Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

  Recession blues are so not pretty, and increasingly, consumers have been cutting back on life's little luxuries. That definitely includes spa visits and appointments for facials, massages, and manicures. Well, here's a treat for frugal fashionistas and budgeting beauties who want to stack paper and still look fabulous. Spa...

Times like these are tough for beauty junkies. Your heart yearns for the new, hot products at the department store makeup counters, but can you afford them? And are they really worth it? It's hard to tell. If times are tough for the consumer, imagine how it feels to be...

If you're a woman of color -- even in a city as beautifully diverse as Miami -- it's easy to walk into a department store and feel like your options are limited. Even some of the biggest brands have the audacity to offer less than six shades of foundation, or...

Miami’s Art Basel hangover lasts for at least a month or two, and then the natives start getting restless again. And Saturday night’s all right for gallery crawls, but sometimes an art fan just needs more than passé exhibits, thimble-size cups of tepid wine, and ubiquitous bottles of Grolsch to...

All right, all right — in years past, we’ve been not so kind to the annual Caribbean Festival, previously known as the Bob Marley Fest. But can you blame us? With previous lineups blending thuggish hip-hop elements and random pop music wonders, some local fans grew skeptical. We’re happy to...