Pictured above: baked eggs from August.
I asked Andrea of BrunchCritic.com for her recommendations for the perfect brunch spots to take advantage of the last few weeks of beautiful weather (can you believe we only have a couple of weeks of Official Summer left?). After the jump, where she thinks you should go this weekend...
Remember that whole "unlucky traveler" theme?
It's baaaack!
Last night I flew to Canada for a few days to see my family, mostly because I likely won't be able to come back for several months and I wanted to spend some time with my grandmother, and I was sort of nervous about international travel because, you know...eight months pregnant. But I figured, "Eh, the flight's straight out of Newark and what, like, a little over an hour?" And my doctor said as long as I stayed hydrated, a flight that short was no big deal.
Ah, but did it end up being short? Not so much.
Beauty and Essex offers free champagne in the bathroom?
Seriously?
No, but...seriously? Why would anyone go anywhere else, ever?
You know, I can appreciate this whole thing as much as the next girl, but I have to say: when "sexy bathroom" concepts go wrong, they go really wrong. Example: I was in Vegas once at some club or another, and there was a wall of stalls along one side of the main room with clear-ish doors that frosted over and became opaque once you turned the latch...and let's just say that as the night went on, increasing numbers of people forgot to lock them, and did all sorts of funny, odd, and illegal things in full view of the entire place. It was fantastically entertaining, but I was pretty thrilled to be on the other side of the doors.
Finally, after having them recommended to me by everyone in the world, I did it: I bought the Sally Hansen stick-on things (officially known as Salon Effects Real Nail Polish Strips).
The plan yesterday was to get an actual, for-real pedicure, but at 6PM, on the way home, I decided that I wasn't particularly in the mood to spend forty bucks or to sit in a salon, so CVS it was. The plan was also to pick up a pretty grey polish a la Dior Gris Montaigne and Sally Hansen's Fairy Teal (or something similar), but all the greys were purple-y and all the teals were sparkly, so I had to revise.
I ended up going with my trusty Mink Muffs on the toes...and leopard on my fingers. I totally love it, and I hear that it'll last a week, which would be exciting (since my manicures are usually ruined within ten minutes of application, which is why I never, ever get them done in salons).
Pros/Cons:
Favorite nail look for fall: a pure grey on fingers paired with orange, teal, or pink on toes.
I've been way negligent with the pedicures lately, and my feet are starting to look like Frodo's, so this afternoon we'll be doing grey + teal in preparation for tomorrow's trip to Canada (the word on the street is that it's more autumn-y up North).
From left: Dior Gris Montaigne, Essie Vermillionaire, Sally Hanson Fairy Teal, Sally Hansen Shell We Dance.
