Vatican certifies miracle ascribed to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, who should be elevated to sainthood next year.
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Does this mean that Leonard Cohen will have to rewrite his novel Beautiful Losers
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After trying Bio-fond makeup, I found a creme makeup that I like even more. It is Goddessy Rx 4-in One Smart Makeup.
Goddessy Rx 4-in-1 Smart Makeup
Why do I like Goddessy Rx 4-in One Smart Makeup better?
It lacks fragrance. The packaging is very functional, with a large mirror, a cover for the makeup itself, and a perforated well for the sponge.
Plus, I found a better shade match. I initially tried three different shades of Goddessy Rx 4-in One Smart Makeup on my fingertips:
#2 – light shade, nearly the same intensity as #4, more pinky than #4
#4 – light shade, with yellow undertones
#3 – deeper than #2 and #4, appeared orangish
#4 was the best match for me. I err on the side of yellow undertones. On the other hand, the Bio-Fond makeup shade had pinkish undertones. To say nothing about the fragrance!
Thanks to Jennifer for giving me the chance to sample this product. You may shop Goddessy Rx at Amazon.com
Miracle cream – LMX5â„¢
The hair on my chin and jaw became unmanageable, so it was time for me to look beyond tweezing and snipping hairs with a manicure scissors. A dermatologist’s office tried to sell me on a package of laser treatments, but I balked at the price. Moreover, I’ve read that the effectiveness of laser hair removal depends on the contrast between the hair and the skin. As many of my hairs were light in color, I decided that I was not a good candidate for laser hair removal and went back to electolysis.
Now, I am a baby when it comes to electrolysis. My eyes tear up and I wince and twitch like crazy. This time, however, I quietly lied on the table while the electrologist deftly removed hairs. It didn’t hurt even when she removed hairs near the lips, where there are a lot of nerve endings. The difference? LMX5â„¢ numbing cream, a topical anesthetic.
LMX5â„¢ doesn’t require a prescription, but I had to special order it through CVS. drugstore.com doesn’t even carry it – it carries only the 4%, which, according to what my electrologist heard from her other clients is not as effective as LMX5â„¢. However, Amazon.com does carry LMX5â„¢
Don’t be turned off by the fact that LMX5â„¢ is marketed as an anorectal cream. After all, if beauty contestants can use Preparation H to treat puffy eyes, why can’t you use LMX5â„¢? It’s also supposed to be good for undergoing treatments such as Botox.
Liv Tyler, as featured on the cover of the July 2007 issue of Allure
NEW The July 2007 issue of Allure (which features Liv Tyler on the cover) also recommends numbing creme when doing a bikini wax.
After posting Great drugstore finds, I realized that I needed to revise my advice on lips on The Style Page website.
Concerning lipliner that it is not obvious, I had written:
Another solution is to line the lips using a lip brush with the color you intend to apply: this is especially useful for applying highly pigmented matte lipsticks. [This advice originally came from Bobbi Brown]
ArtDeco, a cosmetics company from Germany, offers a Color & Contour Lip Duo, which features lipstick at one end and contour at the other end for lining the tips. This is a highly pigmented lip color, so blending is still necessary.
Now I think that both techniques result in an overly obvious line, which is why I now prefer clear lipliners or lipliners that perfectly match the color of one’s lips (which is why MAC’s Lip Pencil in Spice has been so popular).
I’ve since discovered that companies other than Revlon and Paula’s Choice offer clear lipliners, but at a higher price: DuWop Reverse Lip Liner and CARGO The Reverse Lipliner
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by Bobbi BrownLastly, the March issue of InStyle
I’m light to medium in complexion, with dark brown hair and brown eyes. While I had been classified as a “Winter” (using the seasonal color typing that was so popular in the 80s), I tend to favor rich warm colors over cool colors. Some of my favorite lipsticks are Bourbon from last year’s limited edition Catherine Deneuve color collection from MAC and Bésame’s Enchanting Lipstick in Chocolate Kiss, particularly when wearing brown. In fact, I favor lip colors that are “ambiguous,” that is, not too cool, not too warm.
