Farrah, Beauty Icon, 1947-2009

How remiss would I be to not post pictures of the legendary beauty icon we lost to cancer in 2009, Farrah Fawcett... Her look defined the 70s...

A Beautiful Poem by Rilke

Someone sent this poem to me a few weeks ago... thought it was gorgeous....


Archaic Torso of Apollo


We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Card i did for SIM Agency www.sim-agency.com

RED for Christmas

It is Christmastime and I am snowed in...dug up some beauty images that have a Christmas feel...

Tutti Belli Pensiere

Have decided to once again go forward with "tutti belli" or--- writings of all things beautiful.....however...i am going to write about all things I, personally, think are beautiful....



Since it is Christmas time, thought I'd go on about red lipstick.....

Some of my faves are: REVLON- Fire and Ice, Cherries in the Snow
CHANEL- Lover, CoCo red, Fatale, BOBBI BROWN- Port, BY TERRY- Exquiste Cherry, SEREGE LUTENS- hmm..I think it is #1, the only red they make... ESTEE LAUDER- Stay Scarlet, LANCOME- Rouge Velour, LIPSTICK QUEEN- Red Sinner, MAC- Viva Glam I, Lady Danger, KEVYN AUCOIN- Blood Roses, GUERLAIN-# 522, YVES SAINT LAURENT- Opium Red #131, CHRISTIAN DIOR- Celebrity Red, Red Queen Satin 842. I have been dying to BESAME lipstick, DOLCE and GABBANA lipstick, EDWARD BESS lipstick and JULIE HEWETT lipstick................