Excited for: Loafer love.

Since being back home from college my parents have been spoiling me like no other and I do not mind at all. These are my purchases from the past fifteen days.

1. Steve Madden Elton Glitter Loafers.  I have partaken in the tomboy chic trend for a while now. So when the entire loafer fashion sprung into the scene I was in heaven. These give such your outfit such a twist. It's a much better alternative to the glitter Toms everyone is wearing.
2. Chinese Laundry Tetris Loafers. My first Vegan shoes! I was in obsessed with these shoes as soon as I saw them. They have such a Havana in the fifties feel to them. The citrus color gives is such a fresh take to the woven trend. I would wear these with some shorts and chiffon shirt to feel like you are headed to party on a sunset in the beach.
3. Marc Jacobs Amy watch.  A slight change to the Michael Kors watch on every wrist. This one is smaller and has Marc Jacobs written around the face of it. I love how it is big but not ostentatiously huge. I love how men inspired it is but looks quite girly yet.
4. Novhe Cross bag   My sister in law gave me this bag for no apparent reason and I cannot believe how similar to Cartier it looks. Its small and fits all of  your essentials. Perfect with everything for a night on the town.

I just realized how almost all of these things match haha. Look forward to my next haul.

Thanks for reading!

Excited for: Princess Vera Wang Collection for Kohls.

As I was flipping through Teen Vogue last month I stumbled upon an editorial of fun looking clothes. I was not impressed until I saw a pair of glitter booties, since then I have been anxiously waiting for the Princess Vera Wang collection at Kohls. Yesterday I decided to go and write a review about it.

[Beautiful display]

When I entered the store I was quite impressed with the mounting and exhibition of the line, it looked quite boutique-ish. Right away I went through the clothes then entered a terrible realization: as senior in college with potential jobs or internships that require professional looking clothes, these no longer fitted my wardrobe. There were some great basic pieces like the blazers and shirts but the rest of it does cater to a younger audiences which I am devastated to realize I may no longer be part of.  

But enough with the sob story, I did try on a few pieces regardless whether they were age appropriate.

So I first tried on this Candies pleated skirt. I had been eyeing it for a while and yesterday I finally tried it on. I think it is actually quite flattering for a pleated skirt and I think it would look great with a blazer on top of it. It also comes with a neon belt which is detachable but I think gives the skirt a twist.

I tried on this pink tutu skirt and thought it was quite cute. It has sparkles all over the tule and does not itch. The only setback is that it is too short and I do not think it is appropriate for anybody out of high school. This was the item that gave me my sad epiphany about age.  The sweater is cropped and is made out of a warm fabric. I think it could be used with jeans and a shirt underneath.

Next I tried on the dress that I though was the funnest. The lace at the bottom is beautifully made. But again, I felt this dress was too young. As if I could find it in Hot Topic, its really well made but it is for someone younger.

What I felt was the star in the collection was the denim vest. It has leather details at the top and back and has embroidery. I think this is a definite keeper and something that can give a girly rock and roll twist to every outfit.

Other Highlights included the following :

I hope you enjoy this review and that it helps in some way to your process. 

Excited for: College Life

Call me nostalgic, call me dramatic, whatever. The only thing I know is that being stuck in West Texas over the summer is making me very well melodramatic. What is it with everything seeming more romantic from afar? Anyways this isn't this week's episode of Days of Our Lives, this is a recap of why being surrounded by a bunch of crazy artsy freaks makes living in this town that more exciting.

[unicycle football, yes that's right.]

[my beautiful friend Michelle posing for me]

[a small area of the aquarena springs]

So as you can imagine, leaving this for three internships seems quite a problem. Am planning to return to college with a larger sense of adventure and hopes of listening more to my thoughts to convert them in literary gold.

Excited for: Webster for Target

I have been a committed fan of Target's capsule since the days of Luella. This time around I decided to finally do a small review.

I got to my small town target expecting little merchandise but was surprised to find such a variety.

I went simply just to see what the new Shops concept was about and was pleasantly surprised to see such a variety of things.

Coming in to the store, I saw many things I enjoyed but only wanted to try on three things.

I saw this one on the rack and was surprised on how fun looking it was. It reminds me of a modern Lily Pulitzer (not that I own or love that brand). It highlights your curves but also makes the curves you don't want people to notice, be noticed. Needless to say I did not take it.

