Shamonica Magazine

Do y’all remember that catalogue International Male? Admit it, you do. I recall getting my hands on a few copies in the early 90s, and me and my friends would FREAK OUT over the pleather pants, the sheer and shiny euro-shirts, the horrifying excess of leopard print everything, and the weird manpanties and mangerie that the catalogue seemed to specialize in. High cut saucy manpanties those were. And all the models were so horribly, orangely tan.

The Oscars are my Superbowl. Ever since I can remember, my family has gathered to watch the ceremonial distribution of the little gold men. It’s treated as a minor holiday, on par with Halloween. We’d crowd into my Grandmother’s living room and holler at the screen like true sportsfans “Oh my God girl! What the [...]

We’ve all seen those house redecorating shows out there, like Trading Spaces, where people redecorate each others homes or rooms in a style that the owner should like. But what if you were to redecorate a room in someone’s home without their permission? What if you intentionally made it into something that the person living [...]

I Love Elle Decor. I love Architectural Digest. I love World of Interiors. I love it when they have pictures of beautiful rooms that are like puzzles. Like some genius scavenger hunt master has left clues for you, in the form of things that should not be in that particular room. Today we present a [...]

There’s a million reasons we should dislike Daphne Guinness. She’s heir to a vast beer fortune (guess which beer! guess!) in addition to being landed and titled gentry. She subsists on red bull and Ensure shakes and has allegedly exclaimed “I’ll eat when I’m dead.” But the Honorable Daphne Guinness, throughout all of her publicity stunts, [...]

The first time I ever stepped foot into Sephora, that fluorescent temple of glam, I was bewildered by all of the endless shimmering piles of beauty “essentials.”  Things that are indispensable qualifications for the job of owning a lady face. I thought: Shit in heaven! I have no idea what being a female entails. I’ve been doing this [...]