Constance Dunn's PRACTICAL GLAMOUR Encourages Looking Great From The Inside Out

Practical Glamour is for the female who wants to look and feel gorgeous and confident each day. Cultivate your optimum level of everyday glamour with this ultimate grooming, style and manner resource.

Your mindset and not your budget is the key to lifting your look to its maximum level. And your appearance is a package deal, which includes looks and attire alongside movement, style and spirit.

No matter how perfectly pulled together and lovely you may look,without proper poise and attitude, no presentation can be complete.

Practical Glamour is your enduring guide to the essentials and the lesser-known ins and outs of presenting your most beautiful, polished and authentic self to the world.

REVIEW FROM CONVERSATIONS BOOK CLUB

Today's society puts a great deal of attention on how we look and what should look good to you. Author Constance Dunn takes another direction in her book PRACTICAL GLAMOUR and helps us to to decide who we are and what we want to present about ourselves to the world.

The book is geared towards women, and I get that; however, men are also being pulled in different directions by advertisement and the nagging voices around us so we can learn a few things from Dunn as well. The first thing I picked up on was the importance of realizing that in many ways your body is a blank canvas. You can decide to paint it using the standard of beauty set by others or you can decide for yourself what is right for you and your body type. Dunn shows us that we should give thought to what we see as our own best qualities and find ways to enhance these while distracting attention away from those that we see as less flattering.

This book is not just about blind advice. The author includes examples of herself an others that she has come in contact with in order to make the points that she is discussing. For me I think one of the best things about the book is that it comes across as a conversation with the reader. It gets you to think about yourself, your style presently and how you can adjust it to be the best you possible.

The book is also about the importance of your inner beauty or truth. How does who you are within translate into what people see? That to me is one of the greatest points of the book.

PRACTICAL GLAMOUR will be seen as a go-to book for women and a reminder for men about how important it is to let your personal best come through each and every day.

To You, From Me

When we first announced the formation of the Model Citizens issue of Conversations Magazine I wasn't sure what the response would be. After all, would readers see the need of such a publication that highlighted those who are not just models professionally but setting an example for the world in other ways? The answer has been a resounding YES!

Like its monthly counterpart Conversations Magazine, Model Citizens includes interviews with movers and shakers from around the world as well as examples of individuals doing amazing things with their lives. In this issue you will be able to see profiles of those just like you that are using their skills to do amazing things.

My hope is that you will be inspired by those you read about and see the connective tissue that unites you to them. I also hope you will find ways to not only enjoy a purpose-driven life yourself but share with others how they can benefit from one as well.

Have someone you would like to see profiled in an upcoming issue or in our online features? Feel free to contact me at cawebb4@juno.com with MODEL CITIZENS in the subject line.

Until next time, happy reading!




Cyrus Webb, Editor-In-Chief
Conversations Magazine/Conversations Model Citizens Magazine/Conversations with Music Magazine

About Gina Roy-Opalec, Graphic Designer Behind This Issue's Cover

As a little girl, Gina Roy-Opalec’s prized collectible was a Calligraphy pen set. She was amazed at the beautiful letters she could create by simply manipulating the pens at different angles. Shortly after, Gina developed and is known for, by family and friends, her beautiful and unique penmanship style. This was the beginning of her artistic creativity. She then started taking art classes in junior high school, high school and in college, which lead her to enroll at Platt College, to specialize her craft, in graphic design.

Gina is a San Diego based Graphic Designer. She is a Packaging Designer, in Product Development for Infant Toy, with Infantino. Prior to Infantino, Gina was a Graphic Designer, Product Design and Managing Designer, Product Design, heading the Entertainment and Attractions Division for Fotoball USA and K2 Licensed Products (K2LP) for thirteen years. There, her clients included Disney, Busch Gardens, Universal Studios, Zoos - nationwide, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Warner Brothers, DC Comics, MLB, NFL and the NBA. At K2LP, Gina assisted the Creative Director and managed a creative team for products such as collectible pins and lanyards, as well as sport collectibles and toys.

