I tend to make it very clear to my significant other that there are times that I dress up for him (dates), and times I dress up for me (work, hanging out with friends). My bright orange and blue ikat print dress gets worn to work, a plain black number with a ridiculous amount of cleavage stays in the closet until date…

It wasn't OPI, it was China Glaze. There was a big lawsuit about it, too, because the film company tried to back out of the contract, possibly because they were looking for a bigger partner like Covergirl.

Yeah. I think the biggest problem with it is that those fingers are splayed rather wide and to the side. If I wore it, it'd turn into "What's up with the skeleton hands six inches above your nipples?"

I see your artfully shredded skull shirt, and raise you an I Can Digit! bodysuit.

Brown eyes can totally pull off blue brilliantly. It tends to really bring out the warmth in them. Maybe start with a navy eyeliner, then make the jump to brighter hues? A darker teal blue like Urban Decay Mainline is just bright enough to be interesting, but not so bright that it's scary.

Bright pink lipstick is totally period appropriate, right?

I thought it was Jean Heglund's Into the Forest and was massively confused about how Pine and Gyllenhaal could be cast as teenage girls.

So true.

No idea what it's about, but I totally want to read it based on that cover!

Gah, love that cover. Also love that my copy was done with that matte soft cover material - y'know, the stuff that feels kind of velvety? As a kid, I would pick books in a matte finish over ones with a glossy cover, because it was so much more pleasant to hold them.

Oh, what the hell book cover people. Way to enrage my inner 12-year-old self.

I'm on the west coast, and we covered internment camps in middle school. We even had someone who was sent to one as a child come in and speak with us. It wasn't covered as in depth as say, slavery during the American Civil War, but it wasn't not covered. Senior year of high school, we read Obasan, an account of…

My breasts totally forget to flip the switch on my fancy power strip, so the entertainment system draws standby power when not in use. They're vampire electronic enablers!

You totally just sent me down a Modcloth hole of half an hour of looking a cute, patterned dresses.

I have to give a shout out to the Freya brand for cute bras in larger sizes. One of the problems I find with other companies is that something that looks cute in an A cup looks... less cute in an F. The proportion of cup to trim starts to look wrong, the tiny little bow on the front is dwarfed by my giant cleavage,…

At Nordstrom? Nah. They measure you, send you into the room with some possibilities, then come in to check the fit once you've tried it on. They're models of discretion there.

"No consensus that sunscreen prevents cancer" and "sunscreen may increase the risk of the deadliest forms of cancer" don't seem like scare tactics? Really?

I should've linked to some other resources. personalcaretruth.org a good one. They're got some nice coverage breaking down the recently proposed Personal Care Act - stuff completely absent from EWG's site, because it doesn't fit into their "The FDA does NOTHING for you!" coverage.

Please don't take Environmental Work Group's word as perfect truth. Their interest is in showing harm, not in determining safety. They have as much of an agenda as cosmetics companies - and it isn't your safety. It's all about getting funding through scare tactics. Check the headlines on their "9 Surprising Truths…

Please take the EWG suggestions with a HUGE grain of salt. They're a useful website for learning what an ingredient does, but they usually overstate the risk of a particular ingredient.