Nail Polish

Dogfish dudeSam Calagione isn't known for his wardrobe. He's known for his beer.The founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, makers of popular Delaware craft beers, usually wears nothing fancier than a dirty T-shirt, khakis and a pair of low-top Chuck Taylors to work at his brew pub in Rehoboth Beach and his microbrewery in Lewes.So the fact that Calagione (left) appears in a national advertising campaign for Slates clothing shot by famed fashion photographer Richard Avedon certainly seems like a leap, especially to Calagione.

Fashion fights against breast cancerShop 'til you drop to help fight breast cancer. "Fashion Targets Breast Cancer," a project started by fashion designers nationwide, is hoping to raise more than a million dollars in just one shopping weekend to battle the disease. From Thursday, Sept. 23, to Sunday, Sept. 26, Saks Fifth Avenue will donate 2 percent of every sale to breast cancer charities. More than 100 celebrities are involved in this nationwide event, including Kate Moss, Kirk and Anne Douglas, Ralph Lauren, Candice Bergen and Heather Locklear.

IF YOU ARE raising a state-of-the-art teen-age girl, she probably owns enough nail polish to touch up the Sistine Chapel and she goes through more polish remover than she does milk. If your daughter is between the ages of 12 and 17, she is combing everything from mayonnaise to lemon juice through her hair and the sides of the bathtub are lined with dozens of pastel tubes, bottles and jars, each named for an ingredient in a Hawaiian fruit salad.If you don't keep an eye on this girl, she's going to come home with tiny dolphins swimming in a circle around her navel or delicate flowers drawn around her ankle.

Accessorizing with Kathleen CatesFunky and feminine, the Accessory Shop mixes the best of-the-moment tastes with bites of Big- Apple flair. Former New Yorker Kathleen Cates (right) is the style alchemist behind the new Fells Point boutique where butterfly clips and BCBG share the shelves.The shop's decor -- antique mirrors, Grecian columns and more acquisitions from Cates' European outings -- lend her modern inventory a touch of Old World class. The price tags go from easy to extravagant.

When you dropped Halloween candy into the trick-or-treaters' bags, did they scream in fear at the sight of your hands?If your hands look old, dry and wrinkled, with ragged hangnails - even if the kids didn't scream, you probably did.But help is at hand.Try "lemonade hands," says Norma Pasekoff Weinberg, author of the new book "Natural Hand Care, Herbal Treatments and Simple Techniques for Healthy Hands and Nails" (Storey Books, $19.95). "That's a quick little pick-me-up for when you look at your hands and you say, 'Oh, they look 97 and I'm not 97.' "Pour about a tablespoon of granulated sugar in your palm, then squeeze enough juice from a fresh lemon wedge to make a paste.

Thoroughly modern bridesToo often, bridal magazines look like catalogs and read like Miss Manners.Stacy Morrison, Modern Bride's new editor-in-chief, hopes to change that.Since taking over, she's set out to make the magazine live up to its name - and her efforts show in the August/September issue on newsstands now.She's added new features including personal essays called Voices. She's created a friendly, welcoming tone. And she's devoted more pages to style and beauty."The bridal fantasy doesn't have to be so offputting," she says.

I like it when...Soda pop bubbles. What are those bubbles? Are they in everything?-Nisa AbdullahCleveland, OhioThose bubbles are the gas carbon dioxide. Soda pop makers dissolve it in their soda because people like it. Carbon dioxide is a part of the air. Maybe that can make it seem like those bubbles are everywhere.What makes...Nail polish smell so bad?- Jessica ElliotSnellville, GeorgiaIf it weren't for the smelly solvents, nail polish would really take forever to dry.There are a lot of plastics and lacquers in nail polish.

I spend a lot of time outdoors in the summer. I love working in my flower garden and tending to the shrubs around the house. But I am extremely sensitive to chiggers, and we have lots of them. When I get bit the spot gets very itchy and red. Then it turns into a blister. The darn bites look ugly and last for weeks. My legs are covered with red spots.My husband says that when he was a Boy Scout they covered chigger bites with clear nail polish. It's not working. Do you have any other suggestions?

L' Air JordanHe's smelling all the way to the bank. When Michael Jordan The Fragrance was launched last year, jokes about smelly sneakers and eau de locker circulated through fashion land. Nobody's laughing now. At the Fragrance Foundation's FiFi awards gala this month, Michael Jordan Cologne won the U.S. star of the year trophy. He's now in the same foo-foo league with the likes of Bulgari Pour Homme, 24 Faubourg by Hermes, Giorgio Armani's Acqua Di Gio Pour Homme, Coty's Celebrate and Raw Vanilla for Men, Avon's Millennia and Navigator for Men by Dana.

It could happen.You're at your desk when your stocking snags on an open desk drawer. As you bend over to inspect the damage, a button pops off your blouse. Scrabbling about on the carpet to retrieve the button, you get dust in your eye -- which starts to water, washing mascara down your cheek.It's a lot easier to deal with a minor grooming or dress crisis if you are somewhat prepared. That is, if somewhere in your office there is a drawer or closet stocked with such items as paper towels, cotton balls, safety pins, needle and thread, clear nail polish and makeup foundation or concealer.