Beauty Regimes

For as long as I've known her (all of my 31 years), my grandmother has always had a host of "secret" beauty tips and tricks. For instance, decades ago Nani met a 101-year-old lady with sparkling eyes. She asked her what her secret was, and the lady whipped out a small green bottle from her purse. This bottle, also known as "Cineraria Maritima Schwabe," is a homeopathic eye solution made in Germany by a Dr. Willmar Schwabe Karlsrue, and can only be found at a tiny family-owned pharmacy in Old Delhi called "Homeopathic Home." Nani's been applying two drops every night for the past 60 years and she swears it's the reason she doesn't have cataracts and why her eyes still hold the "powers of attraction" (as she puts it). Nani also does 15 minutes of "top secret" hip and butt exercises each morning that look suspiciously like pilates, but she swears there's a magic twist to them that speeds up the toning process. Her real beauty secret though, is what she does every night after dinner. She disappears into her bathroom for half an hour taking with her a bowl of secret ingredients from the kitchen. I promised Nani I wouldn't divulge them, but I will say this: yoghurt plays a large part in this regime. Nani scrubs her face with these ingredients in a complicated series of hand movements and massages...she's never used soap or face creams or anything her whole life. And I have to say, she's 78-years-old but her skin is soft and luminous like a child's. If it wasn't for the overwhelming smell of dairy, I think Nani could have made a real fortune selling her "top secret" face regime.