Guapura 101: Sparkly, Glittery Body Shimmer

So I’m not the fanciest girl in the world, but one of my favorite ways to get dressed up is to add some body shimmer to my arms, shoulders, neck […]

I’m single, I’m almost 30, I’m unstable and currently in the middle of moving from Texas where all my family is, to LA, where I have a few family members […]

My relationship with my mother when I was growing was fraught with tension because of what seemed like an enormous cultural chasm. We were never like the “Gilmore Girls,” finishing each other’s […]

Ok ladies, first of all, try not to apply mascara in the car. Secondly, there’s a very particular way I’ve found of curling your eyelashes, then applying mascara, that makes […]

In college there was no doubt in my mind that I would marry a Mexican. I didn’t want my culture to be diluted. I wanted to live in a Spanish-speaking […]

So here it is: the biggest lie we’ve been sold in this country is that Latino growth in this country is the result of throngs of “illegals” swarming over here […]

This week’s Guapura 101 is inspired in part by an NPR story that came out with some nasty breast implant horror stories today, but also by my own experiences of […]

This week’s post is devoted to the fashion trends I find 1) most entertaining, and 2) most hideous. As a quasi-expert with no real qualifications, I realize I have absolutely […]

I spent some time last night with my Dad watching Texas Ranger baseball on the TV. He’s been around for more than 90 of the U.S.’s 235 years, and he’s […]

July is almost here, and, you guessed it, that means the fashion world is about to start whipping out their fall items soon. Let’s take a look at what that’ll […]