Above: Santorini, Greece - my top dream destination...one day :)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Next BIG thing!
Okay - I thought this idea up yesterday when I was trying to fall asleep, and I just have to throw it out there to claim my territory! If this product does go on the market, I can say I thought of it first on April 5, 2010!
Get this: it's a hair band that comes with built-in bangs.
Hair band + bangs = "The Bang Band" or "Head bangz"
You can have different styles of bangs attached directly to the hair band. For example, "side swooped", "blunt", "messy", etc. What do you think? I really need to pitch this idea to Ken Paves (aka Jessica Simpson's BFF hairstylist).
Wait for it...I feel like it's going to be the next big thing. Kind of like the TopsyTail® of the 1990s. PS - Did you know that the TopsyTail® has grossed over $100 mil?!
Above: The TopsyTail® in action
Get this: it's a hair band that comes with built-in bangs.
Hair band + bangs = "The Bang Band" or "Head bangz"
You can have different styles of bangs attached directly to the hair band. For example, "side swooped", "blunt", "messy", etc. What do you think? I really need to pitch this idea to Ken Paves (aka Jessica Simpson's BFF hairstylist).
Wait for it...I feel like it's going to be the next big thing. Kind of like the TopsyTail® of the 1990s. PS - Did you know that the TopsyTail® has grossed over $100 mil?!
Above: The TopsyTail® in action
Doing what you want to do
Just some "food for thought" on this lovely Tuesday day...
One thing I admire about guys (other than their ability to eat whatever they want without consequence, and pee standing up therefore avoiding gross public toilet seats...) is that they do what they want to do. I realize this is probably a gross generalization, but hear me out here.
For example - on Thursday you tell you friend that you want to go out on Saturday. You genuinely really want to go out and have the best intentions of doing so. Saturday rolls around and you're exhausted. It's nasty out. There's nothing you want to do more than go to BB, rent a NR (new release), grab some snacks, and chill out for the night in comfy clothes. However, since you are a girl (and if you are like me, you're a "yes girl" who tends to over-commit herself), you feel obliged to keep the date. A guy would straight up say, "nah, not up to it anymore". A girl feels guilty about saying no, goes anyway, and then complains about how she shouldn't have gone out.
I always get jealous of my boyfriend when he does what he wants to do regardless of what other people want him to do. I think girls would be a lot less sneaky and complicated if they just said what they wanted to say, and did want they wanted to do! It's a pretty empowering thing. I think we all respect people that speak their mind and are unapologetic, so why are we so afraid to do so? What's the worst that could happen - someone calls you a bailer, or a bitch? Meh, there are worse names. Like...being called a "plain Jane" or "no personality", or (and in my opinion, the WORST thing to be called) BORING! My HS friends and I swear by the philosophy that it's better to be weird than to be boring.
That's all. Just had to state my piece. Hope everyone's having a nice Tuesday wherever you are! Check the video below for a blow-your-mind rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You". Crazy, right!?
Britt
One thing I admire about guys (other than their ability to eat whatever they want without consequence, and pee standing up therefore avoiding gross public toilet seats...) is that they do what they want to do. I realize this is probably a gross generalization, but hear me out here.
For example - on Thursday you tell you friend that you want to go out on Saturday. You genuinely really want to go out and have the best intentions of doing so. Saturday rolls around and you're exhausted. It's nasty out. There's nothing you want to do more than go to BB, rent a NR (new release), grab some snacks, and chill out for the night in comfy clothes. However, since you are a girl (and if you are like me, you're a "yes girl" who tends to over-commit herself), you feel obliged to keep the date. A guy would straight up say, "nah, not up to it anymore". A girl feels guilty about saying no, goes anyway, and then complains about how she shouldn't have gone out.
