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History of Silhouette Art/History of Silhouette Artists, Silhouette Artist HistoryConsise History of Silhouette art, past and present

Collaborated by internationally acclaimed silhouette historian Peggy McClardand master silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose. Miniature portraits had been the rage of aristocracy whom had worn portraits as jewelry since at least the 15th century.  But for 300 years, the expense required for a full color likeness to be commissioned had restricted the availability to the wealthy and kept the ordinary person from acquiring a portable likeness of their loved ones.
At the beginning of the 18th century a theory called “physiognomy” became vogue.  “Physiognomy” was defined as the art of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face.  In 1775, Swiss theologian and poet Johann Kaspar Lavater wrote a treatise Physiognomische Fragmente in which he attempted to elevate physiognomy to the level of science.  The translated version of Lavater’s book was a best seller in England and the book’s heavy use of silhouettes to illustrate Lavater’s theories helped elevate the popularity of silhouette cutting.
With the advent of Lavater’s widely read treatise, shade portraits became popular with the masses as a cheaper alternative to full color portraits.  Originally called "Profile Shades" or "Shadows" in England, the French coined the term à la Silhouette as a derogatory reference to Louis XV's former French Minister of Finance, Etienne de Silhouette, who was considered a cheapskate.  Legend says that when de Silhouette left his government position, he retired to a farmhouse which he decorated with home-made paper cuttings.
The History of Silhouettes - Part 2

The History of the Silhouette

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How to hand-cut a silhouette

People always ask me "how did you learn to cut portraits freehand?

The truth is I never did learn, I just could always draw anything and anyone in pencils and crayons. From my sketch pad, I got a job as a portrait artist as a teenager for a Disney owned art company in Dallas and Houston, Texas as well as Disneyland in California and Florida.  I had never had an art lesson, but my mother was an artist and I would paint and draw by her side, and draw everywhere I went.

When I saw my first silhouette artist (not the kind teachers do as those are not artists, they are tracing a shadow from the wall, and a shadow is blocked light and a bit distorted), I had to try it!  I told the Disney art concession owner, Jess Rubio, that "I could do that!"  Meaning I could take strange scissors and tiny, thin black paper and cut the likeness of someone sitting down or standing up directly from the paper without a sketch first, and in a few minutes.  I now can cut a portrait profile in  a minute with full details when I speed! 

However, to tell you how to do it, please watch this video where I explain that the silhouette is a contour drawing with scissors. In the same way you measure facial features with your thumb to draw, you measure them with your scissors to cut.  The type of scissors is not key.  Looking at the person (or pet, house, scene) is crucial and getting the perspectives correct as well as the features correctly is as important as and how they combine. Please don't judge the way I explain the art, I did not mean to come off "arrogant", I was merely nervous as I had so much to say (not rehearsed) and in a few minutes. Please be kind, if you leave a comment!  

The best way to practice cutting is to buy barber scissors, or any medical scissors, and to order HyGloss silhouette paper from a school supply store.  Get it pre-cut as you want your artwork to be a miniature, not large, as that is the true art size.  The large ones are the ones traced from the wall or painted by someone who can't cut a silhouette from sight. Use the white side of the paper to cut if you have real silhouette paper from HyGloss, as shown in the video and photo.  Otherwise, tape white paper to your black paper to see what you are cutting as you work!  

You can start by sketching and cutting, until you are able to figure out how to directly cut the portrait.  It is normally of the profile. But for fun, I have done cut artworks of front views and front view scenes.   

I got the job as a "silhouette artist" the next day after I attempted my first hand-cut silhouette. Working in a large amusement park is the best practice.  I would tell people that I would cut their portrait (not their face) and if they did not like it, they did not have to buy it!  Oddly, almost everyone bought it, as I was very friendly, which is also important when you work with corporations, in public events, private functions, weddings, holiday parties, or Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.  I also try to flatter people, and that means leaving off some of the double chin, or making their bodice slimmer.  This is called "artistic license."  I also would come home and get magazines and practice cutting the faces and people out from the magazines as a way to learn to directly cut profiles and full bodies from sight.

