Push-up bra: the main invention for women

British sociologists interviewed 3000 women and found out what representatives of weaker sex consider as the most important fashion-invention.

The greatest quantity of voices (20 %) was given to push-up bras (raising and increasing breast visually). On the second place - boot-cut, on the third - panties, on the fourth - spike heel, and a little black dress closes the five of leaders.

Bra with push-up-effect was invented in 1964 by Wonderbra company. This bra became an integral attribute of each woman’s clothes at once.

«Such models allow women feeling more womanly and self-assured. Push-up bras won the first place worthily», - stylists explain.

Also representatives of weaker sex noted bras and dresses without shoulder-straps, a silicone bra, jogging shoes, low-riding trousers and foot bracelets.

Gifts for zodiac signs

Well, zodiac signs and gifts! In this article we will be guided by zodiac predisposition of people, born in different intervals of Wheel of Year. All of us are different, each of us – unique.

After all, besides month of birth, our natal card, or horoscope, contains a huge quantity of factors – corners, planets, oppositions and positive moments! However, no matter what «people of science» could prove, we still can track general, inexplicable tendencies.

To understand what you should present to this or that inhabitant of Zodiac, it is necessary to aspire to understand an essence of this sign, its main vital credo.

So, Wheel of Births starts its run in Aries. Aries – the beginning! «I am, I operate!» – its his motto. He/she is an ardent rested individualist and trailblazer, proving his indisputable right to superiority, uniqueness, exclusiveness in every possible way. Aries does not need power. Unlike Leo, Fiery Ram just needs to be a pioneer of any business. He reaches his goals imprudently at times! What to give to such character?

Everything that will allocate him among others! It should be something no one has. It should be unique, but thus bearing functional sense, as Aries – an active sign. He loves all technological novelties, adores explaining the ground – various cards, compasses, navigators etc. After all, he should lay a way to all Zodiac!

Flower note: dahlia – a favourite flower of Aries. He adores red colour.

The following turn of the Wheel leads us to Taurus. Here Aries became already staid, turned to sedate… Taurus! «I have» – here is vital credo of Taurus. We will recollect a well-known legend about Golden calf. Yes, people of this sign appreciate possession most of all . But these should not be obligatory material assets, though they gravitate to them a lot. No, it can quite be possession of unique information, experience or skill. But gift is a material thing, therefore we will return to the world of things.

Comfort, functionality and quality – here are properties Taurus appreciates. It can be anything you like, beginning with a beautifully issued notebook and finishing with a stylish handbag. Or it can be a gift for a house. For example, a convenient armchair or multipurpose kitchen combine.

Flower note: Tauruses like pansies, bellflowers and daisies and do not like pungent smells.

After Taurus we come to Gemini. The motto of this sign – «I think». An air-light Gemini likes humour. Present him something comic, witty! Representatives of this sign extol their intelligence and consequently will highly appreciate a clever book or vital film. Gemini will also appreciate hi-tech things, like flash-cards and cameras, do not doubt.

Flower note: asters, carnations, gladioluses, mimosas, peonies, violets – all these flowers approach Gemini character.

In sphere of Cancer one gives greatest attention to emotions: «I feel» – here is its motto. Cancer likes cosiness and welcomes convenient and stylish “guards” in its armour in every possible way. Ancient, collection things will also please this homebody.

Flower note: sensitive Cancer will like irises and white roses, lilies and narcissuses, valley lilies and snowdrops. But you can disturb delicate power of such person with a lethal smell – do not present carnations, peonies and mimosas.

«I wish / I dominate» – here is a motto of regal Leo! Whether we should say that people of this sign appreciate status gifts above all – expensive and stylish things, declaring a rank of their owner, gold, jewels. Certainly, stylisation under aristocratic things will be apprehended. Leo – a solar sign, also adores all yellow and orange.

Flower note: Leo will accept dahlias, chrysanthemums, mimosas, peonies, tea or yellow roses, carnations with pleasure. But tulips and orchids can cause tearing away, be cautious!

Virgo follows Leo and arranges an intellectual storm of Leo’s chaotic behavior’s results: «I analyze» – here is a motto of Virgo. In general, Virgo – one of the most difficult zodiacal signs, including absolutely various three types of character: from mild and timid to rigid, cynical and even troublemaking. But it is possible to allocate, nevertheless, general feature for all Virgo: practicality. Knowing the price to money, Virgo likes gifts, bringing maximum of advantage.

Flower note: give Virgo asters and mimosa, carnations and roses, flowerbells and violets.

Libra – a sign of balance. Frequently, it is a delicate person, always possessing taste and bent to art. Give Libra beautiful things! This aesthete will highly appreciate pictures, stylish subjects of interior, ancient services. High-quality perfumery is also a good gift for Libra.

Flower note: asters, carnations, chrysanthemums, tiger lilies, roses – will suit Libra!

Scorpion – the most mystical zodiacal sign. It is weaved from contradictions. Find a way to present a usual gift in symbolical light and its communication with life bases – and it will change in the opinion of Scorpion. Very strong sexual power of Scorpion and its aggression quite allow giving him weapon and erotic toys.

Flower note: give Scorpion irises, lilies, white roses, narcissuses and even cactuses.

Sagittarius always searches for new and unusual, its motto – «I aspire!». Roads, wanderings, search and travel – here are themes for gifts to Sagittariuses. The main thing, find, what his bent for novelty is expressed in: diving, trips or … collecting of new hearts.

Flower note: give Sagittarius carnations, gladioluses, chrysanthemums or phloxes.

Practical Capricorn is guided by a slogan «I use!» But, at the same time, deep and reserved Capricorn adores all mysterious, mystical: esoteric things, ancient symbolics etc.

Flower note: give Capricorn gerberas and lilies, tulips, red carnations, gladioluses and dahlias.

«I know» – the motto of tremendously sharp and inventive Aquarius. As a rule, Aquarius is very sociable, and their interests are rather wide. Present him something new, hi-tech, carrying away imagination – and your gift will serve as a beginning to his next hobby! Computers, photo, music, sports – here are things pleasant to Aquarius.

Flower note: Aquarius will accept orchids, violets, tulips, narcissuses, valley lillies and forget-me-nots with pleasure.

Mystical Pisces adore cinema, music, reading – all that allows it indulging lonely world contemplation. «I trust» – here is a motto of Pisces. People of this sign are always intuitively religious, even if they do not go to church. Give them talismans, aromatic sticks, warm clothes or blankets.

Flower note: carnations and chrysanthemums, gladioluses, peonies - here are their flowers.

Well, here, having passed all Wheel of Year, you have learnt much about zodiacal signs, their preferences. It is necessary to remind only that each person is unique. Special approach and sensitive attention is necessary for everyone. Difficult? Yes. But if you wish to give a really good gift, you will not manage without attention to a person. Doubt? You can always check up this statement.

New year costumes: Surprise your man

Everyone tries to celebrate New Year in his own way, unusually and cheerfully. One serve a smart table, others invite friends, wishing to have fun, third, on the contrary, have silent and modest rest in home atmosphere.

But so passes one, second and third New Year. And here you again have a dilemma: «How to meet a New Year?». Moreover, if you meet it with a young man. You would like to remember this New Year, to make it unusual and a bit fantastic? Then go forward! Surprise!!!

And maybe…
The brightest and most cheerful holiday - New Year - is coming. These are always celebratory vanity and good mood, sweets and champagne, cheerful games and colourful fireworks. New Year is a peal of bells and gifts under a fur-tree, multi-coloured tinsel and bright costumes. New Year is always returning in the childhood, therefore, it is difficult to imagine New Year without Santa. It is a symbol of this cheerful holiday. And maybe, we should risk, and order a whole New Year’s show for you, with musicians, dancers, singers and conjurers-illusionists. And it doesn’t matter you have no kids in a house. In a New Year everyone of us becomes a child again. It is time to be surprised and surprise!

On my house’s roof
If you dare on this, prepare romantic atmosphere, it will be just fantastic. Imagine – night, stars and only you tower over whole city and world.

New Year’s eve – an excellent occasion to embody your sexual imaginations

Celebrating of this day, or to be more exact - night, should be unforgettable, unique and the best! It is indisputable. And costumes will help you reincarnating in one of fantastic characters easily. A New Year’s costume will allow you plunging into an unforgettable adventure among sprites, fairies, fantastic knights, trolls or pirates, which will effortlessly begin at a New Year’s table and pass easily in a cosy bedroom.

