I love all the videos from bubzbeauty on youtube, though my favorites are usually her makeup tips. I just saw this updo she posted though- it's really simple, loose and pretty! I love a relaxed, fun updo and I thought this one was so cute and easy. Try it out!
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Who doesn't love Stella McCartney? This season is especially gorgeous with her beautiful metallics, sheers and polka dots! If you're one of those who wishes they could afford her pieces, you're not alone. Good news though! Now you have a a chance to win a £10,000 ($15,000) shopping spree from Net-A-Porter!
Click on the picture below to play the cute match game "Stella Pairs". Afterwards, enter your email address and info to be entered into the drawing! The more people you invite to play, the better chances you have of winning.
Even if you don't win the grand prize, there are tons of great prizes offered as well. So if you win, share your prize with me since I told you about the drawing! :)
Good luck!!!
As we all know, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is happening right now in New York. If you've been keeping up with the designers and the newest collections, you might have noticed the biggest trend for Fall/Winter 2011 is to be insane.
Truly.
When has fashion gone from being trend-setting to being outrageous? I understand that each designer has to push themselves and be really cutting-edge. Otherwise, you get lost in the hundreds of shows happening around New York this week. But I don't understand how cutting-edge has turned into weird, ugly, wacky, outrageous, wild, hideous, and overall strange designs.
I also know that no one ever wears the designs straight from the runway. But could it be that designers have forgotten that we the public are the ones who actually buy their things? Not the newspapers or magazines that push their designs and decide what is "trendy" and what is not this season. But WE the people are the ones who should be pleased and enticed into buying pieces from their collection.
Therefore it is up to you, dear reader, to stop this madness and stop swallowing their "this is so now" hogwash. And yes... I just said hogwash. I'm from the South, so I'm allowed to. If we don't stand up and say "No! I am absolutely not wearing that because it's ridiculous," we shall be forced to endure even more so-called "trends" such as harem pants, tapered jeans, hair feathers, alien-like shoulder pads and more. Don't let the ridiculousness continue!
Personally, I think it all started going downhill the minute they let the first Hollywood starlet start designing clothes. Just because you're famous (of sorts) doesn't mean you can design. Yes... I'm looking at you, Jessica Simpson.
I love fashion. I truly do. And after so many years, there is only so much a designer can do to push themselves and become more creative. After all, it seems like everything has been done before. But many of the collections I've seen so far this Fashion Week, go beyond anything I've ever seen. They're not wearable. They're not even laughable. They're just... ridiculous.
I miss the days when fashion was about making a statement and going where no one else had dared go before BUT at the same time, designing for the real women of this world. Sadly, the designers seem to care more about pleasing the few critics in magazines than pleasing the people in real life. And it also seems that to be an acclaimed designer nowadays, you only need to use clashing fabrics, outrageous silhouettes, every material known to man (including meat?) plus wacky makeup and weird hair. Mash it all up together and what do you get? Astounding! Unbelievably edgy! Gorgeous! The next big thing!
Well... so the magazines would have us believe.
Wouldn't you just love to see a magazine say "With a few exceptions, this Fashion Week was a joke and should be completely dismissed by the women in the world as an attempt to brainwash us into believing it was fashionable. From the impossibly hideous shoes to the outlandish costumes they called clothes, I hated every minute of it."
To be fair, I have seen some really gorgeous things this year. But most of them are coming from the established designers that don't have anything to prove. They design beautiful clothes and they know it. They don't have to do "wacky" in order to get noticed. Perhaps my next blog, I'll forget being mean and focus of them instead. :)
But as for the rest of them... seriously?!?!?
I mean, think of the most fashionable woman you know and then ask yourself if she would actually be caught dead in this???
You can almost hear this poor model thinking, "How did I end up in this? Is this their idea of a cruel joke? It can't be possible that they actually think that putting my head in some sort of straight jacket and then dressing me up as a giant egg coming out of a red, black and white Easter basket is fashionable!!! Oh man, my picture is going to be everywhere! I'm going to be the laughing-stock of New York! Oh, I think I'm going to be sick! I wish I knew where the bathroom was but I can't see because of these huge, fake moths they have glued to my eyes!!!!"
