November 2007

‘Naughty’ Orly Nail Lacquer on my Nails [Beauty Bento Box]

Oh, the vanities of women. What we do on our bodies sometimes. Painting our faces and nails in various colours. It’s a little funny when you think about it. LOL.

Anyway, I’ve been quite hooked on dark nail polish lately and I just wanted to show you guys what I had the manicurist do on mine last week. I scheduled this appointment cuz of the event I had to go to Friday night. I’m currently sporting a ‘Naughty’ colour from Orly Nail Lacquer. I found the colour sleek and gorgeously dark and I loved it!

I’m not the type to go for the matte nail polish. I’ve always preferred them with shimmer. I had considered a bronze shimmer second coat, mix it with the Orly Nail Lacquer but decided against it in the end. I thought I’d be a daredevil and try the polish alone. Good thing cuz I loved the result! The glossy finish didn’t make the nail polish look blah and cheap-looking, which was something I feared it would turn out. I’m now even considering buying my own bottle! Er, well, if I’m not too lazy to apply it myself. More often than not I leave my nails to a specialist. I’m that vain. Heh.

So, what do you guys think?

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a first time for everything

>> Kate Moss just got photographed for a Donna Karan campaign — for the first time ever.  The images were shot in LA last week by Mert and Marcus and will feature Donna’s Spring "Nueva York"-themed collection.  Lucky for us, a pesky paparazzo was on set, so take a gander this-a-way to see Kate in action…or inaction, whichever may be the case.

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AMA Fashion As Uncomfortable As Jimmy Kimmel’s Jokes [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly]

The American Music Awards were last night, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. We caught about 30 minutes of it, and that was more than enough. Once we heard Kimmel make an ill-placed joke about his 14-year old son wanting to lose his virginity, we had to change the channel. (And whatever, Pretty Woman was on TBS at the same time!) The fashion choices on display left us with a similar feeling: While there wasn’t anything downright offensive, something about the whole thing just read wrong. Like Beyonce, for example. Yeah, she looks great — but haven’t we seen her in like this dress just in different colors at every single event she’s been to in the past 5 years? After the jump, we give you our picks for the good, the good but bordering on slutty, the bad and the ugly.

The Good:
Alicia Keys exudes class and good taste while Christina Applegate brings new life to the color purple.

The Good…But:
Vanessa Hudgens and Miley Cyrus both look super cute. But aren’t their dresses a little short given their ages? (Also, Hudgens is starting to bear an uncanny resemblance to early 90’s Mariah Carey. Just saying.)

The Bad:
Rihanna’s dress is wearing her, not the other way around and Avril Lavigne forgot it isn’t Halloween and clearly came as Streetwalker Barbie.

Carrie Underwood is being slowly choked by her dress while Ashley Tisdale channels Mr. Roboto.

The Ugly:
Taylor Swift not only pairs cowboys boots with a cocktail dress, but wears sheer stocking to boot. (No pun attended.) Meanwhile, Fergie’s neck is moments away from bearing stigmata.

Phoebe Prince and Kid Rock: No further explanation needed.

Source: AMA Fashion As Uncomfortable As Jimmy Kimmel’s Jokes [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly]

Blockbuster Palette by Sephora [Shopaholics Daily]

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I would tell you about my other purchase while in Chicago and somehow the days got away from me. But today’s the day. Here it is!! So far I have played around with the browns which I have yet to find a shade that I can’t wear, but yesterday, because I was wearing a green cardigan, I decided to try out some of the greens. And there is a dark one in the palette that has this smokiness to it. Looks like I have a new group of colors to check out.

One of my pet peeves is to buy a collection and then not being able to wear some of the colors. So far that hasn’t happened. All of the plums I know I will be able to pull off, but not sure about the blues. Maybe as an eyeliner?? I bought a turquoisy blue liner last year (again while on holiday) and it really perked up the brown of my eyes.

I just realized that I buy most of my cosmetics outside of Toronto!! I guess it’s just more fun. Florida is coming up and then California in the new year, so it looks like I get to add some new items to my collection. Thank goodness for a husband who does a lot of travelling!

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New-MAC Cosmetics Metal X

The new MAC Cosmetics Metal X Collection is available at all MAC location from November 21st, 2007.   MAC Metal X collection is centered around the Metal X Cream Shadow which you can wear alone or with a fine line glitter.  What it is: Metal X Cream Shadow is a cream to powder metallic shadow that provides liquid effects.  New combination of waxes allows for a superior bendability.  Use on eyes, cheeks, brow bones, decolletage.

   

The new MAC Cosmetics Metal X collection includes the following shades: Virgin Silver, Pure Ore, Goldspice, Fusion Gold, Pink Ingot, Metalblu, Cyber, 6th sin, and Plum electric, $ 16.50. Glitter Eye Liner in Blitzed, Wonderwhite, Enbronze, Pewterpink, and Lime Dandy, $16.50.

             

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Let it Snow? Really?

As we write this, it’s snowing. We, in fact, had a whole other post started but when it started to snow, we realized that staying warm in crap weather is more important to us than most other things.

