Re-Post: Lips Like Sugar: Kissable Lips
Posted: March 19, 2023 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, beauty, body awareness, D/s, dievca, Life, Lips, music videos, self-care, Spring, Spring Cleaning, submissive Leave a comment
‘Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.’
Judy Garland
Spring Cleaning: Kissable Lips
Honey and Sugar Lip Exfoliating paste:
-A tablespoon of brown sugar or white sugar
-A dash of honey (just enough to make the sugar really stick together) OR a bit of olive oil/coconut oil
-A teeny tiny little drop of vanilla (to make the paste smell yummy.)
-Rub a small amount on your lips in a vigorous circular motion to remove dead skin.
-Apply lip balm.
-Ask your Sir if you may Kiss Him.
Oh, and if you are wearing any of the outfits that Siouxsie Sioux is wearing in the video ~
dievca knows that your Sir will kiss you back.
Lingerie. (a poem)
Posted: February 23, 2023 Filed under: Entertainment, Poetry | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Humor, Lingerie, Mother Nature, physics, Science, Women Leave a comment
Physicists are perverts. They keeptrying to peek under Mother
Nature’s dressing gown- asking
Her questions like “why
do electrons behave as both
particles and waves?”
when what they really want
to know is
if Mother Nature’s lingerie
is red or black, and which
she prefers to wear
on Fridays.
Taking a Moment
Posted: September 30, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, beauty, colors, D/s, dievca, End of Summer, Hudson River, Joy, Life, Love, NYC, photo, Sunset 1 Comment
To appreciate a Masterpiece.
Photo: dievca NYC Hudson River Sunset 09/2022
Well said…
Posted: September 18, 2022 Filed under: Analysis, Body Type | Tags: acceptance, aging, BDSM, beauty, beauty standards, D/s, dievca, forgiveness, internet troll, Life, submissive Leave a comment“People who believe prettiness equals beauty do not understand beauty,” she continued. “Pretty is easy on the eyes, partly because it’s a little bland, inoffensive. It’s easy to take in and easy to forget. Not so beauty. Beauty can be sharp. It can wound you and leave a scar. To perceive beauty you have to be able to SEE.”
“This is why I believe we get more beautiful with age,” she added. “We have earned our beauty, we understand what it is, and we can see it so much better. There is no such thing as ugly and old. Only shortsighted and ignorant.” — Paulina Porizkova
dievca’s WaterWorks class is leaning towards geriatric… she looks at the participants and sees her future. The Ladies? Amazing. Some in their 60’s and 70’s, a couple in their 80’s — they are moving and absolutely beautiful, plus (even better) kind. They ask about dievca’s knee, her work, talk to her about their lives. They are engaged in the World. All in Swimsuits.
And none of the class looks like this:
RickARoo777 is a moron. Paulina is looking amazing and, yes, better than her younger self because she has lived.
Swim : dievca & Waterworks (she wishes)
Posted: August 18, 2022 Filed under: Body Type, Entertainment, submissive | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Elegant, Life, Summer, swimming, Vogue, water aerobics, workout 2 Comments
22/52
Debbie Dickinson
Vogue, May 1977
in the Pink of well-being
Posted: April 24, 2022 Filed under: Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, beauty, champagne, D/s, dievca, Elegant, gift, Health, Life, Love, pink, positive mental attitude, Shopping Leave a commentA box of mental, beauty, and well-being as a $499 treat!
La Box en Pink
La Box en Pink: A Must-Have from Harper’s Bazaar! Our appreciation of the Parisian It Girl runs deep, which is why we’re thrilled to present La Box en Pink. This limited-edition collection of rosy-hued must-haves from iconic brand Champagne Laurent-Perrier and emerging French labels celebrate effortless style and joie de vivre.
Wine Gift Set Includes:
- Laurent-Perrier Cuvee Rose
The Cuvée Rosé from Laurent-Perrier is the most recognized rosé champagne in the world. The house uses its proprietary maceration technique and the wine is crafted for a fragrance and not mixed for a color. Held in an elegant bottle inspired by King Henri IV, it has been widely acknowledged for its consistent high quality for more than 40 years, and it is the benchmark for rosé champagne around the world.
Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé is truly remarkable for its highly expressive bouquet, stemming from the very careful preservation of fresh fruit aromas during the winemaking. Made with 100% Pinot Noir from 10 different “crus ” (or villages), from the North and South areas of the Montagne de Reims, as well as the famous village of Bouzy. Grapes from carefully selected plots are meticulously sorted and de-stemmed before going into the vats, and the controlled maceration helps with the color extraction and the development of the full aromatic richness of the Pinot Noir.
Intensely fruity flavors, clean and slightly sharp, the wine opens to the sensation of freshly picked red berries: strawberries, Morello cherries, black currants, and raspberries. The finish is supple and rounded.
Rated 96 Points: Connoisseurs’ Guide - La Box en Pink
La Box en Pink is comprised of a 750ml bottle of Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé, a crepe de chine scarf by ba&sh, Delina Hair Mist, Feminine Discovery Set, and votive candle by Parfums de Marly, Le Stylo in Emilie and Les 4 Rouje cream lip palette in Chaleur by Rouje, and a pink quartz necklace by Bôneur, and French Glow supplement and a Simple Skin Mini Routine Set by Aime.
Grateful for another Day
Posted: March 27, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Florida, Joy, Life, Nature, submissive, Sun, travel Leave a comment
Photo: dievca Sunrise South Beach FL 03/2022
Autumn offers Sunsets
Posted: October 2, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Love, NYC, photo, submissive, Sunset Leave a comment
Not the cleanest lens on the phone – but the loveliness still shines though. XO
Photo: dievca – Hudson River Sunset 09/2021
Hope in the City
Posted: May 21, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC), Poetry | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Flowers, Hudson River, Joy, Life, NYC, photo, Spring Leave a comment
From the train
it’s a city of roses
and rose keepers,
bald men in spectacles
and torn shirts.
There are miles of roses
in Elizabeth, New Jersey,
backyard arbors
shadowed by refineries
and the turnpike,
jungles of scrap,
still brown water, and poisoned marsh.
None of this matters
to the rose keepers of Elizabeth.
From the backyards of row houses
they bring forth pink roses, yellow roses
and around a house on its own
green plot, a hedge of roses, in red and white.
Surely faith and charity
are fine, but the greatest of these
is roses.
— "Hope in Elizabeth" by Kathleen Norris, for more see Little Girls in ChurchPhotos: dievca, Hudson River Park 05/2021
Smell the blossoms – or not…
Posted: April 27, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, beauty, crabapple trees, D/s, dievca, Flowers, garden, Hudson River, Joy, Love, smell, Spring, submissive Leave a comment
It’s hard to know when the blossoms burst and you cannot smell them because of your mask.
Normally, dievca can smell them while riding her bike past the Hudson River Walk.
If you make a point of stopping and take off your mask – they smell divine!
The Spirit is willing, the Body – not so much.
Posted: April 18, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Musings, Poetry | Tags: aging, BDSM, beauty, body awareness, D/s, dievca, elegance, mental health, Mother, Physical Fitness 2 Comments
Marie-Berthe Paquette, 102 years old, Montreal, 2016. (Arianne Clément/GroundTruth)
Growing Old – Matthew Arnold
What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for beauty to forgo her wreath?
—Yes, but not this alone.
Is it to feel our strength—
Not our bloom only, but our strength—decay?
Is it to feel each limb
Grow stiffer, every function less exact,
Each nerve more loosely strung?
Yes, this, and more; but not
Ah, ’tis not what in youth we dreamed ’twould be!
’Tis not to have our life
Mellowed and softened as with sunset glow,
A golden day’s decline.
’Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are no more.
It is to spend long days
And not once feel that we were ever young;
It is to add, immured
In the hot prison of the present, month
To month with weary pain.
It is to suffer this,
And feel but half, and feebly, what we feel.
Deep in our hidden heart
Festers the dull remembrance of a change,
But no emotion—none.
It is—last stage of all—
When we are frozen up within, and quite
The phantom of ourselves,
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost
Which blamed the living man.
Unlike the poem states – dievca still feels flashes of being young. she has hints and memories of free movement, but she wonders if this poem applies to her Mother’s age when memories dim and movement is slim. Note: that dievca is saying this as she is elevating and heating a knee which was painful upon awaking -trying to remember her name.
Photo above from an article on aging and beauty at the Ground Truth Project.
