Lasting beauty is both 'skin deep and deeper' according to authors Debra Luftman, M.D., and Eva Ritvo, M.D.
Lana Turner may or may not, as legend has it, been discovered perched prettily on a stool at the soda fountain of Schwab’s Pharmacy in Hollywood. But, believe us, toss the keys to an Audi TT convertible anywhere in Los Angeles and you’ll hit enough lovely young things to cast any number of remakes of Friends and Melrose Place. The city that some of us call home is not an easy place to hold onto one’s feelings of attractiveness.
That’s why time and again we have turned to the Beauty Prescription Quiz in the book named, no surprise, The Beauty Prescription and subtitled The Complete Formula for Looking and Feeling Beautiful (McGraw-Hill, 2008). The book was co-written by Beverly Hills dermatologist Debra Luftman, M.D., and Eva Ritvo, M.D., a Miami psychiatrist (they call their home cities “the Botox latitudes”), who are both knockout blondes and the closest of friends since they met in medical school some 25 years ago. They hatched the idea for the book while on vacation with their families in Jamaica. Sitting under umbrellas, SPF 45 sunscreen slathered on — natch! — Luftman says she and Ritvo realized “that while our specialties were different we were treating the same patients. They came to me to fix the outside and to Eva to patch up their self-esteem.” The result: a holistic guide to looking your best with a generous serving of the message that beauty is both, as the authors say, “skin deep and deeper.”
Taking the Beauty Quiz is an illuminating experience, and it’s now available online at TheBeautyPrescription.com. You’ll agree or disagree with 80 questions on inner and outer beauty such as, “When I go out, I feel confident that people will find me attractive even if I don’t look perfect” and “I use a nonabrasive exfoliant a few times a week.” We aced the outer beauty portion, flunked the inner beauty part, and scoring the quiz, clearly saw some areas where we needed to tweak our attitude and a couple where we could adjust our beauty regimen.
We’ve taken the quiz again several times and we find that after a day when we’re thoroughly engaged with friends, family, work and working out, our “inner beauty” score soars. A friend even told us that she uses the quiz as one indication of whether a man she’s currently dating is healthy for her self image (okay, we’ll admit, that was us!).
One lucky VIV Says reader will win a copy of The Beauty Prescription (a $24.95 value). For your chance to win, click here. And tell us: What’s your best advice on cultivating inner beauty?
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