Happy Labor Day Weekend, for those of you who, uh, partake.  No, I don’t actually know why it’s a holiday today, which amuses me because I feel that’s so typically American of me.  But I’m enjoying it in the customary style, which means I got all bloated at a barbeque yesterday (seven kinds of grilled [...]

by Nava Please consider yourselves warned: This is not a perfume post. It is the Friday before Labour Day weekend, so maybe many of you are not paying close attention anyway. If you are, please accept my apologies. (The names in this post have been changed in order to protect the innocent.) It’s been a [...]

I’ve been a cosmetics/product sucker/whore since my first department store makeover.  I’m trying to remember exactly what that was. Lancome, I think, here in Denver maybe?  I was in my mid-20s.  I’m not sure how I managed to escape the department store makeover for so long. I think they just didn’t have them in Topeka.  [...]