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Seven Steps For a Stress Free Life

Are you a single working woman? You dare to be different, dare to be independent and dare to be just yourself. You don't kowtow to societal pressures or family demands. You are single by choice (may be waiting for the right man or may be not). You are confident, happy and fiercely ambitious. But you are also under a lot of stress - the stress that comes from daring and from doing things differently. If you are one of these women then we have something for you that will help you combat the stress that may hinder your growth and development. All you have to do is make the following Dos and Don'ts a part and parcel of your life.

1. DO - Be an optimist

Do remind yourself again and again that the whole world is there; ahead of you waiting to be conquered. Your glass should always be half full and never half empty. People may find it difficult to accept a 'career-oriented single woman', at work as well at home. If you can't change their thinking, then there's no point in worrying about what others will think. So many times you worry not because there is an issue but because you have become a habitual worrier.

Instead of thinking: 'Will I find a man who will be supportive of my career,' just go ahead and say yes to the man who will support your career wholeheartedly. You will soon realize that having a positive and optimistic attitude will reap positive results.

2. Don't - Create problems that are not there

Many times your worries are the fruits of your own wild imagination. Can you recall how many times you have thought: 'If only I had the figure of Cindy Crawford, if only I had the energy of a five-year-old, if only my boss wouldn't boss, if only the men didn't come too close ... '

The list of 'if only' seems endless. We have a special stress buster to rid you of all these imagined worries. Set an alarm for 15 minutes and think of all the possible worries that you can. As soon as the alarm goes off, rush to the bathroom and wash down all those thoughts down the washbasin.

3) Do - Be happy

Happiness is a perfect antidote for stress. Just be happy and watch all that stress vanish into thin air. The most important happiness is intrinsic - one should be happy with one's own self. In fact make it a point that at least once in a day you tell yourself, " I am happy, I am good and I love myself. " Chant this mantra and you will see that all those problems that you thought were big are actually trivial. You don't need a reason to be happy, but when you feel you do just write down five things that you think are great about yourself or your five greatest achievements. Do you still need a reason to be happy?

4) Don't - Set unrealistic goals

Remember as a kid you were always expected to do things that seemed beyond your capacity and capability like excelling in mathematics while you just hated it, learn swimming when all the time you were scared of water and go win some medals when all that really mattered was that Nancy Drew on the shelf. You could be doing the same thing to yourself like aiming to put a full stop to male female discrepancies in the office, or wanting a double promotion where none is due or waiting for six tall, dark handsome men to propose to you. Remember the story of the hare and the tortoise - slow and steady wins the race. You too can win the race if you aim for things that are within your reach.

Setting realistic goals not only relives stress but also boosts your morale in such a way that you are able to achieve the unachievable.

5) Do - Pat yourself on the back

It would be great if someone told you that you are doing a great job. But if nobody seems to be doing that then why don't you go ahead and pat yourself. But take care that you don't overdo the praise. There is a critic and patron in each one of us. The trick lies in striking a good balance between the two. It'll do wonders for your ego if you tell yourself occasionally about a great job you have done or the pretty picture that you have painted. In these competitive times, when everybody seems to be outdoing the other to reach the top, stress can keep mounting. All you need to do is give yourself a pat on the back and see the difference.

6) Don't - Crib and sulk

Many times we get trapped in the vicious circle of cribbing and sulking that leads to stress and then more cribbing and more sulking and more stress and the circle goes on and on. If you are always cribbing about something or the other you will feel discontented and stressed out. There are always going to be various pressures on you like marriage, work exploitation, juggling between home and work or being the sole breadwinner. You need to accept the fact that your life has these problems and instead of cribbing you need to tackle them with calm and fortitude.

7. Do - Let go your Ego

Ego is that side of your personality that brags, criticizes, exaggerates, judges, is selfish and self centred. It is normal to have an ego but it should not become a super ego. Remember the time you passed a judgment on your colleague because you didn't like her way of dressing or you refused help from your male counterpart because of his gender. This is your super ego at work. The minute you let go of that ego you become a more pleasant, happy, generous and helpful person. People tend to then fall in love with you and you with them thus leaving little space for stress to creep in. You will then see yourself building stronger bonds and relationships that you will treasure.

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Cindy singing during a live Wednesday, Dec. 27 worship service.



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Twitter Down and Pepsi Won't Advertise during the Super Bowl! It's the end of the World!

