It's a Hump Day Hot Links Celebration!

MelBivDevoe

Hot Ink is one year old today!  And we owe our success to you, our wonderful readers.  So to thank you, today's links will be some of our best pieces!  Below, you'll find some of our favorite reviews, opinion pieces, DIY projects, rants, and, of course, your favorite Hump Day lists!  Thanks for sticking with us for the last year, and we hope you'll still be here when we celebrate our next birthday!

And no, that image of James Marsden has nothing to do with anything.  I just like a handsome man in a well-tailored suit.  

Let's start things off with Rusty's excellent "Every Body is a Bikini Body." 

Kolby gets real about ladyscaping in her "Save the Labia! Gillette Venus Bikini Trimmer" review. 

Pinky lets loose on feminine care packaging in "Always Tampax Radiant: There Will Be Blood." 

I'd be remiss if I didn't include Figgy's classic "U by Kotex: A Review And A Rant.  A Rantview."  We take our feminine products seriously around here!

You Spin My Head Round: A Proposed Theory on Fashion Cycles

Rusty

Fashion moves in cycles. This has long been known, and yet many people seem to puzzle over the exact cause.

I have a theory.

I developed this theory after seeing what Miley Cyrus was wearing at the Hunger Games premiere and having a violent flashback to sometime in around 1997. And I thought to myself “Why on earth would Miley Cyrus be raiding Gwen Stefani’s 90’s formal wear? How old was she?”

So I looked it up. Miley Cyrus was (according to the internet) born in 1992. In the late 90s she would have been about elementary school age.

My Beauty Must Have: Urban Decay Eyeshadow

Rusty

There are few beauty products that I feel absolutely married to. No matter how well something works, I’m almost always willing to give another brand a try, especially if it’s cheaper. It’s not that I don’t have product or brand loyalty, I’m just more curious to see how different products work out for me. The one area of cosmetics where I’m hitting and sticking, though, is Urban Decay eyeshadows.

I’ve mentioned the eyeshadows in a lot of my tutorials because they’re almost the only eyeshadows I own. The other ones were bought for me by someone else. There’s a few reasons for this, and they are:

All the Single Ladies: Single Girls' Guide To V-Day

Rusty

Valentine’s day is coming up, as I’m sure you’re aware thanks to commercials, made for TV movies, made for movies movies, and the excessive amounts of pink decorating any retail store you go to. If you’re single, even if you’re cool with being single, it can be a bit of a rough time of year. Here’s my way of making it slightly less awful on myself:

Anti-Pantyhose: A Guest's Perspective

Trouble, Guest Contributor

You can read Rusty's Pro-Pantyhose piece here.

Pantyhose? No. NO NO NO NO NO. Why? Well, there are several reasons but I’ll start with the most obvious one.

1. My hoobie needs to breathe.