DIY Beauty

I can't even remember what show it was, but it was a Monday. Five years ago. During lunch. I was eating spinach.

It was either a rerun of What Not to Wear or 10 Years Younger. And either Carmindy or Damone Roberts (they …

This is my friend Ashley and her little sister Alizea.

(Or, as I like to call her "The girl with the most mesmerizing name in the world.")

These hot chicas stopped by on Sunday for a few hours of food, faces, and lotsa …

You know that thing you do that makes you happy, but it's not really that necessary? Like putting flavored creamer in your coffee? Or dancing naked to The Hush Sound?

That's kind of what toners are like.

Me, I'm a …

For the shower people out there, I have good news for you:

No longer will your bathing experience be dull and unfulfilling. There is now body oil in your life.

I'm not much of a bath person. When you're 5'10" and …

Jean Naté dusting powder on the bathroom counter, a big powderpuff haphazardly resting on the lid, and four purring cats crawling through your legs.

Until last year, that's the image that body powder brought up for me. …

Jeezopee. Can you believe it's been three entire weeks since the beginning of the no 'poo experiment?

I cannot.

Time went by so quickly, and you know what? I only missed the shampoo twice: Once in the beginning when I …

Twenty bucks says at least 15 of you haven't ever had a fresh pomegranate.

Which is why I'm doing this. I want you to have a serious, hardcore reason to run out to the store and buy yourself one.

No excuses.

See, …

If you only put food on your face once this week, make it nutmeg.

Really.

I doubt I can even come close to how amazing this simple nutmeg microdermabrasion treatment is.

In fact, I haven't been this excited about a …

In this entry, you will learn about fennel.

You will get some superb beauty recipes using fennel.

And then it will all climax into this crescendo of surprising oohs and ahhs when you see what happens at the end.

If …

I am having a sordid love affair with the ladies at Endless Beauty.

They don't know this, but I am. And we will live together happily ever after, in natural beauty, 'til crashed servers do us part.

Recently, they did a …

I just did my last 'poo.

Finally.

I'd like to say it was monumental, or highly satisfying, or even memorable. But it was not. It was just another 'poo.

After many months of goading by some of you, as well as a year …

I get the best emails, people.

The best emails, and the best comments, and you guys give me fantastic ideas.

Like Mari Jo, who recently emailed and said this: "I'd love to see a post about your daily (morning and …

Ran out of lipgloss? Need some natural color? Want soft, kissable, oh-so-yummy lips?

Here's how you can do it - without store-bought makeup.

Use these natural lip color and care ideas in a pinch, or all the time. …

Let's make a pact today. You and me.

From now on, when we have a beauty issue, we'll look in the cabinets - first - before we run out and buy an expensive (or even bargain) product to fix us.

And, I know, I know ... …

Do I stink? Reek? Smell slightly like rotting fish?

That's the question you're asking yourself, right?

If you're new here, what you're reading at this moment is a conclusion to my homemade deodorant experiment. For …

Have you ever scratched your upper arm in the filtered light of a window at dawn only to look down and see - fingers pressed into the skin - faint evidence of burgeoning cellulite?

HAVE YOU?

That would sure stink, …

Over the last year, I've found myself becoming less and less of a makeup wearer. I'll put on cosmetics maybe once a week. Even though it's infrequent, I am an absolute obsessive about the quality of the cosmetics I do …

You live in India 200 years ago.

Tomorrow, you’re getting married. Maybe it was arranged, but so what? He looks like Mohinder Suresh from Heroes. You wonder how you know this, since the television won’t be invented …