Spruce It Up!


Feeling inspired and somewhat finding myself in the Holiday spirit (It just sneaked up on me!), I put together two looks that can be worn at any holiday inspired party using items from Spiegel.com. My looks centered around two clothing items: Signature Ponte Knit: Bandeau Dress in Heather Charcoal and Madison Pant by Shape FX in Tan

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Stella Clutch in Gold
Ribbon & Chain Necklace in Gray
Allie Bracelet in Silver
Hope Earrings
Camila Pumps in Silver
*I wanted to add a small belt but none of the belts on Spiegel.com would have gone with this particular look.

Inspiration #7

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One of the many positive factors of being a blogger is finding style inspiration from other bloggers.

AMAs '13

Ciara in J. Mendel
She looks so beautiful. That dress is sexy, bad-ass.
The award show that allowed America to cast in their vote pretty much became the "Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, One Direction and Rihanna" Awards. Anywho, the AMAs was last night and hosted by Pitbull. He was corny. The end.

Pop-Up Beauty Lounge II

Having attended their first Pop-Up Beauty Lounge almost one year ago, it was only right for me to attend their second going. This time it was held at Neiman Marcus beauty department. This wonderful event was brought to us by Red Sprinkle and was hosted by Lianne of The Makeup Girl.

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photo c/o Pich and Roor
(l-r) Rebecca (Red Sprinkle), Lianne, Madiana (Red Sprinkle), Whitney (PR)
I went with Wave and we definitely had a great ol' time. Along with beauty brands participating like Clinique, Molton Brown, Guerlain and more, there were plenty of activities at hand like...

Fabulous at Any Damn Age

I truly believe that even when I reach a certain age (God willing), I will still be immersed in fashion and especially, style. Just because I'm say, 80, does that mean I need to give up on my love for looking good? Nah.




I came upon Fabulous Fashionistas, a documentary centered around six ladies who are still going strong for their love of life and style, today from Cosmic Medium's post. After getting the chance to watch the documentary, I was inspired to create this post to share the video. It's 47 minutes of awesomeness. Trust me. I would never lead you to corniness.

There were so many quotables (like this one from 71 year old Sue Kreitzman: "Don't wear beige...it might kill you.") but my favorite came from feisty and funny 91 year old Baroness Trumpington (Jean Barker), a peer of the House of Lords. When asked if she thinks she'll ever reach to see 100, she said that she thought that was a silly question to ask. She then went on to say, "When you're 90, you don't think about the future. You're damn lucky to be there." Boom.

Watch the clips here. Enjoy.

Straight from Avenue pt. 2

Remember that whole "Check back later on this week for pt. 2" from last week's post? Yeah, ignore that.

Next up in this quote-on-quote Straight from Avenue series: Butter Denim Skinny Jean. Avenue sent me the brown pair. First time rocking a pair of brown jeans. Brown pants/trousers? Sure, I've rocked those way, way, wa-a-a-a-y, back in the day. But never brown jeans. No reason, really. It just never crossed my mind to purchase a pair in that color.

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Straight From Avenue pt. 1

Who knew submitting a photo for a contest would lead me to an awesome opportunity?

About a month or so ago, I saw a contest on Avenue on their Facebook page called What Are You Wearing? (which runs every Wednesdays, by the way). I chose to submit the photo from this post here...

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Dress/Heels: Avenue

Daft Punk x PTX

Just because...




...they are fuckin' awesome!

I just can't with this group. I. Just. Can't. Their talent is just never ending.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

LuckyFABB

In my previous post, you saw what I wore to Day 1 of the LuckyFABB conference. LuckyFABB Conference is a creation by Lucky Magazine to bring together fashion/style bloggers and beauty bloggers from all over and get inspired by various of topics to help propel their blog to the next level. It's held twice a year - one in LA during the springtime and the other in Sept/Oct. during the Fall season. This is not my first time attending a bloggers conference - I attended the IFB Conference back in Sept. '11 here - but it was my first time attending the LuckyFABB Conference. I applied, got approved, and here we are.

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