Blazers are SO EASY. You just throw one on with a basic white tee and some jeans and you instantly look awesome. Well. You instantly look awesome if your blazer is good. If your blazer sucks or is boring, you look like you threw one on with a basic tee and jeans and thought you’d…
Author: Lyssa
Skin by Ann Webb
I love Trisha. She pads out of a back room in cute sweatpants and a vintage tee and says, “Ready?” It’s time for my first facial (this one wasn’t that good) at Skin by Ann Webb, a place I’ve grown to love as I’ve gone for some laser hair removal on the recommendation of not…
All sorts of new Sugar Mama’s Treats
1) Valentine’s Day Cupcakes decorated for the day of love. 2/14/10 hours: 11 am-9 pm. Special flava: Chocolate Covered Strawberry (chocolate cake, strawberry frosting, dipped in chocolate ganache) 2) Sugar Mama’s U I can major in cupcake consumption? Sweet! The bakery is now offering classes on decorating and/or baking once a month. First class is…
Today is National Wear Red Day
Everything I do–CrossFit, Paleo, sports, etc–is because I love it. But it’s also keeping me healthy and keeping my precious heart healthy. Right now, one in three women dies of cardiovascular disease and 90 percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease in the future. Wearing red today, joining television…
You Might Have Noticed I Was Gone … CrossFit Cert
When I travel, I try to make it appear like I’m here for your guys anyway … only sometimes it doesn’t work, like when I book a flight Wednesday night and leave Friday morning and don’t have time to put together some preemptive posts. This past weekend I was in Golden, CO for a CrossFit…
Only in Austin: Balcones Burner Bash
Early alert! Balcones Recycling is throwing a crazy-cool only-in-Austin graffiti art contest on March 6. It’s at their recycling facility on east 6th and a dozen artists will each get half of a railcar to create a mural with an environmental theme–created with choices from 250 colors of donated spray paint. The cash-money winner will…
Sidewinders: Leather Layers
One of the essentials to dressing in Austin is layering. If it’s cold outside, it’s hot inside; if it’s hot outside, it’s freezing inside. We Texans don’t do happy mediums, we do extremes. Luckily leather is great choice–almost seasonless, it’s the first piece into your closet in winter and the last out in the summer.…
Rock ‘n’ Swap
When I was in middle school, I organized a clothing swap for three friends and myself. Unfortunately, I was a rad 5’9″ in 8th grade, and the rest of the girls, well, weren’t. So they might have scored some sweet new threads for free, but I don’t remember any great takeaways. However, this has not…
Girls Night at the Gallery
Get culture, gems, and buzzed all in one place: what could be a better girls night than that?! Art on 5th is hosting a new series of female-focused events, held once a month at its new The Art of Jewelry, a boutique exhibit thing featuring artistically-crafted jewelry designs of artisans from Austin and across the…
VIP at The Carillon
For once, I’m not talking about me being VIP. Wait, yeah I am. Well, I mean, I was, when I was there (again) last night sampling some of the new menu. And there was magnificent pork belly, being prepared in the open kitchen: Put together to look like this: That’s thinly-sliced pear on top. Absolutely…