Hey sweeties!
Though I've been totally busy with my class, I didn't want to neglect this blog, and I didn't want to neglect any of you, because you're awesome! So this week is going to be a "copy and paste" of a post of mine from another board.
My ultimate goal in bringing this blog to you is to hopefully shed some light on great cruelty-free brands of makeup, but other animal-related stuff too, such as CF household products, animal charities and businesses, celebs that devote themselves to animals, etc. So every once in a while, I'll go off the beaten path and not talk about a specific makeup brand, but something in the news that I got a peek at.
Here's a link a friend of mine posted at this other board, and it's truly horrifying:
Delta offers money for lost dog
Just reading this will give you chills for sure. Here's my accompanying post in reaction to my friend posting the link:
It's horrible, absolutely horrible. This is a cautionary tale to anyone deciding to fly with their pet. All major airlines - not just Delta - will treat your lost pet exactly like they will treat a lost suitcase. And unfortunately, that's actual policy - they don't treat it as a lost living being. It's a lost piece of your luggage to them, and nothing more. It's given no more or less importance - you literally fill out a form, and hey, they'll call you if it turns up. Their attitude is: "throw enough money at the flyer, and they can buy a new dog or cat."
The only airline that gives you any peace of mind for flying with your pets is Jet Blue, because they don't cargo animals at all. Each flight has two spots reserved for pets to ride in the cabin with their owners. You book over the phone and double check that a spot on your particular flight is open for your pet. It's $50 (or it was), and your pet flies with YOU. When I very briefly moved to CA for a few months in 2005, I made damn sure that I flew Jet Blue so that Edison would be in the cabin with me. Other airlines will let you bring your pet into the cabin for a fee, but with Jet Blue, it's a little better - since they don't cargo to begin with, there's no fear of any mixup and them possibly forcing you to cargo your pet. Of course, if you have too big of a pet, that leaves you with very little choice.
Poor little Paco - his owners must be heartbroken. Like free plane tickets will ever bring him back.
So it's a very sad tale, but just please, please be careful any time you fly with your pet. Just know that other than Jet Blue (to my knowledge), the airlines aren't going to care if your pet is lost, harmed or killed. A couple of free tickets are supposed to be equivalent to the loss of your fur-baby, and it's not right. Please show this link to anyone you know who is getting ready to travel with their pet, and make sure they do the research for safe ways to travel.
Edison and I are sending Paco all the positive thoughts we can that he's ultimately found safe and reunited with his people.
Much love to him and to all of you,
Lisa and Edison
XO
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Product Spotlight: Philosophy
Hey hey hey! How is everyone today?
Just a heads up - if I sound a little lackluster today, it's because my class is kicking my ass, and I had to leave for work at 6 AM today to get here by 7 AM, so I'm kind of running on one piston. It's definitely got nothing to do with the brand we're going to take a peek at today!
What brand is that? Well, dahlinks, today I'd like to blab at you about some amazing stuff that I'm sure everyone is either using or has heard about - Philosophy! You've either seen their fabulous goodies over at Sephora, on QVC, or at some of their new counters at Macy's. Frankly, they have so much stuff that feels wonderful, smells good, and just plain gives you a boost, that I could blog about them for a year and not cover all their products. So today, our Product Spotlight is going to be about their skincare, which I just switched over to, lock, stock and barrel!
So, I'm 46, you know? I do my best to keep everything glued together and hoisted to the sky, as we all do. But here's the thing - I'm terrified, freaking TERRIFIED, of even the idea of plastic surgery, Botox, all that freaky crap. I won't even consider it - which means I'd better get used to spending all of my disposable income for the best skincare I can afford, amiright?
... this stuff right here! - is a little pump bottle full of awesomeness. The lines disappear, it's not greasy, your eye makeup goes on smoothly. And best of all, if you use this stuff, no crazed surgeon will have to come near your delicate eyeballs with a knife, laser or needle for years to come (Gaaaah! I just freaked me out!).