Isn't it time we put an end to this weird and wacky sideshow called "cutting-edge fashion"? If not for our own eyes, then do it for the sake of the models. Should they really be forced to endure such embarrassing moments like the one above?
No, I think not.
For those of you interested in seeing live feeds of some of these freak *correction* FASHION shows, go to the Fashion Week website or watch them on youtube.
http://www.mbfashionweek.com/schedule
http://www.youtube.com/liverunway
In the meantime... let's all work together to do our part for the poor runway models of today.
Forget the whales! Save the models!
___________________________________
I lOVE JOHNNY DEPP BUT THIS IS CARRYING THE CPT. JACK SPARROW OBSESSION A BIT TOO FAR, ISN'T IT?
WHAT EVERY WOMAN NEEDS... A GIANT BIRDCAGE ATTACHED TO HER HIPS!
YOU KNOW THOSE DAYS WHERE YOU FEEL SO FAT THAT YOU THINK ONLY A GIANT, SHAPELESS SACK WILL SUFFICIENTLY HIDE YOUR HIDEOUS BODY? WELL EVIDENTLY MODELS HAVE THOSE DAYS TOO!
Truly.
When has fashion gone from being trend-setting to being outrageous? I understand that each designer has to push themselves and be really cutting-edge. Otherwise, you get lost in the hundreds of shows happening around New York this week. But I don't understand how cutting-edge has turned into weird, ugly, wacky, outrageous, wild, hideous, and overall strange designs.
I also know that no one ever wears the designs straight from the runway. But could it be that designers have forgotten that we the public are the ones who actually buy their things? Not the newspapers or magazines that push their designs and decide what is "trendy" and what is not this season. But WE the people are the ones who should be pleased and enticed into buying pieces from their collection.
Therefore it is up to you, dear reader, to stop this madness and stop swallowing their "this is so now" hogwash. And yes... I just said hogwash. I'm from the South, so I'm allowed to. If we don't stand up and say "No! I am absolutely not wearing that because it's ridiculous," we shall be forced to endure even more so-called "trends" such as harem pants, tapered jeans, hair feathers, alien-like shoulder pads and more. Don't let the ridiculousness continue!
Personally, I think it all started going downhill the minute they let the first Hollywood starlet start designing clothes. Just because you're famous (of sorts) doesn't mean you can design. Yes... I'm looking at you, Jessica Simpson.
I love fashion. I truly do. And after so many years, there is only so much a designer can do to push themselves and become more creative. After all, it seems like everything has been done before. But many of the collections I've seen so far this Fashion Week, go beyond anything I've ever seen. They're not wearable. They're not even laughable. They're just... ridiculous.
I miss the days when fashion was about making a statement and going where no one else had dared go before BUT at the same time, designing for the real women of this world. Sadly, the designers seem to care more about pleasing the few critics in magazines than pleasing the people in real life. And it also seems that to be an acclaimed designer nowadays, you only need to use clashing fabrics, outrageous silhouettes, every material known to man (including meat?) plus wacky makeup and weird hair. Mash it all up together and what do you get? Astounding! Unbelievably edgy! Gorgeous! The next big thing!
Well... so the magazines would have us believe.
Wouldn't you just love to see a magazine say "With a few exceptions, this Fashion Week was a joke and should be completely dismissed by the women in the world as an attempt to brainwash us into believing it was fashionable. From the impossibly hideous shoes to the outlandish costumes they called clothes, I hated every minute of it."
To be fair, I have seen some really gorgeous things this year. But most of them are coming from the established designers that don't have anything to prove. They design beautiful clothes and they know it. They don't have to do "wacky" in order to get noticed. Perhaps my next blog, I'll forget being mean and focus of them instead. :)
But as for the rest of them... seriously?!?!?
I mean, think of the most fashionable woman you know and then ask yourself if she would actually be caught dead in this???