I always get jealous of my boyfriend when he does what he wants to do regardless of what other people want him to do. I think girls would be a lot less sneaky and complicated if they just said what they wanted to say, and did want they wanted to do! It's a pretty empowering thing. I think we all respect people that speak their mind and are unapologetic, so why are we so afraid to do so? What's the worst that could happen - someone calls you a bailer, or a bitch? Meh, there are worse names. Like...being called a "plain Jane" or "no personality", or (and in my opinion, the WORST thing to be called) BORING! My HS friends and I swear by the philosophy that it's better to be weird than to be boring.
That's all. Just had to state my piece. Hope everyone's having a nice Tuesday wherever you are! Check the video below for a blow-your-mind rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You". Crazy, right!?
Britt
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sick
I have spent the past 2 days sick in bed with the flu. My boyfriend got sick on Sunday, and we were convinced it was food poisoning. Then on Monday night, I got sick. Definitely not food poisoning, just a good old fashioned case of the flu. Besides Season 1 of Mad Men, YouTube, Slice.ca, and MTV.ca have been keeping me going. I just saw the trailer for Season 6 of the Hills. I haven't watched the Hills in a while, but I think I am going to tune in for this season. It looks undeniably juicy. I've posted the trailer below - skip to 2:32 to see Heidi attempt to cry. The botox is preventing her face from moving, it's hilarious!
Hope everyone's having a good (and healthy) week!
Hope everyone's having a good (and healthy) week!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Clean Eating
The clean eating revolution is kind of the next big trend in the health and diet world, and I personally hope it's the last.
It's hard to keep track of "how" to eat these days. It sounds so silly, but it's true! North American culture is saturated with new approaches to eating that we've completely lost track of the basics: eat balanced food groups, be mindful of portion size, and choose healthy foods. Big duh, right? (Note: do people say "duh" anymore? I really like using it...) Here's a quick low-down on the diet trends of the past century:
1940s - Pop + ciggies = key to being skinny
1050s - Fat vibration belt - so lazy! I kinda love it...
1960s - Formation of diet support groups, and the infamous cabbage soup diet
1970s - Introduction of diet pills as a solution for weight loss (we're talking Dexatrim here...)
1980s - Popularity of Weight Watchers on the rise, introduction of low calorie and low fat diets
1990s - Atkins (Potential correlation with the beginning of North American mass consumption of animal products? Just throwing that out there...)
2000s - Celebrity-endorsed diets (Harvey Pasternak's "5 Factor" diet), diet delivery (Nutrisystem), portion control (100-calorie EVERYTHING), sweet n' savory (Cookie diet - "I stole the cookie from the cookie jar!" This commercial absolutely kills me - that guy! hahaha)
2010s - Clean eating, and the "food revolution" (Jamie Oliver, anyone?)
The overall philosophy of clean eating is simple: eat natural foods that come from the Earth. That's it. I know you're probably thinking "easy-peasy", but in order to subscribe to this way of eating, you really need to de-program alot of bad habits. When you're grocery shopping, you basically have to shop the perimeter of the store, as everything in the middle aisles is pretty much processed.
My obsession with clean eating started about a month ago when I stumbled upon some YouTube videos by Dani Spies. She's a Health & Food Coach and Fitness Trainer who makes these amazing short cooking videos. I highly suggest checking them out - especially the video on kale chips. They're sooo good. I've been eating clean as much as I can (I'm trying! I got sour dinos yesterday, I admit it. They were calling my name..."Brittannnyyy, it's me - Stega, you're favourite sour dino shape. Come eat me, I'm tasty and sour). I can genuinely say that I feel...better. My skin is brighter, I feel more in control of my body, I am developing more of a mind-body connection (okay that sounded really Dharma & Greg, but it's true, okay...), and I have more energy! Take that however you want. I am the world's biggest skeptic, and it could very well be a placebo effect and/or researcher bias (don't get me going). So like a good health science grad student, I am self-monitoring a couple of variables to report on at a later date. :)
Try it out yourself for a bit and see how you feel! Bottom line: if it comes from the Earth - good. If it doesn't - bad. If you don't know what the ingredients are, it's probably bad. For example, xantham gum (?!). In my mind, pretty much any food that starts with an X is Bad News Bears. Everyone knows that the letter x is reserved for "xylophone", and "x-ray".
