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What To Wear To A Wedding (Video)

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:05:15 +0000

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What To Wear To A Wedding.
Source: MSNBC

Victoria Beckham's Sultry Makeup Look

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:33:53 +0000

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Victoria Beckham’s Sultry Makeup Look.
Source: TotalBeauty.com

Summer Skirts To Flatter Your Figure

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:29:40 +0000

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Summer Skirts To Flatter Your Figure.
Source: MSNBC

How To Run in Hot Weather

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:46:32 +0000

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How To Run in Hot Weather.
Source: Howcast.com

Classic Bridal Hairstyle How-To

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:24:58 +0000

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Classic Bridal Hairstyle How-To.
Source: TotalBeauty.com

The Evening Look

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:12:31 +0000

The Evening Look: With a few key accessories, the ponytail goes formal, for more tips and tricks please visit Oprah.com.

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Source: Oprah.com

Perfect Skin Diet

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:54:24 +0000

Perfect Skin Diet: 10 foods for your face. For more diet tips, please visit msnbc.com.

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Source: msnbc.com

Light on cash? It's time to get fashion creative!

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:43:43 +0000

Video and article taken from msnbc.com and metro.co.uk.

Style Counsel puts it to you that recession is more than just about cutbacks, it’s also about inventiveness. Ask yourselves whether buying something because it’s trendy and/or worn by your favourite celebrity is a sign of true style. Instead, make more of your wardrobe or bite the bullet and make your own. It’s all about getting creative.

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Three of the bestâ€¦ cost-cutting websites

For designer discounts: Net-a-porter.com finally launches theoutnet.com, seriously designer fashion at seriously high discounts. It’s not pocket money: Â£695 is still Â£695, even if it is 50 per cent off, but there’s no better way to get your designer fix. New stock is uploaded twice a week.

For online swapping: The web’s biggest clothes swapping site, bigwardrobe.com, launched last year and features more than $1million of free clothes, shoes and bags to swap. Interestingly, people are sometimes happy to swap Marc Jacobs for Topshop â€“ provided the piece is good enough. www.bigwardrobe.com

For jewellery rental: Blu Bangle isn’t quite as ritzy as rentyourrocks.co.uk but it is cheaper. Membership starts at Â£14.99, for which you can borrow up to two gems per month.

Making your own

After a resurgence of interest in its fabrics â€“ now found on everything from Kate Moss for Topshop to Nike trainers â€“ London’s Liberty relaunched its sewing school this spring with classes in craft, sewing, patchwork and knitting.

‘We decided to bring back the Liberty stitch classes as we could see more people wanting to be creative and make their own clothes or rework existing items,’ says haberdashery buyer Julie Hassan.

‘There’s a real sense of achievement when you make something original.’

Beginners classes were booked out quickly but they run until June and start again in September.

Get busy.

Swishing: The Rules

OK, girls have been swapping clothes for yonks. But a swish/swap party can be a proper do. We asked the founder of swishing, Lucy Shea, director at Futerra Sustainability Communications, and Wendy Allport, volunteer organiser of Manchester-based Sust Swapshop, on how to create the perfect swap party.

1. Choose a venue. ‘If you can’t hold it at home, ask a local cafÃ© to host the swap,’ suggests Wendy.

2. Don’t be shy. ‘Invite people from your extended networks via social media such as Facebook,’ says Lucy. ‘And don’t forget to give full details of time and location.’

3. Presentation is essential. ‘Make sure you have everything you need to display the goods,’ says Lucy.

4. Sort items by type â€“ dresses, skirts, blouses, trousers etc â€“ so guests can find what they’re looking for.

5. Keep up the quality. ‘We ask people to bring three items of clean clothes in good condition,’ says Wendy. ‘It’s fashion karma,’ adds Lucy. ‘Bring something fabulous, take something fabulous home.’

6. Create an atmosphere. ‘Alcohol, nibbles and laughter go a long way,’ says Lucy.

7. Think about the shopping experience. ‘Full length mirrors throughout the venue help guests to check out their new treasures,’ says Lucy.

8. Think ahead. ‘The busiest time is when the swish opens and guests pour in,’ says Lucy. ‘Make sure there are enough people to receive and sort the items and to explain the rules to everyone.’

9. Allow people to leave with as much as they like and don’t let anyone have first dibs before the event.

10. At the end, bag up unwanted items and donate to a local charity.

For swaps in your area, visit www.swishing.org

Source: Today Show and metro.co.uk. Article by BEL JACOBS.

Best Beauty Buys of 2009

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:38:10 +0000

In Style’s best beauty buys. For more details, please visit msnbc.com.

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Source: msnbc.com

10 Fashion Emergency Tips + Video

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:29:42 +0000

How to hide your pantyline and other fashion emergency tips. For more details, please visit msnbc.com

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At work, parties or other occasions, wardrobe malfunctions can be expensive. Sudden downpours, popped buttons and scuffed shoes can lead to quick-fix shopping sprees or expensive repair bills. The following tools can be money-savers in fashion emergencies.

â€¢ Weatherproofing: Carry a folded plastic poncho in your car, briefcase or purse. Portable rain gear can be purchased at drugstores, dollar stores and other outlets for $1 to $5, and easily stored in small spaces. The investment can save a suit from ruin or prevent a costly trip to the dry cleaners.

â€¢ Instant shoe repair: A black marker can instantly banish scuff marks from black leather shoes. Likewise, I’ve made quick repairs with matching shades of navy and red markers.

â€¢ Staples and hooks: Before meetings, I have stapled the hem of an unraveling skirt, and I’ve used staples to repair broken hook-and-eyelet fasteners. When a clasp falls apart, I’ve replaced the broken eyelet with a vertical staple in the inner seam of the garment. I then link the hook to the staple. With this repair, a skirt or cardigan closes perfectly.

â€¢ Quick hem: I’ve repaired falling or missing hems with adhesive strips that are applied with a hot iron. This quick fix â€” available at drugstores or specialty retailers â€” has been used for bridesmaid gowns (hours before a wedding), boys’ dress pants, curtains and skirts.

â€¢ Spare shoes: Puddles, broken heels and other emergencies have taught me to stash spare sets of shoes in the office, gym locker or family car. An extra set of dress shoes provides a quick transition from business casual to more formal attire.

â€¢ Accessory collection: For an instant wardrobe upgrade, a friend keeps several ties and a jacket in his office. Those items are helpful when he’s called into sudden executive meetings or other formal gatherings. Likewise, I know women who use shawls and other accessories to deliver quick makeovers.

Frugal Duchess by Sharon Harvey Rosenberg is an occasional feature.

Source: msnbc.com, seattletimes.nwsource.com