• Allure #thebeautybox Review

      Follow my blog with Bloglovin Exploring the world of the beauty box subscriptions is good for my head.  Whenever a box like Allure’s sold out June Beauty Box arrive, I feel the excitement of a little child on Christmas Day.  Whether it is a $15/month box like Allure (first box=$10), or more pricey boxes,…

  • “Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Whose 10X Mirror Does Not Appall?”- A little tool, for you, or the man in your life on Father’s Day.

    Follow my blog with Bloglovin Our faces tell the story of our life.  Did you ever notice that no matter how old and wrinkly a good person is, they will always look pretty, or handsome?  Aging well is a reward for a life well lead.  I’m convinced good thoughts and just plain goodness, is very…

  • Ten Things to Know When Moving to the Hawaiian Islands.

    Ten Things to Know When Moving to the Hawaiian Islands.

    Living in the Hawaiian Islands is perhaps one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.  It has been about 4 years since I got on that last plane.  I remember the relief I felt, as the plane ascended into the air.  There was absolutely no fear.  Only certainty, that this was the right decision for…

  • Five Drugstore Products You Gotta Love

      Follow my blog with Bloglovin I love high-end makeup.  But I can’t help checking out the beauty aisle at Walgreen’s, Longs, and Target.  I literally can’t walk past them.  These makeup aisles are the places young girls find their first makeup collection.  Their hold on me remains until today.  And that’s a good thing, cause…

  • Five Little Notes about Hawaiian Aloha

    1. Hawaiians have good manners that go beyond not beeping your car horn in traffic, or letting other cars in, even if it slows down traffic as a whole. (If you do this, expect to get a Shaka, as a thank you.) Good traffic manners matter here. It is not uncommon to see bumper stickers…

  • Five Ways To Put The Breaks On Aging

       Finding your path to truly restorative Sleep:  Generally speaking, as we age, people sleep less and less like a baby.  For women, this is often due to a decline in progesterone.  Supplemental progesterone (after appropriate lab work) can really quickly correct this problem.  This, and 200-400 mg. of magnesium at bedtime will lead to…

  • In Search of Helen Vendler

      Aloha and Happy Mother’s Day Sis! While waiting around outside my daughter’s middle school dance last night (yes, I’m one of those parents who feel a need to be in close proximity, just in case a boy says something hurtful that makes her wanna leave, or someone makes fun of the way she dances),…

  • Anti-Aging Skin Hacks

    Anti-Aging Skin Hacks

    If there is a product that is sold, promising to renew your skin to its once youthful glow, I’m sure I have tried it at least once.  My best friend Maura and I would comb the make up counters in NYC in our twenties, half-listening to the hard sell sales lady raps about the miracle…

  • I moved to Hawaii and you can too.

    Aloha from the Sassy Pants Diary, where I share the joys of getting older, “mojo maintenance”, staying Sassy forever & this beautiful Hawaii life I live! The move to Maui can be taken lightly, or with annoying amounts of obsessing.  I chose the latter method.  If you are a youngin‘ just out of high school,…