Kara's Lipstick Diary

We've talked a lot about how bad the profiles can be on dating sites that women are looking at to date men. But are the guys profiles any better on gay dating sites? I mean they have to be right!?!?!Well my guest Ben Caswell and I discuss just that. What are the differences between gay and straight dating sites? For one gay sights actually list their STI status. Wow that would be a fantastic addition to straight dating sites if you ask me. But what else?&nb...

Women around the nation cry in fear today as a true war on women has been declared by the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade. Women lives, health, futures and financial freedom have just been ripped away. The access to legal abortions is so important to the welfare of women. Forced pregnancy is considered a violation of human rights. Our supreme court clearly no longer thinks of this nation's women as human. In this episode my guest, Dr. Laurie Mintz (t...

Society says you find one partner and that should be enough. You commit to them and them alone. You can only love one person at a time. You should only have sexual relations with this one person. This one person is supposed to supply you with all your physical and emotional needs for the rest of your life. Monogamy is the social standard. But monogamy doesn't work for everyone. My guest Norma Berger has been monogamous but came to realize that didn't fill h...

Time for another Alcohol Taste Testing and this time my guest Stephanie Frank, whose shoulder you saw in the opening credits of Season 1, and I test way too many Hard Ciders. Y'all don't mix and drink this many hard ciders this quickly. Stephanie and I found out the hard way why not too. While we drink you know we are going to gab about all sorts of things and you'll find out what gift inspired the title of this episode. So sit back with your favorite hard cider and fi...

When the mixologist for the show becomes the content for the Fuckboy Episode you know I'm going to invite him on the show for a rebuttal. Cam Cross helps me make the cocktail and then we discuss dating, cat fishing, red flags in dating and more. Hear straight from the Fuckboys mouth in this episode SEASON 2 EPISODE 12 COCKTAIL RECIPE | Lemon Cucumber MartiniPut in shaker:- Slap Mint- Cucumber slices- 1/2 oz simple syrupMuddle itAdd ice- 2.5 oz cucumber mint vodka- .5 oz lemon...

Mental Health and Therapy ... two things haven't been talked about enough but since the pandemic it has become clear we are at a mental health crisis. Getting mental health care and going to therapy has a huge stigma around it and very misunderstood. So in this episode therapist Eric Dutton joins me for a conversation to try and breakdown those stigmas, discuss what therapy actually is and the different types of therapy from talk therapy to group therapy and EMDR. SEASON 2 E...

Our society expects women's boobs to be big and perky and round. And well, often times women's boobs are not that naturally. So we feel like we need to fix them, make them perfect and get breast augmentation. Often times when I'm hanging with a group of women I'll be the only one without breast implants and for years I thought that of course I would get them. I mean I wanted bigger boobs too.But then I started hearing things that made me question that desire. I s...

Over 40% of women are sexually assaulted. That is who reports. In a culture where sexual assault and rape are so common often times survivors have trouble accepting their assaults. They are often in denial or try to push it down in their memory or they blame themselves. But all of this leads to mental health issues, trust issues, sexual issues, PTSD, low self esteem, anxiety, depression and more. My guest Taylor Burch-Rosin, a fellow sexual assault survivor, and I...

Sex coach Bryn Naylor is back with Daniel Rengering joining us a we continue the conversation of sex and female pleasure. Bryn has gone on a journey in life to find her orgasm and helps other women do the same thing along the way. She spent years of her life trying to fit into the box of a good girl and realized that box didn't fit her needs. After attending Burning Man several years ago, with her then husband, she realized it was time to burn down the life she knew and start ove...

Time to taste test some hard seltzers, and well, we really took one for the team. Daniel Rengering joins me along with Melissa DiStefano Stewart, who won the chance to be on the show by bidding the most at the Rosé Gala this past December benefitting American Cancer Society and their work with Breast Cancer research and programming, as we sample lots and lots of hard seltzers.We not only tasted way too many hard seltzers that for the most part tasted like a "Jolly Rancher Spit in Seltze...