Actress Blake Lively launched a website last week: Preserve is a lifestyle site in the tradition of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop. It is billed as a site that is part e-commerce, part web magazine, and part charity with the idea of looking at what is interesting and amazing about the United States through stories, artisan goods from around […]
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The Pretty Files: Emergency Makeup
We have all had those days, days where we are lucky to get out the door on time to get to work or school only to get to our destination and discover we need to be more than just there: we have to look our best and in a hurry. Crap. So when life throws […]
Inspiration by Hashtag: Fitspo
Fitspo (#fitspo) is one of those hashtag trends that is all over Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and even Tumblr and Pinterest. Fitspo is short for “fitspiration”, a portmanteau of fitness inspiration. It’s a popular buzzword used to tag images and messages that have the intention of motivating people towards a healthier lifestyle.
Not Quite Revolutionary: The Pippit App
A couple of weeks ago the creative forces behind two popular lifestyle blogs launched what they said was meant to be a “beautiful mobile community that bridges blogging with social media,” the new app called Pippit.
The Pretty Files: Hair Care
The most universal beauty “problem” out there involves hair. How many times have you struggled with a “bad hair day” or argued with some aspect of your hair’s texture or appearance that you simply didn’t like? I have personally waged various battles with my hair in an attempt to make it look the way I […]
Live Below the Line: An Epic Challenge
Live Below the Line is an interactive awareness and fundraising campaign through the Global Poverty Project that invites and challenges participants to live on the amount of food that someone living in poverty would have. In the United States that is $1.50 a day.
A New Kind of Hero: Ms. Marvel
This spring something big happened in the world of comics. A new person took up the Ms. Marvel mantle and that person wasn’t a busty blonde. It was an awkward, intelligent teenage Pakistani-American girl who just so happens to be Muslim. Let that sink in for a moment. Ms. Marvel, a major player in the […]
Visions Rarely What They Seem: Maleficent
Everyone knows the story of Sleeping Beauty and for many that story brings to mind one of Disney’s most iconic of villains, Maleficent. But what if there was more to the story than “innocent baby, evil fairy, sad curse, and true love’s kiss”? That is exactly the question Disney seeks to answer with their film […]
The Pretty Files: Drugstore Beauty
Well the end of May is here and that means schools are out, people are working, and we’re all thinking about vacation. That usually means two things: travel and money.
So you think you know the future: FUTURESTATES
We live in a very “future” world. Many of the concepts and ideas that were once the domain of science fiction are part of our realities. Cars that drive themselves? Google’s got it. Handheld computers with the capability of accessing massive amounts of human information in our hands nearly all the time? Our Apple iPhones […]
The Pretty Files: Play Time – MAC’s Playland Collection
I am a big MAC fan. I am especially a fan of their lipstick and at any given time you’ll find about four tubes in various colors and finishes hanging out in my purse. I don’t go anywhere without my ‘lip glass’ (MAC’s term for lip gloss) in Beaux. Their products are a staple of […]
Food Security: Taking the Food Stamp Challenge
Depending on which source you look at there are approximately 47 million Americans receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits or, as it’s more commonly called, food stamps. Seventy-six percent of that 47 million are families that include a child, someone who is disabled, an elderly person or some combination of all three. Forty-seven million is a […]
The Pretty Files: Mascara
Hello pretties! In a previous installment of The Pretty Files we talked about winged eyeliner as a way to bring some drama to our eyes. It was a lot of fun, but eyeliner isn’t the only way to bring some simple interest to the eyes. In fact, one of the easiest ways to do so […]
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