Special Section: A Discussion

Special Section: A Discussion

I want to hear from you…

Tell us what you love about the men in your life. You may write about your spouse, father, brother, son, or friend.

From The Heart

I am just a person who has experienced some life and hopefully has much more to experience. May you live forever and may I never die. When you touch someone's heart and soul you will always be remembered and alive in them.

*Hair Specials *Hair Style Trends *Hair Products*Beauty Health Tips

Weekly Special 

15% off track/weft extensions (When you book your appointment mention coupon code: Astonishing)
 Hot Hair Trends

Hot Hair Trends this Winter are: The Low Knotted Bun, Part in the middle, Blunt Bangs, The Punky Short hair Cut, Ultra Volume ( loose messy natural waves with side or middle part), if big hair is not your style, frame your gorgeous face in the form of chin length bobs, and short cropped cuts. Braids-Woven Locks (the Goddess look, or just the bottom for a ponytail braided look on the side or back, even one or two small braids along the hairline), Low Ponytail (Whether the look is mussed or structured). 

Remember you can set your own trends, just be confident and know that you are gorgeous!

 Products

Suggested by Professionals:

1.       Sojourn Shampoo & Conditioner

2.       Andre Walker Keratin Shampoo and Conditioner

3.       Design Essentials Foaming Mouse

Beauty Health Tips- Cosmetics 

Data has been gathered on adolescent girls. 

 As women, we too, should be concerned.

Are ingredients in personal care products actually harmful?

Some ingredients in cosmetics can be harmful when put on your skin because they can go into your body.

There are different ingredients in products that the consumers don’t know about. There are so many products that companies are making and not all of them get checked for safety.

When they don’t do something, some people can have allergic reactions and health problems – some even linked to cancer. When complaints reach to the FDA, they do not take the products off the shelves unless many more people complain. Then the FDA might consider it. In contrast, in the EU (European Union), thousands of ingredients have been taken out of cosmetics, yet in the US only eight ingredients have been removed or banned!

Adolescent exposures to cosmetic chemicals of concern

Since your body is changing as a girl, when you use a product it is more likely to get into the body. Since young girls are experimenting with different products they expose themselves to more harmful things. According to the article I have quoted below, teens use about17 products daily and adults use about 12.  This would include deodorant, lotion, hair products and make up.

Article- Laboratory tests reveal adolescent girls across America are contaminated with chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and body care products. Environmental Working Group (EWG) detected 16 chemicals from 4 chemical families - phthalates, triclosan, parabens, and musks - in blood and urine samples from 20 teen girls aged 14-19. Studies link these chemicals to potential health effects including cancer and hormone disruption. These tests feature first-ever exposure data for parabens in teens, and indicate that young women are widely exposed to this common class of cosmetic preservatives, with 2 parabens, methylparaben and propylparaben, detected in every single girl tested.

This work represents the first focused look at teen exposures to chemicals of concern in cosmetics, exposures that occur during a period of accelerated development. Adolescence encompasses maturation of the reproductive, immune, blood, and adrenal hormone systems, rapid bone growth associated with the adolescent "growth spurt," shifts in metabolism, and key changes to brain structure and function. Alterations in an array of sex hormones, present in the body at levels as low as one part per billion (ppb), or even one part per trillion (ppt), guide this transformation to adulthood. Emerging research suggests that teens may be particularly sensitive to exposures to trace levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals like the ones targeted in this study, given the cascade of closely interrelated hormonal signals orchestrating the transformation from childhood to adulthood

During this window of vulnerability to toxic assault, adolescent girls typically experiment with an increasing number and variety of body care products. Teen study participants used an average of nearly 17 personal care products each day, while the average adult woman uses just 12 products daily. Thus, teens may unknowingly expose themselves to higher levels of cosmetic ingredients linked to potential health effects at a time when their bodies are more susceptible to chemical damage.