Link to UStream: www.ustream.tv Twitter was hacked last night. How did it change your day? Also Pepsi and Fedex won't be advertising during the Super Bowl. Remember all the iconic commercials from Pepsi. Cindy Crawford, Justin Timberlake, and Thriller for Sobe Life Water. We won't be seeing any of those this year. Maybe next. Leave your comments and let me know what you think. If you haven't done it yet please Subscribe.



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Leatherback Turtle is Critically Endangered

Leatherback Turtle [Dermochelys coriacea] is listed as Critically Endangered (facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future). In South Africa, Leatherback Turtles are fully protected under the KwaZulu Natal Nature Conservation Management Act.

The Leatherback turtle has a unique system of blood supply to bones and cartilage. This enables their body temperature to stay several degrees above the water temperature and allows them to tolerate cold water. They can dive to depths of up to 1,200 meters much deeper than any other marine turtle.

Most widely distributed of all sea turtles. Found world wide with the largest north and south range of all the sea turtle species. Leatherback Turtles are present throughout the Indian Ocean and are not uncommon in the pelagic zone around South Africa. They tend to stay away from the near shore zone and are capable of tolerating extremely cold water during feeding movements. Leatherback Turtles are known to frequent the cold southern ocean as far as 600 km south of Cape Agulhus and are often recorded in the Benguela Current area of the West Coast.

Leatherback Turtles are the largest living marine reptiles and live almost their entire lives at sea. The only time that they are on land is when the female turtles lay eggs, and when hatchlings emerge from the nest and make their way to ocean.

Leatherback Turtles are one of the most migratory of all marine turtle species, making trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific crossings. They are easily distinguished by their carapace, which is leathery (not hard as in other turtles) and by their long front flippers.

The Leatherback Turtle eats only Jellyfish.

The Leatherback Turtle are primarily found in the open ocean, as far north as Alaska and as far south as the southern tip of Africa.

The leatherback's size is 5.2 meters in length.

The leatherback's weight up to to 500 kg.

The females come ashore in bands and lay their 60 to 100 eggs in holes that have been dug in the sand. Seven weeks later, when the eggs hatch, the babies rush back to the water.

See the Leatherback Turtle before they are gone.

Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey III

Cindy Sheehan describes meeting an Iraqi man at JFK airpost in NYC before boarding a plane to Amman, Jordan for a peace conference with Iraqi parliamentarians. Source: journal.texas-explorer.com



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Muppets Tonight adventure 5 allotment 3

Bobo falls in love with Cindy Crawford, and he gets Rizzo to help him with hilarious results. Guest stars: Cindy Crawford and Micky Dolenz



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The Otter Trail - South African Flagship

This Hike is situated along the Garden Route near Storms river in the Eastern Cape, one of the most scenic areas in Southern Africa. If hiking in the outdoors is your passion, then this is one of the top hiking trails in South Africa, you can't afford to miss.

This famous trail traverses 42 km of rugged coastline, with the booming breakers of the Indian Ocean on the one side and fynbos and indigenous rain forest on the other, crossing 11 rivers on route to Nature's Valley. The six-day trip five day-trail with four overnight stops run from the Storms River Rest Camp to Nature's Valley.

The trail is clearly marked with blue otter signs and painted otter spoor in rocky areas.

The Otter Trails runs through the Tsitsikamma National Park which stretches for 80 km along the scenic southern Cape coast and 5,5 km out to sea. The Storms River Mouth rest camp, at the start of the trail, provides overnight accommodation and has a shop and a restaurant, information centre, swimming pool for resident visitors, caravan and camp sites. Accommodation for the nights prior the and on completion of the trail, is included in the trail reservation.

The trail starts just west of the oceanettes at the western end of the Storms River rest camp and is clearly marked with blue otter signs and painted otter spoor in rocky areas.

Generally there are two overnight huts at each of the overnight stops. Each contains sleeping bunks with mattresses for six persons. Barbecue facilities and chemical toilets are provided. Firewood is left at the roadside from where it has to be carried to the huts. Water is available at the huts of in nearby streams.

Hikers are advised to fill their water bottles at the streams they cross. They have to carry the essentials, such as gas stoves, cooking utensils, crockery, cutlery and sleeping bags, themselves. Hikers should be reasonably fit as the Otter trail follows a rugged coastline with steep inclines.

