Oscars

I was surprised at the lack of colors at the Oscars this year. Mostly blue, black, and whites. Thus, we really liked Rachel McAdams in Elie Saab and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Dries Van Noten. Their colorful tie-dye-esque dresses (you know that we really like tie-dye) stood out as different (here's to taking chances!) and they looked lovely and fresh.

 

Below I've added a few other dresses that I liked. All pictures are from the official Oscar site.

Cameron Diaz in Oscar de la Renta

I really loved Cameron's hair here too. 

Miley Cyrus in Jenny Packham

So young and elegant. 

Gabourey Sidibe in Marchesa

The color looks great and I love the details.

Sarah Jessica Parker in Chanel

This seems to be a much debated dress in the blogosophere but, 

I thought both of them looked very classy.

Kate Winslet in Yves Saint Laurent

I loved her jewelry! It's Tiffany's. 

Zoe Kravitz in Alexis Mabille

She's shaping up to be a fashionista.

Suzy Amis Cameron in an enviornmentally friendly gown 

designed by a Michigan State University College Student.

Nicole Richie in Reem Acra

I love her seventies inspired dress. 

The make-up to match makes the perfect final touch.

 

Fallen Princesses

 

Cinderella

 

Beauty (and the Beast)

Dina Goldstein made the Fallen Princesses series based on realistic outcomes to fairy tale scenarios.

Pre-Oscars

We all know that a huge focus on the Oscars is what people wear on the red carpet. A few up and coming designers will be featured at the Oscars this year. And, in anticipation for Sunday night, we've added our favorite Oscar dresses of all time:

 

Nicole Kidman in Dior, 1997, from In Style  

(picked by JQ)

Kate Hudson in Versace, 2004, also from InStyle

(picked by Lipstick Tomboy)

  

Angelina Jolie in Marc Bouwer, 2004, from About.com 

(picked by t~bird)

DIY 11: Jean Shorts

 

Changing a pair of jeans into jean shorts...

 

  

 

DIY 10: Painting Shoes

Problem: The paint is coming off of an old pair of shoes.
Solution: Add some new paint! (It seems so simple...)

I used fabric paint from Blick art supply store. On the back it says what you can use it on and leather is one of the things. Tape the areas around the section you are looking to paint.

nails

 

t~bird: This nail polish is the best new product I've used! Sally Hansen Insta-dry: it really dries fast. I never have time to wait for nail polish to dry so this is perfect. You can polish you nails in the morning and dash out the door to work. No problem.

JQ.Laurent: This is from the March issue of Elle. I love the nail polish. The featured polish is O.P.I "You Don't Know Jacques!" I have a similar color from Sephora by O.P.I called "Under My Trench Coat." My other favorite Sephora by O.P.I. color is Ocean Love Potion. O.P.I also has an Alice in Wonderland collection in honor of the Alice craze that is going on. (Again with clever names such as "Mad as a Hatter!" and "Off With Her Red!")

Lipstick... and other things

In my previous post I talked about how, despite knowing that it is an insane promotion ploy, I was probably going to purchase something "Alice in Wonderland." I mean, how can you resist packaging like this. They even have names for the items that correspond to the story (don't they always) like "Jabberwocky" or "White Rabbit."

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

~Lewis Carroll

This post was again inspired by an e-mail from a friend of mine who was debating the issue of packaging in cosmetics. She found herself wanting certain products merely for the packaging. She wanted merely to pull out an item and subtly display it to her neighbor, to incite envy.

I am addicted to packaging and I don't think my friend and I are alone on this. My roommate was cleaning out her closet the other day and produced a pile of boxes and bags with various labels and rhetorically asked "why do I keep these?" My response was to show her the boxes I kept. Each Mac lipstick still in the box it came in. Yes, I use them, but there was something so appealing about the box that I couldn't part with it. And we know this about the entirety of the fashion/cosmetic industry, they pay a lot of money to design the packaging so that we, as consumers, want to keep those boxes and purchase items for their glorious packaging.

As an end note, to round this debate, I told my friend that lipstick, not lipgloss would make her peers envious. This is due to the stigma I feel that lipstick carries as far as fashionable envy is concerned.