ATTACK OF THE TWENTY-SOMETHINGS

In homage to ELLE's 25th anniversary, our favorite twenty-something stars are gracing the individual collectible covers, and also dropping a few words of wisdom they learned during their first quarter of life. As a girl lumped into this same age group, this celebration of the twenty-somethings hits a chord for me. Lots has happened in the past few years, lots have been learned, and so so so much more is left to be experienced. My friends and I are allll struggling right now. Yes, we have our degrees. Yes, we HAD jobs. Yes, we did our fair share of internships (gosh I had SO MANY). Yes, we loved. Yes, we lost. Where to now? Not quite sure. I just know we're all going SOMEWHERE.

If I were to be interviewed for this issue of ELLE, my quote would be:

"IT IS BETTER TO HAVE MADE A MISTAKE AND LEARNED FROM IT, THAN TO HAVE REGRETTED NEVER MAKING THE MISTAKE AT ALL."

Here's to the next twenty five.

 CAMILLA BELLE 
"I'm both young and old. My mom told me, 
'Don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you'll always be an adult"
AMANDA SEYFRIED
"The best thing is, I'm happy. 
The worst thing is that I'm scared --
the scariest thing is that I know it can't be easy--the years to come."
LAUREN CONRAD
"It's your time to be selfish;
you still have freedom."
 MILA KUNIS
"Jump out of a plane!
In your twenties, you're still very courageous."
MEGAN FOX
"It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says,
 'do you think I'm stupid? '
They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.


Marriage? Me? Hell no. Not in this decade. But everything else these ladies said, yes, I second that.












2010 Teen Fashion Trends Inspiration

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Give Me Some Valentino Couture






Ever since Maria Grazia Churi and Pier Paolo Piccoli took over leading the Valentino fashion house, I've fallen back in love. (Alessandra Facchinetti's occasional ray of light in her two, three collections was simply NOT good enough for such a name.)
Each collection remains faithful to the master himself, and yet delivers fresh, new, and young interpretations. This is what I call carrying the torch onwards.

My favorite part of this collection? It simply screams "Couture For The Young"
hi all. been on a fashion/writing/blog hiatus for a bit. and consumed more with new paint colors, dual-paned windows and wall art for the house. not that im complaining. i actually really love it!

'i've been cheating on fashion with furniture!'-carrie bradshaw. i chuckled when i heard her say that on SATC2. because i, at the moment..am a cheater.

anyway, hope everyone had a nice LBW. im off to MIAMI in a few days!

Buttons

Thanks to Koolbeenz, I'm now cool enough to have an official looking button page!  See that white box that's holding my html code?  Yeah, I'm cool.  And officially official!  :-)

MORE BUTTONS COMING SOON!
















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Blog Roll/Parties

Sit down and stay awhile.  Here is a page dedicated to all those wonderful blogs I can't get enough of! Hope you enjoy!  

Below this list, is a list of all the linky parties I love linkin' up to!

BLOG ROLL

Photographers


Crafters


Fashionistas


Food

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LINKY PARTIES

Mondays

Tuesdays


Wednesdays


Thursdays


Fridays

Saturdays



Sundays



If you aren't on here, and would like to be- email me!  This is a constant work of progress and I wish I could keep it updated.  But it is what it is!  Love ya!


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F.A.Q


How often do you wash your hair?
First off.  I wash my body EVERY SINGLE DAY.  We are talking hair here people!  It just all depends on what I do to my hair and how it feels after a couple of days!  Normally, every three to four days.  The first day I'll leave it down.  The second day, if it still looks and feels nice, I might curl it.  Third day, I throw it half up.  Fourth day it's always in a braided bun or whatever other hairstyle that keeps it off my face! 

How are you able to do that?  Doesn't it get too greasy?
I've been at this a long time, and so my hair just doesn't produce much oil anymore.  It all started when I was little.  I was a lazy little thing, still am!  And in highschool I was ALWAYS running late and forced to just throw it up and not wash it!  I've learned though, that being lazy sometimes work out! 

If you wash your hair every day, you are stripping it of it's natural oils.  You are also telling it to produce more oil!  Which leads us to our next questions.

How should I go about washing it less?
Start out with every other day for awhile.  Give your body a few weeks to get use to the change, and it will should start producing less oil.  Once you feel good about that, try going three.  See how it works.  Now obviously everyone is different.  And you don't want to be smellin' all nasty!  But just TRY it for a few weeks.  Your hair should stop producing as much oil.

But what if I work out a lot?
I work out a lot too.  And my hair gets really sweaty.  So I take a shower with it pinned back, wash off my body, shave my legs, blah blah and then I get out of the shower.  I take my hair down and blow it dry.  Yes.  I blow the salt water sweat dry.  Is that gross?  It's probably gross.  But my hair still smells delicious and after you get out of the shower you don't feel dirty anymore so it's like your just blowing your hair dry from when it got damp in the shower.  If it's too gross for you I totally understand.  It's just what I do!

On those ponytail days, what do you use to hide the oil?
I just recently started using baby powder.  I have blonde hair though, and the powder doesn't show.  It absorbs the oil which is fantastic and leaves my hair feeling super duper fresh!  I've also heard dry shampoo works wonders!  So go get yourself some!

ALSO, on those pony days, if I want my bangs to be left down I usually wet them and re-dry them.  That way they look nice!

What products do you use?
Check out this post here

What brushes do you use?
I use a comb from Sally's to rat my hair.  It has three rows of teeth.  I haven't found a picture of one yet.  It's brown.  And for a brush brush, I use just a cheap one from Wal-mart.  If you want to see what they both look like, check out the straight video or the curly video!


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