There are days when I wish I had my mother’s quality of incredible restraint when it comes to books. Her restraint is not in buying books (what voracious reader has restraint when it comes to the act of buying books? None, I tell you.) Instead she has this amazing willpower for books in a series. […]
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The Pretty Files: All About Red Lips
A friend asked me one day what were the most common things people asked me in regards to makeup. I had been working for a prestige skincare and cosmetics line for only a few months, but even as a rookie I had a fast answer for her: how to do dramatic eyeliner, how to hide […]
The Pretty Files: Fall Trends and Essentials
As New York’s Fashion Week draws to a close it’s time to start looking at what’s hot for fall, but just for me Fashion Week isn’t just about clothes. It’s about makeup and the trends we’re going to be seeing for the next season as well as for what my clients in the makeup chair […]
The Pretty Files: CC and DD Creams Decoded
Hello, pretty people (aka all of you!) Last week I helped you make sense of the sea of alphabet creams that are on the market by talking about BB cream, what it is and what it isn’t. I hope that helped you make a little sense of things. This week I’m back to decode CC […]
The Pretty Files: Alphabet Soup – Skincare, Makeup, and BB Cream
Once upon a time makeup was easy. Well, maybe not easy but a little more streamlined. To have a basic look all I needed was foundation, powder, blush, and whatever I wanted to put on my eyes–usually eyeliner and mascara. When I started working in cosmetics, both as a consultant for Clinique and as a […]
Book Review: The World As We Know It Is Gone in “In The After”
Full, total and complete disclosure here: I love dystopia. I also love zombies, vampires, aliens, and other unexpected creepy bad things that could end up in a dystopia. If you manage to give me both in one book I am a very happy girl. Put it in a Young Adult book and I’m yours. With […]
Alley Life: Experiences Growing Up in Tornado Alley
It’s always said that they sound like freight trains or like jet engines operating at full speed just over your shoulder. They do sound like freight trains and jet engines but they also have this ghastly howl, a piercing whistle of a cry that makes them sound for all the world like a menacing animal-machine […]
You Are Not Your Diploma: Why Your Degree May Not Dictate Your Job
For as long as I can remember I have wanted to be a teacher. My parents love to tell the story about how, when I was small, I would line up my stuffed animals and dolls and “teach” them. Even before I could speak in complete sentences I was trying to teach my Cheer Bear […]
Not What it Seems: “The Great Gatsby”
Nick Carraway, the omnipresent narrator-slash-tour guide of The Great Gatsby, describes the titular character as “the single most hopeful person I’ve ever met.” He could just as easily be describing the film’s director, Australian Baz Luhrman, whose decadent and elaborate take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of reinvention and deception opened May 10th. Like Gatsby, […]
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