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Authors: Scott-Vincent Borba
Tags: #Recipes, #your way, #superfoods, #fabulous, #gorgeous, #homemade, #age-reversing, #Cooking, #age, #skin, #facials
People tell me I’m humble.
Mostly, I’m a spiritual person whose kindly, tenacious drive and success were inspired by my own devastating skin problems and the terminal illness of my late father. It really all started from there. Hard Work + Courage + Creating an Opportunity = Success. We all have questions, concerns, and secrets about our skin, health, and how to look our best. Hopefully, yours have now been addressed through correcting the challenged areas rather than camouflaging them. But you must remember that you are beautiful, period. This book is just a vehicle to help bring out what is already within you: the even more gorgeous you!
I also know what it feels like to desperately want to improve one’s life but not have the financial resources to do so. I grew up of humble means and had to work—a lot, at age fourteen—to even afford my first Neutrogena cleanser, which is so ironic, because I later went on to launch the Neutrogena Men’s line (and many other popular products for Johnson & Johnson). Years later, when some money did start coming in from my businesses, I continued to educate myself on how I could empower my skin and not just rely on a bottle of cream, lotions, pills, or potions to do the job for me. I also put myself back into school to become an esthetician so I could understand all sides of the process from the creation of products to the development of protocols (how to use certain ingredients in a series or process), and then I worked with endocrinologists to understand how to best deliver nutrients to the body. I went through all this so I could help my father, myself, and you. I wanted to learn how to heal my skin from the inside out.
Cooking Your Way to Gorgeous
is the answer to great skin and improved health, cooking with everyday items and getting the most out of comfort food—with a kick. And now you are a pioneer of this information, too, knowing that, for example,
camu camu
is the next superfood
,
and that
red palm oil
can power your skin to gorgeous. Innovative health and beauty eating ideas
can
come from uncomplicated recipes where good-tasting food is never sacrificed. It’s all about great taste with healthier options. Tell a friend! (P.S.
If salt and pepper were the common flavor add-ins in your everyday cooking, notice how this book has turned you on to the health-promoting benefits of numerous spices that can kick up the flavor quotient and benefit skin, too.)
Like you, I will gladly try most any food if I think it may improve my skin. I am a beauty foodie™, but what I eat has to taste good or I simply can’t follow through. I know you want to do it all but have limited time, and, now that you have learned how to improve your diet without losing the foods you love, you can really change your life from the inside out! A beautiful change is the best kind of change we can ask for.
If you have learned a thing, or three, from
Cooking Your Way to Gorgeous
, then I feel confident that my work has been done. But since there’s always more to do, I am now hard at work on my next book,
Scott-Vincent Borba’s Great Starts.
Lastly, I want to thank you for all your love and support. Being a pioneer is lonely work and most times fraught with challenges. Without you, I wouldn’t have made it this far, and, from the bottom of my heart, I sincerely thank you for that. Every day, I make it a point to do something good for someone else. Today I pass that baton to you. Live a beautiful, spiritual life, and share a loving recipe from me with a friend or family member. When they know you are thinking about them and trying to help them live a better, healthier life, it’s one of the best feelings in the world.
God bless and besos to you!
Scott-Vincent Borba
Celebrity Esthetician | Nutraceutical Expert
Scott-Vincent Borba
has been on the cutting edge of beauty innovation for over two decades, leading the cosmetic industry into the future. His acclaimed background in the beauty industry and his foresight in market development have defined him as an entrepreneur with high merit. As creator and founder of BORBA™, cofounder of e.l.f. cosmetics, and creator and founder of Scott-Vincent Borba Omni Media, Scott-Vincent is posed to change the way people think about skin care.
Scott-Vincent Borba has created a new evolutionary skin-care line that is set to revolutionize beauty and the body, pioneering an emerging category in the marketplace called Nutraceuticals. Independent from any other line or delivery system, BORBA SKIN BALANCE WATER, for example, a technologically advanced Nutraceutical water, improves the overall quality of skin from the inside out. His new company Scott-Vincent Borba, Inc. is his first solo brand. When he launched it on HSN in Fall 2012, the entire line sold out in minutes.
Since graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from Santa Clara University, he has succeeded as a high-fashion model, TV personality, and, most currently, a licensed celebrity esthetician with the aim of understanding skin on a deeper level and furthering his credentials in that category. Currently, he serves as creative director, and executive vice president of marketing of Toppik, Inc., overseeing product development, retail planning, advertising, social media, and DRTV media campaign.
The youngest of five children, Scott-Vincent was born in a small farming town in Visalia, California. “I received unequivocal guidance and support from my parents,” he says. “They encouraged my ambitions to escape the constraints of the small town and create something bigger, something significant of my life.”
Scott-Vincent is an active supporter of and global spokesperson for Covenant House California, a nonprofit organization providing food, shelter, life-skills counseling, and education for youth in need. His dedication to the cause is deeply rooted in the belief that when children are provided with the proper mentorship, tools, and spiritual foundation, they will evolve into healthy contributors to society. Scott-Vincent is also a passionate representative for Pancreatic Action Network. Since the passing of his beloved father, he became determined to serve as an advocate for individuals facing this debilitating disease.
Scott-Vincent continues to challenge himself by pursuing additional creative outlets, such as writing, singing, and acting.
Cooking Your Way to Gorgeous
is preceded by his two other bestselling beauty philosophy books—
Makeup for Dummies,
which sold out at Walmarts nationwide, and
Skintervention,
over 15,000 copies sold and counting.
Become part of his family by signing up at Scottvincentborba.com or liking scott-vincentborba on Facebook or SVBorba on Twitter.
Writer
Ali Morra-Pearlman
grew up in Los Angeles, California, and spent her adventurous youth in and around the entertainment industry. She also traveled extensively, studying a variety of cultures and put her divergent experiences and interests to use through a vital journalism career covering health and nutrition, food, travel, city life, cosmetics, and beauty. Her personal features, columns, promotional campaigns, and reviews have appeared in AOL,
the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, New York Sun, New York Post, New York Observer, New York Times Sunday Styles, New York Resident, Metro New York, Boston Herald,
and Chicago
RedEye
newspapers, as well as numerous fashion and beauty magazines
and
websites
.
Through her midtwenties, Ali went to work at New York Fashion Week, freelancing for 7th on Sixth “under the tents.” and blazed her way from intern to All-Access status, writing fashion features along the way. She also cohosted “Sex and the Single Girl” on AM 640 radio, and contributed a health and wellness relationships-advice column in
amNew York
newspaper. Ali worked as a copywriter for Martha Stewart in promotional and editorial packaging for the Kmart “Everyday” brand; and as senior copywriter for national fashion chain, New York & Company, Ali successfully transitioning the brand image from dowdy to chic.
She is a certified Cambridge English and Berlitz teacher and Boston University alumnus. From maternity modeling to marketing manager for facial plastic surgeon (and husband) Steven J. Pearlman, her interests and abilities are widespread. When not busy raising her five-year-old twin girls, Ali is at work on a collection of steamy short stories. She resides with her family in Westchester County, New York.
Ali met Scott-Vincent on a Los Angeles-New York flight, where their obsession for ‘products’ was shared and their collaboration was inspired.
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