4.30.2011

SATURDAY SHOPPING ♥ A LAB ON FIRE

I LOVE this! A LAB ON FIRE believes if a designer can make an awesome fancy soap and sell it for less than 20 bucks, then surely they can create a really nice fragrance without charging the normal crazy price, which we do end up paying. I am a big huge fan of good fragrance. I like really expensive French fragrances that smell like vanilla. I own at least 4 large bottles of Comptoir Sud Pacifique which runs about $100 per bottle. And I've been wearing CSP for at least 10 years. I have no idea what A LAB ON FIRE's L'Anonyme ou OP-1475-A Eau de Toilette smells like...other than what the site says...bergamot, geranium, blond woods, dark amber and suede leather...but I'm willing to try it for only $15.00 on their website. Amazing. It's also on the Colette site for $24. Really gorgeous packaging..."conceived in Paris....made in Brooklyn, NY". (What gorgeous packaging...what an excellent little gift!)♡







images from colette.fr

GIRL FRIDAY ♥ ANTM KASIA PILEWICZ

Yes, I admit it. I watch ANTM. I was really late when I started watching, though. I really only started   watching it last year or so. I don't see most of these girls as real models, though. Except maybe for Ann Ward. But I really love seeing the talent they bring on the show from super stylists to revered photographers. And it is entertaining and good brain-dead TV after I've worked a long hard day and want to turn my brain off a while. For this round of America's Next Top Model, I was really rooting for the "plus-size" model Kasia Pilewicz. First of all, they need to change that label "plus size", because anyone who's worked with models in the industry knows...they all look like super stretched-out 12 year olds. Sticks.  Really TALL sticks. Models don't usually look like anyone your age unless you're 12. They don't usually look anything like a "normal" skinny person. Or, on occasion they might look totally normal...like when I met Karen Elson one night at a Dazed party when I was still writing for them. She looked like a Dead-head from high school. I hardly recognized her. (She was super nice, btw.) So Kasia, for me, is pretty unique and I love love her personality. She carries herself well and her style is amazing.


I read a few interviews with her after her departure and she really laid it out there...that she was shocked (as were a lot of people) when she got cut and that they made her look "awkward" when she was posing, because apparently they used footage when the photographer wasn't even shooting and she was re-adjusting herself or whatever. I don't know how excited I am to watch the rest of this season now that Kasia is gone. I hope she gets a lot of gigs from her exposure on the show, even though she's already shot for cool pubs like V mag. We'll just have to hope and see.♡


kasia in V magazine....loving it!
loving her.
something about her.

more girl friday ♥ curly girl

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4.28.2011

♥♥..♥..♥♥...THE ROYAL WEDDING...♥♥..♥..♥♥

IS HERE....! I'm going to watch The Royal Wedding and I'm excited! I think it's cool and I think it's really needed with all this depressing news going on all over the world (I don't even want to list it all...but it's A LOT and it's happening all over). I hardly ever use an actual TV set anymore. I pretty much watch everything from my Mac (did you see the first episode of the Southpark season? CRAZY!)...and if you aren't somewhere where you can sit and watch it on a TV, you can watch it on YouTube on The Official Royal Channel. I'll get the GIRL FRIDAY post up tomorrow. It's going to be a good one. xx PS I really really really want a cheesy Royal Wedding souvenir salt and pepper shaker. I guess I need to hit one of my UK friends up. YEA! Some happiness! We need some happiness!♡



Yes...I'm really wanting to see what she will wear! :)






THURSDAY SHOE ♥ FOREVER 21 D'ORSAY

Usually I'm not too keen on super cheapy heels solely for the fact that they usually end up looking cheap and/or they cut up your feet. No bueno. I haven't tried these Peep Toe D'Orsay Patent Heels yet, or really even seen them in person, but I am hoping they a) look good and b) feel comfy and leathery. Because the style is nice, patent leather is awesome and they're only $23 or just under that. I'll let you know when and if I pick them up and how they work out. Fingers crossed.♡




more thursday shoe ♥ dries van booty

images from forever 21