You can almost hear this poor model thinking, "How did I end up in this? Is this their idea of a cruel joke? It can't be possible that they actually think that putting my head in some sort of straight jacket and then dressing me up as a giant egg coming out of a red, black and white Easter basket is fashionable!!! Oh man, my picture is going to be everywhere! I'm going to be the laughing-stock of New York! Oh, I think I'm going to be sick! I wish I knew where the bathroom was but I can't see because of these huge, fake moths they have glued to my eyes!!!!"
Isn't it time we put an end to this weird and wacky sideshow called "cutting-edge fashion"? If not for our own eyes, then do it for the sake of the models. Should they really be forced to endure such embarrassing moments like the one above?
No, I think not.
For those of you interested in seeing live feeds of some of these freak *correction* FASHION shows, go to the Fashion Week website or watch them on youtube.
http://www.mbfashionweek.com/schedule
http://www.youtube.com/liverunway
In the meantime... let's all work together to do our part for the poor runway models of today.
Forget the whales! Save the models!
___________________________________
I lOVE JOHNNY DEPP BUT THIS IS CARRYING THE CPT. JACK SPARROW OBSESSION A BIT TOO FAR, ISN'T IT?
WHAT EVERY WOMAN NEEDS... A GIANT BIRDCAGE ATTACHED TO HER HIPS!
YOU KNOW THOSE DAYS WHERE YOU FEEL SO FAT THAT YOU THINK ONLY A GIANT, SHAPELESS SACK WILL SUFFICIENTLY HIDE YOUR HIDEOUS BODY? WELL EVIDENTLY MODELS HAVE THOSE DAYS TOO!
Hello everyone! (those of you who might actually be reading my little blog that is!) Sorry I haven't posted anything lately but I have been quite busy and things are just now starting to get settled back into a semi-normal routine. Hopefully I will have more time to post now.
Just a quick post for now...
My cousin Katie is down here in Mexico at the moment to visit me. She's 18 and has her own adorable sense of style. Both of us love clothes and both of us love a bargain! Yesterday, she wore this adorable outfit so I thought I would share it with you. The dress was $5 from Belks, the sweater is from the Gap and the adorable boots she has on were a gift from her wonderful (and fashion-inclined) parents! I picked the boots up for them on the Texas border and they are a fabulous quality brand that I happened to find for an amazing price! Here is how it came together...
We went out last night to meet some friends for dinner, and yet again we both wore bargain pieces. She with another cute sun dress for under $10 and layered necklaces and I wore a vintage dress. This dress is a French label from the 1960's that I found in Goodwill for $4! When I got it home and found the label online, the dresses in similar patterns and from that year go from $200-$350! Not bad considering I only put out $4 at Goodwill! :) Should have taken a picture head to toe, but I didn't! Here is a pic with part of the dress showing. It is a knee-length shift dress done in a sheer rayon-ish material. The neck ties at the top but I left it undone and opted for some long brown, leather and gold necklaces, brown belt and gold sandals. Total outfit was under $20! Here is the one picture we did manage to get last night but it's not the best- we had gotten drenched from the insanely heavy rain (thank you hurricane!). This was after dinner when the rains had stopped and we were only half-drenched. :)
I would love to see some of your own bargain pieces that you wear with pride! All posts welcome. :)
Happy Shopping!
-Amy
Just a quick post for now...
My cousin Katie is down here in Mexico at the moment to visit me. She's 18 and has her own adorable sense of style. Both of us love clothes and both of us love a bargain! Yesterday, she wore this adorable outfit so I thought I would share it with you. The dress was $5 from Belks, the sweater is from the Gap and the adorable boots she has on were a gift from her wonderful (and fashion-inclined) parents! I picked the boots up for them on the Texas border and they are a fabulous quality brand that I happened to find for an amazing price! Here is how it came together...