You can always cheat by the Photoshop, or taking the profile photo and taping black paper to it, and cutting that out.  It will lose details and be "less of who you are" not more, which a true silhouette should be 4 D, not 3 D, or 2 D.  It should incorporate personality and feeling.  The ones done from photos are taking something 2D and then altering it.  This is true of the wall tracings, which require an overhead light and paper taped on the wall.  You actually have to cast a shadow and then draw the shadow (ask the person to not smile as teeth do not look good in profile cut paper silhouettes). Next, you cut that out, with any scissors.  This is not an accurate silhouette which is named after a French minister of finance, who loved the real silhouettes by a real silhouette artist named Augustine Edouard.  He was appalled at the wall-traced ones and the ones by a physiotrace machine as in the Peale Museum.  Those are simple and the elaborate ones with details are the ones you want to emulate, not by computer design as those are not in human proportion.  I notice the necks and back of the heads are off with that.  The art should be authentic, and you should give it a shot.  If you then want to do it the other-way (photo, cutting that after pasting black paper behind it)-- go ahead.  Silly silhouette thoughts to you, for sensational silhouette memories!  http://www.silhouettesbycindi.com

Silhouette Artist  Cindi for Super Corporate Events

Regardless if you are having a business convention, holiday party, fashionable store style function, silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose can WOW your guests and give them a keepsake in a minute a person.  Not only is she the world's fastest silhouettest, she is the top paper profile professional freehand cutter in history! Watch the video and see how Cindi just looks at you and hand-cuts an amazing detailed portrait.  She has been hired in New York City for Mac, Bergdorf-Goodman, fashion week, Saks Fifth Avenue, swanky weddings, Levi's, Tootsies, PaperMag.com, in Dallas for the showrooms, for Houston Fashion Week, the Europec OTC, Auto shows, Canadian audiology conventions and almost any business you can think of.  Corporations or bride and grooms can add their logo to the card-stock or gift each person with a frame. http://www.silhouettesbycindi.com

Cindi travels world-wide to do silhouettes of clients, and can cut more silhouettes (of great detail) per hour than any other silhouette talent anywhere!  It is the real art, she does not need to sketch first.  She can also sketch portraits, but the accuracy of directly cutting the profile is excellent, and she can do groupings together, as seen below!  Very few silhouette artists have mastered the groupings which are so popular for families and couples! 

 For more information, you can e-mail CindiSilhouettes@gmail.com  

Hire a silhouette artist for your wedding/wedding reception silhouette artist Cindi Rose

Weddings are sentimental.  They are celebrations of love and union.  When choosing gifts and favors there is nothing more special than a hand-cut profile by a real silhouette artist.  Most people have never seen an authentic silhouette artist.  A true silhouettest merely looks at the subject with real French silhouette paper (white on one side, black on the other, very thin, very black paper, acid-free, costly) and in miniature (not large that has less value) they cut the profile out in two minutes or less.

You can see from this photo and video of silhouette artistry for wedding guests and entertainment that even children find this art amazing and fascinating!http://www.sihouettesbycindi.com

The most Famous silhouette artist Cindi Rose hand-cuts profiles of the famous for over 35 years!

Silhouettes of celebrities at
non-profit and political events by Cindi Rose won her an award as a "Women of Distinction" as she donates her money to various causes from her art proceeds and philanthropy work.  The first silhouette is of Bo Derek done for the Motion Picture Industry, as Cindi has had speaking parts in movies as Cindi Rae Rose and Cindi Harwood and was Sag-Aftra.  The second silhouette is Barbara Bush done for the "Friends of Nursing" in Houston, Texas.  The third is music great composer, Isack Pearlman done for the Houston Symphony, at an event Cindi Rose helped chair and underwrite. The silhouette of President Obama was done at one of his early political campaigns.  The one of Vienna Giraldi of The Bachelor was done for Cindi's husband, noted plastic surgeon, Dr. Franklin Rose.  It was to show the patient what her before and after "nose-job" would look like.  Patricia Arquette had her silhouette done to save Haiti. Cindi gave "love" to offer housing to victims of Haiti, with her silhouette proceeds.  Finally, music legend, Liberace, had his silhouette done by Cindi Harwood at Disney World.  The guest relations always knew that Cindi would kindly do any celebrities silhouette in the park.  Cindi Harwood Rose has done more celebrities in person, than any other living silhouette artist of this era.

How to hand-cut a cameo silhouette!

How to make a silhouette portrait of your dog, cat, child, self, or loved one.

There are many ways to make a silhouette of yourself or a loved one, all being different, some basic, and not exact.  Many are merely black and are shadows cast on walls, with black construction paper behind them. This idea is the subject sits sill the light casts a shadow, you try to sketch it (without your hand getting in the way), next you try to cut it from your markings although, you may hold a scissors wrong, or not follow exact lines.  Or perhaps your subject did not pose correctly, and smiled.

Teeth are cute but they often can make a nose longer, and a chin appear double!  I know we threw away the crude one a school teacher did when I was 8!  Plus, all the kids in her class looked the same!

No, all children do not look the same, nor are all fingerprints the same or snowflakes.

