2. Brainstorm with troop or family members myths or truths you’ve learned about caring for your skin. Write down your current skin care routine. Then go to a Clinique counter (you do not have to buy anything) and learn the best ways to take care of your skin. Write down what you learned in a step-by-step guide and share this information at a troop meeting.

3. In your discussion with the Clinique associate, identify your worst skin care habit and develop a strategy with her as to how you are going to break it and some better habits you can replace it with. Chart your progress in a journal.

4. Create a skit, song, write an essay, or other creative mediums on the true definition of beauty, what YOU think beauty is and how it relates to good health and what kind of person you are.

5. Log on to www.clinique.com and take the skin typing quiz on the Skin Report page and familiarize yourself with all of the answers and regimens for taking care of the various skin types and keeping them healthy. At a meeting, first explain what the 3-step and proper sun protection concepts are, then ask a troop member the same questions on the Web site, then “type her” and suggest the best 3-Step and sun protection regimen for her. You may take notes from the site to use in your presentation.

6. Read through three teen magazines with an eye toward what advice is being given about skin care, what types of skin care products are shown/talked about and what seem to be women’s main skin care concerns. Keep a record of your observations – including where you feel that photos may be airbrushed and why. Compare your observations to what you’ve learned from the medical staff or Clinique Consultants or Web sites. Next, look through the magazines just at the pictures of the women’s (models, actresses, etc) faces. What is their skin like? Are the images consistent with the concerns and advice given to the “real girls” who are reading the magazines? Should it be? Draw some conclusions from your observations and share them at a troop meeting.

7. Create a collage that expresses your views about what being healthy looks like on the outside and how being healthy makes you feel on the inside.

8. What do the words makeover mean to you? When can they be positive and when can they be negative? Look at some teen magazines at the “before” and “after” shots of the girls who’ve had makeovers. How do you think they look? Bring three sets of “befores” and “afters” to a troop meeting and discuss the pros and cons of the concept of a makeover.

9. Identify a celebrity, model, friend, or family member who looks “healthy” to you. Discuss at a meeting why she looks that way and the possible reasons she does.

10. Interview your grandmother or another older relative to see how she was taught to take care of her skin when she was your age. What has she learned since then? Is she doing anything differently now? Have her beliefs and/or routine changed? If so, why?

Retail stores like Foley’s and Dillard’s have specially trained Clinique Consultants who will be ready to help girls earn the patch. To arrange your troop’s appointment at your local retailer, contact Clinique Regional Education Manager for Houston and surrounding areas, Tabitha Cash at tcash@clinique.com. Please have ready 3 possible dates and times and the mall/store location most convenient to you. The maximum number of girls varies at each location.