We went out last night to meet some friends for dinner, and yet again we both wore bargain pieces. She with another cute sun dress for under $10 and layered necklaces and I wore a vintage dress. This dress is a French label from the 1960's that I found in Goodwill for $4! When I got it home and found the label online, the dresses in similar patterns and from that year go from $200-$350! Not bad considering I only put out $4 at Goodwill! :) Should have taken a picture head to toe, but I didn't! Here is a pic with part of the dress showing. It is a knee-length shift dress done in a sheer rayon-ish material. The neck ties at the top but I left it undone and opted for some long brown, leather and gold necklaces, brown belt and gold sandals. Total outfit was under $20! Here is the one picture we did manage to get last night but it's not the best- we had gotten drenched from the insanely heavy rain (thank you hurricane!). This was after dinner when the rains had stopped and we were only half-drenched. :)
I would love to see some of your own bargain pieces that you wear with pride! All posts welcome. :)
Happy Shopping!
-Amy
My love affair with fashion began when I was 11 years old. We were on the way to my brother's basketball game and stopped by a store. While I was waiting on my mom, I noticed a magazine with a beautiful girl dressed in a gorgeous, formal dress. It was a prom magazine- the first one I had ever seen. My mom saw me eyeing it and kindly bought it to entertain me during the games later that night.
My brother's team was the last to play, but my mom was the official scorekeeper for both JV teams and Varsity teams. So while I sat waiting for my brother's game to start, I started flipping through the magazine! It was love at first sight!!! Page after page of frilly dresses- pastel creations that seemed to flout like soft clouds around the ankles of the models, dramatic satin numbers that were entirely too mature for high school proms, and sleek, long gowns covered with sequins! Thousands and thousands of sequins!!! (After all, it was still the 90's! lol)
As I turned every page and drank in all the "beautiful" gowns, I begin to dream of my own prom and wondered what my dress would look like on that one magical night. I was only 11, but I had everything planned. I wanted a classic black satin gown, my hair piled on my head with loose curls, huge high heels and of course Leonardo DiCaprio for my date. *sigh*
Whenever I could, I bought more prom magazines. I collected them and kept them in a box beside my bed. I would look at the same ones over and over again! I had every page memorized, with all my favorites circled and marked. Soon I started drawing my own dresses, looking to the magazines for inspiration. I had so much fun sketching my ideas and dreaming about creating such glamorous dresses. It gave me hours of entertainment! :)
Soon my magazine obsession led me to "Seventeen". I was in heaven! I had never read fashion magazines before and was amazed at the pages of trendy and somewhat insane outfits! The fascination led me to one astounding revelation... I was ready to start growing up.
Perhaps that doesn't sound so amazing to you, but believe me... I was not a normal kid. I grew up wanting to be just like my brother! He was my hero and idol. Where I was extremely shy and backwards, he was outgoing and popular. Where I hung back in crowds, he was confident and always the center of attention. Where I was quiet (and shall we just say it... a bit boring!), he was funny and always making people laugh. We grew up on 10 acres in Georgia and had no neighbors until I was in my late teens. Therefore my brother wasn't just my hero, he was my playmate and best friend. My childhood consisted of blowing up GI Joes and pretending to sword fight with sticks. All of these things combined made for one thing- I did not want to grow up, change, leave my fun childhood behind, be girly, wear makeup or do anything of which I thought my brother (or parents!)would possibly disapprove. I was comfortable. I was happy. I knew childhood wouldn't last forever and I didn't want to do anything that might speed the process along.
Example... imagine a 12 year old girl sitting on the side of the tub with her mom, shaving her legs for the first time, and... crying. Yes. I said crying. When my mom finally made me start shaving, I felt so silly, so out of my comfort zone, so (I still dread the words!) GROWN-UP. Even at that young age, I sensed things were changing and I did not approve! Therefore I bawled like a baby when she broke out the razor.
However, my magazines opened up a world of fun, fashion and teen years. A place where it was ok to play baseball AND wear makeup. A place where I could dress in camo and pretend to be a soldier but still tie my hair in a ribbon. My magazines gave me a push into the "adult" world and gave me the courage to be the person I wanted to be... a tough girl with a feminine side!
It was a slow process! I finally worked up the nerve to ask my mom for face powder when I was 13. I was around 17 when I finally started wearing mascara. It wasn't until my 20's that I got my first highlites.
Now, no one could accuse me of being tomboyish and not girly. I love all things glam and gaudy! Nothing beats feeling pretty and feminine! But this comfortable feeling of being "me" took time.