Several rivers and estuaries also have to be crossed. No person should hike alone. A minimum of four people is recommended. Weather conditions should always be taken into consideration as it could change rapidly.

The trail starts about 2 km west of the restaurant and car park at Strorm's River, and continues past the Goudgate and early Millwood claims. Follow the white arrows and otter signs as you clamber over the rocks past a Khoisan cave to a pool and waterfall near Ngubu's Huts.

On the second day you climb onto the coastal plateau of indigenous forest and fynbos and may be lucky enough to see a whale or dolphin at Skilderkrans. The ascents and descents make this section of the trail very demanding although the distant covered is only about 8 km.

A detour down to Bloubaai is worth the effort. After a night at Scott's Hut, the third day's hike follows an undulating course and is one of the most scenic on the trail. Swimming in the Elandsbos River is superb. Oakhurst Hut comes into view after crossing the Lottering River either by swimming or boulder-to-boulder hopping higher up.

The fourth day's hike, though longer than the others is less demanding. Time your crossing of the Bloukrans River for low tide. Even so, you may have to cross some distance inland and will need to return towards Andre's Hut. The trail passes through wooded areas and fynbos between Andre's and Nature's Valley, to the cliff tops at the point. Take care at river crossings after heavy rains.

Reservations should be made long in advance because of the popularity of this trail, this trail is a real winner and booking should be considered about a year in advance.

Please take note that the trail is limited to 12 people at a time.

How is Your Lifestyle on the Road?

Traveling is a fact of life for any executive in the computer consulting business! It doesn't matter if you are going down the street or across the country, traveling is just a fact of life. The correct lifestyle decisions on the road will ensure you remain healthy, maintain your stamina, and are ready for any challenge.

I spend a good ten days a month on the road now flying across the country to different meetings, projects and conferences. Maintaining a proper diet, fitness routine and balanced lifestyle take discipline when at home and more so when on the road. Here are some basic tips I employ to maintaining a healthy lifestyle while travelling on business.

Diet - Eating properly is one of the most important disciplines you can have on the road. Rushing between meetings and missing meals often means making poor choices later in the day. Avoiding snack food and fast food is a good place to start. Many airports and hotels are now offering healthier choices on their menus. Your diet is critically important to ensuring that you are looking after yourself.

Drink lots of water - I have found by drinking lots of water during a conference, my mental retention level increases and by avoiding over consumption of coffee and alcohol I can remain sharp so that no details are missed. This also applies to soft drinks and other drinks with excessive amounts of caffeine.

Fitness - Your physical fitness is another key component to maintaining a healthy lifestyle while on the road. To attract the corporate guests, most hotels now offer a fitness centre, knowing that fitness is important to the lifestyle of traveling executives. Keeping up with your fitness schedule will ensure that you are on-track to keeping healthy.

Sleep - Another area I find I skip on while travelling is sleep. I will often stay up late with conference attendees in the hotel restaurant or bar discussing what we have learned that day and before you know it there are only 5 or 6 hours left for sleep. The right amount of sleep is even more important when you are on the road. When flying, I personally try to stay away from the Red Eye flights to lower my risks of suffering from jet lag and other challenges with sleeping on a plane.

A few other tips I have put into practice that contribute to my healthy lifestyle while travelling include:

Stress level - There is nothing worse when traveling on business than having to deal with the little issues back at the office. This will derail your concentration and undo the benefits of your meetings and events. It is important to have the right team back at your office to deal with the day to day details of running the business, so your time is free to focus on your meetings, conference activities or any other important details.

Arranging flights - Whenever possible I attempt to arrive well before the start of a conference or meeting. This can be the evening before, if your meetings start the following morning, or when events start in the evening, I arrive in the AM. This way it gives me enough time to get settled and ready to do business. At the end of the event, I am now scheduling a full day off prior to leaving a conference, this time has proven to be extremely valuable in ensuring that all the details of the meetings and events are fully adsorbed prior to heading home and back into a daily routine.

Costs - All businesses like to control costs. So I have started using priceline.com to book all of my travel arrangements like hotels and rental cars. Priceline.com offers a bidding process where you can save hundreds of dollars on the necessities such as airfare, rental cars and hotels. The downside is that you do not get a choice of which hotel or rental car company to use, however you can select the caliber of service and the best geographical area..