You will necessarily find a costume to your taste in a shop. Sexy Snow White or maybe, an angel with fiery horns, a simple suit of a bee or artful she-robber. Your imagination has no limits.

In your coin box:

Butterfly
Costume can be almost one-colour, and you also can use bright rags, sewing them, as application, on wings, executed from starched gauze. Attach moustaches from thin wire on head, put on colour glasses.

Malvina
For Malvina’s costume you can use any blue dress and golfs. In hair, on a belt and shoes - blue bows. Decorate dress with confetti, streamer and spangles.

Angel
You need a usual cardboard sheet. Cut wings of necessary size from it. Then cover them with glue and sprinkle with feathers - for this purpose you can use an old pillow. And further all is simple: attach received wings to white, transparent night-shirt and the costume is ready.

Here you have three simple variants how to make a New Year’s costume by your hands. But the main thing is not a costume, it only helps entering in necessary image. The main thing is what you have under it. I hope, I should not tell you about lacy garters, gentle stockings and other things, the choice is up for you. Lacy or transparent? Frank strings or juicy shorts? Always actual strict black or bright calling colours? Also do not forget looking through Kama Sutra, remember that you can do everything on a New Year’s eve.

Present him a Turkish New Year
The name speaks for itself. In the menu of this evening there should necessarily be pillows on a floor, a low table, eastern music, you can cook a couple of Turkish cuisine dishes and, of course, belly dance. Yes, we have little time, but it does not mean that the idea of exotic gift should be postponed till next year. You will need about 6 days to learn base movements of belly dance, for a New Year’s debut this will be quite enough.

1. Hip movement across.
Feet on width of shoulders, slightly bent in knees, the top part, including head, is motionless, only hips are moving, they as though sliding at first in one side, then in another.

2. Top part of body horizontal movement.
Feet on width of shoulders, feet are straight, bottom part of a body, including hips, are motionless, only top part of a body (from waist and higher) moves. Move breast at first to one side, then another.

3. Hip movement on the eight.
Initial position as in the first exercise. At performance of this movement hips will make the eight across.

4. Snake.
This is alternate movement by hands. A hand is sliding along a body and rising upwards, other hand falls downwards smoothly. The wider hands are separated in sides (the further they are from a body) the more beautiful this movement is and more plastic it looks.

5. Exercise with a scarf.
The scarf is clamped between index and average fingers. For this movement you can use a scarf with coins, but a light chiffon scarf is better. Take a scarf and place it in front of yourself; lift right hand over a head, bend left hand in elbow; make a rift with hands; then raise left hand over a head, bend right one in elbow and return in a starting position again.

Do not forget that you can easily gain ability to dance belly dance, special clothes and a scarf, but it is quite possible to manage without them, after all the atmosphere of eastern holiday is the main thing.

Meet a New year in your bed
Spouses who meet New year together, or just loving couple will like this idea. You should not worry about New Year costume, here you will need only beautiful lingerie. A light meal and exotic fruits will approach this case perfectly. A pumpkin pie with cinnamon - a champion on excitation of sexual appetite in men. Glucose contained in this fruit, switches on a site of a brain responsible for excitation.

Take care of creation of warm cosy atmosphere. Candles round a bed will work on beloved better than any love magic! Aromas. The shortest way to a man’s heart and the most powerful Aphrodisiac - neroli and cinnamon essence. Apply several drops on bed-clothes or drop few oil on candles in advance, pack them into cellophane packages and leave for a couple of hours - to become impregnated.

Bathing idyll
Especially pleasant variant for two enamoured – meeting New year in a joint bathroom or jacuzzi. It is unessential to have a smart bathroom – usual one will also suit. The main thing – to show imagination. Decorate a bathroom, add foam in water, bring some plates with snacks, glasses for champagne, candles. Arrange a romantic holiday.

The way you are
Be yourself. After all, if he is with you, this means he likes you the way you are: happy and cheerful, stirred up and sleepy, sad and joyful. You just should be near.

No matter what variant of a New Year celebration you may prefer, the main thing you should remember is: «As you meet New year, so you spend it». Arrange an amazing holiday, and forthcoming year will not force you waiting for surprises.

Jean Paul Gaultier aroma set in jewelry

All fans of famous Classique aroma from Jean Paul Gaultier are expected by a pleasant gift. The brand let out a firm version of perfume, set in elegant stylish charms.

Jean Paul Gaultier was inspired on creation of this necklace by spring-summer 2007 collection, executed and presented in Madonna’s style.

Perfume in the form of firm spirits is concluded in a beautiful medallion on a graceful chain. «Aroma which promises pleasure» remained same womanly and sexual. Classique - which basic notes are cool rose, orange colour and vanilla - shrouds in the charm and wakes up feelings.

An unusual necklace with favourite aroma for real temptresses will appear on sale in February, 2009.

7 fat burning products

Diet consisting of fat burning products will be useful to everyone. Have you ever heard about such diet?

Such diet really exist. Some products bring no additional kgs to you, and also burn superfluous fats.

1. Water. If you consume not enough liquid in the form of pure water, it will be difficult to you to dump weight. Lack of liquid in organism slows down metabolism processes, can lead to decrease in level of glucose in blood, weakness and dizziness.

2. Green tea. This plant not only prevents formation of cancer cages, helps to prevent occurrence of cardiovascular diseases, but also influences metabolism processes in an organism positively. So how many calories you can burn thanks to green tea? It is considered that, drinking 5 cups of green tea per day, you lose 70–80 calories. It is quite good, isn’t it?

3. Grapefruit. Some researches show that regular use of half grapefruit or 150 g of its juice with each food intake can help you losing 2 kg of weight for 2 weeks on average. It is considered that one simple reason explains this fact. Grapefruit reduces insulin level, what in its turn reduces your desire to snack something. Naturally, the less you want to eat, the fewer calories you accumulate, and waste already saved up, and weight is reduced.

If you do not like grapefruit, you can use its juice and mix with orange and lemon juice, what in addition will strengthen your immunity and clear organism from slags.

4. Cinnamon. Researches show that a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon, eaten with food intake, helps acquiring sugar more effectively and reducing sugar level in blood. It is an essential moment, as high level of sugar in blood leads to formation of new fatty adjournment. Cinnamon also can be used instead of sugar, as it has natural sweet taste.

5. Low-fat dairy products. Given products not only supply your organism with calcium, but also increase manufacture of calcitriol hormone, a hormone which forces cells burning more fat. Therefore, include fat-free or low-fat dairy products in your diet.

6. Albuminous food. Fibers — a necessary basis for formation of muscular weight, and, as it is known, the more muscles you have, the more fats you burn – even if you just have a rest. Moreover, more calories are wasted for fibers assimilation, than for assimilation of fats and carbohydrates. Thus, albuminous food also helps you burning fats. The best sources of protein – chicken fillet, fish, egg whites, turkey, fish.

7. Spicy food. You like spicy food? Then we have good news for you. Hot spices help burning fats, as they force your organism sweating, increase palpitation, what in its turn accelerates metabolism. However, if you like chips or fried food, this will hardly help you losing a couple of kgs.

As you can see, some products really make metabolism active, what promotes fat burning, include them into your diet, but in reasonable quantities, and remember that fibers, carbohydrates and “correct” fats are necessary for high-grade work of organism.

Therefore, do not torture yourself with hunger, excessive diets and starvations. Remember these simple trues – and grow thin without tortures!

Mushroom diet - a simple way to grow thin

A new mushroom diet will effectively help all wishing to grow thin. Food allowance based on mushrooms will be especially actual after New Year’s holidays.

British experts made an experiment with participation of 10 persons at the age of 25-61 years. In food allowance of half of them they included dishes from mushrooms. Volunteers had to to replace meat dishes with mushrooms 4 times a week.

As a result, it appeared that those who adhered to such dietary plan, lost on average 6 kg for 5 weeks. And one of volunteers got rid of 9 superfluous kg.

Dieticians explained: «Mushrooms, and in particular field mushrooms, possess a surprising property. They help those who wish to grow thin, and thus do not demand sweeping changes in food allowance».

Besides, mushrooms are rich with vitamin D. Only one portion of a mushroom dish can provide a human body with a daily dose of this vitamin.

