“This ingredient has become quite the bees knees throughout the past years,” a man says to me in a thick Kiwi accent, charming even while spouting a terrible pun (that I obviously love). I’m on the phone with Russell Cowley, a former top chef in New Zealand in the ’80s who has partnered with a…
“I love your wavy hair!” exclaimed a friend over dinner. I launched into how a coworker had bought me this discontinued stuff that was amazing and I was so sad it was discontinued but my coworker thought it looked so good on me that she gave me two bottles from her stash when this friend…
Look, I know every so often I get all excited about a beauty product and proclaim, “this is IT!” But, y’all, this is IT.* Magic cream. With a funny name. I’m pretty sure I bought it mainly because it’s funny that it’s called Africa’s Secret and I love all the dirty hippie ingredients in it,…
For lack of a better way to define my chemical-free, eco-friendly type makeup and skincare requirements that are absolutely flexible based on how my skin or face looks, let’s call it happy makeup. Like happy cows, chickens, and wild fishes—which are the only animals I will consume. It’s hard to find products that are chemical-free that…
LOVE this new ad campaign. Click here for the other 20 ads from #StoptheBeautyMadness. The goal of the campaign: “Women can no longer sit back and hope someone else stops the beauty madness. It’s an inside job first, of course. But then it becomes a real-world community job. We are the choir on this, so…
Celebs always have white teeth. It’s a fact. I never thought of my teeth as particularly un-white, but they sure aren’t sparkling, so when offered a chance to try an easy at-home whitening kit from Smile Brilliant, why not? They mail you the impression kit and a stamped return envelope. You’re responsible for putting some…
I have decided it is the fault of the jeep that my face is not as stress-zit free as it once was (click here for more on my face). What with air pollutants coming at me at 90 miles an hour on the reg—wait, let’s be serious, the jeep ain’t going 90, so maybe like…
If it is possible to love a lotion passionately, it is this. This is Sienna Naturals’ Baobab Oil Moisturizing Body Cream, a new product from Sienna Naturals. A few years ago, when shea was shooting to stardom in beauty products, it looked like Baobab might too. But somehow the funnily-named African fruit escaped mass popularity, while…
You can take the girl out of country but you can’t take country out of the girl. I love nothing more than tooling around in the jeep blaring country music and singing along at top volume. Country music is my jam of choice, and of course I love the glitz and glitter of country music’s…
The longer I live by the beach, the more of a dirty hippie I become. I already try not to drive or wear shoes on the weekends. I already eat happy animals, get a farm box of veggies delivered, and cook with healthy oils. I already work out, take long walks, play, laugh, breathe deeply,…