We know (well, we hope) you've grown to love our incessant beauty-obsessed chatter here on TGITBD blog but we decided to ask one of our favorite bloggers, Tia Williams of Shake Your Beauty, to do a guest post for us. For some reason (maybe it was the begging), she agreed. We'll be back a little later but for now, take it away, Tia!

Hi girls,

I've been slightly disturbed the past week--and no, it's not because I lost a significant amount of money on a bet that Beyonce would never get Jay Z down the aisle. Maybe it's just me, but the revelation that Demi Moore owes her preternaturally glowing complexion to antioxidant-rich medical leeches was totally baffling. Not that I should've been surprised, really. People have been indulging in crazy beauty treatments since some early cavewoman caught her reflection in a lake and thought, "I must do something about those undereye circles!" Cleopatra supposedly wore lipsticks made from finely crushed carmine beetles mixed with ant eggs. Plague-era Londoners used mice hair to fill in thinning eyebrows. Even Blondie babe Debbie Harry has admitted to getting Black Sheep Embryo injections to stave off the effects of aging! Truth be told, I've been known to indulge in some beauty insanity, too. Recently, I've become obsessed with Thermaclear, a buzzing, hand-held device that uses heat pulse technology to literally zap zits (it's been available in dermatologists' offices for years, but now laypeople can use it, too). True, Thermaclear isn't blood-sucking-critter bizarre, but as a girl with an acute fear of electronics, allowing a scary, electric shock-dispensing machine to come within an inch of my face is two stops from Crazytown. Okay, true confession time: What's the most insane thing you've ever done in the name of beauty?


Tia Williams of Shake Your Beauty