April 2009

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

Art Me Up
What: Check out local painting, photography, sculpture, glass and metal artwork at the Third Annual Hawaii Artist... Read more »

Keeping your skin glowing means deploying the forces of nature for the job. Like one of these spa treatments that use all-natural ingredients such as passion fruit, coconut, lemons, blueberries, and papaya. You’ll be buffed, polished, massaged, slathered and wrapped to perfection, ensuring a peaches ‘n’ cream complexion every time.

Go on, try one. It’s the ripe thing to do.

Tropical Passion Body Rejuvenation Treatment
Details: This three-hour fruit-a-palooza uses fresh, local Ola products from Hilo.... Read more »

 Sometimes you’re a little bit country (bikini, sundress, rubber slippers). And other times, you’re straight up rock-and-roll (skinny jeans, sexy top, sky-high stilettos).

But your limited closet space and even more limited budget insist you invest in accessories that work for both.

Thank goodness for La ‘akea, the beachy-chic jewelry line designed by local girl Natasha Briley, that offers the best of both worlds.

As former owner of the ultra-stylish MisFortune boutique,... Read more »

Every morning it’s the same routine: your closet vs. you.

In your corner, a busy schedule and big dinners. In your closet, too-tight tops and pants that barely button.

You need to get back into fighting shape. You can’t hide out in long skirts and baggy tunics forever you know.

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Your idea of gardening is picking fresh peppers and arugula from the stands at the farmers market every weekend. You draw the line at picking mangoes off your neighbor’s tree each summer.

Not that you wouldn’t love to have your own mini-crop of tomatoes and herbs. But you’re short on yard space and know-how.

It’s time to order a little bloom service. Call Foodscapes Hawai‘i and ask for the “Gardener-in-Chief” Fran Butera, who can create a custom kitchen garden for you, filled with any combination of vegetables, herbs, spices, and edible flowers... Read more »

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

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

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You don’t want to sound like a whiner, but yes, the evening temperature drop from 82 to 75 degrees does give you a bit of a chill (too bad if mainland friends don’t have such finely tuned internal thermometers).

And lately, finding the perfect outerwear has you sputtering. Pashminas have been out for a few seasons now, and the ratty old hoodie you’ve been dragging around is ready to retire.

What you need is a cute cardi or tunic from the Stacia Eco Knit collection. The T-shirt weight sweaters... Read more »

It’s hard enough to make floors out of it. It’s soft enough to make super-fluffy towels. It’s durable enough to make cutting boards or salad bowls, but so ecofriendly you can feel good about throwing away disposable plates and utensils made from it.

You can even eat it as a vegetable in stir-frys.

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The truth is, curbside blue bins make recycling a lot less inconvenient. But you still have some green guilt for throwing away all the stuff that can’t go in them. Here’s where some of those items can get new life.

Cell Phones
You love your new iPhone, but all those goodbye Motos are mounting up in a desk drawer. Take them all, chargers and other accessories included, to any Verizon Wireless store. Instead of ending up in a landfill, they could end up in the hands of someone who truly needs a lifeline through the company’s... Read more »