Sometimes, the only way to see if a product really lives up to the hype is to invest the time in trying it out.
For the past month, every morning and evening, I’ve been following the Neutrogena SkinID skincare regime.
The truth is, I was graced with fairly good genes, and hardly ever break out normally. But the last few months, stress + poor habits (i.e. leaving on small bites and cocktails at events) was making a small but scary eruption take part on my face. Pretty soon, I even began to wonder if this was perhaps adult acne. Whatever it was, …read more

Please look to the right sidebar for a new poll!
The question is: How long does it take you to get ready for a really special event? Think an elegant party or even a really special first date. Something like a wedding could be stretched out over a week, so skip that kind of getting ready.
I hope to hear from you on this poll, I will be interested to see if I am really out of the ordinary here, but based on the study I referred to below, I doubt I am.

…to get ready to go somewhere? Do you spend hours in the bathroom doing all of your “girly stuff”? If you are like me, I can take all day to get ready for something really special, but can do it in an hour if I have to. For something not terribly special, I can be out the door in 30 minutes.
I received an email yesterday from a woman who is working on a story based on a recent study that American women spend about two years of their lives getting ready to go out. …read more