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B is for Bras – Buy the right one for Beautiful Breasts

Posted on August 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

Bras – they’re part of our lives, just as our breasts are part of our bodies.  Some of you out there are small-breasted and can wear those sexy, seductive pieces of cloth that look pretty and fit well.  Then there are some of us who are more generously endowed and we need something that will fit comfortably and hold us up well.  Studies have shown that 80% of women are wearing the wrong size bra.  Wearing a bra that is uncomfortable and makes you look saggy and droopy makes you look old and feel old, and that’s not what being a youthful, juicy naturally beautiful woman is about.  We’re all about feeling good and looking good!

Choosing a bra can be as daunting as choosing the right college or career or soulmate!  There’s nothing sexy about pulling and pushing your breasts and bras to get rid of those straps digging into your shoulders or adjusting the fat hanging over your back.

Here are some signs that you’re wearing a bra that doesn’t fit well:

  1. Your cups spilleth over.
  2. The back of your bra rides up.
  3. Tight straps that hurt and give you indentations or red marks on your shoulders.
  4. The cups ripple and dimple indicating they’re too small.
  5. Saggy or droopy breasts.
  6. Straps that slip and slide off.
  7. Uncomfortable underwires.
  8. According to Susan Nethero, a bra expert that Oprah loves — Back fat doesn’t necessarily mean your bra is too small.  It actually means your bra is too big!  Change to a smaller band size bra that rides lower on your back and that will eliminate the dreaded back fat.

One thing you can do to make your breasts look a bit more perky is to sit and stand up tall and straight.  Good posture is one of the most important ways to look young and vital.

Then walk tall to the nearest department store and go to the bra department.  Most lingerie departments, especially in higher end stores, will give you a free bra fitting.  Even if you have to pay a few dollars, it’s a great investment.  You’ll be surprised at the change in the number and the change in your look and feel.  Being beautiful (and comfortable) is worth it!

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B is for Boobs, Breasts and Body Language, Part 1

Posted on January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment

Body Language for Naturally Beautiful Women

Boobs, tits, melons, tatas, breasts, jugs, hooters, jugs, bazooms, rack, titties, “the girls” – we call them many things, but do we stop to think about what we’re saying about ourselves when we refer to anatomical parts of our bodies as something stupid or silly or less than respectful?

Language like this is sexist, demoralizing, and designed to keep women from rising to their greatest potential.  We would never think of using racist language in this day and age.  In fact, people have lost their jobs and their positions by using certain words.

Is it any less wrong to call the mammary glands of a woman “boobs”?  These appendages were designed to nurture and suckle babies.  They are important parts of a woman’s anatomy.  There is nothing stupid about them.  So why do we accept these words as something normal, or something we got used to saying without thinking?  It particularly bothers me when otherwise Healthy Senior Women refer to parts of their bodies in juvenile terms.  We are the women of the Age of Liberation and Feminine Equality.  Our bodies, ourselves – no?

The Online Etymology Dictionary explains the use of the word “boobs” for breasts at least in an intelligent way – “breasts,” 1929, U.S. slang, probably from much older term boobies (late 17c.), related to 17c. bubby, perhaps ultimately from L. puppa, lit. “little girl,” hence, in child-talk, “breast,” or a natural formation in English (cf. Fr. poupe “teat,” Ger. dial. Bubbi, etc.).    The earliest Oxford English Dictionary  explains that the first use of the word as slang for a woman’s breast appears in none other than  Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934): “She was lying on the ground with her boobies in her hands.”  Miller, a renowned sexist, might have used this language as a literary tool, but what’s our excuse?

See next post – B is for Boobs, Breast, and Body Language, Part 2

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B is for Boobs, Breasts and Body Language, Part 2

Posted on January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment

Natural Beauty - Breasts!

The first of the Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz  is to be impeccable with your word.  (see previous post – I is for Impeccability – With Your Word).  Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against your Self, or to gossip about Others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of Truth and Love.

Words can be weapons and they have power.  The power to uplift or the power to abuse and destroy.   What you say has the power to influence your entire life.  If you were a little child and someone, a parent or a teacher especially called you stupid or a dunce, that could affect your entire life.  Referring to a part of our bodies as stupid things, like “boobies”, can have a profound impact on every single part of our life and our ultimate success in life.

Every woman seems to have issues about her breasts -  issues of size (too much, too little),  of function (breastfeeding and foreplay), and of dysfunction (mammograms, breast cancer, loss).   We need to use language that raises our awareness of the unrealistic standards for women’s bodies that pop culture and mass media present as the “norm” – a lean, mean, trim and thin body with large firm round breasts.

If women are ever to assume their equal place in society, we cannot be referring to our beautiful breasts as “hooters,” just as we do not, as adult women over the age of 6 or 16, welcome being called “girls” or “babes.”  We need to be aware of the language we use and stop using cute little phrases that demean us in any way.  These are negatives, and we want to be given the positive respect that we deserve.  We are women.  We are strong.  We are proud.

 

 

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