Honey massage

As it is known, unique honey curative properties were used by doctors in ancient Tibet. They guessed not only to take honey inside, but also rub it in skin. So there was a honey massage.

Honey – a source of all vitamins

Honey contains vitamins (C, В1, В2, РР, etc.) in certain proportions, enzymes, acids, mineral substances, hormones, amino acids, aromatic and bactericidal substances. It is a complex biological product, comprising a complex of valuable biochemical substances, necessary for a person for ability to live, preservation of health and increase in duration of active life.

Numerous researches show that on riches of microcells content honey has no equal among phytogenesis products. Honey contains more than 30 various microcells, such as: iron, copper, calcium and potassium, magnesium, manganese, nickel, silver, sodium lithium, phosphorus, sulphur, molybdenum and other microcells (the list can be continued).

Honey massage: curative properties

Honey massage promotes fast figure correction and proof preservation of result, thanks to strong immunomodulatory and strengthening properties. Unique properties of honey in a combination to massage promote:

• to elimination of cellulite,
• to blood circulation improvement in deep layers of skin and muscles,
• to fast restoration of muscular tone of muscles,
• to skin clarification (also releases skin from slags),
• to deducing of slags,
• to recovery of hypodermically-fatty cellulose health,
• to improvement of internals and tissues nutrition,
• to removal of hypostases.

Honey massage is equally good both for weight reduction, and for achievement of cosmetic effect in struggle against imperfections of figure. In itself, massage improves supply of muscles and skin with oxygen and nutrients, and honey releases them from slags, restores health of hypodermically-fatty cellulose, cleans hypostases for a long time.

Due to all aforesaid skin becomes smooth and elastic, silky, hypodermic consolidations are smoothed, flabbiness, extensions and cellulite are cleaned. General condition of organism and, of course, mood is improved.

For preventive maintenance of illnesses

Honey massage as treatment and preventive maintenance method is very effective against:

• headaches,
• sleep disorders,
• intellectual and physical exhaustion,
• psychosomatic diseases,
• vegeto-vascular dystonia,
• infringements of work of internal,
• immunity becomes stronger.

What’s a secret?

What underlies this miracle massage? It is based on interaction of skin and biologically active substances, contained in honey, including standard mechanisms of action of other kinds of massage. It is concerned to a reflexotherapy version - an amazing combination of medical action of beer honey and massage. Honey, giving biologically active substances, absorbs toxins and promotes their fast deducing from an organism. Such massage is made for lymph flow increase and skin cleaning.

Arm with all necessary

Honey for massage - natural flower, lime or any other, without additives and necessarily not candied. As addition you can add aromatic oils in honey: lemon, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, juniper, eucalyptus, lavender oil.

A course of honey massage is calculated for 12-15 sessions. They are arranged every other day, so that skin would have time to have a rest and be restored. Technics of such massage consists of two movements – cave-in of honey and its vacuum exit. In the beginning honey fills in pores, then a masseur “extends” this honey together with metabolism waste. Body is rubbed with honey and massed – massage can be started on problem zones or can be general. Honey massage on problem zones lasts for 15-20 minutes, general one (including back and feet) – about one hour. In the beginning feet and back are massed, then honey is washed off in a shower, a person turns over on back, and the forward part is smeared and massed the same way : feet, stomach, breast, arms. After termination of honey massage, honey is washed off by warm water and massed place is greased with humidifying cream. Here in such simple way each session of honey massage will reduce volume of your body on 2-3 cm (!)

Honey massage – is rather a painful and not so pleasant procedure, but after all, as it is known, beauty demands victims. So can you suffer a little to feel yourself a queen later?

Diet for busy people

This article will not be an opening for you, but, I think, my system can be useful to: (1) - owls, (2) - people with irregular way of life and (3) - gourmets, incapable to kefiric, mono- and in general diets, as they are.

I am a combination of all three. A difficult case, as they say. I work late, eat, when I can, do not like sports (but respect hot meals very much), and is rather old for fanatical teenage sticking to kefir. And so, here are my principles:

Hurrah to three meals a day (with one snack)!

Last years so-called “fractional food” became very fashionable. The principle of this system is simple: five receptions of low-calorie food not to grow fat, but also not to remain hungry. But for me, two yoghurts, a slice of hen and two salads are not a meal at all. As a result, you eat two yoghurts, a slice of hen, two salads and STEAK. So, do not suffer and begin with steak at once.

However, it is desirable to eat this steak once a day, namely during the most important meal. Choose one food intake, which is psychologically important for you: for majority this is a family supper, for someone - a business lunch. Main principle: eat moderately three times a day. Once from these three: moderately and tasty. Also you should not choke with salad, when whole family absorbs cutlets or “not to eat after six” fanatically, when you come home from work at ten. This helps to avoid “failures” and night touches on a refrigerator.

Snack should be with you.

English 5 o’clock was invented, so that people could live till supper. And it is clear that if you do not have a snack, then you will be terribly hungry by the following food intake. I have a snack with something nourishing, but not heavy: an egg with a tomato, a small slice of fish, a sushi… The main thing is that it could be eaten on the move and leave a sense of fulness. Just avoid pies, sandwiches and sweets, all right?

Rise half an hour to alarm clock.

Who rises right after an alarm clock call, lift hands. Nobody, I guessed. We clap on an alarm clock for at least half an hour. So if you rise half an hour earlier, you will gain a whole hour: half an hour for gymnastics and half an hour just for life, not to stumble about things and damn your relatives.

Down with idiot box!

“Well, where I can take this superfluous hour?”, you may ask. In TV, more precisely, in its absence. If you cease watching TV, you will go to bed earlier. Not to mention the fact that you will eat less. My husband and me have been watching a political serial for three months and felt ourselves terribly intelligent, until I found out that I gained three kilogrammes - a kilogramme for each month.

Do gymnastics in the mornings.

For those who work, and work till late, it is very important. It helps being adjusted to a correct way of life since the morning. And then, in the evening you will not have forces all the same. Also it is completely unnecessary to rise at 4.30 AM, like American state secretary Condoleezza Rice, to go to a sport club. I, for example, have a membership in a sport club, so I never go there, as I cannot rise three hours earlier. Thank God, I also have dumbbells at home, and a disk with 20-minute pilates program. Otherwise, I would definitely grow fat.

Well that’s all. I hope, this will help someone. Good luck to all.

New Year Feng Shui: interior

New year is the holiday, when you can change something in your life. And usually we would like it a lot! And if our soul asks for changes - we should realize them! We just need to decorate a house according to Feng Shui science.

So, let’s begin with a compass. First of all it is necessary to define cardinal directions concerning your apartment. Of course, you can do without compass, but then you will have to recollect: where the sun ascends, and where - sits down. When defined with directions, outline the plan of apartment and draw cardinal directions on it.

Now you need to solve - what you would like to change for the New Year? This question is difficult, because we would like everything at once.

The most important thing - love.

Buy a couple of candles. The brighter - the better. Put them in a southwest corner of apartment. It is responsible for love, marriage and family relations. Therefore to make this sector active is important not only for those who wish to have new realtions, but also those who wish to recover and support energy of love and romanticism in a family.

You can take usual low candles in special iron jars, wine-glasses or glasses with a wide throat and red, white, golden beads. Fill glasses with beads, put candles and surprise all by beautiful playing of patches of light from bright fire.

If you consider you should change your life cardinally (for example, resolved to marry this year), the you should better make a gift for yourself, having bought figurines of two cranes, or hang up a picture with their image in southwest sector. Just do not forget that any candles and figurines should stand in couples.

Wood beauty

Christmas and New year tree should be put in the southeast: then it will bring desired addition of salary. After all, southeast - sector of monetary elements. Or in the east, if you wish to adjust relations with parents. Because east is a sector of family and support. The brighter your fur-tree is this year, the more advantages it will bring, not to mention pleasure. And in general, Chineses use a blossoming tangerine as a New Year tree.

So, ornaments should remind water (water supports elements of wood, answering both for riches, and family) – dark blue, blue and even black bugles, bright tinsel and, the most important thing - wealth symbol. This is a Chinese coin … the main thing is that it should be visible, thus good luck, entering your house, will notice it is expected.

In general, colours of this New year: yellow, gold, brown, red and green. After all, this is year of the Earthen Bull. Therefore, do not stint bright ornaments. Thus, heads will estimate you this year, if you add paints in the south of apartment. Because the southern sector is responsible for your reputation. For example, hang up a garland or small lamps there.

