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What to Splendora: Don't wait until Friday! Our BLOG is updated daily with WHAT TOs you won't see in the Forecast.
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For years we have wanted to explain WHY we choose what we do for our Style Forecast. Sometimes the links are slow or choke up because there are millions of you hitting the site at the same time. We are furiously working to speed up this process. Thanks for being cool.
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Splendora's "What to" List |
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Brunch: The Daytime Disaster |
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On the heels of Mother's Day, this Saturday or Sunday, before you venture forth from your cozy environs, remember, there's no other meal that incites whining quite like weekend brunch. This in-between breakfast and lunch ritual can be hellacious, especially with a hangover. Typically, when rolling to brunch, the group (it's always a group, isn't it?) is starving, ravenous, and mildly cranky. Everyone needs coffee, a Diet Coke, a few Advil, a cold compress, etc. Usually there are no showers beforehand, so at hipster brunch spots, there is always a faint smell of booze, cigs, and sex. Everyone looks bleary and beat up from the night before - sunglasses are required. And since the wait for a table is always interminable, the brunch loaf-around on the sidewalk is the most fertile ground for eavesdropping. Conversations revolve around last night's gig, who needs greasy bacon immediately, who went home with whom, and how much everyone imbibed. Sometimes free coffee is provided during the wait, people become amped, and the scene gets totally wack. Caffeine overload often impairs ordering ("should I have the eggs benedict, the tofu hash, or the pancakes? I don't know if I want sweet or not..."), rendering the wait staff's jobs even more trying than they already are. While brunch is a delicious treat of a meal, it can be an exhausting, 3-hour ordeal. You usually end up back where you started, in bed.
Hipster Brunch Spots in your City
SF: Boogaloos - You can always spy an indie-rocker post gig at this Mission favorite. Long lines, veggie gravy and biscuits, lots of hipster posturing.
NYC: Enid's in Brooklyn - Gawker perhaps put it best, "the restaurant epitomizes everything that's wrong with the brunch ritual: insanely long waits, ostentatiously hip crowds reeking of booze from the night before, lots of sceneiness and and little emphasis on, you know, food-eating."
LA: Toast - Hollywood folk crowd the 3rd Street sidewalk angling to see which celebs are sitting inside eating a turkey bacon breakfast burrito.
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20% Off Laser Hair Removal at Epi Center Med Spa |
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Getting in shape for summer does not simply pertain to your abs. Make sure your skin is in tip-top shape too. Epi-Center Med spa is offering 20% off laser hair removal for new clients, and 20% off treatment (on new areas) for existing clients. Once you're smooth, try their custom age-defying clinical facial that targets pigmentation and hydration - an essential for any sun-loving California girl.
Epi Center Med Spa is located at: 450 Sutter Building, San Francisco, 415.362.4754.
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The Hair Apparent |
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We have not had a hair-raising celeb couple to toss around in a while. We spent a lot of time guffawing at Ben Affleck's transformation from flannel-clad schlump to waxy Ken doll when he was with J.Lo. Those days are long gone. However, we have found that couple's replacement: John Mayer and Jessica Simpson. Mr. Mayer got Simpson-ized! The faux-hippie rocker is looking more Hollywood chic and less hillbilly thanks to a recent cut. Mayer didn't go to Jess' BFF and hanger-on, Ken Paves, instead, he hit up (Sally) Hershberger for his new coif. Wherever he went, that expensive haircut is hot.
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Sales & Saucy Happenings: The Guardsmen Bachelor Auction |
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Single ladies, break out your perfume and pocketbooks. On Thursday, May 17th, at 7:00 PM, get ready to bid on twenty of the city's most foxy, eligible bachelors at The Guardsmen Auction. Don't feel shy - all of the proceeds go toward charity programs for disadvantaged youth. In addition to the eye candy, you'll be treated to complimentary cosmos from 7:00-8:30 PM.
The event will be held at: Ruby Skye, 420 Mason Street, San Francisco, 415.856.0939.
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Sales & Saucy Happenings: Shabby Chic Vintage Dress Installation |
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We are vintage lovers here at the House of Splendora, so when we heard there were going to be whimsical vintage dresses displayed in Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic store, we were jazzed. The installation hit SF first and will travel to other Shabby Chic stores across the country. Some pieces are hanging heavenly from the ceiling, and others are modeled on mannequins. All of them are embellished - with brooches, silk trims and vintage flowers. Following the final store installation, five of these one-of-a-kind dresses will be auctioned off to benefit a charitable organization. The installation runs through 6/5.
Shabby Chic is located at: 2185 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, 415.771.3881.
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