Plug Plug Pluggity Plug

One of my favorite things is watching people get made over. It's fun and it satisfies my need for instant gratification, like when I want chips and I open up a bag of Fritos and begin to chow down In other words, it's good fun, but, unlike the chips, doesn't add any poundage to my already fine wide arse. Since Trinny and Susannah are no longer the backbone of BBCAmerica, I find myself watching the American version of What Not to Wear on a regular basis, and even though I still feel the need to bitchslap Stacy London for being, well, a monstrously bitchy poseur with waaaay too many pairs of gorgeous Louboutins at her disposal, I find that, if I switch channels when she becomes annoying, it nonetheless satisfies my jones. But I still want more, and fortunately, one of our friends has obliged me.

As I mentioned in this post, the husband is now getting his hair cut by one of his regular (and favorite) customers, Christopher Hopkins. Christopher has earned the moniker "The Makeover Guy" over the years as, well, it's what he does---and he does it well. So well, in fact, that he's got a book coming out at the beginning of May, entitled Staging Your Comeback: A Complete Beauty Revival for Women Over 45. Christopher gets it, to put it simply. He knows that beauty is about maximizing what you've got, and sorting out the fine art of the optical illusion to make you look your best, and with this project he's been working with middle-aged women, who are struggling with what time has done to them and gives them solutions to counteract it, while still managing to look age appropriate and fabulous. Check out this video he's put up on YouTube and see what the man can do.

Amazing, no?

And, yes, he really is as nice and as funny as he appears to be.

The husband and I are very excited and happy that his book is coming out soon and hope it does very, very well---and will do what we can to ensure that outcome---so you, my devoted Cake Eater readers, can expect a few more plugs in the coming months.

Posted by Kathy at January 24, 2008 11:33 AM | TrackBack