Just a heads up - if I sound a little lackluster today, it's because my class is kicking my ass, and I had to leave for work at 6 AM today to get here by 7 AM, so I'm kind of running on one piston. It's definitely got nothing to do with the brand we're going to take a peek at today!
What brand is that? Well, dahlinks, today I'd like to blab at you about some amazing stuff that I'm sure everyone is either using or has heard about - Philosophy! You've either seen their fabulous goodies over at Sephora, on QVC, or at some of their new counters at Macy's. Frankly, they have so much stuff that feels wonderful, smells good, and just plain gives you a boost, that I could blog about them for a year and not cover all their products. So today, our Product Spotlight is going to be about their skincare, which I just switched over to, lock, stock and barrel!
So, I'm 46, you know? I do my best to keep everything glued together and hoisted to the sky, as we all do. But here's the thing - I'm terrified, freaking TERRIFIED, of even the idea of plastic surgery, Botox, all that freaky crap. I won't even consider it - which means I'd better get used to spending all of my disposable income for the best skincare I can afford, amiright?
Last week, I knew I needed a boost of some sort for the ol' faccia (which is Italian for "face" - see that? It's not just ramblings about bunnies and lipstick - you're *learning* something!). So I hopped into Sephora, and headed straight for the Philosophy area. Without giving it too much thought since I know it's a great and reasonably priced brand, I just grabbed this little gem off the shelf:
This is their simply awesome Advanced Makeup Optional Kit for Aging Skin. Their Makeup Optional kits are pretty popular, so when I saw this, I knew I had to try it. It's mini versions of everything you see here - Hope in Jar with SPF 20 moisturizer, When Hope is Not Enough firming serum, Help Me nighttime retinol cream, The Microdelivery Exfoliating facial wash for morning, and Purity Made Simple facial wash for nighttime.
Can I just tell you something amazing with absolutely no exaggeration, swear to god? I've now been using this kit for about a week and a half - and I look like I've had work done. And not in a bad way! My skin is totally smoothed out, the pores are smaller, the flakiness and ruddiness is gone! The tone is brighter, the lines have decreased - you guys, I can't even believe it! Even with other really great brands I've tried, I've never seen results that fast. It's amazing, it honestly and really is!
And you don't have to be all middle-aged and stuff like me - the great thing about Philosophy is that they make a little "try it" kit for all skin types - younger, older, oilier, dryer, normal. There's nothing you won't be able to find that doesn't work for you. And I'll bet you'll see results so fast that you're going to want the big sizes of everything in here, no doubt.
The only thing missing from the kit is an eye cream, and since I needed one anyway, I decided to take the leap and go with Philosophy's anti-aging stuff called Eye Hope (*Rimshot!* Thank you folks, thank you - the people who think up cute names for Philosophy products will be here all week! Don't forget to tip your waitress!) Anyway, this stuff...
So check it out! High tail it over to Sephora or Macy's, or Philosophy's website (www.philosophy.com), or QVC.com, and go get some great, cruelty-free skincare for your ownselves!
Solidarity for the bunnies, as always!
Love and smooches,
Lisa (and the Edison bee-boo head!)
XO
Friday, April 2, 2010
And a Peace Fell Across the Land...
Happy Easter and Passover, youse guyses! Although technically, there are usually only bunnies for Easter, you know that around here, you're all my bunnies!
Okay, so I'm willing to call a truce. A big, fat, booty-shaking (which would be terrifying if you could see it - WHOOT!) truce with Bare Escentuals.
If you remember my blog from January 15th, I had just found out that our beloved cruelty-free Bare Escentuals had been purchased by Shiseido, a company that still very much tests. This would make BE a non-animal testing subsidiary of a parent company that tests. And again, whether or not you decide to use a CF product from a parent company that tests is totally up to your individual comfort level. For me? Generally, I stay away, because it just bugs me too much.
