Sexy Girls: How Hot Is Too Hot? (Paperback)

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Product Description

Every teenage girl wants to be sexy--she wants to be noticed, to be attractive. But what is "sexy," really? Do teen girls know what they are saying about themselves by the way they dress? Popular author Hayley DiMarco wants to help them figure it out. Sexy Girls is an honest and provocative look at everything sexy--from clothes and self-presentation to body image. With her approachable style and wit, Hayley shows teen girls

- why little things called hormones affect the way guys look at girls - what girls are really saying by the way they dress - what God thinks about teens trying to be sexy

With quizzes, sidebars, and questions for reflection, Sexy Girls is the perfect opportunity for girls to figure out who they are and how they are going to present that image to their peers.

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Excerpt in catalog: It's all about marketing. For most of you, your target is the guys at your school. And every day you get dressed you create not only an image but a marketing campaign that tells your target market what they get when they get you. Are you hot, sassy, playful, exciting, shy, seductive, or athletic? You've probably never really thought about it, this accidental marketing, but you do it. So why not take charge of your marketing campaign and make it what you want it to be and not some big accident (or one waiting to happen)? Let's start off with a little image consulting. This is the prep work we need to do before we dive into what sexy really is and how we manage our own sexiness.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Revell (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800730844
• ISBN-13: 978-0800730840
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #197,388 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I saw the light...and my bellybutton!!!, June 29, 2006

By	Bri (Wethersfield, CT) - See all my reviews

Hayley! (if you read these...)

This is Brianna you probably don't remember me but you prayed with me at the Women of Faith conference in Hartford. You spoke about Mean Girls and you gave me a copy when I told you I didn't have the money. Even if you don't remember, I want you to know that I remember you listening to my mean girl stories and the help you gave me. I also remember you were very kind to me when everyone around wanted your autograph but you ignored them to listen to me. I want you to know that I also remember you suggesting the girls might be being mean to me for how I dressed. And you were righting a book on that to.

Well, I got that book last week and even though I never really took your suggestion seriously before I know now what I've been doing is wrong. I loved the book even tho it was hard to face the truth. I looked in the mirror and saw "how I was marketing myself" and I didn't like it one bit. So I broke up with my boyfriend and told my mom I wanted to burn my clothes. Drastic I know!! I just didn't like the memories they had and didn't want some one else to repeat what I did.

So anyways, even if you don't remember me, ill always remember you.

Bri from Hartford

26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Modesty and our feminine responsibility to God, June 23, 2006

By	Christian Book Previews.com "Christian Book P... - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Are you wondering why worldly guys act interested in you, but the really godly guys don't? Is your daughter struggling over how to fit in with her friends while not making you and her dad go ballistic? Are you looking for material to help the girls in your youth group understand their responsibility to the guys around them when it comes to clothing? Hayley DiMarco's Sexy Girls may be just what you need.

Don't let the cover turn you off. It's a sexy girl in a halter (at least I think it's still called a halter) top and low-cut jeans with lots of skin showing. DiMarco's take on the issues of modesty and our feminine responsibility to God and the men around are much overdue.

DiMarco's goal is to "help you figure out your image--who you are, who you want to be, and who you want others to thing you are." (13) To do that, she starts with what seeing lots of female skin does to guys, even icky guys, even old guys. She recommends humility over self-esteem and developing character by losing weight through exercise and diet rather than liposuction. She tries to get girls to understand the dangers of alcohol and of bad friends based on the Bible. She then encourages them with ideas for forming a fashionable affordable wardrobe.

DiMarco writes in a frank, hip, conversational style that should appeal to young readers, but she doesn't play fast and loose with the Scripture. She includes quotations, startling statistics on alcohol, liposuction, and male vs. female items in bathrooms. She also provides letters from young readers and her answers. Certain sections of the book provide working areas for the readers to respond to her questions. DiMarco, the author of Mean Girls and Dateable and the founder of a think tank called Hungry Planet, seeks "to give practical answers for life's problems and encourage girls to form stronger spiritual lives." (141)

Her approach to the problem of immodesty impressed me. I disagreed with only one small section of what she wrote. "Modesty is about looking normal. Not drawing tons of attention to yourself so that you shock people or cause them to stumble." (117) She spends the majority of the book letting girls know about the importance of not showing too much skin. Yet in some settings, such as on a beach, "looking normal" could mean showing lots of skin. This statement weakened her argument in my mind.

Would I recommend Sexy Girls to young women? Oh, yes, I already have some in mind! - Debbie W. Wilson, Christian Book Previews.com

31 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Run for this book, don't walk!, March 10, 2006

By	armchairinterviews.com (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

Most girls want to look good and be attractive to the opposite sex. And many girls, in their quest to attract guys, fail to consider what they are advertising with their clothes, make-up, body art, body piercing and behavior.

Sexy Girls: How Hot is Too Hot? by Hayley DiMarco will help young women understand their bodies and how guys look at them. It will also help them understand their sexuality and how it impacts guys.

DiMarco begins her book by asking girls to respond to questions about who they are, their style, what they think people see when looking at them, what is their spiritual life, their social life, how sexy they think they are and what do guys see when they look at them.

Through thoughtful narrative, quizzes, tips and techniques and biblical references, DiMarco offers a logical perspective on positive and negative image. She invites girls to develop their perfect image; one that they can be proud of, and one that God will approve of.

Armchair Interviews says: Parents, run, don't walk to the bookstore and pick up Sexy Girls: How Hot is Too Hot? for your daughters. It may change how they view themselves and they may emotionally, spiritually and physically make powerful decisions to present a better, more pleasing image to God and the guys.