So Beautiful...
I love this song by Darren Hayes and just wanted to send some beauty out into the world... Hope it brightens someone's day!

So Beautiful by Darren Hayes

Labels: beautiful, Beauty, Darren Hayes, Love, Music, music video, pop music, So Beautiful, song

  posted by Matildakay at 1:13 PM 0 comments

Watched Worldwide
"I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty."

~Barbara Walters, watched worldwide.

Labels: Barbara Walters, Beauty, Boston, daily quote, watched worldwide, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women

  posted by Matildakay at 4:36 PM 0 comments

A Firm Believer in Beauty Sleep
"I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000."

~Linda Evangelista, a firm believer in beauty sleep.

Labels: Beauty, beauty sleep, daily quote, famous, Good in Bed, Linda Evangelista, modeling, Models, sleep, super model, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women

  posted by Matildakay at 1:38 PM 0 comments

Overheard at a Baby Shower
“My daughter’s moving this weekend so she couldn’t be here.”

“What does your daughter do?”

“She’s an estetician.”

“I bet she makes good money doing that.”

“She does.”

“Does she do waxing?”

“Yeah she even waxes men!”

“Men? Their backs?”

“Backs and bikini waxes.”

“Men get bikini waxes?”

“Yeah. They even get Brazilians!”

“Brazilian! Are you serious?”

“Yeah, gross huh.”

“You’re telling me! A man without hair down-there isn’t a man in my opinion. Men are supposed to be hairy.”

***
I giggled through my carrot cake listening to those two women and thought how naïve they were.

Labels: Beauty, bikini wax, brazilian wax, Estetician, men, naive, waxing

  posted by Matildakay at 8:30 PM 1 comments

Big Beauty of the Small Screen
"Bad press put me where I am. If they didn't write about me at all, I wouldn't be famous."

~Delta Burke, big beauty of the small screen.

Labels: bad press, Beauty, big, daily quote, Delta Burke, Designing Women, famous, small screen, TV star, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women

  posted by Matildakay at 12:59 PM 0 comments

A Vogue Confession
I must confess. I love Vogue magazine. I love the really thick issues with 600 pages of different fashion looks. I love getting lost in the fashion, the makeup and the shoes. Did I mention the shoes? Oh how life would be different if I could wear those shoes… sadly my knee surgeon approved Doc Martin’s just don’t go with Dolce & Gabbana.

I love how the clothes aren’t just clothes, each bold, brazen, colorful and textured creation tells a story. A story of attitude and confidence. A story that dares to be original and creative. A story of a woman who isn’t afraid to dress her body as if she were painting a Picasso. The clothes exude power.

I love how Vogue uses makeup to fill in the cracks of the story. The looks are dramatic, thought provoking, not just an after thought. Even when its barely there… Vogue does makeup right. In my cosmetic years I wanted to create Vogue looks for fashion model photo shoots or movie makeup magic. Instead I made ordinary women feel beautiful.

Vogue knows Beauty. Vogue isn’t afraid to take risks. That’s what I love most about Vogue.



I want to be Vogue.

Labels: Beauty, Cosmetics, Dolce and Gabbana, Fashion, Makeup, Models, Vogue

  posted by Matildakay at 11:44 PM 7 comments

Dysfunction and Beauty
When a celebrity who is my age (well close enough, I’ll be 39 in 3 months) dies, like everyone else, I couldn’t help but be mesmerized by the media blitz and online articles that flooded the Internet as the world reported her death and tried to figure out what made us care so much about Anna Nicole Smith?

Just what was Anna Nicole Smith? Actress? Model? Reality star? Rich Widow?

“I don’t know exactly what she did.” "The View co-host Joy Behar said trying to figure out why we watched this strange woman over the years, she came up with two things: Dysfunction. And beauty."

“No question, she was beautiful,” Behar said. “We know people like to watch dysfunction. But beauty gives you something extra to look at. Dysfunction and beauty: Now that’s something to watch.”

Dysfunction and beauty! This description fascinated me.

No question Anna Nicole Smith was beautiful! No question that her life was tragically dysfunctional and on display in the tabloids.

Dysfunction and beauty. Two things the world lusts for and obsesses over.

Dysfunction and beauty. It’s that crazy mix that makes us date attractive people with drama filled lives. You just want to fix them, change them, make them into the perfect person that you envision yourself being with. But no matter how hard you try to fix them, you still end up with that crazy mix of dysfunction and beauty. And we stay with that dysfunctional beautiful person until we can’t take the drama anymore and then we go find someone more compatible to date.

But why are we drawn to dysfunction and beauty?

It was Anna Nicole Smith’s dysfunction and beauty that made her the perfect pop culture icon. It was hard to watch her. And, harder not to.


Anna Nicole Smith at the 2004 Grammy Awards

Labels: Anna Nicole Smith, Bakersfield, Beauty, Blogging

  posted by Matildakay at 10:28 PM 4 comments