Want him to be more spontaneous? How about a spur of the moment proposal? Ladies, here’s an idea on how to plant the seed, and see what grows. Because sometimes guys need a little hint.

Get all glammed up with your man and head to the Oak Room at the Fairmont Copley Plaza, where gorgeous deep mahogany meets country club elegance. The Bill Laughlin Jazz Quartet performs on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:15 p.m.

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We get it. Like a lover who just can’t get enough of our regular weekday rendezvous, you suffer from Bostonista separation anxiety between our daily(-ish) posts. To that we say, right back at you. We miss your sassy, knowing eyes and your spot-on comments. And now, we can finally make you sat-is-fied:

No longer must we have such a spotty, once-a-day relationship. Because, in addition, your girl Bostonista will now be posting quickies via Twitter. Follow us here at www.twitter.com/bostonista for savory bites of news, gossip, and musings from the pulse of the local style scene at all hours of the day.

Remember when people used to get highlights with a cap? We still can’t believe we subjected our locks to such horrifying trauma. Stylists would place the cap over our heads, and use a hook to poke through the plastic and lace (more like rip) our hair out the other end. It left us looking like a Chia pet with broken strands everywhere. Not to mention the tangles. What a nightmare!

Then along came foils. Foils are pain-free and gentler on the scalp. They also keep hair tidy while the dye does its job, and the heat lamp interacts with the foil to speed up the color process. But while you wait, you risk looking like a satellite, or like your mom trying to get a tan by the pool in the ’60s. Not to mention the waste. You can’t recycle that stuff.

The next innovation in hair color is Balayage.

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Mesa Arts Center - Shauna Gillies-Smith of Ground for MSI (GroundInc.com)

This week we were invited to speak to an extraordinary group of women. Called the Design Salon Boston, this informal organization brings together interior designers, architects, product designers, and writers once a month to talk about their trade and figure out how to do what they do better. We met up at the groundbreaking architectural firm, Utile, hosted by principal Mimi Love.

It’s about time someone figured how to gather the creative types in the city, but I was a little wary of the women-only bent. Wary, that is, until I witnessed its merits first-hand.

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An extension of the things we’re obsessed with this month:

Ballet-inspired classes: Like the rest of the celeb-following world, we’ve been intrigued by trainer-to-the-stars Tracey Anderson’s dance/Pilates hybrid workouts ever since client Gwyneth started showing off her legs on red carpets everywhere. As we wait for Anderson to open a Boston studio, we’ve signed up to try Life in Synergy’s Ballet Booty and Boston Sports Club’s NYC Ballet Workout Movement. We’ll keep you posted…

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Spring was in the air this weekend, and the male mating call was heard loud and clear at the Harpoon St. Patrick’s Day Festival and at the Liberty Hotel, where Bostonista played the wing-woman to all her single-lady friends.

Though this femme fatale is married, our Bostonista friends fell victim to some up the worst (and most creative) pick-up lines we’ve heard in a long time. It was like an episode of Tool Academy. Please share your stories in the comments at the end of this post!

The Scene: Harpoon St Patrick’s Day Festival
Guy: “Your jaw must hurt…”
Bostonista: “What? Why….”
Guy: “From smiling all day.”
Bostonista: “Ohhh Okay….”

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The auditions for the 2009-2010 season Patriots cheerleading squad were held on Saturday at the Dana-Farber Field House At Gillette Stadium. Thanks to some prodding from her sister, Boston magazine online designer Casey McNamara decided to try out even though she had never cheered before in her life.

“My sister literally knocked on my door with coffee in hand that morning,” Casey says. “I knew she was serious, so I quickly got myself glamorized.”

Here’s what Casey’s experience was like.

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We’ve experimented with our fair share of eyelash extensions, falsies, and length-defying mascaras, but we had yet to try new products on the market that claim to grow thicker, longer, stronger lashes.

We’ve worn fakes for a fashion shoot, but never could master how to apply them ourselves. We’d rather live with our blunt ones, than have lashes stuck to our brows. Expensive extensions certainly do the trick, but we were looking for a more economical way to DIY.

Enter Lashfood, a natural eyelash and eyebrow stimulator, formulated using Biotin and Arginine. It’s like hair conditioner, but for your lids. We used the product over a month-long period, hoping to bat the big ones at our husband by Valentine’s Day.

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This past weekend, we hoofed it around the city, looking for the perfect Valentine’s gift. Not for our boyfriend, not for our crush, and not even for moi. We were pursuing presents for… our brother’s girlfriend (fingers crossed she’s not reading this right now).

While a little blue box is always nice, we wanted our dear brother to get a little more creative.

Genius struck, courtesy of an episode we remembered on The Real Housewives of Orange County. Maybe you remember the one, where the ladies go on an afternoon shopping spree to Fred Segal and create their own personal fragrances?

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Rachel Baker and Sascha de Gersdorff get cold feet about warm winter footwear (well, at least, one of them does).

Sascha: So tell me, Rachel, how are you getting around in all this snow?

Rachel: Ugh. It’s rough. I alternate between my aubergine Hunter galoshes, regular boots, and sneakers. It’s positively soggy no matter what route I take. I’m in desperate need of snow boots…but yours are so ugly. I don’t know if I can make that sacrifice. I mean, I’m no native New Englander.

Sascha: Hmpf. I’m not sure they’re SO ugly… Well, ok, they are. But I’m vaguely superheroinesque in them. I mean, I can dash through puddles, traipse across ice, and wade into snow banks without ever getting cold feet. I don’t think we can say as much about those Puma sneakers you’ve been wearing around.
And how about those three-inch heel things?

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