Archive for June, 2009

Your Breast Health Benefits Taxed?

Well, this is definitely not the way I want things to go in our healthcare system, but if it’s very nominal and will help the scores of people out there get health care that can’t afford it I supposed I could pay it although I admit I’d do so with mixed feelings.  Right now, breast health should be a number one priority for women, and yet it often falls behind other priorities for women who are busy with family and jobs.  This is unfortunately why so many women fail to get yearly breast exams who are in a higher risk age group. But it’s also for lack of proper health care available to them which is a travesty.

There is a sort of lurking proposal out there that may be something on the horizon to look for if you have health benefits through your employer.  The unfortunate thing is that if you do have health care benefits through your employer, you often times will find that your benefits are forever being raised price wise, but you also may in the future at some time, be taxed on the health benefits your receive, which is quite preposterous when you consider how much you already pay for them, and also how much you have to pay in deductibles.  God forbid you have some sort of a huge health problem, even with insurance you’re stuck with bills coming out the yin yang, which is unfortunate and also a fact which stalls some from getting the important medical care they need.

So far though, officials have tried to not support this idea of taxing health benefits which would purportedly support President Barack Obama’s health care initiatives which will help those in need of health care get it.  Right now, European nations are kicking our butts in health care.  Anyone can get health care, but their taxes pretty much pay for it, and that’s how they pull it off.  Our system is set up differently, so many people are totally uninsured, but those who are lucky enough to have jobs that pay good benefits get healthcare, but even that sometimes doesn’t cover the lion’s share of the medical bills.

Self Tanning Your Breasts

Ok, let’s talk about making your breasts look their very best in the summer.  Of course, there are only a select few who will see your breasts throughout your life, but you know that you want them to look their best when they’re bare, so this is a way to make your boobs look fabulous, when they’re in a skimpy bikini on the beach, or whether they are bare and in the bedroom.  You see, our breasts tend to get very pale because they aren’t exposed to the sunlight, which is the way it should be, don’t get me wrong, but it also doesn’t look as great as a tanned pair of bare breasts.  But I don’t want you to go to the tanning bed to get those fabulously tanned breasts, no!

I want you to self tan your breasts to get that bohemian, luscious look.  So let’s talk about how best to apply self tanner to your “twins” to get the best and sexiest possible outcome, and to make those boobs look like they just won’t quit!  You do have to be careful with how you apply it to this general vicinity, because of where it’s located, so let’s talk about how to apply it here.

Ok, so the first step is to thoroughly exfoliate the whole breast and chest area.  This area, especially the area between your boobs, is the most likely to do what’s called the “speckled” or freckling effect, so it’s important that you scrub this area pretty thoroughly so that the tanner will stick well to the skin and not have any “interference” from dirt or grime and come off more easily.  I can’t tell you how long it took me to perfect this area because of the wearing off in that way.  I would also use a good soap on it to get it really clean and also to get any old, leftover self tanner off of the area.  I self tan quite often, and am a devotee of it instead of getting sun or a tanning bed, so I kind of know!

Next, put a generous amount of self tanner on your hands and rub it into the breasts and chest area, using long strokes.  Make sure you rub it in well, but don’t over do it either. If you’re using a spray, just spray generously and rub in immediately after to get an even coverage.  Now, this is the most important part to self tanning your breasts.  Do NOT WEAR A BRA for the next few hours.  A bra can rub of the self tanner and make it appear uneven, whereas breasts unhindered by a bra are able to develop the self tanner on the skin without interference.  This is why I prefer to do my self tanning at night, because you don’t need to worry about wearing clothes.

Easy Curves Breast Exerciser Promises Size, Lift Increase

I saw an ad the other day, a sort of short infomercial, for this new novel idea for exercising the breasts and the surrounding muscles to help naturally lift and shape the breasts and the area around them called Easy Curves.  The device itself was very simple, it looked like a stick, well, more precisely it actually almost looked like one of those Club devices that you stick on your steering wheel of your car so that your car won’t get stolen honestly, and it could be adjusted to different lengths so that you can work out your breasts and chest area.  It’s similar to a lot of the exercises you can do in the gym or at home with your weights, only it’s more specifically targeted to work the specific chest muscles that provide that lift, definition and shape to your breasts.

