Shapewear:Guide to selecting what works for you.

Identify Your Trouble Spots

 The first step to choosing shapewear is identifying your trouble spots. Do you need tummy control? Would you like more waist definition? How about shaping your torso, rear, or thighs? Maybe you’d like to smooth all of these trouble spots. Since today’s shapewear targets specific areas of the body, once you know what you want to improve, choosing the right shapewear for your silhouette is simple.

 

Styles Of Shapewear

 Here are the most common styles of shapewear to help introduce you to the possibilities.

1. Body Shapewear

 Also called all-in-ones, body briefers, and body-shapers, body shapewear smoothes your entire midsection, providing full body coverage and shaping from the bust down to the tummy and hips. Since body shapewear may featured built-in bra, they’re often sized according to bra size, which makes finding the right fit easy. For example, if you wear a size 38C bra, you wear size 38C body shapewear.

2. Bust Shapewear

 Instead of just pushing up your bust like the average push-up bra, bust shapewear enhances your shape by giving your bust a boost while providing maximum support that looks completely natural. Just as with body shapewear, you should purchase bust shapewear based on your bra size.

3.  Shaping Panties

 Flatten your tummy and hips while lifting and supporting your rear for sleek, natural shaping without pinching or binding. Choose shaping panty size based on your waist, hip, and panty size as shown in the chart below.

4. Thigh Shapewear

 Leg and mid thigh control briefs extend down the thighs. Thigh shapewear provides the same tummy, hip, and rear benefits of shaping panties while also helping to shape and support the thighs. The best thigh shapewear includes a special grip or band at the bottom of the leg that prevents rolling and shifting.

5. Tummy Control Shapewear

 Tummy control shapewear resembles shaping panties except that it typically only offers tummy control. With a support panel that extends over the front of the brief, hipster or thong, tummy control shapewear flattens your tummy to give you a smooth silhouette.

6. Waist Shapewear

 Sometimes you just need a little waist definition, and that’s where waist shapewear excels. There are many different styles of waist nipping shapewear with the most common being a shaping brief with an elongated waistband that shapes your torso and extends to just below your bra line. Waist shapewear will give your waist a smooth contour, and your waist, hip, and panty measurements determine the correct size for you.

Shapewear Support Levels

 In addition to coming in a variety of shapes and colors, today’s shapewear also offers a number of different support levels that allow you to choose the amount of control, smoothness and support best for your figure.

Light Control – Offers as much support as control top pantyhose and provides gentle, minimal control  shaping without panels or binding

Moderate Control – Offers additional smoothness with a moderate amount of control from light spandex and control panels

Firm Control – Offers excellent correction and support for problem areas with solid control from firm panels and spandex

Extra Firm Control – Offers the highest level of shapewear support available, and typically includes reinforced panels and sometimes even boning for maximum, extra firm control.

Shapewear Sizing Tips

 The key to getting the best fit with shapewear is wearing the right size. If you’ve never been professionally measured for a bra or other undergarments, it’s well worth the time and effort. Sizing is critically important to getting a flawless look from your bras, panties, and shapewear. You’ll also enjoy greater comfort by wearing the correct size.

 Never buy shapewear a size smaller than you actually need. It won’t provide extra support because it won’t fit correctly. If you’re considering a smaller size because you desire additional support, a better way to get that support is to just move to shapewear with a higher support level.

Shapewear Fitting Tips

 Putting on your shapewear correctly will ensure a perfect fit that is also comfortable. To avoid binding, gather the sides of your shapewear in your hands similar to putting on pantyhose. Then step into the legs, pull your shapewear up to position the crotch, and then gradually release the fabric until you work all the way up, making sure the panels and seams are straight and in place.

 After putting on your shapewear, sit down to check for binding and rolling. Before getting dressed, you should also cross your legs, bend over, kneel down, lift your arms, walk around, and perform any other movements you regularly do during the day to make sure your shapewear stays in place without binding or cutting into your body. Taking this simple step can mean a proper fit that stays comfortable all day instead of having to readjust constantly.

 If your shapewear gets too hot during the day, look for much lighter weight shapers. If sweating or itching is a problem, consider applying baby powder to your skin before putting on your shapewear to feel cool, clean, and dry.

  culled from http://superglamnews.com

 Hope u enjoyed reading this blog however in my personal opinion investing in shape wear is a big yes..I have a few but im sometimes so nonchalant that i forget to put them on but coming across articles on this has made me realize how important they are

‘ANY WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE'S HAPPY TO BE CHILDLESS IS A LIAR OR A FOOL': TAKE IT FROM A WOMAN WHO'S GIVEN UP HER DREAMS OF MOTHERHOOD AT 44’. WHAT DO YOU THINK PEOPLE???