Britt
PS - Here's a good book if you're interested. This guy was on Oprah, okay. He's not all "James Frey", he's legit.
It's hard to keep track of "how" to eat these days. It sounds so silly, but it's true! North American culture is saturated with new approaches to eating that we've completely lost track of the basics: eat balanced food groups, be mindful of portion size, and choose healthy foods. Big duh, right? (Note: do people say "duh" anymore? I really like using it...) Here's a quick low-down on the diet trends of the past century:
1940s - Pop + ciggies = key to being skinny
1050s - Fat vibration belt - so lazy! I kinda love it...
1960s - Formation of diet support groups, and the infamous cabbage soup diet
1970s - Introduction of diet pills as a solution for weight loss (we're talking Dexatrim here...)
1980s - Popularity of Weight Watchers on the rise, introduction of low calorie and low fat diets
1990s - Atkins (Potential correlation with the beginning of North American mass consumption of animal products? Just throwing that out there...)
2000s - Celebrity-endorsed diets (Harvey Pasternak's "5 Factor" diet), diet delivery (Nutrisystem), portion control (100-calorie EVERYTHING), sweet n' savory (Cookie diet - "I stole the cookie from the cookie jar!" This commercial absolutely kills me - that guy! hahaha)
2010s - Clean eating, and the "food revolution" (Jamie Oliver, anyone?)
The overall philosophy of clean eating is simple: eat natural foods that come from the Earth. That's it. I know you're probably thinking "easy-peasy", but in order to subscribe to this way of eating, you really need to de-program alot of bad habits. When you're grocery shopping, you basically have to shop the perimeter of the store, as everything in the middle aisles is pretty much processed.
My obsession with clean eating started about a month ago when I stumbled upon some YouTube videos by Dani Spies. She's a Health & Food Coach and Fitness Trainer who makes these amazing short cooking videos. I highly suggest checking them out - especially the video on kale chips. They're sooo good. I've been eating clean as much as I can (I'm trying! I got sour dinos yesterday, I admit it. They were calling my name..."Brittannnyyy, it's me - Stega, you're favourite sour dino shape. Come eat me, I'm tasty and sour). I can genuinely say that I feel...better. My skin is brighter, I feel more in control of my body, I am developing more of a mind-body connection (okay that sounded really Dharma & Greg, but it's true, okay...), and I have more energy! Take that however you want. I am the world's biggest skeptic, and it could very well be a placebo effect and/or researcher bias (don't get me going). So like a good health science grad student, I am self-monitoring a couple of variables to report on at a later date. :)
Try it out yourself for a bit and see how you feel! Bottom line: if it comes from the Earth - good. If it doesn't - bad. If you don't know what the ingredients are, it's probably bad. For example, xantham gum (?!). In my mind, pretty much any food that starts with an X is Bad News Bears. Everyone knows that the letter x is reserved for "xylophone", and "x-ray".
Britt
PS - Here's a good book if you're interested. This guy was on Oprah, okay. He's not all "James Frey", he's legit.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Big, bushy brows!
If you've been following fashion mags lately, it's pretty obvious that big brows are BACK! To this I say: Umm, why didn't this trend catch on in 1997?! I hatedddd my brows all through adolescence. Actually, I should say brow - singular, as I had more of a unibrow until I discovered waxing (thank goodness). I know, super embarrassing, but I'm not ashamed of the unibrow of my past (insert z-snap here)! I'll be the first to point and laugh at a picture of me n' my uni...
K, so here is the ironic part - I've actually been waxing my brows for so long that I find myself FILLING THEM IN with a pencil to create a more fuller look! Who would have thought?! 12 year old Britt would be like "say whaattttt!"
What do you guys think of the big brow look?
Above (rotating clockwise): Raina from AMTM Cycle 14, Camilla Belle, Denise Richards, Kim Kardashian
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