Category: Health & beauty

The Importance of Pap Smears in the Fight Against Cervical Cancer

The Importance of Pap Smears in the Fight Against Cervical Cancer

A beautiful speech given by a man who recently lost his wife – and mother of his two young children – to cervical cancer illustrates why Pap tests are so important, better than a thousand statistics.

Lifting Weights–A Guide for Real Women, Part 3

Lifting Weights–A Guide for Real Women, Part 3

Part 1 | Part 2 Now that you’ve discovered the joys of pumping iron and worked your way through a Beginner’s Routine, you must be interested in exploring weightlifting further! Unfortunately, the weightlifting world is very male-dominated and results in articles like, Get Huge Biceps by Employing Hypertrophy Progressions and EFA Stacks!!! I don’t know [...]

Lifting Weights–A Guide for Real Women, Part 2

Lifting Weights–A Guide for Real Women, Part 2

A simple Google search on “weight training beginner routines” gave me 644,000 results this morning. That’s a pretty overwhelming amount of information, but I have good news for you. If you’re a beginner, it doesn’t really matter if you’re using an “optimal” routine. Just starting is good enough.

Lifting Weights – A Guide for Real Women, Part 1

Lifting Weights – A Guide for Real Women, Part 1

Ladies, I’m going to exercise my powers of clairvoyance for a moment and make some wild predictions:
1. You would like to lose some weight
2. You would like lean, toned muscles
3. You’ve never lifted a barbell in your life!
If any of the above is true, I’d like to convince you to give weightlifting a try.

Dr K’s Breast Checker-A must have app for all women with an iPhone/iPod

Dr K’s Breast Checker-A must have app for all women with an iPhone/iPod

With spring already underway, Australian women are being asked to spring into action and take charge of their health with the launch of Australia’s first iPhone application to help women of all ages become more breast aware. The first of its kind in Australia, Dr K’s Breast Checker will help prompt women to conduct regular [...]

Dye for your WHAT?

You can wax, dye and shape your hair…down there. You can vajazzlise (thanks so much Jennifer Love Hewitt for the TMI of the decade!) So you would be forgiven for thinking there isn’t much left to do by way of primping and pampering for your girlie bits, but you would be wrong…SO very wrong. My [...]

Love Being Woman Giveaway

Love Being Woman Giveaway

Congratulations to our winners… Christine Higgs from QLD Tim Williams from WA We have 2 Be Be personal massagers (yes, vibrators!) valued at $119 each to give away. Read on to find out more about this great Australian product and how you could win one. Creators, Aussie mums Lisa and Kristine from Love Being Woman, [...]

Nude by Nature

I could probably count on one hand the amount of times I have worn makeup this year. I am not a makeup girl, and I guess a lot of it comes down to having trouble finding the right product and colour for my skin, I have tried quite a few. I went into Priceline the [...]

National Blood Donor Week

To coincide with the 80th anniversary of blood collection services in Australia, the Federal Government has designated 2009 the Year of the Blood Donor. This week is National Blood Donor Week, an opportunity to showcase and recognise the Millions of special donors all over the world and hear from the people whose lives are transformed [...]

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Sunscreen freebie

We all know that there is no such thing as a safe tan, and that we shouldn’t be leaving the house without wearing sunscreen. Especially if you don’t want to end up looking like a wrinkly old prune in 20yrs! It can be hard to find an everyday sunscreen that has the right protection..30+, but [...]

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