And in the north of a room, responsible for career and course of life, red colour can prevent. Here it is better to choose dark blue and blue shades, to decorate this part with bugles, put crystal glasses or arrange a minibar. The more elements of water you have here, the faster you will move ahead on a career ladder in coming year. Here you can place multi-coloured small fishes or wise turtle, so that they would protect you from rash acts … and excessive use of alcohol…

The Earthen Bull will bring you good luck, if your New Year dress is bright. If there is no colour in clothes (for example, you already bought a dark blue evening dress) add fire by means of a tinsel or costume jewellery. Of course, gold is better. Silver - too cold metal. As a last resort, you can put on just “a New Year’s” red hat and take a Bengal fire. The main thing is your desire to enter this New year festively, brightly, with a smile!

Earth Bull 2009 is pragmatic. Arrange your house interior to its tastes

2009 – year of the Earth Bull. Concept “house” deserves special attention this year. Having arranged your habitation competently to tastes of the Bull (it is not difficult), you will involve good luck, happiness, protection in your house.

Certainly, if to reckon on the Chinese calendar, year of the Earth Bull will begin only on January, 26th, 2009. But as house accomplishment is rather laborious business, it is better to be prepared for all in advance. And what is especially important – you need to exclude vanity and formality. Everything is done thoroughly. Protection of higher forces is proportional not only to your desire of higher protection, but also to your diligence on observance of traditions ordered by Feng Shui art.

Habitation harmonisation as a whole

According to ancient Chinese legend, the Bull was selected the second animal from 12 sacred animals of Chinese horoscopes. It deserved this trust due to such character traits, as responsiveness, kindness, restraint, infinite patience, accuracy, methodicalness, calmness. Understanding it, you should educate same features in yourself, preparing for coming year, and your house should bear precisely same features. It is good, if atmosphere of responsiveness, good, infinite patience is felt in it, if interior is constrained, laconically exact, executed with methodicalness observance. And the main quality of a house in a year of the Bull is calmness: everything in interior should be counterbalanced, and nothing should be superfluous.

Bull – a thorough animal. It got used to work and diligence, it is conservative enough and does not like innovations, its sights are pragmatic and peaceful. Therefore, arranging the house under its tastes, it is impossible to forget about these preferences. It is necessary to do all changes in the house cautiously, not cardinally, with due diligence, putting personal labour. Practical advantage should become the basic argument in house arrangement.

The centre and balance of magic square zones

Sacred mission of the Earth Bull is defined by concept Center. Therefore, as to zones of magic square in the house, this year it is necessary to take care that all of them - marriage, children, family, career, riches, glory, knowledge, teachers - would be balanced, without overweight in favour of any one of zones. Then equilibrium positive energy of Chi will inevitably concentrate in the house centre - in the good luck Center.

Good luck centre is that zone, in which you should spend most part of time: with family or visitors. But noisy companies are not recommended in 2009. It is better, that it would be a narrow circle of people, close to you. From this point of view it is necessary to equip the apartment centre, having taken care not of open space, but of cameration.

Observance of pragmatism principle

It is not necessary to be a Feng Shui expert to understand what is pragmatism principle in a house. Not fashionable tendencies, not desire to be original, not the pursuit of aesthetics should define interior. Functionality, expediency, simplicity – here are things that should become defining.

Look at all premises in a house – corridor, kitchen, bathing and toilet rooms, bedroom, nursery, hall, office, pantry, wardrobe – from the point of view of rational. Whether there is something superfluous there, not used for designated purpose?! Whether design decisions are too difficult?!

Avoid effective, bright, unexpected paints, figures, forms. Simplify interior, you will not not impoverish it, but will add air and space in it. And still necessarily exclude idleness decorative things create.

In 2009 year such stiles, like modernism, rococo, eclecticism are useless. More likely, it is necessary to think of traditional classical style. The term “naturality” will be most pertinent in coming year. The concept “house” will be associated with concept “home”.

Strengthening of Earth element in a house

Element of this year – the Earth. Naturally, Earth should dominate over other elements – Fire, Wood, Metal, Water.

The Earth includes:
Primary colour – yellow, additional – all warm: orange, peach, red, beige, brown.
Basic figure – square, additional - rectangle.
Basic plant of year – millet, additional – all other cereals.
Direction – southwest and northeast (it is the basic diagonal of the house).
Material – ceramics, stone.

Adding interior details bearing Earth element and sating the basic diagonal of the house with positive Chi energy, we, naturally, fill our house with this element. But still, it is necessary to consider also that all five elements are connected with each other. Therefore, one can either suppress another, or strengthen. So Wood exhausts all juice from Earth, weakening it. And Water feeds Earth and enriches it. Therefore, be especially cautious with use of plants and wooden subjects in interior, whereas everything connected with water should be applied.

Symbolics of the Earthen Bull in an interior

If to speak about concrete subjects of interior, the central place is given to a fireplace. It is the main symbol of home. It is clear, that not every house can have a real fireplace. But artificial fireplace can replace it. Candles have the same function of cosiness, what can be used in any apartment.

Wind music, as the main Feng Shui symbol, should be made of ceramics in a year of the Bull. And outwardly it should not be graceful, delicate, with gentle modulations. Music of wind 2009 is thorough, volume, solid. It should sound deafly and deeply with a long echo, dying away slowly.

An important detail - clock. They should be located in a convenient place, which is well visible from any point of a room. Clock should go precisely, failures in work need to be corrected immediately. Considering draught of the Bull for honouring of traditions, it can be a cuckoo clock or a striking clock.

Oil painting on walls, abundance of books, upholstered furniture, ceramic vases, caskets, an ikebana from millet or other cereals will add interior well.

Kitchen design can include ceramic, decorative plates on walls, a samovar, ceramic ware. Fill pantries with preservation, jars with jam, large bottles with domestic wine.

Try to arrange your home in a way to satisfy tastes of the Earth Bull. Create an atmosphere filled with concept “cosiness” in your house. Thereby you will not only pay a tribute of east tradition, but also will really feel, how house harmony fills you with energy and optimism at any collisions.

Beautiful lips: make-up tips

From time immemorial men admired female smile, where lips always played a great role. They are seductive, beautiful and sexual. How to make them even more attractive?

The stronger sex is overflowed with desire to touch them, feel their taste, cold or heat and prolong this instant as much longer. And ladies know about it, and quite often use, if they need to avoid some unpleasant conversation. And there was a kiss. From time to time passionate, hot and long, and sometimes timid, coquettish and shy, but in any case it will make a dizzy effect. For this purpose lips are obliged to be constantly well-groomed, after all who will want to kiss lips exposed to wind or ill with herpes…

Fine ladies, that is us, cannot be overpersuaded that our natural pluses (lips) are fine without any tricks . Therefore now almost all shops and shopping centres offer enormous quantity of means on lip care. These are: glosses, pencils, gels, creams, balms and various lipsticks.

Some history

Yet in the Stone Age, as it was found out at excavation of caves, they used typical cores for lip colouring. Egyptians, Romans, Greek, and also Chinese and Japanese women used various juices and berries to give lips more expressive colour. Even “Kama-Sutra” says about lips of a charming half: “her sensual lips - pink, as a bud, ready to open, or red as coral, or looking like a delightful fruit”.

Let’s go deep into accurate dates. In 1883 one Parisian perfumer presented the first standard of lipstick at an exhibition in Amsterdam. It was made from reindeer fat, wax and tinted castor-oil plant oil. Silk paper served as packing, this design was not absolutely convenient, as at each use it was necessary to unwind it and thus spoil hands. It was christened “a love pencil”. At that time opening had no popularity among ladies. It was very expensive to majority, and others refused, because considered lipstick a very juicy detail. But today actually all ladies of the world use this cosmetic means. None of us can imagine her cosmetics bag without any means for lips.

What is advantage?

I think that everyone watches advertising, we always see advertising of any famous cosmetic company presenting the newest improved formulas of lipsticks, which not only give your lips bright colour and light, but also guarantee nutrition and humidifying.

Cosmeticians were not limited to it and created means which protect skin of lips from cold that, what is so necessary in winter, or, opposite - from the sun, which can harm. They did not also forget about women, who assiduously struggle with ageing, the newest formulas of lipsticks and means on lip care, slowing down this undesirable process were made specially for them.