Another way is to darken a profile photo on your computer.  It will still be a double reduction.  We are 3 D, a photo is 2 D, and now you will double minimize someone you should make "more than who they are not less.

Another way is just to copy a fairly nice straight-on profile shot.  Make sure the lips are relaxed and there is no smile.  See the top head the back of the head the bottom of the head, the neck and bust-line.  Tape black paper behind the photo and cut that out.  It still won't be exact since you are not skilled at drawing with scissors, and unless you order real silhouette paper from Blick or a school -supply the construction paper will fade in time and not cut as smoothly.

Normally this type of work is just black and often it is caricature style and again, minimized.  

The best way, is to not do it.  Leave it to a real portrait artist who can draw great profile portraits with a pen, pencil, pastel, paint brush.  If they are one in the over 2 million portrait artists who have learned by their own talent to hand-cut a profile of a person or pet, then you are better off going with them.  The best silhouette artists worked for Disney.  The key to look for is the inside cuts.  Novice artists can claim they are from generations of silhouette artists which has nothing to do with their skill.  You want to see they can go inside the silhouette and cut the necktie, bow-tie, earrings, lashes, tux, necklace and any detail that makes it you.  The Disneyland and Disneyworld silhouette artists, the only true master silhouette artists can do that, and they also can do groupings (not singles pasted on one sheet)-- heads cut into heads.  Don't be fooled if they tout a cheap price on the net.  The work could be great, but perhaps they are sketching and cutting losing details, or not able to do the prized groupings.  I suggest resume readings.  The customer recommendations are often written by their spouse and their friends, you can tell by the language, is that the language people would really use.  Language like "Cute Boo came in and giggled with glee to get a ___________ silhouette!  Sure, huh.  At best they say, "Cindi was professional, early, did accurate beautiful work, was kind and made my event a hit.  

Just study the internet, see who you like and check out the works in the stores.   Are they fat, is the bodice simplified to not look human, is the face in proportion, do all their children have the same face:

As for you, and your craft project, just do it.  Everyone will applaud you and clap.  For more information please see.  http://www.silhouettesbycindi.com

Flawless Skin Secrets
By Cindi Harwood Rose
Owner of Utopia MedSpa, Uptown Park
Your skin is the largest living organ of your body. It is not an inert covering such as a glove placed on your hand. It has many functions. It is the body’s protective covering against the environment and it is also the body’s principal mechanism for maintaining the temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit in which all our cells and body systems are adapted to function. Perspiration, liquid waste, is given off through the skin. Adults have an average of seven pounds of skin. If it were spread out flat, it would cover about nineteen square feet. Every inch is supplied with busy working cells and responsive nerves that keep your body and mind informed about your environment.
The skin is made of three layers of different cell types. The top layer is the epidermis, the thick middle layer is the dermis and the fatty bottom layer is the subcutis. Chinese medicine incorporates skin analysis to determine Yin or Yang deficiency, and lung disharmony.
Most people do not know how to take care of their skin. They have been brain- washed through modern marketers to buy expensive products that are laden with toxic mineral oils, preservatives, colorings, perfumes, and surface-drying alcohol. This actually clogs the outer skin, stopping it from breathing and releasing the wastes your body wants to discard. The alcohol dehydrates the skin. Its purpose is to prolong shelf life. The preservatives stop the natural products such as milk, egg, placenta, and fruit extracts from molding and rotting. Do you think your skin deserves a product that even bugs do not want?
Skin-care is an ancient 3,000-year-old science that has been around in all great civilizations. The American Indians rubbed their bodies with bear grease to keep their skin moist. They participated in sweats to rid the mind and body of toxic thoughts and blockages. The Greeks cleansed the skin by oiling it with plant oils, then scraping it off

