In Great Taste...

Friday night I was on a hunt for dinner. There are very few options here in hometown. So I ended up going to the grocery store. While in the checkout line, I grabed the October 2006 Cosmopolitian. Now, I know that Cosmo isn't most classy mag but you have to admit that their beauty,fashion editorials and lifestyle pages are on the money. In it there was a coupon for a free mini gloss from the new VS Sexy makeup collection scheduled to premiere September 19. Also a book review on In Great Taste:Fresh Simple Recipes For Eating and Living Well by Evelyn Lauder. It's a cookbook with recipes that"can contribute to the radiance of your complexion". This definetly a buy NOW. I've already called B&N and they are holding it for me. If you need to pass the time with a fun read, Cosmo's it. It definetly kept my mind off my children in Charlotte with their dad this weekend.

J

Desk Duty

Right now I'm sitting at my desk taking off nail polish. I know, so against office etiquette but my Goldie Creepy Groovey is peeling. But It lasted pretty good considering I wasn't somewhere scratching my hair and destroying my polish. I used Avon Easy Sweep Nail Enamel Remover Pads. They are so convenient. After that I washed my hands and applied Le Couvent Des Minimes Gardener's Hand Healer from Bath and Body Works. I got a sample on Wednesday. It has a nice light fresh scent to it but it also has that "silicone glove" element, so I can hardly type on my laptop. But the lotion would be great for winter, when you are about to put on gloves and you need to moisterize your hands.

It's that weekend again, that the boys go to their Dad's house and I'm left to figure out my life without them for 72 hours. I know that sounds so Mommy-ish, but I'm bore if I don't have something to do for the kids. At least I have to work on Saturday. But I do need to catch up on much missed beauty treatments, such as a pedicure/manicure, deep conditioner of the new hair,and sifting through my shoes and clothes to find out what I can used from the summer into the fall and what fall stuff I can wear. I also I have many magazines still sitting in their mail plastic and work reading to do. I just got from our InterLibrary Loan The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden. It's about a Scottish doctor to Idi Amin, one of most notorious dictators of Africa.There's movie being made about it with Forrest Whitaker and Kerry Washington. There is also a great article about it in October's Essence(the one with Queen Latifah on it).

Have a great weekend!

Get Lifted...

It's done and over, I got my hair cut clear off! Well not all of it,I have about 1/4 inch all around left. I feel...lifted. Hair is so personal sometimes. Whenever I watch those makeover shows and the women are in tears because their locks are being chopped and they are attached to their hair,I can relate. I was attached for a long time,especially before I had kids because thought that's what men liked. Then I was attached because I thought that's what the kids' father liked. THEN it was what I like but didn't like at the same time.So I decided to waste no time cutting. Now I'vegot to find the right products for my kind of natural. The top of my hair has a pretty curl pattern but my back is coarse. I've had my hair this short before, back in 1997,2000,2001,and 2002. But don't remembered what I used...but I do remember buying alot of stuff by trial and failure.Well, I just fell upon a website called www.naturallycurly.com which seems to have some great info on maintaining the fro. Well,I keep every one posted and I hope to get a picture up soon. I can't find my SD card for my camera.:(


J

Top of the Fashion Game

Simply F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!!!!
Kelis@Fashion Week Spring 2007
Photos:Young Black and Fabulous

Shopping in the rain...

Today is nasty,wet rainy day in the Carolinas.I don't have a day off this week,so since I had to be at work at noon, I the decided to drive(in the rain) to Spartanburg to do a B&N run and to the mall. I went to mall to just flip around and to pick up a sample of Patricia Wexler M.D. Dermatology MMPi20 Skin Regenarating Serum at BBW.I received a coupon about two weeks ago and decided to use it. I also picked up BBW's new 3n1 in Pumpkin Pie(It's a 4oz trial size for $3) and my all time favorite night moisterizer Breathe By BBW in At Night.This stuff is miracle worker when you are trying to get some sleep.I got the 1.7oz(remember the budget?) for $8. I ran into one those Gold and Silver Jewelry kiosks in the mall called the Piercing Pagoda and noticed a wonderful selection a costume jewelry like gold tone chandelier earings with beautiful stones. They were just the right length for my neck yet delicate for what I'm about to do.I've decided to cut my hair very short in the next coming days. My mop plus wearing extnesions for the last year has taken it's toll on the mop.So finally I got the courage to shave it down( I'm going to a barber). I'm just going to start over and stop living under this weave/mop:). I'm thinking ordering some Carol's Daughter hair products. I have used the Hair Milk before(I've had a short crop before). But would like maybe some shampoo, a good conditioner, a hair oil, and a gel. I'm pretty exicited about doing it.:)

Going back to my car, I went through Belk where sniffed the new Hillary Duff and Princess by Vera Wang fragrances. I liked the Hillary Duff scent even though it smelled very similiar to Angel by Theirry Mugler. But any I smell with pepper scent smells like Angel. The Vera Wang Princess smelled good but it turned out to be a little too light scented.You can tell it's geared towards a younger woman(15-23).

Smooches!

J