Recent Style & Beauty Articles

Paging Indian Summer…

Paging Indian Summer…

Summer is almost over (oh, c’mon, everyone’s thinking it), so why not grab a few last rays of sunshine and a few last minute summer items for one last fashion fling! Think colorful and funky jersey headbands that run for around $16 to tame wild beach hair. “We offer...

Have Bronzer, Will Travel

Have Bronzer, Will Travel

Summer traveling can take a toll on a girl's beauty routine. Staying regal looking on the road in between trips to the family cottage and weddings is easy if you keep in mind the following key beauty ingredients for your makeup bag. "Beauty balms are all the buzz...

Home is Where the Art Is

Home is Where the Art Is

Think you have to scour out-of-town stores and shop online for hot-ticket home décor items featured on the Today Show and in American Dream Cottages magazine? Try looking right under your nose here in Grand Rapids at the Artgoodies studio. Owner Lisa Price is behind...

Pretty Professional

Pretty Professional

Looking the part of a professional and stylish career woman in intense summer heat can be a challenge but it’s important because, “The way we dress really affects how we’re feeling about ourselves,” says Lisa Jabara, co-owner of Hot Mama. “We have a lot in for summer...

Tan Lines Beware!

The best way to maintain even skin tone throughout the summer is by applying sun screen, and lots of it. But one afternoon in the sun can imprint a halter top tan line for the rest of the season, and that just won't do when your bridesmaid dress is strapless. Here are...

Your Best Accessory is Your Smile

Your Best Accessory is Your Smile

Are you sporting a sparkling smile? Don't give up your daily dose of coffee (or red wine). Get a perfect grin with these teeth-whitening tips from dentist Dr. Jeff Helmus. Dr. Helmus says most people come to his office for teeth whitening because they want to look...

Tote in Style

Tote in Style

What are you using to organize your office on wheels, aka your car, or to carry your veggies from the garden, or your beach towel to the pool? Farmers markets and beach fronts are dotted this season with market totes in various colors and patterns that make any summer...

Extreme Measures: One Woman’s Quest to Keep Her Hair

Extreme Measures: One Woman’s Quest to Keep Her Hair

A bad hair day can ruin a woman's day, and even though we lather, rinse, repeat, curl, straighten, color, and blast (sometimes in vain), Teresa Hendricks was willing to go to extreme measures to make sure she could maintain her morning routine.  After discovering...

To Tan or Not to Tan

To Tan or Not to Tan

The dangers of tanning beds are well known by all, and whether those desiring a sun-kissed look choose to acknowledge skin-damaging statistics or not, the fact is that summer is coming, and warm weather beckons shorts and tank tops out of the deepest reaches of the...

Nothing Synthetic About It

Nothing Synthetic About It

Even though the technique has been around for a little more than a year in Michigan, manicured shellacs are here to stay. Salons boast that the shellac will last for two weeks, much longer than the typical manicure that only lasts the weekend to five days if you're...