with wet bark, exfoliating their skin. The Egyptians soaked fragrant woods and resins in water and plant oils and rubbed their body and faces with the liquid. The Swedish took elaborate hot mineral baths and cold plunges to detox their skin and invigorate it. The Romans made their cold cream out of the natural organic oils. Coconut and nut oils have been used in tropical climates for thousands of years. The Orientals dry scrubbed their skin with seaweed, exfoliating it, and then moistened the epidermis with sesame oil. They soak in mineral waters laden with natural sulfurs and rub sweet almond oil and mint on the body to aid circulation. They have books on herbs such as Chan Tui (cicada husks) which are helpful for skin conditions. The Middle Eastern countries used the Olive oil for the face and hair. The French used hazelnut oil as a moisturizer. They used lavender oil on skin irritations. Only in the 1900’s, were these natural oils placed by mineral oils which are based from petroleum sludge, and are not only drying to the skin, they are poisonous. Strangely, they are in many products that we may think are safe such as Johnson’s Baby Oil, Vaseline, and Kiehl’s products. Other products such as Tiger’s Balm, Noxzema, Laura Mercier, Franche, and Aveda, have pure combinations of healthy ingredients.
Taking care of your skin involves more than just outer skin care. It involves feeding your skin from within. It is important to keep the body hydrated with six to eight glasses of water a day. If you live in a polluted climate, buy spring water. Stay away from caffeine. Try to eat natural uncooked vegetables and fruits in your diet as well as fish, eggs, seeds and nuts. Eliminate processed sugars and starches. Reduce your salt intake. Go for the whole grains found in brown rice and healthy organic flours such as kamut, barley, flaxseed, spelt, soy, and Brewer’s Yeast. Exercise tones and tightens the skin. Endermologie (a machine that exercises the skin), massage, and water therapy, all aid to skin appeal. For glowing skin, sleep is important as well as vitamins. Vitamins and minerals known to help the skin include the following: Vitamin A, B Complex, C, E, Calcium/Magnesium, Selenium, Chromium, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Coenzyme Q 10, L- Glutamine, Omega-3, omega 6 oils, folic acid, Pycnogenol, and fish oil. Dermatologist, Dr. Margaret Waisman, feels that skin care truly does start from within.

Skin care is really simple. Your skin is an organ and it breathes. For this to happen, the epidermis needs to be clean and exfoliated. That way the wastes can be eliminated and your natural oils can shine through. Your skin should “glow”. After it is cleaned, if your skin is not too dry, the outer surface should be toned, and then moisturized if it is not too oily. If you add moisturizer on top of clogged pores, you will clog them more and either break out with pimples. . Heavy products stop your skin from breathing.
Exfoliation can be done in many ways. It can be done with products that contain glycolic acid or fruit peels. Microdermabrasion can be done at a spa. You can have a skin peel at a dermatologist or physician. Did you know that these treatments are really just a way to get rid of the dead skin? They are effective but are costly in time and money. To put natural vitamin C and a natural fruit acid into your skin, you can rub the inside of an orange peel on your face for two minutes, and take 500 mg. of vitamin C a day. Microdermabrason is just a grain scrub made of crystals (salt is a crystal), pieces of loofa or sand rubbed around your face and neck in circular motions. Scrub your own face and save over $1,000! You can buy a nice honey-almond granular scrub (be sure it is alcohol free) for around $20 or make your own. Use finely ground nuts, cornmeal, or oat bran, a little water and honey and make a thick paste. Scrub your face and neck with circular motions for around a minute and one half. Rinse off with warm water, then splash cold water on your face and neck. For a toner, take a half-tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, a half tablespoon of witch hazel, a tablespoon of aloe Vera juice, to six ounces of spring water. This will keep. Do not tone skin that is too dry.
Home facial treatments include steaming the skin to open the pores and to release blackheads. You can actually boil tea bags, and stand about six to eight inches above the steam for three minutes. Next, entry rub your skin with one or more of the following ingredients, oatmeal, ground nut meal, poppy seeds, cornmeal, with an equal part of honey. Rinse off with cool water. Then place egg white on your face (including the eyelids) and neck. Leave this on for several minutes. Rinse off with cool water. Finally, add cucumber slices to your eyelids and relax for five minutes. You will experience an

instant face-lift as well as glowing skin! To make this an oxygen facial, just add a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide to your grain scrub.
Mashed avocado is used in South Africa to soften the skin. Papaya is used in Hawaii on sunburnt skin as well as insect bites. Oatmeal and water is placed on skin rashes in Mexico, Germany, and the United States. Tomato juice with a garlic infusion can be used on skin that is prone to breakout. Hemorrhoid cream has been used on puffy eyelids, blemishes, and cellulite, all for on the spot reducing! So can sliced raw potatoes. Any of the following oils are great to use as a moisturizer: sweet almond oil, grapeseed oil, flaxseed oil, hazelnut oil, jojoba oil, sunflower seed oil, and vitamin E oil.
It is an exquisite thought to realize that nature can nourish your skin allowing you to put “your best face forward.”

http://www.silhouettesbycindi.com

Silhouettes of your Loved ones make Perfect Holiday Keepsakes

Silhouettes by Cindi November/ December Holiday Schedule

I will be updating this blog post all our upcoming silhouette dates here for your convenience looking forward to seeing friends, old & new!

