If you need to switch one bright lipstick color for another in a pinch, rub off as much of the first color as possible with a tissue, and then apply a thin coat of concealer to your lips to create a neutral starting point.
Last night I headed over to Lord & Taylor for an event celebrating their renovation (the store has got a pretty old-school rep, and they're in the midst of a serious upgrade). I love these kinds of events mostly because I usually run into people who it makes me very happy to see, like The Gloss's Jennifer (pictured at left in one of the hot-pink hard hats we were required to wear during parts of the tour).
I also love these kinds of events because they frequently involve champagne and small, sugary things.
Like these:
Q: I'm sprucing up our guest room for a friend and her husband visiting us from Japan. Any creative or budget-conscious ideas for bringing life and warmth to a guest bedroom and bathroom (both rooms are pretty small) are welcome.
...of Anthropologie's drawer-pulls.
I get a lot of flack for my pigtail-wearing ways. Like rompers (which I also am strongly in favor of), pigtails are oft-decried as ridiculous, infantilizing, et cetera. But also like rompers, you know what pigtails are? Awesome, and awesome some more.
This is one of the major mistakes that renters make: refusing to put time and effort into their apartments because they don't own them. You're going to spend a year of your life in those few hundred square feet...so why not put in a little money and time (notice I said a little) to make your present living space a bit more "you"?
I actually called Kendrick and suggested that we consider moving here one day.
My article on TheGloss.com:
Did you know that it is possible to have an overwhelming emotional response to wallpaper? It is indeed. I was sixteen years old when wallpaper first hit me hard: I walked through the front door of my family’s apartment, having just been unceremoniously dumped by my gorgeous and much-fawned-over French boyfriend, only to discover that in my four-hour absence my parents had covered the kitchen walls in paper adorned with French love poems. I plunked myself directly down on the kitchen floor and cried.
The next time wallpaper made me tear up was a decidedly better experience: my downstairs neighbor, Stephen Haskell, offered to paper a couple of walls in our living room with leftover rolls produced by the designer wallpaper company he runs, Cavern Home. When I saw the results, my heart went all aflutter: my semi-dilapidated, cream-colored, decidedly run-of-the-mill living room had been transformed into a thing of beauty. I now watch episodes of America’s Next Top Model happily ensconced in a piece of art.
I sat down with Stephen to ask him a few questions about the best ways to use wallpaper in small spaces, and where wallpaper trends are headed.
Today, March 10, Target is opening a pop-up preview store of their new Liberty of London collection at 1095 6th Avenue.
After meeting Kendrick for a quick coffee at SubtleTea, I popped into the Gap for a little window shopping. Immediately upon entering, I spotted a mannequin adorned in a thin, off-the-shoulder GapBody sweatshirt (pant), and window shopping turned into impulse buying. Always fun.
I love love love perfect-fitting loungewear, and even think that this sweatshirt could go out with me at night if accompanied by tight jeans and tons and tons of jewelry. I’m also looking forward to wearing it with brightly colored shorts and strappy leather wedges this summer (come quickly!).
(I’m a believer in “if-you-find-the-perfect-item-buy-it-in-millions-of-colors,” and very much wanted this in dove gray, pale yellow, and light brown, as well, but alas: I was being semi-responsible. I also very much felt that the gray suede fringe hobo pictured above - only $150! - should be mine, but again: restraint.)
