Tip of the day: Keep your eyecream in the fridge

This is a great tip for summer. Keeping your eyecreams in the fridge has more the one benefit, apart from feeling delicious when you put it on, it will work even better at deminishing puffy eyes. This is especially true with rollerball style eyecreams.
In addition to that, it will also keep for longer. So even though I know it's a pain, I still do it!

Tip of the day: Applying Bronzer to sculpt

Finally a use for the heathenous duckface! You know the one I'm talking about, a certain Miley Cyrus is a fan, but there are numerous girls on the internet. the best way I can discribe it, is either extreme pouting, or smiling and pouting at the same time. Here are some examples, with eyes blacked out because even I'm not that mean:

Wow ... now that I am super turned on by all the hotness, let me give you an actually good use for this face. Yes I want you to make it, at your self in the mirror.
If you smile and pout at the same time, it will cause a concave shape under your cheekbones which will guide you in where to apply bronzer to sculpt your cheekbones. Check it out on my wonderful and willing model below. (Actually, I think Kim Kardashian may be the one person on earth who can duckface and get away with it.)

As you can see, if you apply your powder bronzer along this nook, starting from directly below where your pupil sits in your eye, and up towards your ears, you will get a lovely shaded cheek, then just dab some more bronzer on your temples, blend, and you're done. Add blush as desired.

Would you wear it? Slips as dresses

90's Style. Love it or hate it's in fashion. Men wearing cardigans, girls are getting about in crop tops, thanksfully not the levi's as well. But what I'm interested in talking about now are slip dresses, and weather they have a place outside of the house.
Slip dresses to me conjure up images of Courtney Love, and more recently the scantily clad (and underaged) Taylor Momsen of late, I'm not all together sure it's a flattering look. Can it be worn in a way that doesn't say trashy?

Taylor Momsen, rightio.

But of course.
Bring it out of the bedroom by wearing it with accessories and clothing that don't make you think bedroom at all. When it comes to items of clothing that normally scream one thing in particular (like how fedoras scream manly mafia) you need to turn it around with something that introduces it to a new genre, otherwise you can look like you've been pulled too far into one trend.
Hats do this quite well with slips, (do you wear hats in bed?) and bare legs, stockings take it back into the bedroom even if they're opaques. Chunky man style watches, Bangles, thick socks, or add a longline chunky cardigan or coat and you're done. It is a piece that realy blends in well with a kooky style of dress sense.
Another good tip is to wear a lighter coloured slip,pale pinks, nudes, whites and pastels will help it look more like a simple summer dress. I don't think this will work if you wear it in a blazing red, a black could be passable but is still in danger of slipping back into "I forgot to put my dress on top of this" territory.

You could also just take the inspiration into your wardrobe and try a dress with lingerie style detailing and features,

 

 Regatta Polka Dot Dress

So, would you wear it? What would you wear it with? Where to?

Would you wear it? Tie Dye Hair

Recently it's been popping up in a few places, completely unnatural hair colour. A lot of celebs do it with wigs, while some have made coloured hair pieces their signature. It can actually look quite good, Rhianna looked great with her firey red hair a few months back:

 

I also read somewhere recently that Katy Perry has gone from black, to red, to blond recently, all in order to have her actual hair a rich violet colour:

To me, these two girls have shown exactly how it should be done, Otherwise a few removable coloured splices look good. What I'm not really liking is the below:

 

Nicki has been known to do some real out there stuff with her hair, but I'm really not feeling the blue tips on Kate Bosworth either.

What do you guys think? How would you wear it?

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Loving this week: ASOS, John Frieda and Stylestalker

I love the ladylike trend, who can possibly hate a trend that makes you look groomed, polished and appropriate at all times? Mix it up with some bedhair and modern make up and you're a total minx and boys don't know why!
I'm in desperate need for a new handbag as my current savious is giving me a rash from the cheap chain strap, and I'm in love with this top handle with cross body strap from ASOS, I don't think I can justify buying it just yet, but soon ... soon.

ASOS Premium Leather Vintage Frame Lady Bag available from ASOS

Next on my list is this new product from John Frieda Haircare. Another why-did-it-take-so-long-to-think-of? Product. A quick convenient way to tuck in flyaways that comes in the size of a mascara wand? Yes please. Also good to apply to frayed ends when you haven't had the chance to go for a haircut. This will be awesome in the humid Brisbane Summer!

John Frieda Full Repair Touch-Up Flyaway Tamer.

Fully getting into the 70's style that's coming into fashion, found this gorgeous dress by style stalker, it reminds me of both soemthing my mother used to wear but also a dress I fell in love with in the first SATC movie. It is quite short though, so if you don't have the legs I'd wear it with some quality paneled tights to give the illusion of looooong legs.

Almost Famour Dress by Stylestalker