11/22/2015 (Sun.) AUSTIN TEXAS Sweet Love & Sugar Britches in Downtown Round Rock, 106 South Mays Street - 3:00pm - 6 :00pm http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c45ada623a2fb6-silhouettes/

12/4/15 Friday GALVESTON TEXAS Dickens on the Strand!! 2127 Strand (at the corner of 22nd and Strand) 3:30 - 6:30 pm http://www.eventbrite.com/e/silhouettes-by-cindi-harwood-rose-friday-december-4th-2015-registration-18747683827

12/13/15 Friday BAY AREA Haute Mommies and Bella Babies, 477 Bay Area Blvd

Houston, TX 77058 - 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm  281.282.9979

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Don’t miss the opportunity to have your child’s Silhouette done by the amazingly talented, Cindi Rose. This is a perfect and unique holiday gift for any loved one and a cherished family keepsake.

Cindi’s hand cut images take 2 minutes and last forever. C. H. Rose is the world’s fastest and most accurate silhouettist with intricate details. Children do not have to sit still. Cindi can capture wiggly children and adults, fixing hair and double chins as requested.

This is also a great idea for engaged couples to have their silhouettes done together, for a family heirloom, and Cindi can do pets too ~ just bring in a printed profile photo of your pet to your appointment.

Price for the silhouettes- $35 for the original and $10 each additional copy. Cindi is able to do more than one child at a time or each child separately, your choice. The silhouette will be matted and framed while you wait, so you are able to take it with you. Frames range in price from around $14 to $35.

Appointments requested as the day fills up!

For more information please visit my website: http://www.silhouettesbycindi.com

The Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation: Changing lives, one surgery at a time.

Silhouettes of a Survivor of Cancer.
You have your silhouette of whom you are, what you can do, how you
can take life's challenges and inspire others.
When life gives you a challenge, you can pray and opportunities can come
to you.  The Holly Rose Ribbon Foundation 501 (c ) ( c ) offers free breast reconstruction, wigs,
higher education, out-reach, art classes to cancer survivors and their families.
Founded by renown professional silhouette artist, Cindi Rose, and her husband, plastic
and reconstructive surgeon, Franklin Rose MD, they have helped over 100 people, with over
1 million in free surgeries, wigs, inspiration, and education.  Cindi, the favorite paper profilist
of modern, 20th, 21st century art cut portraits donates a huge percent to cancer survivors.
To arrange a silhouette function for cancer in your community, contact TheHollyRoseRibbon
foundation.org or http://silhouettesforsurvivors.org/  Cindi's work is in art and she is available
to speak on positive ways to keep faith during critical challenges to wellness, and to do fund raisers
for your non-profit with her amazing art silhouettes which have made history.

Flawless Skin Secrets

By Cindi Harwood Rose

Owner of Utopia MedSpa, Uptown Park

Your skin is the largest living organ of your body.   It is not an inert covering such as a glove placed on your hand.  It has many functions.   It is the body’s protective covering against the environment and it is also the body’s principal mechanism for maintaining the temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit in which all our cells and body systems are adapted to function. Perspiration, liquid waste, is given off through the skin.  Adults have an average of seven pounds of skin.  If it were spread out flat, it would cover about nineteen square feet. Every inch is supplied with busy working cells and responsive nerves that keep your body and mind informed about your environment.

The skin is made of three layers of different cell types.  The top layer is the epidermis, the thick middle layer is the dermis and the fatty bottom layer is the subcutis. Chinese medicine incorporates skin analysis to determine Yin or Yang deficiency, and lung disharmony. 

 Most people do not know how to take care of their skin.  They have been brain-washed through modern marketers to buy expensive products that are laden with toxic mineral oils, preservatives, colorings, perfumes, and surface-drying alcohol.  This actually clogs the outer skin, stopping it from breathing and releasing the wastes your body wants to discard. The alcohol dehydrates the skin. Its purpose is to prolong shelf life.  The preservatives stop the natural products such as milk, egg, placenta, and fruit extracts from molding and rotting.  Do you think your skin deserves a product that even bugs do not want?

