So your shopping, you see something that you like, but it’s not one of those things you know you want to get right away. So you think about it, maybe you even leave, and come back. Maybe your hesitant to buy it for many reasons. Maybe it’s not something you can wear right now. Or maybe you think I’ll buy this now and when I shed those last few pounds I know it’ll look great. Whatever your thought process is, you buy it. You get it home. Let’s say you have it for about a week, haven’t worn it. Then you say to yourself I’m going to take it back. What goes through your mind, when you decide to return something you buy? What happened during the course of that time to make you change your mind? How often do you find yourself buying things and returning them? I really hate the return process. Sometimes I just don’t feel like being bothered with it. I know it doesn’t take much, but I guess you can call me lazy that way. I can think of right now, a hand full of things that I have bought that I should of returned but didn’t. Do I wear these things?? No! With some of the things it’s definetley too late to return, the others I still have time. Recently I’ve been thinking of returning those boots I got. I know! Yes! I am talking about those boots! I know after all that want over those boots! Okay heres the deal – I thought I loved them. Maybe it was just infatuation. Maybe it was the fact that I couldn’t have them, that made me want them, because initially I did decide to wait on them. Whatever it is, there is something about them, that I am not sold on, now that I have them here. The beauty of online shopping. You never truly know what you are going to get until it comes. When my boots came the first thing I noticed was that the color was different than it was pictured online. The brown was a lil’ lighter but it was not bad I thought I could still work with it. Then the other thing is the other day I was trying on the boots over my skinny jeans. It was okay, it didn’t flow the way I thought it would. The other thing is the boots have zippers that zip them closed on the outside. You know how zippers sometimes do that thing where they go up but don’t zip, and you have to get it to go back down. Well the zipper was doing that, and I was a lil’ ticked off about that. I thought is this making me aware of a future problem. Or am I just looking for a good reason to return them. Tho, I do think that is a good reason to return them, but if I wasn’t questioning them I probably would be like we’ll at least I can get them to zip-lol. Now this could just be a moment. I could possibly change my mind about them later on. That’s another thing I do. Sometimes I’ll get something in my closet and it’ll be months before I actually rock it. I don’t do it on purpose it just seems like it works out that way. Normally the return policy is 30 days, so I have until the 6th of March to return these babies and get a full refund. That’s not that much time so I have to really think about if I want them or not. They cost too much money to just sit in the closet and not wear, and I know if I return them there is no getting them back…
toot! toot! February 21, 2008
Okay so today I’m feeling good about a couple of things. So I’ll begin with something that made me happy yesterday and I new I wanted to include it in my blog for today. Yesterday I was watching Oprah and her show was about makeovers. For this show she was going to be granting makeovers to women who labeled themselves as frumpy, and they basically had fallen into a rut. These women were all friends and neighbors to each other. On a daily they found themselves in the house or running errands in sweats, pajamas, or pants that had to have an elastic waist- because it was comfortable and always fit. One woman found herself in a long run of wearing overalls all the time, and one woman had the same ugly pair of jeans in a bunch of colors. Instead of giving theses women some glamorous unaffordable makeovers, they decided to take them to shops that they would normally go to like JC Penny, Gap, Old Navy….so it was real cool and affordable, and they could keep it up after the show. All of the women looked great! One of my favorite things about make over shows are seeing the before and afters and then I always find some tips that I can use myself. So some of the women who had been made over were rocking scarves. They looked really good, and they were wearing a bunch of different colors scarves. It was said scarves can be use to boost up any outfit. Which I thought was cool because right now I am really loving scarves. Anyway, Oprah was loving the way they were tied, and she said to the guy that, he had to show them how to tie the scarves because thats what really made them cute. So I was very happy when the same way he showed them how to tie the scarves, was the same way I mentioned on a blog I wrote earlier this month about achieving “the look”. I was really happy to see that I had already shared that tip that I had previously learned to my blog readers.
