Keeping Lips Supple this Winter

Here's some advice from my friend at work. We will call her A as in Anonymous:

"...allow me to recommend the greatest chapstick ever:
Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E in a Swivel Stick.
It looks like a glue stick but it's amazing and lasts forever.
"...and MAC has a great lip glass, it's called Green House and sometimes Blue Memory, but the Blue/Green on red lips makes a clear pearly shine usually :)

La La Lancome

Yesterday I tried on a great lip gloss from Lancome. It's called Pink Horizons. Actually, I tried it on on top of another likeable shade of lipstick called Vintage Pink. The two created a very pretty-- darker than your natural lip shade -- pink. I could wear this combo shade to the office, a party or to the movies (not that anyone is looking at my lips at the movies.) Also, you could wear the two products individually, too. It's so funny the way lip color can polish your entire look. One sidenote: Vintage Pink has a slight blue hue to it. Normally, I stay away from blue. But with the gloss, the look is pretty, some might say delectable. I say perfect.

Why MAC? Why?

Dear MAC:

You make a great product. But your business plans sucks. Yesterday I walked out of your store on Columbus Avenue in New York City. Here's why. You are always out of the good stuff. I'm sick of the the sales girls showing me product that is out of stock. Stop wasting my time. Thank you very much.

BeautyBabe

p.s. Why is your store always so hot? I suggest lowering your heat.

Beautiful Babies

These babies are beautiful. Let's keep them from playing with lipstick ... at least for a little while!


*On top we have Miss Sydney, 4 mos.
*On the left (b/w) we have Miss Zoe, 6 mos.

*On the right, Miss Gracie, 1 yr.

Natural Care for Your Hair

Who knew that a trip to the kitchen could fix your hair?
Here are some tips from celebrity stylist, Abell from the John Frieda Salon New York.

Thanks for your help, Abell. I bet many people look their best because of you.

For soft, shiny, silky hair:
Take two tablespoons of olive oil and apply to the ends of your dry hair using either your hands or a brush -- make sure to avoid the roots and scalp.
Pull hair up into a bun (or a ponytail) and wrap a steaming hot towel around your head. Leave the towel and oil on your hair for approximately twenty minutes. Make sure to rinse hair really well with warm water for at least one minute and then finish off with a quick blast of cold water.

Fresh Marigold flowers will restore never-been-colored hair to it’s natural hue and give golden highlights to light hair. It will also bring out red and gold highlights in light brown and red hair. Bring one cup of water, one cup of apple cider vinegar and one handful of dried Marigold flowers to a boil in a small pot. Remove from heat, strain and pour into a plastic container.Using your fingertips, massage solution into the scalp and let it dry into your hair without rinsing. Comb through your hair using a large toothed comb. Discard unused portion.


A quick fix for yellowing blonde hair:Mix two egg yolks, a tablespoon of almond oil and two tablespoons of rum in a small bowl until mixture thickens. Shampoo into your hair and leave on for twenty minutes. Rinse thoroughly. This will take out the yellowing and brassy hue in blonde hair. Repeat every six months.