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I just found the most awesome new website, Taaz!  Upload a picture of yourself, head on is best but you don’t Taaz with the photo you want, you Taaz with the photo you have.Then you can do all sorts [...]

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How long do you keep your beauty products?  There are expiration dates on everything nowadays.  After buying some Dr. Brandt items in January I was shocked to see the expiration date was May 2008! that’s right, just five months!  Isn’t that the most annoying thing?
Consider yourself forewarned about that brand, no one brought it to [...]

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March is certainly coming in like a lion here in Maine… we’re expecting 6-12 inches!  I don’t mind snow, but Saturday is our family outing day which means I get a whole day off from cooking! oh well, that’s not going to happen today we are officially snowed in!
The entire month of March I will be “marching” [...]

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AVEENO is celebrating leap year 2008 by releasing the results of a  study about what women would do with an extra day…
Here are some of the findings the study revealed:

AVEENO® found that 65% percent of American women confess to skimping on beauty, spending 30 minutes or less on their beauty rituals each day.      
 However, more than 3 [...]

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Be the first to review a product on Total Beauty and win BIG!
Find a product that hasn’t been reviewed yet, review it and you may win big.
Here’s what you can win:
GRAND PRIZE (two winners!)
Receive a one-on-one telephone consultation with top dermatologist Dr. Murad and a basket containing all the products comprising the day and night [...]

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Got three minutes? be inspired by Thakoon’s fashions and Lancome’s Pixel Pink Lipstick (Pout-a-Porter the 4th).
Pixel Pink on Youtube
The video is very entertaining, lots of Thakoon’s Spring 2008 runway footage.  Did you hear the part where Thakoon says it will compliment tan skin? 
I’m thinking I might give this one a chance after all…  I’m changing my position [...]

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I’ve been using so much product and love love love it! 
My mom’s still visiting until Wednesday so I haven’t been on the computer as much!  we tend to linger over the dinner table cutting into my computer time.  We almost got a dog three times but those 4 digit price tags are seriously scary so after a lot of thought [...]

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Nothing much going on at home, my mom is visiting and we’ve been busy knitting little beige bears for the girls. 
I also got a date night with my DH on Friday.  We went to a Gaucho’s “Brazilian Churrascaria”,  very Brazilian except there were no natives, no music, tiny 1/2 cup portion of black beans for two and that much [...]

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 Spousekeeping: For weeks I’d been looking under my husband’s bathroom sink, (forget two sinks, his and her bathrooms are the way to go!)
The wonderful ZIRH ‘Get Revitalized’ kit I’d bought him for Christmas lay gathering dust.  *sigh*  I thought the set would surely go to waste - then I got this press release about the Superbowl XLII Talent & [...]

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Growing up in Queens, Graffiti art was part of my everyday life.  Graffiti is sometimes common tags, other times portrait or landscape masterpieces. 
The most common subject in my area was our amazing view of the Manhattan skyline and the 59th Street Bridge.
The city and property owners surely found graffiti annoying but the youth really got [...]

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