gorgeous pics!

you might be amused at the fact the sweets and i zoom past your hubby’s alma mater every morning to get to work via the 5th ave onramp. i’m invariably rushing to put my face on at the same time. luckily, the sweets drives.

i have not had the pleasure of visiting haleiwa joe’s, honestly. what do you recommend there? everytime we head that way, it’s for breakfast at haleiwa cafe, i think it’s called. we’ll go far for breakfast, especially good home fries!

Girl, that’s El Hub’s old stomping grounds! He went St. Patrick’s back in the day (aka the stone ages, ha ha).

My in-laws now live on the Windward side! Do you ever go to Haliewa Joe’s? Here I am during our last trip being a dork in the gardens:

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I hope we can go back and visit soon. It’s hard to get decent manapua in Marin county, and it’s too cold to surf here.

the color isn’t a prob as long as you do no more than about a tablespoon of powder in your palm at a time. even my stylist advocates plain ole cornstarch as a tried, tested & truly inexpensive solution for fixing grimy hair in a pinch!

i live in honolulu in a neighborhood called kaimuki, which is basically up the hill from waikiki. the weather today was gorgeous-somewhere in the eighties and definitely more humid than i would like, but postcard perfect all the same. too bad i was in the office til 6pm so i couldn’t enjoy it! but such is life for most of us who live in this paradise!

Aloooooha!

Thank you for this tip! I have read that you could use plain powder, but have always wondered how to deal with the color!

I miss Hawaii… which island are you from?

anyway, while i am a fan of ojon’s dry shampoo, there is a ghetto fab solution that works just as well for a fraction of the price. i use plain old corn starch, like Johnson & Johnson, and work it through my roots, making sure to run my hands through my hair and scalp as well as brush everthing through so there are no telltale white streaks in my pinay-american, very dark, slightly bendy fine hair. this gets rid of the oil. i also spritz a bit of whatever body spray i fancy that day-maybe bath & body work’s love spell or vanilla sugar- to freshen the scent. the alchohol seems also to help with the oil. i then use use a body-enhancing hair spray like dove’s version or maybe some of garnier’s curl mousse to help with style. after that, no one can tell I traded a quick shower for twenty more minutes snoozing unless they’re so close their schnozz is all up in my tresses (only the sweets should get that close, and he thinks i’m still sexy even if i’m icky dirty!).

hope you find this tip even a millionth as helpful as i find your blog!