Beauty Tips is Two Years Old Today!

My dear powder pigeons!

This blog is two years old today!!

It was born when SisterBang read a post on make-up tips for ministers at my original PeaceBang blog and suggested that I start a blog on that subject. I said, “Heavens, I think I’ve said pretty much all I have to say on the subject” and she said, “You HAVE NOT and you know it!!” She recalled to my mind the many times we had gnashed our teeth over the frumpy, drab or even downright unkempt appearance of otherwise wonderful male and female ministers, and how she herself had decided not to attend a certain church because the clergy photo on the church’s web site showed someone so dowdy and dated in appearance as to persuade my sister that this was a probably a very nice “old hippie” who clearly identified far more with a previous era than with this one.
SisterBang acknowledged that this might be an unfair and unkind judgment, but had visited enough UU churches to know that it might also very well be an accurate one. She said, “Start a blog. Talk about this issue. Make it funny. Someone really needs to say this stuff and it has to be a minister.”

Thus was born Beauty Tips for Ministers.com and the gabby, irreverent and “cheeky” alter ego of Victoria Weinstein when she writes as PeaceBang for it.

I’d like to thank SisterBang for the original inspiration, Scott Wells for being my invaluable and never impatient webmaster, and Suzyn Smith Webb for originally making a Christmas gift of the domain name. I’d like to thank YOU, my reverend punkins, for reading it and for contributing comments that have helped your sisters and brothers of the cloth to shine better as God’s All-Stars.

If you have appreciated this blog (especially if PeaceBang has taken time to advise you personally off-line), and if you would like to show your appreciation for BTFM and its author in a tangible way, please feel free to make a gift by clicking on the “Show PeaceBang Some Love” link above.

Kiss of peace, and go be beautiful,
PeaceBang