Eco Fashion Basics: An Ode to the Perfect Little Black Dress
Wearing my Carol Young LBD at the Mini Exhibit at the Go Green Expo in LA. It is only this year, my 32nd, that I have truly understood the value of the Little Black Dress. Of course I have heard the legend; what woman hasn’t? This mythical raiment could be…
Heart of Recycled Glass: Ellen Blakeley Studio Reuses Waste to Create Mosaic Art
Best In Show, Mosaic Art NOW, “Meredith” by Ellen Blakeley (shattered safety glass and various surface treatments on Live Oak tree bark) Ellen Blakeley is the creator of stunning handmade recycled glass mosaic tiles. Blakeley’s mosaic artistry, expressed in both her decorative tiles and fine arts projects, was recently recognized…
Post-Holiday Spa Goodies You Can Make Right Now
Why is it that every year, despite our best intentions to relax and have a good time during the holidays, we end up running around crazy anyway? Entertaining visitors, attending parties, shuttling kids to various events and commitments, braving the crowds to pick up gifts, making crafts – there’s not…
Fun Stocking Stuffer! DermaQuest Vegan Makeup Brushes
Want to apply your makeup using expert tools – minus the fur of some poor mistreated animal? Decent quality vegan makeup brushes can be hard to find, let alone really good ones that are soft and non-shedding. As a girl who uses an angled eye brush every day to apply…
Copenhagen's (COP15) Amazing Green Art
No successful movement works without important art. Where would the hippies have been without their unique (ehm, hallucinogenic) posters, 2nd wave feminism without all those novels and creative nonfiction writings, the Vietnam protests without the music, or Civil Rights without heart-wrenching photography? Not only did these pieces of art change…
Blissoma: Possibly the Most Natural (and Affordable!) Skincare Line Yet
As a green beauty blogger, I get a lot of pitches, and I’d say a solid 70% of them are from companies that don’t really even know what ‘natural’ means. Hey, it’s a somewhat ambiguous word, and certainly not one you can trust to mean anything on a label. Hence,…
Bllack by Noir's Spring/Summer 2010 Collection: Visciously Lovely
This jacket is perfectly now, reflecting the strong shoulder trend that has been everywhere since Balenciaga reinvigorated it over a year ago (now Gucci, Margiela, and hordes of others have joined in). Bllack’s version is totally wearable and the longer hemline and single button are classics. Bllack by Noir’s Spring/Summer…
Into the Hermitage: Low-Impact Gypsy Life on the Road
Few of us can even begin to imagine whittling our possessions down to just a few boxes full of items and living in a room that measures barely eight feet wide. But what if that room was a recycled gypsy home on wheels, with an ever-changing view of the Scottish…
Beautiful Things: Eco Chick’s Holiday Green Gift Guide, 2009
I’ve always been a firm believer in the idea that buying stuff doesn’t have to be bad. Should we buy less? Yes. Should we carefully consider what we buy, where it comes from, and who makes it? Definitely, for sure, and yeah! BUT the thing that’s missing in all the…
Black Friday Goes Green at Beautorium
It’s that time of year again – Black Friday, when normal Americans seem to lose their minds entirely as they push and shove each other for the last Made-in-China thingamajig on the shelf. But if you’re like me, you’d probably rather just relax at home with a cup of hot…
