Splendid Labor Day Reads
From the Splendicity community, comes this week’s best in beauty, fashion and shopping.
SHOPPING
With the economy in bad shape, NY Spender is looking for new ways to save, from coupons clipping to smaller perfume bottles.
Shopalicious shares the scoop on surfer-cool Toms Shoes latest release: the ultra stylin’ wrap boot!
Style…a work in progress finds some haute couture inspiration in the high street when she tells us that Coco joins the Crew.
ShopDiary reviews Bond No. 9 New York’s latest fragrance, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue.
Shoe Blitz adores the purple and black L.A.M.B. Miyagi.
Glamour Gift Guide suggests the gorgeous Marc Jacobs Ostrich Stam Satchel.
BEAUTY
Krizia from Beauty Match boldly states: Why I will NEVER gain weight
Viva Woman shares with you the beauty benefits of drinking milk.
Beauty Secrets Revealed shares a Hot Oil Hair Treatment Recipe For Dry, Damaged & Frizzy Hair
Beauty and Fashion Tech looks at a number of powder sunscreens, so now you can reapply sunscreen without ruining your makeup!
Beauty Blogging Junkie has partnered with Three Custom Color to provide 25 readers with TCC’s new Watercolours for Cheeks in Wallflower, a dewy beige. Click here for more info on how to enter.
Beauty Bento Box shares her thoughts on a recent experiment with the Nivea Visage DNAge Cell Renewal Eye Cream.
FASHION
Petite Fashionista knows that you have to feel your best, to look your best! Join Christa and the readers of PF as they do a 5 day RESET to have more energy and fit into their “skinny” jeans!
Her Accessories is looking at the horsey side of things with her top picks for equestrian-themed accessories.
Just A Formality loves these silk sandals from Oscar de la Renta - perfect for a formal event.
The Space Between My Peers is blogging her own comeback! Check out the before pictures and offer your suggestions.
Tops 2 Bottoms features one of the trends for Fall fashion, Checks and Plaids.
I love that trench coat on you — very flattering from the back. I have a very similar build to yours (5′ 7″ 124 lbs) with a long torso and shorter legs. I find coats that hit just above the knee and flare out a bit, like your trench, look good and really dress up an outfit. I also like jackets that hit at my hip bone, but they have to have seaming that nips in at the waist or I look boxy!
Can’t wait to see how your makeover progresses. I loved Christopher’s book and have changed a few things to make me look younger (just turned 50). One of the biggest was going to pink lipstick vs. the red tones I used to wear and that alone made a big difference.
Thanks for the input, Jean! And thanks for bringing up the lipstick thing. I have never liked lipstick, and my husband detests red lipstick, so I don’t have to make that adjustment - just need to find a lipstick that works. My skin is so fair it doesn’t take much to look just hokey on me.
That one makeover in the book, and on his website, with the woman who went from the almost black lipstick to the neutral pink was stunning, wasn’t it? She looked scary in the before picture, but she could have been a model or super-star in the after pics!
It stuns me that she was walking down the street looking like that - she looked so harsh and hard.
If you’re not much a a lipstick person try either a matte shade or lip gloss for a sheerer look in a light pinkish shade.