May 2011

Video Review: Maybelline Color Sensational Clear Lipliner

I’ve been on quite a little beauty product kick lately, haven’t I? Please indulge me a little longer, lovelies. I promise to return to OOTD posts very soon. In Lipstick: Faves, Tips, and Tricks, I shared my love of Maybelline’s Color Sensational Lipcolor in Are You Red-dy—a luxurious, long-lasting red that finally put my hunt [...]

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Nail Polish: Faves, Tips, and Tricks

I recently promised that I would share the answers to my two most-asked questions: What lipstick are you wearing? What polish is that? In Lipstick: Faves, Tips, and Tricks, I answered the first question and confessed that outside of being enamored with lipstick, I am not a makeup girl. And it’s true; makeup is not [...]

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WVW: Shorts-n-Boots*

If you couldn’t see a teaser photo with that headline, would you have been thinking of Jessica Simpson in her Daisy-Dukes-and-cowboy-boots glory? While Jessica looked hot as in that ensemble, long gone are my days of wearing cowboy boots. Riding boots, yes, but cowboy boots no longer suit me, though I did wear them like [...]

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Lipstick: Faves, Tips, and Tricks

I’m not a makeup girl. I wear it, I like it, can’t live without it—but in reality, I’m not a makeup junkie. I rarely buy eyeshadow or other products, and I can’t be bothered to do more than a little powder, blush, mascara, and lipstick on a daily basis. But I do love lipstick. That’s [...]

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Worker V: 1.8 + Tips for Wearing Black in Spring

Some of you might have seen my tweet/Instagram shot of the new Diane von Furstenburg (DVF) belt I ordered from Shopbop. But just in case you missed this lovely thing, here it is: Belt girl that I am (they’re a V style staple), I have been craving the tassel belt look ever since I saw [...]

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Links à la Mode: IFB Weekly Roundup, May 12

Savage Blogging Edited by Vahni of Grit & Glamour Savage Beauty. Don’t tell me you haven’t heard the paradoxically exquisite title of the Alexander McQueen exhibit currently mesmerizing the fashion world and the blogosphere. I mention it for two reasons. First, a couple bloggers in this week’s roundup show you the exhibit in New York—as [...]

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The Unexpected Beauty of Social Media, Part II

So many of you reached out with messages of comfort and kindness when I shared that I had lost my most beloved uncle last month—and I was so moved I wrote On the Unexpected Beauty of Social Media. That post is a testament to the depth of fashion bloggers and this community we have created. [...]

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Shots You Never Saw and What They Taught Me

If you’re an outfit-of-the-day (OOTD) blogger, you know well the amount of shots that never make your blog for one reason or another. As I was trolling through photos on my hard drive the other day, I thought how sad it was that there are so many shots clogging up my memory, really, for no [...]

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