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| Karen Marie Shelton |
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Mining For Great
Beauty & Health Information
The
Mining Company consists of a network of over 500 different expert guides
that specialize in providing a vast range of topics and information
"mined" directly from the Net.
The first time I discovered the Mining Company I immediately did a topic
search on "hair". I was delighted when I found
Shirley Bragg's Beauty & Health
pages. While her area is organized around beauty and health topics, it also
contains lots of great information on hair.
Meet Shirley
If you pop into Shirley's bio at the Beauty & Health location you will
discover that she is a is a licensed, registered cosmetician and that she
really enjoys helping people bring out their true inner beauty.
Shirley's experience as a cosmetician "has taught her that the key to
beauty is improving the way you feel, and she strives to help others feel
great."
Shirley's stated goal with the Beauty & Health pages is to make beauty as
much fun as possible. Based on what I have seen with Shirley's site,
you would have to be Scrooge to not have fun and learn lots of new beauty,
health and hair tips.
Mining For Information
In keeping with the goals of the Mining Company to mine for information
Shirley's Beauty and Health section includes a wide range of topic areas
devoted to information on some of the following topics:
- Aging Gracefully
- Beauty Books, Contests, Faqs & Beauty Recipes
- Body Image, Diet & Nutrition & Exercise
- Color
- Contests/Free Samples
- Eye Make-Up, Cosmetics, Surgery & Cosmetic Alerts
- Fashion
- Modeling
- For Men Only
- Women's Health & Women's Stuff
- Fragrances
- Nails & Teeth & Lips
- Skin Care & Problem Skin
- Hair Care & Hair Removal
Shirley updates the various topic sections each week with new links to
related articles, topics or information. It is amazing at how much
information she adds on a constant basis to such a wide range of heath,
beauty, hair and related topics.
Hair Care & More
If you decide to go exploring in the Hair Care topic area you will find
four main categories of hair care information. These topics are
divided into the following sections:
- Hair Care
- Hair Styles
- Hair Coloring
- Hair Products
Each of the 4 hair categories are overflowing with great information
"mined" from many of my personal favorite hair sites. I must confess that my
favorite section is the Hair Coloring section. There are over 20 great
articles on everything from dealing with gray hair to how the Duchess of
York colors her hair.
Reading (especially about hair and beauty) is one of my famous
addictions. So I have to tell you all that I read every article in all
four sections of Shirley's Hair Care pages.
I also have to say that Shirley's Hair Coloring area has reminded me that
the Hair Boutique needs to add more articles on this vast hair topic area. I
am very impressed with the excellent information that Shirley has provided
for visitors searching for hair coloring help and advice.
Other Golden Nuggets
While this site has great hair information "finds" there is other
discoveries stashed in all the other topic areas just waiting for you to
find them. Here are a few that I found buried, but worth the dig.
Plastic Surgery
No I haven't had any major cosmetic surgery. Yes I have done
gycolic facial peels. Last year I was turned into a 7 day bright blue smurf
with the "blue peel" (yes it hurt, yes it was worth it, yes you turn bright
blue). OK, I confess. I have a fascination with this magic
world.
There are some great common sense articles that provide excellent info
for anyone who survives a blue peel and decides to proceed to the nipping
and tucking phase. I was glued to my screen reading Dr. Paul Cenac's
tips on how to find a qualified plastic surgeon. While I am not
seriously shopping, anyone who is, would find this info helpful.
Besides Dr. Cenac's tips there are several other informative articles and
links to some good plastic surgery sites. I didn't find my own
personal "surviving a blue peel" tip (suck on ice cubes as a distraction)
but I did find lots of other helpful tips.
Women's Health
A few years ago I lost a close friend to breast cancer. My friend
Judy was a beautiful, vibrant redhead who bravely fought the battle of her
life. I am always very impressed with any site that takes the time to
provide information on this killer.
Shirley's section on Women's Health has a range of excellent articles on
breast cancer including information on mammograms, self examination and
symptoms. This entire section should not be missed.
Exercise
This January and everyone who made a New Year's resolution to lost weight
or exercise will love this section where you can learn to burn fat, firm up
lots of different body parts and keep your resolution.
Contests/Free Stuff
This section turns me into "kid in candyland" mode while I plot how to
order all the great samples and win all the cool contests. Even if you
don't want to enter any of the contests or send away for the samples this is
a fun place to check out the goodies.
Summary
If you get a chance, check out all of the topics at Beauty & Health.
Shirley has done a great job of "mining" the Net for Beauty & Health
information. Her topics are timely, informative and well
balanced. I guarantee that you will find lots of gold in the Beauty &
Health pages and you don't need a pick or a shovel. Enjoy!
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