MAKEUP MONDAY ♥ GUY-LINER TUTORIAL

Guy-Liner....Get it? Guyliner VS eyeliner? It's a NARS Guyliner tutorial from one of my other favorite YouTube beauty gurus, Wayne Goss, who is a bit of a legend. He's very straight forward and cuts to the chase. I love his vids, but I thought this was especially cool for the boys. The look is so easy and so well-done, of course. I'd love to see this on a girl, too...minus the beard. :) Check  back later for my other MAKEUP MONDAY beauty review! Now here's Wayne....♡

more makeup monday ♥ monotone romance

SUNDAY MATINEE ♥ UNGARO 2011 PARIS

EMANUEL UNGARO 2011 PARIS FASHION WEEK...
BY GILES DEACON.

The  garden party...I remember this event. I've seen things about this show. BUT I've never seen this video of it. It's gorgeous...I mean, this IS Fashion Week in Paris. If you've never been to Paris Fashion Week and you've never attended some really goooood events there, this is how magical they can be. And overflowing with the tallest amazing-looking girls.  They're unreal in person. And in this video we get to see a lot of what I called the New Fly Girls including rad black model (or dark model sounds better?) Leomie Anderson and insanely tall-and-thin Joan Smalls. Joan Smalls does not look like a real human being. She's so amazing looking. She looks like a real super model to me in this video.

that's LEOMIE on the left....have to figure out who is on the right and print it here....GORGEOUS.

And I really love love the Giles Deacon collections so far. If you've read about me on this blog, you know I knew a lot about Ungaro from the age of around 8, because he was my mom's favorite designer. She taught me about his signatures and colors. And this feels like those stories my mom told me when I was little. I'm going to email this video to her right now and see what she thinks. I mean...I love Ungaro. And it was so sad to see it so disrespected. I'm SOOOOOOO happy Giles Deacon (genius) is taking care of it like it's made of gold. PS Please watch til the end because, after a bit, they really show how beautiful the clothes are up close.♡

doesn't this sort of remind you of a Roxy Music album cover?

matching petit-fours

this looks so new but so Ungaro to me.

i heart ostrich feathers...if that's what they are.

so cute. so french.

more sunday matinee ♥  fuzzbox

images are all screenshots taken by moi.

SATURDAY SHOPPING ♥ TOFER'S EGGMAN

Okay...first I have to say that these egg pendants that artist and very good friend Tofer Chin did with LA jewelry star Han Cholo are not new and maybe not even available anymore (though maybe he should consider doing one more run?). But I just had brunch with Tofer and he reminded me of these pendants. I ordered two of the gun metal "Eggman" pendants way back or well...about 2 or 3 years ago. I kept one and gave one to a friend who works in fashion. They are amazing. I really do hope one day to get the gold version. He also has some cool stuff happening with his eggs that I don't think I can share with you YET, but I will as soon as I have the green light and maybe I'll have him do a guest post one day soon. He's a total foodie (contributes to the blog called DISHLICKER), and he's a very stylee boy...man. He's not a boy anymore. :) I'm sure he'd have lots of good things to report on or he might show some of his photographs or paintings or drawings or eggs or sculptures. I really need to get a lot of my creative friends on here...writing about Tofer really makes me think I've been lagging on that cuz why haven't I asked him to guest blog yet??? (Hey, Tofer! If you want to guest blog on here....let me know!) Anyway...check out Tofer Chin's site and also check out Han Cholo's site...and then go try to find these amazing amazing Eggman pendants and let me know if you find one, too.♡

TOFER CHIN X HAN CHOLO EGGMAN PENDANT IN GUN METAL. I OWN THIS.

TOFER CHIN X HAN CHOLO EGGMAN PENDANT IN GOLD. I WISH I OWNED THIS.

more saturday shopping ♥ so tatty devine

images from hypebeast and highsnobiety.com

GIRL FRIDAY ♥ HOT COSMOPOLITAN COVERS

When I was growing up, I had a couple of very teenage uncles from London who had posters all over their rooms....not only of rock stars and British pop stars, the closet doors were covered with all these amazing hot hot hot Cosmopolitan covers featuring hot mostly-iconic models and imagery. I miss those old Cosmo covers, or the way magazines used to have gloriously glamorous covers that were all about style....not appeasing advertisers and selling MORE MORE MORE. I think they had so much style and sexiness to them. There are hardly any female-targeted publications with covers like these anymore. (Well, not mainstream publications like Cosmo.) Scavullo shot most or all of these...I think you can easily see a style pattern, a vision from a visionary, when you scroll through them all. They're chic, sexy, subtle, intense. I think even at a tiny age, I knew these covers were sexy and strong.

