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Simple lines entice with an interplay of lace trim and contrasting coverage and transparency
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Native American jewelry is both affordable and beautiful, and there are numerous types of American Indian jewelry available from a variety of different tribes. The Navajo Indians produce the largest amount of Native American jewelry. Navajo Indians are known for their famous stamp work and squash-bottom designs.
History
In pre-Colonial America, jewelry served an important function in American Indian tribes: The American Indians valued jewelry for its spiritual symbolism and beauty. The American Indians traded jewelry in exchange for goods, religious or medical services, or livestock. They also viewed jewelry as a sign of wealth.
Different jewelry styles developed among the American Indian tribes, but they used the same materials to make their jewelry. Common materials for making jewelry included beads, shells, copper, silver, ivory, amber, turquoise and stones. After colonization, American Indians began using new materials like glass beads and adopted more advanced metalworking techniques.
Navajo Jewelry
In 1864, the United States captured and detained 8,000 Navajo Indians in an attempt to turn them into farmers rather than nomads. During that time, Atsidi Sani observed the Americans’ silver-making techniques. He brought the techniques back to the tribes and became the first American Indian silversmith.
By the late 1800s, many Navajo Indians had learned to work with silver. Navajo Indians would inlay their turquoise jewelry into sterling silver, combining the new techniques with their old styles of jewelry.
Types
One type of Native American jewelry is metalwork. Native Americans made metalwork jewelry by hammering and etching metal into simple earrings and pendants. After the Indians learned silversmithing, the variety among the types of metal jewelry increased.
Beadwork is another type of Native American jewelry. Indians would grind turquoise, coral and shells into beads for necklaces. They also carved wood and bone beads.
Famous Designs
Popular Navajo Americans designs include stamp work and squash-bottom necklaces. In stamp work, the artist uses metal stamps to decorate metal with raised or indented designs. Navajo Indians are known for their concho belts, which are a type of stamp work. They make the belts by hammering silver coins into a flat shape and attaching them to strips of leather. They modeled these belts after the hair ornaments of the nearby Plains tribes.
Navajo Indians specialize in making squash-bottom necklaces, a style of necklace that they invented. The Navajos drew inspiration from the ornaments on Spanish bridles to create the crescent-shaped squash-bottom design. The pendant necklaces eventually became a symbol of crop fertility.
Hallmarks
You can purchase Navajo Indian jewelry from a variety of independent artists. These artists mark and authenticate their jewelry with a signature hallmark–such as their initials or a small symbol–which they carve into the back of the jewelry. The hallmark helps identify the artist who created the jewelry and its metal content.
Lise Charmel Effeuilles Moi Holiday Demi Bra Lingerie Collection
This gorgeous demi bra is part of Lise Charmel Holiday 2008 Collection, called “”Effeuilles Moi“”.
Designed in France; Made in Italy.
Material: 50% Polyester; 33% Polyamide; 13% Elasthane; 4% Cotton
Available Colors: Rubis
These days everyone is trying to stretch their dollars and pinch their pennies in an effort to save money. The more you can save, and of course the less you spend, will make you a smart shopper and a smart saver. Saving money applies to buying sandals as well. Everyone needs shoes, right? Sometimes when people think of purchasing new shoes, they think it’s too far out of their reach because of the expense. However, when you shop online you actually save more money than you will spend on buying shoes. You can be a fashionista with the right shoes and a smart shopper at the same time when you choose to shop online.
Sandals are cheaper when you purchase them online.
So how exactly can sandals be cheaper online than in a store…they’re just shoes, right? Well, the difference between online shopping and in-store shopping is ultimately the price. Traditional stores have many expenses they have to pay to maintain their store. These expenses include: paying for the building or lots of employees. These expenses then get attached to the price of the shoe you are purchasing. So in the long run you end up paying more for the shoe than you would like to pay. These retailers only have one choice but to charge the customer more for the sandals you want to purchase, in an effort to balance the costs of the building and the employees.
However, online vendors don’t have the same expenses because everything is done online and they don’t have to maintain as many employees. This way, they can charge less for their shoes, and they get to have you as a valuable customer and you get to take advantage of their low prices. Another thing you can take advantage of when shopping online are the clearance and closeout deals they offer for their sandals. This way, you are able to pay even less for the sandals you really want.
When you buy your sandals online, you have a wealth of options to choose from.
