I want on purpose hair.

I’m willing to fix it and style it now.

I want it to look sleek and sophisticated. I want it short because it’s so much lighter and easier. I want to look hip, but I want to look like a grown-up.

So I googled “short sophisticated hair” and emailed my stylist, Mrs. Blogoway, a bunch of styles I like.

Then don’t ya always feel compelled to “strike a pose” like a model?

Photos Source: Mrs. Blogoway.

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Cure For Winter Blues . . .

Watch this – it’s hilarious.

Check out Jessica’s blog at Bern This.

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If Hitler Gave Me A Wax Job

Chris Swanson is the winner of a Hipster Shoulder Bag! Yay!

The Hipster- You can pack your wallet, phone, keys, lip gloss (even a passport!) into this hands-free shoulder purse. It measures 6 1/2″ x 9″ with a 50″ strap long enough to wear across your body or simply over your shoulder. Want to adjust the length? Just tie a knot in the strap. This bag retails for $40.00.

I love the length of the strap. I have kids to carry so I need something that will go across my shoulder and end up on my other hip. Asymmetry is fashionable too. Right?

And no. You don’t have to have the photo of that dog on your purse – unless it’s your dog and you heart him. It’s a custom purse. You could put a photo of your kids, the one of your wedding, a picture of a flower, whatever.

Myself? I would put a photo of a $1,500 designer handbag on it. LOL.

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Hipster Shoulder Bag Winner

The only purpose for make-up, or clothes, or anything else in the world of form is not to seduce another person, but to add light to the world in the form of beauty and pleasure. The meaning in things is how much we use them to contribute happiness to the world. clothes and other personal effects are no different than any other art form. If we perceive them lovingly, they can lift the vibrations and increase the energy in the world around us.

What is vanity? What is the ego-oriented, neurotic obsession with weight, hair, looks, and sex appeal that drives Americans to spend billions of dollars a year on products they can’t afford and don’t really need, and young women fall prey into dangerous disease patterns in their efforts to be thin? These things are inevitable results of a cultural orientation that leaves out the reality of spirit. concentration on the body as an end rather than a means in our perception breeds fear. Fear that we’re not good enough or attractive enough. Fear that they won’t like us. Fear that we’ll lose out in life.

~ A Return to Love, by Marrianne Williamson

This a Blogtoberfest Post. I’m giving something beauty-oriented away. How you use it will be up to you. Use it to spread light and beauty or use it for vanity and feed your fear. It’s up to you.

Leave a comment guessing what it is and you’re entered to win. I have a few more things to give away this week. Keep coming back and subscribe. Hop around the b5media Lifestyles Channel for more chances to win great prizes.

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Beauty vs. Vanity

They’d put an extra 2 inches on the bottom of the shirt.

Hello?

I bought the “Tall” size.

Best Fashion Tip Ever.

Pretend you’re tall and you’ll have the right to raise your arms or pick up your kids without showing your stomach.

I’ve been so over showing my stomach for about a decade now and looking back on photos, I wish I’d have gotten over that about 5 years before I actually did.

More on fashion:

Incredible Shrinking Torso

Her Way Sucks, I Prefer His

Florescent Compulsion

Mood Shaper

Resigned to Perma-Wedgie

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Fashion Tip of the Century

Someone recently described me as “all natural” and I scoffed.

I’m not really, I just do yoga and would rather exercise and take a vitamin than a prescription, I said.

Then I told them about the natural salt rock in place of my deodorant and the melatonin they should take to sleep instead of Tylenol PM and my reputation around these parts was sealed.

I’m officially known as a health nut.

But, I swear I only got here kicking and screaming after finding the traditional method of Wellbutrin and Xanex popping completely detrimental to my soul.

Then there’s the peer pressure.

I hang out with granola chicks. Several of them infiltrated my bookclub. Jen from Jlogged and Mrs. Blogaway used to work in a health food store and then you throw in Alexis, kindof a hippy chick and, over wine, they start talking about how completely insane it is to open up your pores in a hot shower and then immediately fill them with aluminum, which may cause Alzheimer’s.

My mother pulls out her Essential Oils when she comes to visit. She tells me how my aunt cured her own cancer with a green drink, then pops out this Crystal salt rock and smoothes it on her pits after a shower.

I have been using this same rock for 10 years, she brags.

10 years! You haven’t had to buy deodorant in 10 years?

Nope. This works just as well and I’m not putting aluminum in my pores.

Then I remember Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey both came out and Oprah said, Oh you smell so good (on separate occassions). They both professed not wearing deodorant.

And I find myself telling my husband while were in San Francisco on vacation, I’m going into this health food store and looking for a deodorant rock. It’s a natural salt crystal and you use it forever.

I hear him mumble, You’re becoming just like your mother.

What exactly does that mean? I put my dukes up and get ready to fight.

You weren’t a totally health nut when I married you.

I’ll try anything if it will save us money,

I retort, resentful that he’s not letting me linger in the store to see what other natural remedies are available in a progressive city.

And I think it works better than my old brand of super-charged deodorant. I thought I would be sweatier and self-conscious – but I’m not. I don’t smell even after my kick-boxing class and I don’t sweat much either.

