Bake and Shake

Totally Boss Gifts: SEE's White Chocolate Cashew Brittle

 

This is my Arsenic-based lifeform. Awe, delight, fear. Every bite humbles you. This confection will turn you feral. Don't give me guff about how white chocolate isn't chocolate. You're right. White chocolate is a narcotic.

Order five pounds for under a hundred dollars. Order one pound for under twenty. Walk into a SEE's Candy Store near you and try a piece, for free. Walk into twenty SEE's Candy Stores, and assemble a box, in your pockets.

They let you do that, without law enforcement intervention.

Totally Boss Gifts: NARS 'Exhibit A' Blush

Everyone talks about Orgasm, or Deep Throat, but my current favorite NARS offering is this blush, which is one of those things that prompts a lot of talk, a lot of skepticism, a lot of Trust Exercises and then eventual, reverent love and respect from everyone who is lucky enough to try it.

Don't be put off by the condensed Campbells Tomato Soup orange-tinted red of the photo above. Or do, but try it out anyway. Because it will really do something for you!

A few weeks back, every other word I heard was "Let me at that blush," or "Can I borrow your blush?". Various ladies, various skin tones, various facial shapes - everything that matters when you're picking or applying blush was rendered mute. This, to me, is the ultimate SLAPPED AND IN LOVE cheek rouge. You barely swipe the surface with your biggest, loosest brush and you barely sweep the apples of your cheeks. It looks amazing with no lip color, or your scariest crimson. It makes you look healthy and refreshed, lively, like you just returned from weeks away in a dry climate, regaining your robustness. Don't wear wild, contoured eye makeup with it though. Or do. Who am I to tell you no! You do it, son.

Totally Boss Gifts: Fitz and The Tantrums

We all know the New Year is creeping closer and closer, and if you're like me, you're enjoying the last bit of this year, which was one for the record books. Such great heights. To fall from or be pushed from, or stare down as you clung to the edge of something unstable and hateful.

But then we hit September and things chilled out and now that we're getting ready to say farewell, we should send this year out in style. Big party. Big party. Every relative. And some hot tunes.

Fitz and The Tantrums. This is music to dance to, with other people, or by yourself. You can sing along to it, and shake your hips. You can slam counters with your palms, point emphatically and slide across floors. You can swish, swivel, stomp and swear. I suggest you acquaint yourself with these jams. This is the time. This is your time. 2010 is almost done, and the best way to make it second-guess the choices it made is to have a killer time, while it shows itself out. Look at you. Look at you. You'd think it rained rose petals all year.

(And according to their website, they're offering a free download of the Totally Boss single 'Moneygrabber'. Watch out!)

Totally Boss Gifts: Michelle Armas 'Antonia' Calendar

Hello and Happy Holidays, friends.

I am in the midst of letting go, opening up and playing chicken with cold weather and appropriate outerwear. What have you been up to? Kissed Jake Ryan yet?

Instead of trying to get weird and hyper-committed, I am going to back off of ETSY, because the police have been called, and instead share with you things that I've come across and loved. First up, this signed Michelle Armas 'Antonia' calendar, which has transfixed me since I first saw it on SimpleLovely. My favorite colors, in one massive beautiful swirl. I feel like it represents my spirit. I feel like it represents what would be used to deny me bail. I feel like I want one, and I feel like you need one.

So there we go. The first Totally Boss Gift of 2010.