Saturday night, an adoring fan — no wait, it was Angela — asked me “Did you really have a buzz cut previously?”
Yes, I did. Getting ready in the morning was a breeze. Freed up lots of time for… Photoshop, evidently.
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Now that I have several inches of hair, shampoo is on my mind. Whee! RECOMMENDED READING: *Bill Bunn explains What’s Really In Your Shampoo. Startling stuff. *Allison Aubrey presents shampoo’s history in tells us When It Comes to Shampoo, Less Is More from npr.com. Be sure to study the final paragraph. EXPERIMENTATION: Over the [...]
“Well-groomed people are the real beauties. It doesn’t matter what they’re wearing or who they’re with or how much their jewelry costs or how much their clothes cost or how perfect their makeup is: if they’re not clean, they’re not beautiful.” —Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy [...] On Friday I woke up late, brushed my teeth, climbed into my rattiest clothes, and staggered to work.
That’s right, I appeared publicly wearing sneakers AND a cap, two things I hate. I was a disgrace to androgyny’s noble history. David Bowie would be ashamed! Readers, I wasn’t thrilled to be seen with myself. But [...]
Before I could wax poetic about many-splendored Diva Cups, Allie at My Wardrobe Today beat me there. If you are a 1) person who has menstrual periods and hates buying overpriced wads of cotton or 2) a person who hates landfills and can influence your friends/family who DO have periods or 3) some combination of the [...] I wore flip-flops from June through October , keeping my toenails painted a cheerful rosy pink. I loved glancing down and seeing well-groomed feet. ‘See?’ I’d think, ‘You’re not frumpy any more! Why, you even maintain a decent pedicure!’ But months of nail polish will do bad, bad things to a girl, and [...] |
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