viernes, 4 de noviembre de 2011
Black and White Classic Fashion
There are two colors that have the ability to combine with which other: black and white. Classics in the end, these two will never go out of fashion and if you know how to combine, enhance your femininity and style.
Ferrera Gown from IGIGI by Yuliya Raquel
Exude smouldering femme-fatale glamour in this black high slit gown. Embellish this decadent piece with giant gems to master the art of after-dark drama. :"
Designed and made in San Francisco, USA
Zip Front Dress from City Chic
Very cute graphic print dress featuring a functional zip at the centre front. Gathered detail on the bust, adjustable straps with black contrast pockets.
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/dresses/zip-front-dress-1251.html
Bow Front Lace Splice Dress from City Chic
This gorgeous round neck dress includes lace detail on the bust, feature bow on banded waist, and full skirt.
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/dresses/city-nights/bow-front-lace-splice-dress-black-xxl-1501.html
Emily Rose Dress from City Chic
Luxurious sateen strapless dress features color block stripes on the hem. Dress features soft waist sash to accentuate your curves.
http://www.citychiconline.com/index.php/dresses/city-nights/emily-rose-dress-19.html
Karina Wide Leg Pants from IGIGI by Yuliya Raquel
Picture the perfect pants. The kind you can wear to work to an evening affair or on a nice weekend off. Give these pants a go if you're looking for that classic all-around style.
White Tiered Black Trim Top from Torrid
Three tiers of fluttering white ruffles shape this breezy sleeveless top. Delicate ruching and gathering flatters and shapes the elegant design. Decorative black satin detailing, decadently studded with sparkling clear rhinestones, trims the neckline.
Linen-Blend Contrast Dress
Forever 21+ - This linen-blend strapless dress features a sweetheart neckline, elasticized back opening, empire waist construction, and hook-eye and zipper closure along back. Bodice features a large contrast bow and mock button placket. Contrast stripe near hemline of the A-line skirt. Light to medium weight. Woven. Partially lined. 
"Marilyn" Long Convertible Dress - White from Monif C
bra under their dresses, whether it is a full coverage bra or strapless, so you can get a great look with full support. Monif even found a new way to tie the dress by turning the dress around backwards with the back of the dress in the front to cover her back fat! You can wear this dress to one event and tie it a completely different way for your next event. No one will EVER know it's the same dress! Get all colors, buy one for your best friend and experiment different ways to tie it, you will love how this dress takes care of all your dressing needs this season!
http://www.monifc.com/marilyn-convertible-dress/marilyn-long-convertible-plus-size-dress-20-red.html
Stay healthy & beautiful
Xoxo
jueves, 3 de noviembre de 2011
The latest in makeup for the month of October
20th Anniversary Lip Palette
Tailor-made for the lipstick lover, this collector's edition palette features the 10 original Lip Colors launched by Bobbi in 1991—plus 10 bright, ultra modern options. Wear the shades on their own or mix and blend them to create custom colors. Includes a mini Lip Brush.
Clinique Lid Smoothie Antioxidant 8-Hour Eye Colour
What it is:
A long wearing eye shadow with cooling and protecting properties.
What it does:
This creamy, crease-resistant eye color with antioxidants instantly protects and cools skin in the eye area. Size: 0.24 oz
Lancôme Translucence
Mattifying Silky Pressed Powder
Naturally Matte for Hours.
A new generation of pressed powder that gives 12 hours of shine control with a luxurious silky texture. This lightweight powder mattifies skin for a fresh, translucent finish that lasts and stays color-true even under humidity and perspiration. Finely milled to sheer perfection, Translucence blends seamlessly to ensure a flawless, clean complexion. Never chalky – even on deeper skin tones.
Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion
Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion
The moisture "drink" developed by Clinique's dermatologists to maintain optimal moisture balance for very dry skins, or skins dry in the cheeks, comfortable to oily in the T-zone. Softens, smooths, improves.
*Please note: 1.7 oz. product is packaged in a tube; 4.2 oz. product is packaged with a pump. The pump will not fit on the cap-top lotion version.
*Please note: 1.7 oz. product is packaged in a tube; 4.2 oz. product is packaged with a pump. The pump will not fit on the cap-top lotion version.
- Skin Types: 1 - Very Dry to Dry, 2 - Dry Combination
Stay healthy & beautiful
XoXo
miércoles, 2 de noviembre de 2011
martes, 1 de noviembre de 2011
Honey and Beauty
For centuries it has been used as an integral part of natural beauty recipes.
Chapped hands - in a small bowl mix one teaspoon of honey and two tablespoons of water. Apply this mixture on your hands dry while you massage. Repeat the procedure daily. This will prevent the skin cracking continue.
Dry Skin -combines a teaspoon of honey, one of flour, olive oil and egg yolk. Then cover the face and neck with this mixture and leave it for 30 minutes. Remove with warm water and see how your skin feels and looks hydrated. You can do three times a week.
Wrinkle Mask - Combine two tablespoons of honey and a tablespoon of lemon juice. Spread the mixture on the face and neck massage and leave on for 20 minutes. Use a sponge to remove excess and warm water. The pores will be less dilated and the skin clear and smooth.