Then today I had a job interview, I was told to dress cute and just be the cute person that I am. My skirt I wanted to wear was not ready from the cleaners so this morning I was torn about what to wear. Initially this morning I decided to wear a brown dress. For some reason I was not liking the dress with the shoes I wanted to wear with it. And I wasn’t feeling it for the interview. So I decided to go with another dress I had it’s a black & white polka dot dress, with a few ruffles down the front to about the waist. I bought this dress in Paris, and I’m always glad when I wear it that I decided to get it. I paired it with some black cut out heels, and some funky earrings. I was loving it! It was funny because I have to say that I think I nailed the interview! Which I’m really happy about. When I called my Agency to let her no how it went she was like I can tell in your voice you were looking cute. I thought to myself yeah I was. So within the past day or so I was just really happy with myself and my blog and my personal style and I just felt like tooting my own horn for a moment- toot! toot! (shout out to KLS)
P.S. I got the job I start Monday!
don’t call it a come back February 20, 2008
You don’t have to be a fashion guru to see that with fashion things come and go and come back. I like to say that fashion recycles itself. If you notice things that were in, in the 60’s are coming back and for us the generation that wasn’t raised in the 60’s were like wow thats hot! However, as hot as it might be it’s not new. It’s just reinvented. I can think of many things that have been reinvented. Big glasses, Glasses with the side openings, bell bottoms, highwaisted jeans the list goes on. Now I have to admit that back in the late 80’s or early 90’s I remember Lee Jeans, and Jordache Jeans that were fitted through the waist and tight at the bottom some had zippers that zipped from the bottom to a lil’ above the ankle. You remember that? If you were like me you remember that and you had a pair. Now I have to say I loved my jeans! Now if you were to ask me to put them on now I’d laugh but you know what!? That jean has been reinvented into what we call the “skinny jean” fitted through the waist tight at the bottom. If you’ve noticed there are many variations to the skinny jean. Now a person born in 85 or 90 or even 95 maynot remember those Lee Jeans like a person who was born in 78. I’ve heard only so many times from my mother that she remembers when she use to wear this or that…I’ve even heard it from my grandmothers. Oh how I wish they had closets I could go through… So when the “skinny jean” as we know it was being named the “it jean” I was like man been there done that. I didn’t know if I wanted to add another pair into my wardrobe. Then I thought fashion is always reinventing itself the skinny jean of today is different than the skinny jean of the 60’s 70’s 80’s and even the 90’s we have a new set of fashion minds. So why not get a pair!? I remember at first I was had on how the skinny jean would look on me. Yet, after being told to just try on a pair. The skinny jean had won me over once again. So months ago I bought me a pair of skinny jeans and I wear them all the time. I love them especially with a heel!!! I’ve been telling my sister that she should get a pair but she’s had a list of reasons why she should not. However, I told her she could sooooooooo rock some skinny jeans. So this past week she finally listened and bought her some skinny jeans and she wore them over the weekend and received many compliments on herself in those skinny jeans. She saw herself in a full length mirror and was loving what she saw. Now, I did ask her what shoes did she wear and and she mentioned some wedge heels. I thought not bad 
one day my big sis will listen to me and rock them with heels (3inch minimum) So, we won’t call it a come back but I’m definetely loving the skinny jean and I have to say that guys are loving them too because I’ve seen them wearing them quite well if I do say so myself. However, for some guys I do say proceed with caution. You definetely have to find the right skinny for you.
