1. They donate more than 20% off all their profits to charity.

2. They are an indie company who makes all their tees from organic cotton and recycled plastic water bottles.

&

3. All their tees are based on social justice issues, and they pair with celebs to make tee’s of importance.

But most importantly, they all look really cool.  Not message tee-ish, which can often mean cardboard feeling tee shirts with tacky sayings, but sweet and stylish.

Faves:

Norman & Shirley | Rescue Dogs – Women’s Tank
$38 @revengeis.com Rescue Dog tank top created in partnership with The Big Bang Theory actress Kaley Cuoco.

Fading Away | Red Wolf – Grey Slouch Tee, $38 @revenegis.com

Purple mouse tee, $17 @revengeis.com

Eat Your Veggies Mushroom Tee, $38 @revengeis.com

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Joshua Katcher (The Discerning Brute/ Brave Gentleman,) Leanne Mai-Ly Hilgart (Vaute Couture,)  Jeremy Davis (Craft & Valor) and I (Chloé Jo Davis – the founder and editirix of this here website) were recently making plans to meet in Central Park for an afternoon of snacking and kiki-ing, as we often do, and we had a revelation.  What if we just go on and invite everyone.  Not just our cliques and friends, but anyone who wants to come.  Vegan or not.  Come and partake in an energetically on point late morning/ early afternoon big bit of summer hang-age where you can meet some people who are totally on your level and play in the grass with no entry fee or silly sign ups.  Maybe you’ll shmooze new business, maybe your kid will make a friend, maybe you’ll fall asleep after stuffing yourself silly.

Just show up. Bring your kids or neighbor or nephew.  And something yummy to share. Just don’t poison us, because that would suck.

Worried about the visuals of this flyer? It’s a play on what people think vegans are – gyrating hippies who never met a bra or shower they liked. Some of us are, some of us aren’t.  Let’s leave it at that.

Your hosts;

(although don’t expect us to serve you because we’ll be too lazy laying in the grass, help yourself you gorgeous dummy)

Leanne quit her modeling contract with Ford Models and her full ride MBA at DePaul University to do everything she could to create the first winter dress coat that was at once 100% vegan and warm enough for a real winter. She’s since launched her award winning line Vaute Couture which was the first ever vegan line to debut at New York Fashion Week!

Leanne

Joshua is a sustainable, vegan menswear designer, editor of TheDiscerningBrute.com – a men’s vegan lifestyle website, dad to a rescued chihuahua & lover of food, fashion, and fun.

 Chloé Jo & Jeremy are parents to two little vegan boys (Freedom Midnight & Panther Britain) and five rescued pets. Jeremy owns Craft & Valor, an interactive agency where he’s won numerous awards for his high design web and mobile work.  Chloé is the founder of this award-winning website, a conscious living expert, and activist.  Want me to wax on about myself?  That’s SO vain. Read it all yourself.

Chloé & Jeremy

If this gathering is fun for all, we may have another one before the summer closes her perfect eyelashes. You’ll get an email about it if you sign up here.

cover photo by Robert Altman, The 60′s

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For decades now, whether during the Soviet Occupation, the Civil War or the Taliban Regime, the Afghan people have been subject to continuous conflict and oppression. As a result, Afghanistan has been starved economically, socially and culturally. Whilst large streams of refugees inundated the cities post 2002, life in more remote areas of the country has remained unchanged, in some instances for decades, in others even for centuries. It is for this reason that they have chosen Kabul, following similar events in Bangalore in India, Nairobi in Kenya, and Yamaguchi in Japan. In each of those places, The Balloon Project disrupted the Monday Morning commute ritual by handing out 10,000 bio-degradable bright balloons, creating a living sculpture that brought about joy, wonderment and a new sense of awareness to people.

Watch this gorgeous 1 minute clip of how and why;

An image from this event in India;

Here’s what this work will look like, how magical;

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Susan G. Komen for the Cure was hit with a tidal wave of backlash when it announced that it was pulling $680,000 in grants to Planned Parenthood that had covered breast-cancer screenings for underprivileged women. As the people behind all the pink went red in the face, Komen decided that the only way to bail out the sinking ship was for CEO Nancy Brinker to resign. Theoretically, she did. But she’s still there, in a new position: chair of the Komen Board Executive Committee. No one has replaced her as CEO, and she still holds the title on Komen’s website. According to recent news reports, in addition to still seemingly being at the helm of the organization, she just landed a tidy little raise—64 percent, to be precise—bringing her salary to nearly $685,000. Quite an interesting number. And surprisingly, she seems to have done it without much of a flap.

