I was single and sick of it when I asked a friend's Wiccan mom-in-law to do a love ritual for me. No one was more surprised than me when I met someone a couple weeks later.
magic
cheese
If you really want to impress the pants off someone, make a staple from scratch.
pores
Aestheticians enjoy working on me. One less than tactful lady could hardly contain her joy when she exclaimed “Your pores are HUGE. And there’s SO MUCH IN THEM.”
nail polish
If nothing else, the elitist gratification of saying, “Oh, this? I mixed it myself!” when someone asks you what color you’re wearing is BEYOND worth it.
wedding
I’m not going to say how much my wedding cost because that’s not classy or whatever, but I will say this: It was half what ever your wedding cost, and this is how I did it.
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knitting
So, I went to a knitting convention this weekend. It was pretty awesome.
mariannicures
I love kits and complicated stuff. But chalkboard nails do not even need any of that.
get your hair did with nnekay
What better a way to celebrate my black natural roots than by raiding Berkeley Bowl and making some healthy DIY leave-in hair products?
kombucha
The energy and excitement I put into this whole kombucha project only proved that I probably do need more friends.
pinterest
Most of you know how I feel about Pinterest. I don’t know how many of you follow my “I don’t believe you board,” but there have been some doozies.
gel manicures
I mean, dude, if I can do it, you can do it.
shampoo
When my beautiful, all-natural-without-being-granola aunt (who is only seven years my senior) suggested that my hair could be cleansed with baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and conditioned with vinegar (acetic acid), I was super skeptical.
chub rub
CHUB RUB: When the inner thighs of a human touch, and upon locomotion, rub together, thus causing friction resulting in a number of maladies including, but not limited to chafing, blisters, rashes, bleeding, bumps and discoloration.
tattoos
'Cause sometimes you want to adorn yourself, prison style.
deodorant
I'm the MacGyver of Beauty!
nutrition
Taste aside, making nut milk is incredibly cheap, and good for those who spend an abundance of time in their kitchen, and/or want to know EXACTLY what they're eating.
flat tire
Over the weekend, I pulled into the Firestone Auto Care garage, my camera, notebook and ‘Bout Business attitude all on hand, ready to check this flat tire thing off my list.
diy
So how does one regain perspective after melting down over a shoe?
plastic
I left all that boring stuff up to my sartorially dexterous boyfriend while I watched endless X-Files reruns and barked out orders from the couch. GENDER ROLE REVERSALS IN THIS HOUSE, Y’ALL.
moving
My husband is all about carefully wrapping and boxing things, and I'm prone to throwing stuff in the back of the car, unboxed and unlabeled, and then being heartbroken when something breaks.
cookbooks
Like 1960s Playboys or your favorite dirty VHS, cookbooks have a certain tangibility that online recipes cannot replace.
haircuts
Because you’ve probably had more horrible people cut it before.
