I am having a bad hair month. It has grown out, and I must confess, the bangs have been hacked at a bit, but I am holding out for an upcoming Portland trip so that I can see Rabeckah. Last week, I was in pigtails, but this week, I stumbled upon a flat iron on sale for $9.99, and it has worked wonders on my unkempt, fugly hair. Why, it almost looks like I meant for it ...
Make Up Secrets
I really and truly do not know what to make of bath and body newcomer Nature Girl, or her sister site for fragrance, Rich Hippie. I feel that I should have an opinion, and probably a strong one at that. But I am stumped. There seems to be something oxymoronic about a $34 bottle of hippie soap that comes in the same kind of packaging as Dr. Bronner's. Still, I have whined and carped my share ...
Lechon + my mom's Xenical
Originally uploaded by chuvaness.
Alli - the diet drug also sold under the brands Xenical and Orlistat - is going to be available over the counter come June. Will you try it? Have you ever used diet pills? I never have, but I have to admit, I am tempted to give Alli a try.
New dress
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
I spent the weekend dress shopping, and boy did I get some beauties. I have never really been a big dress fan, not until the last year or so, after losing 100+ pounds and feeling a lot more confident about wearing them. This happily coincides with what seems to me to be a renaissance of unspeakably gorgeous dresses. The cuts and the ...
Breathtakingly simplistic, nasty accusations from India Knight (whose work I have admired in the past) on the suicide of our beloved Isabella Blow.
Unless one is intimate with the details of how Isabella conducted her financial affairs, it is guesswork at best to blame her relative lack of funds on an entire industry of people. Who precisely stole from her? She did hold down quite prestigious jobs, such as fashion director of the Sunday Times. If she ...
Breathtakingly simplistic, nasty accusations from India Knight (whose work I have admired in the past) on the suicide of our beloved Isabella Blow.
Unless one is intimate with the details of how Isabella conducted her financial affairs, it is guesswork at best to blame her relative lack of funds on an entire industry of people. Who precisely stole from her? She did hold down quite prestigious jobs, such as fashion director of the Sunday Times. If she ...
I love going into my local TJ Maxx (that's TK Maxx to you Brits). They always have a great selection of products - toiletries, skincare, haircare, and fragrance - marked down. So I'm sort of bummed to learn that the Banana Republic Fresh Nectar Harmonizing Body Mist I got there today (original price $18) is actually selling for 49 cents less through BR than it is through TJ. Buy it online here.
About this scent: I love it, ...
Tarte Lock & Roll Eyeshadow Duo in Patina
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
I hope you're not all freaked out about the volume of eye closeups on this blog lately. With that said...
I'm a big fan of Tarte Cosmetics, as they're one of the few companies that really give good product and good packaging. Both are important to me.
Creased, smudged eye makeup is the bane of my ...
Nancy Rommelmann writes...
I have never worn lipstick, partly because my eyes are too big and anycolor on my lips makes me look, I think, like Lucille Ball. But also,because when I have it on, I don't know what to do with my mouth.Imagine a four-year-old carrying a tray of china across a room towardthe expectant grown-ups, and that's how steady I feel with anythingmore on my lips than a swipe of gloss.
Then last week, I was digging around in ...
A while back I wroe a wee post about Mychelle's Fruit Enzyme Cleanser, in which I mainly lauded the product's, er, cheapness. But a funny thing happened: since I began using it, my skin has completely changed for the better. I've had seborrheic dermatitis for 20 years, and it is completely gone.
I began to consider that, as much as I hate to sound like a damned hippie, the absence of detergents and/or preservatives might be the reason. ...
Eccentric to the end, she will be missed. I liked this quotation from Anna Wintour, for whom Issy served as PA:
She was not too good at getting to the office before 11am, but then she
would arrive dressed as a maharaja or an Edith Sitwell figure. I don't think she ever did my expenses but she made life much more interesting.
Michael Roberts, fashion editor of Vanity Fair, adds:
She was like an exotic bird. Issy was living ...
I have uneventful lashes--shortish, straight, light brown. My preference in mascara is for big, thick and slightly clumpy. So I recently spent an hour at Sephora, where I compared Fusion Beauty's $39 LashFusion (something about hydrolized keratin bio-adhering nanomules) and Imju's $22 Fiberwig. I couldn't really tell any difference, so bought nothing. Later, I ended up finding exactly what I wanted with MAC Zoom Lash, for $11. It is pretty goopy, and takes a bit ...
Chanel Glossimer in Flirt
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
With eyes this strong, I shy away from my usual dark pink/red lips, for fear of looking like a deluded Barbie wannabe.
Today, that meant Chanel Glossimer in a very subtle, natural shade called Flirt. (Full disclosure: This gloss was a freebie from Chanel, one of many I received last week.)
Although I said I'm over gloss, the Glossimer range ...
Blue is the color
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Inspired by Hillary's spring green shadows, I busted out my sunny weather blues yesterday for the first time this year. (I couldn't find my greens, spread out as my stash is across seventeen makeup bags on two continents.)
Actually, one of these is a very light, minty green - Helena Rubenstein Icy Eyes in a shade called Go Girly. ...
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