Cosmetics and other personal care products are an alarming example of government and industry failures to protect public health. Federal health statutes do not require companies to test products or ingredients for safety before they are sold. As a result, nearly all personal care products contain ingredients that have not been assessed for safety by any accountable agency, and that are not required to meet standards of safety…

           

Teens should make healthy choices for themselves by reducing the number of products they use. Check out the Shopper’s Guide to Safe Cosmetics to select on www.ewg.org

*Knowledge * Events *Quotes/Poetry *Suggestions*Thank You

You Bring Me Knowledge And Joy 

Your smile alone and your laughter bring me joy.  

Lessons and Notes from past classes, books, or life. 

a. Read new literature 

b. Go where you are celebrated not tolerated 

c. Learn to say no 

d. Change the view 

e. You can do it if you focus

 Events

  

Tour of San Pasqual Academy – The first-in-the-nation residential education campus designed specifically for foster teens. The Academy is located in Escondido, CA and provides foster teens with a stable, caring home, a quality, individualized education, and the skills needed for independent living. The Academy opened in October 2001 and currently has a bed capacity for 184 youth. The 238-acre campus features individual family-style homes, an on-site, accredited high school, and a computer for each youth in the homes, a cafeteria, a technology and career information center, an assembly hall, recreation fields, and a swimming pool. Teens live and learn at the Academy as they prepare for college and/or a career path. 

   

http://www.sanpasqualacademy.org/how_you_can_help.htm 

When you can, check them out and see if you would like to help to make a difference.

Quotes, Poetry, and/or Things I know For Sure

. Poem: THE INVITATION

 It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.

I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.

I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon/

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened to life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and can let ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.

I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself: if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.

I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it’s not a pretty day, and if you can source your life from God’s presence.

I want to know it you can live with failure, yours and mine and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the moon, “YES!”

I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you’ve studied.

I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in empty moments.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Indian Elder, May 1994 

Suggestions/ Fun Ideas

1. New recipes- http://allrecipes.com/ 

2. Carol’s Daughters- Love Butter

3. In time of healing, sorrow or hard times give the gift of laughter- A basket full of comedy movies. Tailor the gift to meet the individual - it could be stand up or comedy movies.

 Parenting

Parenting-Tools To Help/Children-Making A Difference

1. Book- Boundaries For Kids by John Townsend

2.  Our future leaders-Neha Gupta, age 13, Founder of Empower Orphans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ugtHgNHAYE&feature=related

Thank You!!!

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog.  I want to say thank you clients, friends, and family for adding to my life in the ways that you continue to do.

I want to say a special thanks to my children for playing with me, helping me with chores, striving to do your best at home and at school, and a special thanks to: 

Yvonne, Nzisa, , Zakiyyah, Edward, and Sheila, for sharing your gifts, talents, tips, time and knowledge with me.

Special Section: A Discussion

I want to hear from you…

Tell us what you love about the men in your life. You may write about your spouse, father, brother, son, or friend.

*From The Heart*

I feel strongly that once you put your mind to it, you can do it. My hope is that we do something new that we have always wanted to do.

*Hair Specials *Hair Style Trends *Hair Products*Beauty Health Tips

Weekly Special

15% off custom systems (When you book your appointment mention coupon code: golden)

       

Hot Hair Trends

 Hot Hair Trends this Winter are: The Low Knotted Bun, Part in the middle, Blunt Bangs, The Punky Short hair Cut, Ultra Volume ( loose messy natural waves with side or middle part), if big hair is not your style, frame your gorgeous face in the form of chin length bobs, and short cropped cuts. Braids-Woven Locks (the Goddess look, or just the bottom for a ponytail braided look on the side or back, even one or two small braids along the hairline), Low Ponytail (Whether the look is mussed or structured).  

 

 Remember you can set your own trends, just be confident and know that you are fabulous!

      

Products-Peoples picks

1. Morrocan oil 

2. Hicks for edge control 

3. Biosilk  Serum

Nutrition

Nutrition-is important if you want to look good and be healthy

                1. Blueberries -are considered by many experts to be the highest food source of antioxidants, which target free radicals that can wreak havoc on skin cells. The antioxidants and phytochemicals (plant sources of nutrition) in blueberries neutralize DNA-damaging free radicals, reducing cell damage. When skin cells are protected from damage and disintegration, the skin looks younger for longer. Blueberries are also an excellent source of soluble and insoluble fiber, vitamin C, manganese, vitamin E and riboflavin. Also high in antioxidants are blackberries, strawberries, and plums.