But you know, I've been a BE whore since 2004, so it's hard to give that up. So in one of my moments of "Grumble... grumble... well, okay, lemme just check..." I did a little more homework. I emailed BE directly and laid it all out for them (oh, dudes, complete with drama! I would have rivaled Halle Berry's Oscar speech in that email!). They assured me that they absolutely will continue to be cruelty-free, not only with their established products, but with any new ones as well. Now as you know, many companies who claim to put a moratorium on animal testing will promise to do so only for their established products, but will continue testing on any new ones they develop. Which, to my way of thinking is still animal testing no matter what they do. So the promise that BE will continue to remain CF even on their new stuff went quite a long way towards restoring my faith in them.
The other thing I noticed is that PETA still has BE listed on their "Does Not Test on Animals" list - and that's always pretty important to me, since they have such a comprehensive guide about this stuff. So all of this is my round about way of saying that I still love me some Bare Escentuals, and that as long as they maintain a completely cruelty free stance, I can live with this!
So it's all good...
...we hugged it out, bitches!
Have a happy holiday, no matter how or what you celebrate, and I'll be back to bother you soon enough! Clearly, I love me some mineral makeup, and I have another very fun brand, Meow Cosmetics, that I'm planning on shining the spotlight on in my next blog or so!
Big ol' rib-crushing hugs!
Lisa and Edison
XO
Okay, so I'm willing to call a truce. A big, fat, booty-shaking (which would be terrifying if you could see it - WHOOT!) truce with Bare Escentuals.
If you remember my blog from January 15th, I had just found out that our beloved cruelty-free Bare Escentuals had been purchased by Shiseido, a company that still very much tests. This would make BE a non-animal testing subsidiary of a parent company that tests. And again, whether or not you decide to use a CF product from a parent company that tests is totally up to your individual comfort level. For me? Generally, I stay away, because it just bugs me too much.
But you know, I've been a BE whore since 2004, so it's hard to give that up. So in one of my moments of "Grumble... grumble... well, okay, lemme just check..." I did a little more homework. I emailed BE directly and laid it all out for them (oh, dudes, complete with drama! I would have rivaled Halle Berry's Oscar speech in that email!). They assured me that they absolutely will continue to be cruelty-free, not only with their established products, but with any new ones as well. Now as you know, many companies who claim to put a moratorium on animal testing will promise to do so only for their established products, but will continue testing on any new ones they develop. Which, to my way of thinking is still animal testing no matter what they do. So the promise that BE will continue to remain CF even on their new stuff went quite a long way towards restoring my faith in them.
The other thing I noticed is that PETA still has BE listed on their "Does Not Test on Animals" list - and that's always pretty important to me, since they have such a comprehensive guide about this stuff. So all of this is my round about way of saying that I still love me some Bare Escentuals, and that as long as they maintain a completely cruelty free stance, I can live with this!
So it's all good...
...we hugged it out, bitches!
Have a happy holiday, no matter how or what you celebrate, and I'll be back to bother you soon enough! Clearly, I love me some mineral makeup, and I have another very fun brand, Meow Cosmetics, that I'm planning on shining the spotlight on in my next blog or so!
Big ol' rib-crushing hugs!
Lisa and Edison
XO
Friday, March 12, 2010
Product Spotlight: Pacifica Perfumes and Body Products!
Hey lovelies! How are you?
I know, it's been about a month, but my class is seriously kicking my butt, you guys. I'm glad and grateful to be taking it, and it's endlessly interesting, but it's SO much stuff to remember in a few months while I'm working full time! So, all that goes to say, I wanted to put up a quick post to let you all know that I'm thinking of you, and I'm sorry I've been away.
AND of course, to very quickly tell you about a wonderful organic brand of perfumes, body care, and even candles called Pacifica (http://www.pacificaperfume.com/)! AWESOME STUFF, bunnies, really great stuff!
Started by Brooke Harvey-Taylor and her husband Billy Taylor in 1996, Pacifica offers eco-friendly, CF fragrance in the forms of spray and solid perfume, body butters, and candles! Right now, I'm rocking their Lotus Garden perfume, and I'm in LOVE! And let me tell you, it was hard to decide - the number of beautiful, yummy fragrances they have makes you want to take them all home. Of course, since Brooke's stuff is pretty reasonably priced, you probably could take home a bunch if you wanted to! It's just this fresh, lovely, clean-smelling stuff that makes me really hanker for spring to just get here already! Pacifica is vegan and sulfate-free, contains no mineral oil, parabens, or any of that other scary crap that we're trying to weed out of our lives these days.