I next tried this one. If you can tell I love geometric shapes but I have to learn I am not a stick figure to pull them off so easily. I didn't take this one because it looks to much like a sack.

And finally I tried this beautiful green dress on. The colors were amazing and the shape was even better. A wrap dress can never go wrong. This dress does show off all your curves nicely. ;) And you guess correctly, this one went home with me.

 Since this dress is for a family event I wanted some shoes to match them. I was fascinated when I found shoes that matched the dress completely. This pairs of wedges were semi comfortable but I wasn't really able to tell due to the elastic band detaining them. Also, I cannot walk in heels to save my life. 

The Shops at Target are an amazing new with great new clothes. I liked the Miami inspired clothes from Webster and enjoy how it gives a sort of retro glam from the early sixties. Something people would wear in Cuba in its heyday (yeah I would have loved to be there). Since I live in Texas I feel this wardrobe would not be proper for the area. I would recommend this to any girl who wants to look cute. 

Excited for: Roommates.

Just a random grocerie night.


I was extremely blessed this semester to be living with my two friends from back home.
This is Paulina and Estefania and they will be making plenty of appearances.
Besides both being extremely stylish, they are both photography majors.
So please meet my official photographers, it will be a blast. 

Excited for: Random Facts

I like trees.

• I was born in the United States, raised in Mexico but studied in the U.S. To many its a hard concept to grasp but to all of us from the border its just second nature.
• I really dislike being photographed and am quite sensitive to negativity, not sure how this blog will turn out.
• Fashion, history, music, photography, art, film, food,museums, comics and traveling but trust me I am no expert at any of it.
• I just moved to Central Texas and am slowly trying to adapt. The move from a border west Texas town to this place has been amazing but so different, I am loving every moment.
• Majoring in journalism, history, fashion merchandising and Spanish has inspired me to document all that I learn while making it fashion oriented.
• I've been told I make a big deal out of everything that I like, so I am going to milk that and make that the tone of my blog. 

Enjoy!

Excited for: Magazines

I know. I know, I know. Trust me, you don't have to tell me. I do this all the time. I start a blog, I say I will continue it and then  -poof!- creativity out the window. In my defense I did start a new school so the whole relocating is getting hectic.

As for now, I still do not have a consistent photographer to be with me to photograph my ventures so no new pictures. But then again who says I am so interesting as to incite someone to follow me around. Maybe if I bribed him with pastries...

I feel like sharing my constant need to scrapbook my favorite editorials. I've been a magazine hoarder for as long as I can remember so about two years back I decided to cut out my favorites and put them in a book. 

Hopefully this will one day work out for me.

Shown here, four of my favorites.

Excited for: Nice Things

A few of the things to which I am devoted to at the moment.

 [Cross& Elephant Ring, Forever 21 Silver Promise ring :)

Gold four-fingered ring & green stone ring, local boutique]
[ LOVE necklace, local boutique, Paris necklace, Forever 21

Mayan head necklace, bought at a market in Ajijic]

[Blue spiked heels, Shuz. Christian Siriano for Payless rain boots.

Blue heels, Jessica Simpson. Brown oxfords, Zara]

Excited for: New Life

New Year, new attitude, new place, new people; NEW LIFE! 

So, to commemorate this huge milestone, this blog will commence

with a new design. Well not yet at least, soon though.

So for this, the amount of text will be reduced and the photo

intake will increase! So be ready! 

So I bid a hello to all my readers (the two I have) and 

wish for a happy New Year come this Friday.

2011, you have seemed to be purettyy cool! :D

New Years Resolutions:

• Take more pictures
• Draw & Paint more
• Work Out
• Be consistent with this blog
• Learn to cook

Cheers :)

Excited for: Beauty Products

It all started with a simple Gaga lipstick. I loved the packaging, I loved the feel and most of all I loved the cause. This past season MAC released two lipsticks named after Cyndi Lauper and mega star Lady Gaga. Each purchase of their lipsticks goes to the Viva Glam foundation. Needless to say that was enough of an excuse to buy both lipsticks. From then on my very boring make-up routine now received a little boost.

