Super Rave:Maryam's Soap Nook and all her Divineness!!

Okay...this whole post is going to sound like I'm screaming because the excitement about the products that I'm about to review is boiling over. I feel like one of Oprah "venue-ette"(I think they call them that) that comes on before the show or as a commercial with the special effects and Oprah hollering over it all. Maryam's Soap Nook...just please...get your credit cards, money orders, Rush Debit cards out for this!!

Hand made soap in Pomegranate and Wild berries and Sleeping Beauty- Handmade soap is the best.It makes you forget all of the Caress bars you have bought the past. Besides these bars being pretty, the scents are awesome. Made with palm oil,olive oil,goats milk,shea butter,monoi de Tahiti oil and Vitamin E, there will not be a dry patch in sight after you towel off.

Whipped Shea Monoi Body Butter- My mother is corporate buyer,USC educated and also a body butter thief. This great moisturizer comes in a 8 oz jar and she dipped a tablespoon in it and stole half of it and put it in a Tupperware mini bowl and took into her bathroom. I asked her why did she do it, she said "That cream made your bathroom smell so good, I needed some it!"The Whipped Shea Monoi Body Butter in Ginger Cardamon will lead your mother to a life of beauty product crime!

Japanese Camellia Blend Body Oil in Sensual- You not need a perfume for layering for this great oil because it so powerfully scented. I used this on days that I'm curling up in Juicy Couture tracksuit( still wear em' homies) and it has such a beautiful feel.

Luxury Body Mist-My cousin tried to get me for this. I call it a dry oil,I actually put it on one day as a moisturizer and it worked for me. I have the Tahitian Pearls scent.

I've have more of her products to review next week. Please visit her great and also informative website @ http://www.maryam-soap-nook.com/ !!!!!

J

R.I.P Bebe Campbell Moore

Bebe Moore Campbell (February 18, 1950- November 27, 2006) was the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001." Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature; her memoir, Sweet Summer, Growing Up With and Without My Dad; and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. Her essays, articles, and excerpts appear in many anthologies.
Ms. Campbell's interest in mental health was the catalyst for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, which was published in September 2003. This book won the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. The book tells the story of how a little girl copes with being reared by her mentally ill mother. Ms. Campbell was a member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and a founding member of NAMI-Inglewood. Her latest book, 72 Hour Hold, also deals with mental illness.
Ms. Campbell's first play, "Even with the Madness," debuted in New York in June 2003. This work revisited the theme of mental illness and the family.
As a journalist Ms. Campbell wrote articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, as well as other publications. She was a regular commentator for Morning Edition a program on National Public Radio.
Ms. Campbell was born and reared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in elementary education from the University of Pittsburgh. She lived in Los Angeles, California with her husband, Ellis Gordon Jr. and had a son, Ellis Gordon III and a daughter, actress Maia Campbell. She was an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorported.
Campbell died at the age of 56 from brain cancer. Her favorite quote on being a writer: "Discipline is the servant of inspiration."

Rest In Peace,Soror!!

J

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Beauty Find of the Day....

Did you chicas know that Kerry Washington has a Loreal Star Secrets Color called Kerry's Rosewood? It a very glizty but sheer rose mauve color. I got mine TWO at CVS. I love miss Kerry!!!!

J

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Beauty Find of the Day!!!

Now, I know this is not a beauty product per se, but I love candles. But after I moved back to my mom's house I stopped burning them because I love them all over the house and my mom, well anybody who lives with parents knows, what you did in your house you most likely can't do in their house!! But after discovery very cute shop called Divas on Main in the SPBG, I have went back to my old ways in a good way. Tyler Candles in Ira Jean and Pristine are simply fantastic. First, the scent immediately starts to fill the air after no less than a minute. Second, the scents I choose, Ira Jean and Pristine make the air around you so pretty and soft that you feel like sitting at a vanity and applying body powder with a puff!!That's very girly indeed! I plan on getting more soon, I love love love them!!!

Toyota Corolla Beauty...

Today was running late for work and I hadn't eaten anything so I hurried did my hair got dressed and pack a makeup bag with a few items. I ended up doing my makup in the car while I waited in the drive thru at Bantam Chef. Here's what I used:

I quickly did my brows with Milani Easybrow in Dark Brown.Then I dusted my face with KLS by Kimora Lee Simmons Highlighter in Juicy Java. For my eyes, I packed my Smashbox Highlighter Quad and used the dark pink color from lash line up to the crease then the bronzey peach color from the crease to brow bone, blended well of couse. I added three coats of Bourjois mascara and for the lips, MAC Viva Glam VI lipglass. I looked better than when I spend time in a bathroom mirror!!!

J