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by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
I used to hate all the passport photos or driver’s license photos that I ever posed for; I always thought I looked awful in them. Then I realized that I could look great in those photos by the simple expedient of smiling! And sure enough this last picture I posed for, I was fully satisfied with, simply because I was smiling in the picture.
I really think that a smile is something that makes anyone instantly sexier and more attractive. It is like a secret sexy weapon that you can use at will to floor just about anyone. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
If you are a regular reader here, you probably read the rant about Barbie dolls and our views on the subject. It was the comment made on Nancy’s post, the body shop “love your body” ad, “…I wish real Barbies looked like that” that really set me thinking that we all send out a message to our kids by the kind of toys we give them to play with and if a Barbie doll is the toy of choice then what is the message that sends out.
Anyway this is not another rant, this is a tribute to the creators of the Big Beautiful Dolls concept. These are dolls that I really don’t think I mind my four year old playing with. This is a cute, curvy cuddly looking doll and sends my child the message that it’s OK to be REAL woman, and that it is not necessary to aspire to some unattainable supermodel size. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
Yes I know, there is no such word as ‘curvifier’, but isn’t that basically what corsets used to do (or still do)? The minute you say the word corset what immediately comes to mind is the scene from Gone with the Wind where the nanny is tightening the stays to Scarlett’s corset trying to make her already hourglass figure even more hourglass like!
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