feelin’ blue February 18, 2008
It seems like I was out all weekend. Which was cool, because I had a number of opportunities to rock cool outfits. I love weekends like that. One of the events I was anticipating most was a wedding of a long time friend. About two weeks ago, I found the dresss I wanted to wear to the wedding. However, do to some other recent purchases I was unable to get the dress I wanted for the wedding. Which I was really disappointed about, because I kept imagining that dress as the perfect wedding dress. Since I did that I new nothing in my closet no matter how cute it was would make me as happy as that dress would. I have to really work on budgeting my spending money. Sometimes I’ll have events coming up, and I’ll spend my money on other things that can’t be worn to the event, then when the event comes I have no extra money to spend. So I new there was no way I was getting this dress. So this meant I was going to have to work within my closet. Which isn’t so much a bad thing- it’s just that lately I have not been feeling anything in my closet. I’m feeling like a change…So anyway, one of my favorite “event dress” has been this vintage navy blue dress. It comes just a lil’ above the knee, and it has a v-neck dip in the front, and the sleeves come about mid upper arm and ties on both sides. Now this dress is great and it looks really good on! However, it seems like it has turned into my wedding dress. When I was in NY some months ago I wore it to a wedding there as well. Though these weddings have been months apart I just can’t help but feeling that all the pics of me at weddings are going to be in that dress. So Saturday when I arrived home I new that I was going to wear the blue dress. So I told myself don’t even waist time trying on any other outfits, just get ready and go. So imagine what I did when I got home!? Thats right I pulled out a bunch of dresses and tried each of them on. Now I new none of these dresses were the looks that I was going for, so needless to say I wans’t happy with any of them. I must of spent 45 minutes or so trying on different dresses with different shoes and bags. In the end I decided on wearing what I initially new I would wear the blue dress. Why did I do that!? Why do we do that!? Why do we put ourselves through all that trouble of trying to find something better. When we have it already in our hands. I was so mad at myself for doing that because I waisted so much time. I had to drive all they way out to Pasadena. I almost missed my friends wedding over figuring out what to wear. I couldn’t believe that! I would love to say this will never happen again. But I know me and I know that would not be true. So what I can say I will do, is work towards budgeting my money better especially when I have an event coming that I know I am going to want something new for.
That Fit! February 15, 2008
Today this blog is inspired by my sister. Today she is rocking this really cool white shirt she bought from one of our favorite stores Urban. And she is loving the way it fits. She said something in her email of glee that rings so true. That is when you are fit you love the way everything looks. That is so true! I mean when you are in shape and you put on that fitted shirt you have no extra bulges on the side. It sits just like its suppose to fit. Your booty in those jeans sits up instead of low. I think that is why at least for me anyway when I see pics in magazines or runway shows or actresses on tv- I always love the way there clothes fit( besides there occassional airbrush). One of the reasaons they look great is because they are in great shape so the clothes fit there body and they also get things tailored to fit them. Which is something that I believe we all probably don’t spend enough time and money doing. But I know myself, when I am in the gym like I am suppose to, and I put on those jeans or that dress I’m feeling great! I wear the clothes totally different. Which is something I really believe, WE should wear the clothes NOT the clothes wear us. We even have a friend and my sis knows who I’m talking about she is in amazing shape and no matter what she puts on we love it! I think its because she is so lean that everything just fits her- and she looks great! That fit doesn’t come easy its definetely something that we have to put work into. My sister definetly puts in the work and it shows all through her clothes. So rather we are guy or girl we can all work towards that fit. Even if we aren’t in the gym regular we can still make sure the clothes we are wearing compliment our bodies. So this morning I say to my Sis in the NY rock on! Continuing rocking that fit!
nice to meet you February 14, 2008
A couple of months ago I was online to one of my favorite stores Urban Outfitters. There were two items that I wanted to get. One was this black bomber jacket that I thought would be great, because I’ve been looking for a fitted bomber to wear with jeans, and dresses on a more casual level. The other item were these tall leather brown knee high boots. I thought they would go great over jeans and with shorter dresses. I new that I could not get both. Since I had already been waiting to get the jacket I decided that now that they only had the jacket in a med. and lrg. that I better get it now, and I would wait fot the boots to maybe go on sale. I really wanted the jacket in a sm. However, I thought I’ll get the medium and when it comes if I love it and it’s to big, I can always get it taken in. When it came I was so not loving it! I wanted it to be snugger in the arms just everywhere, but since I didn’t know how a small would fit I didn’t know if altering it would help. So since I didn’t love it I decided to return it and get the boots.
When I went back online to get the boots the brown boots were all gone! They only had red left and I was not feeling the red. So of course I called and I spoke to a rep and I asked if they had anymore, and would they be getting anymore. She was really cool about letting me know they didn’t have anymore and right now she doesn’t show them on backorder, or that they’ll be getting more. I was really disappointed. I think over the weeks and months I dreamed about those boots and how great they’d be and all the things I could of worn with them.