Structure of majority of lipsticks includes oils, fat spirits and painting substances. But the main components are natural waxes - apian, Brazil, rose, etc. Also, by means of lipstick a lady can correct form of lips, provide them with necessary care, revive faded skin.

There is a big colour palette, it is made by every possible colours of pink, coffee, red, orange and violet colours. With that choice a lady of any age, with any skin colour can pick up a suitable lipstick for herself.

How you can make lips even more expressive?

Yes it is absolutely easy, the core – to pick up a shade of lipstick or other means for lips truly. Learn to accentuate natural pluses dexterously and hide defects skilfully. Further we offer your attention some councils which will help you mastering such skills.

For thin lips

If you have thin lips, and wish to increase them visually, we recommend to apply glosses of light nacreous colours or with wet effect, lips will seem a little plumper and chubbier. In case if given variants do not approach, you can try application of lip pencil. Its shade should correspond to a shade of lipstick or be slightly darker. If you prefer dark colours, you should be limited to nacreous lipsticks, as matte colors narrow lips visually.

For huge chubby lips

For you, dear readers, we recommend giving preference to matte shades. They accentuate form of lips and make them smaller visually, thus colours should be darker, as light ones will make a return result. If you are not confused with your lips, you can apply any colour palettes, but still prefer dullness.

If upper lip is narrow

In this case we suggest you trying two shades of lipstick. One of them should be one tone darker, than second. Lighter one should be applied on an upper lip, and darker - on lower. You can also apply a pencil, but do not use it for both lips, just on upper one. It should not darker than lipstick shade, in another way upper lip will look ridiculous and defiant. If you like glosses, you can safely take advantage of them. This cosmetic means has unique property to hide form of lips, make less evident. Besides glosses lay down perfectly and do not roll down. Having chosen that variant, you kill two hares with one shot!
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Narrow lower lip

You can find out how to solve this dilemma, having read previous point. Having done all turn topsy-turvy. You also can take advantage of gloss, in your case it also can be pertinent.

Some councils on lip make-up

1. First of all it is necessary to create a necessary base for lipstick. For this purpose you can apply friable powder or foundation.

2. If you use a pencil - you should learn applying it the right way. Line upper lip with closed mouth. Line lower lip from centre to corners.

3. If you have a dry skin of lips - you can apply a thin layer of hygienic lipstick.

4. Shade lips with contour accurately and only after that use lipstick. For uniform drawing, we recommend to apply a special brush. It is necessary to apply lipstick from centre of lips to corners.

5. To make your lipstick long-lasting, blot lips with a cardboard napkin and apply small amount of lipstick once again.

That’s all, dear readers, these are 5 elementary rules, which will open you a way to success and beauty.

Low-carbohydrate diets worsen memory

Diets based on products with low maintenance of carbohydrates help wishing to grow thin. But as it appeared, such kinds of diets are dangerous to one’s intelligence.

Researches of representatives from Boston university allowed to find out that memory of those people, who stick to low-carbohydrate diets, and also refuse consumption of carbohydrates completely, starts being gradually weakened.

Experiment with participation of 19 women at the age of 22-55 years was made.

One part of representatives of the weaker sex followed low-calorie diets within one week , and others - low-carbohydrate.

After 7 days experts spent a number of tests for volunteers’ intelligence. Those ladies who used products with low maintenance of carbohydrates showed much worse results, than others.

These women’s spatial and visual memory weakened, and reaction slowed down.

Scientists explained results of the experiment by the fact that low-carbohydrate diets demand reduction of glucose consumption, which is just necessary for fast brain work and keeping organism toned.

Handbags 2008/2009

Female handbag – an integral part of clothes, which can tell practically all about you: open secrets of your character, show style and taste, reveal temperament and tell about security level. Whether it is necessary to speak about scrupulousness adult girls choose this accessory with? So, what handbags will be fashionable during autumn-winter 2008/2009 season?

Majority of girls which would like being always fully armed, can remain quiet – huge and convenient bags are still in a fashion. The main thing is that handles should be short, thick and convenient, and inside – abundance of pockets for simplification of search of necessary things. Long humeral belts or side pockets with metal rivets can be an addition to a big bag.

Designers offer business and practical ladies bags from rough leather of rectangular or square form with short round handles, which remind small suitcases. Laconicism and simplicity are embodied in such bags.

A handbag a-la school satchel with lightnings, buckles and the most important thing – long humeral belts, and also big bags-handbags without handles from “wet” patent leather or suede will be a season hit.

For an evening going out bags-envelopes and tiny handbags of rectangular, square models will be good and, to strike all on the spot definitively, unusual forms - a trunk, heart, apple or fur sack. Contrast sewing, long chains, thongs on a wrist, metal covering, open lightnings should be characteristic feature of an evening handbag.

Bags from reptile leather, and also “wet” patent, check fabric, plait leather, with geometrical, flower patterns or a set of thongs are on fashion peak.

In winter fur bags of different sizes will enter into fashion, with and without handles, and even in the form of a backpack. Structure of models will be presented by goat fur, fox and sheepskin. Different additions from fur, for example, playful brushes also will look in an original way.

Colour scale is wide and unlimited, but favourites are red, black, colours of olive and bilberry.

Cut leather, metal or wooden handles will be a season highlight. A bag can be of soft form, for example, knitted, but with strong, firm handles. All composition as if turns to a single whole with your image, or, on the contrary, creates certain contrast, underlining your originality.

Define character on a handbag
Lovers of handbags of big sizes - active natures with broad outlook and raised working capacity. Admirers of graceful handbags – refined coquettes, who are devoting much time to appearance. Tiny handbags without handles are preferred by reserved and organised ladies, and small suitcases – serious and practical.

The way you carry a bag, also tells a lot. If you got used holding a handbag for a handle (hand is lowered) - you are moderate in every respect, decent and punctual.

A hand is passed through a handle (an elbow is pressed to waist), this means, you like order and can keep house, are proud of yourself and very much afraid to fall in other people’s estimation.

If hand, which a handbag is thrown on, is lifted upwards, to a shoulder - you are courageous and vigorous, do not avoid problems, are sociable, however, are too afraid of loneliness.

The manner to hold a bag for a corner is often combined with a habit to leave it anywhere. It is peculiar to exclusively self-confident nature.

Bag through a shoulder (hand is not free) - you are constraining and underconfident. And if hand dangles every which way, you are cheerful, like companies and compliments.

Bag under arm – you make impression of a closed person, however it is quite possible that you are simply independent and serious.

How to define quality of a leather bag?

First, it is necessary to examine an obverse covering of a bag. Good leather should have proof to action of light, moisture and friction, be nonrigid to the touch, completely tanned and without visible defects. Cuts can be not processed with an edging, but should be necessarily strongly stitched. If a female bag is varnished, it is possible to be guided by presence of a leather label attached to handle, or a special label in a bag.

Handles also shoud be leather, but not too narrow, so that they would not fall down a shoulder. A female handbag is considered strong, if handles are not sewed in the basis, but attached by special rings. The most qualitative lining is silk, and strong kapron or nylon can replace it with success.

Pay attention to a country-manufacturer. High-quality bags are, as a rule, made in Europe - Italy, England, Sweden, Germany, France.

Necessarily check up quality of buttons and lightnings: the first should not be hard or fragile, the second should be buttoned-unbuttoned easily.

It is desirable to buy handbags in a shop, where there are more chances to get a standing thing, after all, we knowingly overpay for a “brand”, which guarantees us not only exclusivity, but also quality.

Also do not forget that a handbag is expression of your individuality. Successful purchases!

Perfumes can cause barrenness

Doctors urgently recommend pregnant women not to use perfumes and flavoured body creams. The matter is that this cosmetic production can affect a future baby health negatively.

Scientists from university of Edinburgh found out that many flavoured cosmetic means - such as perfume, deodorants, body creams - are capable to lead to barreness in boys, whose mums used above-mentioned means during pregnancy.

The matter is that a baby’s reproductive system is formed during first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and many cosmetic means contain chemical substances, which can affect sperm manufacture in future.

Also scientists came to a conclusion that these substances can cause other problems in boys’ sexual sphere in future - for example, testicle misoperation, poor quality of sperm and even testicular cancer.

Low-fat office snacks

Appetizing crackling chips, chocolates and fat popcorn - here are snacks people of any age and social status cannot resist resist. They are especially dangerous to those who try to grow thin or supervise a diet.

