Saturday, August 10, 2013

Confetti nails

Nowadays there are plenty of new inventions in the nail art industry. If you don't like fake nails but if you want a special effect, try this new top coat with sparkles from L'Oreal! <3

Monday, June 17, 2013

Laurel London

For a long time now I've been looking for a perfect Iphone case but I haven't found anything special yet.

Until now.

The blogging sisters FashionFabrice are giving away one of these fabulous Iphone covers by Laurel London!

Take a look at this gorgeous Vanity collection...

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Stromae - Formidable


Stromae is a Belgian singer/songwriter who scored his first hit Alors on danse in 2009.
Yesterday 27/5 he released his new videoclip for the song Formidable.
He pretended to be a drunk in Brussels and waited for people to upload their private videos if him. After a couple of days, he reveals the true nature of his purpose...

Really formidable

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Favorite songs





3 songs
3 artists
3 styles
3 hitz 

Major Lazer feat. Busy Signal the Flexican & FS Green - Watch out for this (Bumaye)

Disclosure feat. ALunaGeorge - White Noise 

Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

 



Sunday, January 27, 2013

A Pep Talk from Kid President to You

Once in a while people really need a good pep talk (oy yes, you too).
Not everybody has the chance of receiving good advice, but luckily these days you can get it from people all over the world, just like this kid for example.
Just watch it and listen to what 8 year old Kid President has got to say! :-)

Let's wait and see what he achieves in the next few years....



Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Vanessa Paradis - new H&M face

Apparently the breakup with hubbie Johnny Depp was not to Vanessa's disadvantage.
After various successful campaigns for Miu Miu and Chanel, Vanessa Paradis - at the age of 42 - will be the new face for the H&M Conscious collection.

Miu Miu campaign (2008)
Coco Chanel campaign (2009)

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with imperfections, but I must be critical over this video that H&M made, more particularly for the model they chose. It seems to me that so far she has always been well-styled, but right now she's in motion and that doesn't seem to work out very well.
Here are some screenshots of H&M's latest video - with scary model.

If it wouldn't have been for these excellent marketing tools I suppose this video would be worthless..


Check out the entire video on Youtube.


Wednesday, January 9, 2013

& Other stories

The Swedish multinational clothing company H&M will be starting a new concept this spring, "& Other stories".


This fashion brand is created for women and consists mainly in accessories - think shoes, bags, jewelry, lingerie & beauty.

I'm curious what they will have to offer us more than H&M, COS or Monki. Let's wait and see wheter the somewhat uncomfortable name "& Other stories" will have the same success as its little brother & sister.
One thing future shoppers can be sure of is that"Prices will start where H&M prices end", according to CEO Karl-Johan Persson.
Karl-Johan Persson, CEO and H&M heir

Wanna go and check it out soon? Then go to fashion cities Paris, London, Milan, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen or of course Stockholm to check out their collection.

There will also be a webshop available for the hungry ones amongst us!



Monday, January 7, 2013

Shark attack during shopping



Apparently there were some quality issues with this aquarium glass in Shangai...
Result? 33 tons of water flowing all over the mall and 15 injured!

Guess they won't be seeing any shoppers in the near future!

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Celebrity photoshopping

There's nothing wrong with a little Photoshopping (officially it would be "photo manipulation", everybody knows that it exists. It's like all the recent doping scandals in professional cycling, it's advanced so much the moneymakers just can't live without it.

Beauty ads use their own doping drugs and it's called Photoshopping.
Let's take a look at how Lancôme transformed 45-year old Julia Roberts into a 30-something woman.


One could definitely say that she took her role as evil queen in search for eternal youth a bit to seriously (in the Snow white adaptation Mirror mirror).


Another recent example is from the radiant Eva Longoria, edited by L'Oréal. The mascara's name is million lashes but it's questionable whether your eyes will grow a million lashes or start to shine like two polestars.


A while ago there was this contra-movement from BBC for the charity project BearFaced. It involved some celebrities such as Heidi Klum, who posed on front of the lens without (or with very little let's say) make-up.



The initiative was received both warmly as hostile, like all main events are. Comments were given that it was not a big sacrifice and that it takes more to support charity than posing without make-up. But in a world filled with pictures like Lancômes' and L'oréals', I believe it can be quite refreshing to see a naked face.