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Oprah Winfrey talks about how she looks after herself in the latest issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.

Oprah Winfrey thinks it's important to "feed yourself with love and loving thoughts".

The 60-year-old star appears on the cover of the September issue of her publication O, The Oprah Magazine looking fabulous in a black bodysuit and smoky eyeshadow.

In an article accompanying the front page shoot in her magazine's makeover themed edition, Oprah lists 32 ways in which a person can "transform" their life.

"The best way I know for sure to stay in steady makeover mode is to take care of yourself," she recommended to her readers.

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"To feed yourself with love and loving thoughts. To eat food that's delicious to you and your body. To engage in loving practices, like giving yourself the gift of stillness at least five minutes a day.

"To surround yourself with people who bring you light, and to banish all forms of negative energy."

Oprah oozes confidence in the snap featured on the cover, which shows off her enviable curves. Citing a poem by the late author Maya Angelou, the TV personality is glad she took the gamble and wore the skin-tight ensemble.

"I'm feeling pretty phenomenal on this cover. I was a little apprehensive about doing this cover in a bodysuit because as Maya Angelou says in her 'Phenomenal Woman,' I'm not built to suit a fashion model size. But it's like something I've never done, it's really kind of exciting," she added.

Oprah previously spoke about how she doesn't fear ageing as it's something women should embrace as part of their life changing.

"Call me crazy, but I've never really understood our culture's fear of getting older. The way I see it, every year can be a brand new journey," she said.

"If you're blessed enough to grow older, there's so much wisdom to be gained from celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigour and grace."

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The Miss Teen USA beauty pageant was held Saturday night and Miss South Carolina, K.Lee Graham, 17, from Chapin, South Carolina won and was crowned Miss Teen USA 2014. The pageant was held at the Grand Ballroom, Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas and it was broadcast by YouTube via the Miss Teen USA website and also by Xbox Live.

The Miss Teen USA beauty pageant could also be viewed on the Nintendo 3DS, Wii U consoles, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and on tablets and smartphones through their respective YouTube apps. The hosts of the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant were Karl Jeno Schmid and Erin Brady.

There were 51 contestants for the Miss USA Teen Beauty Pageant, one from each of the states and one from Washington, D.C. The preliminary round of competitions was not broadcast, but it was held on Friday, August 1, 2014. Just the top 15 participated in the final competition, with the participants being judged on the basis of how they looked in evening gowns and swim suits. The top five, then, had to also answer a question by a member of the panel of judges, as one more factor in determining who the final winner would be. The five judges of the competition were Amber Katz, Christielle Lim, Fred Nelson, Joe Parisi, and Mallory Tucker.

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The final 15 contestants of the Miss USA beauty pageant were Miss Wisconsin, Patience Vallier; Miss South Carolina, K.Lee Graham; Miss Texas, Kellie Stewart; Miss Arizona, Savannah Wix; Miss West Virginia, Lexsey Marrara; Miss Mississippi, Vaeda Mann; Miss Delaware, Mia Jones; Miss Pennsylvania, Sydney Robertson; Miss Tennessee, Morgan Moseley; Miss Indiana, Zoe Parker; Miss California, Bianca Vierra; Miss Oklahoma, Brooklynne Bond; Miss New Jersey, Valentina Sanchez; Miss Massachusetts, Bailey Medeiros; and Miss Michigan, Iris Robare.

The final five contestants of the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant were Miss South Carolina, K. Lee Graham; Miss New Jersey, Valentina Sanchez, who was the first runner-up; Miss California, Bianca Vierra, who was the third runner-up; Miss Pennsylvania, Sydney Robertson, the second runner-up; and Miss Mississippi, Vaeda Mann, who was the first runner-up.

This Miss Teen USA beauty pageant marked the first time since 2007 that Miss Jersey made the top five. It was also the second time that a Miss South Carolina won the competition. The first time was in 1998. It was just the second time that a Miss Mississippi made the top five, the first time being in 1998. The last time that Miss Arizona and Miss Massachusetts have been in the top 15 was in 2008. Also, this Miss Teen USA beauty pageant was the first one ever to be streamed live on an eighth generation video game console and the first one to be broadcast on YouTube.

Miss South Carolina, K. Lee Graham, was asked for her interview question how she thought that people 100 years from now would look back on and remember today’s teens. She answered that she hoped future teens would remember the teens of today as being agents of change.

The new Miss Teen USA, K. Lee Graham, would like to promote her Beauty Secrets campaign. It is her belief that being beautiful is not just about outside appearances. It is also about being happy with a person’s inner self and how someone treats others, rather than trying to attain some impossible model of beauty or perfection. She is a vegetarian, who says that kale is her favorite vegetable. Her actual first name is Katherine.

Other awards that the young, intelligent and beautiful women won included Miss Congeniality and Miss Photogenic. The Miss Congeniality award was won by Miss Pennsylvania, Sydney Robertson. The Miss Photogenic award was presented to Miss Alabama, Baskin Champion.