So last week at the probbing of my sister I found myself back online to Urban to see some items she was thinking of getting. I couldn’t help but browse through the boots and guess what? My boots were back!!!!!! I called my sister ecstatic telling her I had to get these boots and could not wait, not even a day! The only problem was that I didn’t get paid until Friday, and it was the beginning of the week. We’ll waiting was not an option so I had to go out on “fashion faith” and purchase the boots and hope everything with my accounts would be okay.
So it had to be the longest week ever. I couldn’t wait for my boots to arrive. My sister text me yesterday to let me know her items had arrived, so all day I wondered if maybe my boots came too. So when I got home I was disappointed because I didn’t see a package. I was like man someone stole my boots- lol! Then I thought maybe they’ll come tomorrow. So as I was walking by my Grandmothers door. She called my name and said your package came. She asked me what is it. I said my boots! The package was huge! And it hard Urban Outfitters written all on the outside. I thought nice way to be incognito Urban. Anyway, I rushed upstairs to open the package.
I had only imagined what it would be like when my boots came I always felt like I was meeting a person- silly I know- but I just felt it was a big moment. So when I opened the box, inside was this long baby blue shoe box. On the outside it said, “Hello, my name is Jeffrey Campbell” I said, “Hello Jeffrey Campbell, nice to meet you.”
what’s it like? February 12, 2008
The other day I was going through the new Feb.08 Vogue, and I came across an add for Ralph Lauren and featured in the add was Chanel Iman. She is supposed to be one of the new “it” girls in the modeling world. Now, some months ago Tyra did a show about black models, and how black models were being seen less and less on the runways. I remember when the show first aired I was in NY and the segment where she was talking to Chanel Iman was interrupted by one of those news stories. I remember this because it was about Marion Jones and her admitting to using enhancement drugs. I was sad to hear that, but I was I think a lil’ more irritated cause the Tyra show was interrupted and I wanted to see her talk to this model who was new to me. So it was a couple of months after that, that I was able to catch the rerun. I thought she was interesting I thought at first her name was a nickname but her mom really named her Chanel Iman. I guess very fitting for the industry she is now in.
I googled her the other day, something I rarely do. But after seeing her in the Vogue I kept wondering what is it like to be young and modeling for some of the top designers. So I looked her up and heres just a few of the designers shes worked with: Dior, Oscar De La Renta, Valentino, Louis Vuitton, YSL, Dolce&Gabbana. I mean what’s it like to finish a runway show in amazing clothes for these Designers, and they say great job darling you can keep that dress, or those shoes, and that bag. What in the world does her closet look like? Does her closet hold up to what she wears on the runway? I mean how could she not have a great closet, right? I can only hope she does! I can’t help but wondering what’s her style when she has the opportunity to dress herself? Is she as fly as the pics of her on the runway? I really do hope so, because she has access to an amazing closet of designers.
It’s not just her tho… Like remember that seen in the Devil wears Prada and they had that huge closet! And he took her inside and he was giving her clothes to wear and she was rocking some of the hottest outfits during that movie. I mean what is that like? I can’t help but think that in the fashion world Editors for magazines, models, and actresses or actors etc. really do have access to fashion closets like that and can wear the clothes, return them-lol. I mean even on the Hills Lauren and Whitney work for Teen Vogue and are always working with the clothes I know they have to come up. What’s it like?
I’m just a girl in love with fashion, and if you love fashion I tell you it has to be great!
bold February 11, 2008
So it seems like over the course of the weekend I kept finding myself in the Malls. It was cool because I hadn’t been in an actual Mall in a cool minute. There were so many things to choose from- I did really good tho- perhaps it was because I know I just bought some boots online that should be coming anyday now (hey chermelle!) and I new after that purchase I had no extra money to spend However why is it that when ever you don’t have money to spend thats when you always find the best stuff! What is that about really!? So Saturday when I was in the Mall with a friend we were going by Nine West, now at first I wassn’t going to go in, but we did. And those of you who don’t know shoes are my weakness. However, this time it was this bag it was big, with the look of a clutch, you could hold it with your hand or under your arm. It was multicolored like pink, turuoise, yellow, if I remember correctly orange too, and brown. It was so cool! It definetely was making a statement. So, I picked it up, held it in my hand, I felt like twirling-but I didn’t I was truly loving that bag. I aid to my friend isn’t this bag cool. She said yeah. However, she felt that I was bold enough to pull it off but she couldn’t. I was like for real!? I took that as a compliment because I so new I could rock that bag! Now, I didn’t get it because it wasn’t a must have for me at that time. Yet, I will keep me eye on it to see if it goes on sale.
