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My belly button is in, but my BOOK IS OUT!

I've waited a loooong time to be able to post this.
Like, 912 days.

My first book, Air Kisses, is now officially on sale.
Like, in book shops and available to buy! IN PROPER BOOK SHOPS! WITH PROPER BOOKS!

She wasn't meant to be in the shops until Monday, but a friend alerted me today that she was in Borders, sitting pretty in their new releases section, with her fancy new friends James Patterson and  Geraldine Brooks and Lauren Weisberger.

So as soon as I finished work, I screamed into the nearest Borders to see for myself. Fruits, it was such a magical, strange, overwhelming moment. Kind of like seeing an old friend in a small cafe in deepest Turkmenistan.

I was all hans solo, I asked the nice girl packing books a few rows up if she could, uh, you know, takeaphotoofmewithmybookplease.

She gave me this funny look, and then she asked if that was my book, and I nodded and then she smiled and then she got it and she smiled some more and she took this photo.

Now, I'm not going to ask you to buy it (although you totally, absolutely should, and probably several copies too), I'm just being a good friend and letting you know the best book you've never read is now available to you.

And! I have a website now, too.
It features pirates and parrots.

All that's really left to say now is... wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Posietint is now instore! (6^&%6refjn +#ds25kn iu8 dsjd%4v 45@kls9*!!!!

Quick fruits!
BeneFit Posietint ($53 ish) is now in store  and on sale but probably not for very long!
That means I get to use some of these: !

A recap on all of its excellence and why I love it so much I am posting TWICE about it. I'm not sure the last time I did this, but it's pretty rare. But then, so too are New Products of this calibre.

1. Liquid, creme or gel blushes and tints are, I think,  infinitely more fresh and youthful looking than powder. (Refer to the liquid on liquid, powder on powder rule here please. Which I may have never actually told you before, so your reference would be... here: If you use powder foundation, follow through with a powder blush. Liquid similarly, demands liquid. Why: If you try to put a creme/gel/liquid blush on powder, it will grab, and not blend, and you will get cranky, and probably break or throw something or someone. And if you put powder blush on your radiant, dewy liquid foundation, it too will grab and not spread and a frighteningly similar brand of rage could ensue.

2. It's a gooey, viscous cheek gel/tint. Silky but thick. Much more user-friendly than Benetint, which is thin and watery and kind of stains the nanosecond it hits your skin. I was never that good at Benetint, even though it's, I think, one of Benefit's ongoing best-sellers. Posie gives you a few second window to blend. Nice P0sie. Good Posie.

3. It comes with a nail polish type applicator. Ignore this: spread onto cheeks with fingers instead. Actually don't ignore it altogether, use it to apply the product to your index finger, which you will then place onto the fleshy part of your cheeks, and blend up and back, and pretty much all over the cheek. It will look Way Too Pink for a second, but will fade real fast, and you may, at this point, even re-apply. I do. It's fun and I love really, really pink cheeks in winter. Adorable! Fresh! Girly!

4. It's lurid, flamingo pink. Ignore this too: It's sheer, universally flattering and is the perfect flush of pretty pinkness that is not too 8-year-old at all, and very appropriate if you are aged anywhere between, say, 0 and 115. 116 is pushing it. Plus, it seems to have a built-in glow mechanism. Not sure how. Just does.

5. It lasts. All day. No reapplying needed. No shit.

6. It's also a lip stain. Score.

7. This beauty blogger has done a really very thorough appraisal, complete with images. I'll let her take it from here.

 

The reason your hair still waves and kinks inappropriately after using your ghd...

Is simple.

I figured it out  while watching the very awesome Brad Ngata perfectly straighten the luscious locks of my delightful and stylish beauty editor (Yazmo) the other day. And I had that light bulb moment, that really delayed one considering my job, and realised every hair stylist does it when straightening hair. All of them. And yet, even after seeing it roughly 1563 times, I still wasn't doing what they did when using my ghd at home. And my hair was always curling at the ends, or mischievously throwing in kinks here and there. It never looked as perfect as when they did it in salon. 

And here's why.You have to first comb the section of hair you're straightening. Comb the section with a fine-toothed comb, and then follow immediately after with your styler/irons. The combing, obviously, gets rid of all knots and smoothes the hair making life really easy and fun and enjoyable for the styler/iron to glide through without a care in the world. The result is smooth, dead-straight hair and no naughty waves or curling up at the ends.

Of course, using a Definitely Excellent thermal protector before you style your mop helps your cause, too. A lot. Oh come on now. You know my thoughts on this. It's Kerastase Ciment Thermique. As for my thoughts on a fine-toothed comb? They extend as far as that chemist on Bondi road and the $4 comb bucket.

Goldfinger(s).

Probably it was that moment in Pulp Fiction when Uma Thurman's character was so spectacularly off her head but was still managing to look kind of sexy and cool, (See: Gucci by Gucci, TVC, 2008) and we noticed her short, dark nails and we all let out a collective, 'Oooooh', that the cult of Chanel Rouge Noir was born.

Maybe it wasn't, but maybe it was. That's all I'm saying.

Hang on.
No it's not.
I'm also saying this:

Generally speaking, when Chanel unleashes a bit of a 'daring', a bit of a 'wild' shade of nail polish with their autumn/winter or spring/summer colour collection, women pay attention. And then they pay attention to their little purse, and their little feet and the opening hours of their closest cosmetics retailer.

Ladystaches. Discuss.

Do you ever catch your face in a certain light and think, "Good GOD man!  I am the proprietor of a ladystache!"

I had one of those moments today. As usual I just altered the angle of my mirror and pretended it never happened.

Ladystaches of course, are those little faint moustaches we ladies get that kind of perch on the corner regions of our upper lip. They are not serious, nor are they something to get all obsessed about and start peering at your face in your compact at 45 degree angles in sunlight every chance you get and go create a blog called Ladystachette or anything wild like that. No, no, no. But if you are genuinely worried about it may I suggest not to pour hot liquefied wax on it, but rather you purchase a little home bleachy kit, like the ones our friend Andrea makes, and bleach your little ladystache until it's all invisible like.

Trust me on the wax thing. *Whispered* I've seen what happens when girls wax their 'stache; it grows back. In a kind of "more" way. Bleach better.

Donna knew the babies breath might
make her a laughing stock with her
big city friends, but in her heart
she knew she was going to be the most
beautiful bride there ever was, and that
was all there was to it.