If you want health tips that are a veer from what you already know about living a healthy lifestyle, the aptly-named “Health Tips of a Different Sort” seeks to give offbeat tips and advice on health that you won’t come across on a normal day. If you want your health info offbeat, Health Tips of a Different Sort may well help you live a healthy lifestyle in a “different sort” of way.

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I finally wrapped my grubby little hands around MAC Heatherette Eyeshadow Trio 1 last weekend, and I have to say: I love this bad boy!

Sometimes, in trios and quads, one or two of the shades just aren’t up to snuff, but all three shades MAC chose for Trio 1 — a pink, green and black — work well together. That said, Mood Ring, the green shade (more of a teal) is definitely my favorite of the bunch.

For the green, pink and black smokey eye look below, I layered each of the shadows over MAC Pink Pearl Pigment (also part of the Heatherette collection). Layering Pink Pearl Pigment underneath these shadows creates an effect similar to how the colors of a peacock’s feathers can seem to change with the light. So purty!

Even though this eye pushes the envelope as far as its appropriateness for day wear, I wore it to the movies yesterday afternoon and didn’t feel out of place.
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This post is not about crying.

Don’t worry– I made it another day.  Sorry about the high drama.  It’s just frustrating and humiliating when you feel like you’re so much further along in your healThis post is not about crying.

Don’t worry– I made it another day.  Sorry about the high drama.  It’s just frustrating and humiliating when you feel like you’re so much further along in your healing process– actually feeling like yourself for weeks upon weeks– and then you hit a low so low, out of nowhere, that it makes you feel you’ve travelled back in time.  But you haven’t.  Yet you still have to recover that ground, so you console yourself with the knowledge that it will be faster this time.

But I didn’t shave my head.  I didn’t get new ink.  I didn’t check myself into rehab.  I didn’t shave my legs at a hotel pool while muttering over and over, “no one wants me.”  I’m back fumbling toward the funny.  So that’s something.

COMMENCE* POST:

For birthdays, Jordan has recently begun making special pick-a-six six packs for her friends.  This is not only a delicious, tipsy-making idea, but also hilarious, for she custom-designs the six pack itself with Photoshopped pictures that would, perhaps, represent their recipient.  For example, mine featured Ed Hochuli (big shock), Kristin and Stephen from Laguna Beach (see: my avatar), and the crow that lands on the bisected corpse in the Black Dahlia movie.

Let me explain.

Twice in The Black Dahlia does a crow land next to Elizabeth Short’s corpse** and CAW-CAW! ominously.  Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett (both lovely people) were so bad in this movie that I suggested nominating Crow for best actor in this picture, because hey, when Crow crowed, I FELT something.  (Note: beyond simply the desire to get my money back that the rest of the movie induced.)

I CAW-CAW!ed, arms stretched wide like wings, on the Metro escalator on our way home, causing everyone to stare in wonder and awe at me like I was some kind of a beautiful, mystical crazy-dirty-subwaylady-on-the-verge-of-a-psychological-break.

Since then, it’s been kind of my catch-phrase whenever something ominous happens, like thunder rumbles overhead, or I see someone at the bar about to be cockblocked, or the waitress doesn’t bring our drink refills fast enough.  I toss it around basically whenever something isn’t going my way.  It’s charming.  No, really, it is.  Someone needs to alert those around her to danger, and I won’t have everyone’s blood on my hands.  Unless, you know, they’re into that sort of thing.

Based on the text above, it should be clear that I’ve pretty much emptied the six pack.

Wait.

Six pack contents dwindling?

CAW-CAW!

*commence is one of those words whose meaning I could never remember.  Is it end or beginning?  Commencement: is it the end of the idyllic, relatively work-free, casual-sex-and-keg-party days of college or the beginning of an impoverished, futile, terror-inducing adult existence?  Yes.  Yes, it is.

** even after all the plot threads had been “explained” and this movie ended, I still had no effing idea what was going on.  And I am a pretty good reader.  So my apologies if I’m making all this up.

Pedicure season is almost here. Summer is the time for sunny days, shorts and most importantly sandals. Pedicures are a must have for every woman, whether you plan to show your feet your not, they make you feel great. There are two types of pedicures; at home or at the salon.

     If you choose to do it yourself you will save a little money and the upkeep will be easier. The easiest thing is to purchase a pedicure kit which will contain everything you need.

1. First thing you need to do is remove your existing nail polish.
2. After removing polish cleanse your feet try tea tree soap to clean your feet prior to the pedicure.
3. Then cut and file your nails and trim your cuticles.
4. Use a foot scrub on your pumice stone or foot file to scrub your feet. Make sure not to scrub too hard.
5. Rinse and dry feet completely.
6. Massage and moisturize your feet with a foot cream.
7. Put on your toe separator and polish nails with a clear or you favorite color.

Once nails are dry, end with a moisturizing spritz on your feet and toe nails. Once a week I put Vaseline on my feet and put socks on and sleep that way, this will soften feet and improve the look of nails.

     A professional pedicure is a treat every woman should experience. You receive leg and foot massages and foot soak treatments, heavenly. The pricing can range from 30-70 dollars and is worth every penny. It is so nice to sit back, relax, and get pampered. When you get your pedicure done at a salon the only work you have to do is pick out your nail polish, I always get the french tip. When you walk out your feet look incredible.

     When your feet look good, you feel good. It’s something about having pretty feet that makes you feel young and well put together. So next time you want to really look good, make sure you remember your feet.