So... you wanna get your smell-good on? Head to Sephora or Whole Foods, or just check out their website for other places near you that might carry such awesomeness. But I'm warning you now.... don't blame me if you develop a following! Or a habit, for that matter! (Hee!)
Okay, so I have to make like a tree and leave (I'm here all week! Don't forget to tip your waitress!), so wish me luck on my studies and my finals, please! And after you're done sending some good thoughts in my direction, you can go cash in on your good karma by loading up on some fun Pacifica products!
Many smooches, everyonesies! Hope you're all well!
Love,
Lisa (and Edison, who doesn't help me study, but *does* lay across my textbooks while I'm trying to get some work done!)
XO
I know, it's been about a month, but my class is seriously kicking my butt, you guys. I'm glad and grateful to be taking it, and it's endlessly interesting, but it's SO much stuff to remember in a few months while I'm working full time! So, all that goes to say, I wanted to put up a quick post to let you all know that I'm thinking of you, and I'm sorry I've been away.
AND of course, to very quickly tell you about a wonderful organic brand of perfumes, body care, and even candles called Pacifica (http://www.pacificaperfume.com/)! AWESOME STUFF, bunnies, really great stuff!
Started by Brooke Harvey-Taylor and her husband Billy Taylor in 1996, Pacifica offers eco-friendly, CF fragrance in the forms of spray and solid perfume, body butters, and candles! Right now, I'm rocking their Lotus Garden perfume, and I'm in LOVE! And let me tell you, it was hard to decide - the number of beautiful, yummy fragrances they have makes you want to take them all home. Of course, since Brooke's stuff is pretty reasonably priced, you probably could take home a bunch if you wanted to! It's just this fresh, lovely, clean-smelling stuff that makes me really hanker for spring to just get here already! Pacifica is vegan and sulfate-free, contains no mineral oil, parabens, or any of that other scary crap that we're trying to weed out of our lives these days.
So... you wanna get your smell-good on? Head to Sephora or Whole Foods, or just check out their website for other places near you that might carry such awesomeness. But I'm warning you now.... don't blame me if you develop a following! Or a habit, for that matter! (Hee!)
Okay, so I have to make like a tree and leave (I'm here all week! Don't forget to tip your waitress!), so wish me luck on my studies and my finals, please! And after you're done sending some good thoughts in my direction, you can go cash in on your good karma by loading up on some fun Pacifica products!
Many smooches, everyonesies! Hope you're all well!
Love,
Lisa (and Edison, who doesn't help me study, but *does* lay across my textbooks while I'm trying to get some work done!)
XO
Friday, February 12, 2010
Cruelty Free Hair Care!
Hey honies!
Happy Friday and three-day weekend! And look - I'm going with a new font! Dig me!
I know we've been focusing a lot on CF cosmetics here, but part of being lovely and CF also involves your hair care products! So since we all have different hair types and needs, today's blog is going to be a list of what I find are some of the best CF brands of hair care around.
Now, I will start off by saying that I do The Curly Girl method (http://www.wikihow.com/Follow-the-Curly-Girl-Method-for-Curly-Hair), which is a no-shampoo method of taking care of curly hair. Contrary to the sound of it, no, you're not going around with dirty hair - you're still cleaning it, just with different products besides traditional shampoos. There are specially formulated cream-based hair cleansers and sulfate-free, non-foaming cleansers out there that are perfect to keep your curls clean and in shape (traditional shampoos strip the curls and make 'em frizzy!). If you follow the link I posted above, it will explain it all far better than I can! But, keeping with that method, here are few brands to look for for curly hair:
JessiCurl http://jessicurl.com/
DevaCurl http://www.devaconcepts.com/products
Trader Joe's Spa Shampoo Nourish Spa Shampoo and Conditioner. I don't have a link (the Trader Joe's website just focuses on their food), but this stuff is DIRT cheap (somewhere around $2 a bottle!), and from what I hear, really really great! And not just for curlies - all hair types can use this one.
