Archive for September, 2008
I have seen beauty heaven and it is on Sky Digital
QVC is launching a dedicated beauty channel in the UK. That’s beauty products 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! On Tee Vee! Makes this Anglophile long to move to London even more.Update! You can watch online! Between my laptop and wireless internet, I am never getting out of bed.
Human Lab Rat: Henna Hair Color, Part 2: The Fix
I left you, dear readers, with a cliff-hanger at the end of the first installment of Human Lab Rat, which detailed my failed attempt to color my hair sans chemicals. With my hair the color of an oxidized penny, I pulled a hat down to my ears and ran to the only place I knew could help—Frederic Fekkai. I stumbled through Henry Bendels [...]
Braving a Bacteria Battlefield: Three no-cost acne busters
You’ve tried all the acne products in the world, and nothing cures the angry eruptions. Here are three low-cost bacteria busters to incorporate into your routine. Do this religiously for about a month—they will make a difference. Give the bathroom towel a break from your face. Keep a roll of paper towels handy and use them [...]
The new face of Cover Girl: Ellen DeGeneres
How cool is this? Ellen DeGeneres is the new spokesmodel for Cover Girl. Easy, breezy, beautiful indeed! A big kudos for Cover Girl for making this inspired choice. I am generally pretty meh on celebrity cosmetic endorsements. The cosmetics industry loves their celebrities and, with very few exceptions, the large, most visible [...]
Beauty Zen: 10 things you wish you had never learned about beauty
I came across an inspired post on the personal growth blog The Bridgemaker about 10 Things You Wish You Had Never Learned. I immediately applied it to all the beauty boo-boos made over my lifetime, due to peer pressure (see number 4), misinformation (number 5) or simply following ill-conceived trends (number 1). According to The [...]
Human Lab Rat: Henna Hair Color, Part 1
Human Lab Rat is a new semi-regular feature where I experiment with more extreme (i.e. not easily reversible) or unusual beauty treatments and technology. My pilates instructor, Nancy, has a head-turning mane of hair. It is long, thick and luminous. The color is a striking and vibrant shade of red, streaked with coppery highlights. It is the kind [...]
To pouf or not to pouf
Two very cool boy-blogs, To Every Man a Manswer and The Civilized Life, weigh in on men using loofahs or bath poufs in the shower. Having a manly man husband myself, I am sympathetic with the plight of the pouf. But even a guy’s skin could benefit from a bit of exfoliating. Enter the Japanese exfoliating bath towel. About three [...]
Tabatha’s Salon Takeover takes on dirty, nasty salons and spas
I couldn’t sleep last night so I did a late-night viewing of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover. I am not a reality TV kind of girl (gave up on them after the late Anna Nicole’s fabulously trashy show was canceled on E!). I had never watched Sheer Genious, so I was a total Tabatha virgin. It is not the best reality show I have ever seen, [...]
Does your exfoliator feel like fiberglass?
Over the weekend, the husband was replacing some old insulation under the house. It was hot and he was sweaty, so he kept using his shirt to mop up the sweat that was trickling down his face. Of course, he forgot he was dealing with fiberglass insulation, which was all over his shirt—the shirt he was using to wipe his face with. [...]
Skin meets politics
While flipping through the cable news channels right after the RNC adjourned, I noticed a huge crowd had amassed behind the Fox News bobble-heads, giving a nice sampling of the RNC crowd. Basically, it was awash with doughy, pasty-white male faces with a few Stepford wives sprinkled around—their teased hair, plastered makeup and pastel suits [...]
