Mar 23, 2010 | Life, Score!
This was most certainly a toughie. Out of 53 comments, there were some really great ones. But who to choose? Instead of doing it randomly and running the results thru Random.org, I decided to hand-pick someone out of all the entries, leaving the cryptic “Best answer as to why you need this product” as the entry guidelines. But what constitutes “best???”
Many of you wanted to win it in order to present it to your mothers or other loved ones, like chun who wrote “I would love to give Cold Plasma as a gift to my mom…The truth is she wasn’t blessed with the best skin and is sensitive to most sunblocks, which has not resulted in graceful aging. Being in her 60s I feel like she has given up on taking care of herself.”
There were also some commenters who mentioned they were in relationships with younger men and thus need all the help they can get when it comes to battling the 10 signs of aging, like Angelique who wrote “It fights TEN SIGNS OF AGING!!! I’m 41, my boyfriend is 26…I need all the ammo I can get!!!”
Others mentioned difficult work/home lives, like trashywriter who wrote about how her routine daily is dropping off her twins at school, checking on her mother who had lost a lot of her independence from an open-heart surgery, and then taking care of a daughter who has Asperger’s.
Still others mentioned how you love Dr. Perrricone’s products but find them so pricey it’s difficult to rationalize the splurge on something like this. Others mentioned hitting a milestone age, or being told by other people that they look “old.”
So who gets it? I wish I could choose everyone who shared their skin woes so honestly (and I did read and consider every single entry)…but I chose
Jennifer
who wrote “At 55 years old I have all ’10 signs of aging: wrinkles, enlarged pores, dryness, discoloration, redness, uneven skin tone, impurities, loss of firmness, loss of smoothness and loss of radiance.’ Oh, to have my skin to look healthy again!! Younger again!!! And, maybe, my 19 year old will stop telling me how old I look! That one’s a real esteem killer!”
Well, congratulations Jennifer! I’ll be contacting you to get your shipping info so that the Perricone people can get your jar of Cold Plasma out on the way to you.
Thank you to all who entered, and there will be more giveaways in the future…including some loot from New York Fashion Week, so stay tuned!
xoxox
Carly
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Mar 13, 2010 | Life
in posts – we came back from Hawaii late Monday night (well, more like early Tuesday morning)…and between trying to unpack the suitcase, get through the mountain of laundry that’s been piled up, deal with the mess in the garden, go to/take Lil Tot to the million doctor’s and dentist’s appointments I’ve been putting off, and doing the taxes (thank goodness those are done!)….I’ve neglected this blog. Sorry! I have a couple long posts coming up…the last little coverage of NY Fashion Week (I’m sure by this time it’s hardly topical anymore cuz it’s so much after the fact now:-/…a couple of DIY’s I have to finish up…
An interview or two with some really cool people…
An article for FashionTribes that is sorely overdue…
And a couple of DIY’s I’ve had commissioned for some cool projects that I can’t wait to announce!
Plus add to the mix that I probably overdid things and ended up with a fever and a head cold this week…not good.
So please bear with me…
More stuff is on it’s way!
photo from Momlogic.com…yup, that’s pretty much how I feel.
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Mar 9, 2010 | Fashion, Life
(Sauce tee, Bebe cardigan, Forever21 mirrored ribbon necklace and studded bangle bracelet, Hue footless tights, Rock & Republic destroyed denim shorts, Steve Madden flats, unknown skull-studded bag from Pineapple County)
Last day in Hawaii. I met up with some old friends and had a blast! It’s so wonderful to reconnect and find the odd little ways your lives have paralleled, even after years apart. If you have an old friend who you haven’t heard from lately, definitely drop her/him a line and say hi! New friends are dear, but old friends are dearest!
Edit: I just noticed that weird kid in the background grinning. He seems a lot more thrilled than I look to be photographed, he he.
I liked the design of this Sauce shirt and bought it with a gift card to Saks Fifth Avenue. The shirt is so cheaply constructed, though! Worse than the worst of Forever21.