Skin-care is an ancient 3,000-year-old science that has been around in all great civilizations. The American Indians rubbed their bodies with bear grease to keep their skin moist.  They participated in sweats to rid the mind and body of toxic thoughts and blockages.  The Greeks cleansed the skin by oiling it with plant oils, then scraping it off with wet bark, exfoliating their skin. The Egyptians soaked fragrant woods and resins in water and plant oils and rubbed their body and faces with the liquid. The Swedish took elaborate hot mineral baths and cold plunges to detox their skin and invigorate it.   The Romans made their cold cream out of the natural organic oils. Coconut and nut oils have been used in tropical climates for thousands of years.    The Orientals dry scrubbed their skin with seaweed, exfoliating it, and then moistened the epidermis with sesame oil. They soak in mineral waters laden with natural sulfurs and rub sweet almond oil and mint on the body to aid circulation.  They have books on herbs such as Chan Tui (cicada husks) which are helpful for skin conditions.   The Middle Eastern countries used the Olive oil for the face and hair. The French used hazelnut oil as a moisturizer. They used lavender oil on skin irritations.   Only in the 1900’s, were these natural oils placed by mineral oils which are based from petroleum sludge, and are not only drying to the skin, they are poisonous. Strangely, they are in many products that we may think are safe such as Johnson’s Baby Oil, Vaseline, and Kiehl’s products. Other products such as Tiger’s Balm, Noxzema, Laura Mercier, Franche, and Aveda, have pure combinations of healthy ingredients. 

Taking care of your skin involves more than just outer skin care. It involves feeding your skin from within.  It is important to keep the body hydrated with six to eight glasses of water a day.  If you live in a polluted climate, buy spring water. Stay away from caffeine. Try to eat natural uncooked vegetables and fruits in your diet as well as fish, eggs, seeds and nuts. Eliminate processed sugars and starches. Reduce your salt intake. Go for the whole grains found in brown rice and healthy organic flours such as kamut, barley, flaxseed, spelt, soy, and Brewer’s Yeast.  Exercise tones and tightens the skin.  Endermologie (a machine that exercises the skin), massage, and water therapy, all aid to skin appeal.  For glowing skin, sleep is important as well as vitamins. Vitamins and minerals known to help the skin include the following: Vitamin A, B Complex, C, E, Calcium/Magnesium, Selenium, Chromium, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Coenzyme Q 10, L-Glutamine, Omega-3, omega 6 oils, folic acid, Pycnogenol, and fish oil.  Dermatologist, Dr. Margaret Waisman, feels that skin care truly does start from within.

Skin care is really simple.  Your skin is an organ and it breathes.  For this to happen, the epidermis needs to be clean and exfoliated.  That way the wastes can be eliminated and your natural oils can shine through. Your skin should “glow”.  After it is cleaned, if your skin is not too dry, the outer surface should be toned, and then moisturized if it is not too oily.   If you add moisturizer on top of clogged pores, you will clog them more and either break out with pimples. . Heavy products stop your skin from breathing.  

Exfoliation can be done in many ways. It can be done with products that contain glycolic acid or fruit peels.  Microdermabrasion  can be done at a spa.  You can have a skin peel at a dermatologist or physician.    Did you know that these treatments are really just a way to get rid of the dead skin?  They are effective but are costly in time and money.  To put natural vitamin C and a natural fruit acid into your skin, you can rub the inside of an orange peel on your face for two minutes, and take 500 mg. of vitamin C a day.   Microdermabrason is just a grain scrub made of crystals (salt is a crystal), pieces of loofa or sand rubbed around your face and neck in circular motions.  Scrub your own face and save over $1,000!  You can buy a nice honey-almond granular scrub (be sure it is alcohol free) for around $20 or make your own.  Use finely ground nuts, cornmeal, or oat bran, a little water and honey and make a thick paste.  Scrub your face and neck with circular motions for around a minute and one half. Rinse off with warm water, then splash cold water on your face and neck.  For a toner, take a half-tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, a half tablespoon of witch hazel, a tablespoon of aloe Vera juice, to six ounces of spring water. This will keep.   Do not tone skin that is too dry. 

Home facial treatments include steaming the skin to open the pores and to release blackheads.  You can actually boil tea bags, and stand about six to eight inches above the steam for three minutes. Next, entry rub your skin with one or more of the following ingredients, oatmeal, ground nut meal, poppy seeds, cornmeal, with an equal part of honey.  Rinse off with cool water.  Then place egg white on your face (including the eyelids) and neck.  Leave this on for several minutes. Rinse off with cool water. Finally, add cucumber slices to your eyelids and relax for five minutes.  You will experience an instant face-lift as well as glowing skin!  To make this an oxygen facial, just add a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide to your grain scrub.

Mashed avocado is used in South Africa to soften the skin.  Papaya is used in Hawaii on sunburnt skin as well as insect bites.  Oatmeal and water is placed on skin rashes in Mexico, Germany, and the United States. Tomato juice with a garlic infusion can be used on skin that is prone to breakout.  Hemorrhoid cream has been used on puffy eyelids, blemishes, and cellulite, all for on the spot reducing!  So can sliced raw potatoes. Any of the following oils are great to use as a moisturizer: sweet almond oil, grapeseed oil, flaxseed oil, hazelnut oil, jojoba oil, sunflower seed oil, and vitamin E oil.

