Steal her Look: Miley Cyrus

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Miley Cyrus wore this leopard printed dress with Frye engineer boots while grabbing some breakfast in Toluca Lake. Here's where you can steal her look for less.

Where to Buy:
Elena Leopard Dress, Shopbop, $44
Blowfish Topaz Boots, DSW, $59
Neither Bangle Set, Aldo, $15

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If you’ve decided to pursue a career in cosmetology, then you know that the next step you must take is to find a cosmetology school. If you really want to go far in your career, then you want only to apply to only the best cosmetology schools. Unfortunately, that may not always be a realistic option. It’s important not to limit your search only to the best cosmetology schools with amazing reputations, exclusive admissions processes, and very high tuitions. The odds of getting into such a school are generally low, and even then the costs of tuition and possible relocation have to be considered. It’s better to come up with a wish list of the top cosmetology schools around the world, and then create a more focused list of options that are most likely to work out for you.
There are many cosmetology school directories online that can help you get started in your search for a good school. If you’re still a student in high school, your guidance office might also be a good place to look. In many cases, cosmetology programs can be started at a young age, so you may be able to get a head start through a special school program.

Narrowing down your top cosmetology schools

Once you’ve made up a preliminary list of cosmetology schools that you’d like to attend, you can begin to narrow it down to your best choices. The first factor that you should consider is the location of the school. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to choose a school that is far away from home, but deciding whether or not you want to move away from home is a huge decision. Get it out of the way early so you can focus on other things. If you do decide you want to relocate, then you’ll have to consider the requirements to get into the program. Many cosmetology programs are totally open, but some only accept students with special talent.
The second factor for most people is going to be cost. If you think that you can get into an expensive cosmetology school, don’t let tuition scare you away. There are many financial aid programs that can help you get grants and loans so you can pay your way through cosmetology school.

Top ten cosmetology schools

There are many cosmetology schools around the country that have developed a reputation for excellence. Getting your certification from one of these schools can be a good way to jump start your career and let your clientele know that you are a talented cosmetologist.
Here is a list of the top ten cosmetology schools in the United States:
  • 1. Arrojo Cosmetology School.
  • 2. Aveda Institutes.
  • 3. Empire Education Group.
  • 4. Marinello Schools of Beauty.
  • 5. Paul Mitchell Schools.
  • 6. Ogle Beauty Schools.
  • 7. Regency Beauty Institute.
  • 8. Lincoln College of Technology.
  • 9. Stratford Career Institute.
  • 10. Milan Institute.
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Minx Nails Art Design

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Nail art stepped to another level with the newest trends. Indeed more and more people choose their manicure as a medium to transmit different messages. The new craze called Minx nail art is one of the most popular accessories among celebrities. The red carpet and other prominent events offer an exhibition of the hottest manicure styles that will be huge for 2010
The tiny sticker-like pieces flooded the market, making the newest design available for the great public. The process basically follows an ordinary nail care session. First the canvas for the nail art is prepared and spared form any nail polish residues or natural oils. For the successful sticking the cuticles are handled and the minx carefully selected.
The application method is simple and quick, the minx is a 2-4 millimeter thick film that is cut to the size of the nails. Then it is applied with the help of a heat-activated adhesive or warmed up beforehand under a lamp and then placed as a simple sticker to the nails.
The pattern and color palette are unlimited, raging from the portray of president Obama to famous brands and comic characters. The point is to find the one that reflect the personality of the wearer.
As the quintessential accessory of the year it can be paired with both casual and ultra-formal outfits. You can opt for the mono-colored as well as rainbow colored ones. Moreover nowadays more and more people engage into turning their own photos into stylish Minx nail stickers. Favorite pets, telling signs, polka dots and zebra stripes as well as artists glimpse back from the nails.
Besides the aesthetic pleasure this nail art has other benefits. You’ll more than probably avoid any smudging, or other damages. Moreover you won’t have to wait hours until you can touch anything. with your manicured nails. Those who prefer the green and more eco-freindly beauty tricks will find this technique perfect to have some a sophisticated manicure.
You can have voguish Minx nails probably even at your local nail salon, more you can even get it done at home if you have some mastery for nail art. Besides if you get bored of a pattern you might remove it after a time with simply using your blow-dryer.
The producers guarantee that without causing any damage to the Minx, these will last up to 4 months.
Source: www.bodycare.becomegorgeous.com | i-fashionblog.com

