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(An Amazing) Week in Review

Kristina — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:02:09 +0000

I’m extremely honored and touched to have been nominated in two categories for the 2012 Bloggies (I call them the Academy Awards of blogging). I’m nominated for Best Fashion or Beauty Blog, as well as Best Designed Blog. Considering I didn’t hire a designer to create my blog’s design (everything you see here is from [...]

Fashionable iPad Cases – Part 1

Kristina — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:56:39 +0000

There’s probably no gadget cooler out there right now than the iPad. As an original iPad owner and now an iPad 2 owner, I must admit that it might be more exciting picking out a fashionable case to tote it around in, than the actual iPad purchase itself. (I’m the same way with Kindles, too.) [...]

Thank Goodness for Instagram

Kristina — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:00:07 +0000

When we just can’t wait until the professional pictures come back–we have Instagram until then. We cannot express how much we enjoyed our engagement session with the lovely Bryan & Kendi of Photographers Skeen. Photos 3 & 4 taken by Kendi. The rest were taken by my lovelyamazingawesome wedding planner, Aurora, on my iPhone. P.S. [...]

PSS Takes Over Buried Bauble

Kristina — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:58:01 +0000

Psst… I’m taking over the Buried Bauble! What is Buried Bauble? I thought you’d never ask… Every week, on Fridays (11am EST,) BaubleBar secretly marks down one item on their website to $10.00 The Buried Baubles are centered around a theme To help you find the Buried Bauble, BaubleBar emails you a clue. It’s a special email [...]

Brahmin Bag, Anyone?

Kristina — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:03:13 +0000

So, I have an extra one of these babies laying around. Want one? It’s the Glossy Anytime Mini Bag by Brahmin and it has a handy-dandy short strap for wearing on your shoulder, but to be completely honest I use it as my makeup bag. An expensive makeup bag, I know, but it works so [...]

Pink & Gold

Kristina — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:03:37 +0000

It’s amazing what an airbrush tan will do for your mood and self-image (as shallow as that sounds). As a permanently ghost-like pale person, I’m constantly applying bronzer & blush to give myself a healthy dose of color. For our engagment shoot (which is today!) I went for a professional airbrush spray tan. Getting naked [...]

Instant Style: Animal Print + Red

Kristina — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:02:19 +0000

I love the look of red and animal print together. I consider animal print to be a neutral, under all but the most extreme of circumstances. I’ve been a little uninspired lately when it comes to my outfits, so I’m trying to kick myself into high gear and get back into the swing of things. [...]

My Favorite Foundations

Kristina — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:01:22 +0000

In keeping with my equal love for beauty products as fashion, I decided after discovering the most amazing foundation ever that I would do a spur-of-the-moment vlog showing you my all-time favorite foundations I have ever used and loved. Bear in mind that most of the foundations mentioned have been vetted–in the sense that I have [...]

Take My Breath Away

Kristina — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:01:11 +0000

Sidenote: the title of this post has nothing to do with me or these photos (in fact, my titles rarely do); instead, Top Gun is playing in the background as I write this post and my favorite song from the film (Take My Breath Away) is playing and now I can’t stop humming it. Love. [...]

My Thoughts on StyleMint

Kristina — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:01:51 +0000

I know you see me dress up in a lot of feminine-edgy outfits, but what you don’t see are my days when I’m casual and comfortable in a slouchy t-shirt and jeans. (Well, sometimes I post those outfits, too.) It can be so hard to find a “perfect T” sometimes, because you want the combination [...]

Secrets to Successful Fashion Blogging Part II

Kristina — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:02:49 +0000

Well. It’s certainly been a long time coming, hasn’t it? When you decide one random night at 9pm to write a blog post about how to make a successful fashion blog, and the next day the post goes viral and gets featured on ELLE.com and blows up on Twitter/Facebook…it can be very intimidating trying to [...]

It’s Coming…

Kristina — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:05:42 +0000

Tomorrow. Also, in recent news (esp since a handful of you have requested–nay, demanded–wedding planning updates… I found my rehearsal dinner dress! (You may have already seen this if you follow me on Instagram.) I knew I wanted to wear white or a semblance of white and the lovely Nikki at Tootsies picked this out [...]

Shark Bite

Kristina — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:03:46 +0000

I am absolutely obsessed with these amazing new Jeffrey Campbells I acquired via Nasty Gal last week. They are reminiscent of Theysken’s Theory in their colossal pointy-toe ankle-strap awesomeness, but they have these bite marks in them that could verifiably hurt as much as the shark bite they invoke, but they don’t hurt because your [...]

Huntress

Kristina — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:01:07 +0000

The fiancé and I headed out on this fine day to embark on a very, very diffcult, very hard, very strenuous, very tedious task: wedding cake tasting. I know. So hard. While I won’t reveal the cakes’ designs (yes, there are two–a groom’s cake and a bride’s cake), I will tell you the flavors! Mine [...]

In Between

Kristina — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:00:33 +0000

The light fades so fast during the winter season that it’s hard to get to our regular shooting location in time. So, a balcony will have to work. This was what I wore to dinner with and his parents. The weather is still in-between in Texas: sometimes in the 40′s, sometimes…70′s. Hey, I’m not complaining!