Elegance with Else
Posted: March 25, 2021 Filed under: lingerie | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Elegant, French styling, Love, Presentation Outfits, submissive, Undergarments Leave a comment
Else Lingerie Honeycomb
Else Lingerie Bella
Else Lingerie Petunia
Else is a very simple lingerie brand to wear.
Their lovely fabrics cover and reveal without awkward cuts or strange straps.
Clean-lined elegance.
feeling good over 50 (lingerie)
Posted: September 3, 2020 Filed under: lingerie, Musings | Tags: aging, beauty, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Life, Presentation Outfits, Shopping, submissive, Undergarments Leave a comment
Look, I never had my waist disappear…
until now.
Are those wrinkles on my upper stomach?
yes.
Ok, I am eating better and less, why am I holding weight?
metabolism slow down.
I used to be flexible, why did I tear my calf?
estrogen depletion.
Is there hope?
Yes. Confidence. Attitude and Lingerie you feel good wearing.
Thank Goodness.
Knix – a Canadian Brand
It’s hard to believe but we actually have 4 decades of women in this campaign. We have women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. And every single one of them is just owning their super power which is being genuine and authentic to who they are.
a gift for the ride
Posted: June 10, 2020 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Life, Love, photo, Spring, submissive, travel, Weather 4 Comments
10 hours to go with a little color to spark some energy!
The Midwest is beautiful.
Photo: dievca 06/2020 rainbow midwestern road
Your Voice.
Posted: May 9, 2019 Filed under: D/s Relationship, Entertainment, submissive | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Life, Love, Master, nude, photo, Presentation Outfits, quote, Rumi, submissive, travel Leave a comment
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That’s how I hold your voice.
-Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks
WHERE KINK MEETS COSMETICS @ Ricky’s NYC Beauty & Pin-Ups
Posted: May 5, 2019 Filed under: Accessories, Discussion | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Kink, Life, NYC, Pin-Up, primping, Ricky's NYC, Sex, sex toys, Shopping, submissive 3 Comments“It was the funniest thing in the world to see a customer buying a shampoo, a toothpaste, and a dildo. Where else are you going to find that?” Nowhere except the famous Ricky’s NYC.
dievca has been riding her bike everywhere in the NYC and it makes stopping, shopping or wandering the City harder to do. One of the stores that is no longer in her neighborhood is Ricky’s. she hasn’t visited a Ricky’s store in a long time and she was worried that they were going out of business. Turns out they are re-organizing….
Here’s how Ricky’s describes itself:
An edgy, ultra-hip “beauty shop” specializing in unique fashion accessories, cosmetics, and beauty supplies, Ricky’s NYC has been a part of New York’s urban chic culture for nearly two decades. From style-conscious teenagers and their suburbanite moms to Hollywood celebrities and their professional stylists, Ricky’s NYC plays host to a diverse, cult-like following of clientele.
A veritable one stop super shop for everything beauty Ricky’s NYC transcends trends while inspiring and emphasizing individuality. With products ranging from professional hair care to temporary tattoos, Ricky’s NYC’s eclectic offerings make headlines and grace the pages of major beauty publications every month. Ricky’s NYC is synonymous with style, sensibility and funky sophistication.
Here’s how dievca describes it:
dievca used to be able to go into Ricky’s and buy SweetSpot Labs Grapefruit personal wipes, a Chi Hair Straightener, Spanx Tights, a Rabbit Vibrator, Penis Straws and Murad Pomegranate Extract Face Cleaner:
Following in the footsteps of his father, operator of drugstores called Love, Ricky Kenig opened the first Ricky’s NYC in 1989 with his brother Todd, who, by his own account, built the retailer to 28 stores and $55 million in revenues by 2012. Ricky’s NYC is now controlled by a private owner declining to be named. Lisa Aquilino is now the President. Her mission has been to restructure Ricky’s slowly and gently to become a better version of itself. Prior to Aquilino, the president’s role at Ricky’s NYC was occupied by Michael Long, Dominick Costello and Richard Parrott.
That said, the Ricky’s on the UWS seemed to be re-organizing its floor space and consolidating. The “sex shop” part was no longer in existence and dievca didn’t see a Hair Salon – but not all Ricky’s have hair salons. There was an extensive “sale” area which allowed dievca to pick-up some expensive skin care items for less and made her smile with this Beauty & Pin-Up Haircare line on sale:
Something excellent for the 1950’s Household Kink submissive.
