Slimming: Healthy gifts

We’re often giving gifts to our family and friends; at birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, when we’ve been on a special holiday, or to thank them for something they’ve done for us. In a lot of cases, we give food. People like to receive food and drink as gifts, particularly if it’s something luxurious that they wouldn’t buy for themselves. The difficulty comes when they’re trying to lose weight, or eat healthily - what sort of gifts can you give?

In today’s consumer world, we can always find an alternative to the box of chocolates, or bottle of wine. In fact, there’s more choice of gifts now than ever before. If you go to mainstream, high street shops, you’ll find that their food gift baskets are full of luscious, indulgent products, but if you look a little harder and do a bit more research, you can find a wealth of healthy gifts.

Food baskets can be prepared with a wide range of healthy products; in fact, if you know the person well and know what they can and can’t eat, you can prepare your own special gift, full of the things they need to eat, with perhaps a little treat thrown in for good measure. Organic food baskets come with tasty snacks, fruit and other foodstuffs and you can get gift boxes specially prepared for children, or for someone who is recovering from an illness. Instead of baby clothes, try a “new mum” gift of healthy foods that she can munch any time of day or night, boosting her energy and helping her to regain her pre-pregnancy weight. Fill a box with foods that reduce stress or induce calm, for someone you know is under pressure.

Try taking someone on a day out, rather than handing them a tin of biscuits. Drive out into the countryside with a healthy picnic and have a walk. It will allow you to spend some time together and get some valuable exercise. Equally, you could treat them to a day at the gym or a spa to give them some relaxing time away from their everyday stresses, without having to pile on the calories.

Giving healthy gifts takes a bit more time and requires a bit of research and creativity, but they are always warmly welcomed by the receiver and you will have the pleasure of knowing you have contributed positively to their slimming programme. http://health.gov/

Modelling: Healthy Eating

Contrary to general opinion, models can’t eat chocolate all day and stay slim and beautiful. A modelling career requires that you keep your figure, skin, hair and teeth in perfect condition, and that’s hard work.

Healthy eating is a big part of looking after yourself and maintaining your figure and the condition of your body. It’s particularly important for you as a model, because you will be expected to be flawless for every job you get, and if you don’t look after yourself you will find that the work dries up.

If you don’t eat healthily already, then you need to start now. Eating the right amount of fresh fruit and vegetables, amongst other things, has a positive effect on your skin and hair, gives you more energy and boosts your immune levels, which is important because models need to be available to work all the time.

Five A Day

If you haven’t heard about this, where have you been? Experts recommend that you eat at least five portions of fresh fruit and vegetables every day. There are guidelines available on what defines a portion, but essentially, eat as much as you can. There are plenty of opportunities to increase your fruit and veg intake – eat them as snacks as well as with main meals – and learn how to prepare and cook them so that you retain as much of the nutrients and vitamins as possible. Raw fruit and vegetables are better for you than cooked. Canned and frozen fruit and vegetables count.

Balanced Diet

Having a balanced diet is important. Most foods contain things that are good for you and if you focus on eating the better foods, and reducing your portion size, you’ll find that you reap the health benefits. Fish and white meat is better for you than red meat, and plenty of fibre in your diet is also encouraged. Learn to eat balanced meals and snack on fruit instead of chocolate, and your moods will improve, along with the visible physical benefits.

Resources

There are thousands of articles, diet plans, books and DVDs devoted to teaching you how to live a healthy lifestyle. The most important thing is not to jump from one set of advice to the next. Use your common sense: eat more healthily, do more exercise and you will find that you not only maintain your looks and your figure, but you will have more energy and vitality, and that will come across in your modelling work.

Better You provide various health-supporting products which could help improve your health.

Tigi – Catwalk Hair Style available from Bodycare 2000

Have you found yourself looking through magazines or watching the TV wishing you could re-create the ultra stylish hairstyles that the top models have? Well now you can with a wide styling collection available from Tigi Catwalk.

Get ready to shine

People like to think of their hair as their crowing glory, but if your hair lacks lustre and shine then look no further than Bodycare 2000 that have a wide range of Tigi products to get your hair into catwalk condition. Tigi Catwalk styling – Camera Ready is a fabulous shine spray that doesn’t leave your hair looking lank and greasy. With it’s specially formulated anti static properties it can tame your fly-away hair and leave you with a fresh shiny style that any model would be proud to show off.

It’s all about the curls

It’s true what they say, people always want the opposite of what they are borne with, if you have straight hair you want curly and vice versa. Tigi Catwalk has products to suite all types of hair. For wavy hair the Curly Rock range is just for you. This new range has specialized shampoos and conditioners that have been specially formulated to define, defrizz and detangle your curls, while creating gorgeous ringlets, adding shine and smoothing cuticles. Below is a selection of the other products available in the range;

Tigi Catwalk Curls Rock Hairspray

Tigi Catwalk Curls Rock Leave In Moisturiser

Tigi Catwalk Curls Rock Curl Amplifier

Tigi Catwalk Curls Rock Curl Booster

Hold the look

After the time you spend creating the look make sure it lasts with the Tigi Catwalk Styling collection. Whether you need mousse, spray or gum Tigi has it all. If you love your style but want bigger and better then Tigi Fashionista Big & Bigger is the right product for you. This volumising foam gives maximum fullness and volume for any hair texture, giving you an intense lift and great style. Big & Bigger effectively resist humidity, so you can keep your hairstyle, no matter what the weather is like. http://www.thehairstyler.com/

Paul Mitchell – For Hair Care on Holiday

Paul Mitchell hair care products have a wide range to choose from, whatever the weather.

As the weather gets warmer we start to think about holidays and getting away somewhere hot, which in turn leads to shopping for those essential holiday toiletries. Paul Mitchell has made looking after your locks during the summer months easy with their large collection of moisturizing and hydrating hair products.

Surfs Up

We all know how our hair feels after a day at the beach! Tangled, dry and lifeless. There is nothing better than getting back to your hotel room for a spot of pampering before your evening begins, and Paul Mitchell has just the products you need to transform your beach hair into glossy party hair. Their wide range of moisturizing shampoos, conditioners and shining products are a must have in any holiday beauty kit.

For a shining night out.

Not only does Paul Mitchell have specialist shampoos and conditioners to help balance moisture and prevent dryness after a day in the sun, they also have moisturizing styling products which will leave you with the perfect look whether you are having a night on the town or a romantic meal by the sea. Finishing off your look with Paul Mitchell Gloss Drops will leave you with a silky soft glossy finish that will reflect and shine throughout the night.

Paul Mitchell - The ideal travelling partner!

Don’t want to take up valuable space in your case with lots of different full sized hair care products? Paul Mitchell Travelling Packs are just the answer. These travel packs consist of Paul Mitchell Awapuhi Shampoo and conditioners as well as sculpting lotion and shine spray so you have everything you need in a handy travel size bag that takes up only half the amount of room as buying individual bottles! What could be easier?

Buying the Paul Mitchell Travel kit is also a good way of trying the products out if you are unsure about changing from your usual brand. The handy 100ml bottles make them just the right size for you to try out 4 different products without committing to the full size product, and if you like what you try you can take advantage of our superb offers on a wide range of products online.

You can also sign up for hair and make up courses to learn professional skills to use with your quality products.