Sexy Bikini For U

SILKEN LINGERIE

2007-01-25T18:03:00.001-08:00

Emergency Plan For A Bikini Butt!

2007-01-25T18:01:00.001-08:00

Question.

Victoria, I am going on a summer vacation with my husband in two weeks and I need help getting my a** in a swimsuit without wearing one of those old lady ones like my grandmother has. You know the one with the built in skirt. Help Victoria! What can I do?
- J. McMurphy

Hello Ms J.
You sure know how to challenge me don't you? First... whatever you do, make sure your husband does NOT see you in a "skirt swimsuit". There is only so much Viagra can do girlfriend!

Second... I have some great tips for your "exit muscles" (the last ones people see when you leave the room) to look presentable. If you are really strict, you may look so good, your husband won't want you to exit the room at all on this year's vacation!

A few years ago, I needed to get ready for a swimsuit photo shoot at the exclusive Beverly Hills Celebrity hotel LeMontrose. I was not happy with my "rear view" so I put together this emergency bikini butt regime. It worked beautifully. After working my plan, my legs were more defined, my butt was tighter and, shall I say, high and lifted up. I felt great at the photo shoot. My results were validated when the rapper (name withheld) who was not in need of a tan, kept coming out by the pool and accidentally dropping his D&G sunglasses every other minute. I think I must have looked great to him. He was sneaking a look at my "assets" as he was pretending to recover his D&G's.

Okay Ms. J. get out your highlighter, print this page and highlight the tips you will follow diligently, even while you are on vacation. That's right. The last thing you want to do is look great the first day, then go on a "I'm on vacation" binge fest and bloat up like those cute little gold fish snacks.

1. Get Mentally and Spiritually ready. Center yourself. Prayers, affirmations and meditation are great ways to relax and make the preparation for your vacation and a fun and exciting challenge.

2. Start drinking at least 10 cups of water a day right away. The last 3 - 4 days I will add in a cup of herbal diuretic tea a day. The days when I'm drinking the tea I cut my water in half.

3. Do sixty minutes of cardio each day at a low-moderate intensity. You will want to do this for at least two weeks before your vacation, or as much time as you have before you leave. You can break this up into two sessions if you need to, but one long session is optimal. My Swimsuit Shape Up Collection is a great way to get that cardio in each day. Don't balk, we're getting ready for vacation here!

4. Sculpt and Tone every other day, do a full body workout with light-weights, with special emphasis on plies', lunges, floorwork - leg lifts and donkey kicks. 3 sets of 25 reps per side of each exercise. Do your abdominals every other day as well. Figure out your three favorite abdominal exercises and review last week' s abdominal hollowing tips and apply them.

5. Do not eat after 7:00 PM. That means NOTHING at 7:00PM. Water or tea but no calories. This is a big key!

6. Eat clean staying away from salt, sugar, desserts, ice cream and dairy. My Quick Start Fat Loss Program is perfect way to diet for optimal health and conditioning. If you don't have it already, pick one up today!

7. Increase Low Glycemic Index foods which help with weight release such as cabbage, onions, broccoli, cooked tomatoes, beans, wheat and certain fruit.

8. AVOID ALL HIGH Glycemic Foods. I have an extensive list in my Quick Start Fat Loss Program. Do NOT eat these foods. They could turn to fat faster than butter.

9. Eat 4-5 meals a day slightly smaller than my normal servings. Go easy on the condiments. For the last three days during the diuretic phase, omit any high salt food, condiments and drink distilled water.

10. Finally use a series of Herbal Baths to smooth and tighten the skin around your legs, hips and buns. Take 2 - 3 baths a week for 30 minutes each. You'll need the downtime with all that cardio and sculpting! In addition to working on any remaining cellulite areas, the baths will help detoxify your skin and improve your overall complexion.

Okay girlfriend, you have some great tips for getting you're a** ready for your revealing beach unveiling. You can do it. If you start today, you can possibly lose up to an inch or even more in your hips and thighs for that awesome vacation. Have a great time, and send me some photos!

God Bless and make it the Best Week Ever!,

Victoria

By: Victoria Johnson

FULL BRAZILIAN LINGERIE

2007-01-25T17:55:00.001-08:00

Bikini Waxing - Bikini & Brazilian Waxing 101

2007-01-25T17:49:00.001-08:00

The bikini and Brazilian wax are more popular than ever. Here we will look at the advantages of doing both and you will see why the Bikini and Brazilian wax are so popular.

While some women may still avoid bikini waxing, opting instead for the tried and tested razor, many more are taking the plunge and going all the way with the Brazilian wax.