Gina is very passionate about her career as a graphic designer. She loves the freedom to be artistic and create products that people will enjoy for years to come.

Gina has played an integral part in helping her sister, Zenaida Roy-Almario, with her dream of becoming an author and starting her company, BRAGN™ - Be Real And Great Now. Gina designed the book’s cover and interior layout, company logo and icon, as well as her press kit and other business marketing collateral. Zenaida says, “I really love my BRAGN™ peacock icon and logo! Gina’s ‘awesome left-handed talent’ brings life and existence to my visions, better than I dare to imagine them! I am blessed for having her, to create the pictures to my words and even more so, as my sister.”

Gina can be reached at: gina@berealandgreatnow.com.

Conversations Magazine Presents Its "Model Citizens"

Conversations Magazine Presents Its "Model Citizens"

Good role models are hard to find, especially when you are talking about those who are there to show you what is possible with hard work and dedication. For Conversations Media Group and our partners discovering your best self is one of our main goals, and recognizing those that are doing just that became the focus of this special edition of Conversations Magazine. (seen here is Nahid Samandari of Valley Village, CA)

What is our definition of a Model Citizen? It's an individual who is working against all odds to pursue their dreams and are using their journey to encourage and inspire others. With Conversations' new publication and features you will find individuals of all ages, shapes and colors who are following their goals and being rewarded.

I saw the addition of "Model Citizens" as a way for us to showcase ordinary individuals who are pursuing extraordinary paths. I think it's important that anyone, regardless of where they are from or what they look like, can find someone they can relate to that speaks to what they can do themselves.

That is the whole purpose of "Model Citizens". Once it was announced that it would be featuring such individuals so many showed interested in the Model Citizen feature that I decided to devote a special bi-monthly publication to individuals from different backgrounds that are moving forward with their dreams and offering advice for others who want to do the same. Included in those recognized are celebrated recording artists, actors, models and those on the rise. It's truly a reflection of the world that Conversations believes we want and can be attained.

As a thank you to our yearly subscribers of Conversations Magazine, this first issue of Model Citizens is being sent to you at no charge. Future issues can be ordered by visiting www.conversationsmodelcitizens.com. What I hope comes from this is that we are able to look at our place in the world a little differently, and realize the power each of us has to make a difference.

Interested in being featured in Conversations Magazine or want to share your thoughts about our Model Citizens? As always I would love to hear from you. Contact me at cawebb4@juno.com or 601.896.5616.

BOOK REVIEW: Sara Stover's THE WAY Is Just That For Women AND Men

Live in accordance with nature and your soul

Our ancestors adhered to the daily, seasonal, and yearly rhythms of nature by necessity, but modern life overrides these cycles, compromising women’s health and happiness. In this book, Sara Avant Stover shows how simple, natural, and refreshingly accessible practices can minimize stress and put us back in sync with our own cycles and those of nature. When we honor spring’s seedlings, summer’s vibrancy, fall’s harvest, and winter’s quietude, we harmonize our inner and outer worlds. Sara’s recommendations nurture the body, invigorate the mind, and lift the spirit. Illustrated yin and yang yoga sequences, one-day season-specific retreats, enticing recipes, and innovative self-reflection techniques make it easy to reconnect with the essential.



REVIEW FROM CONVERSATIONS BOOK CLUB
When it comes to books like Sara Avant Stover's The Way, I always look for a way that I can apply its message to the audiences I reach in print and on radio. In this case, though, it's not hard at all.

Stover has written a book based on her own experiences that allows for women and even men to look at the path she is outlining and seeing a way that they can use the same principles in their lives as well. I think most of us would say that we want to be Happy. Sara shows that this is more than just saying that's what we desire. We have some work to do in order to make it happy. Some of it is physical while other parts are emotional and even spiritual. I think at the end of the day the main thing is that we have to do everything in our power in order to have the life that we say we want.

Written with care and the well-being of the reader in mind, THE WAY OF THE HAPPY WOMAN is just that for women AND men.