Lisa Clark - Beauty*Licious

Be feisty, fun, fearless and fabulous! Natch.

So banish all unpretty thoughts right now–that means absolutely no more comparisons to the just-stepped-out-of-a-salon, tall blonde girl from the cool clique, OK? Put on your pink-tinted shades and enrol at the Think Pink Academy of all things Beauty*licious!

Unlike school, we’ve got classes that you will love to attend–in everything from eyebrow plucking to loving the skin you’re in. You’ll have access to the Pink Ladies hints and tips and, most importantly, you will find everything you need to help you love, emphasise and have fun with the qualities that make you sparkle and shine like the star-girl you really are!

So indulge yourself chica, because no girl is too-cool-for-beauty school!

Pink vanity case

Pink shades

CDs

Compact

Lipgloss

Water bottle

Chica, between toi et moi, this ain’t no ordinary beauty school. Nope, it’s a rainbow-hued celebration of girl-fabulousness!

To maximise your Beauty*licious experience, the Pink Ladies and I have created what is quite possibly the most dee-licious starter kit in a ‘so then, yet suddenly so very now’ candy-coloured vanity case. It’s crammed full with everything you will need in the wondrous world of Beauty*liciousness–don’t say we don’t spoil you!

Pink shades–how can you be Beauty*licious if you don’t Think Pink? Pink Shades are most definitely a Beauty*licious Girl’s most coveted accessory.

Cute compact, pink, natch.–not only a cute accessory, but also an important tool in the self-lovin’ department.

Lip gloss–if nothing else, a slick of lip gloss will ensure you look like butter wouldn’t melt in your pout.

Water bottle–Water is a Beauty*licious Girl’s secret weapon. It flushes out the icky toxins in your body, helps your tummy to work more effectively and hydrates your skin helping to combat bad skin and spots–yay!

Beauty*licious Girl Soundtrack–feel-good tracks that will make you sing-out-loud…

Buzzcocks–Lipstick

Belle and Sebastian–Dress Up in You

Green Day–She’s a Rebel

Blondie–Atomic

Beverly Knight–Gold

Ashlee Simpson–I am Me

Shampoo–Don’t Call Me Babe

Cyndi Lauper–True Colours

Destiny’s Child–Bootylicious

Are you a Beauty*licious babe or in need of some serious beautification?

In school photos, are you…

a. Always at the front.

b. Hiding behind the super-tall girl in your class.

If someone pays you a compliment, do you…

a. Accept it with a smile.

b. Feel uncomfortable, blush and change the subject.

It’s prom time and your favourite song is playing, are you…

a. First on the dance floor.

b. Shuffling in the corner.

You’re checking out your reflection in the mirror, do you…

a. Smile and blow yourself a kiss.

b. Cringe at what you see.

You’re going out with your friends and can’t find the t-shirt you’re looking for, do you…

a. Cut and customise an old one so it’s exactly what we want.

b. Ring up and say you can’t make it.

Sweet thing, you’ve got it going on!

You know you rock and you’re not afraid to show it. In party snaps, you’ll be in every picture and you sunny attitude will be sure to rub off on those around you. You know life is too short to worry about whether or not you bum looks big–so instead of wasting your time fretting, you shake it on the dance floor!

You need a boost of Beauty*licious self-lovin’! Comparing yourself to others or worrying about people judging you will hold you back. Your real friends don’t care what size is on the label of your jeans, so stop hiding. Get out there and have fun. A girl having a good time is so much more attractive than a pouty-model face any day.

When I check my reflection, I dig what I see.

That’s because I’m Beauty*licious, baby!

Having a Beauty*licious ’tude doesn’t mean I’m a mucho vain-girl, it just means that I’m through with hating my thighs and dissin’ my chubby tummy. Instead, I love myself up–just the way I am!

If you’re the put-down Polly and say things like ‘I’m so fat/ugly/skinny’ or ‘I hate the way I look’, it’s not your body that’s the issue, it’s your ’tude.

We spend so much time trashing our bad-body-bits that we forget to love up our assets and, quite frankly chica, that’s just wrong, wrong, wrong.

Negative self-talk–whether it’s shout-out-loud or in your head–is toxic, so if you intend to become Beauty*licious anytime soon, dissin’ yourself just isn’t an option. You’re a work in progress, you’re still growing and changing, so why waste time bad-mouthin’ your bod, when diggin’ on you is so much more do-able?

What I dig most about myself is:

My sugar-pink tresses that make me look like a rock girl in a too-cool guitar group.

I adore my big, baby-doll eyes that would steal the screen in every scene if I were a movie starlet and how great my nails look with day-glo pink varnish on them!

And I love how I laugh out loud, because laughing is very pretty y’know.

Your turn!

What do you dig most about yourself?

If bad body talk has become a habit, break it right now with what I like to call a Beauty*licious Booster–catchy, eh?

Whenever you think something negative, like, ‘I’m fat’ or ‘I’m ugly’ stop the trash-talk in its tracks by saying something positive right back ‘atcha self! With practise, your body bashin’ self-critic will have to admit defeat and your self-esteem will positively sky rocket with the sweet talk, leaving you feeling allsorts of fabulous about how you look and feel.

Here’s some of my favourite Beauty*licious Boosters…

“…My eyes are sparkly-gorgeous when I smile…”

“…My hair looks great today…”

“…I really know how to work a pink fishnet tights and legwarmer ensemble…”

What are your Beauty*licious Boosters going to be?

For a whole lot of time I couldn’t understand why my hair didn’t come with a permanent wind-machine that made it look all swish-like and delicious. Thoughts of being a blonde-haired beauty with a buff bod used to run through my head like back-to-back episodes of The OC, and I became obsess-o-girl about getting an ab-tastic stomach and having glossy-blonde hair like the girl in my maths class. The trouble was, I just wasn’t made that way. So when I realised it was never gonna happen, I got glum.

It was official: I had felt the force.

Y’see, the buff blonde look that I was aspiring to, sure-as-stars wasn’t my idea of beauty. It had been cleverly created by media types who have images they want us all to aspire to on constant replay–and I fell for it. Grrr.

Our bodies are going through all kinds of crazy changes like we’ve got zilcho control over and when we feel unsure about ourselves, it really can feel that life would be infinitely more sparkly-gorgeous if we could just fit into those skinny-fit jeans, right?