Move Over Jennifer Love Hewitt!

For a couple of years now, I have been watching the TV show Ghost Whisperer. People have mocked me, laughed at me and shook their heads in disbelief that I could be so devoted to a TV show. Do I love this show?? Yes, I did before the recent changes but the main thing I really enjoy about this show is Jennifer Love Hewitts makeup. Every week, she is radiant, she glows, she looks luminous and her skin has a beauty that I have been wanting to capture for myself and unsuccessful at. I'm not going to say I've nailed it but Ladies and the odd Gentleman, I have come VERY close and I'll tell you how.

Recently, I was taken out for a birthday lunch and get together by a close friend. We walked, talked and had a really beautiful, elaborate lunch and a wonderful time. My mission, as far as shopping went, was to locate an Anna Sui blush stick that I have found to be my favorite blush product of all time. I have had this product for about 2 years and I really wanted to pick up another since I wear it on a daily basis. I own millions of blushes but this is THE ONE. I do not buy makeup anymore because with all the makeup I own it would be pathological and a sign of some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder if I were to continue to shop for things that I already have in abundance. My friend and I were talking about this the other night and she mentioned to me that her father refers to this as "the empty dance". The empty dance is what you do when you have something missing from your life or issues that you are not dealing with and you occupy yourself with looking for things to buy and shopping to distract yourself from the real problems or your feelings. Social ramblings aside, the point here is that I was looking to replace my beloved blush stick and I had to go to the Anna Sui Boutique because her makeup is no longer carried in any Dept Stores like it used to be.

I asked the very glittery, young and hip looking sales girl if she had this item. Of course it had been discontinued. I almost cried, but life goes on and ebay seems to be a good source for the ghost of blush sticks past. I have no idea why but I picked up a bottle of the foundation on the display table. The makeup display in the boutique was glorious. Beautiful colors, textures and lots of exciting glitter and shimmer. Then I did it. I tried the foundation on my hand. And then I tried it on my face. And then I forked over $37.50 and I now look like the poor gals version of Melinda Gordon/aka the Ghost Whisperer. When worn with Helena Rubinstein's Magic Concealer I cannot stop admiring myself in the mirror, obnoxious but true. I was lucky enough to be gifted the wonderful concealer but it is not available here, unless you by it online from ebay or an importer like Strawberry.net. As a concealer though, this is the top and it fell right into my lap with no effort spent looking for it.


Getting back to the foundation though, no one ever talks about it, or ever did when I regularly paid attention to makeup discussions. It's just the most perfect stuff for my dry skin that I've ever tried and the color match is as if it was custom blended for me. I don't need any highlighters or luminizers with it, it's got everything a person could want all rolled up in one little bottle and it's cheap to boot. I came home and washed my face. The next morning, I was on my way out to run some errands and I gave it a real test run. I checked my face out in really harsh daylight and it looked plump, healthy and completely evened out. If this stuff is discontinued I have others that I like but I will be extremely disappointed. I have hope on this surviving for a while though since the glittery sales girl (who incidentally is in the current issue of Marie Claire magazine much to my shock) mentioned that Anna loves this foundation. She also mentioned that Anna loves my discontinued blush and wears the powder version of it now which was quite fetching as well. Seeing as this was a birthday related visit, I wanted to get something exciting so I picked up a really gorgeous micro glitter mascara that is also quite beautiful. It's teal, green sliver and opalescent and looks quite subtle considering the way I'm describing it. It's not at all chunky and it adds a really beautiful interest to the eyes when lightly dabbed on the tips of already mascara'd eyes.

I must add that an honorable mention goes to Clarins Super Restorative True Lift foundation in the category of plumping, moisturizing creamy glow type of product. There is an issue with this though , the scent is shockingly strong and nauseating and it has a heavier filmy feel on my skin. I also did not appreciate the micro luminizer particles in it that I noticed after it had totally set on my skin but it did have a really pretty look for dryer skin if you are near a clarins counter and curious. Anna Sui's foundation has a really beautiful rose scent that dissipates pretty quickly but is really nice while it lasts. I could also not find a color match in the Clarins line but I am enjoying my sample that the wonderful Clarins lady gave me at the mall as I was passing through with my new tea strainer. If I had to choose though I would pick the Anna Sui product hands down.

