Pampering on a budget…easy as pie! September 22, 2010

Who doesn’t like to be pampered? Even just a little? Whether it’s a head massage, facial, pedicure, or all over body treatment, there are few people who would say no to that extra TLC even if it comes from a professional! Unfortunately along with the blissful experience of relaxation and enjoyment, is the fact that [...]

Remember the 80s? November 1, 2009

I have moved around a bit since the 80s, and in the process slowly but surely let go of all my outdated fashion relics – including that cobalt-blue, silky-soft suede leather jacket with the oversized gold buttons and Arnold Schwarzenegger outline I so loved. But my Mom should be ecstatic – because this fall those [...]

Back to School 2009 September 25, 2009

Cannot help myself, but have to take the best bit of news and put it right up front: baggy oversized pants are out. Not only are they out, but un-cool, soo yesterday, dead. I don’t know about you – but they were the one thing that drove me, the self-professed non-fashionista, crazy. One more teenage [...]

The trials and tribulations of the latest fashions July 15, 2009

There must be thousands of women out there, who start quivering and nervously biting      their fingernails in anticipation at the mere mention of “New York Fashion Week”. Lucky me – that is one of the issues I have no, well – issues with. Wanna know why? Firstly, I hardly have time to sit down and [...]

Stylish Michelle Obama April 5, 2009

Michelle Obama is not only making history as the first African American First Lady of the United States, but also as Washington’s new fashion „It Girl“. When Vanity Fair Magazine added Michelle Obama to its „International Best Dressed List“ while she was campaigning for her husband in 2007,  special correspondent Amy Fine Collins characterized the [...]