Not so long ago women without children, like me, were pitied. But now the world has caught on to the fact that, on the surface at least, we don't have such a hard life.

Take this week: I spent a few days on a friend's sailing boat in Italy, sun-bathing, drinking rose, talking, laughing and dancing until dawn.

Back at home after my break, I slept for hours, ate breakfast in bed, and stayed there reading until well after lunchtime. I couldn't be bothered to cook, so I went out for a Thai meal, bumped into a friend, went to the cinema and then out for drinks.

At the weekend, I stayed with friends with children in the countryside where I found money worries, toddler tantrums, conflicted step-parental relationships, and an all-consuming fractious energy caused by Mum and Dad having not slept more than five hours a night for months.

Unlike the child-free trip to Italy, where we drank for pleasure, this time wine was part of the coping process.

The children were lovely and polite - to me. But anyone could see that underneath the outward manners and helpfulness, Tolstoy's maxim applied: 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'.

Earlier this week, a broadsheet newspaper ran a triumphalist piece by a 42-year-old who claimed she was wilfully and joyfully childfree.  The writer was one of a growing number of women, she claimed, who believe having it all means not having a baby. I call them the Motherhood Deniers.

To an extent, that writer is right. Unburdened by motherhood and the personal sacrifice it requires, a woman can dedicate herself to her career and create a home with all the delicate ornaments, sumptuous fabrics and hard edges that have no place in a family environment.

Where a decade ago, just one in nine women remained childless at 45 and were considered rather peculiar at that, now that figure is closer to one in four. For women with a university education, like me, that figure rises to 43 per cent - an extraordinary figure which signifies a seismic social change.

Among my friends, relatively ordinary women as opposed to media types, I am not alone in being childless. And there are many more examples in the realms of the super-successful, from Oprah Winfrey and Cameron Diaz to Helen Mirren and Theresa May.

Of 192 female directors among 1,110 FTSE 100 board members, it is estimated that just under half of them are childless. 

I had an intern recently, a 21-year-old Oxford graduate, who told me confidently she never wanted kids because it would get in the way of her career. I told her she was mad. While a child-free life looks fun on Facebook, no number of career highs, nights at the theatre, weekends away or adult pleasures can disguise the fact that it feels - there is no other word - empty. 

Between today and the end of my life, I hope there are a few more decades. But, as time goes by, the idea of dying without children feels unnatural and sad.

Statistics do not reveal whether the 43 per cent of educated women who are child-free are so by choice or by circumstance, but I believe the Motherhood Deniers, waving the flag for the childless life, remain in the minority. Admittedly a far more confident, glamorous, and witty minority than they once were, but a minority nonetheless.

For the rest of us, childlessness is a source of sadness and regret. Most of those 43 per cent will have gone through fertility hell, or never met the right guy, or left it too late, or have any number of unhappy stories.

Few would say: 'I don't want, and never wanted, children.'

'If I could teach a class to 16-year-olds about the importance of having a baby while you've still got energy and fresh eggs in your ovaries, I would'

Both Theresa May and Helen Mirren - frequently held up as role models for the childless - say they weren't against having them. Mirren has said: 'I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did.'

May put it thus, 'It just didn't happen... you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have.' Which is pretty much how I feel; sad but philosophical. I was in charge of my life. I should have put having a child first. As a young girl, having a family was something I dreamed of and assumed would happen. But then the education system swallowed me up, and nothing in it tells you that having a baby any time soon is a good idea.

My parents' divorce put me off too. I had ants in my pants during every relationship until I finally met someone I could trust at the age of 40. He wasn't going to start making babies straight away. So I waited. I was 43.

Kate Spicer recently appeared on This Morning to say she regrets the abortion she had at 18

What then but to rush into the arms of the fertility industry brandishing my credit card? I did, but it didn't work. Now, at 44, adoption is always at the back of my mind, but there is some distance to go before I feel my relationship will be ready to take on that challenge.

Motherhood Denier, I am not. If I could teach a class to 16-year-olds about the importance of having a baby while you've still got energy and fresh eggs in your ovaries, I would.

I might get them to talk to my friend, Penny, 45, who has had to admit that she has missed the motherhood boat. 'My mother kept saying to me, 'Quick, have a baby'.