Bikini waxing traditionally, removes only the hair that is visible around the bikini area. Brazilian waxing is a method of hair removal that removes all of the hair from the genital region.

Not for the feint hearted, Brazilian waxing is a trend that has grown in popularity for both men and women.

While bikini waxing remains popular, a Brazilian wax is undoubtedly the best way to achieve a smooth, sensual clean look and feel around the bikini area.

Bikini Waxing

Regular bikini waxing involves the application of warm wax to the area around the bikini line. A strip of cloth is pressed on top and then immediately ripped off against the direction of the hair growth.

Brazilian Waxing – what it entails

Brazilian waxing focuses on the genital area and involves the removal of hair from the areas around the vagina, perineum and anus.

The entire genital area is covered with talcum powder before hot oil is applied and the hair removed.

As with bikini waxing, the hair is removed by pressing a strip of cloth on top of the oil and then ripping it off against the direction of the hair growth.

Contrary to popular belief, Brazilian waxing does not necessarily involve complete hair removal. Some people choose to leave a 'landing strip', a line of hair above the vagina.

Different beauty therapists may use slightly different approaches. Some may use a strip of cloth as is used in regular waxing, while others may use just the hot wax, which as it cools, shrink wraps the hairs and pulls them from the roots.

Any stray hairs are removed with a pair of tweezers.

Brazilian Waxing - What to Expect

Having a Brazilian wax will involve you adopting various positions that you may find a bit embarrassing!

Expect to contort your body, be on all fours, hold your legs up in the air, to the side, over the therapist's shoulder and anywhere necessary in order for wax to be applied and hair removed.

For a Brazilian wax, your pubic hair is required to be about a quarter inch in length and so it may be necessary for your therapist to trim it down to this length.

After all the hair has been removed a soothing lotion is applied to the area.

What Are the Advantages of Brazilian Waxing?

• Lasts between ten days and three weeks

• You feel clean, shiny and smooth

• Your partner may find it erotic

• Enhances intercourse

What are the Disadvantages of Brazilian Waxing?

The only real disadvantage is the pain but this lessens with subsequent Brazilian waxing and most people think it's worth it.

Where to get a Brazilian Wax

If you are a wax virgin it may be an idea to start with a regular bikini wax first before graduating to the Brazilian wax and in all cases this is a treatment that you should definitely have done by a professional.

Is it Worth it?

For most people Brazilian waxing provides a long lasting sensual feeling that is definitely worth 15 minutes of discomfort (and embarrassment!) and can be enjoyed by both you and your partner.

By: Sacha Tarkovsky

Historical Tribute To Exotic Lingerie

2007-01-25T17:46:00.001-08:00

Want to know why we think of certain lingerie as exotic? The idea of lingerie and what has made it what it is today can be traced through several centuries of history. Through the history of exotic lingerie, women have not necessarily changed the focus of what lingerie should do for them, but instead, have focused on the best way to expose what they want and hide what they don't want. For those interested in knowing why lingerie is like it is today, they can look into how it was.

The first style of lingerie has been traced back to ancient Rome and Greece. This type of lingerie was seen as a corset. However, the corset was used only to push up the women's breasts so that they could be seen outside of their dresses completely. After this particular stage of lingerie faded out as a fashion, lingerie became a focus of support.

The two main areas that lingerie focused on for support is the bust and the buttocks. The silhouette was one of the fashions that were used in order to expose both of these areas to the fullest by adding support. Corsets and bells were used to define and bring out these specific areas of a woman's figure, especially during the Middle Ages. The evolution of this continued into the Renaissance, where things such as padded silhouettes for support and cones to shape the breasts came into style. It was during this time that the corset became popular to make the abdomen flat and the busts big. Women began to use whale bone in order to make the corset tighter around their abdomen. This was to the point of breaking ribs in their body.

It wasn't until the eighteenth century that the flattery of the corset became something that wasn't as harsh to a woman's body. Instead of focusing on the corset for breasts, exotic lingerie began to focus on hoops that would go over the waist in order to make it smaller. The S-silhouette also came into play, which allowed women to have an exaggerated buttocks, small waist and large breasts.

The end of the nineteenth century divided exotic lingerie into two categories. One held corsets in order to support the figure of the breasts while stockings, held up by garters and suspenders helped to create a different look for the buttocks. It was the beginning of the twentieth century when industrialization became more popular that corsets began to go completely out of style. In 1913, the first bra was invented by Mary Phelps Jacob by tying two handkerchiefs together with a string. This was softer and more comfortable than a corset and allowed for women to be comfortable while working in factories.

