Backstage Grooming - A Sign of Sophistication

By Paige McClinte

There is something great about A-list living and Backstage Grooming, the second book of a twenty-one book series (The Insiders' Lifestyle Guides), is the first step to achieving a sophisticated look. Grooming is the prerequisite for all other qualities. Your mirror, scale and nose should be your best friends. We all have work to be done. It's more about maintaining your looks and respecting them than trying to look like someone else.

Look Inside: Showers, Bathing, Pampering; Clear Skin - A Sign of Upscale Skin; Facials Unmasked; Waxing and Shaving; Teeth Influence Health and Appearance; Brows Give Your Face Polish; Hands Boost Self-Esteem; Feet Are a Sign of Polish; Healthy Skin - Freshness; and Rested - To Keep Your Memory Sharp.

Backstage Grooming - A Sign of Sophistication by Paige McClinte is a fun and entertaining short read. Since jet setting is part of such a grand lifestyle, the Insiders' Lifestyle Guide series theme includes a cultural or travel experience with every book.

Information is Timeless: Everyone holds a secret desire to be part of the A-list seeking a confident, fashionable, and extraordinary life. These series guides make transformation routine to which all men and women will relate - The Complete Makeover Series.

Actionable Strategies: The Insiders' Lifestyle Guide series contains specific strategies in each book and edition that can transform lives. It details social skills of boosting confidence, replacing bad habits, and reinventing one's self. This book will appeal to professionals, parents, and generations of young adults.

Appeal of the Authors: The Insiders' Lifestyle Guides are written by a team of contributing authors, all with a witty, quirky, slapstick appeal.

Series Overview: The Insiders' Lifestyle Guides is a first, of a twenty-one book series, that will be revised and re-launched periodically with all new material. Each book features famous themed cities represented of the book covers and includes an introduction comprising a short story about its featured city.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aauvi House Publishing Group
• Release date: Apr 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301132744

Paige McClinte

Paige McClinte is one of the contributing writers for the several Insiders' Lifestyle Guides book series (A Complete Makeover Series). See the several press releases below to learn more about each book. Author Backstory: Paige McClinte's extensive background in fashion retail and business includes years of experience as a stylist and designer for upscale apparel boutiques. As a personal fashion and photo stylist, she has more than 20 years experience in the fashion industry. She provides personalized fashion and photo styling to clients with a wide range of goals. She draws on her knowledge, training and expertise to guide her clients toward a higher level of success. Smashwords Titles by Paige McClinte: Backstage Grooming - A Sign of Sophistication Backstage Makeup - For Women Who Love All Things Upscale Frontstage Style - How To Be An Icon Press Releases at AauviHouse.com Press & Media: San Jose, CA (June 2, 2012) - Aauvi House Publishing Group, Rags to Riches Entertainment Division, Announces New Book Release - Frontstage Style - How To Be An Icon by Paige McClinte San Jose, CA (April 2, 2012) - Aauvi House Publishing Group, Rags to Riches Entertainment Division, Announces New Book Release - Backstage Makeup - For Women Who Love All Things Upscale by Paige McClinte San Jose, CA (March 16, 2012) - Aauvi House Publishing Group, Rags to Riches Entertainment Division, Announces New Book Release - Backstage Grooming - A Sign of Sophistication by Paige McClinte

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Backstage Grooming

A Sign of Sophistication

PAIGE MC CLINTE

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Rags to Riches Entertainment Group

An imprint of Aauvi House Publishing Group

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Published by Aauvi House Publishing Group at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 Paige McClinte

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Titles by Paige McClinte

Backstage Grooming – A Sign of Sophistication

Backstage Makeup – For Women Who Love All Things Upscale

Frontstage Style – How To Be An Icon

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Contents

Book Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

1 – Showers, Bathing, Pampering

2 – Clear Skin – A Sign of Upscale Skin

3 – Facials Unmasked

4 – Waxing, Shaving, Tweezing

5 – Teeth Influence Health

6 – Brows Give Your Face Polish

7 – Hands Boost Self-Esteem

8 – Feet Are a Sign of Polish

9 – Health Skin – Freshness

10 – Rested – To Keep Your Memory Sharp

Closing Remarks

End of Book

About the Author

About the Publisher

Book by Aauvi House

Excerpts by Aauvi House

Credits

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Introduction

In its brief history, Aauvi House Publishing Group has become the new it marketers of information-based lifestyle solutions in the self-help and how-to markets for all age groups. Reinforcing a belief that living a planned extraordinarily fulfilled lifestyle is of paramount importance to its readers.

The Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series is a first, of a twenty-one book series, that will be revised and re-launched periodically with all new material. These books feature famous themed cities represented of the book covers and include an introduction comprising a short story about its featured city. Annually, the series guides will be rolled up as chapter inserts into a single book and sold during the holiday seasons.

Anyone who desires the secrets to A-list living, values their appearance, is concerned about lifestyle or just needs more information can benefit from reading and continually referring back to the Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series. Each book – practical in its approach – is full of facts that teach you how to make the most of your life, how to achieve peak performance, and how to maintain general health. In short, the Aauvi House Publishing Group, Rags to Riches Entertainment imprint’s ability to offer its readers a more complete and concise migration path to an extraordinary red carpet lifestyle, just got better.

Information Is Timeless

Everyone holds a secret desire to be part of the A-list seeking a confident, fashionable, and extraordinary life. These series guides make transformation routine to which all men and women will relate.

Actionable Strategies

The Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series contains specific strategies in each book and edition that can transform lives. It details social skills of boosting confidence, replacing bad habits, and re-inventing one’s self. These books will appeal to professionals, parents, and generations of young adults.

About the Authors

The Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series are written by a team of contributing authors, all whom have a witty, quirky, slapstick appeal.

About Our Cover Story – Atlanta Georgia

Since jet setting is part of such a grand lifestyle, the Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series theme includes a cultural or travel experience with every book. That is, between promotional junkets, film festivals and red carpet appearances, celebrities can rack up as many frequent-flyer miles as they do trips to rehab. And so can you, once you have an insider bird’s eye view of the possibilities.

Whether traveling by plane or virtually by way of these pages, our cover story, Atlanta Georgia and its evening skyline punctuated with highway, light streaks from traffic, cars, crescent moons, and skyscrapers of modern and postmodern vintage exudes cultural history. Its tallest landmark – the Bank of America Plaza – is the twenty-fifth tallest building in the world at 1,023 feet. While the city’s high-rises are clustered in three districts – Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead.

Atlanta began as a settlement located at the terminus of a railroad line, and it was incorporated in 1845. Today, the city is a major business city and the primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States, with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world’s busiest airport since 1998. The World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University rated Atlanta as an alpha-world city. With a gross domestic product of US$270 billion, Atlanta’s economy ranks fifteenth among world cities and sixth in the nation.

The city is a center for services, finance, information technology, government, and higher education. Metro Atlanta contains the country’s third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and is the world headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting, The Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Delta Air Lines as of 2010. Atlanta is the seventh most visited city in the United States with over thirty-five million visitors per year.

The city has long been known as a center of black wealth, political power and culture; a cradle of the Civil Rights Movement and home to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. However, the city’s white population is growing rapidly while Metro Atlanta has quickly become ethnically diverse with large Hispanic and Asian populations.

The arts and entertainment are also well represented in Atlanta, and the city is an important base for hip-hop, gospel, and neo soul music. In addition, it has become a major center for film and TV production.

Atlanta also stands out among major U.S. cities for its dense tree coverage. In 1996, Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics, an event that spurred a wave of gentrification that has intensified into the twenty-first century, revitalizing the city’s center and in-town neighborhoods.

About Backstage Grooming

There is something great about A-list living and Backstage Grooming, the second book of a twenty-one book series, is the first step to achieving a sophisticated look. It is the prerequisite for all other qualities. Your mirror, scale and nose should be your best friends. That said, we all have work to be done. It’s more about maintaining your looks and respecting them than trying to look like someone else.

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Showers, Bathing, Pampering

Organize your bathroom. Take stock of what you have, need or use. Toss products that serve the same function, are old, or obsolete. Consider sorting bathroom products by category. For instance, store one container for manicure supplies, another for facials. Repeat the sorting process on going.

Choose clear containers and avoid overcrowding. Also, consider downsizing to save shelf space – transfer products in smaller containers. Consider storage cabinets and glass jars with lids from stores like Pottery Barn.

Add scent to towels by placing them next to an open jar of perfumed soaps, bath salts or potpourri.

And do leave an extra toothbrush in the bathroom because you never know.

