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Dear Oscar Blandi,

Thanks for this Pronto of yours. I wasn’t really sure how I was going to endure five days of travel, culminating in a wedding, on a single blowout. Especially since my DIY-blowout trajectory is basically:
Day 1: Fluffy volume, excellent smell, slight texture.
Day 2: Perfect volume, excellent smell, perfect combination of sleek texture with Penelope Cruz-esque, […]

My little box is almost completely furnished. In order of importance, I lack only a kitchen island or baker’s rack for additional preparation space, a bed frame, and some sort of housing for adult refreshments.
I’ve been considering alternatives to a store-bought headboard or frame for the bed: salvaged mantel, folding screen, extravagantly framed giclee […]

I’m in the market for a good blush brush, but I’m miserly about odd things, and I have a hard time justifying $30 expenditure for something I only use once every three days.
Still, I’ve been pondering this particular purchase for the better part of a year now (yes, I am THAT CHEAP) and I think […]

‘Tis the season.

At some point in the next few days, I’ll compose a long, navel-gazing post about Thanksgiving and the wonderful people I’m lucky to have in my life, I’m sure.
This post, however, is about the other parts of the season: getting fat and spending monies!
First of all, being the selfless bitch that I am, I’ll have […]

Beauty Duty.

I’m interrupting regularly scheduled programming to offer a quickie cosmetics tip:
You know all those raves “mainstream” beauty mags gave Nars Orgasm blush, but none but the lightest negress could wear? Bitter like me, because that isht just sat on your apples looking like an ’80s Seventeen cover throwback, bright as hell?
Nars Madly blush. Absolutely […]




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