Sipping kaffir lime soda, dabbing the nape of my neck with an iced lemongrass towel, waiting for my Thai foot massage, soon all my extremities will be occupied. But I will return ere long to our quest for beauty, style, and etiquette.

While I’m abroad, please deliver your topic suggestions in the comments. I look forward to chatting with you over duty free chocolate when I return.

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Rapunzel applied her tresses to general escalation, romantic indulgence, and escape stratagems. But as demonstrated by the unmistakeably stunning Carrie Hensley, cranium filaments have the power to do so much more.

My dear, fetching friend from Inside the Bungalow is shaving her fair hair to raise money for St. Baldricks, a foundation that raises awareness and funds to cure kids’ cancer.

In Carrie’s own words,

“On January 28 2002, one week after the birth of their second child, my dear friends, Emily and Jameson, lost their two year old daughter, Faolan Brace MacBeth to non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Losing a child is an experience that no parent should have to live through. Facing the pain and magnitude of cancer is an experience no child should have to go through. Please help us make a difference!”

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