The Roaring Twenties twisted the entire figure of women, moving to an attractive look by having a flat chest and straight hips. Chemise and bloomers were invented in order to stay light and loose-fitting on women, allowing them to look small and flat. However, it was only

one decade later that the figure was back in style. In the 1930s, the first form of elastic was also invented, making it easier for women to keep a sexier look with exotic lingerie, while not having to suffer from things such as tight fitting corsets.

In the 1970s, women began to wear less and expose more. The mini-skirts were a popular way to do this. It was with this change in fashion that it was also required to change what women were wearing underneath, which pulled for the invention of the bikini strap underwear, and eventually led to the wearing of thongs. Today, lingerie is a popular and comfortable way of achieving the look that is desired with the breasts and the buttocks. New inventions and ways for the right support are continuously coming into style to help women achieve the best look.

From corsets to thongs, under garments for the looks have developed and evolved for the benefit of both men and women. Knowing where lingerie has come from and what it has allowed women to expose through their bodies allows you to find what you want when learning how to shape your body with lingerie.

By: Rick Freedom

Get A Beautiful Beach Body - Tight Butt, Legs And Arms

2007-01-25T17:45:00.001-08:00

You too can be hot and beautiful like the most luscious season on earth. The only problem is that there is not much time left to build your fine behind to the point that it is so worth watching as you walk away before the summer is over.

That's right, you know that you always look as people walk away, and be honest…it's not because you are lovingly sending them warm wishes, you are checking them out to see how much junk is in their trunk. And if that's not sneaky enough, you know that you compare it to yours. Come on, that's what we do. We live in a constant state of comparison, it's not healthy, it's not even practical, but the fact is, it's real.

So how do you refine your behind in a short time and tighten your upper body so that when you wave at your friends across the beach, the sagginess on the back of your arm doesn't wave in the breeze and create a giant wave.

Here is a great mini workout regime I put together for one of my music artists who had to shoot an album cover for her new release. She was in the studio putting the final touches on her CD and she got the call from hell. It was her manager telling her they had decided on the shoot location for her cover shot. It was to be on this spectacular island in a tropical paradise that most of us only dream of visiting when we win the lottery.

A few minutes later, I got the SOS (Shoot Only in my Skin) distress call. She had less than ten days to go from snackin' in the recording studio to looking sexy on the beach for a CD cover for the world to see!

I went to work and put together an instant toning workout schedule and combined it with my Low Glycemic Diet with Catabolic Foods. Hip Hop Cardio was a part of her workouts as well because it burns fat, helps you develop rhythm and confidence. You can do any cardio you like as long as you do some cardio every day to keep your metabolism up and burn stored body fat. Oh yes, and the instant tanning to give her the authentic island look. That came later after we made her arms, abs and behind look and feel tighter.

The key word is she felt tighter. You see when you feel good, you feel beautiful and when you feel beautiful you walk with more grace and confidence, which sends out great vibes that you love your beach body. That is the beginning of getting excited and inspired enough to continue on your program after the initial burst. All great changes happen from the inside out.

The Beautiful Beach Body Program

First of all, I love traditional training and I love how dance moves shape and tighten your body differently than many of the gym moves. Dancers have sleek long lean muscles and they move with pure grace. I like gym moves too in a long-term fitness program, dont' get me wrong... But, for this program I am taking you back to the beginning of women's body training movement. My signature Vertical Training and Power Shaping technique is the base for this workout.

Workout Accessories to Gather for Your Workout

Beach Towel - I personally have my clients lie on a beach towel because they are soft to touch on the skin which puts you in a wonderful mood.

Water Bottle – 8-16 ounces of water – Stay hydrated during your workout.
Music – Get in the zone. Turn on some music that is upbeat, happy and makes you feel good. This will inspire you to stay with the workout for the entire duration.
Picture – Find some inspiring magazine pictures that inspire you to train. Your mind sees pictures and then it drives you in the direction of your visualized desire.
Beautiful Beach Body Circuit Isometric Training Techniques

1. Plies

2. Side Lying Leg Lifts

3. Girl's Push-ups

Move #1 - Plie's

Begin with Dancer's Plie's or and easier explanation. Wide Leg Stance Knee Bends

-A plie' is a bend of the knees. It is a foundational strength and stretch that ballet dancers practice. It is a specific exercise that tones and strengthens your entire lower body. The hips, butt, thighs, hamstrings and calves are all worked together. It is compounded power move that works wonders.

Learning to plié correctly is fundamental to proper training and getting that beautiful lower body you desire. Yet most people do it incorrectly, in that they sink down with legs, and then quickly return to a standing position.

