The Perfect Red Lips

As we all know, red lips are huge right now. All the cool kids are doing it. So, I want to do it too. But who knew finding the perfect hue would be such a du-ty? (Get it? Hue, du … duty. Rhymes. A little. No?) Literally months passed where I’d try on every lipstick within reach—fire engine red, cherry red, brick red. But nothing. They were all too bright or too orange or too something—just not the classy red I was looking for. Then came TheBalm, rather, a package of TheBalm products. This was it. I’d found my perfect red in their Plump Your Pucker tinted gloss in Strawberry My Daquiri (which is described as a ruby shimmer and is awesome). Success! Until I came to work, told a friend we’ll call Klonda Kleinhart for anonymity’s sake that I’d finally found the perfect red, and was informed that my new lips were really in the pink family. Foiled again! The good news: I found the perfect pinky red lip gloss. Bad news: I’m still on the hunt for a real red.

Oh, illusive red lip, will I ever find you? Any suggestions from you TalkShoppers out there? Please help!

Ease Up on the Sodium, Yo

Here at ShopTalk, we usually talk about such pressing matters as big sales, extreme facials, and fish pedicures (which are now extinct, BTW). But we are also concerned with health and well-being, which is why we wanted to share with you a recent press release from the Texas Medical Association (TMA) about the detriments of consuming too much sodium. The highlights are these: even if you’re not adding salt to your food at the table, you’re probably consuming way too much sodium, because prepared and restaurant foods are chock full of it. For example, one Wendy’s BLT salad without dressing has almost an entire’s day worth of sodium. Essentially, if you consume too much sodium, you are 90% more likely to develop hypertension. Yikes! And physicians are seeing children as young as 5 developing kidney stones, which can be caused by a diet too high in sodium (and not enough water). Stay with me after the jump for the entire release. Now I know why my trainer was so down on Lean Cuisines. They are packed with sodium too. (Thank you, Wikipedia, for the image.) (more…)

What To Do This Wednesday Night: Candlelight on Henderson

Although you wouldn’t know it by the temperature outside, the holiday season has officially begun. To celebrate, the merchants along Henderson Avenue are opening their doors this Wednesday, November 12, from 6-9 pm, during Candelight on Henderson. Expect food, drinks, music, good company, and–you guessed it–candlelight at the following participating shops: Milton Kent Antiques, La Mariposa, Art is Art, Emeralds to Coconuts, Pandemonium, Again & Again (which you can read about in this month’s issue of D Home), and Gypsy Wagon (which we at D Beauty love). Hope to see you there.

bliss Gives Back

With the stress of the season–and the state of the economy, for that matter–we could all use a restful rubdown. So if you’re going to splurge on a massage, you should book the R.E.S.T Intentions massage at bliss, inside the W Dallas Victory Hotel. Twenty percent of proceeds from the $160 massage go to The R.E.S.T. Initiative, a New York City-based nonprofit whose mission is to ease the chemotherapy experience of cancer patients with complimentary massages in their treatment rooms.