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

It's called Top Coat The confetti 

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...

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

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

 

Happy feet

Gotta have these Dylan Kendall mugs !!

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....

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.

& 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!

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!

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.

Trampoline wall

And another trend in the extreme sports division. It's called trampoline wall.
This doesn't need much explanation. Just look at these videos.

Legends on board

I think almost everybody agrees that those Youtube commercials are pretty annoying when you start watching a video.
But yesterday a nice one appeared on screen. It was even so nice that I searched for this commercial on Youtube to share it with you guys :-)

Slacklining

This popular concept couldn't be easier. All you need is a long piece of rope and two items that are strong enough to hold your weight.

Slacklining

It's not the same as tightrope walking, where the rope is bound tightly between two objects.

Tightrope walking

Last April the North American Dean Potter set the World Record of the highest slackline walk. He did this in China, crossing the Enshi Grand Canyon (Hubei province), at a height of 1800 metres!
He walked over a 2cm thick rope during two minutes, walking a 40m distance in total.

All I want for Christmas is you (x2)

Every year at the return of Christmas we see the return of Mariah Carey as well, performing her all time popular song "All I want for Christmas is you".

Right now there are two popular versions circulating on Youtube.

Which one do you prefer?

The livingroom concert with Jimmy Fallon & the Roots?

A solo performance at the Rockefeller centre in NY ?

Bond in the mix

And in continuation of the previous video, I give you the remix of some Bond songs - by A. Skillz & Krafty Kuts

Coca cola ad II

Unlock the 007 in you. You have 70 seconds!

In the Station of Antwerp crazy stuff can happen.....

Lennon and Maisy

Don't you just love Youtube... Thanks to this invention the whole world can enjoy listening to some beautiful singers.

Just take a look at these lovely sisters.

Give it up for Lennon and Maisy Stella.

WTF Japan Seriously

Japanese are known for inventing some crazy stuff and apparently they produce some excellent commercials too! The website "WTF Japan Seriously" has some excellent examples of beautiful Japanese publicity and other videos. Check it out!

Wanna see more? There's a whole Youtube channel dedicated to this madness!

Urban knitting

The image of knitting has had an update since the uprising of urban knitting. Forget this:

And imagine this:

Yarn bombing or urban knitting is a kind of street art where anyone can start knitting on trees, statues or anything else there can be in the streets. In Dutch it's known as "wildbreien".
This trend first showed op in 2004 in the Netherlands and started to spread out to the USA and otherwhere in the world.

Harmoniepark Antwerpen

This art is also seen as a form of graffiti but in comparison with the traditional form, this art is easy to remove once authorities consider this as vandalism.

Zuid, Antwerpen

London

Do not remove please!

Favorite song // D'banj - Oliver Twist

Not necessarily for the lyrics, but it's got a good beat and it's very nice for dancing