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Beauty has no age, although many people, especially women, feel pressured to look eternally young. In this text I will list celebrities over 50 that I consider beautiful. I like natural beauty, without cosmetic procedures to look like a teenager, but I didn't search to banish anyone who had cosmetic procedures or plastic surgery from the list. Even because sometimes the effect of these things is quite natural and beautiful. But I admit I left out a lot of famous people who struggle to look the same as they did in their 20s. Many even use the same haircut. Have you read "The Picture of Dorian Gray"? People like that remind me of this book. First on the list, the beautiful Judi Dench. I never tire of mentioning her as one of the most beautiful women in the world, in my opinion. And she is not beautiful “despite” being almost 90 years old. She is beautiful the way she is, at her age. Helen Mirren. A woman that the more time passes, the prettier she gets. I saw pictures o...

Every season the media publicises the colours that are trending. And this is a text to explain why self-respecting people shouldn't wear a colour simply because it's trendy. No colour looks good on everyone. Not even black and white. It's important to know which colours value your appearance and personality and to know how to build contexts that value you, after all wearing monochromatic looks on a daily basis is boring. When I talk about contexts here, it's a set of factors that include the colours, shapes and materials of your clothes and makeup, your profession, the environment you're going to wear that combination of pieces, etc. My style consultancy offers all the resources you need to use the best colour combinations for your profile, and it's not limited to that. Colours and shapes are non-verbal communication tools and if you don't know what they communicate in each context, they will probably speak ill of you. I am the world's leading expert...

This Christmas it will be twenty years since I last saw my father alive. He was my biggest emotional support. I decided to make a list of songs to deal with grief, or to listen to when we miss someone we love and has passed away. As in some parts of the world it is common to gather the family at Christmas, it can be more difficult to deal with losses during this period. Perhaps the list is useful to listen to in other situations of grief, of closing cycles as well, but I made it thinking about this type of grief. I believe that we should show love while we are alive and I try to do that. The list mixes a bit of what I listen to when I miss someone I'll never see again and songs written for situations of losing someone the composer loves. Love in the afternoon, by Legião Urbana. Letter to Dana from Sonata Arctica. Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. Gostava tanto de você, de Tim Maia. Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day. Farewell, from Apocalyptica. The Loneliest, by M...

End of the World Cup and maybe it's the last time this year that I'm going to talk about football here. I haven't followed the World Cup for over twenty years. This year I saw most of Brazil's games and nothing else. Yesterday I decided to watch the final between Argentina and France. France in the first half looked like they were just present in the game so as not to lose by W.O. As I didn't see the other games of the two teams in the competition, I even suspected a bought game, corruption. The famous Mbape barely saw the ball. It was so ridiculous. In the second half, Mbape woke up after hitting a penalty and carried the team on his back. In the whole game, those who saw it know that apart from a goal in the decisive penalties, he was the only one to score for France. Speaking of penalties, I want to see Martinez, the goalkeeper of the Argentine national team, playing for Palmeiras. And I want to see who is going to say that him doing a little dance after saving...

Below I list six reasons for married women to have a boudoir shoot photographed by me. Different reasons for different people and times. To gain access to a different point of view about yourself and your body. Especially if you believe in “beauty standards” and feel outside of them. To realise that sensuality is in the head and not in the body (although a well-groomed body sometimes helps to stimulate the other's desire). To remind yourself how sexy you are. To gift your partner. To record how sexy you are in photos. Because you deserve (that’s my favourite! What’s yours?) To contract the service, follow the instructions on the “Services Available” page. To sponsor my work read the media kit. If you know a woman who deserves to feel wonderful and a photo shoot could be useful, give her this gift. Surprise her. Even if she's a friend and you don't have any sexual or romantic interest in her. Just want to see her more confident. If you're her partner, surpri...

Nobody likes to look ugly in photos, and with little or no clothes the challenge can be great for some people, but it is possible to have good results, even without having a model body. It is also possible to have bad results even with a perfect body, if you neglect some precautions. See my suggestions for preparing for a boudoir or fine art nude photo shoot by me. Recommendations aimed at the result you are looking for and your profile are offered in the online meeting I have with clients before photoshoots to plan how to do each one. I warn that I work to value the beauty of each client, but I do not invent beauty where the client sabotages himself/herself, such as poorly cared skin or very damaged hair. I don't do skin and hair editing to correct what the client doesn't want to seek a definitive solution to solve. Unlike commercial photographers who sometimes make models unrecognisable through editing, I look for the real beauty of each person, and I mainly explore makeup a...

Let's talk about the World Cup. Once again. After the victory of the Brazilian team against South Korea, a former Irish player complained about the Brazilian players dancing after each goal. He said the dances were disrespectful to the opposing team. I've been following Brazilian football since the 90's. Goal celebrations vary from time to time and with the success of Tiktok, dancing is the newest trend. It's not just during the World Cup. In any game of the national or international championships, players from Brazilian teams celebrate in this way. So why criticise the national team for doing something they are used to doing and is harmful to nobody? Was it perhaps because of the former player's past of aggression on the field that he made the criticism? Could he be a macho man from the countryside who thinks that dancing is not a man's thing, and to play football one must demonstrate his masculinity by breaking an opponent's leg? The time for that kind of...

In the previous text I talked about men in high heels. In this one I talk about tall women and the impact of common sense on their choices. Actress Gwendoline Christie, Larissa Weems from the series Wednesday, is 1.91 m tall and has already said that when she decided to be a film actress people around her said it would be difficult due to her height. I also saw she said that in the series Wednesday is the first time that she thinks she is beautiful on screen, because in other roles her image tended to be masculinised, usually without makeup, that feature that so many women love. Many of us live in a society that is still very sexist and even women have sexist thoughts. And the beliefs we hold affect our choices. Including our style and career choices. Do not read this text thinking about the oppressor and the oppressed. It is a mistake. Think of individual responsibility. In what you do that reinforces your belief of being "oppressed", for example. I mentioned Gwendoline Chr...

The World Cup is taking place in Qatar and, in football, sometimes people say that a player is playing in high heels (I know they say that in Brazil, I don't know if there is an equivalent expression in other languages). This means that he thinks he is better than others and at the same time puts in less effort. Illuminate my ignorance and comment if there is an equivalent expression in your language and what it is. This text is about other ways of wearing heels, mainly by men. In addition, of course, to men who have a fetish for feminisation, for dressing like a woman, there are those who wear heels without looking for a feminine image. Back in the 80s, Tom Cruise wore heels to look taller in Top Gun. You didn't see it, but he wore it because he's much shorter than actress Kelly McGillis, who was his love interest in the movie. Robert de Niro wore high platform shoes to look taller than Al Pacino in "The Irishman". Robert Downey Jr., Brad Pitt, Vin Diesel, Ma...