Wednesday, July 22, 2009

I'm a Barbie Girl


Most of you reading this are pretty girly. Just admit it. And accordingly, I bet you played with dolls. Though I never quite understood the purpose of it; I did it too. Dressing them up in whatever I could find, cutting their hair (I give a mean Barbie Buzz cut) and vocalizing the Barbie fantasy life ("Oh, Ken! How I love you so!). This is all fine and acceptable at age 6, but 16 or 21? Not so much. Until now. LOOKLET(.com) is a new website that has painstakingly made available the opportunity to dress up models online. But this isn't a game. Looklet allows you to dress your model in Marc Jacobs, Cheap Monday, Diane von Furstenburg or Ralph Lauren. You can dress them from underwear to outwear; from head to toe or choose to remix an existing look. I've created the one below and you can search for others by me by searcing B3BLOG. It's summertime and you HAVE to be sick of the validated voyeurism of Facebook (with the exception of being a B3 fan). And of course, you following Bargain Beauty Baby on Twitter, right? (twitter.com/b3blog) So, when it's all said and done mosey on over to Looklet and create a look. It's a 2009 way of holding on to your inner Peter Pan. Oh and you mean little Tinkerbell's? You can play too.

Friday, July 17, 2009

She's baaaaacccckkkkkkkkkk!


What did it take to get me back to the keyboard? SEX. Sex and the City, the movie that is. How could I consider myself a connoisseur of couture without having seen this iconic fashion film? I'm not quite sure. I also don't know how I survived almost two decades on this earth without this movie in my life, because I will never be the same. Thank you Carrie Bradshaw for bringing me back. Thank you loyal readers, for welcoming me back. Thank you Ann Taylor for creating the second reason for my radiant return: the leopard printed sheath I've been feigning for since it leaped off of the pages of Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar. Or was it Elle? They are all fabulous and this dress is certainly no exception. The color. The shape. The print. The price. Oh actually no, I got a little ahead of myself. Not the price. At $160 plus tax it's certainly no "bargain" but an investment piece no less. Not that yours truly has any funds for "investing" as I've been "building my wardrobe" (read: buying clothes almost everyday) and am actually a bit scared to check my back account. None the less, it is my new found friend Express that has an alternative to my coveted Ann Taylor sheath. A 3/4 wrap dress in the black and grey leopard that will just have to suffice. Until we (my finances and my decision making skills) meet again; Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu (to you and Ann Taylor too!)