To fully absorb the events of your travels, resist the temptation to over indulge in the unhealthy food, night life, social scenes and other distractions. While traveling, ensure that you take of yourself just like you would when you are working in your home location. Your health and welfare is critically important to your success!

General Safari Safety Tips - South Africa

If you are on a guided African safari, your chances of encountering problems are minimal. Tour operators make it their business to know the areas they travel in thus reducing risk to travellers. However, it is sensible to take normal precautions on your African safari, particularly when travelling through urban areas.

Travel Documents / Money

Always have a photocopy of your passport, and any visas. Also, have a list of traveller's cheque numbers. These copies should be packed separately from the originals. It is never a good idea to carry large amounts of cash, and most urban centres (hotels, shops) do accept credit cards (Visa and Mastercard are most common), and traveller's cheques. You might need cash for purchases local markets - keep this in a travel wallet, or a zip pocket.

Luggage

Never leave cameras and hand luggage unattended, whether in a vehicle, or even in a hotel foyer. Never pack valuables (this includes medication), in your check-in luggage.

Personal Safety

When travelling independently on your African safari, stay informed in terms of the local news. Ask at your hotel about any unsafe areas, and codes of dress and behaviour. Don't openly carry valuables. If you must carry your passport and money, keep them in a buttoned-down pocket.

Game Viewing

Your guide will always do a safety talk with you, whether your game viewing is to be done from a vehicle, or on foot. Wildlife is potentially dangerous, but as long as you adhere to what you guide tells you, there is very little to worry about. At viewpoints, hides and camps, wildlife is more familiar with people and less intimidated by your presence. Never tease or corner wild animals - this may cause an unpredictable response and a potentially dangerous reaction. Never feed any animals, as this can cause them to lose their fear of humans.

Creepy Crawlies

Although Africa is known to be home to a number of potentially dangerous species, especially snakes, scorpions, spiders, and insects, very few visitors are adversely affected. Snakes tend to be shy, and generally stay away from built-up areas. Lodges and camps generally have insect (especially mosquito) proofing in their rooms. If you go on a walk, it is always a good idea to comfortable, enclosed walking shoes, socks, and long trousers - just as a precaution.

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Life-Threatening Rickettsial Infections

Rickettsial Infections

The Rickettsiae are minute infectious agents, smaller than most germs and larger than most viruses. Most classifications put them midway between the bacteria and the viruses. Rickettsia are too large to pass through a bacterial filter and are visible with an ordinary microscope.

Like the viruses, they multiply only in the presence of living cells and many of them live inside living cells. They usually are transferred from animals to men by ticks, mites, fleas, or lice. Many of the rickettsial diseases of men have been identified as such only during the last fifty years. The word "Rickettsia" comes from the name of Howard Taylor Ricketts, a physician in Chicago who was one of the first to observe these organisms and determine their nature.

A form of typhus fever called "murine typhus" is an acute infectious disease caused by an organism of the rickettsia. The disease usually begins with a sudden fever that lasts two or three weeks; the rash is located mostly on the trunk. The disease was first described in the United States by James Paullin of Georgia in 1913. The chief mammalian carrier of murine typhus is the rat. The infection is transmitted from rat to rat by fleas. The rat louse will not feed on man but the flea will if given opportunity. The flea bite is not infectious but when the flea bites a man, the flea may deposit its excretions; then the human being scratches himself and thus may force these excretions of the flea into his skin.

About six to fourteen days after such infection has taken place, illness begins with a chill and muscular aching, headache, fever, loss of appetite, r and cough; with this comes a feeling of severe illness. A skin eruption helps make the diagnosis. This eruption is present in 90 per cent of white patients, but of course is difficult to see on patients with a colored skin. The lesions of the skin are not hemorrhagic. In many patients the spleen is enlarged. Usually after eight to ten days the symptoms lessen and diminish-the condition clearing up in about three weeks.

Fortunately, two of the new antibiotic drugs-aureomycin and chloromycetin-have been established as valuable in controlling the symptoms of this virus infection. Most of those with murine typhus need lots of fluids while they are ill; if they cannot drink water, it is put into the body in other ways. About one out of every one hundred people with the disease may be so severely sick as to die of it. The ones who die are usually the very old or sick people.