When you choose to shop online, you give yourself lots more options for the shoes you want to buy. In an actual store, you may be limited to the size, amount, or color of the sandals you would like to purchase. However, online you have more options for sizes, amounts, and colors. Shopping online for your sandals means you will be able to find colors that no one else can get in the store at a reasonable price. You won’t have to break the bank to purchase those gold sandals you always wanted. You can find them online and purchase them for the same price or less than you would in a store at the mall.
Online shopping gives you a wealth of choices on any type of sandal you’d like to buy. The more choices you have, the more freedom and confidence you have many purchases.
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Coffee’s good for a lot more than just that jolt of energy caffeine gives you. Then we’ve also read the results of studies that come out ever so often. They claim drinking coffee in moderate amounts (that’s four to five cups a day, according to the International Coffee Organization) can reduce risks of Type 2 daibetes, stroke, cardiovascular diseases, colon cancer, liver cirrhosis, gallstones, skin cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
So now that you’ve switched to coffee – using real beans, not that instant powder – remember to save the grinds. They have more powers than actually advertised. All you need is a ready supply of freshly ground coffee beans.
Even celebrities believe in its powers. The just log onto Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow’s website, Goop. Click through her ‘Do’ list till you stumble upon her simple styling tips.
Dr Abhijit Desai, dermatologist at Evolve Med Spa, Mumbai says, “Coffee does have antioxidant properties. It’s also a vasoconstrictor as well as a diuretic (they cause a person to lose water) and is considered to help reduce dark circles.”
Happy hair
Expensive bottles of shampoo and conditioner can do wonders for your hair. So can the coffee berry. Aleena Jetha, of Mudd Day Spa in Mumbai, offers hair protein treatments that are laced with coffee. “It has anti-oxidant and works against the chemicals that cause hair fall,” she says, but warns that coffee shouldn’t be applied to coloured or processed hair.
Astute recessionistas can even try some coffee therapy at home. Some experts suggest using espresso (add ground coffee to hot water and let it brew, apply the warm drink to the hair and rinse out after 20 minutes). It leaves the hair looking softer and shinier.
Battle the puff
You’ve had a late night because you were out partying/were buried under a pile of work/ racing to meet a deadline. So the next day, you (naturally) have the biggest dark circles and the baddest case of puffy eyes. Here again, coffee comes to the rescue. “When combined with Vitamin K, it’s the best cure for puffiness around the eyes,” says Dr Apratim Goel, dermatologist. “It reduces blood supply to the area by shrinking the vessels and reduces puffiness by removing water content,” she added.
But don’t rub ground coffee under your eyes please. Dr Goel recommends that you use eye creams from reputed companies.
Happy skin
Instead of spending massive amounts of money on fancy exfoliating face or bodywash, use ground coffee.
Dermatologists attest to coffee’s anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. In fact, coffee prevents free radicals from doing the damage they do to the skin cells. “Coffee helps in the lightening and tightening of the skin,” says Goel.
It helps reduce pigmentation and is often used to brighten skin or reduce the tan in facial treatments as part of beauty treatments.
Also, since ground coffee is coarse, it helps strip away dead cells to reveal the soft skin underneath. In fact, Paltrow says on her website that using coarsely ground coffee with Turbinado sugar, olive oil to help you cleanse your pores.
To make your own coffee-laced exfoliant, first consider your skin type. Girls with oily skin should mix the ¼ cup coffee grinds with yogurt (dahi) or besan. If you have dry skin, mix it up with olive oil, oats or malai.
Fights odour
You’ve been cooking up an Italian or even Indian storm using lots of onion and garlic, and know that just soap and water will not get the smell off your fingers. So, rub some coffee – again, preferably ground – onto your hands. It’s rich, dark fragrance is more powerful than the stubborn garlic/onion stink.
HotMilk has had the great idea of creating a movie showing their 2009 collection and putting it online. All you have to do is press the play button and discover a new sexy lingerie collection for pregnant women.
Thigh high boots are so IN this season. I love thigh-high boots and looks like models share my fashion views.
The latest to show her thigh-high style was Blake Lively filming scenes for The Gossip Girl in New York earlier this week. She donned a pair of thigh high leather boots, black leggings and checked blazer to complete a chic downtown girl look. I loved the heels, so fab!
If you love the wild, wild west, a cowgirl fancy dress is the best way to make your dreams of living in this era a little more real! There are many ways that you can dress the part to look as if you are just the spitting image of the west. Think about the old days of western style. What was it about the atmosphere and time period that you enjoyed reading and learning about? If you are ready to take a step back into history, then ready yourself and your saddle and ride off into the sunset of the cowgirl fancy dress.
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