So here is a picture of my recent beauty buys. It includes the compact by MAC in Collaboration with Disney. LimeCrime lipstick, Hello Kitty for Mac, Heatherette for Mac, Liberty of London for Target, Rimmel London lipstick, Coco Rouge Chanel lipstick. 509 Paradoxical Chanel nail polish, Mean in Green Mac nail polish , Forever 21 nail polish, Revlon nail polish and Sally Hansen Back to the Fuschia nail polish.

Up next, Wonder Woman and MAC. :D My love for fashion and make up has combined. Also, Topshop make up will be bought soon. As soon as I get a job. Grrr

Oops, I did it Again.

Yeah, I just quoted Britney. But only because I really mean it. I started a blog, posted a few things and left it to wander in the vast abysmal of the blogosphere. I am ashamed, I do apologized, I will try to not do it again. Yet I will totally pull a religious freak because I apologize for doing something which I totally know I will do again. So please, bare with me.

So started third semester of college with low expectations and a really really bad attitude, such attitude in fact has cost me very low grades now that I think about it. But that's another story, I'm working on fixing that actually. But without further ado, I will now proceed to post at a regular pace.

Now I leave you with the highlights of days past.

 Watching The Shining for the first time with my friend Rafa and being an idiot at the Classic Film Festival.

 Enjoying my family for my brother's wedding.

 Getting back with the love of my life.

 Trying out my new Nikon and realizing I am still a horrible photographer.

 Exploring something new and exciting every day =D

And finally, getting accepted into State :D!!!

I see these pictures and I realize how happy I am and who I do and do not need in my life. I cannot wait to start a new chapter in January, so exciting!

My True Mexican Colors

I am feeling a wierd desire to travel to Mexico City (i.e. Distrito Federal). I long for those walks where every street corner has a story. People really fail to see the beauty to this amazing place and I really hate it. This stigma that Mexico is just a lazy corrupt country makes me want to murder people. Love this amazing place.












Lovez, love d.f. Wish I could visit now. I really love the way that peasant old woman wear. You know the typical fashions.?

The city where I live in, Ciudad Juarez, for as long as I can remember has been deemed as and unsafe city with unusual killings of woman. Now, since 2008 mass murderers occur about every 3 hours, sometimes even more. So usually one tends to forget the beauty that a city holds. I have lived no where else in my life than in this place and it pains me so much to see it suffer. I have always known I do not belong here and that I will eventually leave yet people cannot fathom the love I hold for my city. I hope to one day return and help to restore it to its beauty.

Here, mediocre photos of the typical Mexican folklore, one so rare in this Americanized city that when witnessing it is so rare and beautiful that you enjoy it no matter how ugly it is.

The September Issues

Last week I traveled to Dallas and in the hopes of killing time in the 12 hour ride I bought many magazines.

I just put my friends Poppy Coach Wallet because I like how it looked with my new nail polish


But the stupid bus had its light off or probably didn't work!! So I didn't read them! I was so mad. My best friend bought some other 2 magazines which is probably why you don't think there is to many of them.

It wasn't a problem though, I love magazines way to much. In fact my reading has deteriorated because of them which is something I am not proud of.

In my extensive readings I have concluded that I need the following:

• Tucker by Gaby Basora for Target yellow dress.
• Utilitarian boots
• Brown oxfords
• More lipsticks (I'm obsessed now)
• Camel leather shorts

 And let me just say I am veryyy keen to shop :)

So helping this blog is my trusty beautiful journal given to me by my very random sister in law. It was her bridal shower and she decided to give me this journal.

It's so pretty I love it! With it my Distroller pens. They are so colorful and Mexican inspired. And in my favorite pen shape, I hope I don't loose one (though I lost the pink one already =/  ) But yes, in here I write every thought that I am curious of and ideas for this blog. Blog meet Journal, Journal meet blog. Now love each other!


Bye!

Talking 'Bout My Generation

This past weekend I visited the great metropolitan city of Dallas Texas to visit my friend for almost 15 years. 3 friends and I decided to embark this amazing journey through the cheapest mode of transportation:

(The one we traveled in was probably a model a few years older than this one)  
Yes, we are so stupid that we decided to ride a 13 hour bus to Dallas (the time on a car is 10 hours). And let me just say that the entire ride was a torture. Kids screaming, people who don't wash their hands after going to the restroom, people hooking up.