So though I liked what my friends comment said about me. I was interested by the fact that she felt she couldn’t rock that bag. She was like she’d probably just put it with white or something. I was like you could put that bag with a lot of stuff. As she began to think of the different things it could go with I smiled inside because I felt hmmm maybe she will see that she can be bold too and maybe that bag is not to much for her to rock. As I’m writing this I’m thinking or maybe it’s she knows her limits and knows what she can or can’t rock. Hmmmmm? On one hand I liked to say that she should not feel it is to blold for her and she should expand her mind and be creative you never know unless you try right.
So, I mean who decides. I guess we decide. But I do know I have seen people wear things and I think hmmm they did not do that justice. Or I have seen pics in magazines of different looks, and I feel like man I could so rock that. We all have a unique sense of style that allows us to be able to rock different looks. However, we are all allowed to be BOLD every now and then!
the look February 5, 2008
I have always seen scarves on other people and have always loved “the look” on them. For some reason on myself I could never seem to achieve “the look.” “The look” is that fullnes -you know- you’ve seen it either on people in real life or in a fashion magazine and the scarves are wrapped so nice and fully around there neck and it looks really cool. I always wondered how do they do it?? I would take my scarf wrap it around trying to get “the look” it would always be either to tight or short or plain weird, it never looked the same like the pictures I had seen. So, it was for that reason I had never been a big scarf person. I always liked them on other people but not for me.
So a couple of weeks ago when I was in one of my favorite stores Nobody Jones. One of the things she had on display were these scarves wrapped really cool. Now, I picked up one and I said these are really nice. They were so soft, they were made out of this Pashmina material. I began telling her how I have always liked scarves but never got how people wrap them to make them look all full. She said, “you want me to show you.” I said, “yeah.” So she began to show me, and as she went through the steps you could imagine my eyes and the feeling inside me as she executed ”the look” the first time she did it, it went by so fast and I didn’t get it- lol. So I was like ok show me again, and she did. I was so thrilled!
Needless to say that day I bought a couple of scarves and I have to admit I’m loving “the look”. So of course I have to share it with you as well or maybe you know already but just in case this is what you do. You take the scarf so that you have both ends in each of your hands. Then you fold it in half. Still folded in half you put it around your neck. One side of your scarf should have formed a loop. You take the other side and put it through the loop and then you pull it. It should become nice and full. You can adjust it the way you want. But if you do it right you should of achieved “the look.”
The weather is so great right now you have plenty of opportnites to grab a scarf and rock “the look” Happy scarfing!
friend or fashion February 4, 2008
So I found myself with a lil’ dilemma this weekend. I had planned to go to a vintage fashion expo in Santa Monica, the moment I saw this event featured in Lucky I new I wanted to attend. I put it in my calendar a month and had determined nothing would interefere. We’ll it turned out that during the course of the month I received two invites to bridal showers of friends who were going to be getting married. Now, for some this may not be a dilemma but for me it was because I really wanted to go to this vintage fashion expo it seems like I always miss them. I had made up my mind to go and not to go to the bridal showers. I already had plans and sometimes are plans conflict with other things in life, right? I know it sounds okay…well the night before the event I received a call from a friend for a favor in the morning. I didnt mind the favor because I would still have time to get to my event. We’ll the day of the event as I was doing the favor. I began to think about my friends getting married and how rare these occassions are, and that there will always be other fashion events. So, I decided to wear the outfit I was going to wear to the fashion event to the bridal shower and it was a hit. When my sister and I were in Spain we stumbled upon this cool lil’ shop where the girl hand made her earrings. I new I had to buy a pair. The earrings are actually mix match one earring both sides are blue like ocean waves. The other one, one side is blue the other side has a girl drawn on them. Whenever I wear these earrings they are an immediate attention getter. So, tho I wasn’t able to go to the vintage fashion expo, I was able to support a friend and rock my own unique finds from Spain.