The extremely severe epidemic typhus that is seen in Russia is exceedingly rare in the United States. A form of typhus which occurred to our soldiers in the Far East is called "scrub typhus" and known to the Japanese as tsutsugamushi disease. In these conditions modem treatment involves the use of aureomycin, chloromycetin and sometimes para-amino benzoic acid which is effective in interfering with the nutrition of the virus in the body.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a severe infectious disease with, chills, fever, prostration, and a hemorrhagic rash. It is caused by a Rickettsial organism and is transmitted by wood ticks. A disease called Brazilian typhus is identical, as are Mediterranean fever, South African tick-bite fever and Kenya fever.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is largely a rural disease; it has been I found in every state in the United States except Maine and Vermont. It occurs chiefly during the warm months of the year when the ticks are active. Indeed the only insects known to spread the disease are the ticks. These include the wood tick, the dog tick, the lone star tick, and the rabbit tick. The tick attaches itself to an infected animal and transfers the infection to man.

Two to fourteen days after being bitten, the illness comes on abruptly with chills, fever, severe frontal, or occipital headache, pains in the I muscles and joints and sensitivity of the eyes to pressure and to light. Nausea, vomiting, constipation, nosebleed, a mild cough and similar symptoms appear, along with a fever which will rise rapidly from 103 to 105 degrees.

A rash is characteristic. It develops two to six days after the onset of the illness, usually first around the wrists and ankles and then spreading to involve the entire body surface. Several crops of the rash may I appear, one after the other. Sometimes the rashes become hemorrhagic. The damage may be so great that gangrenous changes occur in the skin on the tips of the fingers, the toes, the earlobes and even on the soft palate. Secondary to these infections may be pneumonias, hemorrhages of the stomach and intestines and kidneys and serious inflammations of the eyes.

Vaccines have been prepared which are used to immunize people against Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Fortunately, chloromycetin, aureomycin, terramycin and para-amino benzoic acid have proved to be beneficial in Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The condition was formerly much more severe than since the new antibiotics have been developed. Once from 12 to 25 per cent of those infected died of the condition but it seems likely that with the new antibiotic drugs something less than 5 per cent of deaths will occur.

Q Fever

Q fever is an acute illness often accompanied by pneumonia which results from infection with a form of Rickettsia. The first human cases of the disease were observed in Australia in 1~33. Since they originated in Queensland, the infection was named "Q fever." Now a similar organism has been isolated from ticks captured in Montana and cases have been found in other areas of the United States.

Human beings are highly susceptible to Q fever; from 25 to 40 per cent of those exposed may be attacked by the disease. The condition was found much more often in Australia among people exposed to cattle. Before 1946 the disease was rare in the United States but has now been found particularly in epidemics in stockyards such as the one in Amarillo, Texas, in Chicago, and among dairymen in Los Angeles county. Workers in research institutes have frequently been infected.

From twelve to twenty-six days after exposure, the disease comes on with symptoms like those seen in other Rickettsial diseases. The two striking features that make Q fever different from other infections with Rickettsia is the absence of any characteristic rash and the almost invariable presence of pneumonia. However, pulmonary symptoms are often mild or absent. About one-half the patients have aches in the X-ray of the chest shows that the lungs have been infected in at least!11. 90 per cent of the cases.

Q fever may be confused with primary virus pneumonia, with tuberculosis, with psittacosis or infected bird fever, and must also be distinguished from ordinary influenza, sinusitis, undulant fever, dengue, and other Rickettsial infections. Here again aureomycin, chloromycetin, and terramycin have been found useful in treatment. Relapses are rare. Most of the patients recover. Thus far only some eight or ten deaths have occurred among perhaps 1,000 cases that have been reported in medical writings.

uShaka Marine World in Durban South Africa

Spanning over 15 hectares of prime beach front, this is Africa's largest marine theme park, incorporating fresh and seawater, lush vegetation, natural materials and the recreation of a 1920's cargo ship wreck into a magical world of sea and marine life!

There are five distinct themed areas known as Treasure World, Sea World and Dolphin World, Beach World and Wet 'n Wild World. All which have breathtaking imagery - all to an African theme. The air is filled with fun and excitement!

Attractions include dolphin and seal stadia, a penguin habitat and a snorkelling lagoon stocked with coral fish, separated from the shark tank by 20cm thick glass. For those who want to interact there are many interactive activities - in the dive tank, snorkel reef and touch pool. But just to look at is the shark tank - which will house the largest collection of sharks in the Southern Hemisphere!

