Weekend Link Love: Fashionistas & A Picket Line, Om vs. Xanax, Pospartum Laws, A New Biofuel Source & the Target Backlash
August 22, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Current Events, Nutri-Life
A Wall Street Journal article delves into the debate surrounding New York Fashion Week and its move to Lincoln Center, where unions are fighting fashionistas. The fashion week folks want to choose workers for setup but the union for stagehands says their members usually get jobs for work on the premises. Fashion Week starts September [...]
Sandal Season: Stylish Options Under $30
May 3, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
Sandal season is a happy time for women, when instant gratification can be achieved via outdoor brunching, semi-monthly pedicures, shoe shopping and constant consumption of ice coffee. The good days are here. These may be short lived moments of happiness, perhaps just contentment, but we’ll take them. The sun means hope and the summer means [...]
Zac Posen For Target: A Perplexing Collection
April 7, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions, The Daily Bitch
It is with great displeasure that I reveal the best of the looks from Zac Posen’s collection for—yes, who else, Minneapolis-based retail giant Target. I usually have a blah feeling about some piece in all of the GO collections but Posen’s line is just plain confusing. For one, it is disappointing because it feels like [...]
Jean Paul Gaultier for Target
February 10, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
Fashion Week is upon us and yet we are still struggling to make ends meet, even those of us with jobs. For the first time in our lives, for those in Generations X and Y, we truly understand what it means to appreciate having any job. This personal and global credit crunch is just one [...]
A Love Affair With Target
February 4, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
Target just won’t let us go. From grill pans from the sexy Food Network star to the latest brand linkup, we just keep heading back for more. Truth be told, the purchase I keeping heading back to Target for is the 3-pack of seamless thongs from Gilligan & O’Malley for $9.99. But, that will soon [...]
The Chocolate Loophole
January 20, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Nutri-Life
A woman that is not 100% comfortable with her body, which is probably 90% of American women, is always looking for the chocolate loophole. The chocolate loophole is the way we can satisfy the craving without overdoing it or feeling guilty later. Dark chocolate that is at least 60% cacao was until now, the best way, [...]
Target Taps Food Network Star For Kitchen Gear
January 9, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Nutri-Life
If you use her new kitchen products, will you look like her? Seriously there is something we already covet from the latest star product line designed exclusively for Target. Pop the top!
Target Going the Costco Route?
January 7, 2010 by Aarti Ruparell
Filed under Featured, Nutri-Life
Over the next seven weeks, Target will now be offering consumable items including paper towels, toilet paper, toothpaste and granola bars in bulk packaging. The change has been driven by the recession, as customers are less interested in buying fashion and apparel items, and more in must have items such as household goods, Dow Jones [...]
Curated Cosmetics: ABC Carpet’s Beauty Bar
December 21, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
If ever there were such a thing as curated cosmetics, ABC Carpet & Home has defined it. Their recent first-floor expansion focused on building a new section devoted entirely to beauty, to usher in fall with a well-planned beauty bar of sorts. From 10 to 15 brands, they selected six to be sold on the ground floor of the Flatiron store. [...]
Target Beauty Goes Green
December 20, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
One of America’s most loved big box retailers is expanding its “green” product offerings with the addition of new brands that are free of questionable chemical preservatives and foaming agents. Minnesota-based Target announced it will carry a number of new brands that do not test on animals and are free of parabens, phthalates and sodium [...]