I've decided I don't like labels. I'm not a tomboy. I'm not high maintenance. I'm not preppy or bohemian. I'm not glam or grunge. I'm not modern. I'm not vintage. I'm just me... Amy. I'm a unique and complicated individual with a unique style to match. Learning how to be comfortable with myself makes me feel proud... and on a side note, it makes my brother proud too.
Those prom magazines turned my life around as it happens. (Many thanks to my mom for buying it for me so long ago!) I now admit freely that I love fashion and clothes! I'm obsessed with jewelry and accessories. I take joy in being feminine. I have more fashion magazines that everyone in my neighborhood combined! In my free time, I still enjoy sketching out my designs and dreaming about the day I can wear them. I still like sports, I still dress up in camo to play paintball, and I still love hanging out with my brother. But I don't feel the need to fit into a mold to meet other people's expectations. I am a melting pot of ideas and beliefs and thoughts- and my wardrobe reflects that!!!
And to think... it started with just one magazine! :)
So... this is my first blog ever. Most likely no one will ever even read it! ;) However, I have decided to use it as an outlet and more importantly to talk about my one "true" love... fashion. ;)
Before all you spend-thrifts panic, don't worry! Although I appreciate a good brand and quality clothes, this blog is going to be about affordable fashion for the every day girl.
So who am I to give fashion advice? Well... I'm an every day girl like yourself. I'm someone who has been interested in fashion ever since... well ever since I opened a fashion magazine. (more on that in the next blog!) I have million dollar tastes but have to be satisfied with my slightly *ahem* humble budget.
I'd love to buy a Coach bag or Louboutin shoes or Gucci sunglasses, but alas I find myself shopping the clearance racks at Ross and Macy's. Somehow I can't seem to justify a $1500 purse when I know how I could use that money for others things (like my yearly budget for Starbucks! lol)
So... this blog is for you! From one normal, clearance loving girl to the rest of you gals that sigh over the adorable Kate Spade flats but who wear specials from Payless! :) Who says we can't ALL look terrific no matter what the budget?
Have fun reading and learning about my love of fashion and love of bargains! In the future, I'll give you fabulous tips on how to look great for less!
I'll also try to round up the best tips for makeup, hair and accesories so we can look and FEEL great without spending our entire checking account.
Although my emphasis will be on budget most of the time, we will also look at the fabulous designers of today and draw inspiration from their amazing pieces!
I hope you will enjoy learning about fashion as much I enjoy talking about it... and dreaming about it... and thinking about it... and... well I think you get the picture! ;)
Au revoir my fellow fashionistas!
Viva La Fashion!
-Amy
Before all you spend-thrifts panic, don't worry! Although I appreciate a good brand and quality clothes, this blog is going to be about affordable fashion for the every day girl.
So who am I to give fashion advice? Well... I'm an every day girl like yourself. I'm someone who has been interested in fashion ever since... well ever since I opened a fashion magazine. (more on that in the next blog!) I have million dollar tastes but have to be satisfied with my slightly *ahem* humble budget.
I'd love to buy a Coach bag or Louboutin shoes or Gucci sunglasses, but alas I find myself shopping the clearance racks at Ross and Macy's. Somehow I can't seem to justify a $1500 purse when I know how I could use that money for others things (like my yearly budget for Starbucks! lol)
So... this blog is for you! From one normal, clearance loving girl to the rest of you gals that sigh over the adorable Kate Spade flats but who wear specials from Payless! :) Who says we can't ALL look terrific no matter what the budget?
Have fun reading and learning about my love of fashion and love of bargains! In the future, I'll give you fabulous tips on how to look great for less!
I'll also try to round up the best tips for makeup, hair and accesories so we can look and FEEL great without spending our entire checking account.
Although my emphasis will be on budget most of the time, we will also look at the fabulous designers of today and draw inspiration from their amazing pieces!
I hope you will enjoy learning about fashion as much I enjoy talking about it... and dreaming about it... and thinking about it... and... well I think you get the picture! ;)
Au revoir my fellow fashionistas!
Viva La Fashion!
-Amy
