Build Your Own Glam Pack...Like Sex and the City

Sex and the City grossed $56,848,056, in it's opening weekend, and it doesn't look like it's slowing down. SATC is officially a worldwide phenomenon –and, you too can be a part of it!

Since its opening on May 30, 2008, SATC has been given a second life beyond cable. The antics of Carrie Bradshaw, and her crew of neurotic professionals (or professional neurotics), inspired throngs of club-going, wannabe professional women who ached to perch themselves on teetering barstools in dark clubs while they collectively ordered cosmopolitans (Cosmos, in SATC slang), and all variations on the classic Martini. (The drink orders started to sound like a scene out of Forest Gump: “There's a Dirty Martini...Apple-tini...Peach-tini...Berry-tini...Chocolate-tini”)

As a single, professional woman, what did I learn during this time of SATC glam-girl bonding? How to celebrate my sexuality? How to strive for “Mr. Big”? Not quite. What I did learn how was how to spot aspiring SATC “Glam Packs” trying to create a “scene,” and how to avoid them like the plague!

Bubbling out of the crude of high school cliques with no audience past graduation, packs of younger women needed a new way to bond, judge, critique and exclude...kind of like a summer camp without the mosquitoes. Before the group thinkers in these cliques think that I'm some poor sap sitting on the sidelines of life, think again. I've ruled, and been a subject, in many of these queendoms, and then...I grew up. Always an independent thinker, I realized that I didn't need to be validated by others who were just like me! But, thank you Sex and the City for debunking that myth! Phew.

However, all is not lost for those who still aspire to the lush life of the SATC Glam Pack. As an observer of the power of re-animation via SATC, I've cracked the Glam Pack's DaVinci Code for you!

With the great threat of being assassinated by being hit with a lit Peach Schnapps Molotov cocktail, I am here to present you with the Glam Pack's Guide to SATC-liciousness!

1. Travel in Packs

Never travel to a bar alone, otherwise, you'll be considered a mark, or worse yet, a desperate cougar! No good Glam Girl would be caught dead without three, or more, companions – preferably with different hair colors. You know, so you can tell them apart.

2. Diversify Your Pack

Rather than more of the same, just make it the same...but different. Don't confuse your Glam Pack with women who are too different. For example, don't throw in an Asian girlfriend and an African American girlfriend –you'll only confuse and frustrate your growing “scene.” As an African American woman, that leaves me with very few options. Sigh, the price of popularity...

3. Drink Alcohol by the Liter

...but only if it's a drink that hasn't been created yet. Brownie-points for getting a signature drink that's associated with your “scene,” like a trademark. Buddy up –or sex up-- a hip, young, mixologist who moonlights as a Calvin Klein model. That oughtta do it.

4. Never Wear Pants

A good Glam Pack-er can never be seen in pants. How else can you show off your new, red-lacquered bottom Loubitins, or curve-heeled Pradas? And wear a dress short enough to inspire  shock or awe, but preferably both.

5. The Flat Iron is Your Friend

You can't roll as a Glam unit if someone is sporting an Afro, dreads, or, (God forbid!) has no hair. Lighten and straighten: It's saved many a make-over show.

And finally,

6. Treat Your Choice of a Purse as Important as the Presidential Election

Just think, if you pick the wrong bag, it'll cost too much money to get a new one, and you'll just be stuck with it until the economy gets better.