Time For Spirit

We all the time to exercise our minds.

But how many of us take the time to exercise our souls, our spirit? It is equally important to me as spiritual, because it is the rest of us. For some of us may be important to stay spiritually in the middle. And you? Do you want to set aside time each day to practice the unity of solitude to practice, practice meditation?

If not, why not?

You do not even spend much time to do so. Twenty minutes, 30 minutes to 24 hours is not a significant amount of time to spend, and you leave with a sense of tranquility.

You can find peace in the strangest places too. Places that would not occur. For example:

Driving by car. How many of us turn on the radio first?

Have you ever stopped to think why you do this? Is it because we do not feel comfortable in our own skin? because they feel comfortable with our own society? The next time you're alone in your car, do not turn on the radio. Just focus on your breathing.

Another example:

What happens from the moment you walk into your house?

I bet I can guess! Television continues. Why are you doing? Again, it's because you're comfortable in silence. Break the habit! The next time you get home, avoid the television. Find your favorite chair and sit down, reflect on your day. Meditate.

Exercise your mind!

Exercise your mind.

Strengthening the internal connection of mind, and everything else falls into place.

Be Happy! Well! Be positive!

Blessings to you.

Remy Hair to Beauty

When hair extensions or wigs are considered Remy hair is the most appropriate choice on sale. They are the best quality hair extensions produced from actual human hair. They are in any situation recommendable than their synthetic counterparts as, being Nature’s own creation, they adjust fine with our own hair. And among natural hair extensions too, Remy hair is preferable, because its cuticles are in good condition, so that it obtains the natural look and gleam.

Virgin hair is the one which has not been processed and hence is the most correct to be brought into use to produce hair extensions and wigs. On the contrary non-virgin Remy hair are applied various chemical processes prior to being converted into an extension or wig. The most common among these methods is change of color shade.

And amongst both these types, there are two categoies namely, single and double drawn. The first sort, viz. single drawn in a bundle varies a little in its length, whereas the second type, i.e. double drawn is identical in length, grouped in such a manner that its cuticles point towards one direction, and therefore they are high-priced, because of the attention and time necessary to segregate it out according to length of each fragment and organiz them in same direction. The double drawn virgin Remy hair is known to be the most apt when buying hair extensions.

Some matters should be considered while picking out hair extensions. You can observe keenly at the product and recognize whether it is of high standard or not. The hair extension is fine when its cuticles are in one direction. Cuticles are same as shingles on a roof top. If they are not grouped in the same direction, they twist with each other creating muddled hair. When hair is grouped with its cuticles being in similar direction, the hair seems glowing and more like original.

While buying and using Remy hair, it is very important that its color must match with that of your own hair. To confirm if it goes, always confirm your natural hair fragments from their lower portion, i.e. from the middle till the tip. This is due to the fact this part of the hair is the previous emerged segment and hence becomes ligter to a small amount than the recently grown part near your head. The portion adjacent your head is naturally a bit darker than the lower segment. The extensions should go with the hue of the lower segment. It is also necessary that the extensions must match the length, feel and curl of your hair. If your own hair is wavy or curly to a small amount and the extensions you opt for are straight, they are not apparently a good match, because it can be known easily that you have attached hair extensions.

It is helpful to cut hair extensions sometimes, especially if they are clip-ins. Trimming of extensions are advised to adjust your own fashion.

Take away the Remy hair at the time of going to bed. Because hair extensions or wigs apply at least a little friction on your own hair, taking them off your head while going to bed is always correct.

Keeping Cool, Fashionably

TRENDS come and go, but the dress persists, secure in its status as a metaphor. Irwin Shaw captured its wispy allure in his classic short story, “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,” using the dress to conjure a mood of diffuse urban longing.

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Bruce Springsteen struck a similar chord, crooning “in the cool of the evening light/The girls in their summer clothes/Pass me by,” as did the Airborne Toxic Event, an indie rock band, whose variation on the wistful summer-dresses theme still resonates in some circles as a catchy cellphone ring tone.
The list goes on. But to get to the heart of dresses’ appeal, talk to the women who wear them: those scores of fans, young or not so young, who have made them the backbone of their summer wardrobes.
In the punishing heat of a July afternoon, dresses are “the ultimate in comfort,” said Whitney May, who is an assistant in the architecture and design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. On a recent Sunday, she breezed among the stalls at a flea market in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in a roomy pale green tunic-length style. “Dresses are almost always looser and less constricting than pants or a skirt,” said Ms. May, 27. “When it’s this hot, I don’t wear anything else.”
Selma Akkari, 19, a student, favors dresses in the summertime because “they’re colorful, light and airy,” she said, adding, “They make girls look happy and confident about their bodies.”
Ms. May and Ms. Akkari were but two in a random selection of women interviewed this month in the city who, when temperatures soar, reach for a dress, fashion’s little coping mechanism against stale air, slack sprits and the much-too-taxing question of what to wear.
On soupy days the dress is “such a practical outfit,” said Bettina May (no relation to Whitney), who accessorized the paisley frock she wore on a recent excursion to Rockaway Beach, Queens, with harlequin-shaped shades and a parasol. Her outfit was practical, said Ms. May, 32. “You don’t have to think about coordinating tops and bottoms.”
But to dwell on pure function is to miss what, to some minds, makes the dress particularly current. The designer Nicole Miller said that as little as four or five years ago, “dresses were kind of unhip,” which of course, thanks to the inevitable swing of the fashion pendulum, “is what makes them cool now.” Ms. Miller suggested that the return of the dress coincided roughly with the rising popularity of vintage looks: the buoyant dirndls, halter styles, prairie dresses and trapeze shapes that, she said, “are still influencing girls on the street, especially the younger ones.” Young women’s enthusiasm has helped boost sales of scoop-back sundresses, shifts and shirtwaists as well as pavement-grazing maxis, looks that touch down with the arrival of Memorial Day. Dresses’ popularity tends to peak in summer, said Marshal Cohen, senior analyst with the NPD Group, which tracks apparel sales. According to the NPD, retailers recorded just over $6 billion in dress sales April and May, an increase of 3.2 percent over the same period last year. Dresses do particularly well in a recessionary climate, Mr. Cohen said, when consumers embrace them “as the most economical way to create a new outfit.”
The dress’s brisk retail performance is an indication that “we’re no longer willing to suffer for fashion,” said Jennifer Uglialoro, the fashion director of H & M in New York. Dresses, she said, owe at least some of their formidable staying power to their forgiving shapes, unfussy construction and obviation of caked-on accessories or cumbersome layering.
While H & M declined to provide sales figures, maxi looks, above-the-knee frocks, elongated tanks and vibrant patterned styles (stripes, dots, outsize flowers and bold swaths of color ) were best sellers, Ms. Uglialoro said. “Those things are such an important part of our summer collection that this year we’ve increased our order.”
Dresses inspire confidence, retailers said. “They always make you look pulled together,” said Colleen Sherin, the fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue. “That’s what makes them such a success.” Production advances, she added, have made summer cottons and silk lighter and more wearable.