Nancy Brinker

Komen had to backpedal and reinstate Planned Parenthood’s grants. But even so, the organization spent a measly 11 percent of its $420 million in annual donations on screening. And it allotted 15 percent for research. So are women actually going pink “for the cure” or for other things—such as Brinker’s reported five-star accommodations, private flights, and luncheons with lobster flown in from Maine?

Equally troubling is the type of “research” that Komen funds: archaic experiments on animals that for more than 40 years still haven’t produced a cure. “The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse,” Richard Klausner, former head of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has observed. “We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans.” The same is true for the millions of rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, monkeys, and other animals who have died in the name of cancer experimentation—because their genetic makeup is vastly different from ours. The NCI now uses human cancer cells, taken by biopsy during surgery, to perform first-stage testing for new anti-cancer drugs, giving us all a much better shot at combating cancer. And while organizations such as Komen waste funds on experiments that have proven time and again not to work, women with a family history of breast cancer, like Angelina Jolie, are so fearful that they are preemptively having their breasts removed.

Believe it or not, this is one of the least horrific images we could find to share. Google animal testing if you want to know what really goes on. It’s the most brutal, barbaric thing you’ll ever see.

As a woman, an animal advocate, and a granddaughter whose dear grandmother died of breast cancer at age 64, I am outraged by Komen’s wastefulness and apparent disregard for underprivileged women. We deserve better than this.

A host of organizations dedicate their proceeds to offering screenings for underserved women and finding a cure through cutting-edge non-animal testing methods. Among them are the American Breast Cancer Foundation, the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, the National Breast Cancer Coalition, and the United Breast Cancer Research Society. PETA has compiled a complete list on its website.

To end breast cancer, we have to think outside the pink.

Michelle Kretzer learned about factory farming while pursuing a degree in Journalism at the University of Kentucky. She immediately stopped eating meat and dedicated herself to the cause of animal rights. When she is not writing for the PETA Foundation, Michelle enjoys traveling, collecting Beatles memorabilia, and finding great cruelty-free shoes and bags.

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Henner (incidentally a vegan for many decades) even wrote a book about it;

But if you are trying to make some small changes, Alice Inoue can help;

Ah…memory retention! Certain environmental things can be done to optimize learning and information absorption.  The tips I share in this article are not only excellent for learning environments, but can also be used in your home office to support greater productivity.

A short story about my memory;

First, since we are on the subject of memory retention, I would like to share something you may find interesting.  For decades, I noticed that I had difficulty remembering people after meeting them. Even when I interacted with them for hours or saw them multiple times at my office, I would not recognize them when I ran into them on the street.  I always assumed that I was just “bad with faces,” or had memory overload due to all that was happening in my life, or that I encounter an above average number of people on a day-to-day basis.

Recently though, I found out that I have a not very well-known dysfunction called “prosopagnosia,” or face blindness, the inability to recognize faces.  My case is not severe.  I can easily recognize those I see on a regular basis but am unable to recognize others with whom I have spent only a few hours or see only once in a while.

I was relieved to have an explanation after all these years, and I’m sharing it because if you are a client that I have physically met but whom I seem not to recognize on the street, stop me if I walk past you, and, when you do stop me, tell me your name and mention how I know you.  My memory otherwise is intact!

Tips for absorbing and retaining information

Unfortunately, no amount of feng shui can help me with my prosopagnosia, but I can use feng shui to enhance my study and work area and maximize the energy for absorbing and retaining information.  Follow these tips to build a physical foundation for retention:

Tip #1: Check your positioning.

If at all possible, position yourself in the corner of your room, farthest from the entrance with a solid wall to your back, giving you the greatest command of your space.  You want to be able to see the entire room from your desk.  If this is not possible, at the very least, sit facing the entrance, and if that is not feasible, place a mirror on the desk so that you can see behind you.

Tip #2:  Make sure you have good lighting.

Although this may seem like common sense, one of the classic rules in feng shui is to have proper and appropriate lighting.  You can use two lamps for optimum brightness, but ensure that the light is gentle on your eyes, so avoid fluorescents whenever possible.  If you must use fluorescent lighting, use an incandescent lamp simultaneously to counter the harshness.

Tip #3:  Neaten your work and study area

Disorganization causes stress and impedes learning, but a tidy work area fosters a sense of order, enhances concentration, brings good energy, and aids in de-stressing.  So remove all unnecessary and distracting items before you start working, keeping 50% of your desk visible at all times.

