Five for Friday: Multitasking Miracles in a Jar (or Tube)

Ever ask someone about a classic moisturizer and get this answer? "Oh! I use ________ for EVERYTHING! Face, hands, cuticles, lips, eczema, elbows, feet, bug bites, windburn, sunburn, steam burns, even flyaway hairs!" The list of uses seems to go on and on, doesn't it?Well, maybe they're on to something. And these five classic formulations seem to be the most popular answers. For the record, my

The Glass House

One of Blogdorf Goodman's posts during her 40 Days and 40 Nights of Beauty Cult Classics series sparked a pretty heated debate in the comments section. The product in question? None other than the much-coveted, sometimes mysterious, always contentious, Creme de la Mer.To me, Creme de la Mer is, at best, a fabulous face cream, and at worst, a frivolous indulgence. It is not, however, the work of

Something Special In The Air

The dry air. The insomnia. The copious free booze and coffee. The terrible, terrible mirrors in the bathrooms. Air travel can be quite unkind to one's looks.In an ideal world, we would all be able to invest in a long, rejuvenating nap after deboarding. But in reality, there are weddings, meetings, interviews, always waiting for us in that destination city. No rest for the weary.Having just

Surviving the Transit Strike

Unless you've managed to remain blissfully unaware of this situation, the NYC Transport Workers Union has been on strike since early Tuesday morning (read more here at CNN.com). No subways or buses = chaos. New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority serves 7 million passengers on an average weekday. Now those 7 million people have been forced to make alternative work arrangements, shell out for