Pass It On

Give your daughters a head start on beauty. While your daughter still thinks you know everything, before the tides change and she thinks she knows everything, teach her basic beauty tips, she’ll thank you when she’s grown! Even if she travels away from those lessons, she will find herself returning to them when she is older.

• Inner beauty reflects on outer beauty in a positive way. Beauty starts from within. Encourage a good character, high morals, and strong values in your daughter.
• Take care of your hair. Protect it from the sun, use quality hair products, and limit stress to hair from heat (curling irons) and chemicals (coloring, permanents, highlighting, straightening). Have it trimmed regularly.
• Learn to appreciate and work with what you have. After years of straightening naturally curly hair, I learned to work with the curls. Most of the compliments I receive are about my hair now!
• Be gentle with skin. Protect it from the sun, use moisturizers (starting around 12-13 when hormones change is a good idea), and have a gentle touch, especially around the skin around the eyes.
• Exercise 3-5 times per week. Even if it is just a walk with your daughter, it will add to health and fitness. The hormones that are released during exercise calms and adds to a feeling of well-being.

The most effective way to pass down beauty is by example. Even if your daughter won’t admit it publicly, she is watching what you do!