Tip #4:  Do not work under overhanging shelves

In feng shui, shelving directly over your desk symbolizes burdens hanging over your head and can also represent headaches, which, of course, you want to avoid at all costs.

Tip #5:  Use metal elements in your study area

Metal is an excellent element for a study area, bringing the qualities of clarity, efficiency, and precision.  To help maintain focus, use metal accessories such as pens, lamps, pencil holders, even a metal clock, but using a metal desk can result in metal overload, creating a cold and uninviting environment.

Tip #6:  Use hematite for grounding

If you are the type who likes to have stones or something “lucky” in your work environment, hematite, considered a metal element because of its shiny surface, will help you concentrate and ground your energy.

Tip # 7:  Use bamboo for concentration and positive energy flow

Decorative bamboo on your desk helps you stay focused and fosters positive energy flow, and entwined fronds energetically enhance information retention.   For positive energy flow, the more stalks the better.  Base the number of stalks you use on what you want to achieve.  One stalk means simplicity and a meaningful life; two stalks mean love; three stalks mean wealth, happiness, and long life, or longevity.  (The word for four in Chinese is similar to death, so using four stalks is considered rude and unlucky.)  Five stalks mean wealth in all four bodies, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.  Six stalks mean peace, harmony, and good luck; seven stalks mean good health; eight stalks mean growth and prosperity; nine stalks mean great luck, or good fortune, and ten stalks mean perfection or wholeness.  Twenty-one stalks mean blessings.

Whether you apply one or all of these tips to your work or study space, you will help to create the best possible environment for concentration, memory retention, productivity, and energy flow.  Now, if I can only figure out a way to help me remember faces!

Alice Inoue is a life guide at Alice Inoue Life Guidance, LLC, a company committed to assisting people in living empowered lives. Alice shares her wisdom as a professional speaker and personal consultant and offers a series of instructional DVD’s on feng shui, as well as her award-winning books on feng shui, happiness and spiritual life wisdom. 

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Re-Imagine Your Space

Some of the most effective home beautification comes not from adding more in, but rather from taking away. Open the blinds, open the windows. Look around. What do you see? If there are areas that feel overwhelming to you (like that heaping pile of clothes and miscellany) or make you feel stressed just looking at it (I’m looking at you, cluttered bookshelf with reads I have yet to get to just staring me down…), tackle those first. What is it that you’d like to see instead? Is it a matter of simple organization, or could you stand to get rid of clutter? Be honest with yourself. If you’re a pack-rat, how is having stuff around you serving your life?

Simplify Your Stuff

This is where we get honest. All of us have too much stuff. Like, way too much stuff, and our blessings are suffocating us. Have you ever looked around your office, papers piled up and tchotchkes everywhere, and felt so overwhelmed you didn’t even know where to start? Or have you opened your expansive closet only to moan, “I have nothing to wear!” Bull. You’re simply drowning in abundance and it can be crippling. Instead, prioritize, pare down, and get clear on what you need. Want some guidance on getting started and letting go?

John Robbin’s book The New Good Life: Living Better in An Age of Less is a revelation, and shows that less is in fact, the new abundance. ZenHabits has a lovely guide for people who gotta have their stuff or love clutter. For a thought-provoking social experiment, check out Be More with Less, a blog about shedding material and emotional stuff that no longer serves you. Related Project 333 invites people to embark on a mini-mission of living with only 33 clothing items for three months. Yes, you read that correctly. Kind of compelling, isn’t it? Imagine what you could do, be, and accomplish with less crap.

And if you need to buy things (hey, we all do), why not check out your local thrift store, hold a clothing swap, or shop at companies and stores that are in-line with your values.

Put the Excess to Good Use

• Clothes: Donate Stuff, Salvation Army, Goodwill, and local drop boxes and organizations. The options here are truly endless, so no excuses.
• Furs: Put something cruel to work being kind. Find organizations via the Wildlife Rehabilitation Directory that will use old furs to comfort sick and injured wildlife.
• Formal Dresses: Donate My Dress, Cinderella’s Closet, Becca’s Closet. Let your old bridesmaid dress or wedding gown fulfill a girl’s dream of going to prom.
• Cold Weather Apparel: One Warm Coat, Emergency Clothes Closet. Explore local options, because there are A LOT.
• Business Attire: For women, Dress for Success. For men, Career Gear. Your suits will give homeless, reentering, or low-income individuals chance to ace a job interview.
• Eyeglasses, Reading Glasses, & Sunglasses: One Sight by Lenscrafters, New Eyes for the Needy, Unite for Sight.
• Running Shoes: Share Your Soles, Recycled Runners. Give homeless runners and people in developing countries a chance to enjoy your shoes.
• Backpacks: Backpacks for Kids, Give a Kid A Backpack, School on Wheels.
• Luggage: Donate Luggage connects you to charities that will use your donation for kids in foster care, families suffering from domestic violence, and other worthy causes.