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SPRING 2011 INSPIRATION: Callula Lillibelle

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“For the spring we started by looking at the world at large; the needs of women, the economy and what it takes for a woman to feel self-confident and beautiful,” stated the designers behind Callula Lillibelle, William Calvert & Melanie Fraser Hart
SPRING 2011 INSPIRATION: Callula Lillibelle

Styled by Rebecca Alexander, Editor 
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The Low Down on Fashion’s Night Out Los Angeles

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LOS ANGELES–Last year, the city of Los Angeles was relatively quiet on Fashion’s Night Out. That won’t be the case on September 10. With the Beverly Center serving as the central hub of activities, the 5pm opening ceremony will be hosted by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa,Vogue’s Lisa Love, and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. Throughout the evening, two fashion shows will be held in the center of the mall and one at Macy’s, with 100% of the stores (everyone from Bloomingdale’s to Forever 21) participating until 10pm.
But if you prefer boutiques over billboards, the Beverly Center is kindly offering free parking from 4pm to 10pm so you can hop on one of many LADOT DASH buses. [Ed. note: I've been on a bus in LA and I promise it's not that scary, people.] They’re providing complimentary transportation to the city’s most fashionable neighborhoods. Over 300 retailers are registered to throw parties, offer special sales and giveaways, and host a celebrity or designer appearance or two. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s on:
* Melrose Ave: Alexander McQueen is featuring special FNO bracelets, there will be a “wild photo booth” complete with props at Betsey Johnson, and a chess competition (?!) at G-Star Raw. Oh, and champagne at Marc Jacobs!
* Robertson Blvd: Stop by Gap’s 1969 jeans shop to do a fit session with creative director Rosella Giuliani and her design team. Supposedly there is also a scavenger hunt along the whole street, with winners receiving a gift bag with goodies from each store.

* West Third Street (not to be confused with 3rd St. Promenade): Newly opened Magnolia Bakery will be offering FNO themed cupcakes to satisfy your sweet tooth before you head over to Hillary Rush to preview a new handbag line and snag some “stellar” gifts with purchase. Also,Milk is generously giving away a $250 gift certificate to the most fashionably dressed person in attendance.

* Venice’s Abbot Kinney: Guests can meet Oliver Peoples’ designer Larry Leight in Abbot Kinney Court with complimentary drinks being poured all night.

* Los Feliz: Confederacy is where all the fun is at in this part of town with a rumored celebrity appearance, DJ, and cocktails.

* Downtown LA is getting in on the action, hosting a vintage fashion show at the Cooper Design Space and the Cynthia Rowley mobile fashion truck in the heart of the fashion district.
If that isn’t enough for you, the city is hosting a “post retail fashion celebration”–a.k.a. after party–when the stores close up at 10pm. Simply bring a receipt showing that you spent a minimum of $25 at one of the FNO retailers and you can join the parties being held at Industry or XIV. Who says you have to be on “the list”?
For all the FNO Los Angeles details, be sure to visit FNO.lacity.org or follow them on Twitter (@FNOlosangeles) for the latest updates.
LA’s official Fashion’s Night Out t-shirt will also be available at participating retailers and the FIDM Book Store. All proceeds go to the California Fashion Foundation which provides scholarships to fashion students

By: NATALIE YOST
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Steal her Look: Jessica Alba

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Jessica Alba does some shopping while in NYC's Soho wearing this denim skirt, grey tank and black cage sandals. Here's where you can steal her look for less:

Where to Buy:
Denim Skirt, Asos, $43
Grey Tank, Revolve Clothing, $24
Snake Chain Pendant Necklace, Forever 21, $9
Tedora Flat Sandals, Target, $17
Black Woven Belt, Nordstrom, $19

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Steal her Look: Jessia Szohr

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Jessica Szohr attended the premiere of 'The Tilman Story' in NYC looking very summer chic in this black dress and denim vest. Here's where you can steal her look for less:

Where to Buy:
Black Dress, Windsor, $34
Vila Harry Boyfriend Vest, Asos, $50.55
Madden Girl Rightous Pump, DSW, $39.95
The Brompton Cross by Marc B Bag, Top Shop, $90
Streaming Feather Earrings, Forever 21, $4.80