Showers

By now, of course, you know how to take a shower: Get wet, lather up, and rinse off. But there’s more to it than you might think. For example, did you know that the chlorine in your water is fading your highlights? That hot showers are causing rough, dry skin? That your nylon loofah is depositing more germs than it’s scrubbing off? We’re not suggesting you relearn the basics, but a few small changes can make a big difference.

Start by swapping your showerhead for one that removes chlorine and add a water purifier. You will notice a difference in your skin and hair immediately. For shaving, use a multi-blade refillable razor to prevent nicks and red bumps. And use a washcloth instead of a nylon loofah.

In other words, there are plenty of tricks that will help your hair and skin.

Showering Tips

1. Turn the water temperature to warm, not hot. Ideally between 75 and 80 degrees. If you are planning to be in for more than ten minutes, coat your body (but not your feet) with oil before getting under the water.

2. Step in, and start by shampooing and conditioning your hair. When done, rinse your hair thoroughly.

3. Exfoliate with a clean loofah, grainy body scrub or a coarse washcloth with body wash on it. Start at the neck to your feet. Go lightly on the chest and skip the legs if you’re going to shave. (A loofah with a handle will reach your back.)

4. Slough feet with a pumice stone to prevent feet and back of ankles from getting rough.

5. Before shaving your legs, cover your legs with moisturizing shaving cream. Then use a multi-blade razor. Repeat the process on your underarms.

6. Clean hands, feet, butt, and groin with a creamy body wash and the face with cleanser. Rinse off.

7. Out of the shower, pat skin dry with a soft terry-cloth towel before wrapping the towel around your hair.

8. While your skin is still damp, coat your entire body with lotion to seal in moisture.

9. Finally, slip on a terry-cloth robe and a pair of socks or terry-cloth flip-flops to absorb the excess grease.

Make sure your towel dries completely between uses by putting it on a hook rather than a towel rack.

Shower Him with Attention

Shower him with attention by turning your bathroom into a spa-style steam room.

1. Pour a few drops of eucalyptus or spearmint essential oil onto a loofah or sea sponge and place it on a shelf inside your shower.

2. Turn the hot water on full blast, then leave the room, close the door, and wait five minutes. The steam will diffuse the essential oil and fill the room with an amazing mentholated aroma that helps open up your lungs so you can breathe deeply and relieve tension.

3. Lure your man into the steamy bathroom, then adjust the water to a more reasonable temperature and step in.

4. Use a foaming body wash and big washcloth to suds him up.

5. Tell him to face the shower wall and place both hands against it while you lather his back – he’ll love this sexy, submissive stance.

6. You know the rest . . .

Bathing

When it comes to bathing, there is no better experience than draping yourself in warm towels after a relaxing bath. Heated towel warmers or racks are worth the splurge. Near the bath, place an orchid, lotion, and three small candles as a reminder to continue the experience and enhance your pleasure when bathing.

Bathing Tips

1. If your skin is especially dull and flaky, take a handful of raw sugar, mix it with canola oil, and massage into your skin before your bath for one to two minutes. The granules exfoliate the skin. And unlike salt, sugar doesn’t irritate nicked or sunburned skin.

2. Spike your bath with fragrant sea salts or bath salts to polish and invigorate your skin.

3. After ten minutes in the bathtub add drops of oil to seal in moisture.

4. Soak in the tub for at least fifteen minutes and then exfoliate one limb at a time.

5. Out of the tub, drape yourself in warm towels before spreading a fine layer of moisturizer all over your body from head to toe. You’ll emerge with supple skin.

6. Top off your bathing experience with a mind-altering scalp massage before wrapping yourself in blankets.

A Sultry Soak

The key to creating a relaxing, therapeutic, romantic bath for two is to set the right mood.

1. Dim the lights or light a candle and turn the lights off.

2. Slip a sexy CD on.

3. Put a chilled bottle of champagne or crisp white wine by the tub.

4. Draw a hot bath, but don’t let it get scalding – too hot can dehydrate your body.

5. Pour in a cup of Epsom salts into the bath. The salt helps maintain moisture in your body and draws out the toxins.

6. Other sensual additions to consider may include: a few drops of essential oil or a silky bubbly bath.

7. Wrap a terry cloth towel around the faucet and secure it with a rubber band. That way one of you can lean on it and you can soak facing each other.