For some of us such snack - original therapy, a medicine for stress, boredom or bad mood. But whether it is possible to take pleasure in eating of snacks and thus to keep a harmonous figure? The secret consists in a rational choice of snack.

Try to replace harmful fat and high-calorie snacks by low-fat, helping to support healthy power level. In our article you will find some healthy and tasty snacks with low fat content, which you can eat, without being afraid weight gain. So, it is time to release kitchen regiments and a refrigerator from chips, nutlets and other popcorns and fill vacant space with low-fat snacks that will cause no harm either to your health, or figure.

Перекусы are useful to health
Frequent low-fat snacks help keeping energy, supporting normal level of sugar in blood, and also constrain appetite. However, snack should be indispensable healthy and low-fat.

Some low-fat snacks satisfy hunger well, therefore you eat less at dinner or supper. Result - reduction of general daily quantity of consumed calories.

On the other hand, a hobby for unhealthy snacks with the high maintenance of trans-fats can cause acute differences of sugar level in blood, what, in its turn, can lead to acute changes of mood, apathy and irritability. Fat maintenance in a product influences its taste, consistence, structure, period of storage and appearance. But it is not necessary to forget that all products with high maintenance of cholesterol, sated and trans-fats can affect cholesterol level in blood, what, in its turn, increases probability of heart diseases development. Therefore both children, and adults should only buy low-fat snacks, but also learn cooking them independently, as it is very simple.

Healthy snacks
Choose snacks containing complex carbohydrates, for example, peanut oil, cheese or low-fat yoghurt. Forget about products with high maintenance of simple carbohydrates and glucose, for example, sweets, sweet water, etc.

At purchase of any products familiarise with information on packing (components, period of storage).

Granola stick (sweetened porridge with addition of nuts and raisin) can contain trans-fats, however it is an considered excellent healthy snack. Check up information on packing.

Choose snacks with such combination of components, which provides an organism with necessary quantity of carbohydrates (providing with energy), fibers (slowing down sugar emission in blood and by that keeping energy), cellulose (causing feeling of saturation) and healthy nonsaturated fats.

Low-fat snacks
Fresh fruits, crude vegetables, nuts, crackers or bread from integral grain flour, low-fat popcorn and cheese - here are the most healthy snacks recommended by dieticians. Some fruits, slices of vegetables, a small amount of nut kernels, low-fat spicy попкорн and cheese - here are quite accessible and useful snacks.

Other simple low-fat snacks:

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Corn chips, correctly cooked.
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Bagels from integral grain flour with natural peanut oil
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Wheaten сухарики with salsa sauce
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Middle-sized roll with bran
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Boiled egg with salt, pepper or mustard
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Pretzel, banana or stalk of celery with natural peanut oil
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Crude vegetables with hummus, yoghurt or low-fat cheese, fresh fruits with yoghurt
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Cocktail with yoghurt, ice and slices of fresh fruits (smoothie) (try various combinations)
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Small cut tuna fillet and celery, filled with low-fat mayonnaise
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Pita, filled with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber with low-fat seasoning
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Flakes ready to use from integral grain flour with soya milk
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Low-fat popcorn, low-fat cheese, low-fat yoghurt, rice pies - excellent snack after supper.
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Apple slices, grapes or berries with honey
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Crude vegetables of any type with fat-free sauce
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Pretzels, popcorn of fast preparation, rice pies
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Milk cocktail (from low-fat milk) with banana, berries or grapes, you can replace milk with a low-fat yoghurt or orange juice.

Secrets of low-fat snacks cooking

Low-fat snacks should not be absolutely tasteless. You can independently cook healthy low-fat snacks and treat your friends and relatives with them.

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Not to use sunflower or olive oil, cook non-stick cookware.
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Instead of frying vegetables or fish on a frying pan, take advantage of a microwave owen - so you can do without oil.
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Mozzarella of average hardness, fibrous cheese (cheese roll), cottage cheese contain few fat in comparison with other sorts of cheese.
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Replace cheeses from cow milk with cheese from goat milk - it contains less fat.
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Try to choose low-fat potato or corn chips
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For preparation of sandwiches use bread from integral grain flour.
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Try to eat cold and hot porridges of fast preparation more often - they practically do not contain fats.
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Replace margarine, butter, mayonnaise and sour cream with sauces on the basis of yoghurt and spices.
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Replace fat sauces with seasonings, spices and low-fat marinades.
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If you need to use eggs, it is better to replace two egg whites with one whole egg.
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It is better to replace sour cream with simple low-fat yoghurt or cottage cheese.
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Baking, frying on open fire and steam roasting - here are the healthiest ways of poultry cooking.

Childish sports is better than jogging

Physical activity is necessary at any age. What kind of exercises is better for preferring? Experts managed to find out there is a kind of gymnastics, which is much more effective, than habitual run or driving on a bicycle.

Usual childish sports are more useful to health, than any other physical activity. So, only six 30-second jogs 3 times a week can replace several 45-minute trainings a week.

Besides, such «children’s exercises» will help getting rid from overweight easier.

Certainly, it is better to do them together with children - this gymnastics will cheer up perfectly.

According to statistics, small amount of adult people pays worthy attention to their physical form. For example, daily short jog is done only by 29 % of men and women. And after all insufficient physical activity can lead to development of various diseases of muscular and bone systems of organism.

Varnishing at home. Pictures in your interior

According to designers, even most refined modern interior will seem faded and not finished, if it is not recovered with such elements of decor, as a picture, a print or an art poster. Cloths — whether these are reproductions of great pictures or intricate posters in pop art style, will help to make house conditions cosy and original, tell a lot about house owner. However, placing “house varnishing” in an interior correctly is the whole art demanding certain skills.

House ego

Today you will hardly find persons wishing to buy pictures by a principle “as everyone”. Everyone wishes to decorate his house with something unique, original, “author’s”, and there are lots of variants now — for any purse. But in such situation each chosen picture, as litmus piece of paper, reveals presence (or absence) of taste and degree of our art sophistication. And the matter is not that subjective predilections can expose our aesthetic simplicity, after all a bought picture needs also to be entered in an interior organically, and this can be uneasy. For this reason more and more people today trust selection and placing of pictures to interior experts.

Carbon copy masterpiece

Pictures certainly give special cosiness to interior. And it is not so obligatory to have expensive originals at home. Various reproductions, posters, prints — copies of known cloths or posters-photos, original prints with images of beautiful city landscapes, unusual subjects, landscapes are no less attractive from the point of view of design. However, irrespective of whether this is a valuable family relic or inexpensive colourful poster, they should be placed where they will look well.

Be cautious, modernist style!

For example, classical painting is successfully entered in a classical interior with a fireplace, silk wall-paper, furniture from massive wood, crystal and gilding. Bible and antique plots bring an element of luxury and continuity of traditions in a house. Genre sketches can underline a house owner’s occupation or hint about sphere of his hobbies. Smart portraits of household members will give sensation of own importance to a family. And landscapes will remind of favourite corners of the nature, transfer spectator to the world of illusions.

There are also no less variants for admirers of modern styles. Bright vanguard pictures will complete a minimalist interior well. Cloths of impressionists and easy water colours with vegetative drawing will decorate conditions in a modernist style. Such works are good not only as a separate work of art, but also as a colour stain, giving special colour to any premise.

Mount

However, works of art are whimsical subjects. Some especially valuable copies “dictate” conditions approaching for them. And if you get under their charm, it is necessary to change an interior. Anyway, you cannot avoid expenses on a noble frame. A frame (baguette) for a picture is like clothes for a person. It should correspond to size, colour of a picture and style of a room by all means.

Cloths written by oil should not be placed under glass. For modern pictures use smooth colour frames, and for ancient — carved gilt. A drawing (including a water colour) should not be inserted into wide frames “ala bronze”, and they are usually placed on mount (colour fields). Colour mount should be in harmony with colour of a picture and frame. It is possible to insert graphic sheet between two glasses and fasten clips.

Keep at a distance

— Choosing a picture (a reproduction, a poster, a print), it is important to represent accurately, what room it is meant for. For example, an optimum variant in a bedroom — image of colours, and also landscapes and portraits executed by pastel or water colour.

