Thou shall look Royal

Ever heard of 'The Other Boleyn Girl'? 

I have a weakness for Philippa Gregory and 

the books she wrote on the Tudor dynasty. 

Well to tell you, each and every single time I am reading one of these novels,

I have the tendency to think, what would the Tudor women wear nowadays?

They are all fierce (at least in the books) as they are a coquette.

So their clothing would reflect their same attitude.

Well the moment I saw the Burberry Prorsum Fall 2012 collection,

I knew I had my answer.

They would have worn Burberry Prorsum!

Take a look at my royal predictions and see if you agree.

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Don't you wish you had a royal title or at least these items in your closet? :P

Blow me away...

Maybe it's because she is Spanish.

Maybe its  that allure, that mystery surrounding her. 

But I like this picture.

Sadly could not catch the Oscars since the different time zones make it impossible,

but still I really like this Marchesa dress on Penelope Cruz.

Personally I am no fan of blue gowns.

But this sure makes me dream of princess attire.

So whenever you get a chance in real life to shine like this,

Let the dress do you justice, like Penelope here!

Polished up

A couple of weeks ago, my BFF asked me all panicked...

What nail polish should I buy????

Now it's prudent for you to know a couple of things. 

First of all we are entirely different on various aspects.

I am obsessed with nail polish since I'm 11 and it was forbidden by my dad.

She on the contrary is not that into beauty and fashion. She cares about less superficial stuff :P

But now you could say...Well she could just Google or grab the first polish in the drugstore!

Not quite, she is dark-skinned and yes, I admit.

It is difficult to find a polish that is VISIBLE and looks cute.

Lighter colored people have no such dramas for most nail polish are made for them!

So imagine us trying to find the right nail polish for her over BBM...

So did not happen! So for you my dearest..this post!

Choose something with sparkles

So I am openly over top in love with anything sparkly.

But this does not need to be over the top. Dark skinned girls should do sparkles. 

Especially if the color of the nail polish is already dark.

The nail polish lords, AKA O.P.I. have this whole collection which is perfect for darker skin colors.

These nail polishes have a lot of pigment and will make your nails look like cute little jewels.

Sally Hansen has a new line called Gem Crush, which suits not only fair skins. 

The one below is called Be-Jeweled.

Do some bloody red

I know what you're thinking. Red is for white people. 

I DO not agree. Well not with this shade. 

This could be the more universal red color I could have encountered.

This is Revlon's Cherry Crush. It glides on looking slightly like a blood color.

It sounds disgusting, but that's the most realistic description I can think of. Give it try.

And tell me if I'm wrong. 

Go green

Personally I think this color, depending on the shade is quite difficult to work. 

If you are fair it might be overpowering.

So what better than to rock it if your dark-skinned

This color, of MAC, is called Beyond Jealous.

And believe me, that's what people will be when the see how FAB your nails look girl!

My last tip for dark skinned girls: Add a topcoat to you fully dried polish. 

This makes the polish chip resistant and last longer.

It also gives your manicure a shiny finish that makes your hand look healthy and taken care of!

Sally Hansen makes a good one!

So dear BFF, you are now in the know of what colors you should buy!;)

Short on Time

I am literally short on time!

Crazily for once I have made a study schedule...:P

The first real thing...like since....EVER!

And yes I am already falling behind.

These precious minutes I am spending typing you guys should be spent reading articles.

Now, I am modern and I am THE WOMAN so I multitask right?

(I'm freaking out that is)

But still, imagine your schedule is as tight as mine,

But you have to be out and about.

And yes the library, train station, bus or whatever form of public transportation DOES count!

And yes we all wanna look fab right?

And, there's a crisis...you wanna save money!

I've got the perfect solution for you.

Reversible jeans from Bluelab.

Now before you go say...eeeewww that's gross..blah blah..blah..

Look at how cute they are...

I swear if I had time, I'd score a pair!

And I must say the colors are awesome...

So bye bye boring blues....Hellooooo pretty jeans!

Mint green reversibles

Acid-wash reversibles

Purple leather-ish reversibles



Leopard print reversibles



Bright colored reversibles





Be REAL

I don't need to say much.

Elle France, February issue.

Tara Lynn.

Everyone that knows me for more than 1 month, knows that I'm eternally on a diet. Since my 16s, I've been saying it over and over again.

No I don't want this, I wanna lose 20 pounds..blah, blah, blah..

I bet you've had those days. The so-called fat days. I've bet you've wished you were taller, skinnier, had blonde hair, or green eyes or had sleek hair or just 'normal' or just 'beautiful'.

But what is 'normal'? What is 'beautiful'?

I've had this discussion with a friend holding on magazine in one  hand and a diet Coke in the other.

In which me myself was debating whether or not the model employed by Dove was 'beautiful' or not.

Now,  not to brag but we even get to discuss this based on recent academic research that analyzes the latest strategy of Dove. We are still marketers. We still need to know what works.

However who gets the right to define what is considered 'beautiful'? Who gets to say what is normal?

Do designers get to tell me I'm beautiful or not? Do my parents get that right?  Or does my boyfriend get to do that? And if they get to that, what do we define as beautiful?

Go ahead. Google.

A whopping total of 188.000.000 hits for the definition of beautiful. Take the first hit. Dictionary.com says: "Having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech."

For we fool ourselves to believe there are only a given number of qualities that give great satisfaction to see, hear etc. Why are we obsessed with binding beauty or the term beautiful to a given standard the majority of us women do not meet? Why do we allow others to judge us upon something that is as elusive and vague, as alchemy?

In my opinion women should just scrap the thought of not being beautiful and start defining their beauty based on a Likert scale. Ow, you don't know what that is? No worries, I will show you.

But first, you need to do me a favor. Close your eyes. Think about one time you looked in the mirror.

Now think, I (might) delight the senses or the mind.

Now open your eyes and indicate to which degree you consider yourself beautiful;

Beautiful                                                             Beautiful

1       2       3       4       5       6       7       8       9

Oh, you have academic knowledge, and you want to state that my scale is totally wrong because I don't measure anything in particular and there is no actual scale?

I shall totally agree with you. However I find that each and every single one of us should allow ourselves to acknowledge our own beauty. Who said we all had to look like models, actress or singers?