Items are going F-A-S-T! Some of my favorites are listed below. Oh, who am I kidding? I want everything on there.
Gorgeous, romantic black and nude silk dress. $199.99
Leather Bernadette wedge. $129.90
Black silk angle pleated pant. $149.90
Batista leather platform pump. $99.90
Black suede leather T-strap pump. $99.90
Bask leather ankle boot. $159.90
Olive asymmetrical one-shoulder dress. $149.90
Navy wool asymmetrical banded dress. $109.90
Proving that she really is the coolest mom ever, Gwen Stefani talked to Yahoo!’s This Week in Mom (hosted by another awesome mom and my friend Diane Mizota) about her new Target clothing line for kids, Harajuku Mini. Gwen’s been my fashion idol since I was in middle school and while her style has evolved into one of a quasi-chic international fashion-plate, I like that she’s never betrayed her California chick roots. It’s something I also don’t plan on betraying, well, ever.
Fergie recently rocked the perfect top knot to the debut of her footwear line at Nordstrom. I’m simultaneously obsessed and terrified of top knots: obsessed because with the right amount of hair and styling, it can look sleek, sophisticated yet slightly playful a la Gwen Stefani:
But since I’m Asian and my bone structure is particularly sensitive to anything that would make my face look more like a square than like a normal human being’s, I feel like I have to be EXTRA careful about how I top knot my head. I’ve found the key is to have a lot (and I mean A LOT) of hair and volume on top to balance out a stronger bone structure to avoid that awesome squashed-and-flattened pancake face effect.
My attempt:
Yep, still think I look like Rachael Leigh Cook from She’s All That when she’s working at the falafel joint:
In the ’90s, “Gwennabes” were the little girls who walked around sporting bindis, midriff tops and Bedazzled bra straps a la a chick from Orange County named Gwen Stefani. She was the front woman of ska-pop band No Doubt and sarcastically wailed about how she was just a girl and walking into spiderwebs. Minus the bindi, I was kind of a Gwennabe; not gonna lie.
The quintessential California girl has evolved into a successful business mogul, mother and chick I still dig, so on today - her 42nd birthday (!!) - I’d like to thank her for inspiring me to hot glue red rhinestones to my bra strap in middle school. Oh yeah, that happened.
I’ve been a longtime fan of Gwen Stefani’s style because even though she’s from the County of Orange you’d never mistake her for one of the Real Housewives when it comes to her clothing choices. She’s just a wicked dresser. It was because of her, I hot glue-gunned red rhinestones to my bra straps in high school.
I’m hellbent on learning how to get my hair to topknot like this ever since she sported it. Ideas, tips appreciated.
