When it comes to Going Green, driving an eco-friendly car is one of the best ways to minimize your carbon footprint and save some money. Most people flock towards cult favourites like the VolksWagen Beetle or BMW MINI (commonly called Mini Cooper), but what you gain in style you may lose at the pump. Here’s our breakdown of fuel-efficient cars you should consider.

(1) Hybrid Vehicles

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Have you made plans for this weekend?  If you’re in Montreal and have a hankering for great music and pasta, you are in luck.

Montreal’s Italian Week

Come to Little Italy through Sunday August 15 and engulf yourself in Italian culture with food and entertainment.  We wonder why this event is billed in French instead of, say, Italian but maybe that's troppo pazzo?

Admission: FREE

September is looming, and for those of you off to university it could mean a lot of shopping. We’ve put together a dorm makeover kit - 5 big changes for under $100!

Students love futons for their dual-purpose couch-to-bed feature, but they have to endure a lot of spills and crumbs. This Surefit fleece futon cover is only $25 and comes in a variety of basic colours.

Pair your neutral futon with...

Wouldn’t it be nice if makeup could do more than simply hide your early signs of aging?  What if it could actually turn back time and make your skin more than just younger-looking?

Introducing The Eraser by Maybelline New York Instant Age Rewind, a product designed to do just that: erase signs of aging by combining a foundation with age fighters collagen and Goji Berry for a rejuvenation of...

MAC recently teamed up with New York fashion label Rodarte, for their 2010-11 Fall/Winter Collection. The line of make-up products was inspired by Rodarte’s fashion line inspired by the Mexican border town of Juarez.

The colours in the collection were meant to highlight the desert beauty of the town; however, the town is notorious for its high-level of rape and murder of young women and girls....

For the second year in a row, The Body Shop is taking part in the Stop Sex Trafficking of Children & Young People 2010 campaign.
They will be raising funds through the sale of the Soft Hands Kind Heart Cream. It retails for $7-10 (available in 2 sizes), and about $5 from each purchase will go to Beyond Borders to help change the lives of millions of young people.

A second initiative is their...

This morning I had the pleasure of doing Breakfast Television in a segment about some of the top rated products on ChickAdvisor.  In the process of pulling everything together I was surprised to see how many of the top rated items are under $10 (excluding the Wii of course)!  See what I said about each product online here.

Jenn Valentyne looks lovely in her orange cardigan and dress combo...

The September 2010 issue of Vogue Italia features a 24-page spread of model Kristen McMenamy in oil-soaked clothes posing as a dying animal.

The photographer, Steven Meisel, was clearly portraying the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but is this an appropriate way to draw attention to the disaster?


A featured fashion item in the shoot (not covered in oil) is the seaweed-style necklace...

New York Fashion Week Make-up Artist, Lauren Iavarone, spends her summers beautifying brides for their special day.  In addition to the special beauty requirements of the Big Day, she reminds that it’s just as  important to start your beauty planning ahead of time.   Try these 4 tips to stay in control of your glowing look:

(1) Hire a Pro: Even though your best friend had the...