That's right, people hooking up in a bus. Can you believe it? There we were witnessing to strangers having to sit together due to lack of seats and next thing we know they wake up in the most intimate of circumstances. God I was shocked, the entire trip was just a slap to the face of how insane my generation is.

You see, I have this deep theory that I was supposed to be born in 1950 but accidentally got sent 41 years into the future to 1991. So I regard this whole generation as lost and judge it as if I belong to another. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I was never even a second thought when the Beatles played in their rooftop.

So as this trip took place I am now scared of what future generations hold. Here, the things I despise about my generation.


The Dancing

According to Historyworld.net  probably the first purposes of dancing was due to performing rituals. Since then dancing has very much evolved (obviously). During the colonial periods it was considered immoral and illegal. And in Britain during the nineteenth century (my favorite era + place) it was the most important form of meeting people and most importantly your possible future spouse. But I wan to talk about dancing in the last 60 years.

So I began writing this post with the purpose of illustrating how dirty dancing is now so common and how it wasn't before. But damn was I wrong.

So according to a history website dirty dancing was very common with the Egyptians. It was a sort of foreplay to having sex. Some couples that wanted to conceive would go to the temple and witness these "rituals" thinking that they would become more civilized. So I was wrong in thinking this  is a new "trend." This has been going on forever. In the 1700's and 1800's these acts were reserved for whore houses and in private, then the first strip tease bar surfaced in France.

But what now is common as grinding in the dance floor has origins in a popular for named "the Bump." But many attribute this style to some grinding style of dancing found in the Lambada craze popular in Brazil. From then on things changed right to a middle school dance floor.  It's so disturbing, a guy literally grabbed me and expected me to dance,  then he dissed me and nodded and walked away! I was so appalled. Oh well, I really hate that dancing, I thought I would love it but man was I wrong. Here, a link teaching how to properly dance in the correct manner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-cOEgF5MYI

So that was one thing, the same night I witnessed these atrocious dancing acts I saw something that was worse. A girl lap dancing a stranger with her vagina hanging out. Yes, her vagina. I could not believe it. The girl was sober!!!

So after having a heart attack at all the visuals I decided that my generation truly is lost. I mean, who wears shorts, tshirts and flip flops to go out? Or semi-prom dresses to "grind". I am worried for the future generations. But oh well. There goes my rant. Good bye!

What I Burned : August 9, 2010

Just came back from Dallas with the girlfriends :) Precisely because of that the shopping was limited but sweet.

Didn't buy a whole lot, I am really trying to limit my purchases. And really, if you know me you will agree when I say that I didn't overspend.


Missing is an Alice Temperly dress for Target. I own a piece of every Target collaboration and the one I owe from that collection is starting to not fit. Also it was black and am very much in need of an endless array of black dresses.


In the center is a BCBG jacket I got for $50 dollars at the outlet-ish mall in Dallas. I wear black blazers with literally every piece available. If it wasn't so damn hot where I lived I would wear my tiny summer blazer, but even that would make me sweat buckets. So I decided to "invest" and just buy this. I don't really like spending much money in clothes anymore. Unless it's insanely beautiful, an investment piece or from a markdown from a favorite designer (the latter has never really happened). So I just bought it and lets see how the cut looks on my dresses.


I'm dying for some brown oxfords and I found these. They are so weird and cool but I still don't think they can replace a classic brown one, I might still have to buy the others ones. But yeah, I'm rambling haha these are from Urban Outfitters and I love how I can wear them in the summer and in the winter with tights.


 The suspenders have been in my wish list since I was 11 dying to be like Avril Lavigne but for some reason had never gotten around to buying them. I was carrying a huge pile of clothes in the Buffalo Exchange store and got all excited when I saw them. I also saw these Alexander Wang knockoffs for 7 dollars that I've been dying over for so I HAD to buy them.  So by them time I arrived to the cashier and had filtered my selection I only had the suspenders, sunglasses and Temperly dress in my hand.


But I ended the trip with TOMS :D I've wanted some since 2007 but never had the money for them. Now everyone has them and I feel like I'm just following the crowd. Mnehh I'll manage to wear them differently =)


I'm off to Oklahoma, Dallas and San Antonio next, let's see what I find =)