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Steal her Look: Reese Witherspoon

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Reese Witherspoon was spotted leaving the Neil George Salon looking very summery in this blue tank with ruffle skirt and a fedora. Here's where you can steal her look for less:

Where to Buy:
Blue Tank, AE, $15.50
Ruffle Skirt, Express, $19
Grey Suede Sandals, Endless, $34
Tweed Fedora, Urban Outfitters, $28
SR Squared Tote, Endless, $59

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Fashion Style

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Where'd She Get It: Rhianna's Skirt

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Katie asks: "I love this skirt that Rhianna was wearing...do you know where I can find it?"


VFB: Sure, Rhianna is seen here wearing a floral print skirt fromTop Shop. It retails for $65.
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Autumn Kiss Pendant Necklace

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Look closely. Just like Grandma’s favorite pendant necklace, only a bit more romantic.
$50 at Etsy




by Tamara
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How to Wear This Summer’s Corsets & Bralettes

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Corsets have been all over the summer runways. Similar to the crop top, the corset shows a lot of skin. And likely it seems the resurgence of this style is due to the intense heat we’re all facing this summer. The corsets and bralettes and other such similar styles are often cut in a more relaxed way to separate them from their lingerie counterparts.Bralette
But despite all this, these summer corsets are still a fairly body-conscious look. Yet I’ve been seeing them everywhere. Whether it’s a cheap $12 version from Forever 21 or a corset that costs a few hundred dollars, stores are rolling out these corsets, bralettes, or whatever they should be called.
But would you actually wear this trend? I do not think I would. Though I think it is kind of a cute look and fun alternative this summer, I’m not really sure how successful they are. I don’t have a problem with a bared midriff on the right girl, which is why I have no problem with crop tops, but for some reason to me these fashion corsets are taking it too far.
To pull of this look, you have to be very confident in what you are wearing. And thus far I’ve only seen two basic ways of wearing a corset that should allow you to be confident. Please don’t wear a bralette with low-rise jeans, as there will be way too much stomach exposed and people will think you forgot your top!
But seriously, my favorite way I’ve seen a corset styled is over a ribbed tank top. Though in a way this look greatly reminds me of Mischa Barton’s style ten years ago, I think there’s something more fresh about it now. Perhaps it is because tucking in a tank top and a corset into a high-waist skirt seems so much cooler. Either way, I think this look is really successful because it shows off the shape the corset provides while not revealing too much.
The second look I like is the basic corset again tucked into high-waist anything. Whether it’s high pants, a skirt, or shorts, I think the corset shines the most when it’s not fully obvious it’s a corset. So if you were shopping at Frederick’s of Hollywood right now for a summer corset, I urge you to leave the store and avoid tacky looking corsets at all costs.
But what do you think? Would you wear a corset?
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by Liz
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The Cotton Dress: the Go-to Wardrobe Staple

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Recently I’ve really given a lot of thought to some of my most essential wardrobe items and one in particular: the basic cotton dress. This past weekend I was so busy that I needed my outfit to take me from one thing to another, to transition seamlessly from activities including lunch with a friend, to a Toby Keith concert, and then out for drinks.  And my basic light gray dress, though slightly styled differently for each event, took me from place to place.

My personal go-to cotton dress is a sleeveless pocket dress from American Apparel that, I will admit, I own in three different colors. Cotton dresses don’t typically have heavy seaming, obnoxious zippers, or anything that makes them uncomfortable. Which is why they are perfect to be styled both up and down. Their comfort quality makes them as easy to wear as sweatpants and a t-shirt but 1000 times more attractive. And a cotton dress’ simplicity allows it to be worn with a plethora of different accessories.


Another aspect of the comfort factor is that cotton dresses are unbelievably easy to care for. If you spill on it, doesn’t matter; no need to take it to the dry cleaner, you can just throw it in the wash. And no fuss cleaning and wearing is what this wardrobe essential is all about.


Really, perfect cotton dresses are everywhere! The first one, above left, is the Double Layer Racerback Knit dress by Stem for $33.90. The second, is the Cotton Jersey Dress by Three Dots, for $55.90. And finally, the Sleeveless Tunic Dress with Side Ties by Pure and Simple, for $54.00. All of these dresses are so great and easy to wear.