Another tip is to apply lip color just slightly inside your mouth (I would name the source of this tip if I could recall it) so that there won’t be any apparent demarcation lines; also, this application suggests fuller lips.
Here are a couple of products that represent the triumph of marketing over anything else:
This $40 compact embeds a one-minute recording explaining how to create the smoky eye look – with named Stila brushes. In other words, you’re paying $40 for advertising, the same reason I find logo tees so stupid.
Cargo Daily Gloss
Categories: Home, Interiors, Accessories, Tabletop
Is Philippe Starck a genius or a poseur? Sometimes I wonder about this, as I do with other high-profile designers, including Karim Rashid.
Interestingly, The Financial Times had an article about Starck’s rocket-shaped lemon juicer, in which Starck was referred to a “genius/charlatan.”
But I love this candlestick that Starck designed for Baccarat, the manufacturer of fine crystal. It features a traditional candlestick stem with a Starck twist – a black shade and bowled candleholder, much like the Miss K Table Lamp that Starck designed for Flos, the lighting manufacturer.
This candlestick is featured in the September 2006 issue of Shop ETC, and costs a mere $850.00 (OK, I’m being sardonic). The immensely popular blog design*sponge out-scooped Shop ETC back in May. For other great candlesticks, visit TheThingsIWant.com : Style Page: Tag: Candles
Starbucks will be selling the novel For One More Day by Mitch Albom, author of Tuesday with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It’s a natural progression (more natural than Starbucks getting into music or the movies), for who doesn’t enjoy reading and hanging out while lingering over a cup of coffee or tea?
Here’s where these mugs with designs based on the original series of Penguin Classics are a nice adjunct to your reading and coffee-drinking ritual. I selected Wuthering Heights as I’m boggled how Emily Brontë, with her erratic education, could have produced such a masterpiece (read it again, and notice how the multi-generational saga of Heathcliff, the Earnshaws, and the Lintons is related over the course of a night by two servants).
Also clever is this pair of demi-tasse cups – “Sweet Danger” and “Black Mischief.”
From Art Meets Matter, the same people who brought us the Christine Keeler chair.
Categories: Bookstand
We have just completed an update of our Bookstand on The Style Page web site.
On our Books page, check out links for America’s BookShelf, which allows readers to purchase recycled books at a flat price of $3.50 per book, and Who Reads What?, the effort of a retired librarian from Gardiner Public Library in Maine to collect book titles read by public figures.
These punctuation flat notes from paper+cup design would be cute with the punctuation bookmarks from bob’s your uncle
On our Stationery page, check out links for organizing systems such as Captio and Family Facts, fun stuff from ATYPYK and bob’s your uncle, and stationery from lovelydesign and paper+cup design (the last two found through Domino).
At the same time, check out our linkrolls, which are always being updated, and shop Amazon.com for books, magazine subscriptions, and much, much more.
Categories: Home, Interiors, Housekeeping
My husband and I use the fabric Crunch cans from Umbra to stash laundry, magazines, and trash – different cans for different purposes, of course. I use a cheery striped Crunch can that I purchased from The Container Store for laundry.
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The July 2006 issue of InStyle featured these cute Crunch cans, printed with flowers or butterflies. In addition to pink/mocha (pictured above), Umbra offers patterned Crunch cans in brown/ivory, mocha/cactus, and light blue/mocha.
Style.com, the home of Vogue and W online, has a terrific Flash presentation on British style, starting with Saville Row (men’s tailoring) to Carnaby Street (Swingin’ London of the 60s) to Kings Road (the birthplace of punk) to Central St. Martins, the fashion design school that produced Stella McCartney, among others.
This presentation was created to mark the opening of the Anglomania exhibit at The Costume Institute in New York City. Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune reviewed the exhibit in her article Sex and the Brits: An ode to irony. Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director of The Daily Telegraph (my favorite “old” source for fashion) covers the opening night gala in her post on Madcap Anglomania.
If you want an entertaining read about Swingin’ London and its movers and shakers, pick up Ready, Steady, Go! : The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
The cover of Ready, Steady, Go! : The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
Cold Cream 'n' Roses 
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