Brown List

Bored? Need ideas for activities, products to sniff out, books to read and movies to see? For this Brown List, we asked our staff for their all time favorite books, products, and guilty pleasures. Check it out, and feel free to share your own must-haves!

1. Must have fashion accessory:

Ismath: “My peep-toe, patent leather black pumps! They make any outfit fabulous! And my shiny, charcoal-colored beaded bracelet from Club Monaco.”

Hot pumps from Zappos.com.

Also, on our list:

• Gaudy earrings
• Head bands
• Eye-catching watches
• Fashionable sunglasses
• Cute cardigans
• Hot boots

2. Words to live by:

Ismath: “Be careful not to confuse confidence with arrogance.”

Shruti: “Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.”

Asma: “Do what you gotta do!”

Musleha: No one can judge you but yourself.

Pooja: “Eat, drink and be merry.”

Sunita: “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” (Orson Welles)

3. The fave read:

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Alchemist
• The Notebook
• 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People
• Ella Enchanted
• Born Confused
• Thousand Splendid Suns
• Namesake
• Number the Stars
• House of Leaves
• The Reader
• American Psycho

Some of our favorite books.

4. Gotta try this product:

Musleha: “I’m currently infatuated with my new perfume, Miss Dior Cherie! It’s girly, sweet and stays on all day!”

Miss Dior Cherie smells oh, so good!

Also, on our list:

• Lacome Star Bronzer
• Bath and Body Works Sweet Pea Body Butter
• Dream Angels Heavenly Body Spray by Victoria Secret

Some Great Products: Bronzer, Body Butter, and Heavenly.

5. Can’t Live Without:

When we posed this question to our staff, an overwhelming number of them said their Chi and the internet. Of course, we have other favorites too:

• Good coffee
• Oversized shades
• Friends and family
• Books
• A full water bottle

Aditi: “Pandora.com- my constant source of new music ideas and savior from boredom at work.”

Need some music in your life? Visit pandora.com.

6. The Guilty Pleasures:

• Online shopping (for real or even browsing)
• Magazines
• Ice Cream
• Really bad pop music

Sunita: “Looking up airline tickets and planning trips around the world!”

Musleha: “Getting all my news from PerezHilton.com!”

7. Music Picks: link to song list

8. The Store to Go to:

• Sephora
• Forever 21
• H&M
• Target
• Charlotte Russe

9. That Movie List:

• Hard Candy
• Escape from Suburbia
• The Sweetest Thing
• History of the World Part I
• Juno

Some of our movie picks!

10. What do we like to do the most? Share our passion for Brown Girl Magazine, of course! So, join our newsletter, tell your friends, and make Brown Girl part of every brown girl’s life!

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