5 minutes to FABULOUS.

Yeah, it's 2:45pm right now and I'm finally able to get dressed for the day. WOOT WOOT!

 Not that there's anything wrong with being in your jammies from morning until night, but I just think that putting actual clothing on makes me feel better. It only took me 5 minutes to go from the above photo look to the below.

Leggings + Vintage Dress + Little jacket + Cute shoes = Perfect EVERY TIME.

it doesn't matter what colors/patterns any of this stuff is. it just looks great. oh yeah, and I shook out my pony for bonus points.

Jacket - Target
Dress - Vintage
Leggings - The Sal
Shoes - Target

Resort Casual

Good Morning Ladies!

Here's the video of the week featuring our new resort casual looks by UjENA. I hope you enjoy and have a great day!

"beauty is a lifestyle"

A Tote for Jet Setters

                                                      

Good Morning to all. For those us traveling this season stay organized with a personalized jet setter hanging toiletry bag by JDS Marketing. This nylon bag comes in 15 thread colors.  Bon voyage!

"beauty is a lifestyle"

Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten Characters I Would Crush On If I Were Also A Fictional Character

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the ladies over at The Broke and the Bookish blog.

This week's topic:

Top Ten Characters I Would Crush On If I Were Also A Fictional Character

I am going to reword this as Top Ten Characters I do crush on even though they are unfortunately fictional. Because that is a more accurate title for this category, let's be honest.

Presented with the name of an actor close(ish) to what I imagine, not necessary who should play the part.

• Étienne St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss. He's American, but with a British accent, and can speak French. I mean... (Face claim: Alex Pettyfer)
• Tobias 'Four' Eaton from Divergent. One of those strong, silent types, that would go above and beyond for you *swoon* (Face claim: Zac Efron with the buzz cut à la The Lucky One)
• Augustus Waters from The Fault in our Stars. He'd be the guy who makes you think, and hooks you with his turn of phrase. Also tragic... (Face claim: Ben Barnes with Harry Styles hair)
• Ronald Weasley from Harry Potter. Ron's always been my favourite. The funny guy who just makes you laugh all the time, even if his jealousy issues could cause problems... (Face claim: Eddie Redmayne)
• Alex Kylar from Angel. Secretive, slightly unknowable, intriguing, brooding. (Face claim: Jeremy Sumpter) 
• Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter. He's the older guy in the top year that everyone and their dog would crush on. Guys want to be him, girls want to be with him. (Face claim: Robert Pattinson but a bit softer)
• Finnick Odair from the Hunger Games. Initially you'd be crushing on him from a purely aesthetic view point but then it would become more than that once you hear his story. (Face claim: Hunter Parrish)
• Edward Cullen from Twilight. No judgment please, but he is very pretty. Regardless of his stalkeresque tendencies and vampirey-ness. He's pretty. (Face claim: Robert Pattinson)
• Darcy from P&P and Bridget Jone's Diary. I consider them essentially the same character, and both are lovely. (Face claim: Colin Firth, who else?)
• Alex Rider from Stormbreaker. Not so much a crush now, but one from when I was younger... (Face claim: Alex Pettyfer)

There you go. This was a good topic this week, but surprisingly hard! Let me know below who's in your top ten and if you agree with the face claims.

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Lifescouts: Nerds

Another month has flown by! I hope everyone has had a lovely Easter break, despite the unseasonable cold weather here in the UK. Also, I know I haven't reviewed much this month, but, you know... real life and stuff equals not much reading time. Sad face.

But anyway.

This month on Lifescouts it was Nerd month. While I am a self-confessed nerd, I don't think I will be collecting many badges this month. But let's see:

Chess Badge

While I know how to play chess, I'm not very good at the whole strategy side of this game. Normally, I lose when I play, or if I play against a computer with the easiest settings, I occasionally win but mostly get to stalemate.

Video Games Badge

I love playing video games. I have a PS3, Wii and DS. My favourite game on the PS3 has to be the Lego Harry Potter games, and for the Wii/DS, the Super Mario games. Not a fan of first-person shooter games though. I am shocking at aiming my gun while moving and find them more tense than enjoyable lol.

Bowling Badge

When I was around 15, I went to New Orleans with school, and we went bowling one afternoon. While bowling around the world is essentially the same game, the difference in this particular bowling alley is that there was no automated scoring! None of us knew how to do the scoring. Our coach driver tried to explain it but we still couldn't get it. I think in the end we just added an extra 10 points for strikes and half-strikes.

Programming Badge

Over the past year or so, I've been trying (very trying) to teach myself some rudimentary programming. Mainly HTML and CSS, because let's be real, it's useful to at least be able to look at a webpage source and know what's what. Thankfully, the internet is a wonderful resource for self-learning this sort of stuff with places like codecademy and Khan Academy providing free courses to learn with. I think I'm at the point where I can made a website that looks like it was made in the early 90s, maybe late 90s with a lot of looking up stuff involved. It is so satisfying though when your code works though!

So there we go. Four badges from this month's theme. Wish I could qualify for the Observatory badge and the Rubik's cube badge.

Go here to see the other badges I have collected, and let me know in the comments which badges you have collected!

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Leather, Baby!

Oooooh ooh ooh! I want a leather dress!!! So bad. 

I love the idea of a leather dress looking ladylike, I don't want to look like a biker girl, or a hootchie mama. I like the thought of a dress that would be worn by Sophia Loren in the 1960s, but done in a shiny, sleek skin. 

Example A: Look at this sumptuous Purple shift with the cap sleeve. This is so on-point it's le DANGER DIABOLIK! Ahhh, I freak out over this. If I ever see it in a store I will pray that the seaming is made for me. 

That's one thing about a leather shift, you are either going to win the "seaming lottery" and it will fit you, or you are just going to have to buy a size up and bring it to a tailor and have that thing pretty much re-made for you. I think that's kind of part of the appeal to me too, it's unforgiving, and sort of a signature of your body. tres chic. 

Exhibit B: OMGOMGOMGOMG! Diagonal STRIPES!!! SERIOUSLY!! 

only a Grand.... Alice + Olivia, why do you do this for me. I'm going to have to be very very well behaved to get this thing!

 This is so perfect for Spring, it's black and white, it's mod, it's geometric, it just looks so great I want to eat it for dessert.

Exhibit C: HOLY JESUS! Laser Cut!? In this GORGEOUS delicate pattern. How beautiful!

Drop-Waist... So Spring 2013. I love how this is kind of the antithesis of a cheesy leather biker dress. It's everything that isn't, it's floaty (you usually can't say that about leather), it's white and clean and angelic. oh my oh my!

JUST AS A SIDE NOTE... I still want this leather skirt too. For some reason, black is looking good for this. I would love it in a purple, a dark purple. Or a dark pink lipstick color. But the black is working, I think it's the sweet skater cut that makes it wonderful. How cute is this??

Travel Pants & More!

                                   

                                                      
                                                               Bermuda Shorts

Happy Monday everyone! Yesterday my family and I had a small gathering in celebration of Easter. I hope you and families had a Happy Easter and are having a Happy Passover. In my opinion qaulity time with the fam is priceless.

The cherry blossoms will be blooming this week. If you are traveling into the nations capital wrinkle free clothing that's fuss free should be permanent staples in your wardrobe. Shop LuluBellaWomensBoutique selection of travel wear and shorts by Contour Wear. Thats it for this post have a great day!