Edit: I was actually taxiing down the runway to take off on the plane back to Portland as I was typing the above. I didn’t think I would actually get done with this post before they forced me to turn off my electronic device LOL! But I managed to bang out the above…and decided later to add some more info. The shirt’s side seams are overlocked with a simple double-needle; hems are raw. Collar, instead of being made with ribbing, is done with self-fabric, turned, and finished with twin-needle overlock, so it stretches out the more you wear it. The fabric is super-thin and 100% cotton – it feels and looks utterly cheap to the touch. (Unlike my beloved Kain label tee – which is a blend of silk – and truly feels luxurious.) This shirt feels like it will disintegrate in sunlight…or in the washing machine! Ugh. So not worth $70! (The only rationalization I can make for its price is that the oversized screenprint (thus requiring non-standard sizded screens) necessitates a higher screenprinting fee?? But I think this is one example of the consumer paying the jacked-up price of label luxury – i.e., the brand of the shirt is its cache, not the quality.) I think it’s funny how the skeleton’s pelvis is quite higher than the wearer’s. Hub calls it my “midget skeleton” shirt. In my mind it’s also an ironic commentary on the current INness of skinniness in the fashion industry…could this be the current ideal of the female body?? hehehe. It kind of reminds me of those shirts they sell at Spencer’s Gifts or in raunchy catalogs as beach cover-ups with an airbrushed hot chick’s bikini body on them….in sizes XL – XXXL only…except this is the other extreme.;-)
I haven’t been in the habit of wearing black tights under my shorts, but here in Hawaii after the earthquake in Chile it’s been super-, super-windy. Almost hurricane weather. Of course I didn’t anticipate this and didn’t bring any warm clothes or long pants; so I tried layering these tights under my shorts, doing the whole Japanese-tourist-in-Hawaii-outfit. If you’ve ever been to Honolulu, you’ve probably noticed that all the young Japanese girls are layering black leggings or tights under their jean minis or shorts. For warmth? To hide the non-tanned state of their legs? To hide other leg imperfections? To be more modest even in a tropical climate that almost necessitates the showing of skin? I suppose one will never know…it’s a sort of a micro-trend here on the islands amongst the tourists from Asian countries. And me haha!
Hope you guys all had a great weekend!
xoxox
Carly
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Mar 6, 2010 | Life, Media
No one should underestimate the value of a good title. Take this video, entitled “Seven Style Basics that Everyone Should Know,” from Fashioncents.tv. I thought I would be watching a video detailing style rules – like the right length to hem your jeans, don’t wear blouses that are too small they gap between the buttons, etc. However this video is really about what to do with your clothing after you’ve bought it – what threads/hanging loops/tags/labels should be removed, and how to do it. Great advice all the same…just maybe a different title would be better?
Seven Style Basics that Everyone Should Know
FC: ep 024 Style Basics from K Turner on Vimeo.
from Fashioncents.tv.
I like the advice about the adhesive remover for those clear labels on the bottom of shoes – I’d pretty much given up pulling them off, since they always leave such a sticky mess.
xoxox
Carly
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Mar 2, 2010 | Fashion, Life
I know, right? Again????
Full disclosure: I am in Hawaii now and desperately trying to catch up on posting all my New York Fashion Week coverage from my laptop that I was silly enough to bring with me.
Hub’s best friend had his wedding February 12. His brother has his wedding March 6. Both decided to have their weddings in Hawaii.
So what does one do? Decide to only go for one of the weddings? (You’d have to go to your brother’s, obviously.) Go for the first one, stay in Hawaii 4 weeks, go for the second one, then go home? Or go to Hawaii for the first wedding, fly back, the go back to Hawaii a few weeks later?
Well, that’s kind of how it worked out for us (except for me going to New York Fashion Week in-between). It turned out the roundtrip plane tickets for all of us were way cheaper than the cost of daily meals, hotel, pets’ boarding fees, missed school for Lil Tot, etc., so we decided to fly back to Portland in-between.
Basically we had a week in-between our flights. I’m a little tired of living out of a suitcase by now!
(H&M DIY’ed destroyed sweater, Old Navy lame-knit tanktop, unknown brand bag from Pineapple County, Forever21 rhinestone bracelets and double-wrap belt, Norma Kamali for Spiegel convertible minidress worn as a skirt, Wet Seal gold chain flats)
Bought the H&M sweater while in New York and because it had a small hole in it I was able to get it at a whole 10% off discount the original $26 price. [wooo. Not.] So I unraveled ladders in it a bit more, ended up with it looking really cool and Raquel Allegra‘d…and then snagged it moments after this photo was taken on my bracelets, thus altering it from an intentionally-destroyed sweater…to a sweater that just looked like I’d pulled it out of the trash. Not good.
I finally figured out what these skull studs are a knockoff of – Thomas Wylde‘s designs! It was bugging the hell out of me. I found this bag for $40 at Pineapple County last…last week when I was in Honolulu, and today when I was browsing in the store the salesgirl asked me if she could start wrapping up my bag for purchase. Problem with stores that sell affordable, cute merchandise: sales staff is usually clueless LOL.
I’ll be leaving…on a jet plane soon. Again. Arrrgh!
Day after the “tsunami” and everything is fine here – just a little windy.
xoxox
Carly
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Feb 19, 2010 | Fashion, Life
Well, that flew by in an instant! I feel like I’ve barely kept you guys in the loop as to the shows and stuf.
Well, coming forthwith will be the writeups of the following shows:
*Luca Luca
*Vassilios Kostetsos
*Pamela Rolland
*Ecco Domani
*Samantha Pleet
*c. marchuska
*Leifsdottir
*Tommy Hilfiger
I’m so honored and thrilled that I could have been here for the last season that the shows will be at the iconic tents of Bryant Park. It truly is the End of an Era!
What an amazing week. Thank you for following along with me!
xoxox
Carly
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