Begin by standing in front of a mirror so that you can monitor your alignment. Face the mirror in a wide stance, which in dance is known as second position. Be careful that you are aligning your knees with your toes at all times. Pull your abdominals in as to get a sense that your navel is couching your spine. This is called hollowing your abdominal wall so that your are shaping and engaging them as well throughout the move.

Stand up straight so that you can feel a vertical line up and down the center of your body.
Begin to lower your body weight toward the floor slowly with control to the count of four. Use your abdominal muscles, relax your back, and drop your tailbone. Be sure your body is centered over your feet, keep your heels down you lower your body down. Go only as low as you can comfortably go.

Now, press your feet into the floor making your muscles in your thighs and butt active. Hold for four isometric counts as you take deep breaths.

Then slowly press your feet into the floor and push yourself out of the plie' as you return to the starting standing position.

If you don't feel these muscular sensations, you're doing the plié too fast. Now, to the count of four, begin pressing upwards and focus on feeling resistance in all of your lower body muscles as you come out of the plié. As you perfect this move you can add various arm moves with light two to five pound hand weights. This is what I did with my artist. As she felt balanced and centered with the movement I added bicep curls with light hand weights.

I had her start with hands by her side behind her legs, as she lowered her body to the count of four, she drew her hands toward her upper shoulders and held it for the count of four as she was in the plie' isometrically and then lowered the weight as she pressed out of the plie. It was a great combination of upper and lower body movements that created a sensational feel and look to the muscles.

Move # 2 - Side Leg Lifts (2 versions)

Lie on one side on your beach towel. Side-lying exercises strengthen lateral leg muscles, tighten your outer thighs, narrow your hips and tighten the medial glutes.

Side-lying Leg Lifts:

Lie on your side on the floor. Place your upper body and head in a comfortable position. You lie all the way down, or lie with your hand supporting your head as long as you keep your head in alignment with your neck.

Keep your body in an extended position with your top leg straight and your bottom knee slightly bent to help balance your body. Place your top hand on the floor in front of your abdominals and contract your abdominals throughout the move.

Begin by squeezing your butt. Now to the count of four, slowly lift your upper leg towards the ceiling with the knees facing forward 45 degrees or to a height where you can feel the muscles tightening without strain to the hip joint and hold in an isometric (static) position for the count of four and then slowly lower back down.

Repeat for fifteen reps per side. Repeat each side for a total of three sets. Per side both inner and outer thigh muscles. As you get stronger, you add one to two pound ankle weights for more resistance.

Side Lying Inner Thigh Leg Lifts:

Lie on your side on the floor. Place your upper body and head in a comfortable position. Keep your body in an extended position with your legs resting on top of each other. Then, move bend your top leg and place the foot on the floor behind the bottom leg. Make sure there is enough room to allow the bottom leg to be lifted off the floor.

Contract your abdominals as to include them in your workout and to also help protect your spine and keep your back in a good stable position. Squeeze the inner thigh and slowly to the count of four lift the bottom leg approximately 12 to eighteen inches or as high as is comfortable for you to feel the inner thigh isolate and contract.

Hold for four counts and then lower your leg down to the starting position and repeat for a total of fifteen repetitions. One set is completed once both legs have performed the exercise for the prescribed number of reps on the workout! Be sure to breath deeply throughout the entire sequence.

Move #3 - Bent Knee Tricep Pushups.

This move works the back of your arms and chest and abs. Begin on your hands and knees with your hands resting under your shoulders.

Contract your abdominals and slowly lower your chest to the floor between your hands keeping your head and neck in alignment, lower down until your chest almost touches the floor and do not let your lower back sag, hold for two counts and slowly with control push yourself back up to your starting position.

Keep the body locked in a straight position as you return to the starting position. Breathe comfortably throughout the move. Repeat for total set of ten repetitions. Then rest for thirty seconds by sitting on your knees in a child's pose and then repeat for two more sets.

This is a powerful exercise and in the beginning you may only be able to do perform two reps with accuracy and control. But don't give up. It will get easier as you get stronger. It is a fantastic exercise for tightening the muscles in back of your arms and your chest muscles.

This move will make your stronger and tighter at the same time. That is a great combination of fitness results to have whether you are sunbathing or surfing.

Here's the Triceps Push up Breakdown…

On your hands and knees, contract your abdominals then to the count of four

Slowly lower your upper body down to the floor holding your elbows close to your side

Hold for a count of two (isometric contraction) and then push yourself back up to the starting position.

Repeat for a total of eight repetitions.

There you have it, a wonderful plan for your Beautiful Beach Body. You will feel long, lean and confident as you stroll along the beach. Beauty starts from the inside out. Don't wait start today feeling great about yourself but start building the best body ever now.

