Emma Mae
- Healthy Living
What is More Important? Being "Right" or Being "Nice"?
I do believe that I may have wasted more time on being "right" than any human being should. This time was wasted by needing to make amends, beg forgiveness, mend fences and burn bridges with people i cared about. It was time wasted because I dismissed people from my life that didn't agree with me. Those same people could have given me a new insight, viewpoint, or perspective, but I choice to close myself off to anything except that fact that I was "Right".I justified my behavior, words and lack of manners by being "Right". I called a "Spade a Spade". I told the "Truth", plain and simple. ...
- At Home
My Top 3
If I had to grab 3 things and go, they would be <br> 1 Estee' Lauder's Sumptuous Extreme Lash Multiplying Volume Mascara <br> 2 L'Oreal Sublime Sun Face Lotion <br> 3 Mabelline Baby Lips in Peach Kiss
- Beauty
SHINE Beauty Guru: Mabeline Baby Lips
For November I received a sample of Mabelline's Baby Lips in Peach Kiss. I normally shy away from colored glosses or lipstick in general. Because my friends, I have lip lines. These "lines" are closer to being cracks, crevices or canyons where color tends to settle or feather in. While I am not ready for granny panties, I remember how as a teenager, I would watch in horror as Miss Eunice's red lipstick settled into her lines when she was singing in the Sunday Choir. Seriously! I had to drop out of the choir, because I would stare at her mouth and forget the words. ...
- Fashion
June's Beauty Guru Review: Venus Proskin MoistureRich Razor
This month's Beauty Guru assignment was Gillette's Venus Proskin MoistureRich Razor. The hairs on my leg are fine. The first time I shaved, I thought the razor missed quite a few due to this and that the shave gel was at its highest height. After a few uses and the shave gel wearing down, I still fo
- Fashion
Review: Softsoap's Strawberry Smoother Body Wash
When I received this months assignment as a SHINE Beauty Guru, a bottle of Softsoap Body Butter Strawberry Smoother, I decided to share it with Sweetums and my daughter. I thought a man's opinion would be a different take on beauty products. Okay, the truth is I took one whiff of that body wash and
- Author Blog Posts
User post: Is love enough to help a troubled teen?
A childhood friend of one of my daughters is in an adolescent treatment center. She tried to kill herself. She is 17. I have known her since she was 6 years old. She had spent at least one night a week staying over at my house since she was 6. My daughter was best friends with her older sister. They
- Fashion
User Post: CND's Desert Suede and Gold Effects makes it easy for anyone to become a Creative Nail Designer
As a hardware test engineer, I work on machines and new hardware daily. This often results in cuts, bruises and broken nails. Coupled with the scars from childhood, I am very self-conscious about my hand. Most days I consider myself lucky if I can keep my nails clean. So I do not like to draw attent
- This Week In Books
User Post: "Get Real" and Stop Dieting" Book Review
Until I read "Get Real" and Stop Dieting I thought I was eating healthy. I had paid a small fortune for my prepackaged "healthy" diet plan. Yet by the end of the book's introduction, I realized I was misinformed. I was on a "DIET" but I was not eating healthy. I felt like the duped emperor in "The E