It is an exquisite thought to realize that nature can nourish your skin allowing you to put “your best face forward.”

How to hire silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose
Forgive me for being mysterious.  I have noticed on many of my blogs, website, YouTube, Pinterest, I really don't tell you how to contact me for an event, wedding, corporate function, school fundraiser, or silhouette home-party.  I travel all over America, The USA, Europe, for you!  If I am not available, then, I can suggest another silhouette artist.  There are only a few ones in the world that do quality, groupings, and hand-cut profiles from sight.  To contact me, just e-mail CindiSilhouettes@gmail.com or join SilhouettesbyCindiFacebook, see my schedule, and schedule your own event.  If you want your children's silhouettes, they don't have to be sit still.  If you want one for your wedding, I will make sure you love it.  Happy silhouette skies, love, profiles, mission statements, and heart filled days.  Love, Cindi Harwood Rose, your silhouette friend, lover of art, healthy living, and giving love to the universe.  Silhouette artists for hire by silhouette artist Cindi Rose

Dating and being with the partner you want -- how to spot fake dates from the real deal!

How do you know if "they are really into you".  Dating advise from the woman who got the one she wanted and he chased me until I let him catch me!

It does not matter who you are interested in.  Everyone likes to feel emotionally connected with a partner.  With social media dating, or introductions to possible future "I DO" candidates, how do you spot the fake date from the real deal, or do you want to?

There is a point in many people's lives that they like the chase and the feeling of the "kiss before the kiss".  Relationships can be fickle.  In some cites like New York City and Los Angeles, people play longer before they commit to marriage, or a relationship with a major other human individual.  Yes, many who can't have relationships with humans do have them (we are not talking sexual, so please, don't get confused) with their pets.  Pets love you no matter what!  You feed them, and sometimes walk them, and you both know the scoop.

So here is my dating scoop on how to spot a connection-- after you meet them and if their B.S. (Texas word for Bull Shit) is real or actually skinking bad.

If they (we are talking men to women) say, the words honey, baby, sweetie, babe, forget them. They throw those words out too freely.  Unless you want to be freely not appreciated.

If the woman does not look you in the eyes (woman to man or woman to woman) and they look away from you while you talk, use their cell phone, have to bring another girlfriend always with you-- they are not into you.

If the person is nervous and is folding and squeezing their hands and playing with their hair, that means, they are just nervous!  If you like them, hold their hand for a moment. . . a moment!

When they want to talk only about their selves, the best you can do is listen and see if that self they are talking about is interesting, or is merely an ego needing a huge stroke.  Decide worth it or not worth it?

If you like anything about the other person (their eyes, the way they dressed, a book they read, their fragrance) don't hesitate to tell them.  They may feel you are not nice if you don't address the obvious, even if you like their roaring great laugh!

When they are into you, don't worry if you don't hear from them for a day, not even if you think they should text a minimum. Some people are very shy, busy or don't know how great you are.  If three days pass, they are not interested in you.  Move on!  If they call you two weeks later, don't ask questions, like "duh, where have you been", be perky, short on conversation and see if they want to meet you again.  Keep texts and conversations short, so they want to know you in person.  If they don't make a plan at that point (and just called to string you along somehow) cross them off your list and move on!

If you have any questions about dating, please leave me a response.  My advise works no matter what type of person we are dealing with.  Please be aware of the person who does not make any eye contact.  You can not trust someone who does not look you in the eyes!

That is my realationship advise, from your psychic silhouette artist and guru of life, love, and relationships, Cindi Cinderella Rose.  Here is me and my cute bald husband, http://www.silhouettesbycindi.com/Franklin, and life partner!
Father of our two children, and soul-mate from Colorado.

Being a super power-house woman and home-maker for Thanksgiving to baby showers!

You go girl!
It does not matter girlfriend, if you work on Wall Street or No street, you can always
use your creativity to make every moment special. Gifts of the heart are the most precious
of all.  That being said, I have posted two photos of creative DIY ideas.  The first is a great way
to decorate and make Thanksgiving beautiful and thankful.  In the top photo, silhouette artist Cindi Harwood Rose presents an organic turkey to her family with centerpieces made from craft shop flowers torn apart and glued on napkin rings.  Bowls of bountiful fruit are on the tables with cute
Thanksgiving themed pieces bought at Tuesday Morning nearly a year before the magazine shoot.
That is the best time to get themed items for decorations and to store them to make a smart table.
Side dishes included a tofurky made with ginger, soy, and sesame, fresh green beans with tomatoes and onions simmered in water and oil, pumpkin/carrot soup, sliced oranges with cinnamon and rose water, brown rice with truffle oil, a fresh salad, chopped kale salad with cranberries and pine nuts, tossed with olive oil and apple cider vinegar. . . and more and more!

