Ever thought about the bacteria that lives on your makeup? Sure, you’ve shuddered at what camps out on beauty-counter samples, but your personal make-pretty stuff hosts colonies of ickies too. [geek on]
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Janine
I have a story in today’s Metro News, a sort of First Nations profile piece that includes designer Angela DeMontigny, footwear company Manitobah Mukluks, eyewear from AYA Accessories and Louie Gong’s Eighth Generation Vans art. And suddenly I’m thinking about a tattoo. Again. [geek on]
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Toronto’s second set of Anthropologie doors opened quietly at 80 Yorkville last Friday and I’ve not yet been. Instead of popping in for a drool yesterday when I was in the area, I hit an internet café to check e.mails (lugging the laptop around on a multi-appointment day is just foolish). Sheesh. [geek on]
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If I loved So You Think You Can Dance any more, the network would have restraining orders against me.
Ellen should be a judge again.
Insane, insane choreography as well as dancing (much). In. Sane.
Great dancers move like superhumans.
In my next life I want to be a dancer with killer dancing talent (important to specify).
Can’t wait for So You Think You Can Dance Canada season 2 on August 11. (Canada is where pointe shoes first hit the SYTYCD stage, not the US, by the way.)
Hey, has anyone settled whether there’s a connection between Evan Kasprzak and an audience member who looked like Scott Bakula?
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Well I don’t think I have to rave about this line again, so I’ll get to the point: if you’re a Canada-based subscriber (click here to become one if you aren’t already) and keen on trying this Canadian line of natural skin care, you’ll want to send an e.mail to imabeautygeek@gmail.com with CONSONANT in the subject line. In the body of the email, [geek on]
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Consonant Body makes me want to redecorate. Or maybe own a bright-white and airy body-care boutique in the Hamptons, rather like the village shop Sandra Bullock’s character Sally Owens had in Practical Magic (the last movie in which Nicole Kidman looked naturally, ethereally beautiful).
In addition to its natural ingredients and appealing textures, what makes the Canadian brand [geek on]
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I got tag-teamed at Blo. I’d requested the “Holly Would” style from a menu of seven sketches. [geek on]
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When I filed this just-published “15 Best Body Lotions for Less than $15” story for Homemakers.com, Live Clean’s Baby line hadn’t yet made its debut. Well, it has now, and it’s messing with my numbers. I want to add something to my list of 15. But it makes 16. What to do? [geek on]
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Not to knock the standard pepperminty-fresh foot sprays out there, but sometimes mint just ain’t your foot flavour of choice. Rocky Mountain Soap Company, a British Columbia-based company that specializes in all-natural body care, has something a little different in the mist. [geek on]
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I’ve been off my workout game for more than a year. Except for about a week in which I managed to hit the gym three out of what was supposed to be five times, I’ve essentially hit atrophied mode. So am I going to jump out of bed at the crack of daylight for out-in-the-open pushups, planks and running led by a barking-orders fitness drill sergeant? No freakin’ way. I need to hide my wimpy self in the safety of the small gym I’ve been paying for the last 13 months. But my friend Lesa, Beauty Editor at Fashion, is bolder than I am. She enlisted in the Best Body Bootcamp to whip her post-baby bod back into shape. Tracking her progress makes me think maybe… maybe.
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The new recruit
Forget thighs or butt—post-30, my battle is with my paunch. I’m like an old man—every ounce of excess immediately heads there to squat. [geek on]
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Chronically dry hands have a hometown hero in McBlooms Skin Therapy Extremely Rich Cream ($15 CAN). With its roots in helping gardening-rough skin, McBlooms launched Extremely Rich several years ago, then a fragrance-free version; both have become cult hits for the Canadian brand. [geek on]
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Hey, Vancouver readers, your friendly neighbourhood TheStyleSpy.com is hosting a shopping extravaganza for you in Yaletown this weekend. [geek on]
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Staff thinks I’m making a crack about the danged garbage strike holding Toronto hostage right now, and maybe I am. You see, instead of hitting all my happy citrus buttons, my newest shower-gel obsession smells simply, delightfully, freshly clean. [geek on]
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