Make Me Beautiful

Top ten of modern and hot shorts of this season.

American Eagle Outfitters, Arizona by JCPenney, Liz Claiborne, Mimi Chica, Tibi, Victoria’s Secret Catalogue.

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Since last week, we have seen Katie Holmes sporting a 1990’s fashion statement: the rolled pants. But I guess, she’s not the only member of “The Sisterhood of Tight-Rolled Pants” , Rachel Bilson also belongs to the sisterhood!

Who wore it best? Or should I say, who wore it worst?

A. Katie Homes
B. Rachel Bilson

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So while finding the runway photos on style.com for the Pure Gold post, I realised that the gold eye shadow look that has been in my mind wasn’t really the Bottega Veneta S/S08 look but it was the very different Versace S/S08 look: the smokey eyes.

For a light smokey eye, go for the Zac Posen S/S08 way.

You can see that there’s obviously yellowish-gold eye shadow in the inner corners and on the bottom lashes. As for the top outer eyes, the brown eye shadow is applied in a ‘wing out’ way, which may look cool on the models, but I imagine very hard to apply on yourself in real life -the winged shape is so hard to acheive!

For something more smoky and made-up for a night out, try the Versace S/S08 way. The Versace ‘face’ is definitely one of my favourites this season. It’s pretty do-able in real life, (as long as you don’t expect to look 100% like it does in the photos.)

For an imitation of this smokey eye, just blend gold and brown on your eye lids.

Try this: Mac’s Goldmine + Tempting. I’ve never actually tried tempting, but I’m guessing most shades of shimmery brown would be ok.

Pale lips seem to be the way to go, although for some odd reason, pale lips never seem to look as cool in real life as in fashion magazine photos.

Picture yourself in this makeup for a night out -loves it!

Image Credit: www.style.com, www.elle.com, www.maccosmetics.com

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In an attempt to ‘live young’, I looked into fashion magazines for this season’s beauty trend in search for eye shadow ideas, as opposed to my usual eye shadow style (the few times I bother with eye shadow;) Read: brown. If you read every magazine out there for a few months, you would realise that they feature eye shadow of every colour so I ignored the obviously magazine-styled ones, like many shades of green, yellow and blue, and have decided to accept the classy trend: the gold eyeshadow. There are two types. The first one is pure gold.

As you can see, pure gold basically means just plain gold all over the eye lids. The looks above are from the Chanel F/W08 runway show. Obviously I don’t recommend you actually taking this look literally in real life.

Another show that had all gold eye shadow was the Bottega Veneta S/S08 show. Here, it looks simple and elegant -perfect for day and night.

A closer look on the eyes. While it looks very effortlessly applied on, I’m sure we wouldn’t be able to replicate it quite as well in real life.

The way I’m planning on trying out this look is to first adjust by dabbing a tiny bit of the gold just at the inner corners of the eyes, so it will look as it does in the image above. Just a tiny dab to add a little something to the otherwise plain (but equally elegant) look. After trying it out a few times, I’ll move on to try the all-gold look (like in the other Bottega Veneta images, not Chanel!)

So I headed to M.A.C. and found this colour: Goldmine. The makeup lady applied the colour all over my eyelids and honestly, it looked more like sparkly yellow than the pure gold in the Bottega Veneta show. But since it usually takes me a very long time to accept new makeup colours on myself and I wasn’t bothered to search for the perfect gold, I just picked a Goldmine up. It’s something for me to look foward trying on my next quiet night out.

I’ll blog about the other gold eye shadow look soon! Thoughts about this gold look?

Image Credits: http://www.elle.com/ , http://www.style.com/

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The 2008 Teen Choice Awards event was aired last August 4. We have seen stars posed for the blue carpet but we have to admit that not all of them strutted stunning dresses. Some did well but there were some who totally mismatched fashion with commonsense. As photographers kept on clicking, taking shots of every angle they can get, let’s find out who won the “fashion” surf boards.

Leighton Meester, aka Blair Waldorf , opted to wear a green draped cocktail dress from Lanvin Spring 2008 Grecian collection. With this selection, she stand out on the crowd of mini and maxi dresses.

Blake Lively, aka Serena van der Woodsen, sported a mini purple one-shouldered Tadashi Shoji dress that allowed her to flaunt her legs.

The Teen Choice host Miley Cyrus sparkled in her tiered sequined Moschino Cheap & Chic Spring 2008 sequined dress. I like her dress but I don’t think it looked good with those boots.

The High School Musical star, Vanessa Hudgens wore a Catherine Malandrino three-toned tiered strapless dress without her wavy hair. She looked good with Zac.

I don’t care if this dress was suited for 10-year old girls, but I think Aundrea Fimbres looks cute in this strapless Elsie Katz Couture Spring 2008 mini tutu dress. The dress is made of chrysanthemum brocade with rulled petticoat and hand-formed crystal beaded blossoms. And look at those shoes!

Hayden Panettiere rocked a strapless cinched-waist dark-and-light pink washed dress with a half-up half-down hairdo. She’s glowing!

Lauren Conrad advertised her designs by wearing one on the 2008 Teen Choice Awards. She wore a sweetheart necklined maxi dress that is multi-coloured with blue, white, taupe and orange.

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Because she’s good.

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