We can find antioxidants in: Black grapes, Brazil nuts, Broccoli, Carrots, Cherries, Chestnuts, Hazelnuts, Kale, Raisins, Papaya, Peas, Peppers, Prunes, Spinach, Sweet potatoes, Tomatoes.

 

*Encouragement * Events *Quotes/Poetry*Parenting*Thank You

Encouragement For Us All To Grow And Go Forward

Do one thing in as many areas in your life as you can to make you a better YOU. Then look around you and do one thing for someone else.

 For Self-

 a. Spiritually- choose to have a positive attitude
 b. Financially- save your change
 c. Intellectually- read to gain helpful knowledge 
 d. Mentally- decide to not worry 
 e. Emotionally- allow yourself to feel and to express those feeling  
 f. Physically/nutritionally- walk more and carry a bottle of water with you every where you go
 g. Socially- say yes to an invitation or invite someone to do something
 h. Personal goals- do something special for yourself and your home
  i. Professional goals- be passionate about one thing you bring to the table and take it to the next level

Give To Others- your time, knowledge, assistance, kindness-
a. Be creative- keep it simple
b. Start- at home with the person who shares the same roof, or a neighbor,    co-worker, friend, family member, organization, or stranger. Pay it forward

                                        

                                      

Events

Tour of San Pasqual Academy – The first-in-the-nation residential education campus designed specifically for foster teens. The Academy is located in Escondido, CA and provides foster teens with a stable, caring home, a quality, individualized education, and the skills needed for independent living. The Academy opened in October 2001 and currently has a bed capacity for 184 youth. The 238-acre campus features individual family-style homes, an on-site, accredited high school, and a computer for each youth in the homes, a cafeteria, a technology and career information center, an assembly hall, recreation fields, and a swimming pool. Teens live and learn at the Academy as they prepare for college and/or a career path.

http://www.sanpasqualacademy.org/how_you_can_help.htm

This tour touched all of our hearts and it is my hope that we will to do more to help those who need us.

Quotes 

1. Success is built on using your time wisely 

2. Worry is a wasted emotion - take that energy to think positive, that all will be well. (If the bottom does drop then use your energy to help resolve the issue. 

3. Applied knowledge is powerful!

Parenting

 Supporting Each Other/Children-Talented and Wonderful

1.  Article about grateful children being healthier-

http://shine.yahoo.com/simple-ways-show-more-gratitude-210300971.html

2.  Our children-Talented and Wonderful

Poplyfe was featured on “America’s Got Talent” a group parents and children like-

Check out song, “The World Is My Dance Floor” http://poplyfe.com/

Thank You!!!

 Thank you for taking the time to read my blog.  I want to say thank you clients, friends, and family for adding to my life in the ways that you continue to do.

 I want to say a special thanks to my children for playing with me, helping me with chores, striving to do your best at home and at school, and a special thanks to: 

Tia and Sheila, for sharing a special time with me, Dee and Nasreen for the gifts and to all those who commented on my blog or sent me a positive and encouraging word regarding it.

Special Section: A Discussion

I want to hear from you…

Tell us what you love about the men in your life. You may write about your spouse, father, brother, son, or friend.

*From My Heart*

I am one who wants to give as much good as I can to the world. It is my hope that you and I receive all the good this world has to offer.

*Hair Specials *Hair Style Trends *Hair Products*Beauty Health Tips

Weekly Special 

15% off full weave (When you book your appointment mention coupon code: radiant)

Hot Hair Trends

Hot Hair Trends this Winter are: The Low Knotted Bun, Part in the middle, Blunt Bangs, The Punky Short hair Cut, Ultra Volume ( loose messy natural waves with side or middle part), if big hair is not your style, frame your gorgeous face in the form of chin length bobs, and short cropped cuts. Braids-Woven Locks (the Goddess look, or just the bottom for a ponytail braided look on the side or back, even one or two small braids along the hairline), Low Ponytail (Whether the look is mussed or structured).  

Remember you can set your own trends, just be confident and know that you are gorgeous!