A lot of women are looking for natural breast enhancement and beautification alternatives, and this device was very inexpensive, I can’t remember the exact price but I remember thinking when I saw the commercial that it seemed like they were practically giving it away (which incidentally makes me wonder about the quality of the product, but I guess that’s not fair, based on the only concluding factor for me being the cheap price).

The device promises to help lift and shape your breasts, help to tone them and give them more definition, and while it does not specifically say that it will increase their actual size, it does say that sometimes it can result in a size increase of a cup or half cup or something like that.  Many time exercising the chest and the underlying muscles that support the breast tissue does result in some sort of a boost to the size or at least the appearance of the size of the breasts, but they do not actually add more breast tissue or in many cases, the actual cup size of your breasts, they just appear to be larger because the tissues are all pushed forward more by the muscles that support them.

I think this device could definitely do what it says, I’d just be careful about buying it if you’re one of those people who will use a new exerciser for a couple days then cast it aside and let it collect dust from them on (like me).  I tend to do that with some of my exercise equipment, which definitely isn’t a good thing!

Boost One Cup Size With Inserts

You can really enhance your natural assets with some of these cool jelly-like inserts that you stick into your bra. They’re pretty neat too, because they conform to your breasts as the night wears on, making them look even more natural (in a bra and clothes), and because they are a lot like real breast tissue, which is soft and like a squishy sort of gel, they really boost up your cleavage well. They are especially handy to inserting into a strapless bra if you’re not all that well endowed and you need to wear a strapless dress or shirt and want to look a little more full chested to do it.

I remember I had to be a my best friend’s wedding years ago (omg, I think it was eight or nine years ago, but it seems like just yesterday, but she has two little kids now too), and I went out and bought a pair of these little inserts which look like crescents, at Victorias Secret.  I was broke at the time, so it was a considerable investment for me, especially considering they were a sort of novelty item that I was only going to wear for one night and might not ever use again potentially.

The ones I bought were like a jelly insert, they were very soft to the touch, and they warmed right up and conformed to the under side of my breasts almost instantly, which made them feel comfortable in my bra.  I only didn’t like them when I started to sweat a bit since the church we were in was getting a bit warm for my taste, and the situation I was in was a little sticky also (no pun intended).  I had an ex there that I wanted to sort of impress (long ago, when I was single and still a little insecure and this butthead didn’t help any), so I was a little nervous, plus being in front of all those people doesn’t help when you’re naturally shy anyways.

The inserts were great though.  They pushed up my boobs and helped me to fill out  the strapless purple dress I was wearing perfectly.  I actually felt like I was symmetrical for the first time in my life, since I had always had some issues with having small breasts, and I felt like I looked much sexier and bustier for the night, which was awesome.  Plus it was nice knowing they weren’t permanent, and could be taken out at the end of the night.  I’d recommend them to anyone who needs an extra cup size for a special occasion, or who just wants to add some extra cleavage.  I guarantee these things are worn by actresses who display tons of cleavage, that’s gotta be the trick they use.

Sharon Adams Mastectomy Photos Allowed on Facebook

In a victory for women who are brave enough to share their breast cancer stories, especially to share their soul bearing pictures of the before and afters of a mastectomy, a woman named Sharon Adams has been victorious in a Facebook overturn which ruled her pictures to be too sexual in nature and abusive of their policy against sexually explicit pictures.  The problem is, she’s not even showing any of her breasts, she’s covering her in tact breast with her hand, and she’s showing people her breast that has been removed and the massive scar it has left across her chest, in an effort to raise awareness of breast cancer and show women that they have nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to mastectomies and that  they should be encouraged by her survivor story.

I think what she did is a terrific thing myself.  Having the courage to show such a private photo and telling other women they should not be ashamed of surviving breast cancer by having their breasts or breast removed is really admirable in my book.  However, Facebook editors sent her a note that the picture was removed because it violated their guidelines for sexualy explicit photos.  When about 900 people online banded together to protest this, Facebook retracted that and state that they understandably took it down in error and that the picture does not violate their guidelines, but unfortunately sometimes pictures that are on the fringe of acceptable may get taken down, and this was one of those times.

