BOGO when you want to!

Shoe fanatics unite!
Beginning April 1 through April 11, anytime you make a purchase at a Southeast Texas Shoe Carnival, you will get a BOGO When You Want to card.
The card is good through Jan. 10, 2010 and allows customers to buy one pair of shoes and get another pair free.
So save the card for back to school shopping or use it sooner for some awesome summer sandals.

Taking T-shirt art to the next level

Heading to the gym or beach? Customize your look this summer with personalized T-shirts from SpreadShirt.com

Shirts start at $21 and come in funky fun colors. You get to pick your own design and shirt style.

So, make your own mark!

From the mail bag: Origami you can put some teeth in

Reporters get the craziest mail.

When I was covering murder trials a few years back, I would frequently get prison mail from men "who wanted pen pals," or worse, "some spare commissary money."

Since I entered the realm of all things feature reporting, however, I gotta say the mail may have gotten weirder.

Last week, I opened a giant periwinkle box that was filled to the brim with confetti and one single container of food coloring.
The next day I got a book titled "Jurassic Towel Origami."

The paperback, which is sold for less than $10, promises to make bath time fun with dinosaurs crafted from towels.

WEIRD?

Yes.

After pondering who in the hell would want to bring a T-Rex to bath time, I did a little homework on the Internet. Turns out a lot of people!
I found step-by-step videos, news broadcasts and countless books on towel origami. So the next time you want to impress guests try it for yourself.

Adventures in waxing

Two words sum up my 'look': low and maintenance.

Like most of you, I don't have a huge amount of time or money to spend on a beauty regiment. So, in the past I have given myself highlights, sprayed on my own fake tan and yes, waxed my own eyebrows.

Before waxing, I tried one of those crazy contraptions advertised as "eyebrow trimmers." In my case, "eyebrow erasers" might have been the more appropriate term for that little experiment.

A traumatized boyfriend rushed into my bathroom after hearing me shriek "I look like freakin' Tammy Faye Baker" (may she rest in piece).

It took me 6 months to grow my right eyebrow back. And well, here's the thing. If you mess up one eyebrow, you must choose: Do I leave the other eyebrow alone? Or, do I "erase" the left one, too so I don't look like I lost a bet?

I gave into the Golden Rule: do unto others as you have already done to yourself. Whack! And, the left brow also vanished.

After recovering from that incident I started tweezing again. Eventually tiring of the excrusiating pain that comes with tweezing, I gave into the call of the wax.

Here's what I can without a doubt tell you:

1. Veet "salon line" of Ready to use Wax Strips are the best on the market in my opinion. The strips are under 5 bucks and come with soothing "finishing wipes." All you have to do is rub the strips in your palm, separate, apply to the appropriate area and tug unwanted hair away.


2. Sally Hanson Sugar Wax Hair Remover Kit for Face is cumbersome, but comes with a "relief lotion" that rocks. My problem with this product is you have to heat the wax container in water. Get the water too hot and kiss your flesh goobye; too cold and the hair clumps together on your face ... not the removal strips.


3. You will always get better results at a salon. Pay the $8-$10 to get your brows professionally waxed if you have a big event coming up. You don't want to have to paint your eyebrows on with a pencil for your sister's wedding.


4. Don't waste your money on eyebrow stencils. They DON'T work.


5. Never ever use a razor on your brows. Trust me, they will Never ever look right again. Ever!