Hydrate your body - If you want your skin to stay soft, add two tablespoons of honey to bathe filled with water. Dive and exfoliates your skin with a loofah. I You can add four tablespoons of milk.
Stay Beautiful and Healthy..
Xoxo
jueves, 27 de octubre de 2011
Up the Career Ladder, Lipstick In Hand
In a study, women were photographed wearing varying amounts of makeup, from left: barefaced, natural, professional and glamorous. Viewers considered the women wearing more makeup to be more competent.
Wearing makeup — but not gobs of Gaga-conspicuous makeup — apparently can help. It increases people’s perceptions of a woman’s likability, her competence and (provided she does not overdo it) her trustworthiness, according to a new study, which also confirmed what is obvious: that cosmetics boost a woman’s attractiveness.
It has long been known that symmetrical faces are considered more comely, and that people assume that handsome folks are intelligent and good. There is also some evidence that women feel more confident when wearing makeup, a kind of placebo effect, said Nancy Etcoff, the study’s lead author and an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard University (yes, scholars there study eyeshadow as well as stem cells). But no research, till now, has given makeup credit for people inferring that a woman was capable, reliable and amiable.
The study was paid for by Procter & Gamble, which sells CoverGirl and Dolce & Gabbana makeup, but researchers like Professor Etcoff and others from Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute were responsible for its design and execution.
The study’s 25 female subjects, aged 20 to 50 and white, African-American and Hispanic, were photographed barefaced and in three looks that researchers called natural, professional and glamorous. They were not allowed to look in a mirror, lest their feelings about the way they looked affect observers’ impressions.
One hundred forty-nine adults (including 61 men) judged the pictures for 250 milliseconds each, enough time to make a snap judgment. Then 119 different adults (including 30 men) were given unlimited time to look at the same faces.
The participants judged women made up in varying intensities of luminance contrast (fancy words for how much eyes and lips stand out compared with skin) as more competent than barefaced women, whether they had a quick glance or a longer inspection.
“I’m a little surprised that the relationship held for even the glamour look,” said Richard Russell, an assistant professor of psychology at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pa. “If I call to mind a heavily competent woman like, say, Hillary Clinton, I don’t think of a lot of makeup. Then again, she’s often onstage so for all I know she is wearing a lot.”
However, the glamour look wasn’t all roses.
“If you wear a glam look, you should know you look very attractive” at quick glance, said Professor Etcoff, the author of “Survival of the Prettiest” (Doubleday, 1999), which argued that the pursuit of beauty is a biological as well as a cultural imperative. But over time, “there may be a lowering of trust, so if you are in a situation where you need to be a trusted source, perhaps you should choose a different look.”
Just as boardroom attire differs from what you would wear to a nightclub, so can makeup be chosen strategically depending on the agenda.
“There are times when you want to give a powerful ‘I’m in charge here’ kind of impression, and women shouldn’t be afraid to do that,” by, say, using a deeper lip color that could look shiny, increasing luminosity, said Sarah Vickery, another author of the study and a Procter & Gamble scientist. “Other times you want to give off a more balanced, more collaborative appeal.”
In that case, she suggested, opt for lip tones that are light to moderate in color saturation, providing contrast to facial skin, but not being too glossy.
But some women did not view the study’s findings as progress.
“I don’t wear makeup, nor do I wish to spend 20 minutes applying it,” said Deborah Rhode, a law professor at Stanford University who wrote “The Beauty Bias” (Oxford University Press, 2010), which details how appearance unjustly affects some workers. “The quality of my teaching shouldn’t depend on the color of my lipstick or whether I’ve got mascara on.”
She is no “beauty basher,” she said. “I’m against our preoccupation, and how judgments about attractiveness spill over into judgments about competence and job performance. We like individuals in the job market to be judged on the basis of competence, not cosmetics.”
But Professor Etcoff argued that there has been a cultural shift in ideas about self adornment, including makeup. “Twenty or 30 years ago, if you got dressed up, it was simply to please men, or it was something you were doing because society demands it,” she said. “Women and feminists today see this is their own choice, and it may be an effective tool.”
Dr. Vickery, whose Ph.D. is in chemistry, added that cosmetics “can significantly change how people see you, how smart people think you are on first impression, or how warm and approachable, and that look is completely within a woman’s control, when there are so many things you cannot control.”
Bobbi Brown, the founder of her namesake cosmetics line, suggested that focusing on others’ perceptions misses the point of what makes makeup powerful.
“We are able to transform ourselves, not only how we are perceived, but how we feel,” she said.
Ms. Brown also said that the wrong color on a subject may have caused some testers to conclude that women with high-contrasting makeup were more “untrustworthy.” “People will have a bad reaction if it’s not the right color, not the right texture, or if the makeup is not enhancing your natural beauty,” she said.
Daniel Hamermesh, an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the conclusion that makeup makes women look more likable — or more socially cooperative — made sense to him because “we conflate looks and a willingness to take care of yourself with a willingness to take care of people.”
Professor Hamermesh, the author of “Beauty Pays” (Princeton University Press, 2011), which lays out the leg-up the beautiful get, said he wished that good-looking people were not treated differently, but said he was a realist.