8. Now just relax and enjoy.

Bathhouses

Begin your session in the bathhouse where you can relax in the sauna, steam room, whirlpool or hot-and-cold plunge pools until your muscles feel like play-doe. Then a massage therapist will work you over from scalp to toe, hitting pressure points with his or her elbows and forearms. You can cap off a session with a siesta in the nap room.

Pampering

You deserve to take care of you, and it’s often the smallest indulgences that can make a dramatic difference in how you look and feel. It’s never too early or too late in life to start pampering your skin. You don’t have to wait for problems to develop. Cleanse, moisturize and protect yourself from the sun’s damaging rays, it’s that simple.

Spa Treatments

Give yourself a day off for pampering and go to the spa periodically. A relaxation library filled with overstuffed chairs, wool throws, and heated neck pillows, even a butler to fetch tea, champagne, or the book of your choice is all about pampering. But what if you don’t have a butler? A trip to the spa can give you similar results.

For example, imagine manicure and pedicure stations with personal headsets, flat-screen televisions, and DVD players. Or, a fifty-minute mud treatment – performed in an ornately tiled steam chamber – that’s rinsed clean by rain that falls from a fiber-optic night sky. Still, perhaps his and her wet areas surrounded by a black bamboo Zen garden complete with Jacuzzis, cold-plunge pools, and aromatherapy steam rooms and showers might be your things.

The point is, you want to schedule a trip to the spa every two or three weeks. In the meantime, do simple things to maintain the mood at home. For example, you may want to create a seductive ambience in your bedroom with an orchid. This elegant Asian flower is a spa décor staple, and it’s petals resemble female genitalia – a visual cue your man is sure to pick up on, if only subliminally.

Spa VIP Treatment Tips

1. Plan ahead and ask the right questions when making reservations.

2. Ask the spa director to recommend an aesthetician (facialist or massage therapist).

3. Arrange for all services and tips to be charged to your room or credit card.

4. Soak it up – arrive ten to forty-five minutes before your appointment so you can change and fill out any forms.

5. If really early, many spas have saunas, color therapy showers, pools and massage jets, and private lounges. Moreover, someone who can offer you a cup of tea, a blanket, or salts for the tub regularly canvasses these areas.

6. Think locally for the cultural experience services you can’t get elsewhere when booking spa appointments away from home.

7. Do it your way. Massages or manicures are ideal in your hotel room but most body treatments are too messy and cumbersome.

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Clear Skin – A Sign of Upscale Skin

You won’t see sunspots or pimples on expensive skin. And beautiful skin makes anybody’s shape look sexier.

Skin renews itself every twenty-eight days, a process that allows dulling dead cells to be sloughed off and newer, healthier and more glowing skin to shine through. But the process begins to slow in our thirties.

Nonetheless, you can give skin a helping hand by exfoliating two to three times per week. It is one of the quickest ways to get a radiant complexion with a gentle exfoliating scrub, which literally sloughs off dead, dulling cells on the skin’s surface – and allows newer, healthier and more radiant skin cells to shine through.

In addition, if you do microdermabrasion or mild acid peels twice a week as part of your at-home skin regimen, you’re ahead of the game. Over forty skin has more cellular debris on its surface and a more irregular texture. Exfoliation pumices off the flake and debris so your foundation doesn’t have to work as hard. It also makes your pores look smaller so your base won’t accent craters around the nose or chin.

Clear Skin

Know your skin’s triggers. If you have sensitive skin, avoid perfumed, anti-bacterial and deodorant products, which can easily aggravate it. And look for the words for sensitive skin and fragrance free on product labels.

You can also put an end to body breakouts by cleaning pimple-prone body skin (back, shoulders, buttock) at least once a day. Use an acne wash with a wipe or pad that contains breakout-busting salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide. Regular use of either will help clear skin or prevent new pimples from forming.

Clear Skin Tips

1. Keep your hands off any blemishes. Touching, picking, or squeezing will only make them worse.

2. Massage a nickel-size blob of PH-balanced anti-bacterial cleanser over the face and rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water. (Beware of sodium laurel sulfate. It’s a common ingredient in cleansers, but it is as harsh as laundry soap.)

3. Blot face with a clean towel and allow five minutes for the skin to air-dry.

4. For acne-prone skin, rub on a chemical