Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events. Two Become One What: Valerie Joseph boutiques at McCully and Ward merge into one location at Ala Moana Center. If you missed the closing sales at the previous locations, check out the Ala Moana shop’s...
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Lei Chic’s guide to the weekend’s best events. Two Become One What: Valerie Joseph boutiques at McCully and Ward merge into one location at Ala Moana Center. If you missed the closing sales at the...
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Lately your once humble beauty supply has become an arsenal rivaling Saddam’s WMD stockpile (oh wait, he didn’t have any!).
Time to surrender your hoard and adopt one powerful weapon— Cor Silver Soap. In just one step, this nano-silver and silica bar removes makeup; evens skin tone; reduces the appearance of sunspots, pores and aging; maintains natural moisture, and protects from the sun with an imperceptible film that leaves your face feeling clean and silky soft. Just apply the tingling lather, wait, rinse and go— and the bar lasts six to nine...
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Sometimes you have to shell out big bucks to kick it in style. But while that makes perfect sense for say, a New Year’s limo ride in hot new heels, when buying edgy street wear for baby you can’t keep pretending you’ve got Brangelina’s budget.
But that doesn’t mean you have to boycott stylish shops or settle for cheapie pastel onesies smothered in unicorns.
Instead hit up Kona-based Koko Bean’s boutique-quality, adult-inspired infant clothes for prices so low you’ll do a double take. And there’s nothing cutesie or cheap about the bold colors and trend- and...
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Your mission: Gather the latest intel on fashion trends from Italy, Spain, Brazil, Australia and Indonesia. Culture, traditional arts and fabrics, and anything found in nature are hot spots. Blend in with artisans by creating a line of garments, connecting with locals while purchasing their crafts and accessories. Bring back a saleable line to complete the look and your identity...
Don’t worry, you don’t have to accept this assignment – television and film costumer and Sola2 designer Marie-Noelle Pouliot already has.
When inspiration strikes, she flies to Bali to create small...
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The stories you get each day are chosen because we think each item we cover is something worth telling you about. We don’t take payment to write about anything, and we won’t, ever. So how do we make money when the subscription is free? We sell ads. The...
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Clothes Make The Man What: UH grad Dan Weaver, who advanced through three rounds of Project Runway interviews in 2007, debuts his latest collection and throws an after party. Order the pieces you like, as well as T-shirts and accessories online after the show. Read more »
Clothes Make The Man What: UH grad Dan Weaver, who advanced through three rounds of Project Runway interviews in 2007, debuts his latest collection and throws an after party. Order the pieces you like, as well as T-shirts and accessories online...
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Fairy tale ideas you’ve long since given up on: a land where you never grow up (or – presumably – old), a glass slipper that somehow attracts the most handsome and successful men, and that spoonful of sugar that makes bitter medicine delightful.
Not so fast on that last one.
There is a red berry that can make everything sour taste sweet. It exists. Yes, really.
It’s called miracle fruit, and the small red berries contain a chemical that reacts with your taste buds, causing acids to taste sweet. After eating just one berry, sucking a lemon wedge suddenly tastes like eating a lemon...
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Tearing into a fresh batch of your mom’s cookies usually means just pulling back the tin foil from the plate.
But when Michael Ching’s mom, Clara, makes cookies, they’re delivered in a white-ribbon-tied, vellum-sleeved case decorated with custom illustrations of rare island birds by local artist Michael Furuya.
Inside are three levels of gourmet cookies and candies, each individually wrapped or boxed with bows. Half the fun is unwrapping the package – but it’s worth it to enjoy the sweets, like the chocolate truffles, mini toffee balls, chocolate-dipped dried fruits (mango, pineapple, coconut,...
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Lei Chic associate editor Terri Inefuku graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in Journalism and International Studies, and worked in New York, Chicago, Austin and Honolulu as a broadcast journalist before joining HONOLULU Magazine. When she's not rooting out new fashion discoveries for Lei Chic, you'll find her in the kitchen baking up treats for family and friends.
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Fairy tale ideas you’ve long since given up on: a land where you never grow up (or – presumably – old), a glass slipper that somehow attracts the most handsome and successful men, and that spoonful of sugar that makes bitter medicine delightful.
Tearing into a fresh batch of your mom’s cookies usually means just pulling back the tin foil from the plate.
Lei Chic associate editor Terri Inefuku graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in Journalism and International Studies, and worked in New York, Chicago, Austin and Honolulu as a broadcast journalist before joining HONOLULU Magazine. When she's not rooting out new fashion discoveries for Lei Chic, you'll find her in the kitchen baking up treats for family and friends.