Sometime in the 90s, everything changed. There was no more iconic Helen Gurley Brown running the show (she wrote Sex and the Single Girl, by the way and, for me, really spelled out what feminism was...again, for me....which meant you can really own your femininity and still be strong and independent). And there was no more Scavullo shooting the covers. And replacing gorgeous interesting models were/are the lackluster, boring, cereal-box celebrities. Ick. I'll take these old covers over any of the new ones ANYTIME and EVERY TIME. If you print these all out and pin them up side-by-side on a wall, you'll see how amazing the entire body of work is. I'll do a proper post on Scavullo and his women in the future. But I've been wanting to do this Cosmo vintage cover post for eons because these were some of my biggest fashion influences growing up. Just so so gorgeous.

PS I am writing this August 2012...I am going to definitely do a Gia post soon. Just look at her covers. I just think there was something really different going on then with the models. Her face especially says so much is going on in her head. I think this era of supermodels was really magical. I think it's so strange how they're all so 12-year-old looking now.♡

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY 1978

(I'M PRETTY SURE THIS IS) GIA 1980

ANOTHER GIA COVER...THE FAMOUS ONE FROM 1982 WHERE SHE'S HIDING HER TRACK MARKS (FROM DRUGS).

ANOTHER CHRISTIE BRINKLEY COVER FROM 1983

GORGEOUS KIM ALEXIS 1987

THAT LOOKS LIKE RENEE RUSSO 1978

THE JANICE DICKENSON 1978

KELLY LEBROCK 1981

CAROL ALT 1980

STEPHANIE SEYMOUR 1994...STILL LOOKS HOT IN THE EARLY 90'S.

CINDY CRAWFORD 1991 (VERY LIKE A VIRGIN OUTFIT)

BROOKE SHIELDS 1981 GORGEOUS.

PAULINA PORIZCOVA 1987

YASMIN LE BON (BEFORE SHE WAS MARRIED TO SIMON) 1990. LOVE HER.

CHRISTY TURLINGTON 1987 (IN A VERY STEPHEN SPROUSE LOOKING DRESS)

JILL GOODACRE (ONE OF MY FAVE MODELS WHEN I WAS A KID) 1986. I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THIS COVER.

I DON'T KNOW THE MODEL, BUT THE COVER IS SO PRETTY. AND SEXY. 1979
(SO A FEW COMMENTS ARE BELOW FROM SOME READERS AND THEY SAY THEY THINK THIS MODEL TO ALSO BE JANICE DICKENSON. I CANT REALLY TELL. IF IT IS HER, AND SEEMS THAT IT IS, THEN IT'S A GREAT COVER...I LOVE IT!)

PAULINA PORIZKOVA FOLD-OUT COVER. CAN'T SEE THE DATE. SOMETIME IN THE 80'S.

ANOTHER JILL GOODACRE COVER. 1988

ANOTHER STUNNING GIA COVER FROM 1979. AGAIN, INSIDE ARM TRACKS COVERED.

ANOTHER PAULINA PORIZKOVA GORGEOUS COVER 1988

NAOMI SIMS...PROBABLY THE FIRST OFFICIAL BLACK SUPER MODEL 1975

AND EQUALLY GORGEOUS BEVERLY JOHNSON COVER 1976 (I THINK IT SAYS THAT)

HERE IS A POST THAT FOLLOWED THIS ONE:
more cosmopolitan ♥ vintage cosmo covers 2

more friday fancy ♥ dolce & gabbana's  la dolce vita

images from www.modelinia.com, www.jhu.edu, www.judgmentofparis.com ( a great site),  thegossipwrapup.com, inoubliablemodelarmy.blogspot.com, http://ladichic.blogspot.com