• Bedding + Towels: Your local animal shelter will take these in a heartbeat, because pups and cats need soft, people-smelling blankies to feel comfy. This is an awesome guide on reusing and donating these items.
• Furniture: Salvation Army, Charity Shops, Group Homes. Explore locally, as different organizations have pick-up and drop-off options.
• Kitchen Items: Some homeless shelters, non-profit culinary programs, and group homes will accept certain donations of kitchen ware.
• Power Tools: Community woodworker programs, job-training programs, and certain after-school programs will accept donations of tools.
• Books: Holy moly, there are so many marvelous options for donating books. Explore them here.

• Used Appliances, Cabinetry, and Carpentry Materials: There are many manufacturers and organizations that will take your donations, including Habitat for Humanity and the American Council for the Blind. Refer to this guide for more details.
• Used Computers + Phones: You can e-cycle your used computer, or you can donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation or organizations that assist victims of domestic violence. Check out the universe of options here.
• DVDs, Video Games, CDs: I used to work at a group home for children in the foster care system. Let me tell you, those kids badly wanted a gaming console like the kids they went to school with. They also delighted at movie night and listening to CDs. Look at local options for donating age-appropriate electronics to kiddos in need.

• Canned Goods + Non-Perishable Food: Your local food bank will always take items that are in good condition, within expiration, and non-perishable.

• Bikes: Bikes for the World.
• Sports Equipment: Sports Gift, Peace Passers, One World Running.
• Musical Instruments: Mr Holland’s Opus Foundation, which connects kids with instruments, and Operation Happy Note which donates instruments to soldiers serving overseas.

Couldn’t find an organization for your desired donation? Check out this super extensive listing and get giving!

Repurpose with Gusto

Even some of the smallest, seemingly dingiest spaces are full of possibility. My favorite living space was a tiny apartment in a fifth-floor walk up that had a kitchen the size of a fingernail (yes, it was very small). Why did I love it so? I made it mine. I was on a tight budget, but I’d find cute things (like that folding chair on the side of the road), paint it up, and repurpose it as a plant stand. Everywhere I looked, the place had my touch, my favorite colors, and was functional enough because I kept clutter to a minimum.

If there are items that you just can’t part with, but they’ve outgrown their function for you, is there a way you can repurpose it or give it new life? Can those ripped concert t-shirts be made into a soft, nostalgic throw? Can that old wine rack be painted and redirected to hold your magazines or throw blankets? Can that cracked bowl be turned in to a planter with a few quick fixes? That rusty old end table? Give it new life by painting it a vibrant share of marigold. The internet is loaded with remarkable repurposing guides and resources, like My Repurposed Life, Apartment Therapy, Centsational Girl, and Ikea Hackers.

Clean with Natural Compassion

• Vegan Mainstream – Make Your Own Vegan Cleaning Products
• The Daily Green – Natural Cleaning Recipes for Spring Cleaning
• Healthy Blender Recipes – Natural Cleaning Products Recipes
• YumUniverse – Cleaning Resources

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Here’s how to easily print photo images onto wood:

From our friends at Deckor Hacks;

Watch the tutorial video below – easy peasy lemon squeezy!

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As an avid bargain shopper mom, I started Kiddieo Mall online children’s consignment shop because I recognized the need for a quality online children’s consignment marketplace.  Kiddieo Mall offers parents the top brand names they know and love at a significant discount, and allows parents to sell gently used kid’s clothes online without having to pay a listing fee, unlike other consignment sites and online auctions.  We accept a small commission only after items sell.

There are many reasons parents should consign their gently used kid’s stuff.  If you need a little convincing, here are my top 10 reasons you should buy and sell from children’s online consignment shops:

• Save yourself the time and energy from doing a yard sale and simply snap a photo and load it to a children’s consignment website.  Trust me, it beats sitting outside in a lawn chair for 2 days straight.