Part of what makes a cotton dress so great is because of the many ways it can be styled. I think for any time of day it looks cool to add a belt around your waist. Most of these casual dresses are not very fitted, so by adding a belt you can show off your frame. Depending on the dress you might prefer a thicker or a thinner belt, but I tend to find a thinner belt is more appropriate for daytime.


Similarly, you can always throw on a cardigan on longer sweater over the dress if it’s cold outside. And I think it’s a fun twist to put on the dress, leave the sweater open, and then belt the sweater over the dress (or if you’re going to a country concert like I did, feel free to substitute the sweater for a plaid shirt!). This layered belting creates an interesting shape and again helps you to avoid looking bulky.


by Liz
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Maybe With Stefano Tonchi’s Makeover, You’ll Read W for the Articles

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Maybe With Stefano Tonchi’s Makeover, You’ll Read W for the Articles
Stefano Tonchi confessed that he never really read W before his appointment to editor-in-chief of the title earlier this year. At a lunch today at Condé Nast's headquarters at 4 Times Square held to unveil Tonchi's W makeover launching with the September issue, the editor said that he always flipped through the magazine, which he repeatedly called "image-driven," but never spent time with the articles. That's because there was never much to read in W, with much of the editorial content consisting of newsy bits derived from the magazine's parent publication WWD. But the pictures were always fantastic, and Tonchi aims to maintain that, while adding a lot more words — hopefully of substance — to make W a well-rounded magazine in itself.

The September articles include ones we actually want to read, such as the piece on women getting plastic surgery too soon in life that compares Lindsay Lohan's lips to "soggy hamburger buns"; an in-depth profile of Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci; and Caroline Weber's first-person essay that notes that the curvy movement happening in fashion right now is really just an embrace of big breasts, not necessarily fat on other parts of the figure. So W finally feels like a magazine you want to take home and read, rather than something that will occupy too much real estate in your trash can moments after a quick flip-through.

Tonchi noted W's unique position in the fashion-magazine marketplace. It must compete with other fashion titles, including sister publications at Condé Nast like Vogue, but isn't a newsstand-driven publication like its competitors. The magazine is physically too big to fit well on newsstands, and therefore measures success in terms of subscribers. (The magazine's size is not something Tonchi wanted to tamper with, in the interest of maintaining W's stunning visuals.) But not feeling pressured to engage in the cutthroat newsstand-sale game allows Tonchi more freedom with his covers: He doesn't need an instantly recognizable face to move issues and can give that slot to relative unknowns.

The September issue has three different covers and eight cover stars, young actresses Yaya DaCosta, Jennifer Lawrence, Greta Gerwig, Kat Dennings, Jessica Chastain, Emma Roberts, Zoë Kravitz, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The cover-story author, Lynn Hirschberg, W's new editor-at-large after following Tonchi over from the Times, reiterated Tonchi's view that magazine covers look too similar these days, adding that they want theirs to "feel alive in a different way." And what better way than with two hot, young girls almost kissing each other?
Creative director Jody Quon, formerly photo director of New York, said they wanted to have one image of the girls in a kiss situation, and knew it would work best with the pair rather than the groups of three. Tonchi was pleased to point out that while this shot is provocative, none of the ladies are dressed provocatively. And indeed, you'll find nary a puckered breast on the cover or the spread of the ladies inside the magazine.

The website relaunches next month and will begin hosting the screen-test videos Hirschberg used to do for the Times. Same content, different channel, as Tonchi described it. He hopes to turn W's site into fashion's YouTube — a (hopefully) groundbreaking online archive of fashion films, from things W produces itself to Dior's latest commercial with Marion Cotillard. He's not interested in a news-driven website, and made it sound like the magazine will remain light on web staffing for a little while.

So while the magazine feels plenty new, and plenty made-over, if not drastically, it's not revolutionary. It feels like a girlier version of Vanity Fair, which is not a bad thing. It's beautiful, it's glossy, it's fun to read and gaze at, but it's still full of super-skinny, super-tall models, and gobs of clothes, shoes, bags, and vacations that most people can't afford but land in fashion magazines everywhere. Tonchi and his team may have changed a magazine, but the system remains the same.

By: Amy Odell
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