I am a huge fan of Colourpop. They make beautiful, cruelty-free products at an incredibly affordable price point. You can order a few things without breaking the bank and have a grand old time playing with their formulas. EVERYONE HAS BEEN LOOKING HAGGARD AS HELL LATELY. SLAP SOME PAINT ON THE BARN, LADIES. I’m serious. When the Zombie Apocalypse comes we’ll have plenty of time for deep circles under our eyes, blotchy skin, scraggly brows, faded eyelashes and chapped, pale lips. Why is everyone in such a rush to look that way now? I currently wear ColourPop matte liquid lipsticks in now=discontinued pinky neutral shades, a hgihlighter (out of stock right now), and many of their Super Shock Eyeshadows, which I apply with my pinky and which are gorgeous and pigmented. My favorite everyday color is Truth (out of stock). It’s got a bit of beautiful, flattering shimmer and it dresses up the day with one quick swipe. Did you know that just touching a bit of foundation on your eyelids can brighten up your whole face? Yea, because bags and shadows aren’t just under your eye, they’re all around your eye. All noodging about make-up aside, I really think that everyone benefits from good skin care and that the quickest way to step into a more polished look is to smooth out the skin tone with good skin care regime, sun protection and drinking lots of water. And yes, a touch of make-up to even things out. You don’t need a full face of foundation with concealer — just try a bit of well-blended concealer or foundation stick. I was just tempting myself by looking at ColourPop’s Cyber Monday deals and saw that they make a foundation stick in lots and lots of skin tones. That’s not easy to find, so I thought I’d pop a link to you. No, I don’t get any money or discounts from ColourPop. If anything, I’d just like them to bring back my favorite lip colors. If you try their foundation stick let me know how you liked it! I’ve been using one of Rihanna’s Fenty line stick foundations in a very light tone for my undereye area and I think it’s great for that but would be a bit too powdery and drying for the whole face. // $$('div.d15411').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); //via Blogger $7 Foundation Stick from ColourPop
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I am a huge fan of Colourpop. They make beautiful, cruelty-free products at an incredibly affordable price point. You can order a few things without breaking the bank and have a grand old time playing with their formulas. EVERYONE HAS BEEN LOOKING HAGGARD AS HELL LATELY. SLAP SOME PAINT ON THE BARN, LADIES. I’m serious. When the Zombie Apocalypse comes we’ll have plenty of time for deep circles under our eyes, blotchy skin, scraggly brows, faded eyelashes and chapped, pale lips. Why is everyone in such a rush to look that way now? I currently wear ColourPop matte liquid lipsticks in now=discontinued pinky neutral shades, a hgihlighter (out of stock right now), and many of their Super Shock Eyeshadows, which I apply with my pinky and which are gorgeous and pigmented. My favorite everyday color is Truth (out of stock). It’s got a bit of beautiful, flattering shimmer and it dresses up the day with one quick swipe. Did you know that just touching a bit of foundation on your eyelids can brighten up your whole face? Yea, because bags and shadows aren’t just under your eye, they’re all around your eye. All noodging about make-up aside, I really think that everyone benefits from good skin care and that the quickest way to step into a more polished look is to smooth out the skin tone with good skin care regime, sun protection and drinking lots of water. And yes, a touch of make-up to even things out. You don’t need a full face of foundation with concealer — just try a bit of well-blended concealer or foundation stick. I was just tempting myself by looking at ColourPop’s Cyber Monday deals and saw that they make a foundation stick in lots and lots of skin tones. That’s not easy to find, so I thought I’d pop a link to you. No, I don’t get any money or discounts from ColourPop. If anything, I’d just like them to bring back my favorite lip colors. If you try their foundation stick let me know how you liked it! I’ve been using one of Rihanna’s Fenty line stick foundations in a very light tone for my undereye area and I think it’s great for that but would be a bit too powdery and drying for the whole face. // $$('div.d15411').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); //via Tumblr $7 Foundation Stick from ColourPop Oh wow, I just re-discovered this article sent to me by most astute pigeon, Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney, from June of 2016. Fashion writer Robin Givhan analyzes the new classic by designer Nina McLemore which is being seen all over Washington, DC. What interests me is not only the design details of the jacket (classic but tailored in a way to intentionally communicate power: standing collar, long, bold line) but how clergy can look to women in the political realm to consider our own ideas of public image. As spiritual and creative leaders we have a lot more leeway than someone in elected office does to individualize our attire, but we should ask ourselves before we leave the house, “would I dress this way to make a statement to America about an important moral issue?” If not, then you’re not ready to make a statement to your congregation about an important moral issue. If someone running for office or in public office wouldn’t wear what you’re wearing in order to address her constituents, why are we any different? Are you a friend stopping by for lunch? Are you family – perhaps comfy grandma? Are you a camp counselor? Do you not seek to represent a divine grace, beauty and power that is beyond yet within us all, and within us collectively? Do you not seek to influence? If not, why not? We need to know who we are trying to be, called to me, and needed to be. Sometimes, yes, we’re a warm sister or grandmother comforter. Sometimes we are a gardener. Sometimes we are a kindergarten teacher. But often we are an important leader but show up dressed to be a camp counselor. There is such terrible and unnecessary dissonance when that happens. It will not be spoken but it will be there and it will have consequences. Know who you are. Dress to lead.
