>When Frugal Attacks
>The story of Dr. Fuzz is coming, I promise. I’m working on it now.
But in the meantime, you just have to check out my beauty column this week over at Her Nashville Magazine. In it, I experiment with a radical new form of frugality, one you have to see to believe.
>HILARIOUS!I laugh everytime at the Wal-Mart commercial with the song about being a woman. I will not trade in my bare minerals make-up.
>You’re braver than I.
>Either it was the lighting or you were giving off an orangish hue:) And pregnancy tests at the dollar store, really, I mean I don’t need one or anything, but really..
>Wow.. you know, we call that look the Port Arthur Princess. You would be a HUGE hit in southeast Texas. This non-judging Christian will pray for you.. specifically that you don’t break out. Have you noticed the Dollar Tree condoms are next to the Dollar Tree HPT? hmmm
>Hold up, hold up. They have Dollar Tree condoms in Texas?! They don’t have them here. And trust me, I would know. I’m a serious Dollar Tree fanatic (along with everyone else in my area). What’s up with THAT?!
>I laughed so hard at “tan” being your only choice! I live in a 99.9% white town where all the stores carry foundation for very dark complexions, but none light enough for my Wisconsin-winter white skin ( :
>It is debatable and I’m going to go with the Oompa Loompa! 🙂 Thanks for being the guinea pig for all of us! I’ve always been a tomboy and STILL am in desperate need for someone to teach me how to apply make-up so I stick with the cheap cover-girl stuff…I know…very sad. Let us know how your face feels after you peel the goods off…you are too funny!
>Awesome! Very funny. Might I suggest my money saving technique, which is….no makeup! Can’t wait for the report on Dr. Fuzz!
>As for pregnancy test you are going to pee on it and throw it away so I have no problem with that. It is the lotion, make up, bodywash, condoms, or frozen dinners/food isle that worry me. If it is going in or on my body it needs to bare a proper label with a list of ingredients that don’t include ingredients that could be harmful. Ingredients I watch out for are Coal tar: in dandruff shampoos, anti-itch creams, toothpaste (FD&C Blue 1), and mouthwash (FD&C Green 3). DEA: aka diethanolamine in shampoos to increase lather. 1,4-Dioxane:In shampoo, body wash, in sodium laureth sulfate products; and ingredients expressed as "PEG," "-xynol," "ceteareth," and "oleth." Formaldehyde: in baby bath soap, nail polish and hair dyes is a product of diazolidinyl urea, imidazolidinyl urea, bronopol and quaternium compounds. Lead and mercury: in products that have hydrated silica, such as in toothpaste. Mercury in the preservative thimerosal in some mascaras. Nanoparticles, Parabens, PPD, Hydroquinone, and petroleum distillates. There are sites online you can find what some dub the “dirty dozen” ingredients in common things people use that have shown in laboratories to cause carcinogens. So not only could a trip to the cosmetic isle at the dollar tree make you look like an Oompa Loompa it might actually expose you to carcinogens that could trigger cancer in high risk individuals like myself.
>I’m with Collier Chronicles. Will stick with my Bare Minerals (which really are amazingly cheap).
>When I tried to wash that stuff off my face, the water just beaded on it and ran off. I’m only half- kidding. It sat on my face like an oil slick. EWWWW.Anonymous? Wow. You are one very informed individual.
>I would sacrifice something else before I gave up my Bare Minerals. Food. Socks. I have a challenge for you – “no-pooing.” Google it. It’s supposed to be wonderful. My wavy headed daughter and I decided to give it a try and so far it’s working out well.
>WOW! Flashback to Bob Barker’s the price is right, lol. I *try* to use organic or natural products and once read somewhat (in a parents magazine not scientific today) about the crap they put into cosmetics like anonymous mentioned earlier. I admit I went a wee little-bit nutso with it. Some things stuck in my routine, but others didn’t. An example of something that didn’t is I still use No more tangles despite not knowing what everything that is in it is. Otherwise, I’d never be able to run a comb through my 3 year old’s hair.
>That foundation is just…bad. You brave soul, you. ;^)
>Nice 🙂 I suppose the lesson we learn here is that some things are worth paying for?! Still, you’re beautiful as always (a little oranger, but beautiful!!) 🙂
>I have less interest in makeup than in following links from your blog to other items you’ve written–especially if I need a little lift to my day! Love your writing style and your approach to your subject–any subject–from Bruiser to makeup from Dollar Tree! (And even I, slapdash though I am about makeup, have never bought any at Dollar Tree.)
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