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Announcing: Geeks Can Be Chic!

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Tada! I’ve been putting together a new site. I started Geeks Can Be Chic to mesh my geekiness with my love of fashion, beauty & accessories. My goal is to make smart, witty posts a couple times a day that show how “sometimes, geeks can be chic” with geeky-fun apps, [...]

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

This has nothing to do with a break up or wanting to “have more fun” or whatever reason women change their hair color. I just want to have a hair adventure (advench-hair?). I want to do something drastic to my head. And I want your opinion on it.

I suppose I’ll keep my natural curl for [...]

Fashion Friday: Reverse French Mani

I wanted to do something fun with my nails for the wedding when I came across a photo of a reverse French manicure in Auxiliary Magazine. I kind of feel in love with the idea. The example I saw was sheer polish with blood red crescent tips- a little too Twilight for me & definitely [...]

Fashion Friday: Badass Ballerina

Inspired this week partly by this photo & partly by Black Swan, I’ve been thinking about how to mix lingerie into a workable wardrobe. I love delicate lacy things paired with edgy studded leather so I thought it would be sexy to throw a cropped jacket over a corset top & tutu. Let the corset [...]

The Gift of Beauty

Tis the season to be sharing & if you’ve got girlfriends who are constantly complaining about a certain beauty issue, why not share your secret solution? Better yet, put together a beauty emergency kit for all your friends!

Discreetly tackle any beauty fiasco!

Clinique Spot Remover- $14.00 This is my secret to great skin. Whenever [...]

Care & Keeping of Curly Hair

Curly hair really is its own creature. I literally woke up one day & my hair decided to be curly & it’s been curly for the last 12 years. Some days, I’m sure there’s a beast under that nest, breathing & just waiting for me to dare try & style it into something beautiful.

Hello, [...]

Fashion Friday: Sugar & Butter

Bake your lips back to life.

My lips suffer long winters of chapping & splitting. My usual strategy is to Blistex the crap out of them until they feel like plastic & I don’t have much feeling in them. It’s really unpleasant.

I’m not sure how I came across this product, but I was intrigued. I picked [...]

Muffin Top & You

Macaroons, I’d like to talk to you about an issue plaguing this country. An issue I encounter 42,652 times a day within the tourist population. An issue that can so easily be solved, making the world a more beautiful place & making you more comfortable at the same time. Macaroons, I’m talking about muffin top.

Muffin [...]

♠Strange Fashion & Beauty Part V♠

In this edition, macaroons, we’ll explore some of my latest findings in weird fashion. Have you ever wanted to be a fashion designer, but lack sewing skills? Berber Soepboer & Michiel Schuurman’s Color-in-Dress allows you to decorate & create interesting designs on a premade dress.

A wearable coloring book!

I love the silhouette on this dress. [...]

♠Moisturizer of the Goddesses♠

I started my new job this week, macaroons, that requires an immense & intense amount of training in a short period, so this Fashion Friday Beauty Tip will be short & sweet- my secret to incredible skin & preventative measures for my 30s.

No one is paying me to tell you how great this stuff is, [...]