I can definitely understand where Facebook was coming from on this.  Their editors view thousands of pictures a day that may violate thier code, so I could see how one that seems to be on the cusp could be accidentally eliminated.  Sure did cause quite an outcry though!  They will I’m sure be more careful about their editing of these types of pictures that are really just educational in nature and not exploitative, which is what I think they’re going for avoiding on their site which is a well respected and highly trafficked social networking site these days.

Tennis Player Simona Halep Having Breast Reduction

A tennis star from Romania, who is quite pretty I might add and seems to be blessed with an anatomy that most women would envy – small everywhere else but in the chest – is having a breast reduction surgery so that she might play more comfortably the game she loves without her big boobs getting in her way constantly.  She’s only seventeen years old and has grown to a full DD cup size, which is pretty darn big on anyone, let alone a female athlete who needs to be quick and not have any large body parts getting in the way of her game if you know what I mean!

Not only that, I’m sure her back is killing her after a long game, because even women who aren’t avid athletes have back pain from breasts that large and have to get them reduced just in order to live comfortably.  She has made the decision to have them reduced, although nowhere did it say how small she was going.  She feels like this will be a burden off her body and that she will be able to play a better game without her breasts getting in her way the whole time.

It’s funny, breasts can be such a blessing when they are proportioned just right to your body and your tastes, but the majority of the time women seem to feel that their breasts are either too small or too large, hence the large amounts of breast augmentation surgeries and the immense popularity of breast implant alternatives right now.  The tennis star also added that the excess weight has hindered her performance she feels.  I could see how that much excess weight may make you slower to your feet and slower to react, and tennis is definitely a game where you have to move and react quickly in order to get the ball back in your court again.

Natural Breast Enlargement Question

I received this question, which is very common, from a reader whose name of course shall remain anonymous.  It goes to show there are tons of women who are looking for natural alternatives to breast implants, and that they are willing to search for the right product to get their breasts looking the way they want them to.  Can’t blame them, I feel the same way!

Question :

Hello, my name is XXXXXXX and I went onto the Ask website  to see how I could naturally get my breasts to grow. I am about an A cup(barely), I have three children, and am 31. I have always had smaller breasts, and I hate it!!!!! I wear these god awful padded bras from wal mart, and am just not happy with the way it looks. I wanted to know where I may get bountiful breast-walgreens walmart? If not, where could I purchase some?

I cannot afford implants, and just dont believe altering your body by surgery is right. How much is the cost, do I still take it to maintain the breast size once aquired size is reached? Once they are at thei full potential(yay!)do they go away after a period of time? I only had the privilage of having nice full breasts after childbirth and it only lasted for 4 days or so, which was great while it lasted, I could go braless!!!! Perky, oh yeah!!!! Anyhow, if you could get back to me on this subject, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,

xxxxxxx

Answer :

Hello Xxxxxxxx.  Well, you’re certainly not alone, many women are looking to get larger, fuller breasts, and many women, like you, enjoy the fullness they get when they are pregnant and miss them when they are gone.  Also, unfortunately many times the fullness that leaves after child birth leaves many women with saginess and less density, resulting in decreased fullness.  At any rate, the Bountiful breast product is not available in stores, only online.

You can find more information and a review on the Bountiful Breast product here, and the links take you to a page where you can see what options you have for purchasing.  Be sure to visit their extensive testimonials and before and after pages, I think you’ll find it’s worth the investment and has made lots of women happy, especially since the breast growth is permanent and it’s their real breasts, not fake implants.

To answer your question, yes the growth is permanent, but if you lose a lot of weight, of course then your breasts can shrink, just like if you had naturally large breasts, many times they are the first thing to go if you lose weight, but that even depends on your body type anyways.  The longer you take this product, the better and more dramatic your results are.  Look into it, I think you’ll find it’s a great nonsurgical option.  Thanks!