If you haven't already, go to my website and sign up for my weekly newsletter, there are so many amazing tips, great award winning workouts and lots of juicy stories about my training adventures. You will love the inspiration and who knows maybe you will be a star I get to train someday.

Oh, and by the way, the artist who I got the SOS distress call from looked absolutely gorgeous for her cover shoot. She was stunning in her birthday suit. She did not do a sleazy shot. She did a tasteful, elegant and soulful cover like Eve (as in Adam's wife) in a Genesis type shot. If I remember correctly, Eve did not wear anything in the garden either...

God Bless and make it the Best Week Ever!

By: Victoria Johnson -

Wicked Weasel Bikini

2007-01-25T17:41:00.001-08:00

If you are reading an article entitled wicked weasel bikini, you probably don't need to be told what wicked weasel bikinis are. But just in case you wandered here by accident, here goes: imagine the tiniest, most revealing and sexy bikini you've ever seen on the beach, then reduce the amount of material you saw by 25% and that's a wicked weasel bikini.

To say that wicked weasel bikinis are the next best thing to being on a nude beach is to state the obvious. In fact, some would go so far as to say that these bikinis are better than complete nudity because they give the impression of seeing something you aren't supposed to be seeing. The makers of these bikinis are very, very smart in their marketing.

Not only do they make the sexiest swimwear on the market, but they also promote them by using real life billboards. Go to any web site devoted to wicked weasel bikinis and you will see drop dead gorgeous girls modeling them. Sometimes it's difficult to tell if they are even wearing bikinis.

The wicked weasel bikini doesn't come in just one style, although you might think that. After all, how much can you really do with such a stunningly small amount of material, right? You'd be amazed. You can find bikinis that are the standard thong or G-string type, but the guys making wicked weasel do one better.

Even their most modest—and understand that the use of that term is done very liberally—isn't for the faint of heart. Once you start looking into the more dazzlingly daring of wicked weasel bikinis, you will once and for all determine if you are an exhibitionist or not. Let's put it this way: If you don't currently take a razor to your bikini area, you will if you expect to wear these in public!

Some of the styles seem almost to exist without the ability to cover up anything south of the border. Indeed, to wear the most wicked of these bikinis, be prepared to spend quite some time with that razor. But small doesn't necessarily translate into sexiest. While many women—and most men—may take a look at what wicked weasel bikinis have to offer and automatically assume that those swimsuits that appear to be nothing more than strings knotted together may produce the most arousing result, take time to shop.

Many men—including your humble writer—find the "surf short" style to be the one that takes the breath away. In fact, if you purchase the surf short style in the color white and take a dip into the water, don't be surprised to find that you have become even more of exhibitionist than those wearing the teeniest, tiniest style. In addition to being small, this style also tends to be see-through.

The wicked weasel bikini craze has hit the internet big time. If you enter wicked weasel bikini into a search engine you will come up with some of the sexiest pictures on the internet and you'll even possess the ability to truthfully say you weren't surfing for porn.

By: June Mala -

Bikini Waxing - A Guide To Your First Time Bikini Wax

2007-01-25T17:39:00.001-08:00

Summer is approaching, and with it memories of everlasting itching, ingrown hairs and bloodspots. Memories that may be making you wonder if it isn't time you found the courage for a bikini wax. You may be weighing the thought of four glorious weeks of smooth skin, plus a bit of pain, against frequent shaving and all its joys.

If you choose a bikini wax, make sure it's not a last-minute decision. Last-minute holidays might be spontaneous and fun but a last minute bikini wax will make you red and sore for the beach. Bikini waxing should be done at least 24 hours before you wear a bikini.

Another no-no is doing a first time bikini wax yourself. Go to a salon. They spend all day waxing bikini lines and a good one will be quick and efficient. When you arrive at the salon make sure you tell the technician exactly what you want. For example, if you want a high bikini line, make that clear.

The first thing they'll do is to trim your pubic hair – if they haven't asked you do so before you arrive. Then warm wax is then applied to the bikini line area with a wooden stick. Next, warm strips are placed over the wax. When the wax is hard the strips are pulled away and with them hair and dead skin cells.

It should all be over with pretty quickly – within 15 to 20 minutes. As for the pain, if you've ever waxed your legs, you've probably already got a fair idea of how much it'll hurt. If not, you should know that reports range from uncomfortable to very painful. The good news is that you'll be given some soothing cream or lotion, which should help. When it's over, head for home and put on some loose-fitting underwear and clothes when you get there. Your bikini wax should last from four to six weeks.

By: Paton Jackson -

String

2007-01-25T17:15:00.001-08:00

adjustable string bottom