“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning.”
Posted: February 3, 2019 Filed under: Analysis, Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Life, NYC, photo, proverb, Science, submissive, Weather, Winter 3 Comments
Normally, weather moves from west to east. In the mid-latitudes, the prevailing winds are westerlies. This means storm systems generally move in from the West.
The colors we see in the sky are due to the rays of sunlight being split into colors of the spectrum as they pass through the atmosphere and ricochet off the gases, water vapor and particles. The amounts of water vapor and dust particles in the atmosphere are good indicators of weather conditions. They also determine which colors we will see in the sky.
During sunrise and sunset the sun is low in the sky, and it transmits light through the thickest part of the atmosphere. A red sky suggests an atmosphere loaded with dust and moisture particles. The shorter wavelengths, such as blue, are scattered and broken up. We see the red wavelengths. the longest in the color spectrum, are able to continue through the atmosphere.
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.
A red sky at night means that the setting sun is sending its light through a high concentration of dust particles. This usually indicates high pressure and stable air coming in from the west and good weather will follow.
Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning.
A red sunrise can mean that a high pressure system (good weather) has already passed, thus indicating that a storm system (low pressure) may be moving to the east. A morning sky that is a deep, fiery red can indicate that there is high water content in the atmosphere. So, rain could be on its way.
dievca had the pleasure of a beautiful sunset, yesterday.
Made her evening.
Photos: dievca 02/2019 NYC
Inspired
Posted: September 16, 2018 Filed under: Body Type, Entertainment, Musings | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Life, Love, Master, photo, submissive 5 Comments
dievca likes to think that she photographs objects and patterns well.
Master tells her to think of the human form as an object. she hasn’t figured it out.
dievca plans to take a moment this Sunday and sit and dream with JeanLoup Sieff
Inspiring.
Jeanloup Sieff (November 30, 1933 – September 20, 2000) was a French photographer. He was born in Paris to Polish parents. He was a photography student of Gertrude Fehr. He is famous for his portraits of politicians, famous artists, landscapes, as well as for his nudes and use of wide-angle lens and visible dodging marks. He worked mainly in black and white and in fashion.
He died in Paris.
~Wikipedia
Photoshoot…
Posted: June 27, 2018 Filed under: Discussion, Fashion, Relationships | Tags: BDSM, beauty, confidence, D/s, dievca, Elegant, Friends, Life, Love, Make-up, NYC, photo, submissive, Summer 19 Comments
dievca has learned that her make-up technique just needed some tweaking and you need to build it up for photos because you lose 50%. she also learned that her face is not model material – but it is kind and children love it. (Or maybe that is just her personality coming out — boys, of all ages, tend to love dievca)
dievca also learned that you want your face to be the largest item for the camera, so you don’t push your pelvis forward or stick you hip out to the camera. (she does this all the time…)
dievca learned that good friends giggling with you makes the process easier. And the people watching you appreciate and smile when they know you are having fun. Taking photos with friends in them are more natural.
dievca learned that her friend is a really good make-up artist and photographer.
dievca learned that she…is beautiful.
(A lot of learning going on)
Charlotte Olympia Camera Bag
Beauty in Motion
Posted: October 3, 2017 Filed under: Body Type, Poetry | Tags: BDSM, beauty, Body Image, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Life, Motion, photo, Presentation Outfits, Relationships, submissive, Taras Polataiko 3 Comments
Don’t Look for what Fits
I am Beauty in Motion
You must Catch Me
In a Moment
Click
Photo: Taras Polataiko, Eadweard Muybridge - Human Locomotion
Via Barbara Edwards Contemporary
For conceptual artist Taras Polataiko, the idea is primary and the medium is the mode of its conveyance. Consequently, his work takes on many forms from painting, photography, video and performance, to cultural and political interventions in response to historical events. Through his manifold manipulations, Polataiko has achieved a conceptually rigorous and thematically cohesive practice concerned with notions of rupture and repair.
