Posts Tagged ‘Marian Tascio’

by Marian Tascio

I’ve really been liking my hair lately.

It’s generally a fairly nondescript mass pulled back in a ponytail with barettes holding down the wisps on the sides. OK, I admit that it actually is in a ponytail right now, but not for the usual reasons. I normally wear it back because my hair has a slight natural wave and a tendency to frizziness that team up to render it perpetually agitated, never smooth like the calm locks that so many other women seem to have. But for the past month my hair seems to have been trying out what it might be like to walk on the calm side…

by Marian Tascio

Remember those long panoramic shots of the desert in The English Patient?

The rolling smoothness of the dunes is dimpled by snakelike ripples that have been carved into the sand by the wind. Well, that’s what my thighs have looked like since I had a baby last year.

About three weeks ago I started using the Body Firming Serum ($34) from Belli Motherhood Products, and I have to say that my desert-dimples have, I think, smoothed out a bit…

by Marian Tascio

It didn’t take me long—maybe a week or so—to decide that I really liked what Noah’s Naturals was doing for my skin.

I had started using the Milk Cleanser ($7.99) at night and the Facial Starter Kit ($8.99 for anti-aging gel cleanser, anti-oxidant gel serum, and 1 oz. of all day moisture) in the morning, plus the Rosemary Mint Lip Balm ($3.99) whenever the mood struck me (which was often). I noticed pretty quickly that my pores actually looked smaller—every beauty product promises that effect, but I’d never noticed it happening before—and my face looked softer and smoother…