Jane Iredale's Blog

The weasel went out with the garbage.  It was an important member of our family but it had seen its day.  It had been sewn up so many times, that there was nothing left of its face.  When I f...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2012/07/cookie-and-weasel.html

We’ve always assumed that we know who our customer is and why you buy our makeup but last year we decided to clothe that assumption with some certainty and so we communicated with you in a vari...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2012/04/makeup-and-you.html

It isn't good to be too beautiful. You start to attract attention. People want to look at you. They spread the word and then more people want to look at you and then more and more. Soon they sta...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2011/08/too-beautiful.html

I first met her by telephone. Bob and I were sitting with our distributor's team at dinner in Malaysia wondering what to do with our free-day tomorrow when someone pulled out a phone, dialed a ...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-first-met-her-by-telephone.html

It was a dark and stormy night…. no it wasn’t. It was a beautiful fall morning. The orange leaves looked even brighter against a blue sky, proving once again that complementary colors make e...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/12/lessons-along-river-bank.html

For years, women have been relying on a combination of physical examinations and mammograms for early detection of any issues with their breast health. Mammography is a widely-used imaging tec...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/12/early-breast-cancer-detection.html

Hello Everyone, I’m excited to share news that will warm your heart as we head into the colder winter months. October marked the kickoff of our Rise Above with Love (RAWL) Campaign, and...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-pink-october_18.html

Here butterflies and bees fare far to rove Amid the crumpled leaves of poppy flowers; Here four o'clocks, to the passionate night above Fling whiffs of perfume, like pale incense showers....

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/10/see-how-our-garden-grows.html

Jane with physical therapist, Don Carlos. Both well protected from UV rays. June 13, 2010 Epilogue My friend took care of me so well that by the time she left, I’d graduated from a walk...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/06/epilogue.html

February 2, 2010 Dear Diary: I’m used to doing my own hair and makeup. I do it every morning – well, I did. I haven’t looked at my face since the accident and I really don’t want to but ...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-wrap.html

January 29 – February 2, 2010 Dear Diary: The day I’ve been dreading has finally arrived. Everyone’s going to Scottsdale to our Global Sales Conference. To be precise, they’re going to t...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/04/alone.html

January 28, 2010 Dear Diary: Even given hospital routine, there seems to be an unusual number of people taking blood from my arm. They only have one to choose from because the other one is alrea...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/03/blood.html

January 24, 2010 Dear Diary: As my stretcher is rolled into the emergency waiting area, it’s clear that it’s a busy night. Our small quiet country hospital has been transformed into what loo...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/03/er.html

January 24, 2010 Dear Diary: I’ve been lying in the driveway now for about twenty minutes. The soft mist is still falling and freezing as it touches the ground. Around me is darkness punctua...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2010/02/black-ice.html

The tradition of the evergreen tree can be traced back to the Ancient Egyptians. Centuries ago in Great Britain, Druids used evergreens at winter solstice to symbolize the return of life in the ...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/12/tradition.html

I love thinking about words. From Dan Brown’s latest great read, The Lost Symbol, I’ve just learned about how the word sincerely is thought to have come into the language. When marble workers...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/11/whats-in-word.html

Ceilidh, front center, with her focus group Mmmm! Just the whiff of Old Spice Aftershave and I’m back dancing on the top of a table to the Beatles’ She Loves Me and spotting a mysterious s...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/10/memory-and-your-nose.html

Jane on the ocean floor Sand Pipers in flight I think I’m in love with iron oxides. I used to be in love with the man who introduced me to them, my geology professor at NYU. It was he w...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/09/anyone-can-wear-red.html

Jane on the left...hanging on! Isn’t it wonderful when something happens out of the blue that just blows you away?! Literally. Last week our management team held a retreat so we could conc...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/09/different-perspective.html

We rescued our dog, Benjie, five years ago now. He was found on the streets of a nearby-town, so matted that he couldn’t defecate. He became completely devoted to my mother and her to him - ...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/08/we-are-what-we-eat.html

I vividly remember my first wrinkle. I was in Austria getting ready to go out to dinner after a day of filming Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger. I was kind of excited about some time away f...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-vividly-remember-my-first-wrinkle.html

Jane’s mum assembling Magic Mitts with tender loving care. I’ve written about vitamin D before and I feel that it’s worth writing about it again. More and more studies are showing what a...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/06/janes-mum-assembling-magic-mitts-with.html

I read with some amazement in the Spring issue of Cosmetics International that a study run by the University of St. Etienne in France and backed by L’Oreal, found that older women who put on...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-read-with-some-amazement-in-spring.html

I was gifted with a book recently called The Essential Green You! – Easy ways to detox your diet, your body, and your life written by Deirdre Imus. The book begins with an African proverb wh...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-was-gifted-with-book-recently-called.html

There’s no doubt about it, spring is my favorite season. Legend has it that the day I was born (at home) my grandmother wrapped me in a blanket and took me into the garden to look at the pea...

http://janeiredale.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring.html