I found it amusing that they shaped the rock into the shape of deodorant to quell our psychological addiction to what we see advertised. As if it’s the shape that makes our odors or lack thereof socially acceptable.

They also sell it in the shape of . . .well, a rock.

I bet 50% of people prefer the marketed shape of traditional deodorant simply because it jives with the autopilot of their personal hygiene routine.

I’ll use up my stick of deodorant and I’ll share yours with you, my husband said the other day after I told him how effective it is.

Share? Jeez, it’s only $5.

More stories about my health nut, environmental conversion:

Free Yoga on iTunes/Blogs

5 (6) Cures for Back Pain

Pharmacy sign

Images Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me

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Pit Rock – Deodorant Alternative

Last year I wrote about how I wear men’s Hanes Briefs because they actually cover my ass in Her Way Sucks, I Prefer His.

I discovered accidentally, about 10 years ago, that men feel entitled to wear comfortable underwear that covers their entire ass. The whole thing.

Once I made this discovery a decade ago I became oddly entitled. Yes, entitled. Entitled to have underwear that doesn’t ride up my ass or give me a wedgie. I feel my best when I have no need to find a wall to sidle up against to femininely and discreetly tug the panties out of my crack.

One of my friends, Rebecca, commented in the post that she wears Hanky Panky Thongs. She said they were comfortable.

A comfortable thong is like unto this urban legend, “women love anal sex.” Yeah, sure they do. Some may be willing to do it a few times – but I doubt it’s her favorite.

A comfortable thong. Isn’t that an oxi-moron?

A thong is resignation to a perma-wedgie. You give up picking the panties out of the crack of your ass and just accept that the panties are going to remain there – for the whole freakin’ day.

HerRoom gave out coupons for a free pair of undies at BlogHer. Because they are smart. An online store gives free product to online writers? Brilliant.

Since the lure of a comfortable thong has been percolating in my brain for a year I sent an email and asked for a pair in nude. (I saw on Oprah’s undies show that this is the secret to hiding underwear under white pants – match your skin color and not the pants.)

And I’ve been wearing them here and there. I wore them all day and twittered my experience – well, cause I’m new to Twitter and experimenting with being funny in only 140 words – I’m a word geek – that’s fun for me.

wrote about wearing men’s briefs. Reader said to try Hanky Panky Thong. HerRoom sent

Testing this theory: Is a thong essentially just perma-wedgie that you just accept?

I just picked the Hanky Panky out of my crack.

It’s 3 pm and my patience with the Hanky Panky thong is wearing thin. Sitting with perma-wedgie is . . . not my favorite thing.

OK I didn’t hate the Hanky Panky at the gym. I kind of thought they were pretty good for gym shorts.

Anyway here was my brilliant panty insight.

A thong really is a perma-wedgie. There really is not such things a comfortable thong. Technically.

But, I learned something about myself that I was never prepared to admit before. . .

Sometimes I’m willing to resign myself to a perma-wedgie. Over the ensuing laundry cycle I found myself sifting through my underwear drawer looking for my new Hanky Panky thong three times.

* to wear under my very thin dress for church

* to wear under my light-colored gym shorts for kickboxing

* to go to a book club meeting with other women

And every single instance was motivated in part by peer pressure – what will the other women say about my pantyline?

OK, not every single instance. My need to wear them to kickboxing was motivated half by the women behind me looking at my ass, and half by the fact that I actually have to crescent kick my leg OVER my male instructor’s bald head. There are 1-2-3-4-5 moments where the guy is basically looking right at my crotch. So, I wear the longest gym shorts I own – to the knees – and they are very light beige and I don’t want my panties to show.

Read Visible Panty Line Cure and “Clean” Bikini Line and Mood Shaper for hysterical musings about feminine hygene.

Oh and as for a photo – while I have photographed myself in a girdle for you (see Mood Shapers) I will spare you the sight of my thonged booty. Mostly because I write an Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me website and I’m afraid posting a picture of myself basically nude would be misconstrued and considered inappropriate. So I will leave you with this HerRoom photo of the low-rise nude Hanky Panky Thong, $18. Of course, this is exactly what I look like in them.

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Resigned to Perma-Wedgie

Schick sent me this pretty little pink Quattro Razor.

I told them, look I’ve never found a women’s razor that worked as good as my husbands. I use the Schick Quatro for men. (Total coincidence that it’s the same company.)

The thing is I’ve no problem using men’s products if they work better. I wear men’s underwear (Her Way Sucks, I Prefer His), so it’s a no-brainer to use the men’s razor if it works better.

I used the Schick Quattro for Women several times and frankly, it made my armpits a little rashy and I kept having to scratch my itchy legs. I gave up on my “clean” bikini line last year.

I set his and hers razors side by side in the shower and thought I would automatically reach for the one that I wanted to use.

It was the men’s razor every time. No rash. No irritation. That’s the secret.

Here’s my advice to Schick, and all razor companies, for that matter.

You’ve already invented the perfect razor for women. It’s our husband’s. We all already use his because it works better.