Wet 'n Wild includes a water park with fun rides. You can climb up to take the Plunge, where at the top you have the best view of the place, which certainly makes the ride worth it! The kamikaze ride is gut-wrenching, and you could also go with some buddies in a row of five in the five lane racer!

For the less adventurous, relax on the beaches, or let the smaller kids splash in the sparkling pools!

Sea World is one of the 5 largest aquariums in the world. And here you will find a 1200-seater dolphin stadium, which is the largest dolphinarium in Africa! Besides the dive tank and touch pools, there is also a sea pool and rockery. Why not play with the penguins!

The centrepiece of uShaka is a shipwreck! A 1920 era cargo steamer, run aground between rocks and lagoons. Fascinating to see, you can even have lunch or dinner aboard! The Phantom Ship houses two restaurants - and wait 'til you look out the window at your seat!

There is even a retail shopping village at uShaka where you can stroll around and enjoy a day of shopping and some wonderful cuisine!

You will never run out of things to do at uShaka Marine World. This truly is a world class entertainment and tourism destination for Durban and all of South Africa.

Obama the warmonger VS Cindy Sheehan & the anti-war movement

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Single Girl's Guide to Makeover Magic

Let's face it, girlfriends. Thanks to cable TV, we're now addicted to endless episodes of makeover shows where each "Plain Jane," with her closet-from-hell, learns to choose the right clothes, makeup, and hair style, then right before our eyes, transforms into a real beauty! And, ever notice how looking great makes her feel empowered? And, all in less than an hour! Amazing!

But, what if this new self-confident charmer is one of the millions of your single sisters on the hunt for Prince Charming, who happens to be on the hunt for his Princess Charming? Well, in that case, this might be the perfect time to check in with your mirror, mirror on the wall to see how you fair with all this growing competition.

You know, Cinderella had this so easy. With the wave of a wand, and a bit of "bibbity bobbity boo," her fairy godmother morphed her from rags to riches, then sent her off to the Ball looking like the Princess she was about to become, and the rest is history!

In the real world, this all gets a bit more complicated. For starters, chances are your prince will first see you dressed for the mall, not the Ball. Plus, your chances of being the next TV makeover are pretty slim. You could hire a fashion savvy godmother, AKA a fashion consultant, but if a fee of $200 + is not in your budget, what's a girl like you to do when the whole point is to leave a first impression that leaves a potential prince wanting more?

Well, a girl like you will take charge of her life. Presenting the I'll Do It MYSELF Makeover!

You start with your face. Of course, if you're thinking, "How 'bout I start with something else," remember Cindy Crawford's immortal words: "Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford." So, again, your face is your focus, specifically the colors of your face. I promise you, when you learn how to use the power of color to compliment your eyes, skin, and natural hair color, just like on the makeover shows, magic will happen! Those eyes will sparkle and your complexion will glow. And, glowing is definitely a plus for first impressions, especially when your prince will remember forever the first time he saw your face.

On the other hand, glowing is practically impossible when you wear colors that clash with your own. For example, if you have watercolor eyes, translucent skin, and hair the color of soft wheat, imagine the catastrophe of deep bronze makeup, double black eyeliner, and a dayglow dress with dark chunky jewelry. Right! Not good! The strong colors overpower your own, and POOF! you disappear. Wearing colors paler than your own washes out your natural glow so you look tired and older than you are. Again, not good. To go for the glow, here are the "must knows" that make it happen!

UNDERSTANDING BASIC COLOR ANALYSIS

Many fashion consultants rely on the Munsell Color System to accurately determine a client's color palette. This scientific system is based on three components: HUE, VALUE, and CHROMA:

HUE is simply the color's name.
Simple Hues: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple.
Compound hues: Yellow-Red, Green-Yellow, Blue-Green, Purple-Blue and Red-Purple.
VALUE: How light or dark a color is.
The more white in a color, the higher the value. True black has the lowest value, true white has the highest.
CHROMA: The clarity or strength of the color.
Muted, grayed colors have low chroma; clear, vibrant, bright colors have high chroma.

HOW TO DETERMINE MAKEUP COLORS

FOUNDATION: Match to the skin tone at the outer corner of your eyes. Blend the makeup on your face and neck, and then match to your skin tone in both indoor lighting and sunlight. Hint: To ensure you choose the correct foundation color, take a friend along for a second opinion.