Other fabulous CF Brands from drugstores and salons, for all hair types, not just curlies:
Aveda: http://www.aveda.com/home.tmpl
TIGI: http://www.tigihaircare.com/consumer/en-US/home/default.asp
Yes To Carrots: http://www.yestocarrots.com/
Marc Anthony: http://www.marcanthony.com/
Bumble and Bumble: http://www.bumbleandbumble.com/index.tmpl
Burt's Bees: http://www.burtsbees.com/ - not just at your favorite health food places anymore, this very affordable brand has been busting out on the shelves of every drugstore I go into!
A few fabulous health-store brands too! Also very "on the cheap"!
Aubrey Organics: http://www.aubrey-organics.com/
Desert Essence: http://www.desertessence.com/
Avalon Organics: http://www.avalonorganics.com/
Giovanni: http://www.giovannicosmetics.com/
Nature's Gate: http://www.natures-gate.com/
So those are a few good starts! As always, if you have any questions about 'em, email me! I don't bite.... haaaard! (13 years after "Austin Powers" came out, and that joke is *still* funny!)
I'm off to kick back for my long weekend - after work ends, that is! Have a great one, a safe one, stay warm, and for goodness sake, go wash your hair! (Hee!)
Smooches, pooches!
Love,
Lisa (and as always, Edison!)
XO
Happy Friday and three-day weekend! And look - I'm going with a new font! Dig me!
I know we've been focusing a lot on CF cosmetics here, but part of being lovely and CF also involves your hair care products! So since we all have different hair types and needs, today's blog is going to be a list of what I find are some of the best CF brands of hair care around.
Now, I will start off by saying that I do The Curly Girl method (http://www.wikihow.com/Follow-the-Curly-Girl-Method-for-Curly-Hair), which is a no-shampoo method of taking care of curly hair. Contrary to the sound of it, no, you're not going around with dirty hair - you're still cleaning it, just with different products besides traditional shampoos. There are specially formulated cream-based hair cleansers and sulfate-free, non-foaming cleansers out there that are perfect to keep your curls clean and in shape (traditional shampoos strip the curls and make 'em frizzy!). If you follow the link I posted above, it will explain it all far better than I can! But, keeping with that method, here are few brands to look for for curly hair:
JessiCurl http://jessicurl.com/
DevaCurl http://www.devaconcepts.com/products
Trader Joe's Spa Shampoo Nourish Spa Shampoo and Conditioner. I don't have a link (the Trader Joe's website just focuses on their food), but this stuff is DIRT cheap (somewhere around $2 a bottle!), and from what I hear, really really great! And not just for curlies - all hair types can use this one.
Other fabulous CF Brands from drugstores and salons, for all hair types, not just curlies:
Aveda: http://www.aveda.com/home.tmpl
TIGI: http://www.tigihaircare.com/consumer/en-US/home/default.asp
Yes To Carrots: http://www.yestocarrots.com/
Marc Anthony: http://www.marcanthony.com/
Bumble and Bumble: http://www.bumbleandbumble.com/index.tmpl
Burt's Bees: http://www.burtsbees.com/ - not just at your favorite health food places anymore, this very affordable brand has been busting out on the shelves of every drugstore I go into!
A few fabulous health-store brands too! Also very "on the cheap"!
Aubrey Organics: http://www.aubrey-organics.com/
Desert Essence: http://www.desertessence.com/
Avalon Organics: http://www.avalonorganics.com/
Giovanni: http://www.giovannicosmetics.com/
Nature's Gate: http://www.natures-gate.com/
So those are a few good starts! As always, if you have any questions about 'em, email me! I don't bite.... haaaard! (13 years after "Austin Powers" came out, and that joke is *still* funny!)
I'm off to kick back for my long weekend - after work ends, that is! Have a great one, a safe one, stay warm, and for goodness sake, go wash your hair! (Hee!)
Smooches, pooches!
