It’s a sad but true fact that after a certain age, a woman can no longer rely on tubes of self-tanner and pots of concealer to mold a sagging face etched with wrinkles into the supple visage preferred by men around the world. Though it’d be nice to live in a fantasy land where what’s on the inside really is what counts, you and I both know all too well that what counts is on the outside, namely on your face (and your body, too, but that’s a topic for a different post.)

If we were currently living 50 years ago the only option available to us women trying to stave off the power of gravity would be dermabrasion, a somewhat nasty procedure that involves sanding your skin down to achieve a smoother surface. The downside of treating your face like a piece of plywood is a lot of blood and irritation. Luckily in our modern age the options have expanded considerably and there are now several, non-surgical methods available to the ladies who refuse to take crow’s feet lying down.
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We all want to save the world. Don’t we? And we try. We buy organic, we recycle, and we drive fuel-efficient cars. (Well, that last one has more to do with high gas prices, but still.) Don’t you wish you could save the world all the time, like even when you’re spending your well-deserved two weeks off on a tropical vacation, drinking cocktails and getting massages? No? Bear with me here.

What if you could do both? What if you could save the turtles and work on your tan? Maybe plant trees and trek through the rainforest? Never fear, that’s exactly where Volunteer International comes in. Consider it your one-stop shop for all do-gooder vacations. It has a search engine with links to all sorts of charity vacations.

Want to transport supplies to remote village in Niger? Here’s the place! For me, that tilts too far on the “do-gooder” end of the spectrum rather than “vacation,” but there’s more than a few opportunities we found that offer a good balance, here were some of our favorites:
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Every girl out there has a passion for lipstick and that’s a natural fact. From the rainbow of colors available to the shiny bullet-shaped tubes it’s packaged in, there’s nothing about lipstick we don’t love. Except for the fact that there are more ways to mess up your perfectly applied lip color than there are brands of cosmetics. Smooching, smoking, sucking down coffee (or a mid-morning cocktail, for that matter) - these are just a few of the ways that lipstick finds its way off your lips and onto blank surfaces of all kinds. Luckily, cosmetic companies have learned a lot about what us ladies are looking for in a lipstick since the days of old and have subsequently brought us one of the great inventions of the modern age: long wear lipstick.

Long wear lipstick is like mana from the Goddesses. A lipstick that stays on through kisses, cookies, and other various activities without fading or rubbing off? It’s utter genius! Why didn’t Edison invent it before the light bulb? (more…)

It’s sunny! It’s hot! You’ve spent all spring working your abs - er, well, you meant to… So you know what that means? Time to buy a new swimsuit! Yay! It’s almost as exciting as wearing it!

Now if you’re one of masochists who enjoys squeezing into every thong you can find and nit-picking how it flatters every curve or bulge, then buying a swimsuit online isn’t for you. Definitely get your supermodel frame down to your nearest department store and go wild with their pre-summer sales. Take a girlfriend with you, so you two can annoy everyone within earshot - “So what do you think of this one?” - and put the rest of us mere mortals to shame.

However, for the rest of us, shopping online means your changing room is in your own home. Not only that, but you’ll get way better deals than those mallrats anyway.
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