I found this feature and photo at Shopaholic Universe. This is the official Christian Louboutin manicure, featuring the ever-famous black and red combo. The manicure features black nail polish on top, and red polish underneath the nails. Of course, you’re wondering, how expensive is it (since it’s Christian Louboutin, after all!)? Well, ladies and gentlemen, lacquering up your nails with these two colors will set you back 35-80 pounds (P2,800-6,400) (according to Shopaholic Universe). I have no words.

Wow, if a pair of CL shoes is included in that deal, then by all means, lacquer my nails with some o’ that CL. But otherwise… I’ll stick to cheap DIY polish.

Hand me that bottle of Caronia.

I had found these in separate pages at chickdowntown.com and was surprised to find out that they were all from the same designer, Rodnik. I love quirky and unexpected details especially on the collars and sleeves. For these items, the collars were the bait that drew me in. The colors are a little drab for my taste but that’s what colorful accessories, pants, shoes and bags are for I’d buy these if only they weren’t SO expensive. Boo.

Photos from chickdowntown.com
Logo from rodnik.co.uk

I especially like the black dress in the middle.

A friend of mine, Martin, whom I’ve known to be a SUPERB (I’m highlighting this because superb isn’t even enough to describe his artistic prowess) artist has recently entered into a small business customizing plain white sneakers into works of art. He lets you have free reign over the design of your shoes. If, say, you would like to have Lloromannic (yes, I like them very much!) on your shoes, he’ll paint them on a pair of plain white sneakers and you can rest assured that he will do an amazingly impeccable job at it.

Need proof? Here are some of his works. Prepared to be blown away!

Dali’s Persistence of Memory 

Magritte’s Son of Man 

da Vinci’s Mona Lisa 

Cover of Harry Potter Book 7

Bob Marley, Audrey Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe 

and, of course, our faaavorite kitten, Hello Kitty! 

Beautiful pieces of art, right?

I Like these ones better than those I posted previously.

I love the white dress! The blue one reminds me too much of Cinderella’s ball gown.

For die-hard Hello Kitty fans (assuming a big percentage of you are girls!), why not wear a Hello Kitty wedding dress on the most important day of your life?

What do you think?

I’ll take these over any pair of Havaianas, anytime! Besides the fact that they’re cheaper… they’re also WAY cuter.

These are some of the items from Banana Peel’s Hello Kitty collection.

I love browsing through street fashion blogs and sites like The Sartorialist, Facehunter, and Tokyo Street Style. Here’s one reason why this is such an addicting activity for me:

Doesn’t he look so effortlessly cool? I like seeing people who seem to have picked up each item of clothing at random, threw them on, and look GREAT like they have a stylist-on-call. I’m especially loving the pointy-toed sneakers here.

I have been thinking about writing about this since I read FashionFabi’s post about people calling her “Naca“. I wasn’t familiar with this term before I read her blog entry. This is what it means, in her own words:

“Naca” (pronounced knock-uh) is a term constantly used in La Ceiba (or Honduras?)to describe a girl who mismatches, likes to shop at thrift stores, doesn’t stick to local trends and likes to take risks. It’s a twisted definition of the word “trashy”.

I was quite surprised that people called her that because I have been visiting her site frequently, actually admiring her outfits. She mixes and matches her clothes like a professional stylist and she seems like she always looks like she just walked right out of the pages of a magazine. The way she dresses screams confidence, individuality and creativity and I really love how she puts clothes together.

Apparently, very few people in her hometown shared my thoughts. Name-calling was just the tip of the iceberg. Someone went so far as to steal the photos from her blog, photoshop her face onto a nude body, and pass it around via MMS (I think this technology probably has done more harm than good to quite a number of individuals.). She said she caved for a while, dressed up the way an average person in La Ceiba would, but later decided to throw all caution to the wind and proceeded to dress the way she wants to. I say, Good for you, Fabi!

Anyway, this story struck a cord in me because not long ago, an Aunt told my cousin that I have a weird fashion sense, because I loved and bought this top:

I’ve always told everyone that I will dress the way I want to and I don’t really care what other people think. It’s 98% true. The remaining 2% was a little bit bothered about the comment. I know it’s not as hurtful as what was said to FashionFabi and I did kind of expect my aunt to make such a comment (because she likes things to match especially when it comes to clothes)… but I couldn’t help but feel a tinge of irritation when my cousin told me this. Perhaps it’s the people-pleaser in me that felt a little irked. Sooo… that’s how it feels to be criticized for looking or being a little different. How… unpleasant. Hmm. It made me think… do I really dress that weird? Do I look strange? Does everyone really think that I’m strange?

After 10 minutes of thinking non-stop and feeding my already-paranoid self with thoughts of people talking behind my back calling me “weird”, “baduy” (fashion victim), and all sorts of things…. I stopped myself. Will I really change the way I dress just to please others and look like just about everyone else? I don’t think I will be pleased with myself if I ever dress to the dictates of a matchy-matchy society. :p Fashion’s supposed to be fun and the “weird”way that I dress is how I derive fun out of fashion.

To FashionFabi and everyone who dares to be different (not just fashion-wise!), please continue to take the risk. You inspire me and a lot of other people to remain true to ourselves

How about having a hamburger or a bowl of chocolate hanging around your neck? Or mini-cakes clipped in your hair? These handmade polymer clay accessories by alicepleasance makes me want to have all kinds of food clipped, hung, tucked, and pinned all over me.

All photos are from her blog. More delicious accessories in her Etsy shop.

I’m hungry now.