We hate being cold. We are cold all the time. We are cold in the winter, cold in the air conditioned summers. We generally wear some kind of cardigan - be it of the sweater or sweatshirt variety - on any given day. At our desk, we keep a bright blue wool sweater that we wear over everything, including other sweaters. We do not discriminate. We have found the only way we can be warm is a combination of sweat pants, a sweat shirt, a tank top and/or t-shirt, a down (or equally heavy) blanket covering us from the ribs down, and a large, warm dog sleeping on our feet. This is exactly how we are right now. Since that’s not so conducive to doing things like, oh, leaving the house, here are our cold weather picks:

Our first choice is this jacket from North Face. We never really bought into the hype of North Face, it was always just kind of like the puffiest of puffy coats. But we recently bought the Gotham Jacket and we love it. It’s warm as can be, it’s got zip pockets (even an internal one which is the best thing ever), and the hood comes down far enough to shield your face when it’s snowing and raining and nature is basically spitting on your face. It’s pricey, but we don’t know anyone who has a North Face coat who doesn’t love it.

Gotham Jacket, $198.99

Our mom always said that we should wear a hat because all the heat escapes that way. We didn’t believe her, until we moved to city and started walking. And then we had winter without heat (because of our deadbeat landlord, not because we didn’t pay the bill). Hats, especially those lined with something, are where it’s at. We can’t tell if we feel completely ridiculous or secretly cool in a bomber hat, but we don’t care. There are tons of styles out there, but we like this one because the fur isn’t real. We feel we should pause for a moment to note two things; we are unsure if the North Face jacket has fake or real fur. We were told it was fake at the time of non-refundable purchase. And second, we are not implying that anyone should buy fake fur because we prefer it - everyone is entitled to their opinion. There are things we do our best not to do - like eat hot dogs - but that doesn’t mean we won’t come to the barbecue and eat all your potato salad. Anyway. We love hats lined with fuzzy materials, and we like that this one isn’t over the top.

Bomber Hat with Faux Fur, $39.50

We’re still really into bright blue, and we can only imagine that this scarf would be warm. We have a few that are similar, and they’re the kind of thing we don’t take off all day long.

Cashmere Scarf, $55

-LB

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What do you think of ASOS?

A few weeks ago, I had a party to go to and no new dress to wear. My friend told me to check out asos.com, which if you don’t know, is a site famous for selling clothes that are ‘in the style of x celebrity’ and also clothes from a few UK high street brands (like Oasis, French Connection and Mina). So after spending some time on it, I didn’t know what to think about it. Because a) ASOS has no physical store and you never know how the clothing item is like in real life until you’ve actually felt it.b) The prices are high-street prices, meaning very affordable. This again, makes me very suspicious of how the clothes would look and fit.c) I’ve heard mix reviews from friends. A few of my friends said the clothes were decent, and one wasn’t a fan of the quality. d) If I wanted to return the clothes, I would have to mail them back. Talk about inconvenient and the extra cost involved!
These two black dresses are classy and stylish. The quality looks decent too. I especially like the sequinned one.
The red dress is quite cute, and the silver, sequinned dress is perfect for this party season!
Now these are examples of what I think are poor quality and design. The black dress’s material looks cheap and the gems a bit too plastic-y. OK, I know the dress doesn’t actaully cost a lot (38 pounds), but I have no desire to wear that material. As for the cream-coloured sequined dress, the design is just not very flattering. This is the dress that has got me seriously thinking to give ASOS a go. I really like this dress. It’s stylish, pretty and very youthful. And on a closer look, even the beads and sequins look ok in quality. So should I dive in and get this dress? Another dress I’m liking is this waistcoat dress. It’s cute and cool. It’s made of all polyester though, so I’m not sure how it’ll look in real life. So I need your opinion: If you’ve ever bought anything (or seen your friend’s purchases) from ASOS, let me know what you think of them! Oh, and what do you think of the last two dresses? Image credits: www.asos.com

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rami kashou at maneater threads [Indie Style File]

Rami Kashou  won the first challenge on Project Runway. The best thing is that I discovered he sells some of his wares at Maneater, one of my favorite shops. It’s so rare that you can actually buy something from a designer on PR before the show is over.

A lot of the stuff Maneater has is very twisted and manipulated fabric, like this gorgeous dress. If it’s any indication of how Rami works, we’re in for a good season.

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Kate Swain by Toyoto

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Bunnyshop Hearts: The Diana Camera

We were sooo excited the Lomography Society made our year and sent us this reissue of the Diana camera the day before we left for Africa (more about that tomorrow.) We were excited even though are pictures are bound to be crap when we get them developed, even if we are sure they are going to be all masterpiece-like when we take them. (We are, thus far, always wrong about that.) So anyway, it took us about four days to figure out how to load the film in, but we did, and we just dropped off our five rolls of it today. We are sure the resulting pictures will be amazing. (They will not be. Hope, springing, etc.) In any case, this color-saturated, high-contrast image is the kind that the Diana is famous for. How could we not be excited when we might be able to take a picture of a dog like that? A picture like that, or a dog like that, either way, pulses=racing. More or less.

Lomo’s Diana camera, $50

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