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May 2010 « Poor & Pretty

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Cupcake Party 3: Petits Fours

For my birthday, Suzi decided to make these deliciously adorable mini cupcakes, petits fours, from the Hello Cupcake book. These pastel and bright colors are perfect for spring, but with food coloring you can create all kinds of colors to be used for any occasion. These would be really cute for Independence Day, too, maybe red, white and blue cupcakes?

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What’s In Your Cosmetics Part 2: Propylene Glycol

Though significantly less dangerous than parabens, scientists have found that Propylene Glycol is a skin irritant even at low doses and is an environmental hazard especially to aquatic life {though certainly not more dangerous than the BP oil spill right now}.

Propylene Glycol is an organic alcohol which is colorless, nearly odorless, clear, and viscous with a faintly sweet taste. [Read on...]

Summer Work Attire

summer work attire

1. Truck Jeans Essential Skinny {Alloy}. My boss wore a pair of white skinny jeans a few days ago and I realized that I need to get a pair of these for my spring/summer wardrobe. Summer is all about light colors and what’s lighter than white? White [Read on...]

BUST Spring Craftacular

craftacular

We had so much fun at the BUST Spring Craftacular yesterday. It was amazing how much talent was oozing out of The Warsaw in Brooklyn! We’ve never been in a room with so much talent before… it was so inspiring. There were vendors selling jewelry, makeup, handmade soaps, crocheted critters, [Read on...]

Lush-Us.

After browsing NYLONmag.com I discovered one of my favorite cosmetic companies (LUSH) has stepped into the makeup world.  They mainly deal with skincare and bath products but they have come out with a foundation!!!! (This is so weird because I was just thinking the other day how I love them so much and I wish they would come out with [Read on...]