Polataiko studied painting, art history, and philosophy at the Moscow State Stroganov University of Fine and Industrial Arts, moving to Canada in 1989 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree. Polataiko’s own experience of displacement, as a Ukrainian Canadian is central to recurrent themes of cultural conflict and translation in his work. For his celebrated piece Cradle (1996), Polataiko traveled to the Chernobyl alienation zone, exposed himself to radioactivity, and did a full blood transfusion upon his return to Canada. This blood became a core element of an installation, which dealt with the issue of contamination as the imperceptible element. Here exposure is a means of addressing the past, thereby resolving the future through dialogue and awareness.
Beauty Vs. Reality
Posted: October 2, 2016 Filed under: Body Type, Discussion, Relationships | Tags: advertising, BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Dove, Life, photo, reality, Relationships, submissive 12 Comments
dievca always took pride in her strong body and abilities.
It took dievca a long time to start loving her looks.
Broken and rebuilt nose.
Larger cheeks.
More masculine, severe features.
Crazy curly hair.
Large eyes that can not decide what color to be~
You would have noticed none of these issues. They were of dievca’s own making.
She is not alone in these strange – unreal perceptions.
And she is always surprised when she runs into a lovely photo of herself.
These videos state the same point nicely.
How do you see yourself?
LONG: Dove Real Beauty Sketches |
You’re more beautiful than you think
SHORT: Dove Evolution | With some images, all is not what it seems
PS. dievca knows that her Master finds her beautiful everyday. He has told her. she also knows that she finds beauty in every person she touches. Now, after another birthday she has finally accepted that she is a beauty just in the act of being. It took awhile.
International Women’s Day: Beauty by Country
Posted: March 8, 2016 Filed under: Body Type | Tags: BDSM, beauty, bondage, D/s, dievca, International Women's Day, Life, photo, photoshop, submissive 4 CommentsYes, the 2016 theme for International Women’s Day is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality”. But, dievca got distracted by something admittedly more trite — Women’s International Beauty Standards….Sorry.
How designers around the world photoshopped this model when they were told to make her beautiful.
UK-based Superdrug Online Doctor hired female graphic designers in 18 countries to retouch the same portrait of a woman to become more attractive to their culture. The shocking responses show the dramatic differences in how different countries perceive beauty.
PHOTO VERSION: 18 Pictures Which Depict Beauty Standards of 18 Different Nations
VIDEO VERSION: Beauty Cultural Differences Photoshopped
Esther Hong Photoshopped around the World
dievca found this visual depictions of Cultural Differences to be very interesting–especially when she has experienced that her curves are more appreciated by certain ethnic groups, rather than others.
On the flip-side, no matter what the “look” is, dievca’s first thought about any representation is —- is she nice?
What is beautiful? Jolie laide
Posted: August 9, 2015 Filed under: Body Type | Tags: attractive, BDSM, beauty, Body Image, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, je ne sais quoi, Life, Master, personality, Relationships, submissive 5 Comments
By now we humans have learned that looks are in the eyes of the beholder. There is a mystical quality of the soul that can turn a beautiful face into an ugly one and vis versa.
People who have “beautiful” exteriors can begin to look ugly after you get to know them, while someone with a somewhat “average” face or even an “ugly” face can become the most beautiful person you know. This shows that beauty isn’t just a façade but an incandescent quality that is not solely dependent upon one’s gene pool.
Tom Robbins once wrote that the only way to burn is “Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly”.
This incandescent quality is what elevates a person above just hot or sexy. It’s the way they walk, talk and present themselves. It’s the way the person radiates from the inside out. It is the soul, spark and that thing you just can’t put your finger on.
Je ne sais quoi – They have got that thing~
It might be the someone you didn’t notice at first, the one who didn’t stand out. But they are the person you need to get to know, whose beauty becomes more defined with every conversation, every glance. Je ne sais quoi is a phrase that describes people who can’t be classified as just “hot”.
Plumb the depths: They’ve got a soul
High Adventure: They are open to new ideas and experiences
Awareness: They pay attention to needs and wants of people.
Mystery: They share information, but there is always more to be found in conversation.
No need for a crutch: They can go it alone
They know how to talk
They don’t chase the limelight
They show you their real face
Their passions define them more than their looks
Inspired by a Laura Martin post on Elite Daily
BTW — you can consider dievca “Jolie laide”
dievca 