Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.

About Face
What: Local cosmetics line Body and Soul is now available only at Valerie Joseph boutique, and is offering free mini-makeovers at the store to celebrate. Get a new look from Body and Soul beauty director E’Jay and a team of makeup artists from the LOST styling crew, plus free champagne, music by DJ Paul Brandon and great goody bags with a clothing or makeup purchase. 
When: Saturday, 5 to 9 p.m.
Where: Valerie Joseph boutique at Ward... Read more »

Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events.

Green House Effect
What: The Earth Day celebration at Pacific Home is a crash course in greening up your house. Take in the photo exhibit of the Good Home on Maui , Hawaii ’s first LEED Gold certified residence. Pacific Home did the interiors and the house’s builder, Shane Jackson of Towne Island Homes will be discussing the eco-elements that make the home especially environmentally friendly. Plus, see the work of three artists working with sustainable materials. North Shore photographer Clark... Read more »

Your dad warned you—men are animals. But women are too. So, what if you stopped thinking of the man in your life as from another world, and instead considered him a related subspecies: the stubborn, loveable American Husband/Boyfriend?

Then you could stop taking his annoying habits personally, and help him become a more live-with-able cage mate with some targeted animal training.

Journalist Amy Sutherland did just that. Researching an article on exotic animal trainers led her to try some of their practices on her husband—a life-altering experience detailed in her new book What Shamu Taught Me About... Read more »

It’s all too easy to be fooled, especially when love is involved. But so often you’re the one hoodwinking, and ignoring what your heart tells you.

Just like good-girl Amelia who, in Lisa Tucker’s clever fourth novel The Cure for Modern Life, loves Matthew but breaks it off with him because she can’t support his big pharmaceutical company job. Bitter and alone, and living by her principles, she devotes her life to scientific ethics and ruining Matthew’s business. In response, Matt, the unscrupulous bad boy, does everything to protect his company’s image, even setting up... Read more »

If your wardrobe could talk, oh the secrets it might tell – extra weight on the hips, padding in the bra, that ‘80s sequined prom dress with gaudy flower print, failed attempts to join the in-crowd and fit into those skinny jeans.

Just when you thought you were safe from anyone but you spilling those beans, enter the narrator of Elizabeth Kendall’s daring and imaginative book “Autobiography of a Wardrobe.” Yes, it’s her wardrobe who tells all, revealing young B.’s transformation and maturation, from developing curves, transcending her mother’s fashion... Read more »

The only word for your bedroom is jam-packed. Every drawer, closet corner, and even the laundry basket are full. Tees and tanks seem to multiply daily like Gremlins.

If you’re going to cram anything else in there, it’s got to be something worthy. Not more fancy-frilly, on-again-off-agains, but outerwear worthy of attention.

So adios Morgan Beret (nothing personal—and they’ve just moved to Ward, by the way). And hello Adore. Opened early February in the same Kahala Mall location, this boutique strives to do it all – become a... Read more »