In a drawing room big bright cloths creating atmosphere of solemnity, cheering up mood are better. In a dining room still-lifes (baguette with glass will protect them from stains, which occurrence is quite possible in this premise) are logical. In a hall and an office graphic works and gentle water colours, prints with city landscapes will be pertinent.

Drive into a corner

Another important question: how to place pictures indoors correctly? After all, well-placed cloths will help underlining advantages of an interior, without breaking its integrity.

— It is natural that the one and only picture in an interior always draws attention to itself. Therefore, single works are also placed usually on a foreground. But thus they necessarily should be in harmony with other subjects of an interior.

For example, one cloth will be lost and seem alien, casual on an absolutely empty wall.

Try to find a place over lunch or a desk, a sofa, a sideboard, a bookcase or a fireplace — as a matter of fact, over any furniture or an architectural detail, which will visually help to allocate it. Especially it concerns reproductions or prints of the small size.

Big cloths can decorate an empty wall, but not all houses have places for pictures of such impressive size, which can occupy whole wall entirely.

In the thick of the press

If there is a lot of furniture in a room, it is difficult to find a place for a picture. After all squeezed between regiments, it looks not too aesthetically. In that case it is better to choose a small picture of light tones. But it is possible to place any pictures over fashionable today low furniture.

Drawing, water colour, and also modern painting in pop art style are combined practically with any furniture. In this case cloth can be hung up over furniture on the centre or displaced in one side for the best visual perception. it is preferably to place pictures on walls with monophonic wall-paper.

Large and bright patterns are incompatible with pictures.

Make a single picture a part of interior composition. It is necessary, that the cloth will supplement or underline this or that element of decor — a vase with flowers, floor lamp, bowl.

Picture family

If there are several cloths, they will look most effectively in the groups united on subjects, style, technics of execution. Isolated pictures can be inserted into same frameworks. When you cannot find a link between pictures, try to unite them, having arranged inside an accurately designated contour.

One more of widespread receptions — to organise small pictures round large. Such composition will look especially advantageously ina room with high ceilings. But it is not necessary to hang up big pictures in small rooms with low ceilings, as one can estimate their colour and composition only from a distance of two-three metres. For such rooms small cloths will approach.

Pictures in light pastel tones will visually expand a premise. By the way, on ladders and in small rooms it is possible to hang up a landscape. It will visually make a premise more spacious.

Size at size

Cloths identical in size should be hung out on a wall abreast, equally spaced, and possibly symmetrically, in the form of “grid”. Success of a composition is defined by severity of vertical lines and identical intervals between pictures. An official look will be given to an interior by two identical pictures located symmetrically, for example, over a sofa or a table …

Rehearsal on the floor

In general experts advise to hang up pictures always slightly lower, than it would be desirable. Especially in a dining room, after all here visitors will see it, most likely sitting at a table. Designers do not recommend to hang out a picture on room perimetre (on each wall), as this interferes with creation of unity of premise composition.

Very often pictures, in itself not too interesting, win from the neighbourhood with each other, creating unique combinations of colour stains. However, the return result, when interesting products “eclipse” , “interrupt” each other is also possible also. You can check up compatibility of pictures, preliminary having spread prospective group of cloths out to the floor in the conceived order — the sight “from above” will reveal all merits and demerits of composition.

To see better

By the way, recent trends in interior design assume spacious placing of each picture, so that a spectator could concentrate attention to a cloth and estimate its originality without hindrances. The same purpose is served by illumination, though in a light premise you can manage without it. Nevertheless the system of picture illumination, built in a frame, will give you a chance to enjoy favourite product all day and night. And if it is necessary to move work of art once, illumination will not need to be transferred.

But keep in mind — illumination of pictures should be approached to natural as much as possible. An ideal variant, especially for cloths under glass, — dot fixtures, and not with yellow, but with white luminescence, directed on each picture. To avoid effect of a mirror, use special glass “antipatch of light” for a picture.

Vampires from art

Psychologists and experts in painting are assured that some pictures take away energy from a person, while others generously share it. Products that can be called “vampires” - pictures in styles of abstractionism, constructivism, cubism. Avoid their placing in a bedroom, children’s room, an office and a dining room — that is in places of “constant dwelling”. “Donors”, good in any premise, are creations of artists-impressionists and realistic cloths written in light and warm colours. Prints, posters, collages with images of children, animals, the sea and sea inhabitants, summer and spring motives strengthen vivacity of spirit and inspire optimism.

The main thing is that pictures should cause emotions, conformable to character and a way of life of a house owner. When pictures cause feeling of discomfort, it is better to remove them, despite of their art value.

Flat stomach diet

All products and drinks listed below can be used in food without restrictions: dried and fresh grasses, lemon juice, lettuce leaves of all sorts, grassy teas, fruit teas, water and mineral water. And the most important thing – eat slowly, quietly and with pleasure!

Day o1

After dream.
A cup of lemon tea

Breakfast
150 ml orange juice,
150 ml yoghurt,
1 banana.

Snack
1 rye crispbread with 50 g squeezed cottage cheese.

Lunch
50 g firm cheese,
2 rye small loafs with low-fat margarine,
Salad from tomatoes, lettuce leaves, sweet pepper, cucumbers and crushed basil with low-calorie “French seasoning” (sauce for refuelling of salads from olive oil, mustard and vinegar),

1 peach or apple.

Snack
15 g sunflower seeds,
Cup of grassy tea.

Dinner
Middle piece of chicken fried on grill or baked,
75 g young potato,
Salad from 1 celery, half of apple, 12 g kernels of walnuts with 1 dessertspoon low-calorie mayonnaise, 1 dessertspoon natural yoghurt and 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and also chopped parsley to taste

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1 portion of hen with saffron and orange,
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1 portion of hen in honey with 5 table spoons brown rice,
225 g melon

Day 2

After dream
Fruit tea at your choice

Breakfast
Fruit salad from slices of melon, strawberry or kiwi, pineapple, an apple and banana – gross weight – 275 g,
50 g cottage cheese or house cheese,
1 teaspoon honey.

Snack
2 fresh cookies with 1 dessertspoon nut oil

Lunch
Salad as in 1st day,
Half of small avocado watered with low-fat “French seasoning”,
1 small piece of bread with bran with light margarine.

Snack
Fruit yoghurt

Dinner
175 g fillet of any sea fish, fried on grill or boiled,
100 g potato “in jackets”,
150 g boiled broccoli with 75 g boiled string bean.
Pour with lemon juice

Or
1 portion baked fish fillet plus 75 g young potato and 100 g broccoli,
Or
1 portion flounder in mushroom sauce plus 100 g young potato and 75 g string beans, an orange or 1 kiwi at your choice.

Day 3

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
Half of grapefruit,
35 g unsalted muesli in 100 ml skim milk

Snack

50 g house cheese or cottage cheese,
1 celery and 2 dates.

Lunch
Boiled egg on lettuce, watered with 1 table spoon low-calorie mayonnaise,
Kress-salad or parsley for garnish,
1 small piece of bread with light margarine,
1 orange.

Snack
25 g kernels of wood nuts,
150 g natural yoghurt

Dinner
1 middle fast mutton chop fried on grill,
100 g peas,
100 g boiled carrot,
75 g mashed potatoes without salt,
2 teaspoons mint sauce

Or
1 portion stewed beef with citrus plus big bunch of greens and 75 g young potato, 100 g cherry or 1 apple.

Day 4

After dream
100 ml orange juice

Breakfast
150 g soaked and cut dried apricots which has been filled in 100 g kefir or yoghurt.

Snack
1 apple,
1 fresh cooky with 50 g skim milk, cotton cheese and a cucumber.

Lunch
225 g melon,
75 g boiled hen,
Salad from tomatoes and cucumbers with crushed basil,
1 small bran roll with light margarine
Or
1 portion of salad from hen with rice.

Snack
1 orange

Dinner
Half of grapefruit,
100 g salmon fillet or 175 g trout, stewed or baked in an oven,
100 г peas,
75 g young potato with 10 g butter, lemon juice to your taste
Or
1 portion of trout with fennel with 75 g young potato watered with light kindled margarine, plus 75 g peas,
100 g strawberry, raspberry or cherry and 1 kiwi.

Day 5

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
35 g any unsalted cereals from ready breakfasts in degreased milk.