Love,
Lisa (and as always, Edison!)
XO
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Aromaleigh "HOT IN THE CITY" Goes Permanent!
Hey hey, dollyheads!
It's all gorgeous stuff, and every once in a while, Miss K makes a limited edition set permanent, so this is indeed a happy day!
Gotta get some sleep, or NO amount of pretty eyeshadow is gonna help me, hee hee!
Smooches, pooches!
Lisa (and as always, the debonair Edison)
XO
Something you should absolutely check out over at Aromaleigh Mineral Cosmetics (which I've blogged about before - you know how great they are!) is that their awesome "Hot In The City" mineral eyeshadow collection, which was originally a limited edition, is being made a permanent member of the Aromaleigh family! WHOOT!! Here are the details from Miss K's blog, and she just has some truly gorgeous stuff in that bunch. All of their stuff is great, but this is a really fun and bright collection!
Wondering what these fantabulous colors look like? Well, heeeeere they are!
It's all gorgeous stuff, and every once in a while, Miss K makes a limited edition set permanent, so this is indeed a happy day! Gotta get some sleep, or NO amount of pretty eyeshadow is gonna help me, hee hee!
Smooches, pooches!
Lisa (and as always, the debonair Edison)
XO
Thursday, January 28, 2010
All Hail Joan Jett!
Hey booba-doos!
Hope everything's going great, and since tomorrow's Friday, that you're all looking forward to the weekend!
With all the much-deserved anticipation for the new movie "The Runaways", coming out in March, I just recently caught some pictures of Joan Jett out at Sundance, where she's making appearances with Dakota Fanning and Joan's own Mini-Me, Kristen Stewart, the stars of the film (Fanning and Stewart will be playing Cherie Currie and Joan, respectively). Anyway, I saw all these recent pictures of Joan, and holy crap, y'all! She looks amazing! She's 51 yrs. old, and whether or not she's had plastic surgery remains to be seen. But if she did, her surgeon must be a genius, because she's never looked better. This isn't one of the Sundance pictures (because they're all huge, and I don't know how to shrink them!), but here she is from a year or so back.
Hope everything's going great, and since tomorrow's Friday, that you're all looking forward to the weekend!
With all the much-deserved anticipation for the new movie "The Runaways", coming out in March, I just recently caught some pictures of Joan Jett out at Sundance, where she's making appearances with Dakota Fanning and Joan's own Mini-Me, Kristen Stewart, the stars of the film (Fanning and Stewart will be playing Cherie Currie and Joan, respectively). Anyway, I saw all these recent pictures of Joan, and holy crap, y'all! She looks amazing! She's 51 yrs. old, and whether or not she's had plastic surgery remains to be seen. But if she did, her surgeon must be a genius, because she's never looked better. This isn't one of the Sundance pictures (because they're all huge, and I don't know how to shrink them!), but here she is from a year or so back.
Amazing, right? And you know, I hate to say this, because it's so sexist and annoying, and when people say it to me, it makes me want to flick them on the nose - but she's so pretty when she smiles! I mean, who knew? I've only ever seen her sneering and scowling since 1982, so I had no idea her face just lights up when she looks happy.
Anyway, out of curiosity about the movie, I was Googling stuff about the Runaways, and it turns out that Joan is a friend of the animals! Yes, the Divine Ms. Jett is a veggie, and is full-on Cruelty Free! Here's the link to a short little interview Peta2 did with her where she talks about being a veggie and living a CF life in general:
http://www.peta2.com/OUTTHERE/o-joanjett.asp
I don't know about you, but frankly, I loved the part where she talks about taking in her four stray and shelter cats, and then having to rescue random lost birds *from* her cats! Hee!
So there you go - one of the legendary bad-asses of the 80s, living a kind and consciously CF life, and looking amazing while doing so! Maybe she hasn't had her face done after all - maybe it's from CF living, or maybe she's just a happy that she kept her cats from being bird killers!
Have a great weekend, luvvies!
Love,
Lisa (and Edison - who sympathizes with Joan's cats...)
XO
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