Secrets for Life-Long Beauty

Beauty is a Choice

As a former model/actress, depending completely upon a healthy image, I have lived by a weekly and monthly beauty routine. Because healthy is beautiful, I recommend getting healthy, staying healthy, and adhering to these naturally simple beauty guidelines.

Beauty Routines

Find a routine that you can, and will stick with daily, weekly, and monthly. Make sure your routine is easy enough to remember, and shows results. For instance a daily walk or workout, a weekly facial mask and vegetarian meal, and monthly hair cut or coloring.

My routine has been daily walks, or workouts with small weights at home, and eating healthy foods I grow in my garden. Saturdays have always been my pampering day, which involves a facial beauty mask and scrub, plus nails which I also do at home.

Monthly I trim my own hair and highlight it, so I can maintain my favorite style. I also try to tan several times a week, for the vitamin benefits of natural sunshine, which is absorbed through the skin.

Health & Nutrition

Your routine could also be similar, based upon your hair, complexion, and body type. If you can afford to go to the gym, or be salon-pampered do that, but learn how to do these things for yourself too.

Watch how your stylist cuts your hair, and then try trimming your own hair once in a while. Do the exercises your trainer recommends, and eat the way your nutritionist suggests.

Soon you will begin to understand what works best for your age, weight, and body type. Always try to eat as healthy as possible, cooking most of your own meals at home, if you want to stay well, feel better, and look terrific.

Inner Beauty Equals Outer Beauty

Smiling (and sincerity) is the most beautiful part about anyone, male or female. Youth will fade, but your inner beauty will shine through if you have it. Without inner beauty you will never be beautiful on the outside either, until you become a caring and sincere person.

All the makeup, muscles, or money in the world cannot cover up what you refuse to cultivate on the inside, such as integrity, honesty, sincerity, and love. Real beauty (inside and out) is a choice, which the Bible clearly speaks about.

"Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion." Proverbs 11:22

"As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man." Proverbs 27:19

"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate." Proverbs 31:30,31

Finally the rules I was raised by, the Golden Rule simply states; "Do to others as you would have them do to you." Luke 6:31

I guarantee if you follow God's wisdom for inner-beauty, and maintain an outer beauty regime, you will be much more than an empty shell. You will sparkle beyond that clear complexion, past all that good grooming, and your joy will emanate a radiance of its own, which I call "God sparkle". Choose a lifetime of beautiful.

Scriptural excerpts from chapter 2 "Age & Beauty in Scripture" in my book "Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Life-Affirming Scriptures" (for all areas of family life).