Beauty, Health and Happiness—A Way of Life - Review

Vegetarian Journal, Sept, 2001 by Meri Robie

BEAUTY, HEALTH, AND HAPPINESS

By Lily of Colorado

Lily of Colorado lives as she preaches--happily, peacefully, and doing what she loves: running a small, ethical skin care products line. For the first third of this book, she is quite stuck on the happiness part. She chats away, offering a pep talk and sounding like a best girlfriend, as if the reader is trying to stuff her legs into a pair of jeans a size too small, or is guiltily sneaking a cigarette. And it's very sweet: we all need that best girlfriend--the one who will love us no matter who we are or what we are doing. She seems to genuinely care for our mental well-being and believes that as soon as we are happy with ourselves, the rest will follow.

The result is a bubbly, positive book that has a great outlook and a bunch of wonderful ideas about nutrition, rejuvenation, and inner peace. Although the bulk of the book is about her skin care products, you are invited to take whatever you need from it--it's about your health and your happiness. And if you do giggle girlishly once or twice while you're reading, don't worry--I did the same thing.

Beauty, Health, and Happiness--A Way of Life (ISBN 0-9669383-0-5) is published by HCO Press. It is 354 pages and retails for $19.95.