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| 30March | {Giveaway} The perfect shade of red nail polish by Deborah Lippmann |
| 30March | {Book Expert} Linda Wolfe: Review of A Widow’s Story |
A Widow’s Story, Joyce Carol Oates’s memoir about her first year of widowhood after the death of her husband Ray Smith, a scholar and editor to whom she’d been married for almost fifty years, is bound to call to mind Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. Since hardly a book lover over fifty hasn’t read the Didion work--and you must be a book lover if you’re reading my FOF reviews--I’ll get the comparisons out of the way right upfront. Where Didion was concise, precise and poetic, Oates is verbose, expansive, and prosaic, inclined to give us everything and the kitchen sink, from reporting her terrors about entering her empty house and running out of death certificates, to reprinting emails the complete emails she exchanged with friends. Nevertheless, this is a warmer work than Didion’s, more intimate, more straightforward, and truer to the actual day-by-day, minute-by-minute thoughts and experiences of the newly-widowed woman. (I’ve been there myself, so I know the territory.)| 29March | {Video} Were you a “Tiger Mom?” |
It's the year of the "Tiger Mom."| 28March | {Style Expert} What do you think of this look? |
FOF Terry Gibraltar: “The white boots are so unflattering on her, and the combo of heavy ruched skirt and fur trimmed jacket don't do her any favors either. I really don't like anything about this outfit! I say, start over.”
FOF Susan Grant: “Coincidentally, I returned from Paris just a few hours ago and can report that white footwear is a big trend. That said, this isn't a chic way of pulling it off. The look would work better if the boots were worn with an all black outfit and a longer skirt.”
FOF Sherrie Mathieson: “A black-and-white palette can be well done--but she uses it to grab attention rather than enhance her body. The jacket narrows her shoulders, the skirt widens her hips, and her body length is chopped along the "checkerboard.” Would she switch the bottom to a sleek wide-legged black pant and black boot? Hope so!”
FOF Gail Garramone: “The boots would work better with a less complicated look up top, perhaps a monochromatic one. And the proportion of the shoes to her legs is not right--she looks like she stepped into marshmallows.”
Sandra Soich: “It’s wrong. This lovely lady just doesn’t have the right frame for this look....thick middle, heavy knees and calves. Everything is chopped and not flowing.”| 25March | {Weekly Roundup} |
| 23March | {Giveaway} 7 FOFs will win the “greenest” kitchen containers on Earth! |
(See all our past winners. See official rules. Seven winners are chosen at random from all those commenters who answer the question. Contest closes March 31, 2011.)
| 22March | {Shopping} We’ve all heard of eBay, but what about these fab sites for vintage shopping? |
Jewelry: Atlantis Dry Goods
Fashion: Couture Allure
Home & Accessories: Housing Works
| 22March | {Style Expert} You CAN wear green! |
It's not easy wearing green.
Jill believes "everyone can wear every color. It just depends on finding the right hue." Here, she uses her fool-proof system to help you find the most flattering shade of green.
"Look at how olive brings out the warmth of FOF actress Catherine Keener's hair and evens out her skin tone," says Jill. "The wrong shade of green, such as a mint green would look like hospital scrubs on Catherine. It would gray her skin and make her hair look brassy."
"Emerald green is just right for a deep brunette like FOF Oprah Winfrey," says Jill. "True, clear colors such as emerald against her dark hair make her features pop. The wrong green for a deep brunette such as Kelly green would yellow her skin and fragment her features."
"Mint green is fabulous choice for someone with ash blonde or gray hair," says Jill. "It works with FOF actress Helen Mirren's cool, silver hair. Everything is in sync and vibrant. On the other hand, olive would wash her out, give her an unhealthy glow and give her hair a greenish tint."
"Kelly green can make a warm blonde look vibrant, fresh and younger. It brings out FOF Kim's best features. Mint green would make her hair look brassy."
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Jill Kirsh sells her color system through Soft Surroundings including her ultimate makeup kit, lip kits, a patented swatch book and an on-the-go mini compact. For more information, visit Jill’s page at Soft Surroundings.
| 21March | {Poll} Which FOF celeb is the “greenest”? |
Loading ...Images: New York Restoration Project, Warming Glow, The Distracted Globe
Sources: Mother Nature Network, United Nations Environment Programme, SFGate.com, AP Entertainment
| 18March | {Weekly Roundup} |
{FOF Homework} Then & Now 
{Giveaway} Another shot at intimacy! 
{Bedroom Confessions} He wouldn't put it down!