I'm the first to admit our culture's (and my own) emphasis on external, physical beauty and esthetics. The physical layer is the most superficial (pun intended) and therefore the easiest and most motivating for people to start to work on and effect.
Hold your criticism and yelling about how shallow this is!
Every day, I see how making changes (whether subtle or major) to someone's external layer positively influences their emotions, mood, confidence and spirit. When people feel empowered and attractive, they are more motivated, happier and able to extend that mojo around them. A little increase in peripheral chutzpa leads to an inner glow that can improve your personal and professional relationships and make you a more productive human being! Feeling great, exuding joy and self-assurance is incredibly attractive.
The inverse is an unfortunate waste of tangible attractiveness; when a person's rotten interior deteriorates their visage. Making them plain ugly. Whether it's insecurity or a lack of character, both can degrade a physical "beeee-yout" into Jabba the Hut.
Thank goodness the reverse is completely true. It's an amazing irony how a genuinely kind, selfless, generous, delightful individual can radiate more gorgeousness than any stereotypical "beauty."
Feeling damn good makes you look damn good, which in turn motivates you to do more damn good in your life and in others' lives around you.
Want an instant pretty tip? Do an act of selfless service, unsolicited kindness or charity without expectation of reward. Immediate "fairest of them all" guaranteed.
And in that spirit, I'd like to draw attention to damn good people doing damn good things (who just happen to look damn good doing them.)
Former Milwaukee Brewers' player and coach, Dave Nelson, qualifies for such recognition. Nelson is a FS Wisconsin television analyst for the Milwaukee Brewers as well as director of the Milwaukee Brewers Alumni Relations.
For over four years, Nelson has proudly served as a director on the board of Open Arms Home for Children in South Africa. Open Arms provides shelter, clothing, and basic health care for orphaned South African children affected by AIDS.
He is also active with the Brewers Community Foundation which serves several non-profit organizations within the Milwaukee area.
Yup. Nelson is looking damn handsome from all this involvement in damn good stuff.
On July 25, Nelson hosts the Third Annual Davey Nelson's Celebrity Golf tournament at Blackwolf run in Kohler to benefit both the Brewers Community Foundation and Open Arms.
The tournament is limited to 30 foursomes that will play in a scramble format. Cocktails, a gourmet dinner and a silent/live auction will follow play.
The opportunity to do some good will make you feel great! Or perhaps doing some good will make you look even better! Experience the glow from agape (ah-gah-pay, not like your mouth hanging stunningly open – not cute!) Get a little exercise, enjoy a fabulous meal, hobnob with celebs and shop for a worthy cause; the perfect prescription for inner/outer loveliness.
Keep me posted on damn good people doing damn good things. Let's make Milwaukee a better (looking) place.
Lindsay Garric is a Milwaukee native who calls her favorite city home base for as long as her lifestyle will allow her. A hybrid of a makeup artist, esthetician, personal trainer and entrepreneur all rolled into a tattooed, dolled-up package, she has fantasies of being a big, bad rock star who lives in a house with a porch and a white picket fence, complete with small farm animals in a version of Milwaukee that has a tropical climate.
A mishmash of contradictions, colliding polar opposites and a dash of camp, her passion is for all pretty things and the products that go with it. From makeup to workouts, food to fashion, Lindsay has a polished finger on the pulse of beauty, fashion, fitness and nutrition trends and is super duper excited to share that and other randomness from her crazy, sexy, gypsy life with the readers of OnMilwaukee.com.
