I remember when DKNY Be Delicious launched, I wanted so much to love it. My friend Ann Marie wore it and it smelled incredible on her - but on me, it was Eau de Cheap Apple Shampoo. I was steamed, with nothing left to do but look enviously at the the itty bitty green apple bottles in their little crate, the matching lip glosses, the twee apple stickers. Be Delicious would never work for me. Skin chemistry is so fickle that way.
I’m having slightly better luck with DKNY Delicious Night, a combination of pomelo, blackberry martini, blooming night florals, amber, and black incense. I don’t know what makes a “blackberry martini” note different from plain blackberry, but I will tell you that there is something dry and vodka-ish about the opening of this fragrance. At first spritz it reminds me of Apothia Velvet Rope which, incidentally, was inspired by “an icy, dry vanilla martini.” So maybe there’s something to be said for that martini note after all.
For all the guys who are basketball fanatics, this shop is worth a look. Philippine Basketball, I might add. They design tees and hoodies inspired by basketball icons and/or stars of our country. It’s very Filipino of them, me thinks. This is a great option for guys are constantly on the hunt for unique shirts that’s Philippine-made. Occasionally, they even offer limited designs like a Miami Ink shirt.
As featured above, one of their tees is the Jaworski Tee (Go Ginebra!) and, of course, the urbanites who love the hoodies, with has that Jordan-esque image print, this one’s called DUNKMAN hoodie.
I have tried the Lumiere foundations before in the Veena Velvet formula. I liked its coverage being medium to heavy and long-lasting. It just made me breakout from the oat content after I’ve sampled and found my match. I thought that was the end of my love-affair with Lumiere foundations (I still love their blushes and eye shadows though).
Saw this on the Sartorialist (so brilliant!) and then on the Fashion Spot. When we were in Utah our Nylon editor noticed that we wear our contacts morning ’til night, and we had to tell this whole story about how we left our glasses in China, etc etc, which didn’t even matter because we’d bent the fuck out of them. These and all the other cute classes out there are somehow encouraging us to go back to the glasses shop, once all this Fashion Week madness is over. So many times when glasses are better! On airplanes, late at night … okay, those are our best two. But still.
American Idol winners can’t hold a candle to December 2006 The X Factor winner Leona Lewis. The UK artist is selling more records than some of her American Idol counterparts combined.
Her debut single was downloaded 50,000 times in just 30 minutes, making her the fastest-selling female artist ever. Her debut album, Spirit, is outselling the Spice Girls’ Greatest Hits album by four to one, making it a certified 5x platinum in the UK.
While reading one of my fave beauty sites, Temptalia, I came across her post about The New York Times article “Beauty Blogs Come Of Age: Swag Please!”. The article was ridiculous and appalling. It exploited beauty bloggers as being grubby, greedy, beauty whores - at least that’s the picture that was painted in my mind. As wretched as this article was, I’m really not surprised by it. I saw it coming and knew it was only a matter of time “official” media outlets would turn on us. Receiving free swag, which was once privileged to beauty insiders and magazine editors, is no longer the case now that beauty blogs have increased in popularity. Not all blogs receive free products and invitations to glamourous beauty events. There are a select few that get to enjoy these perks. Yes, there are some people that have started blogs solely to receive free product but that’s not why we all do it. I won’t lie, I love to receive anything free - who doesn’t? But I work damn hard at updating my blog, providing inside beauty information and helping other women with their beauty woes!
When I started this blog, I thought this would be a great way to combine my two loves: writing and makeup! Through my blog I’ve had the opportunity to meet and connect with some pretty amazing people that otherwise would not have happened. Many makeup career opportunities that have boosted my career have all been through my blog. I love helping women, giving them professional beauty tips, doing tutorials and step-by-step guides because I just think it’s my duty lol. I make very little money from my blog which takes up the majority of my time these days. I think it’s great to receive free product and review them, but a lot of my reviews have been all out of my own pocket. I’m very grateful when I do receive free things because I get the chance to try something new and share it with the readers but let’s face it - it’s not cheap! I thank all my readers for letting me inside their world!!
Mischa Barton definitely looked smokin’ in the new Iceberg ads.
ICEBERG, est. 1962 — Giuliana Marchini Gerani discovered her love for knitwear and arrived in 1974 at the revolutionary idea of brightly coloured knitwear which was both sporty and trendy. Today Iceberg is a defining force in this colourful world with sporty, refined and cosmopolitan, products that are full of personality.
So! We have to say: We were feeling very down about the whole fashion week thing: so much work, so little time for yoga, and sleep, and eating, and reading magazines. But then, sort of bizarrely, all of Lower Manhattan seemed to break out in Fashion Week, and it was all really quite lovely. There was a sign in the building next to us where the Y-3 fitting was going on, and slightly less fashionably, Aldo had a big sign in the window about NY Fashion Week. So were in a bit of a better mood about it.
Everyone knows that there are answers that you think you should say and the truthful answers that you want to hide away. In the numerous interviews that I’ve done, when people ask me what is my most treasured item in my closet, I don’t really have one particular thing that I treasure the most but I flimsily say something like 1920’s chinese kimono or my vintage Balenciaga coat. These answers have some element of truth in them but I don’t think I will ever treasure an item as much as I did with my Levi’s denim jacket which my dad bought for me in a vintage shop. Except if I said that now, people would be guffawing over the fact I said ‘Denim Jacket’. But the truth is, when I was 13, I loved that jacket to bits and wore it to death. I’d layer it with lots of sweaters and scarves in the cold even though I should have been wearing a bulkier coat. I’d wear it inappropriately when the occasion called for smarter things. Being vintage, it was actually two sizes too big for me yet for some inexplicable reason, I loved loved loved it. Don’t ask me why I felt a natty Levi’s jacket was so empowering but for a 13 year old, I felt awesome so much so that I’d be bouncing around thinking ‘Awesome’ in my head in that ‘Cecile from Cruel Intentions’ chirpy bouncy way. Can anyone say sad? Sadly (or fortunately depending on your opinion on medium wash blue denim jackets…) the whereabouts of this jacket, I can’t even tell you what with all the uni-moving etc.
Denim jacket memories were deeply buried and in any case, I never came across ones that made me feel that way ever since. The Topshop Moto ones which everyone bought for a while? Nah… Seeking out a similar vintage one? Too light and too tight (as hipster uniform dictates the way denim jackets should be….). Until the lovely Dree at Urban Collection sourced me a vintage Jordache jacket which was exactly the right shade and in addition has a few more bits and bobs to it - a belt assymetric front zips and zips on the sleeves which I promptly had to snap because at that very moment, waves of 13 year old me bouncing along with a high ponytail and listening to Blur on my discman washed over me.
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