• When items are in your house, you probably feel the need to maintain them, even if you aren’t using them regularly.  If they are out of your sight, they are no longer on your “to-do” list.  Check!

•  Reclaim your closets and garage by getting rid of all of the gently used kid’s stuff that is cluttering your life.  After all, now is the time for spring cleaning.

• Keep your playroom stocked with age-appropriate toys for less.  We all know that 6-year-olds will play with toddler toys if that is all that is available so find new toys to teach them something educational at their level.

• Buying gently used kid’s products online is faster and usually less expensive than going to retailers for similar items.  You can shop from the comfort of your home and the store is always open.

• Find unique items that you may not be able to find elsewhere or may be discontinued.  Sometimes you can even find brand new items at deep discounts.  There are always treasures waiting for you at children’s consignment websites.

• Keep the environment green and clean by recycling your kid’s unwanted items.  Give gently used children’s clothes, toys, books and other products a new and useful life, and feel good that you’re teaching your children eco-friendly practices.

• Help other parents save money by selling them your quality, gently-used kid’s clothes and other items at a fraction of the retail price.  Parenting can be a team sport if we all play nicely together.

• Make some extra money by selling items your kids no longer need.  It is never too early to start saving for college!

• Even celebrities shop thrift and consignment.  Hollywood is full of eco-conscious parents who celebrate the value of second-hand shopping.  Next time you buy gently used items for your kids, you too can call them “vintage.”

Trang Le is a mom and entrepreneur in East Bay, CA, a suburb of San Diego.  She is an avid consignment and value-conscious shopper, but also loves buying the best brand-name quality items for her kids.  She is dedicated to reusing, recycling and reselling, and is helping other like-minded moms do the same through online children’s consignment.  Visit KiddieoMall.com and Facebook.com/KiddieoMall.

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“For decades, people with acute medical conditions and those striving for optimum health have turned to juicing nutrient-dense ingredients,” says Calbom, author of a new book full of juicing tips, tricks and recipes, “The Juice Lady’s Big Book of Juices and Green Smoothies”

“You can supplement your diet with a glass of fresh juice, or go on a days-long cleansing ‘juice feast.’ And you can use different combinations of ingredients to improve your mood or boost your energy or even help alleviate physical ailments.”

Calbom says she witnessed the transformation of a woman who had back and arthritis pain, which caused her many nights of interrupted sleep due to pain in her hands. After six weeks of juicing in the morning and before dinner, she lost 12 pounds and felt more energetic in the mornings. More importantly, her arthritic and back pain has completely ceased.

Calbom suggests these cocktails for people burdened with specific ailments:

• Arthritis helper: One handful of flat leaf parsley; One dark green lettuce leaf; three to four carrots, scrubbed well, tops removed, ends trimmed; two stalks of celery with leaves; a two-inch-chunk of ginger root; and one lemon, peeled if not organic. This makes 1 serving. Ginger has anti-inflammatory properties that can help reduce arthritic joint pain and help combat oxidative damage to joints.

• The asthma helper: Five carrots, scrubbed well, tops removed, ends trimmed; five to six radishes with leaves; one green apple; half a lemon, peeled if not organic. This makes one serving and can be served chilled or at room temperature. Radish is a traditional asthma remedy.

• The headache mender: Half a ripe cantaloupe with seeds and rind removed; half of a cucumber, peeled if not organic; a 1- to 2-inch chunk of ginger root, peeled. Cantaloupe and ginger root have been shown to reduce platelet stickiness, which is related to migraine headaches.

• Cholesterol buster cocktail: Four medium-sized carrots, scrubbed well, tops removed, ends trimmed; two ribs of celery, with leaves; two kale leaves; one green apple, such as a Granny Smith, or pippin apple; a 1-inch chunk of ginger root, scrubbed or peeled if old. Ginger root has been shown in numerous scientific studies to reduce inflammation. It’s inflammation that is implicated in heart disease. But if you are looking to lower your LDL, juice an apple with your ginger root. Apples contain antioxidants that help to halt oxidation of LDL. It is oxidized LDL that is most harmful.

• The adrenal booster: One handful of parsley; one dark green lettuce leaf; four carrots, scrubbed well, tops removed and ends trimmed; two tomatoes; two ribs of celery with leaves; a dash of hot sauce; a dash of Celtic sea salt. Serves two. The adrenal glands respond to stress; when they’re overworked and fatigued, you can experience mood swings and weight gain. Hot peppers and parsley are rich in vitamin C and celery is a great source of natural sodium, both of which are very beneficial for the adrenal glands.

