Mosquito Repellant that actually works!

If anyone out there is like me, you attract mosquitos like bees to flowers. There could be fifty people around and one mosquito and it would find you and bite you five times. Add to that an allergic reaction to the bites that turn them from a little red bump to a full blown swollen mass the size of a baseball and you see why I don't particularly like to get bitten.

I've tried so many different repellants and they all smell like I either crawled out of chemical spill or I smash lemons for a living. Then one day on a fluke I saw this tin sitting on shelf of Bath and Body Works and decided "what the hell". Threw it on -- hmm ok faint citris smell but its nice and not overpowering...which of course means it probably wouldn't work.

But it did! I didn't get bit anywhere I put it all day...and I didn't even slather it on. Just smeared a very thin layer in stripes around my body and feet. Even on the sides of my face (because those pesky bugs like fly around it...I'll be damned if I let the bite me in the nose).

Badger Balm's Anti-Bug Balm. I've used one tin for the last year. You don't need much and this lasts you for months with the added plus of surviving in the Houston heat.





It comes in a great stick also!





Mosquitos? What mosquitos? No more big red swelling on my legs...now that's something everyone should be able to live with!

“A man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.” Don Marquis

Marmi Shoes for Petite Feet - Work Appropriate

For anyone out there who wears a size 4.5 or 5...you know how hard it is to find shoes that fit your feet, are comfortable and yet appropriate for work. How many times have you gone to the store only to see your shoe size is not existent or they only had one pair and its already sold like hot cakes.

Well I found a store that carries small sizes! And you can order them and pick them up at the store or have it sent to you. Big bonus on convience. The prices are reasonable for a good quality shoe and works for a corporate office or a night out.

Their styles for the young and hopelessly fashionable are few though so you really need to search through the truly hopeless bin before you find some real fashionable gems to put on your tiny feet. I found a few in their new fall line that works for the office and for a dancing date.

Here's a very cute leather wedge with a bow. Since its very feminine and flirty, pair it with something very elegant and masculine to get a perfect blend such as a slim grey skirt that is just below your knees and a crisp white french cuff shirt. Throw in rows of beads or pearls at your neck in a color that picks up the shoes to add an extra fem flair. That classic combination should look great on any body type or size and give it a singular style all your own.

A woman doesn't need to dress like a man to feel powerful at the workplace!









Or how about a sexy pointed toe in faux croc with an ankle strap...perfect for dancing!

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
Abraham Lincoln

Havaianas for Petite Feet

Small feet? That means its tough finding shoes that fit anywhere outside of kid's sizes. Here are a few flip-flops from the very comfortable luxury Havaianas line that are so comfortable, you can wear them while trekking around the urban temple (aka the mall) or even daring to walk around in the smog-filled streets. And these kid's versions don't look like they belong only on kid's feet!



But I do like this little surf number that's blue and white and appeals the the surfer girl in me.



So ladies with tiny feet, there are plenty of affordable super comfortable footwear abound that don't look like they belong the feet of a five year old!

Fashion, Beauty, and Glamour for the Real World

Have you ever wondered why retailers sell us clothes designed only for mystical elfin beings that strive to taunt us with their anorexic bodies? Why are clothes designed for bodies that are tall, arrested at prepubescent and able to defy gravity in the ways only the astronauts on the space station have managed?

I’m certainly tired of having to spend the annual budge of a small fourth-world country to look like I just stepped out of Vogue, Cosmopolitan or Glamour. When was the last time you saw anyone on the cover who had a body that didn’t look like it hadn’t been airbrushed to the very last mole or ripple of cellulite?

If we could all have that kind of power!

I'll be posting each find I come across that works for men and women of different sizes, shapes, and color in the real world...not on models and celebrities! Its time we make the fashion world work for us and not for the few.