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Beauty Secrets From Around The World Spain: Cranberry Juice for Shiny Hair Cranberry juice gives

the women of Spain their shiny hair. Fruit acids are known to lighten dark spots on skin. The acid in cranberries does the same to hair, but it also leaves behind a red tint; be sure to use esses. lemon juice instead on blonde hair to avoid pink tresses. Egypt: Almonds for Soft Skin Exfoliate away rough patches with the Egyptian secret to soft skin: almonds. Almonds are a natural antioxidant and almond oil is one of the most rapidly absorbed oils. In a food processor, grind together almonds and milk until it forms a paste. Rub it on your body to slough off dead skin and wash it off for incredible looking skin. Dominican Republic: Garlic for Strong Nails For strong nails, women of the Dominican Republic swear by garlic. Simply take some chopped garlic and add it to a bottle of clear nail polish. Let it stew for 7 to 10 days and then paint onto nails. This fortifying polish will make your nails super strong. Mexico: Lemon and Sugar for Young Hands Women in Mexico know that the hands are one of the first areas of the body to show the signs of aging, so theyve developed a powerful scrub. Create a thick paste by mixing sugar with a little lemon juice. Rub into hands. (Be sure there are no cuts on your skin or the lemon will sting.). The citric acid from the lemon helps to lighten dark spots on the skin, and the sugar sloughs away dull, dehydrated skin to reveal glowing, younger-looking hands. This scrub is also great for your elbows and knees . Nadia Elena Comneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic Gold Medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Olympics Summer in Moscow. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. Comneci began gymnastics in kindergarten with a local team called The Flame, with coaches Duncan and Munteanu.[At age 6 she was chosen to attend Bla Krolyi's experimental gymnastics school . Karolyi was looking for gymnasts he could train from a young age and saw the two girls during recess. When recess ended the girls ran inside. Karolyi went around the classrooms trying to find the girls, with no luck. So, he asked, "Who likes gymnastics?" and the girls popped up saying, "Us, us! " . One of them was Comneci. Comneci's first major international success came at the age of 13, when she nearly swept the 1975 European Championships in Skien, Norway, winning the all-around and gold medals on every event but

the floor exercise, in which she placed second. She continued to enjoy success in other meets in 1975, winning the all-around at the "Champions All" competition and placing first in the all-around, vault, beam, and bars at the Romanian National Championships. At the age of 14, Comneci became one of the stars of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. During the team portion of the competition on July 18, her routine on the uneven bars was awarded a perfect ten.It was the first time in modern Olympic gymnastics history that the score had ever been awarded. Comneci was the 1976 BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the overseas athletes category and the Associated Press's 1976 "Female Athlete of the Year" She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. In 2000 Comneci was named as one of the athletes of the century by the Laurens World Sports Academy.

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