jolenehairbefore

Everyone says you can do so much with long hair.  Yes. It’s true the possibilities are limitless (if you have a full time stylist) but most long hair that looks good requires that you actually blow dry it, and style it.  And if you don’t have time for that, you put it up in a [...]

Picture 96

We keep trying the smokey eye look, but at some point, one of us *cough* Tara *cough* manages to make herself look like, well, a cheap hooker.  It never quite works.  At last we have a tutorial that seems to make sense.  This?  We can do. Lisa Eldridge, who to be fair is UNfairly pretty, shows [...]

mascaraglossblush

There are some days we just need to do the bare minimum and pare things down. For those days I’m glad for the wisdom and words shared with me by my friend and beauty adviser Holly of J. Russell Salon in Palm Desert, Ca.:  mascara, pink blush and lip gloss always make you feel better. [...]

joancrawford

Once, years ago, bleary and exhausted after the birth of her twins, Tara brushed her teeth with a tube of Clearasil, believing it to be a trial sized toothpaste.  That is a very sad and very true story. Usually night time is when you are at your most exhausted.   After the kids have gone [...]

QUICK FIX: Make-up on the go.

  It is shocking how much time I spend sitting in a car, waiting.  I wait for school to get out, for dance class to be over, for a parent teacher conference to start and on and on.  Ironically we usually run out of the house, late, kids complaining they wanted different shoes on.  So [...]