So I finally made a logo for the blog! It took long enough huh? Anyway I guess now would be a great time to give you all a little background history and my intentions for writing this blog. Before I do so I guess I should give you all a little disclaimer. I am in no way shape or form a beauty industry professional. I am just your average girl, who makes average money and buys average things to try to look good! Shopping and product testing and researching is sort of a hobby of mine and since friends and family know this they often ask my opinion. I am sick of reading magazines that only show you Lavish Luxurios items that can only be purchased by rich people. To me its like walking into a puppy store and seeing all these cute little things and not.being able to purchase one cuz your landlord doesn't allow dogs. For lack of a better term its a big cock tease!
I refuse to believe that the only way to look good is to have to spend $85 on a plain white t-shirt! To me there are times to spend and times to splurge and only on certain items such as shoes. You wont get much milage out of a cheap pair of shoes but you can find plenty well quality shoes in stores like Marshalls & TJ Maxx for a resonable price! Plus if you see a really nice pair that's slightly out of your range there's always lay-away.
Anyway to give you qll a little background on me I am a 30 year old woman born and raised on Long Island. If I had to explain my sense of style it would be classy with an edgy flair. I love black, neat looking taylored items with an edgy flair. I am a sucker for anything with studs, leopard print & bold hues of blue & army colors as neutrals. Ok I just realized you are probably envisioning Snooki right now! Notice I said classy though! I can probably write an entire book on every Snooki fashion faux pas but I don't have time! I live in at least 5 inch heels on at all times I haven't owned a pair of sneakers in years! They just don't look right on me! My style icons are audry Hepburn , believe it or not I love all three Kardashian sisters sense of style as well as Jlo and Sara Jessica Parker! I come from an big beautiful Brooklyn born and raised family and as a young girl in the 80'sI looked up to all my beautiful, styleish aunts! With their big hair they never left their houses looking anything less then fabulous. I watched them push around baby carriages in stillettos never missing a beat with their hair or makeup! They are the reason I am who I am today! Even my nana who is 85 and the sweetest most wonderful woman in the world (aside from my mom) is still rocking heels even after breaking her hip! He gorgeous pictures from the late 1940's are an inspiration. They are all the ones who instilled in me that you can look like a million bucks without spending a million! Thanks to them I am a bargain hunter in the truest sense of the word. Someone sense of fashion who I always truly admired oddly enough was my dad! My dad passed away over 5 years ago. When he was alive he was always dressed to the nines and I believe I got my need to always look neat and well groomed from him. I never saw my dad wear a pair of sneakers, a sweatshirt, or t-shirt or even jeans like you see most dads wearing. He was always in a neatly pressed pair of slacks with the crease perfectly pressed down the middle. Each Sunday night he would pick 5 outfits out and he would spend a good hour or so at the ironing board preparing his outfits for the week and when he was done ironing them he would hang them ever so neatly on the hangers (neatness is one attribute that didn't dive into my gene pool) and leave them there for the week. He even folded his clothes to put them in the hamper when they were dirty! His hair a timeless classic that he literally hadn't changed since the age of 10 was always neatly combed and quaffed. My Dad was the pillar of class and he is greatly missed.