After Miss Teen USA K. Lee Graham won, she was crowned by Miss Teen Usa 2013 Cassidy Wolf from California. Graham stated that it was literally a dream that had come true, as she has often dreamed about becoming the winner of a major beauty pageant.

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There are many cliches about beauty. Who has not heard of the popular saying that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. That old adage now has been rewritten as beauty lies in the hands of the skilled cosmetic surgeon.

Though the pain and perils of cosmetic surgery are well-known but the quest for lasting youth and beauty has meant that more people than ever before are willing to undergo surgery. But what if all that is sought after is possible after just a few painless pin-pricks? Acupuncture, popularly thought to have originated in China offers the possibility of taking years off one's face and other parts of the body.

Lacotse Catherine, a 49 year-old French lady living in India, decided to try acupuncture for her sagging facial skin and crow's feet and is happy with the results.

She says, with a broad smile on her face, "I took about 10-12 sessions for this problem but I also had other health problems when I first started getting acupuncture done. After the sessions, even my husband commented on the change in my face." And husbands do not lie, especially when it comes to being brutally honest about their wives' appearance.

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Both, Dr Raman Kapur and his wife Sunita Kapur are treating Catherine for cosmetic acupuncture.

"When it comes to wrinkles, in acupuncture we can only do a seven millimeter pull of the skin around the wrinkle. If a wrinkle requires more than that to be straightened, then the wrinkle cannot be removed", says Dr Raman Kapur.

That is why those who practice acupuncture do not call it a facelift, the term otherwise popularly used by cosmetic surgeons.

Acupuncture remedies

Acupuncture can and does offer remedies for many cosmetic problems like sagging facial skin, double chin, sagging breasts, breast augmentation, bags under the eyes, upper and lower medial eye areas, reducing male breasts, forehead wrinkles, cheeks, upper and lower epigastria area (middle of the stomach), obesity, sagging upper arm, obesity and cellulite.

Acupuncture needles stimulate collagen (protein) synthesis, which is how the wrinkles get smoothened out. The needles also increase blood supply to facial tissues and that is how the skin starts looking radiant and blemish free.

But for the effect to be permanent, the organ or organs responsible for the damage also needs to be treated. If your internal organs work well, then your face will show it. For instance, if the spleen channel (not to be confused with the organ) is deficient then the body will be prone to loose skin, cellulite and varicose veins. And that is why with ageing, when the energy flow of the channels reduces, wrinkles start appearing and the skin starts sagging.

Catherine puts it succinctly when she says, "Basically your disease is visible on your face in acupuncture."

Since we live in an imperfect world, there have to be caveats to what seems to be the discovery of a cosmetic heaven. If the skin is long gone due to the body's natural degenerative process then acupuncture offers little hope. And if the sagging part of the body needs more than a seven millimeter pull, then too acupuncture offers little hope.

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Jane Becker, a composer and solo pianist, celebrated her 50th Birthday at the dermatologist, paying $1,500 for shots of Restylane and Botox, but three months later, their wrinkle-smoothing effects wore off. So, she turned to a less-artificial youth tonic: facial acupuncture.

Like many women who have tried acupuncture in pursuit of beauty, Becker hoped that having needles strategically inserted into her face would be cheaper and last longer than her birthday injections. Becker, now 53, started with 10 sessions in five weeks ( $1000) and has gone for monthly maintenance since.

I can really see a difference in my face, said Becker, who sees a licensed acupuncturist in Minneapolis. "It looks younger, smoother, brighter and uplifted." Early adopters like Becker first spread word of the virtues of a so-called acupuncture face lift. Before the 2005 Academy Awards, a crew of facial acupuncturists descended on Soho House, a makeshift celebrity hangout in Los Angeles, and A-listers jumped at the chance to transform their skin from the inside out.

Cosmetic acupuncture has caught the attention of more of the wrinkled public. Its holistic approach appeals in particular to women who want to slow signs of aging but do not want to undergo surgery or to inject chemicals.

Whether it is called facial rejuvenation, acupuncture face-lift or cosmetic acupuncture, the aim is to tackle wrinkles, muscle tension that may be causing unsightly lines, as well as systematic issues standing between you and glowing skin.

What does a cosmetic acupuncture session involve?

1. Application of local anesthetic cream on the face.

2. Using body acupuncture points to improve the flow of Qi and blood.

3. Tonifying the jaw muscles and tightening them.

4. Points on cheek, around eye, along nasolabial fold, chin line.

5. Use of special cosmetic needles on the face.

6. After removal of needles, special Jade roller is used for massage.

7. Entire treatment is totally painless and it is a one hour treatment session.

8. An average patient requires twice a week treatment for 6 weeks and thereafter once a month for maintenance of facial rejuvenation.

9. The cost of per treatment session is Rs. 2500.