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Total-Balance Beauty Quiz

In a girl’s busy life pampering and beautifying are not an indulgence. They’re a must! Stress literally melts away when you give yourself regular massages, facials and body treatments. Better still, when you’re kind to yourself, nurturing yourself with yummy treatments, potions and lotions your skin glows and your body tingles with energy and vitality. And because pampering makes you feel good, it’s a direct a path to GirlForce.

According to Ayurveda, the 5000 year old “life science” of India, pampering rituals such as massage, facials, hair treatments – in fact anything you may do to groom and beautify yourself – can balance your Body Type. The science prescribes different remedies and recipes for the different Body Types, Air, Fire and Earth. So you can use these principles to keep your skin, hair and nails in tip top shape and at the same time balance your Body Type and maintain your health and wellbeing.

Do the following “Total-Balance Beauty Quiz” and discover whether you’re an Air, Fire or Earth Body Type and then read some of the tips on how to how to pamper your own unique bod. Your Body Type will influence your skin, hair, body shape and colouring as well as your moods and personality.

As you go through the test circle the answer that most closely resembles you
- a. b or c. Only circle one answer per question, even if you feel you fall
somewhere between two answers. At the end of the quiz add up the number of
a’s, b’s and c’s. The highest number of a’s, b’s or c’s will reveal your
Body Type. Ready to get into it?

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1. The texture of your skin is?

a) Fine, dry with a little flakiness
b) Can be prone to a little sensitivity and redness
c) Large pores and a bit oily

2. When you get zits and blackheads?

a) I don’t get many, but they’re usually just around my T-zone
b) When they show up they’re red and angry
c) They’re deep and blind

3. The shine factor on your face is?

a) Non-existent
b) Mainly on the t-zone on my nose and chin
c) Looks like I’ve dived into an ocean of oil

4. Your colouring?

a) Dark for my race and has bluish undertones
b) It has reddish undertones
c) Pale for my race and has yellowish undertones

5. You’ve just blow-dried you hair. An hour later it looks?

a) Dry, fine, kinky and stringy
b) Like I just walked out of a salon
c) Plastered to my head in a greasy mess

6. Your preferred work-out style?

a) I have more enthusiasm than stamina, but if I’m focused I get into it
b) I like go-for-the-burn exercise and love fierce competition
c) I have to push myself to exercise but I feel good afterwards

7. Your energy?

a) Comes in quick bursts but I tire pretty easily
b) Have good energy reserves.
c) Have good stamina that keeps me going.

8. Your temperature gauge?

a) I hate dry, windy, cold days and crave the sun
b) Crisp cool days suit me just fine
c) I don’t like damp, cold weather

9. Your appetite?

a) I can take or leave food. I can eat any old time
b) I can set a watch by my tummy rumbles
c) I like my food but I’m rarely starving

10.Your personal characteristics?

a) Adventurous, curious, original, exciting, charming
b) Passionate, challenging, stimulating, powerful
c) Stable, kind, deep, faithful, serene, compassionate

What Body Type Are You?

If you scored mostly a’s you’re a cool and creative Air Body Type. If you scored mostly b’s you’re a sassy and sexy Fire Body Type and if you scored mostly c’s you’re a laid-back and sensuous Earth Body Type.

 

Mostly a’s – You’re an Air Body Type

Air girls survive on their nervous energy. Changeable, sometimes erratic, zany, adventurous and enigmatic, the Air babe longs for a lifestyle that involves travel, stimulation and spontaneous fun. She’s a wild child that hates other people’s rules and regulations. But here’s the thing. Air, which is naturally buzzy and a little anxious, benefits from getting grounded. That means, instead of having your head in the clouds you feel happier and more balanced when you put your feet on the ground.

Air Pampering and Beautifying Prescription: When you get into a daily pampering ritual of self-massage with a moisturising body cream, weekly hydrating face masks (with yoghurt and honey) and nourishing hair and nail treatments (a once a week warm olive oil mask will do the trick) every part of you becomes deliciously calm, grounded and at ease. Air girls, who naturally have dry skin, hair and nails, benefit hugely from the regular injection of nourishing oils (such as sweet almond and ylang-ylang or rose-hip and geranium) and rich hydrating moisturisers. Your hair too becomes much less frizzy and flyaway when you reach for a moisture-rich shampoo and conditioner combo.

Mostly b’s – You’re a Fire Body Type

Fire babes are the go-getters of the GirlForce zodiac and they’re fired with a passion that burns. Sometimes serious and intense, sometimes out-there and funny, the Fire girl is often the team leader who likes to engage and inspire her gang. Fire gals, who pride themselves on their smarts, don’t like to think there is a downside to their courageous, super-nova personalities. But the truth is, these girls face burn-out from time to time. You need to throw some soothing heat-quenching water onto your fires - not to dampen down your magnetic personality, but to take the pressure off so you can live a little and let go of some of your more intense drives for perfection.

Fire Pampering and Beautifying Prescription: When you cool yourself down with some water-therapy, like swimming in the ocean or even having tepid showers, you feel clear and refreshed. Daily compresses with a cool essential-oil infused washer (try a few drops of lavender or chamomile on the washer) will also bring down your internal heat and help you feel cool-headed and calm. Rashes, redness and angry zits disappear when you keep your temperature down with chill-out self-massage with a luxurious body lotion or an essential oil boosted body oil (olive oil and refreshing peppermint is a great double).

Mostly c’s – You’re an Earth Body Type

Dreamy and laid-back, Earth girls generally play “Miss Modesty”. You know, the girl who hangs back in the wings while their more out-there pals take the lion’s share of the limelight. Who would guess how healing and liberating it would be for an Earth girl to push her buds aside and step into the spotlight to shine? You need to get out there and show off your siren-style. Earth girls are blessed with the kind of skin and hair other girls can only dream of. Their skin is usually creamy and lush and their hair is thick and shiny. OK so you’re a bit more curvy and ample than your girlfriends. Don’t let that stop you being bootylicious. You need to stoke the fires of your confidence and ramp up your charisma-quotient. Make like a movie-star and, as Madonna says, “Express yourself, don’t repress yourself”.

Earth Pampering Prescription: When you fire-up with some stimulating pampering rituals such as rigorous self-massage, full-body exfoliation and warm baths (with a few drops of lemon essential oil) you can be a white-hot diva. Any treatment that gets the circulation going (ie you turn red) is good for you. An energy-boosting daily scrub (with oatmeal and honey) in shower will not only cleanse your skin and maintain a level oil-balance, it will stimulate your mind and body and get you prepped for a buzzy day ahead. The daily ritual of looking after your skin and body will activate your confidence and have you hot for action.