Body comfort

Why does it have to take so long for most females to be comfortable with the bodies? For most, it doesn't happen until a loooong time into womanhood. I'm talking after 30 and even then, there's still a bit to deal with apparently.

I've thought about it and concluded that it's all about society, television and the Internet. If you're a skinny, unvoluptuous woman surrounded by women with very curvy bodies who get all the attention from the men, you're likely to be fighting a body complex. If you turn on the TV everyday and see other females who look nothing like you, you may start to wonder if you look 'wrong'. It's pretty much the same with the Internet, if all you ever see while you're browsing the www is women with body shapes and skin tones completely different from yours, you might start to wish you looked different.

If you're above the age of 15, how has your body image changed over the last 5 years? A woman's body image can change from year to year, from community to community. It doesn't need to take as long as it does for most of us though. Maybe we need to start educating ourselves on the beauty of individuality, because we can't rely on the media or other people to appreciate us for who we are.

Bra cleaning tips

 

 

 

Females need to keep ALL underwear clean and it's probably easiest to forget to keep track of how clean bras are; more so than any other kinds of lingerie. Particularly when they're not light-coloured. A lot of women also find bras tiresome to clean or wash especially when they're underwired bras. Here are a few tips:


1. Never wash bras with any kind of underwiring or bones in the washing machine. Not even if you're using a lingerie bag. Lingerie bags aren't always successful in protecting bras from getting misshapen in the machine. Don't risk it.


2. Instead, soak it in cold/cool water.


3. Minimize friction and rubbing by using soapy water instead of applying soap directly to the bra.


4. Use cold/cool water to avoid degrading the fabric quickly.


5. Dry bras on as flat a surface as possible rather than using pegs or hanging them on extremely hot heaters for example. Also, never use a dryer.


6. If you must hang them up, don't use pegs as they could distort the shape of your underwire.


7. Don't twist bras too tight when squeezing out the water after washing. Where the bra is underwired specifically, don't bend the bones over too far.


8. Be sure to use a mild detergent.

Public marriage proposals

I've always had a bit of an issue with public marriage proposals. I know some people believe that if you love someone you should be able to shout it off the rooftops but everyone does not operate the same way.

I'm all for public displays of affection between two people who are truely and honestly committed to each other. I love watching couples (especially old married ones) being touchy-feely in public and very obviously not caring what anyone else thinks because they're just too absorbed in each other! It's an awesome sight.

But somehow I want the moment when I agree to spend the rest of my life with that special someone to be OUR moment alone. It's that sacred to me. I don't want to share it with a bunch of other people, no matter how important those other people are to me. I'd actually like to be able to announce the joy of our engagement to other people.

Maybe it's only because I'm such a private person that I think this way. Still, I'd like to think that if the love of my life went down on one knee in a crowded but relatively quiet restaurant and asked me to marry him, I would focus my eyes and mind on him alone and the love we share and be able to smoothly say "Yes" with a great big smile instead of bashing him over the head repeatedly with my handbag for making me the centre of attention or fainting dead away in sheer embarrassment.

Some Lingerie Talk

It’s true…a prefectly fitting bra will make you feel like a new woman. I can assure you that you will feel healthier, sexier, more vibrant, walk with your head held higher and your back straighter and you WILL feel an increase in your overall confidence.

Sadly, finding a bra that fits you the way it should is becoming more and more difficult because the people we find in bra stores are usually sales people only and are not actually trained to fit bras. It’s fortunate that we’ve got the internet to help in directing us as to how to measure ourselves but the disadvantage is that there are so many different lingerie labels which come with variations in sizes according to label as well as according to style.

That is why I always advise women to re-fit with each different brand and style they wish to buy. You need to get your money’s worth because lingerie ain’t cheap! And like I always say, you can never really have too many bras. So you need to choose wisely and frequently (or as often as your pocket allows of course)!