via Blogger Power Lady Jackets Mustard is a really terrific neutral if it doesn’t make your skin look jaundiced. Click on the images to enlarge. Great look. Chunky, textured mustard scarf is bold and warm. I love her A-line dress, too. Modest but not frumpy because the proportions are right for her and she’s got great boots on. Great boots are such a frump-buster!
via Blogger Consider Mustard: A Beautiful Seasonal Neutral Mustard is a really terrific neutral if it doesn’t make your skin look jaundiced. Click on the images to enlarge. Great look. Chunky, textured mustard scarf is bold and warm. I love her A-line dress, too. Modest but not frumpy because the proportions are right for her and she’s got great boots on. Great boots are such a frump-buster!
via Tumblr Consider Mustard: A Beautiful Seasonal Neutral Oh wow, I just re-discovered this article sent to me by most astute pigeon, Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney, from June of 2016. Fashion writer Robin Givhan analyzes the new classic by designer Nina McLemore which is being seen all over Washington, DC. What interests me is not only the design details of the jacket (classic but tailored in a way to intentionally communicate power: standing collar, long, bold line) but how clergy can look to women in the political realm to consider our own ideas of public image. As spiritual and creative leaders we have a lot more leeway than someone in elected office does to individualize our attire, but we should ask ourselves before we leave the house, “would I dress this way to make a statement to America about an important moral issue?” If not, then you’re not ready to make a statement to your congregation about an important moral issue. If someone running for office or in public office wouldn’t wear what you’re wearing in order to address her constituents, why are we any different? Are you a friend stopping by for lunch? Are you family – perhaps comfy grandma? Are you a camp counselor? Do you not seek to represent a divine grace, beauty and power that is beyond yet within us all, and within us collectively? Do you not seek to influence? If not, why not? We need to know who we are trying to be, called to me, and needed to be. Sometimes, yes, we’re a warm sister or grandmother comforter. Sometimes we are a gardener. Sometimes we are a kindergarten teacher. But often we are an important leader but show up dressed to be a camp counselor. There is such terrible and unnecessary dissonance when that happens. It will not be spoken but it will be there and it will have consequences. Know who you are. Dress to lead.
via Tumblr Power Lady Jackets Hello honey heads, how have you been? There you are at the thing: the meeting, the service, the protest, the potluck. You have washed up and shined up and showed up. You are engaged. You are grateful and gracious. You have put together an outfit that you feel respects the occasion. You have ironed your shirt. You have chosen outerwear that reflects your leadership role and is a a few steps above a squall parka. You have brushed the dandruff and animal fur off of your shoulders. When you did your head-to-toe prayerful preparation for where you needed to be, did you get all the way down to your feet? I have almost forgotten to review my feet a few times recently and came close to attending an important occasions with mud on my boot heels. I really would have been mortified if someone had noticed the dirt, and I know someone would have. That is not okay. Even in this cursed generation of leggings worn as pants, dirty shoes at solemn occasions is not acceptable unto the Lord. Microfiber cloths are a fantastic way to clean up your shoes and boots. I have a stack of white ones in my bathroom for make-up removal (they’re miraculous at getting rid of everything, even mascara, with just warm water!) and they work great with a little water or micellar water on dirty or dusty shoes. The micellar water is also a gentle make-up remover but works as a nice face freshener (I like to wipe it under my eyes after a nap or long day) or on any leather products. Now, if you’re wearing lug soles, please do not come into any building tracking dirt. If muddy hiking boots are your usual workaday wear because you’re doing ministry in a rural environment (and if you’re not, you have no excuse for wearing muddy hiking boots!), take them off in church and have shoes to change into. That also goes for social events in people’s homes, restaurants, community centers, houses of worship and Knights of Columbus halls. Unless you’re doing a part-time ministry with a side gig as a lumberjack, don’t wear muddy hiking boots while pastoring. You ain’t that rugged. // $$('div.d15374').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); //via Tumblr Be Pure Of Sole Hello honey heads, how have you been? There you are at the thing: the meeting, the service, the protest, the potluck. You have washed up and shined up and showed up. You are engaged. You are grateful and gracious. You have put together an outfit that you feel respects the occasion. You have ironed your shirt. You have chosen outerwear that reflects your leadership role and is a a few steps above a squall parka. You have brushed the dandruff and animal fur off of your shoulders. When you did your head-to-toe prayerful preparation for where you needed to be, did you get all the way down to your feet? I have almost forgotten to review my feet a few times recently and came close to attending an important occasions with mud on my boot heels. I really would have been mortified if someone had noticed the dirt, and I know someone would have. That is not okay. Even in this cursed generation of leggings worn as pants, dirty shoes at solemn occasions is not acceptable unto the Lord. Microfiber cloths are a fantastic way to clean up your shoes and boots. I have a stack of white ones in my bathroom for make-up removal (they’re miraculous at getting rid of everything, even mascara, with just warm water!) and they work great with a little water or micellar water on dirty or dusty shoes. The micellar water is also a gentle make-up remover but works as a nice face freshener (I like to wipe it under my eyes after a nap or long day) or on any leather products. Now, if you’re wearing lug soles, please do not come into any building tracking dirt. If muddy hiking boots are your usual workaday wear because you’re doing ministry in a rural environment (and if you’re not, you have no excuse for wearing muddy hiking boots!), take them off in church and have shoes to change into. That also goes for social events in people’s homes, restaurants, community centers, houses of worship and Knights of Columbus halls. Unless you’re doing a part-time ministry with a side gig as a lumberjack, don’t wear muddy hiking boots while pastoring. You ain’t that rugged. // $$('div.d15374').