The Black Honey balm/gloss that comes in a tube, ita? it is like unto god.

Liese, I found tips here: [link] [link]

They seem pretty upfront and practical. I hope I'm being useful and not a jerk.

Nicole - there is not a Sephora downtown, but maybe we can hit Park Meadows Sunday after a cruise through the Farmer's Market (didn't go last week and I feel like I missed out).

Teppy - I know I have seen Graeters at our King Soopers before, but I haven't looked recently. Kinda afraid to look for the pumpkin flavor cause if one carton is good, two have to be better. Right?

Kinda afraid to look for the pumpkin flavor cause if one carton is good, two have to be better. Right?

Two will CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

I don't know about the UK, but the traditional thesis in France is not equivalent to what you have to produce here, i.e., essentially a book that will be published 4-5 years after defense.

My college Lit professor's husband apparently wrote a definitive book on Mythology (never found out which one) and turned in the published book as his thesis.

Woah (srsly). Cute guy just asked me where the dumpster was. Shame he's not bright enough to find it on his own, because it's not exactly hidden.

Cute and dumb? In that combination dumb's a feature, not a bug!

I dunno. I kinda feel like anything that says "exotic" is a red flag. I guess this is where the line gets drawn, because everyone is trying to adhere to a standard of beauty that is not them, and therefore is trying to make their eyes look bigger or smaller or whatever. It's just that for me, the act of trying to achieve those things is effectively reducing ethnic characteristic traits. Which I don't know if I want to do, you know?

Which I don't know if I want to do, you know?

I don't know either. But white women get perms, and black women straighten their hair and it's not always about rejecting what you are. Sometimes it's just about trying on a different look.

Fashion and style are defined by choices. You don't have to be just what you're given. Or you can explore what you're given in a different way.

In any event, I've always admired people who took chances with their style and worked to explore it.

Maybe just stay away from the instructional guides, Liese. There ought to be a way for you to wear make up that just enhances your you-ness rather than transforming you, and it sounds like from what you've said today you could figure out how to do that on your own just by playing with light and shadow and color. Or transform yourself without regard to prevailing cultural norms about beauty. Or try a bunch of things and decide not to bother. Or decide not to bother pre-emptively. I wouldn't want make up that you're conflicted about to slow down your kayak acquisition, personally.

Yeah, that might be where I`m headed, -t. I mean, I`ll be plenty pretty when I`m all svelte and healthy and happy from rowing all the time, right?

You're plenty pretty now!

My pro-kayak agenda has probably been evident for some time.

For the record, the monistat anti-chafing gel really does work as well as the Smashbox primer. Plus it cost less than half.

OMG! I am buying this tomorrow!