All in all it was a wonderful day and here I sit another year older and just getting better!

For Shame Ghost Whisperer, FOR SHAME!

OK, I'll admit it, lame as it sounds I run home every Friday night to watch this show. It's a little bit of scary with some touching romance thrown in. I have even lied to my hairdresser and told him I had a date or an important meeting to get out of there in time so I could plant myself in front of my TV to watch this hour long escape from reality. I also have a source who Tivo's it for me just in case I am not home for it. I have taken a lot of mocking and been the butt of a lot of jokes for loving it so, but I stood firmly in my devotion to Melinda Gordon and her ghostly antics. Most people who know me do not understand what I see in this show and laugh at me for watching it. Everyone knows....do not call between 8 and 9 on Friday nights because I will not answer my phone and that is that. Last night may have changed my Friday nights forever. Let me explain.

In case you've been missing out on this show it is basically a fantasy and that is why I love it so. Jennifer Love Hewitt is Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed who has the ability to speak to and see the dead, or "earthbound spirits". The premise of the show is that she meets these spirits who are troubled by something that is preventing them from crossing over into the next life or existence. Along with the help of her wonderfully supportive, hunky husband Jim Clancy, she solves whatever mystery that is causing the spirit to be stuck in the "crossing over" part of dying and she helps them say goodbye to this world and the trappings of it and sends them off into the "light". I realize this sounds lame but you have to understand something. My daily life is so stressful and full of difficult situations and far from ideal. This damned show gave me an escape from all of that.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is gorgeous. I never liked her before this show. She actually irritated me and I never found her even remotely attractive but on this show she is is a very likable character and they really play up her beauty. For the men watching she flashes major cleavage in the bedtime scenes with her adoring hubby Jim. Her wardrobe and makeup is fun to look at for someone who is interested in fashion and beauty. Her husband is eye candy for me. He is featured in various states of undress on each show too. It's subtle, it's usually coming out of the shower or getting ready for bed, nothing purely gratuitous. He is really not my type per se, but he is pretty easy on the eyes.

So why am I so upset and where is this going? Well here it is. Last night, CBS messed up my perfect little Friday nites forever because..............................................THEY KILLED JIM CLANCY OFF THE SHOW!!!! Yes, that's right. JIM IS DEAD. Jim, the yang to Melinda's yin has been murdered by the idiot writers of this show. Now years ago, they murdered Melinda's best friend, killed her off the show too. Last year they killed her father and sent her cohort on a sabbatical. Now her husband. This show has officially jumped the shark for me.

The thing I loved about Jim was that he was always there for Melinda. He was the loving, adoring, perfect hubby that does not exist in real life. I loved the scenes when she would come home from a hard day of ghost whispering and he would be there waiting for her with a glass of wine, cooking her dinner. His character was pretty meh. He pretty much existed to support her. AND WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT?? Female characters have been doing this for YEARS!! It's about time a man existed for the purpose of supporting the female character! Not to mention that these two actors have amazing chemistry together. It's totally believable that they are madly in love with each other and that is quite wonderful to see. Please CBS....why can't you let me have my little fantasy that a man like this may actually exist out there? Why must everything be so dark and reality based? This show is a fantasy dammit!! To kill off a beloved main character is just complete insanity. When he told her he was dead and he went code blue in the hospital scene, I cried more than Jennifer Love Hewitt did! This season was supposed to be about them starting a family. Now why the hell could that not have been enough? Why is every show about broken relationships? Everyone is divorced, single, a widow or widower. Everyone is cheating and philandering. There is nothing on TV that represents a happy, stable relationship. This was it! And now they've ruined it! I am not a huge TV watcher to begin with. This was really the only show I watched on a regular basis.

HEAR ME NOW CBS: BRING BACK JIM OR I AM DONE WITH YOU! You did it with Bobby Ewing on Dallas back in the day and it was ridiculous, but it satisfied people who watched for his character and the relationship between him and Pam. If Melinda doesn't wake up and realize that this has been a horrible dream I am officially done with this show as are many others. And don't even think about bringing him back as a ghost and having her have some bizarre relationship with him as a dead guy!! I want a real flesh and blood Jim back or you have lost me!

CBS...YOU SUCKASS!