Beauty Tips for Ministers

PeaceBang On Vacation

Greetings, lovely and beautiful people!

PeaceBang is slogging around in that pre-vacation haze, mumbling to herself, slinging things into suitcases, and icing her face to keep an enormous blister from forming.

It all began last night when the cat must have been putting our supernatural amounts of dander and right there in the midst of watching “Mrs. Palfrey At the Clairmont” with her mama, PeaceBang began to itch like mad. When the itching became unbearable she ran upstairs to access a Benedryl (and wondererd for the umpteenth time why the manufacturers insist on packaging it as thought it’s plutonium — GADS that stuff is impossible to open!).

She itched and itched. Her left eye puffed all the way up and she looked like the Elephant Man. In the morning, after nightmares so intense they had her yelling out loud (bringing the cat running in for a psych nurse call), PeaceBang awoke to a red, swollen cheek on the verge of becoming a huge allergy blister.

BUT PeaceBang is not complaining. She’s just tired and hopes she’s arranged for enough coverage while she is away in Guatemala for the next ten days gazing at volcanoes.

PeaceBang will be here,

http://www.larutamayaonline.com/hotels2/antigua/palacio_dona_beatriz.php
and here,

http://www.posadadesantiago.com/

She wishes you much beauty and joy while she is away.

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Who was the darling person who wrote to ask about skin care alternatives to Almay?

PeaceBang doesn’t recall — she’s been too busy trying to entice a striped menace to EAT, already, EAT– but she must say that she has never been impressed by Almay. The make-up colors are too lightly pigmented to do any good, and the much-vaunted hypoallergenic doesn’t seem to assure that the products won’t itch and irritate.

PeaceBang does like their petroleum-based eye make-up remover, which is probably nothing more than Vaseline in a pretty tube, and which PB only uses for removing very powerful waterproof mascaras.

Darling Itchy-Face, do try Aveeno products. PeaceBang has very easily irritated skin and is a big fan of their sensitive skin line.

On another product entirely, PeaceBang has tried the incredibly famous Neutrogena Shimmer Sheer product and is TOTALLY unimpressed and disappointed. It looks like a whole lotta nothing on the eye, but I’ll try it on my skin tomorrow. I think it would be an absolute waste of time on the lips.
So much for the promise of a great three-in-one product. Sheesh, ya can’t even tell it’s on!

Thanks for the Shoe.com sale tip, Lizard!

A Good, Cute Ministry Shoe

Born Britten Pump
Originally uploaded by Peacebang.

This is just the perfect shoe for the spring, isn’t it? A great neutral color, comfortable, funky, looks cute with skirts and pants, and best of all — it has a CLOSED TOE, so you can wear it to church!!

I’m not madly in love with the cutesy hippie girl detail on the strap but I am mad about the color and the general shape, and the fetching clunkiness of it. Born makes an excellent shoe.

You may ooh and ahh further at :
http://tinyurl.com/yk8lgz

The only trouble IS, I wear a size 6.5 and they only have whole sizes. IF I was going to buy these– and I’m probably not because they’re pretty expensive — I’d go up a half size so I could fit a comfy insole in the shoe. Even better for long days at church! Brazilliant!

If you get them let me know how they are in real life! Better yet, get them in my size and then send them to me when you’re done!

The Beauty Buyble: 2007 Edition

You know that dance they do at some extremely booze-soaked wedding receptions where the bridesmaids all get on their backs and writhe on the floor, and you as the sober clergyperson look on with a detached and amused air, when really you just want to get the heck out of there before someone tears their dress and the whole situation becomes a tragic Festival of Inappropriate Sharing ? I think it’s called The Worm. Or The Cockroach. Or the Inebriated Bridesmaid. I’m sure one of you will remember.

Well, PeaceBang just did that dance when she opened a package from a friend and reader that contained The Beauty Buyble: The Best Beauty Products !!!

It’s even the 2007 edition! Not even 2006!!

The gals who wrote this totally know what they’re doing and they’ve packaged the book in this enormous pink Barbie-looking box with FREE PRODUCT SAMPLES and PeaceBang has so much to do tonight she can only say DAMN YOU KIM HAMPTON!! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO GET ANYTHING DONE NOW? You know I want to head STRAIGHT TO THE PARLOR TO READ THIS BOOK ALL NIGHT!

I don’t even care if the title is blasphemous and if the authors write their own version of the Ten Commandments (that was saucy of you, ladies!). I am the grinnin’est fool of all time right now.
I so needed this.

Kim, you rock. And you probably didn’t even know that Sunday is MY BIRTHDAY.

Ya’ll can get your own copy here http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060851635/bookstorenow69-20
but it won’t come in a fun big pink box with PREZZIES!

Shapes, Good: Sacks, Not

Shape
Originally uploaded by Peacebang.

Listen to Auntie PeaceBang when she tells you that FIT MATTERS.

Case in point. Look at the delectable Miss Jessica Biel in this beautiful dress.
(But don’t look too carefully, or you’ll notice that it’s a bit tight across the thighs and she’s wearing WHITE PUMPS which she can get away with because she’s a Hollywood starlet but if you or I try that same pair of shoes, we’ll just look like we wandered out of the prom at a high school in 1960’s suburban Ohio.)

And look at her in this garment. A biiiiig no-no:

Aiiieeee! Attack of the enormous, shapeless garment!

So sad, chica. Even her glorious figure has no chance in that schmatta.

Mark my words, chickens, take time with the fit. As PeaceBang always says, you may not have a shape like Jessica Biel, but you have a shape. It doesn’t make you more holy or more godly or more transcendent a being to conceal it in swaths of fabric: it just makes you look like a shapeless mass. Unless you’re a friar, in which case you just go right ahead and wear big shapeless swaths of fabric all you want. Just tie that cincture with a little flair and you’re good to go.

[Thanks to Go Fug Yourself.com for the photos.]

The Perils Of Product Testing

Mario Badescu Botanical Facial Gel is a lovely cleanser for all kinds of skin, although it’s specified for oily.

PeaceBang received it as a sample with no instructions and wore it all night as a serum! Hey, creative!