Style Icon: Carrie Bradshaw

I try and live by thinking I will try any trend at least once, and the true inspiration for this is Carrie Bradshaw. Carrie rocked everything from mixed patterns, to two different colored shoes. However over the top and ridiculous Carrie's style was, she still always looked put together and stunning. 

Some of my favorite Carrie looks:

Carrie looks completely elegance in her simple black dress, classic curls, boots, and soon to be staple oversized glower brooch. Besides for the cigarette, Carrie has the complete look down. Carrie is the queen of not looking as though she tried to hard, even with the  crazy accessories. 

While I can't say the same for Sammantha, the matching shiny blue tank top and pants is not cutting it, I personally love  the two different colored Manolos on Carrie. It might not be the most wearable trend, Carrie  pulls it off  by leaving the rest of her outfit  simple and frilly. 

Carrie looks fierce in her runway debut, with sparkly underwear plus the structured royal blue cape with cheetah print backing. She may have fallen on the runway only moments later, but at least she had the courage to not only rock the outfit but get back up and keep walking. 

Carrie looks pretty in pink in her short, pink, bubble dress. The sleek straight hair helps to complete her totally cute look. The sparkly clutch only helps to balance the simplicity cuteness, and polished effect of this outfit. 

Carrie may have left the small screen, but she definitely did not lose her over the top style. Her beachy waves and golden glow are the perfect complement  to the white mini dress with the oversized flower on the shoulder. 

Holiday Gift Guide

Here are my recommendations of what to buy as holiday presents this year.


For the Fragrance Fanatic:
Deluxe Fragrance Sampler For Her, from Sephora,.It is a collection of 12 samples of best selling fragrances, as well as a refillable fragrance atomizer. It also has a voucher for the gift recipient to bring to Sephora and choose the full size of their favorite fragrance after sampling all of them. For $50 this is a really great value and an amazing present!

For the Crazy Crafter:

A cute mini glue gun. I got my zebra print mini glue gun at Michael's this summer, and I can't find it on their website but hey have other really cute ones too. They're not too expensive, I think mine was about $10 or less, and really handy and adorable! Anyone who enjoys anything crafty would love this present. 

For the Product Hoarder:

Birchbox Subscription! I know personally I've been waiting all year to ask for this for the holidays! For anyone who loves constantly trying out new products this is the perfect gift! If you're not familiar with Birchbox its a subscription that you get and then each month you get a box with 5 deluxe samples, and the occasional full sized product. You can gift Birchbox for 12, 6, or 3 months. 

For the Polish Addict:

Seche Vite top coat is an amazing gift to give anyone who loves to paint their nails at home on a regular basis. It leaves a really professional finish to any polish, even cheaper ones. Also, it helps polish stay longer without chips, which is great for anyone who does designs because it keeps them on after all the effort put in! 

I also think that the Shades of Seasons nail polish sets that come out every year at CVS are great gift. Its really affordable, and a wide range of colors in the set. The colors are actually pretty unique and the polishes are a surprisingly good quality.

For the Makeup Lover:

Ok this last one I think anyone would love! The Naked Palette is by far my favorite makeup product I won. You can crete the most neutral looks to smokey dramatic looks. Definitely worth the price, and the hype was well deserved Now that the Naked Palette 2 was released this, hopefully, will be eaier to get hold of. If you can, definitely pick it up. 

OPI Excuse Moi! Review

OPI Excuse Moi!, from the muppets collection, is a red based polish with glitter. It has small refined silver glitters and then bigger glitters that are multi colored. One coat of the polish leaves a sheer red-pink with the glitter; two coats leaves an opaque red-pink with lots more of the glitter. It's a really pretty color for the holiday season!

The picture isn't showing the shimmer and sparkle as much, but it is a really pretty, very glittery red based pink, with mutli-colored glitters.