EYE MAKEUP: Use your lash and brow color for everyday mascara, eye liner and brow pencil. For a more dramatic effect, increase the makeup's color value. Choose eye shadow in your eye or brow color. Hint: Your eyes contain a rainbow of complimentary colors. Use a magnifying mirror to see the full spectrum.

LIPSTICK and BLUSH: Match to your cheeks and lips. Gently pinch both cheeks and lips, noting if the color goes pink, red, or orange.

With a bit of practice, your makeup routine will take you from ordinary to glowing in five minutes or less.

HOW TO DETERMINE WARDROBE COLORS

If you've spent a lifetime believing you can't wear certain colors, then understanding Hue, Value, and Chroma opens up a whole new world. Just imagine! Red is not just one color, but a full range of options from yellow-red to purple-red, from pastel pink to deepest burgundy, all from which you choose the reds that compliment you.

REDS: Your cheek and lip colors
GREENS / BLUES: For green or blue eyes, use your eye color. For brown or black eyes, use green or blue in your eye "rainbow," or use a color wheel to match your eye color to complimentary greens or blues. http://www.realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm
YELLOWS: Trickiest of all colors to determine. Usually Summers and Springs wear soft yellow; Falls wear golden yellow; Winters wear intense, bright yellow.
NEUTRALS: Current or former (if your hair is colored or grayed) natural hair color, and eyes if primarily brown or black. Use neutrals for suits, coats, skirts, pants, jackets, shoes and purses.

BASIC STYLE DESCRIPTIONS

Color analysts often use the four seasons to harmonize skin, eye and hair color with the complimentary fashion style. To define each season's style, I've grouped celebrities by their season, based on promotional photographs. Note: About 50% of us also have a secondary season. If a celebrity's photo exhibits a secondary, it is noted in parenthesis.

SUMMER: Look of Yesterday
COMPLEXION: Clear, cool, delicate
HAIR COLOR: Ash blonde, light to medium cool red or brown; matures to salt and pepper, cool or icy white
EYE COLOR: Iris -Soft green, blue, hazel, amber or cool brown; Sclera (white surrounding the iris) - Gray or white
COLORS: Minimal to moderate intensity, soft, grayed, translucent, water color tones
NEUTRALS: Cool tones of tan, beige, soft white, cool gray
FASHION STYLE: Soft, subtle, elegant, delicate, serene, nostalgic, blended tone on tone, minimal contrast
JEWELRY: Silver, white gold, crystals
BRIDAL GOWN: Cool white, silver
AVOID: High contrast, dark colors, warm/earth tones, gold and copper accessories.

Celebs: Jane Seymore, Charlize Theron (Spring secondary), Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Grace Kelly, Sarah Jessica Parker (Spring secondary), Scarlett Johansson (Spring secondary), Mia Farrow, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Queen Elizabeth, Diane Sawyer, Celine Dion (Fall secondary)

FALL: Look of Nature
COMPLEXION: Warm tones of olive or gold, may have freckles or appear mottled
HAIR COLOR: Warm gold, brown, red, chestnut, auburn; matures to warm white, salt and pepper
EYE COLOR: Iris - Warm gold, green, hazel, amber, brown; Sclera - Warm off-white
COLORS: Warm, golden colors; Falls are not limited to earth tones
NEUTRALS: Warm browns, tans, dark greens, khaki, dark rust
FASHION STYLE: Earthy, warm, fiery, golden, exotic, layered, sensual
JEWELRY: Gold, copper, tortoise shell, semi-precious stones, feathers, wood, shells
BRIDAL GOWN: Warm off-white, beige, champagne
AVOID: Black, black with white, pastels, clear chroma

CELEBS: Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Cindy Crawford (winter secondary), Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts (Summer secondary), Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Julianne Moore, Sophia Loren, Annette Bening (Summer secondary), Queen Latifah (Spring secondary), Barbra Streisand (Summer secondary), Penelope Cruz (Winter secondary).