Products

Suggested by Professionals:

1.       Joico K-Pak Reconstructor

2.       Design Essentials Leave in conditioner

3.       Oribe Signature Moisture Masque

Beauty Health Tips

Determine Your Skin Type (oily, dry, normal, or combination)

Instructions & Things You'll Need:

·         Hand Or Wash Towels

·         Mild Facial Cleansers

·         Oil-free Facial Cleansers

·         Oil-free Moisturizers

Step 1

Wash your face with a skin cleanser, then rinse and pat dry.

Step 2

Wait one hour.

Step 3

Note whether your skin feels "tight."

Step 4

Press a separate piece of tissue onto each area of your face: chin, center of cheeks, outer cheeks, center of forehead, outer forehead and nose.

Step 5

Examine each tissue and look for oily residue or flaky skin residue.

Step 6

Interpret the results. Oil on each tissue indicates an oily skin type, while oil on only some tissues (specifically those on the T-zone, which is the center of forehead, nose, chin and center of cheeks) indicates a combination skin type. Flaky skin residue on all tissues - without oily residue - or a tight feeling in the skin indicates a dry skin type. No oil and no flaky residue on any part of the tissue indicate a normal skin type. 

*Knowledge * Events *Quotes/Poetry *Suggestions*Thank You

You Bring Me Knowledge And Joy.

A former Principal shared what she learned over the years of teaching. You do not have to be the smartest person to be successful. You must have discipline, determination and consistency to be successful.

Lessons and Notes from past classes, books, or life.

a. Having Insurance means you are prepared for a rainy day.

b. What you do now determines your future.

c. Share good news not gossip.

d. Make wise decisions, seek council when needed, walk through doors, go forward and allow yourself to enjoy and be satisfied in the state you are in before you reach for your next aspiration.

Events

Tour of San Pasqual Academy – The first-in-the-nation residential education campus designed specifically for foster teens. The Academy is located in Escondido, CA and provides foster teens with a stable, caring home, a quality, individualized education, and the skills needed for independent living. The Academy opened in October 2001 and currently has a bed capacity for 184 youth. The 238-acre campus features individual family-style homes, an on-site, accredited high school, and a computer for each youth in the homes, a cafeteria, a technology and career information center, an assembly hall, recreation fields, and a swimming pool. Teens live and learn at the Academy as they prepare for college and/or a career path.

http://www.sanpasqualacademy.org/how_you_can_help.htm

This tour moved us in so many emotional ways. We were glad to know that a place like this exists to help foster teens in this way. We were sad by the tragic circumstances that brought the teens to this Academy. Hopeful, that this Academy and the people who help touch these young teen’s lives will continue to make a positive difference. We were reminded of our own childhood and teen years and became even more thankful of our experience. We also were motivated to do something, to help in some way.  Many ideas are floating around in our minds. I wonder which ones will flourish and become a reality. I am looking forward to what the future will bring.

Quotes, Poetry, and/or Things I know For Sure

1. Family and friends deserve my time.

2. A positive attitude brings a positive experience.

3. You are either going forward or backward…make the right choice.

Suggestions/ Fun Ideas

1. Book- Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson

2. Movie- Food Matters

3. Song - “Just The Way You Are” Bruno Mars

Parenting

 Supporting Each Other/Children-Young and Brilliant

1. Check out website www.racetonowhere.com

2.  Our future leaders-Stephen Stafford, 13-year-old Morehouse sophomore http://clatl.com/atlanta/stephen-stafford-13-year-old-morehouse-sophomore/Content?oid=1286441 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Hzk5phtrw

Thank You!!!

 Thank you for taking the time to read my blog.  I want to say thank you clients, friends, and family for adding to my life in the ways that you continue to do.

 I want to say a special thanks to my children for playing with me, helping me with chores, striving to do your best at home and at school, and a special thanks to Jade, Sharon, Brenda, Linda, Carla, Yvonne, Nzisa, Shawn, Margo, Karen and Nasreen, for sharing your gifts, talents, tips, time and knowledge with me. 

Special Section: A Discussion

I want to hear from you…

Tell us what you love about the men in your life. You may write about your spouse, father, brother, son, or friend.