Katrina
I’ll be going on vacation tomorrow – a family reunion of sorts, so I won’t be updating again until after the 28th of August. The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is approaching, and I wanted to post this photograph in solidarity with the people of the Gulf who have endured such overwhelming hardship these past few years. In April of 2006, I was privileged to have access to the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans due to the fact that I was traveling there with a client of mine who, among many other things, generously funded a Head Start program for the children of Renaissance Village, one of the FEMA trailer parks set up for the newly homeless and displaced families of the area. It is commonly known that the cleanup of the area in the hurricane’s aftermath took an unreasonably long time. This photo was taken nearly nine months later, and it had not even begun.
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Favorite (Cheap) Mascara Of The Moment
Though I usually subscribe to the theory that you get what you pay for, thankfully there are a few products out there that really perform well at budget prices. For years I’d really been stuck on L’Oreal’s Voluminous line of mascaras, but Covergirl’s Lashblast Volume mascara is even better. Though I sometimes get complaints from people that waterproof mascara is hard to remove, I’m partial to them for two reasons: it doesn’t run as much (duh), and for those of you who have stubbornly straight, hard to curl lashes like mine, it actually sets them in place and keeps them from falling down again after using the lash curler. I also love that Lashblast comes in very black for maximum definition. For more information on getting hard-to-curl lashes to behave, check out my blow dryer trick here, which I learned way back in the nineteen-eighties from the late, great, Kevyn Aucoin. Widely available. Around $7.
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