WINTER: Look of Sophistication
COMPLEXION: Pearlized, clear, cool, translucent
HAIR COLOR: Black, ebony, dark cool brown; matures to silvery or icy white
Note: Lightening or highlighting hair diminishes the POWER of Winter's contrast.
EYE COLOR: Iris - Black or very dark, Sclera - Pure white = High Contrast
COLORS: Icy, high intensity, bright, jewel tones, clear and cool
Note: Only Winters wear black, or black and white as colors.
NEUTRALS: Black, cool gray, pure white.
JEWELRY: Silver, white gold, gem stones, rhinestones.
FASHION STYLE: Sophisticated, sleek, high contrast, dramatic, expensive, powerful, uncluttered, modern, angled, vivid
BRIDAL GOWN: Icy white
AVOID: Earth tones, pastels, fluff!!

Celebs: Snow White, Catherine Zeta Jones (Fall secondary), Elizabeth Taylor (Summer secondary), Lisa Minelli, Marlo Thomas, Eva Longoria, Lucy Liu, Elizabeth Hurley, Judith Dench (Spring secondary), Juliette Binoche (Fall secondary), Anjelica Huston, Isabella Rosselini (Summer secondary)

SPRING: Look of Today
COMPLEXION: Clear, moderately warm to moderately cool
HAIR COLOR: Golden, strawberry or ash blonde, auburn, red, light to dark warm brown; matures to salt and pepper, warm gray or white.
EYE COLOR: Iris - Green, blue, hazel, brown, amber; Sclera - Cream to white field
COLORS: Clear, warm, bright
NEUTRALS: Warm whites, beiges, tans, brown, navy, soft black
FASHION STYLE: Crisp, modern, bright, sunny, curvy, energetic, youthful
JEWELRY: Gold, silver, semi-precious stones, plastic
BRIDAL GOWN: Off-white
AVOID: Muted or high intensity colors

Celebs: Reese Witherspoon, Rene Zellweger (Summer secondary), Cameron Diaz, Rachel Ray (Fall secondary), Jennifer Aniston, Reba McEntire (Fall secondary), Ellen DeGeneres, Jada Pinkett Smith (Fall secondary), Meg Ryan, Katie Holmes (Winter secondary), Kirsten Dunst (Summer secondary), Dakota Fanning (Summer secondary), Debra Messing (Fall secondary), Diane Keaton (Summer secondary).

These descriptions only touch the surface of how color transforms your self image and creates unforgettable first impressions! The services of a professional consultant, preferably one trained in the Munsell System, are invaluable for assessing your color palette, complimentary prints, accessories, makeup, body proportion, and fashion and hair style. Fees can range from $200 to $1000+, but, considering the money you've wasted buying makeup that just never worked, and clothes still hanging with their price tags in the back of your closet as you cry "I have nothing to wear!", a professional analysis is a bargain. In the meantime, here's a list of shopping hints to get your transformation started!

SHOPPING HINTS:

* To build a coordinated, workable wardrobe, determine your basic needs based on your lifestyle, such as professional, casual, evening, hobbies and athletic clothing. For each area, purchase a core outfit, such as a professional suit, a cocktail dress, slacks and complimentary jacket, plus a few blouses, sweaters, and accessories.

* You don't need a king's ransom to look like a million! Even drug stores carry quality makeup. Shop end of season sales, and consignment and thrift stores for quality clothes and accessories. Many a Princess does!

* Collect fabric swatches by asking a fabric store or seamstress to save you scraps. Also, don't forget your closet! If you own colors in your palette, just snip a swatch from inside the hem. Keep your swatches in an envelope to bring when you shop.

* When shopping, first match the item to your colors. Next, double check in a mirror. Hold the item by your face, then ask the $64,000 question: "Does this color compliment or clash with my natural coloring?" If "yes," try it on to check that the fit flatters your body. If color and fit are both "yes," buy it. If color and fit are "no," no matter how much you love it, pass. Remember, you glow when the colors that you wear compliment the colors that you are.

* To spice up any outfit, think accessories. Before you run out to the mall in those great fitting jeans, add sunglasses and earrings, or throw a beautiful scarf around the collar of your coat. You will radiate "I care how I look, and I look and feel great"! Not a bad first vibe, especially for an unsuspecting prince watching extraordinary you emerge from an ordinary crowd of shoppers.

* Gather your "other seasons" sisters for a wardrobe "swap meet." Some of my favorite clothes, scarves, and jewelry have come from just such an event!

One final fashion accessory that promises to get you glowing every moment of every day: Believe you are the Princess worthy of the Prince you dream of. Then, dress to prove it.