Concealer: Up to 12 months.

Powder: 2 years.

Cream & gel cleansers: 1 year.

Eye liner: Should be sharpened regularly. Will last up to 3 years.

Eyeshadow: Will also last up to 3 years.

Brushes: Wash every 2-3 months in a mild detergent.

Sponges Wash weekly & discard monthly.

Foundation: Check the ingredients: A water-based foundation will last up to 12 months, oil-based will last up to 18 months.

Lip liner: Up to 3 years.

Lipstick: Some experts say 1-2 years. Others say up to 4 years. What everyone agrees on is that if it smells rancid, throw it out, it’s spoiled. Extra tip: If you store lipstick in the refrigerator, it will last longer.

Mascara: This product expires the fastest: Throw out after 4 months. Extra tip: If you don’t want your mascara to expire faster than its fresh date, don’t pump the wand in & out, you’re only exposing the product to drying air.

XO Danyelle.

I have always been taught to save yourself for marriage. Well what if I don’t believe in marriage, in lust and all the multi-colored sprinkle people put on having sex. I’m twenty-two years old and have never had intercourse with anyone, I believe in saving it for someone who is worth it. By worth it I mean that person always makes you feel like he is hitting the ball out of the park. Problem is, I don’t think anyone is worth it (so far at least).  I invest so much time into who I am to just give it to the next person who makes me smile. Everyone should have to work for it, I don’t care if your homeless or the president. Today, I felt somewhat crappy and left out because all of my friends who ages 20-24 talking about how amazing it is to have their “backs blown out” and how their partner would never leave because of oral. I disagree, he will leave you if he doesn’t want you whole hearted for all the right reasons. I will not give just my physical to anyone when everything beating, thinking and breathing of me is immeasurable when it comes to something as beautiful as love-making. When a gentleman enters you, he is filling something so sacred that no man will ever be able to fill again because every untouched crevice (unless you masterbate or have been fingered) will be first and no one like to be second, and so forth.  Also, another friend mentioned the pain she felt while trying to let her boyfriend enter her. She felt he had waited and wanted her long enough so she tried to surpress the pain and take it all in at such a tender age (16). When it’s love, your caught up in that, and nothing else. You will be so dreched in love that nothing can surpass the beauty of THAT moment. So, i’ll wait, but not for marriage. I’ll wait for undying love to declare how much it honors, respects, appreciates, and will tends to all aspects of me.  And days after I will still glow because I will not become depressed like my friends with their horror “losing virinity because of everything but love” stories. So toast, to all the girls who popped it when they KNEW they were ready to, or the ones waiting on the moment to BE filled by him (or her). Live by what you know is right, not what you think is right. Ladies, let’s give anyone who intends our cherries a run for it. – Pleasantries, Danyelle

From Your Nearest Closet

Men are gentle creatures and there is some natural occurring organism that exists in all women that will latch onto a man’s heart and coat it in her very essence.  An organism that leaps from one host to the other and latches onto the new host like a tick that digs its teeth into the flesh of its victim.  The small red spot that you receive letting you know you are infected has become the feeling in your chest.  A feeling that wasn’t there before and was put there, however unintentional, but you search for more.  Some men are more susceptible than others, and some are only “infected” by that one special strain of the “virus.”  I use the term virus, not to say that love is a bad thing, but rather to describe it as infectious in how it spreads to every part of the body and felt as deep as the soul.  As if you could ball up happiness in keep it in your pocket for when you needed it most.  The spread does not come from anything, but a simple glance into the eyes or maybe even the scent as you pass by in the street.

There is no logic in how a man thinks, nor should there be, in our minds.  We contract this disease without any thought of recourse because, even if on the most basic level it gives us a “quick fix” because she cures herself of us, we essentially have acquired our basic needs as a man.  If on the other hand we find that the two hosts have found a way to harmonize with one another we are left without disappointment.

Do we chase what we can’t have?  Men certainly don’t, fact is, men are not intelligent enough to chase.  If anything they are tricked into following a maze to no end and for the most part only to find a moldy piece of cheese which we will eat because we are dumb enough to believe that it’s the only choice we have, until finally finding the entrance to the next maze.  In this case, I think most will agree that we would be the rats in the maze, rather than mice.  Even the best of us choose to be the bad guy.

peace,

The Tom Shaggy

So what happens now?  We are told to swallow our pride and forget that whatever had happened before whether it was serious or not and continue on with my life.  Whats worse is that our daily/weekly activities that perhaps we had with that person are now things that I should pretend are no longer mine.  A feeling of emptiness comes over me every time I step foot into a restaurant that I had eaten at or a song we had listened to or when they wrote about how they I made a new city feel like home.  There is a reason that people share interests, moments, and time together.  We find people that we understand and can communicate with in an intelligent manner.  I enjoy an intelligent conversation and that can handle how much of a nerd I can be while still being able to appreciate all the little things I love about her.

I will never understand the female mind and all it’s needs and wants, but I think that’s what I actually love most.  Most of my life I have pursued things I haven’t fully understood to understand them more completely.  Each step time I have given myself a bigger challenge.  What is it ladies?  What is it with the volatile nature of the female mind?

This is the first question of many.

- The Tom Shaggy

1. Start with your bust. This is taken around the fullest part of your bust. Don’t pull the tape measure too tight – just so it fits snugly.
2. Take your waist measurements. Your waist measurement reflects the narrowest part of your waist. For most women, this is about an inch above your belly button.

3. Take a hip measurement. Your hip measurement, most usually, reflects the fullest part of your hips, so is roughly the area you sit on when you sit down.

- Pleasantries, Danyelle

The internet has been buzzing with talk about Kanye’s new single , “Power”,  off his upcoming album reportedly titled Good Ass Job. When he’s not busy interrupting teenage girls at award shows or criticizing presidents, he’s making damn good music. The 808’s and Heartbreaks Kanye seems to be long gone and he’s back in all of his raw, cocky glory that everyone either hates or loves. No matter your opinion on ‘Ye, you have to admit that this song is nothing short of the shit.

Check out kanyewestpower.com to hear it.

Stay Classy,
Gee

Stay Classy,
Gee

99% talk, 1% filter.  I believe in telling people what is really on my mind with my words.  I don’t often care how I will be perceived by you, because sooner or later someone will tell you what you really are.  I find humor in truth, man of many skills and a master of none.  I am here with Luxe Lobalita to put the male perspective on the line.  To bring a little truth to what is actually happening inside our heads.