Shopping, Style and Beauty

02 Nov 2011

Prepare Yourself for a Party at Jack’s World 99 Cent Store!

If you ever need a dozen eggs, thirteen rolls of party streams, a mop, and some paper reinforcers, then you can head over to Jack’s World 99cent Store for some one-stop broke-ass shopping. Jack’s World, on 32nd between 6th & 7th Ave’s, can be overlooked because of its midtown location.

Tiara Francis - NY Know-it-all 0
29 Oct 2011

Monster Mash-Up: Halloween Costumes with a Twist

Stevie Wonder Woman Saves Halloween Everybody’s into Mash-Ups these days, right? Most commonly, we are familiar with Mash-Ups in music. The DJ Girl Talk  is famous for this style.These are  songs or compositions created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song

Heidi Smith - The Ultimate Scavenger 0
26 Oct 2011

Broke-Ass Halloween Costumes Gone Wrong

Halloween can be painful– and for reasons besides buying bags of mini-candies at the drugstore, eating them all at once while lounging in bed watching Netflix, and subsequently worrying about tummy aches/lack of dental insurance/pants button-popping (haaayyy).  Rather, Halloween can be a financial pain for people on a budget, a.k.a.

Carrie Laven - Pretty Penniless 0
20 Oct 2011

DIY Pumpkin Beauty

Halloween’s around the corner and pretty soon you’ll have a mess of pumpkin goo all over your kitchen table- you know, post-carving fest, of course. But I’m thinking maybe it would be a good idea not to throw it out, because after all that drinking, late-night munchies, party sweat, and

Paulette Greenhouse - The Penny Pincher 0
19 Oct 2011

Why Trying to Be Fabulous Just Makes You Look Like a Loser

Enrique* could often be found leaning against other people’s parked cars, making a pouty face and checking out his own reflection in storefronts. Even though he was a hairstylist, he refused to get his hair cut at the salon he worked at, and instead paid significantly more for a greasy,

Carrie Laven - Pretty Penniless 0
13 Oct 2011

Free Drinks, Music and 20% off at Brooklyn Industries TONIGHT!

  You’re either into free music, free drinks, free music, and a 20% off discount at one of the coolest stores around or you’re not. If you’re not, then you probably found your way to our site by accident but let’s be honest, Googling “ass” can bring you a lot

Jill S. 0
10 Oct 2011

Broke-Ass Halloween: Group Costume Ideas

Some of you are fine with slapping on some cat ears and using your eyeliner to draw on whiskers as a Halloween costume. And then, some of us have standards for our Halloween costumes. We have to be the one that people are talking about. The ones that get comments

Robin Hardwick - Cost-Conscious Connoisseur 0