don’t feel as confident, as in command, or as sure of yourself. You can tell yourself that this is shallow thinking and that the way you look doesn’t change who you are, but no inner pep talk can change the feeling that, today, you feel ugly!

While permanent makeup won’t solve your morning hair dilemma, it will give you the self-confidence of knowing that your makeup is perfectly and artfully applied every minute of every day. Without checking the mirror, you will know that you look your absolute best at all times. Your brows will be artfully defined, your eyeliner perfectly applied and your lips full and lush. With permanent makeup you wake up looking as gorgeous as you did when you closed your eyes the night before. And all without the tedious, time-consuming skin care regimens required to put on and take off makeup. A simple cleansing and moisturizing morning and night and you’re ready for whatever the day — or night — brings!  

Permanent makeup can be applied to a single feature or a combination of features. A full face enhancement can even add permanent cheek color and eye shadow. Permanent cosmetics can enhance your most striking features and correct imperfections that eat away at your self-esteem. Permanent makeup is like having a perfect hair day every day. Because you know you always look your best, you always feel self-confident and self-assured.