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Bringing order and decency to a world filled with nude lipstick with dark lip liner, fuschia eyeshadow, and streaky highlights.

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Events Galore!

02/25/2010 at 04:37AM

It's a good week to live in DC.Tonight (Thursday) Cusp in Georgetown and Lucky Magazine are hosting a party with the Lucky Alpha Shopper and generally awesome person Betsy Lowther of Fashion is Spinach.Then! Saturday, Betsy is hosting a vintage pop-u...

NARS Spring 2010

01/21/2010 at 05:48AM

Things I am a sucker for...Catherine Deneuve movies and pink lipglosses.Damn you NARS and your wiley ways!!NARS Spring 2010...read it and weep...before I buy the whole collection.Inspired by Catherine Deneuve's role as Lucille in La Chamade, the NARS...

Do the Draper

01/20/2010 at 09:00AM

I'm *kind of* a huge fan of Mad Men.And by that I mean that I drop everything on Sunday nights in the summer to watch.Then race into work in the morning to flout our internet policy and read recaps all over the web.Then spend time thinking about how ...

Golden Globes Hair

01/19/2010 at 06:04PM

I know I'm running late but...well...blame Massachusetts.While I'm not the fastest or even remotely the best at this, I do love a good red carpet roundup.One of the most talked about walkers was Sofia Vergara in a grey and burgundy Carolina Herrera. ...

Tweet!!

01/19/2010 at 06:44AM

A little roundup of tweets from my week!Totally digging the American Apparel nail polishes, esp. Mouse, Downtown LA and Passport Blue.The undisputed winner of the night is inner side boob. Got more screen time than Guiliana's tin foil dress.4:17 PM J...

Resolved

01/02/2010 at 07:01AM

Ok, everyone's doing it, and I'm a sucker for peer pressure.Ten Resolutions for 2010Figure out Polyvore.Wear more jewelry.Learn to layer so I look like one of the girls in Lucky, not like Joey in the Friends ep where he wore all of Chandler's clothes...

On the Topic of Dressing for New Years Eve

12/31/2009 at 08:17AM

New Years Eve is kind of like prom for grown-ups.In the same way that it has somehow become acceptable to dress like a bumble bee/hooker on Halloween, it has become equally a part of our culture that on New Years Eve, we put on fancy dresses with spa...

The Tale of the Boots

11/29/2009 at 06:44AM

Would you like to hear a story with a happy ending? A modern day fairy tale, as it were?Pull up a chair.Once upon a time (a few weeks ago) in a lard far far away (midtown Manhattan), I was escorting a cousin from out of town to meet a potential inte...

NARS Holiday 2009

10/22/2009 at 08:05AM

Holiday collection photos are filling my inbox, and, honestly, the weather outside is making that not seem totally ridonculous.NARS has some super sweet items in the collection, including a deep red lip pencil in Pop Life and shadow pencils in Aigle ...

Apparently, I Need New Parents

10/21/2009 at 07:45AM

I'm super picky about perfume. Mostly, I just don't like them.I think most are too cloying, or too musky, or just plain gag worthy.I've found one or two that I like, but I approach most fragrances like men approach a woman crying...slowly, with grea...