Beauty Tips for Ministers

Happy Valentine’s Day, My Doves!

Whether happily partnered, dating, bored & married, madly in love, infatuated or just totally over the whole romance thing, may we all remember that we are God’s Beloved, and let that truth fill our hearts today.

And here’s to those who love us, whether romantically or not, with special appreciation to those who think we look good without a stitch of make-up on, or when we are wearing very low fashion indeed.

Lovely Skin Care Line

Dewdrops,
It is just dry, dry, dry out. Although it’s raining like the dickens right now, we’re in icky, coldy winter and my skin needs a very emollient moisturizer to combat it. The challenge is to find something very heavy-duty that actually penetrates the skin and doesn’t leave me looking oily, which is the problem with many products.

But hark! PeaceBang has been trying a sample of this rose cream from all-natural line Korres and really loves it. No, it doesn’t so much smell like a rose garden as old-school cold cream, but the scent doesn’t last and it’s an excellent product for guys and gals alike.

The price is high but it’s a far superior product to most of the drugstore brands I use, and for those of you who like the au natural thing, I thought you’d like to check out Korres in general. I’m impressed.

Oonagh’s Advice

Morning, lovelies,

Oonagh posted a new, long comment at an old post and I didn’t think you should miss it.

Scroll down until you find it, because it’s filled with O’s typically hilarious, rambling ruminations about why people with a bosom look terrible in albs, on the evils of polyester, and the names of some excellent resources for shopping and sewing of clerical garb. Love to Oonagh down iin Panama.

UU Blogger Awards

Dumplings!

Who makes you laugh and makes you cringe? Who is your devoted stage mother, wanting to send you out there looking like the star you are? Who noodges to sit up when you when you slump, and who risks eye infections to find just the right mascara for you at Sephora? Who answers your e-mails with personal suggestions for the best outfit ideas for candidating week, and who shops not only for her own clothing and accessories but always with YOU in mind?

PeaceBang, that’s who!

And who writes about all of this in such a way that inspires you to be a bit snazzier and more confident than you might otherwise have been, and who nags you in such dulcet tones that you cannot ignore her message of taking your ministerial image seriously? Moi, darlings. C’est moi.

So run on over to the UU Blogger Awards , won’t you, and show some love by voting for PeaceBang in the categories of Best Anecdote or Narrative (what that means is beyond me, but how nice to be nominated for it!), Best Use of Visuals, Best Minister’s Blog and Best Writing.

You don’t need to be a Unitarian Universalist, darlings, you just have to be a loyal reader who would like to cast your vote. And PeaceBang thanks you.

3-D Lash Is a 3-D Mess

Darlings, please don’t waste your hard-earned dollars on this product by Revlon, which promises to make your lashes especially long and “3-D” (which actually strikes PeaceBang as a little bit of a scary idea — “I was at a meeting with this woman and her lashes just CAME AT ME!”), but which, in all truth, just makes them gloppy and flaky.

While PeaceBang loved the space age silver packaging, she could often not get the bloody thing to twist open of a morning (before coffee), and by midday she found little black snowflakes peppering her cheeks, no doubt giving her the friends and congregants the impression that she was auditioning to be an extra in the latest bus-and-truck of “Les Miserable.”

3-D Lash is B-A-D. Stick with Max Factor Stretch & Separate Waterproof Mascara. Love, love, love it. It’s hard to find but you can order it online.

The Dish

The dish is, gang, that I’m real serious with a fella, but I can’t give you any more details than that because while there is a mutual feeling of having found “the one” (a phrase which still makes me barf, but it’s the easiest way to explain what’s going on), this is a time of finding out how it will all work. We are dealing with a very skittish spinster here, and I want to make sure he really means it when he claims that all he wants in life now is to be a one-man Ministerial Love and Support Committee.

Let me just say that this is a #1 super numero uno awesome dude. You know how I know? Because not only does he have 100% of the qualities you would list if you were looking for a great man, he let me persuade him to change his hair product use (it was a struggle, but I knew I’d prevail if I whined enough), and to start using skin products and to pick out all his new winter clothes. If anything could win the heart of PeaceBang, it is this. Because it takes a real man to admit that it wouldn’t be a bad thing if he started moisturizing.