Diaper cake for baby gift topped with Madam Alexander Doll.  This is not so difficult, it takes a pie pan and rubber bands, ribbons and cute gifts.  Go on line and read tutorials and make your own.  I actually went on a diaper cake rage and made about 6 for different friends little babies, and now, am over it.  However, it was a smashing hit each time.  The great part is giving them little t-shirts, socks, banks, baby books, and things the mom and dad really can use.  Blow this photo up and peek at what is there.  I also put nice scrapbooking decorations all around it and used the ribbons to cover up the rubber bands that held the diapers together.  I think home-made gifts (with good things in them) are always appreciated.  I can tell you, that creating also is a good way to not worry about silly things, and to go into your zin-happy guru safe place of love.  Love to you for your heartfelt gifts to the world.  Love, Silhouette Cindi!

Cucumber eye pack Green Tea and Lipton Tea Baggy eye removers!
Cucumbers are known to reduce baggy eyes, just like the potato is!
So, is the caffine tea bag (wet), green tea or Lipton's tea bags!
Regardless, all these methods require spritzing the eye area first.
Lying down with either the cucumber, potato slice, or wet tea bag on your eyes for 10 minutes.
You will see a difference, right away!
You will also see the red in your whites go away with the caffine in the tea bags!
It will give your eyes energy!

Marilyn Monroe was known to use cucumber eye masks for her lovely sparkling eyes!
Especially with her many hang-overs since we know she loved her bubbly!

Beauty Eye Treatment

Raw potato slices help your puffy eyes.  You need a potato and a knife!
Slice 6 very thin potato slices.
Spritz the eye area with purified water.
Lying down, place the slices on your lids and bags.
Leave this for at least 10 minutes for best results!

 Here is a photo after a potato treatment (now with make-up) of me, over 50 years old.
My glowing skin is from Bentonite clay masks, which I will tell you about later!
A good night's sleep always helps too.
Good night, from your Silhouette Guru, lover of the light. 

 

How to cut a paper silhouette

Tutorial on How to Cut a Silhouette out!
The history of Silhouette Art and Arts!
Professional portrait silhouette arts!
Paper cut out profiles in silhouette form, how to make your own!
DIY silhouettes artists

Wedding Silhouette Artist "I Do!"

Weddings can be wonderful, white like snow, or pure like a sacred heart.
They can also be stressful.
Most people are on a budget.
One of the most reasonable and unique ideas is to have a REAL silhouette artist at your wedding.
Cindi Harwood Rose, is that rare find! She does the lost heirloom art of cutting portraits from
thin paper in miniature. At weddings she often does two to them, one for each guest and one
for the guest book. We had the pleasure in New York City to have Cindi at our wedding, after
we watched her do silhouettes in Austin, Texas! She is so detailed, and spot-on! Plus,
she made us all feel special at the same time, keeping a perky, nice personality.
Some how she did all 150 of our guests in the 4 hour time we hired her.
For fun, we made other cute silhouette logos-- on mugs, and swoozies. I was able
to hire her from her SilhouettesbyCindiFacebook. It is a great idea. Say, "I do",
say "yes", and say, "here comes the bride, groom, and all the happy guests!"

Authentic silhouette artists are an extinct breed! Cindi Harwood is revising the art!

Silhouete artist Cindi Rose happened upon the art of silhouette cutting freehand, while drawing portraits for a Disney art company. She saw a unique hand-profile cutting artist and did not think his skills were as expert as they could be. The teen took to his surgical scissors and tiny, thin, paper and gave it a try. The park manager was so impressed, teen-aged Cindi was offered the spot as the "official silhouette artist!" At that time, nearly 40 years ago, there were only 13 silhouette artists known in the world. Today, there are 38 to 58 of which Cindi Harwood Rose is recognized as the leading and best silhouette artist. Her name is featured in The Guild of Papercutters and Wikipedia, and she holds the world-record in speed. The history of silhouettes (last example which is not Cindi's work) comes from the Victorian era. Harwood Rose is popular at business conventions, holiday parties, children's stores, schools, and silhouette fund-raisers and especially at weddings. She works in New York City, Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and Aspen. Cindi often works around the USA for Presidential homes and to give speeches on the history of silhouette art. Her work in speed and accuracy is unmatched. She also donates her time to children's hospitals to make the children feel happy, and to give the family a gift. For more information see http://www.silhouettesbycindi.com of the