Welcome
Luxe, calme et volupté.*
That sounds wonderful.
In today’s world, I find that there is a disturbing lack of all of the above. Maybe it’s the speed at which we live our daily lives, multitasking during each measured moment of the day and well into our nights. Whatever the reason, I think that we’ve lost something that our parents and grandparents took for granted. Not just an ease in society or how to throw an intimate dinner for six or write a thank you note, but an everyday elegance.
Easy and Elegant Life is my attempt to define what makes up an elegant existence and to pass along a few easy (and inexpensive) ideas for bringing back a little elegance to our everyday lives. Here you will find ideas for living, decorating, entertaining and dressing with an easy elegance. Not just my ideas. To help point the way, I intend to seek out all sorts of people -- professional lifestyle experts and those who seem to have been born elegant -- asking them what they believe constitutes elegance and how we can best achieve it.
So to those whom Honore de Balzac called “elegantologists” I dedicate this site and the good fight.
* From “L’Invitation au voyage” by Charles Baudelaire. The whole line reads: “Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté/ Luxe, calme et volupté.”
i’ll add my endorsement to the blue eagle shaving cream- its well worth the high(er) price. i have never had a better shave at home.
Great product tips, even a womam can use!!
I highly recommend the King Of Shaves AlphaGel. It forms a non-foaming slippery surface, moisturizes, smells good (tea tree oil & menthol), and is very affordable. Sometimes available at the dreaded Wal-Mart.
CallMeAl, I’ve always been a little leery of menthol for some reason. But I’ve packed and used that King of Shaves when I forgot cream on vacation. It did the trick and did smell great.