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); //via Blogger Be Pure Of Sole I’m gonna lay down a BIG opinion here, and you can either appreciate it or just roll your eyes and go back to making pies. I kind of hope you’ll appreciate it and make pies but that may be asking for too much. PeaceBang’s Big Opion On Interfaith Thanksgiving Services 1. If Christian churches are the only ones ever hosting this service, it’s not interfaith. It’s Christian and the other religious communities are guests. 2. If the structure of the service strongly resembles a Protestant liturgy and always has and no one has ever suggested that leaders from the other communities recommend a completely new kind of structure, it’s not an interfaith event. It’s a Christian event at which other religious communities are represented as respected guests. But they’re still guests. 3. If the group of people planning the service have not set aside time to discuss the intention of this service; eg, why are we treating Thanksgiving as a religious holiday when it is not, how may this service promoting a kind of benign nationalism, and that kind of question, it is not an interfaith service. It is a subtly and in oh-such a benign manner promoting the notion that America is a Christian nation. 4. If the people planning the service are always Christian clergy and the meetings or e-mails reminding everyone that it’s time to plan the service are always generated by Christian clergy, that should tell you something. It’s a Christian service. The other faith communities are responding to an invitation, they are not equal partners in the process and they do not feel ownership of the event. 5. If the service consists of Christian ministers and Christian lay people in the most prominent liturgist roles and the representatives of other faith traditions are there to add “diversity,” it is not an interfaith service but a Christian service featuring “our interesting neighbors.” My recommendations: if Thanksgiving seems a great time to gather the community together, let lay people initiate the planning. Be willing to totally reconstruct the structure of the event. Focus less on religious tourism (“Now we’re going to stop in JewishLand!”) and more on community. Break bread together if you aren’t already doing so. Include a service or justice-making component to the event. And if you really want to be interfaith and relational, make plans to get together again sooner than same time next year. Who’s doing this in a way that you really love? Tell us in the comments! Love, TurkeyBang // $$('div.d15372').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); //via Blogger “Interfaith” Thanksgiving Services I’m gonna lay down a BIG opinion here, and you can either appreciate it or just roll your eyes and go back to making pies. I kind of hope you’ll appreciate it and make pies but that may be asking for too much. PeaceBang’s Big Opion On Interfaith Thanksgiving Services 1. If Christian churches are the only ones ever hosting this service, it’s not interfaith. It’s Christian and the other religious communities are guests. 2. If the structure of the service strongly resembles a Protestant liturgy and always has and no one has ever suggested that leaders from the other communities recommend a completely new kind of structure, it’s not an interfaith event. It’s a Christian event at which other religious communities are represented as respected guests. But they’re still guests. 3. If the group of people planning the service have not set aside time to discuss the intention of this service; eg, why are we treating Thanksgiving as a religious holiday when it is not, how may this service promoting a kind of benign nationalism, and that kind of question, it is not an interfaith service. It is a subtly and in oh-such a benign manner promoting the notion that America is a Christian nation. 4. If the people planning the service are always Christian clergy and the meetings or e-mails reminding everyone that it’s time to plan the service are always generated by Christian clergy, that should tell you something. It’s a Christian service. The other faith communities are responding to an invitation, they are not equal partners in the process and they do not feel ownership of the event. 5. If the service consists of Christian ministers and Christian lay people in the most prominent liturgist roles and the representatives of other faith traditions are there to add “diversity,” it is not an interfaith service but a Christian service featuring “our interesting neighbors.” My recommendations: if Thanksgiving seems a great time to gather the community together, let lay people initiate the planning. Be willing to totally reconstruct the structure of the event. Focus less on religious tourism (“Now we’re going to stop in JewishLand!”) and more on community. Break bread together if you aren’t already doing so. Include a service or justice-making component to the event. And if you really want to be interfaith and relational, make plans to get together again sooner than same time next year. Who’s doing this in a way that you really love? Tell us in the comments! Love, TurkeyBang // $$('div.d15372').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); //via Tumblr “Interfaith” Thanksgiving Services |