“Like any other thing that society rewards, people will take advantage of it,” he said of makeup’s benefits. “I’m an economist, so I say, why not? But I wish society didn’t reward this. I think we’d be a fairer world if beauty were not rewarded, but it is.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/fashion/makeup-makes-women-appear-more-competent-study.html?_r=2&src=tp
It has long been known that symmetrical faces are considered more comely, and that people assume that handsome folks are intelligent and good. There is also some evidence that women feel more confident when wearing makeup, a kind of placebo effect, said Nancy Etcoff, the study’s lead author and an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard University (yes, scholars there study eyeshadow as well as stem cells). But no research, till now, has given makeup credit for people inferring that a woman was capable, reliable and amiable.
The study was paid for by Procter & Gamble, which sells CoverGirl and Dolce & Gabbana makeup, but researchers like Professor Etcoff and others from Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute were responsible for its design and execution.
The study’s 25 female subjects, aged 20 to 50 and white, African-American and Hispanic, were photographed barefaced and in three looks that researchers called natural, professional and glamorous. They were not allowed to look in a mirror, lest their feelings about the way they looked affect observers’ impressions.
One hundred forty-nine adults (including 61 men) judged the pictures for 250 milliseconds each, enough time to make a snap judgment. Then 119 different adults (including 30 men) were given unlimited time to look at the same faces.
The participants judged women made up in varying intensities of luminance contrast (fancy words for how much eyes and lips stand out compared with skin) as more competent than barefaced women, whether they had a quick glance or a longer inspection.
“I’m a little surprised that the relationship held for even the glamour look,” said Richard Russell, an assistant professor of psychology at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pa. “If I call to mind a heavily competent woman like, say, Hillary Clinton, I don’t think of a lot of makeup. Then again, she’s often onstage so for all I know she is wearing a lot.”
However, the glamour look wasn’t all roses.
“If you wear a glam look, you should know you look very attractive” at quick glance, said Professor Etcoff, the author of “Survival of the Prettiest” (Doubleday, 1999), which argued that the pursuit of beauty is a biological as well as a cultural imperative. But over time, “there may be a lowering of trust, so if you are in a situation where you need to be a trusted source, perhaps you should choose a different look.”
Just as boardroom attire differs from what you would wear to a nightclub, so can makeup be chosen strategically depending on the agenda.
“There are times when you want to give a powerful ‘I’m in charge here’ kind of impression, and women shouldn’t be afraid to do that,” by, say, using a deeper lip color that could look shiny, increasing luminosity, said Sarah Vickery, another author of the study and a Procter & Gamble scientist. “Other times you want to give off a more balanced, more collaborative appeal.”
In that case, she suggested, opt for lip tones that are light to moderate in color saturation, providing contrast to facial skin, but not being too glossy.
But some women did not view the study’s findings as progress.
“I don’t wear makeup, nor do I wish to spend 20 minutes applying it,” said Deborah Rhode, a law professor at Stanford University who wrote “The Beauty Bias” (Oxford University Press, 2010), which details how appearance unjustly affects some workers. “The quality of my teaching shouldn’t depend on the color of my lipstick or whether I’ve got mascara on.”
She is no “beauty basher,” she said. “I’m against our preoccupation, and how judgments about attractiveness spill over into judgments about competence and job performance. We like individuals in the job market to be judged on the basis of competence, not cosmetics.”
But Professor Etcoff argued that there has been a cultural shift in ideas about self adornment, including makeup. “Twenty or 30 years ago, if you got dressed up, it was simply to please men, or it was something you were doing because society demands it,” she said. “Women and feminists today see this is their own choice, and it may be an effective tool.”
Dr. Vickery, whose Ph.D. is in chemistry, added that cosmetics “can significantly change how people see you, how smart people think you are on first impression, or how warm and approachable, and that look is completely within a woman’s control, when there are so many things you cannot control.”
Bobbi Brown, the founder of her namesake cosmetics line, suggested that focusing on others’ perceptions misses the point of what makes makeup powerful.
“We are able to transform ourselves, not only how we are perceived, but how we feel,” she said.
Ms. Brown also said that the wrong color on a subject may have caused some testers to conclude that women with high-contrasting makeup were more “untrustworthy.” “People will have a bad reaction if it’s not the right color, not the right texture, or if the makeup is not enhancing your natural beauty,” she said.
Daniel Hamermesh, an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the conclusion that makeup makes women look more likable — or more socially cooperative — made sense to him because “we conflate looks and a willingness to take care of yourself with a willingness to take care of people.”
Professor Hamermesh, the author of “Beauty Pays” (Princeton University Press, 2011), which lays out the leg-up the beautiful get, said he wished that good-looking people were not treated differently, but said he was a realist.
“Like any other thing that society rewards, people will take advantage of it,” he said of makeup’s benefits. “I’m an economist, so I say, why not? But I wish society didn’t reward this. I think we’d be a fairer world if beauty were not rewarded, but it is.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/fashion/makeup-makes-women-appear-more-competent-study.html?_r=2&src=tp
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