'When she died, mixed up with all the other grief was that realisation that I was the end of the line. Ten years on, I can barely think about that, it makes me too sad. I spent a lot of money on fertility treatment, but in the end, I realised I didn't have the energy to be a mother. My lifestyle is good, it's a sort of compensation.'

As for me, I feel an excruciating awkwardness around new mothers, whose total intimacy with their child leaves me feeling like an outcast, not least because it exposes the ties of friendship as thin and practical.

There is, as one specialist said to me last year, a near to zero chance that I will get pregnant naturally and, he admitted, a fairly slim chance that IVF would work either, given my fertility history and, yes, my age.

Meanwhile, have you read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World with its population graded from the top, Alpha, down to Epsilon? If educated, successful women like me don't breed, are we gearing up for a generation of Epsilon-minus semi-morons?

Social mobility is stickier than ever, so let's not leave breeding to the idiots. 

'On my mum's desk at her home in Devon are two cards, one from me, one from my brother, signed with messages of 'all my love'. When Mum and Dad are gone where will that love go?'

Then again, while women who don't have kids often flag up how wonderful it is to have so much time on their hands, I can't help noticing it's women with kids who get the most done.

My sister-in-law has written two books, has three kids, and a much bigger home than me. JK Rowling was a single parent, and she's done all right.

I sometimes lie awake full of dread about the time approaching when my parents are no longer around. To give or to receive unconditional love is a deeply rare thing.

As a rule, flawed as all parties may be, the parent-child bond is the commonest and most reliable form of that love. Sitting writing this at my mother's desk, surrounded by my grandmother and great-grandmother's things, I feel acute awareness that as my life enters its final half, it is with a diminishing circle of love.

On my mum's desk at her home in Devon are two cards, one from me, one from my brother, signed with messages of 'all my love'. When Mum and Dad are gone where will that love go?

The Motherhood Deniers are terribly excited about their friends. None of whom will be able to wipe their own bottoms in 40 years time, let alone those of their chums. And we all know nephews and nieces are not in the business of dedicating their lives to maiden aunts.

I have never met a woman who regretted having children. She surely exists, but not in my experience. I have met, however, older people who lament never having kids, for whatever reason, and I suspect some of the noisy Motherhood Deniers will eventually join their number.

For them, there are dogs and cats, and when they no longer have strength to pull the foil off a tin of Caesar, it's pretty likely there'll be branches of Dignitas in every shopping mall where the old and unloved can go when there's nothing left to live for.

Source: Daily Mail

‘Wombless’ Wife Of General Overseer Delivers Miracle Baby In United States

I have been off blogger for over three months and i missed every month of it. In the course if my absence many things have happened which i will eventually blog about,i missed friends and my communities and am just excited to be back. I will also announce my return with a troy that has been tagged a miracle. Enjoy reading and drop as much comments as possible xoxo.

Eight years after, wife of the General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries, Port-Harcourt Rivers State, Evangelist (Dr) Nkechi Chinyere, has finally given birth to a bouncing baby girl.

Her conception and delivery have been described as miraculous by medical experts after she was diagnosed to be without a womb few years ago.

The baby arrived on Tuesday July, 23 around 10:10am in far -away Dallas in the United States of America,weighing 10 LBS and recorded as the heaviest child of the day in the hospital.

The baby is due in Nigeria anytime from now ahead of her dedication at the church’s headquarters on October 27.

The dedication will coincide with the Church’s 7th anniversary and Chinyere’s 40th birthday celebration.

Speaking through the Church’s Media Director, Mr. Gogo-Oguta Isaiah, OPM’s general overseer, Apostle (Dr) Chibuzor Chinyere, declared himself the happiest man on earth.

He expressed delight for surviving the insults of his elder sister who taunted him after discovering his wife’s medical status.

Two years after marriage without conception, Chinyere recalled his wife became worried, making him to direct his elder sister to accompany her to an undisclosed hospital in Port Harcourt GRA for examination.

She was pronounced without womb and declared incapable of conception, let alone delivery of baby, Chinyere remembered.

Armed with the vital information, he said his elder sister resorted to smear his wife’s name, even in the Church, taunting her as a man.

Chinyere said: “Today, Doctor Jesus has remembered me and my wife and also rolled away the shame and forever silenced our adversaries.”

The Church’s founder thanked God for demonstrating His power and sovereignty over the ministry once again.

Recounting the success story of the Church, he said only God could have helped a church that is just seven to establish 82 branches within and outside Nigeria with over 300,000 members.

He attributed the giant strides to God, his simplicity and willingness to follow divine leading.

Source: The Nation