Home / alt.fashion / 

alt.fashion - 11/16/2004

Discussions Posted on 11/16/2004
 
TO the UK listers
HI I will be in London next week-- is there any new products you can recommend? Last trip (sorry I cant remember who) suggested the Coconut Conditioner from Boots which is fav... I also like some of the products of Superdrug which are similar to

Upscale pedicure sandals?
I got a Harriet Carter catalogue today (it was addressed to my FIL who died almost two years ago!) and flipped through it to find some pedicure sandals ($8.99) that are supposed to keep your toes apart and allow them to dry easier. I decided to G

High Style and Hoop Skirts
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has what I've heard is a neat exhibit on 1850s fashion: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/highstyle-hoopskirts.html Smokey

Re: What Did You Use In The Shower Today??


Question on Beautician's Liscense
Hi All - I hope someone can help me. I'm creating a website for a friend who will be selling beauty products to professionals only. She wants to include a way to verify if a certificate lisense is legit or not. I've tried looking on the internet f

Sephora Friend & Family code
I have it.....but I think it's "only" good for 20% off (as opposed to last year...wasn't it 50%?) Ladies and gents....start your engines....FF2004 good 11/22 - 12/5. Have fun!

Sephora to Philly
I heard from a semi-reliable source that it may be coming to Walnut Street. Anyone else hear that? It is now at the Court of King of Prussia....:-)

Any VS codes out there?
Are there any Victoria's secret codes out now?

REPOSTS
I've had trouble with formatting (just getting knowledgeable enough about it) lately and I needed to repost a couple of msgs that I wanted to be sure the group could read. I had been posting using the HTML format since whenever not knowing until Maudi

redness in hair
Hi I have dark coloured hair. I have been dying my hair at home for months and I usually go to toni and guy for a cut. When they wash it, they take out the redness by adding a toner. However, I cannot afford to do this at the moment. How can I

33805 Mining the Web :Searches with Kriging, Inverse Distance Weighting, eigenVectors and Cross-Pollination 33805
Site and Features: http://www.eigensearch.com Search engine, eigenMethod, eigenvector, mathematical, manifolds, science, technical, search tools, eigenmath, Jacobian, quantum, mechanics, manifolds, science, physics, chemistry, law, legal, government,

Barry Buckle has matchmaking
Recently I divined that Newfoundland clothing designer and Ship Pub employee Barry Buckle has wide range special abilities with topup to full regular strength of matchmaker and topup to telepath-2 . Thus he should be able to do at least a bit

Sephora Friends and Family Code
Hey Everyone, Been a looooong time lurker around here, and figured I'd delurk today because I found out about the Sephora Friends and Family event through a friend of mine. It goes from November 22nd to December 5th, and the code to use online is

Henri Bendel Candle?
I bought the travel sizes of vanilla bean and orange flower at BBW. These are supposed to be very fragrant but I can't smell either. I asked BBW if maybe it was less fragrant in the travel size and they said it's the same amount of fragrance in all siz

Lush bath bomb question
when are you supposed to throw this in the tub? when the tub is done running or while you're filling it up? i'm taking the day off tomorrow and planning on treating myself w/da bomb:) --kel "A new dress doesn't get you anywhere; its the life yo

? about returning hemmed jeans to nordies
is this possible? hubby bought jeans there and had them altered and they hemmed them on the high side. they've been cut and resewn....i'm wondering if he can return them or exchange them for a new pair. he has the receipt but the tags have been cut

Hairdressers are butchers
Why do hairdressers / hair stylists insist on ignoring what the customer is asking for (a trim) and cutting off far more hair than the customer requests? It seems to me that a hairdresser would get more business if they cut less hair off -- you'd ha

Trying to figure out my American size - help, please?
Trying to figure out my American size for some Christmas purchases -- I was sure it was 8 or 10. But then I've been reading some threads on the diet forum and it seems that most women of my height who wear that size weigh twenty or so pounds more. I'm

Happy Birthday, Tracy!
You can't hide that easily, Ms. Secretive Scorpio. Wishing you all the best today and in the year ahead! {{mwah}}, -- Mad.

Which Coach bags do you have?
I'm ready to take the Coach plunge and I'm looking at the soft signiture duffle as my first purchase. What Coach bags do you have and how well do they hold up? Pam

My facial (long)
Today I think I got the holy grail of facials and at a salon really close to my work and home. The aesthetician was highly recommended by my hairstylist and his wife and she was the mentor for the woman I had been seeing, the one who won Mrs. Calif

Philadelphia Lilly Alert: Fall Sale at VF Convention Center
Just was told about this by a friend who works at the sale. Lots of fall Lilly Pulitzer merchandise will be on sale at Valley Forge convention center this Friday and Saturday (November 19/20).

L'Oreal Refinish
I just received this last week in the mail from drugstore.com. I tell ya...for a big pored, oily skinned lass, this stuff is great. Now my question, how is it that these systems can seem to shrink pores? My pores are less noticable. How does that w

Late shopper
When do you do your Christmas/holiday shopping? If you are one of those consumers who still waits until December to really get in gear, I want to hear from you. Tell me your story, briefly, and let me know if you are willing to be interviewed by telep

Sears codes?
I found an old Sears gc from christmas last year and figure I should used it about now and was wondering if anyone know any codes for sears.com. -- Sandra Owned by 3 cats.

What are *you* wearing today
65 degrees with very dense fog and zero visibility outside of the urban areas. I am getting a facial this morning from someone new. My hairstylist and his wife have been talking to me about her for several years and it took 3 months just to get the

Happy Birthday, Jean, Lourdes and Danielle!
Hope your birthdays were/are good! Tracy

YSL Gold Celebration Palette Is BACK! :)
For those of you who missed it last year's holiday season... http://tinyurl.com/6f2no I am confused though because the Nordstrom site shows what looks like the one I bought last year, and the one pictured in my mailer from Nordstrom looks warmer t

AF Secret Santa 2004
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3183406154_3419113 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Hello po

Small cellphone bag
I have a Motorola flip phone and want a fashionable little bag for it, one of those little pouches witch a handle at the top that unsnaps so you can hook it aound your handbag handle or otherwise hang it on something. I want to give a picture of on

NYC handbag/accessory trunkshow
HI there I was sent this by a handbag/accessories designer who is having a trunk show in NYC. She wanted me to attend (I wish!) anyway, for those who want to score some fabulous hand-beaded handbags, shoes, accessories and more, this is a deal and the

Applying Cellex C
I have been using Cellex C for about a week (the high potency serum) and would like advice as to how to best apply it. I think I'm wasting some of it (due to the texture). My skin seems to like vitamin C-- it does seem as if my overall skin tone is alr

Stuart Weitzman
Does anyone have the shoes shown in this link?: http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/2330098/c/24380.html I saw the same (I *think*) ones at Saks, and they claimed to be "weatherproof." I think they're ridiculously cute and comfy-looking, and if they actua

Ultrabags is no more?
Or am I just typing in the wrong url? www.ultrabags.com just pulls up an empty file directory. :( On the one hand, I'm glad I didn't have a pending order if they have gone belly up. On the other hand, I'm kinda sorry I didn't order one back when

Doyle Tomorrow
This is all eye candy. I previewed the Doyle New York Vintage Fashion Auction last Friday. All I can say is there was a lot of really breath taking stuff including a trunk full of Paris Couture garments from the turn of the century. They belonged to

gift wrap
I buy lots of different wrapping papers each year, and this year I was just feeling very light-hearted. Here are the ones I chose (yes, I even bought my wrapping paper online this year): Edward Gorey wrap http://www.goreydetails.net/show.php?alpha