“As with any juice cocktail, these drinks are best imbibed as soon as possible after being processed,” Calbom says. “This is ‘live food,’ which has a full complement of vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, biophotons and enzymes. You can make it the night before, however, and drink in the morning or take it with you if you keep it chilled in a covered container.”

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Here’s her story;

It’s not easy being a small business owner sometimes. It’s just not. I make it my business to treat all my clients, celebrity or cashier, like fn rock-stars, I educate them wherever I see an opportunity, even when it has nothing to do with beauty. My heart believes it’s important to have a business that aligns with my morals; my head knows that a business needs to make money.

Sometimes these two goals are hard to reconcile.

Most recently after offering Eyelash Extensions for years, I started to feeling “funny” smelling the lash glue when treatments were being performed and began to question the quality of the materials that the suppliers were sending us. I called the company {considered the very best in the biz} I was reassured that it was still the same safe high quality as always.

Our staff has been thoroughly trained and retrained in every single service they provide.We do test patches and give free product samples { samples we have to pay for }. We research and continually educate ourselves. We want clients safe. We want our friends and family who are regulars at the spa safe. We had every reason to feel secure in offering this service. Even the insurance company that covers our services told us that our eyelash service, as performed, was totally fine and they were “happy” to cover us for it. We got the most reputable products, the fanciest! Our employee was highly skilled and had been applying individual lashes meticulously for years. At $350 a pop, clients were clamoring for appointments, follow-ups and appointments for their friends. Celebrities came. Models, fashion stars. Still, I kept thinking to myself people are coming in and we are applying GLUE to their lashes. GLUE. Glue so strong that it would hold an extension onto a lash until the lash naturally fell out.

Tres Belle Spa

Still, I could not stop obsessing over that glue. I decided we had to stand for what I felt was right and deal with whatever financial repercussions would come of it. When I say “financial repercussions” let me be clear: Tres Belle Spa was going to lose money and clients. I took Eyelash Extensions off of our service menu, off our website, off our brochures, off our seo search words, just off. Done. It was just something that needed to be done. I was right: we lost clients, but just a few. After awhile something outstanding began to happen, our cruelty-free, non-toxic treatments became the stars of the spa.New clients began to stream in wanting to experience our Ageless Goddess facial which went onto be named “Best Natural Facial in Brooklyn” and the requests for eyelash extensions just stopped. Standing for something bigger began to pay-off. It seemed that listening to my “semi-toned” gut was the right thing to do. We’ve begun to build new clients in-line with our beliefs and change the old thinking of our regulars.

Folks still wanted to have eye enhancing treatments and so the research began. Of course lash tinting but also, we began to sell and sell-out of Revitalash { now known as Nouriche because the creeps { Allergan company who admittedly test on animals } at Latisse got cranky over the competition and made them change their name.} Revitalash/Nouriche was created by an Ophthalmologist who’s wife lost her lashes from chemo and no animal testing is performed start to finish. The best part is it WORKS. My lashes are bangin’. Throw on a few coats of Beauty Without Cruelty Full Volume Mascara and Va Va Voom. Bodacious blinkers.

Just today my father called me after a report that he heard while schlepping Shane, his 90lb black lab around town. He was driving home and tuned in his radio and heard a report on the dangers of eyelash extensions on 1010WINS. Now, if 1010WINS is reporting on eyelashes, you best tune in. He called me immediately and said it has also been posted as a danger by Consumer Reports. I saw a video in which the adorable actress Kristin Chenoweth had to go on Letterman in big black sunglasses because she had a horrible reaction to eyelash extensions. She said her eyes swelled up so big that they looked like lips. OY VEY. The report went on to chronicle another performer’s reaction and then a doctor explaining the NUMEROUS risks.

The moral of this story is not that I could have saved Kristin Chenoweth.Yes, it is.No, it’s not.

Seriously, it is possible to be successful and “do the right thing” for your clients. Being ethical and principled allows you and your clients to live a better and more purposeful life. I’m still battling my head/heart over things here and there but for now no more lash extensions, no more worries.

When Allison isn’t being filmed protesting the Ringling Circus, marching for Marriage Equality or running a fundraiser, she can be found running the 225sq ft spa she started with her dad almost 9 years ago.
Tres Belle Spa has been consistently voted Best Spa, Laser hair removal & “Best All Natural Facial in Brooklyn” because their services are results driven and they’re known as the nicest staff on the planet. They offer numerous vegan beauty treatments.

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