Hello Darlings,

As my vacation is approaching, I am trying to finish all of my shopping and picked up this silk top from Club Monaco. With a 20% student discount and great quality and prices, Club Monaco is fast becoming my personal favorite store.

I adore the details of this blouse: the collar,the sleeves and the zipper on the back.

I played dress up in my room, and found these two looks to pair

with my new Club Monaco Silk Blouse. What do you think???

My love for heels needs to suffer for a bit. Yup, since I am tired and distracted High Heels Cause a Serious Threat to MY WELL BEING like tripping and breaking something. So for now I will spend my days in my new Coach Barrett sneakers :)

I just picked up a new pair of Coach Barrett sneakers. I got my first pair 2 years ago and they still look perfect. Just throw them in a washing machine and voila they are like new... This time I chose a colorful pair, which is perfect for the summer. They are soo cute and girly.

I am wearing:

Ralph Lauren Top

Abercrombie & Fitch Madison Jeans

Mackage Leane Leather Jacket

Coach Barrett Sneakers

Notice my make up, I'm actually wearing color (lol), my Chanel lavender eyeshadow and YSL matte lipstick...not too much, I hate wearing too much make up during the day.

Hello Darlings,

By a request of a lovely reader, this is my updated Skin Care and Make Up routine. When it comes to my skin care and make up, my rule is simple - LESS IS MORE. I hate using too much make up or too many skin products. I have Combination to Oil skin type.

Skin Care

Make Up

Need to get: ( Are they any good?)

Hello Darlings,

I thought that I would never wear harem pants or a jumpsuit... but look what happened!?!?

I picked up this über (my favorite German word) awesome jumpsuit few days ago. It's like wearing the most comfortable pair of sweatpants outside... not that I ever would. It is also perfect thing to go shopping in ( quick slip off, slip on), which is where I wore this outfit...

I finally had chance to bring out my Juicy flats out of their winter hibernation...I love them to death and it still amazed how new they look ( I've been wearing them for a year)...definitely worth every penny. Love Juicy shoes, super comfortable and the quality is always amazing.

I am wearing:

Necessary Objects cotton jumpsuit

Mackage Leather Jacket

Juicy Couture Ballerinas

A.V. Max Studded Cuff

Ray Ban Wayfarers

As I am doing my research on Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of the Lady as Lucretia and trying to establish what was seen as feminine/masculine in women in the 1500s, I found this interesting quote by Baldassar Castiglione and though that I would share it with you:

Leggiadria is nothing other... than the observation of an unspoken law, given and promulgated by nature to you women, in moving, behaving, and using thus the whole persona as also the individual members, with grace, modesty, gentleness, measure, elegance, in such a way that no movement, no action, shall be without moderation, without manner, or without design; but, as this unspoken law compels, ordered, composed, regulated, gracious; which law, because it is not written elsewhere but in certain natural judgment that neither knows of itself nor it able to render judgment, if not that nature wishes thus, I have wished to call "unspoken"; which law nevertheless, because books can not teach it nor practice demonstrate it, it not observed commonly by all beautiful women..."

I love reading " Renaissance guide books for women on how to be a woman" written by men. It makes you realize exactly where these stereotypes and generalization came from....well now I know, from men like Castiglione and Firenzuola who spend their life's telling how to become a feminine woman and to be more appealing.

Off I go to discover what feminine is...

maybe I can learn a thing or two from these men, haha !!!