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Check out that MADNESS! That crazy color work! This is not a planting for the faint of heart - it is a gaudy party dress of a garden ... and I LOVE IT!

I have a heart stopping amount of variegation in this garden - the orange flowered Canna 'Tropicanna', the tiny Euphorbia 'Helena's Blush' (in full bloom), Phormium 'Red Dark Green', and - somebody STOP me - Cortaderia 'Silver Comet'. What got into me? Well, mixing different variegation is supposed to be a no-no, so guess what I wanted to do? Play. Experiment. See if I could make it work.

If you look closely, each of the variegated plants has a soft yellow tone connecting them. The cortaderias - the grasses in the background- seem to glow with their own light, and that same color is present in the center of the canna leaves, as well as the edges of the phormium. You can't see the foliage of the euphorbia through it's spent blooms - but those blooms have become a soft buff that ties them to the rest of the variegated

It is surprisingly difficult to match an actual nail-polish color with the one you have in your head. The Nailtini approach to this is about layering so everyone can have their own custom color. First, you select what they call a "straight up color." (I chose a bold red called Bloody Mary.) You lighten or darken your "straight up color" by adding a layer of "mixer"-either Crème or Espresso. I dabbed on Espresso to deepen the Bloody Mary: too dark. So I painted extra Bloody Mary on top. Surprisingly, all these layers are not too thick; I even layered on topcoat, Vodka, for extra shine.

-Ramona Demme, beauty department intern

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The Dark Knight hits theaters today, and this item from DigiBlue is sure to illict "wows" from young Batman fans with their idol on the brain. The alarm clock and radio has all the usual functions, but kids will be especially excited by the built-in bat signal that is projected on the bedroom wall at the flip of a switch. It can even work as a nightlight, so kids who are afraid of the dark can summon their inner superhero.

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Not to quote Jewel or anything, but "If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all okay." I was out with a friend earlier this week when she said, "I feel like I'm too fat to be loved." I shook her fervently (in the emotional sense, not the physical sense) and reminded her that no one is too anything to be loved. No one is too fat, bald, short, acne-prone, skinny, or whatever to be loved. Look, I think it's time we all got together and had a great big group hug, held hands and sang the Barney song, because my friend is not the first person to feel that way, and those sorts of feelings are just totally not cool.

Further proof that my friend is not the first to associate her worthiness of romantic love to her body is that one of the most popular posts on Shine this week was a woman asking if men expect women to have perfect bodies? Look, I would first like an official definition of "perfect body" so I know what I'm up against here. Until one exists though, I'm

Oh, I know that Us Weekly is not exactly the bastion of stellar journalism, but someone's got to call them on their BS, right? Check out this weird slideshow: The blurbage uses the generic term stars, but 15 of the 15 celebrities are female (go figure) and apparently they have won some kind of approval from Us Weekly for managing their weight. Or dropping some weight, maybe, even though I can't really tell on some of the photos selected. For instance, in Lauren Conrad's case, her big achievement was losing a mind-blowing six pounds. Most women in real life would probably give their eye teeth to look like most of the Before pictures.

Actually, setting aside the entire approval for looking better, the Before pictures are my biggest problem.

Almost a third of the women pictured (4 out of 15) are, like, 14 months pregnant in their Before shot, so a lot of their post-partum weight loss plan involved passing a 9 lb. human and associated effluvia through their cervix. Please don't

Dr. Kate,

Last night I had yet another exasperating night with my boyfriend, whom I love very much. You see, no matter how hard he tries to please me, our sex life is unsatisfying. This is because his penis curves downward dramatically. So about every other time we have sex, it is painful for me. We have tried many different positions, and the only one that doesn't hurt is my least favorite, doggy style. I know he likes that position, so I don't mind doing it sometimes, but I dislike the position it puts my body in, so I don't want that to be our only option. We've done many other positions, and they all tend to hurt in some way. Last night he used a dildo on me, and it didn't hurt at all, even though it is larger than he is. So I know it's his shape that hurts me. I really don't want a dildo and doggy style to be our only options, I'd like to be able to have nice romantic sex still! Do you know if there is anything we can do about this?

Mismatched Privates


Dear MP,

First things

If I had one wish, it would be for world peace. But if I had two wishes, the other one would be that I was as beloved as coffee. I would wish that no one could live without me or even function every day, that people would want to inject me into their bodies, replace their bloodstreams with me, wish that they could make sweet, sweet love to me, and be very grumpy and sad when I am gone.

Coffee is beloved in all its forms. But is coffee beloved enough to be consumed in Jell-O form? Something tells me that these espresso Jell-O cubes, with coconut sauce, are completely insane and yet absolutely delicious and refreshing. But maybe that's just my devotion to coffee talking. If you're sick of iced coffees and lattes this summer, the recipe looks simple and just weird enough to be totally wonderful. Like coffee.

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