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  1. What Do You Pack for a Cruise? Here's How Not to Sink the Ship

    1/25/10 11:00am by NothingButBonfires
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    If there's one thing I know a little something-something about, it's packing. I am, in fact, a champion packer. I could pack in the Packing Olympics, if such a thing existed, and I would bring home -- at the very worst -- a bronze medal. (Hey, it helps not to be too cocky about these things, you know? Truth be told, I'd probably get the gold, but I'm going to let you keep believing I'm modest.)So when Kristen came to me with a packing challenge, I knew I had to step up to the plate.  Read more >

  2. How I Broke My Eyeball

    1/3/10 8:00am by NothingButBonfires
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    I should probably tell you right now that this story is going to be a little bit gross. If you have eyes, and I assume you do, the odds are fairly high that you are going to squinch them shut quite suddenly while reading it, not unlike a man who flinches and subconsciously reaches protectively for his testicles whenever he stumbles across the word "castration." This story has to do with eyes you see, my eyes in particular, and people have sort of a thing about eyes.  Read more >

  3. Going Somewhere in Mexico? It Takes Eleven Minutes.

    12/29/09 5:00am by NothingButBonfires
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    Friends, you have not experienced the absurd until you have been squired around a Mexican Wal-Mart by your enormous Mexican bodyguard, both of you searching in vain for vanilla extract.  Read more >

  4. How To Take a Picture of a Celebrity to Your Hair Appointment and Not Leave in Floods of Tears

    9/29/09 8:55pm by NothingButBonfires
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    Over the years, I've taken a whole gossip magazine's worth of celebrity pictures to my various hair appointments. Nicole Richie's shoulder-length bob has accompanied me on many a visit, as has Katie Holmes' layered shag; heck, I've even taken pictures of various bloggers--don't worry, I asked first--passing the photos off to my stylist as "....uh, my friend's hair. I mean, my acquaintance's. I mean, well, see, I know her from online. I mean....oh god, never mind. Anyway, do you think this will work for me?"  Read more >

  5. My Four Favorite Products Right Now

    8/17/09 9:24pm by NothingButBonfires
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    Look, I admit it, I'm fickle. The things I like are constantly changing, and while I do have a few constant beauty must-haves---I have yet to go a couple of weeks without buying Cover Girl's Lipslick in Daring, for example---I have no problem with switching pretty much everything else out whenever I feel like it. Variety is the spice of life, after all!  So here are four new products---well, new to me---that are currently rocking my world. 1. Trader Joe's Tea Tree Tingle Body Wash, $3.99 at Trader Joe's  Read more >

  6. I Think I've Found the Best Fake Tan Ever

    7/22/09 12:00am by NothingButBonfires
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    I need to tell you about a product that's changed my life. No, really, I know that sounds like hyperbole, and it's....well, okay, I guess it is kind of hyperbole; this product didn't give me a kidney or rescue me from a burning building, after all. But guess what it did do? It finally put an end to my quest for The Best Self-Tanner Ever, So Help Me God I Don't Want Orange Palms Anymore.   Read more >

  7. Professional Makeup: Worth It For Your Wedding?

    5/27/09 10:17pm by NothingButBonfires
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    I don't want to toot my own horn, but I'm fairly decent at doing my makeup. I've found a handful of products, over the years, that work best for my skin type and my face shape, and I can get the look I want fairly easily when I use them. Of course, that could be because the look I want is pretty much "barefaced and natural with just a hint of English rose" rather than, say, "super hot Goth with a killer smoky eye," but still.  Read more >

  8. The Top Three Makeup Tricks That Just Don't Work for Me

    5/8/09 1:33pm by NothingButBonfires
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    We've all heard them: the beauty fixes that promise to make you look younger!, happier!, more wide awake! Just use this product, the magazines promise. Just buy this thing. Just draw a line under your eye right here, rub, blend, dot, turn around in a circle three times, and sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.  Backwards. In German. That'll fix you right up!  Read more >

  9. Biotin vitamins: good, bad, or flush them down the toilet and forget about them?

    4/6/09 9:58pm by NothingButBonfires
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    A few weeks ago, I mentioned on my blog that I was trying to grow my hair. Someone told me in the comments section to get myself a bottle of Biotin vitamins. My curiosity piqued, I went online and ordered some from drugstore.com---hell, they were on sale, and the reviews promised they'd make both my hair and nails grow at light speed. Besides, they were vitamins. Aren't vitamins supposed to be good for you?  Read more >

  10. Help Me Choose My Bridesmaids' Dresses!

    3/27/09 4:20pm by NothingButBonfires
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    Alright, alright, I know this isn't a wedding blog. But we all like a good dress here at BeautyHacks, don't we? And hey, if you don't like a good dress, I hope you'll help a sister out anyway.  Read more >

NothingButBonfires

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About Me: 
Holly Burns has a British passport, an American driver’s license, and the tendency to experience a minor identity crisis whenever people ask her where she’s from. Born in England, she grew up all over Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and is very likely scarred for life after attending ten schools before her tenth birthday. Her personal blog, Nothing But Bonfires, traces her life as a British ex-pat in the U.S., where she is never entirely sure which way to pronounce “basil” or “tomato.” She works as an editor for Travelocity and lives in San Francisco with her web designer boyfriend and two embarrassingly enormous cats.
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