Come up in the spot looking extra fly

Hey Ladies,
Hollllaaa! Okay, I am having the MOST extra-fly week ever, ever, ever. By now, a few of you have written in that you've seen my TV commercial for Olay. Yes, it's me and yes, my bottom teeth really are that crooked. But hello? CAN YOU BELIEVE I'M IN A COMMERCIAL? When I taped it a month ago, i didn't want to tell you guys in case I fell on my ass or something and ended up on the cutting room floor. But I saw it for the first time last week during a beloved Project Runway marathon and my throat is still sexily raspy from the force of my screeching. Here's the setup: Its a beauty editor (moi) in a fake office, and as she's rifling through all her different beauty products and says something to the effect of "I have access to a zillion beauty products, but Olay Total Effects is the only one that truly melts my butter." Well, not exactly, but you get it. When you see it, let me know what you think! I'm still in shock about the whole thing. The audition was hilarious. It was me and a bunch of my beauty editor amigas, and while most of them were nervous wrecks (a good writer does not a public speaker make), I was all over it. When it was my turn to go in front of the cameras I was like, "okay let's do this, where's the wind machine?"

Is that so wrong? Look, if I'm going to be on national TV I'm trying to have bouncy, wind-tousled hair.

But here's the second big thing happening...I'm the new co-host of Cosmopolitan magazine's new radio show, Cosmo Radio, on Sirius channel 111! It's launching on Tuesday, and if you have Sirius radio you must tune in! Me and my co-host, Taylor, will be doing the morning show, 7-11am Monday-Friday, and we'll be talking about the hottest celebrity gossip, sounding off on all things love, sex, and relationships, and doing celebrity interviews (I'm chatting up folks like Patricia Fields and Chris "Too-Dreamy-To-Live" Brown on the launch show...oh, how I'd like to corrupt that sweet young morsel!!). Isn't that exciting? So, if you have Sirius, you MUST tune in and give us a call and we chat on-air (888-81COSMO).


In the meantime, I'd like to leave you with a tasty, tasty little piece of totally related insider beauty information. Even though my hair ended up in a low bun in the Olay commercial, it started off all wavy and wanton, like a whole pre-Rapphealite moment (the hairstylist was a genius. A GENIUS). You know, like those piecy, luscious Gisele/Jessica Simpson/Jennifer Aniston waves? I've never been able to really make that look happen on my own. To do it, I separate my hair into small sections, and wind each one around the wand of my curling iron until my whole head is done. For some reason, the waves always look a little off...too tight, or something. But the hairstylist at the shoot used this ingenious triple-barreled curling iron, HOT TOOLS PROFESSIONAL 3 GOLD BARREL WAVER. I've never seen anything like it. Instead of wrapping the section around a single barrel, you weave it in and out three different ones--it makes the most natural-looking, bouncy waves that last until you wash your hair. You've got to try it! But first, always spritz hair with a thermal heat protecting spray like REDKEN HOT SETS THERMAL SETTING MIST.

xoxo,
Tia