Snack
225 g melon or 1 orange,
25 g cheese “Edam”

Lunch
Salad from 50 g tuna in oil or sardines with cut cucumbers, celery, an apple and 100 g boiled macaroni, watered with fast “French seasoning” and decorated with lettuce and crushed parsley.

Snack
Melon or water-melon slice,
Cotton cheese with fruits.

Dinner
1 average chicken fillet, watered with a mix from 50 ml natural semiboldface yoghurt and 1 dessertspoon flour, - fry on gril within 30 minutes or bake in an oven for 45 minutes,
75 g boiled crude rice,
2 table spoons cut cucumbers with yoghurt or kefir,
1 tomato cut in slices with chopped basil,
Or
1 portion hen with sweet pepper,
Or 1 portion turkey in sherry.
Serve with 100 g young potato and salad from greens, watered with lemon juice

Day 6

After dream
100 ml orange juice.

Breakfast
150 ml natural low-calorie yoghurt decorated with 100 g strawberry, raspberry or kiwi slices, plus 15 g oatmeal flakes.

Snack
1 rye crispbread with a dessertspoon of nut oil

Lunch
Melon or water-melon slice,
Salad from 50 г kernels of wood nuts or unsalted peanut, 175 g grated carrots and 25 g cut dates, watered with a mix from 1 dessertspoon of olive oil with about 50 ml orange juice, pepper,
1 small roll from bran or half pita.

Snack
1 orange or 1 banana.

Dinner
100 g very fast roast beef,
50 g young potato,
100 g cauliflower,
100 g greens,
100 g grated swede or turnip,
1 dessertspoon of grated horse-radish.
Seasoning from meat juice, half of meat broth cup and 1 teaspoon flour
Or
1 portion fried beef in oyster sauce,
Or
1 portion mushroom pilaf

Day 7

After dream
Fruit tea

Breakfast
Half of grapefruit,
1 boiled egg,
1 rye small loaf with light margarine

Snack
1 peach,
1 cotton cheese

Lunch
50 g “Mozarella” cheese,
2 average tomato,
chopped basil,
1 dessertspoon olive oil,
Lettuce

Snack
1 rye small loaf with 50 g semiboldface processed cheese,
1 orange.

Dinner
100 g mutton liver or 2 mutton kidneys, fried on grill or teflon frying pan in a teaspoon of corn oil,
75 g young potato,
150 g broccoli,
50 g string bean,
1 average tomato.
Seasoning from meat juice and 25 ml red wine, some water, 1 teaspoon tomato paste and 1 teaspoon corn flour
Or
1 portion fried liver with 4 table spoons boiled brown rice,
Or
1 portion stuffed pepper with salad from greens,
50 f ice-cream or 1 glass any dry wine at your choice.

Day 8

After dream
Fruit tea

Breakfast
150 g kefir or natural yoghurt, mixed with 175 g fresh cut fruits and 1 teaspoon honey

Snack
1 banana,
25 g dry dried apricots (soak or boil)

Lunch
2 rye small loafs with light margarine,
Salad from fruits and cheese: mix 50 g slices of “Edam” cheese with 100 g melon or water-melon cut in slices, 1 circle of fresh or tinned pineapple, 150 g cut cucumbers and sprinkle all with lemon juice with a pinch of grated ginger. Decorate with chopped parsley.

Snack
1 orange,
1 small cotton cheese with fruits

Dinner
175 g low-fat fish fillet baked in foil,
100 g green sweet pepper and 100 g tomatoes fried in 1 dessertspoon vegetable oil,
75 g boiled rice
Or
1 portion shish kebab from fish with 3 table spoons boiled brown rice
Or 1 portion flounder under a piquant sauce plus 100 g young potato and 75 g broccoli

Day 9

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
As in 1st day

Snack
1 rye small loaf,
1 celery with 50 g cottage cheese

Lunch
“Greek” salad: mix 1 boiled chopped egg with 75 г tuna in oil (sardines, sprats) and 75 g cooled boiled potato,
75 g cooled string bean or peas, 1 mature strong tomato and 100 g lettuce – chop all and water with fast “French seasoning”

Snack
1 orange,
1 apple or peach

Dinner
100 g roast chicken,
150 g marrows and 1 tomato, fry with 1 dessertspoon vegetable oil,
75 g string bean,
75 g sweet corn,
1 teaspoon flour for meat sauce
Or
1 portion hen under nut sauce,
Or
1 portion stuffed chicken fillet with 50 g sweet potato and salad from greens.

Day 10

After dream
Fruit tea at your choice.

Breakfast
As in 2nd day

Snack
50 g cottage cheese with 1 celery.

Lunch
1 small piece of bread with light margarine,
Salad from 75 g grains of young corncobs, 100 g string bean and 50 g peas – boil for a while and cool, then add 15 g kernels of walnut and water with natural low-calorie yoghurt or kefir mixed with 1 dessertspoon low-fat mayonnaise, lemon juice and a pinch of Cayenne pepper.

Snack
1 dessertspoon nut oil on 1 rye small loaf

Dinner
150-gramme fried beef cutlet from very fast meat with greens, 1 teaspoon of tomato mashed potatoes and soya sauce,
25 g grated “Edam” cheese, warmed up slightly,
100 g potato in jackets,
150 g eggplants fried in a dessertspoon of vegetable oil
Or
1 portion stuffed eggplants,
Or
1 portion mutton shish kebab with mint sauce with 6 table spoons boiled brown rice and salad from tomatoes.

Day 11

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
As in 3rd day

Snack
25 g “Edam” cheese and 1 celery.

Lunch
350 g home lentil soup,
1 orange

Snack
25 g sunflower seeds

Dinner
100 g fast mutton meat baked in foil with 50 g cut Bulgarian pepper and 1 teaspoon crushed fennel,
100 g string bean,
100 g broccoli
Or
1 portion veal with eggplants with 75 g boiled brown rice or macaroni from not sifted flour,
175 g any fruits plus 25 ml low-fat cream or yoghurt

Day 12

After dream
100 ml orange juice

Breakfast
As in 4th day

Snack
1 banana

Lunch
Half of small avocado with stuffing from 50 g crab meat, 1 table spoon low-calorie mayonnaise and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Serve on lettuce leaves, having strewed with parsley,
Melon slice.

Snack
1 cup strawberry or 1 orange,
1 cotton cheese.

Dinner
Omelette from 2 eggs, roasted on 10 g butter, with 75 g cut field mushrooms and 50 g grains of sweet corn,
Salad from greens,
1 small piece of bread with light margarine
Or
1 portion of fried eggs
Or
1 portion of fried marrows

Day 13

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
As in 5th day

Snack
1 orange,
15 g sunflower seeds

Lunch
1 portion salad-soup,
50 g “Bri” cheese and 2 rye small loafs.

Snack
1 apple and 50 g cherry or grape.

Dinner
1 average trout (nearby 200), fried on grill or with 1 teaspoon vegetable oil,
25 g slightly roasted almonds,
50 g young potato,
75 g string bean or chopped spinach,
75 g peas
Or
1 portion salmon under lemon sauce with cream plus 100 g young potato and 75 g siliculose string bean.

Day 14

After dream
100 ml orange juice

Breakfast
As in 6th day

Snack
2 unsalted crackers with 1 dessertspoon nut oil.

Lunch
Salad from chopped celery, lettuce leaves, Bulgarian pepper and cucumbers with 50 g grated “Edam” cheese,
1 rye small loaf with light margarine

Snack
1 apple,
1 cotton cheese with fruits.

Dinner
1 average boiled or fried chicken fillet, smeared with garlick paste, and with 1 teaspoon ground rosemary,
75 g string bean,
100 g carrot or chopped spinach,
75 g boiled rice
Or
1 portion hen with ginger,
Or 1 portion liver with sage with 75 g young potato and 75 g spinach,
1 orange

Day 15

After dream
Fruit tea

Breakfast
As in 7th day

Snack
1 fruit low-fat yoghurt,
1 apple.

Lunch
Salad from 100 g boiled broccoli and 50 g peas, mixed with 50 g Bulgarian pepper, spinach and 25 g almonds, seasoned with 1 table spoon olive oil, mixed with lemon juice and spices,
1 orange.

Snack
50 g squeezed cottage cheese,
2 rye small loafs with light margarine

Dinner
150 g fried fast beef,
75 g string bean,
50 g young potato, 10 g butter
Or
1 portion stake with mustard, string bean and potato, but without butter,
225 g any fruits.