In the old days, meaning around 1960 or so, Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton wannabes heated the bowl of a spoon over the open flame of a gas stove and used it to flip their lashes up. Yikes. Today's heated lash curlers are a bit tamer, but still, take care. Also, never curl lashes ...
That’s right y’all…I am 43 years old today! Last year I let my birthday slip quietly by, but this year I decided to shout it from the rooftops, or at least in a little post on this here blog of mine. I thought it would be a great way to share a little more about me. I...
”19th-century 19-year-old Elizabeth Bennet has a whole host of problems: a socially inattentive father, an endlessly chattering mother, a sister who spouts aphorisms as she pounds deafeningly on the piano in front of company, two other sisters who swoon whenever an Army officer walks into th...
Dessert, made by sweeter cooks than me, was an incredibly good chocolate and coffee birthday cake (Alice, we’ll have the recipe for that, please?) and theManna from Heavenchocolate crunch made by Miss Jane; this is a lusciously dastardly version of the old favehedgehog cake,updated into ...
The sun is shining brightly, I’m hanging out with the indoor crowd, and I’ve decided getting old is a good excuse for moving slowly. But I am still treasuring the compliment I received yesterday when I finished my last lap in the pool. I was about to get out when the young ...
Twiggy attending the Biba make-up launch party (Image credit: © Barbara Hulanicki ) As Delisia Price says: ‘We weren’t like Mary Quant or Ossie Clark – I loved them, but it was impossible to be able to afford it.’ This meant that the young people it was marketed to could...
Is “Die Hard” a Christmas movie? It’s a question that’s divided fans of the ever-popular action movie starring Bruce Willis since it was released in 1988, and the main action in the narrative takes place during an office holiday party. Today, it’s impossible to escape the film duri...
When Jane Fonda appeared in a bikini in the 1977 film “California Suite,” Hollywood was again defining the perfect body. And it didn’t belong to an 18-year-old. In those pre-Workout days, Fonda was whittling her figure at Gilda Marx’s exercise studio in a Century City penthouse....
Models like Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton were my style icons. My mom’s attitude was just because she couldn’t wear much makeup to work didn’t mean I couldn’t have fun with it. My greatest makeup influence was simply the times I lived in and that is still true today. January 16, ...
brush. I prefer the knife as it gives a more “twiggy” natural look. The branches should really appear angular. After every growing season the branch takes off at a slightly different angle. The birch is a rather rugged, hearty tree and the angular strokes capture the character quite ...