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Archive for July, 2011

Intro to Cooking: Pina Colada Dip with Grilled Pineapple and Watermelon Kebabs
This week, I decided to feature a great dip for sweet foods – fruits, berries, cinnamon tortilla chips…whatever you want really. I especially love to serve it with grilled fruit to provide another option at barbecues – as I’ve written probably a dozen times already, barbecues are really the places to add unnecessary, empty calories.
CC Beauty Live: Pucker Up With BITE
When BITE Beauty offered to send me some testers, I was really excited. I’m usually testing out skincare or body products. Lips are so neglected, even in samples! Their products are filled with “super antioxidant reversatrol” which is a fancy way of saying “stuff that’s really good for you”.

4 Reasons Why It’s Better To Go To College in Canada
When you were applying to colleges back in the fall semester of your senior year, you probably forget to include Canadian schools on that list. (You probably also forgot to include “schools with no Friday classes”…but that’s a blog topic for a later day.) Sure Canada is freezing, but that’s no reason to not go to school there. Think we’re wrong? Just check out our reasoning and tell me that you’re not debating transferring.
One Month Challenge: No Nail Biting Week 4
Now, instead of thinking “oh god, one nail gone,” I can file it up real nice and yeah, it won’t be quite as long, but it won’t be quite as short either. Breaking nails sucks though. One day my nails are all looking quite good, and then I break my “best” nail and they all look crappy again.
Candy Dish: Fashion and Beauty Overload
•How to wear long and pretty braids
•Why the satchel is the most practical bag of them all
•Finally! The affordable version of the wishbone necklace!
•Awesome 80s jewelry you can buy on Etsy
•How to pull off wearing a vest
•Cute summer dresses under $50
•What your new summer uniform should be
Guide to Surviving a Music Festival
A cold beer, boho-style, Vanessa Hudgens licking “white chocolate” off her fingers, The Strokes blasting from a mile away…You have arrived at one of the many music festivals throughout the year! Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits and South by Southwest (to name a few) have just passed us by or are soon to be approaching as the summer heat picks up!
What High Schools Should Teach in Sex Ed
In high school, my sex ed was what you would call minimal. Since Texas firmly believes in abstinence only education (which so doesn’t work – my high school had a day care program for crying out loud!), I consider myself very lucky that I had a very open-minded mother who taught me about sex. Here’s what they should be teaching high schoolers in order to better prepare them.

History of the the Trend: Converse Sneakers
I have a confession to make: I own way too many pairs of shoes. My favorites are my pointed-toe flats and my summer boots, but even as my wallet gets skinnier, there’s another pair I can’t live without: my Converse sneakers. They’re comfortable, colorful, and perfect for all of our favorite summer activities. These shoes have been around for over 100 years, and they’re still as hot as ever. Read on to find out the history behind these classic kicks.
An Open Letter to the Olsen Twins: I’m not Paying $35K for a Backpack
I was browsing through your latest line, “The Row,” and couldn’t help but notice your $300 black t-shirts, your $900 LBD, or your absolutely ridiculous $35K leather backpack. I don’t know if anyone told you this, but the only designer in the world who’s allowed to charge more than $10K for a bag is Hermes.
Candy Dish:
•Moving on after a breakup
•How to keep cool without using the AC
•The problem of trying to do friends with benefits
•How to deal when you are wearing the same thing as someone else
•Get the most out of freshman orientation
•Are you a Seacrest or a Dunkelman?
•Beat relationship boredom
Single Girl Society: Don’t Lose Yourself In Loving Him
So the first three months of your new romance have you got you sleeping over at his place every night, catching every meal together and bailing on girls’ night for a cuddlefest. While I hate to rain on your “young-and-in-love” parade, let me remind you that falling in love and gambling have a lot in common – it can be easy to lose it all but not so easy to get it all back.
Experiences Don’t Equal Respect, but Degrees Do (Review of UnCollege)
Dale Stephens, a 19-year-old self-proclaimed “education expert” who’s been featured on CNN, Tech Crunch and the New York Times (just to name a few), begs to question the significance of a degree in today’s entrepreneurial economy. Along with his colleagues Erich Sparks and David Mattingly, Stephens has developed Uncollege, a program that promises a full college experience that requires no tuition, textbooks, classes or dorm rooms.
Budget Stylista: Animal Print Galore
Leopard print made its come back last fall and by the looks of things, it’s not going anywhere. Leopard printed heels, flats, scarves, tops, dresses, pants (Peg Bundy was SO ahead of her time!) are popping up just about everywhere. In your typical shades, in pops of colors, mixed in with other patterns, leopard prints are just an animal you can’t avoid. Pun intended.