Favorite Outside Blog Post of the Day!

I have a new Parisian blogger obsession and, coincidentally enough, she’s close friends with The Cherry Blossom Girl, my other french blogger crush! This is Louise, of the blog Pandora. Like her friend, she is a normal girl who dresses so fabulously that you begin to think that she must have a stylist, or be somehow famous. These things are not true, however. She is merely an impossibly chic art student living in Paris.

What’s special about her blog is that they are not just diary entries of her daily outfits, as so many other similar blogs are. Instead, she shows us her outfits and even styles some inspired by famous works of art!

While one post is more fabulous then the other, thus making it impossible for me to choose one to showcase and show all of you, there is one component to this particular post that convinced me: headbands.

In this post, Louise demonstrates the different outfits to wear with myriads of different glorious headbands. If you don’t read French, pay no attention to the words of the post- instead just delight in the lovely pictures!

Click here to see the full post on Pandora!

The Tanning Beds Miss Lindsay

Because apparently there’s nothing exciting happening in all of Los Angeles ever since Lindsay Lohan’s incarceration, the jailed actress’ favorite tanning salon hosted a ‘Free Lindsay’ rally yesterday in order to support her early release from prison. The salon, Beach Bum, cited the purpose of the rally as a means of “draw[ing] awareness to the harsh punishment inflicted on Lohan due to her celebrity status” and that they hope “she will be released from jail before her 90 day sentence reaches completion”.

Between 40 and 70 people stopped by the tanning salon to show their support.

I don’t get it. These people live in California. They are right near the beach and are miraculously one of the few areas in the States with waters untouched by the Gulf Oil Spill. They could be spending their time swimming with dolphins, and pretending to be Ariel as they sing happily in the water (it’s what I do at the beach). Instead, they cart themselves over to Lindsay’s favorite spot to hit up after popping a few (dozen) prescription meds.

Inconceivable, I say.

Lindsay’s jail sentence should be over by next week, but she’ll have to get herself to rehab within 24 hours of her release. That still gives her enough time to get in some quality time with her family with her beloved tanning bed.

Elegance, Defined.

Tomorrow is the day that the guidos and guidettes of the world unite under a common cause. It is also the day when the considerably less spray-tanned and less muscled population unite to watch and revel in the douchebaggery.

Tomorrow, “Jersey Shore: Miami” premieres on MTV. For those of you still reading (as I’m sure that this announcement caused a number of readers to jump from their chairs and begin a frenzy of cartwheels, thus forgetting about the blog they were previously reading),the new season of the much-talked about show will be trading in the shores of New Jersey for the beaches of Miami.

To give you a taste of what genius is to come, I present you with JWoww’s newly released fashion line (’cause when you think fashion, you think the girl with the fakest boobs and scarcest clothing of the whole cast of JS, which is saying something).

In order, the names of the products are Violet Desire (modeled by JWoww herself), Coral Dream Set (even though the color of the outfit is blue, but alright), Midnight Rain, Crystal Snow Set, Feathers and Ivory Surrender.

I love how the line is aptly named Filthy Couture, and in the name of cohesion, all the products sound like stripper names. A smart move on her part since that’s clearly her target demographic.

Click here to check out the lolz on the Filthy Couture website, but if you decide to make a purchase, please never return to Luello.com. We like classy shoppers only. Except for people who buy T.I.T.S. But that’s another story.

Favorite Outside Blog Post of the Day!

This is glorious, a gift from the gods at the Huffington Post. I give you their compilation of The 19 Most Regrettable Pop Culture Tattoos.

The highlights for me? Tattoos of Alf, Tony Danza, Clay Aiken, Napoleon Dynamite and Britney Spears, post head-shave.

Click here to see the full list, which you absolutely must experience.

Facebook Love

A list of a few reasons why I want to see the movie “The Social Network”, about the creation and aftermath of Facebook:

1. I is a blogger. I use Facebook. It’s basically 50% of my entire job. Therefore, it is of interest to me professionally.

2. I is a person. I use Facebook. It’s basically 50% of my leisure time. Therefore, it is of interest to me personally.

3. I am an easy target for marketing and effective advertisements. Whoever made this trailer was brilliant, ’cause they managed to make a story about how two nerdbots created a website seem all dramatic and interesting to me, the consumer.

5. A Radiohead song is in the trailer. It’s a cover, but it’s Radiohead nonetheless.

4. Justin Timberlake’s in it. ‘Nuff said.

The movie comes out October 1st and tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, as he comes up with the idea for the multi-billion dollar website, and is subsequently sued by friends who back-stab him and accuse him of stealing their idea.

Anna Paquin: The Only Vampire Affiliate Who’s Okay By Me

Normally, I avoid vampires and werewolves  like the plague, as we all should be doing. Not because they’re murderous blood-fiends, but for two reasons: firstly, because they are absolutely everywhereee! They cannot be avoide, which brings me to the conclusion that something so rampant must be avoided at all costs. Secondly, they are oh-so-whiny, what with their love triangles and rivalries and people having to choose sides and either express their allegiance towards the pale, garlic-hating ones, or for the full-moon-morphing wolf ones.

When the whole craze began with Twilight, I was mildly annoyed, but managed to contain myself because it was just the Miley Cyrus-loving teenagers who were partaking in the craziness. But now, thanks to shows like Vampire Diaries and True Blood, absolutely EVERYONE is watching and loving the vamps.

Bizarre, I tell you. I still cannot comprehend the obsession.

That being said, I tried very hard to be put off by Anna Paquin, the star of True Blood. She doesn’t play a vampire on the show, but she does consort with them. Also her character’s name is Sookie Stackhouse, which is stupid. Despite this, the positives for Anna were stacking up. She’s Canadian (who doesn’t like them?) and grew up in New Zealand (which makes me incredibly envious). She was in the X-Men movies, which makes the nerd in me do a little happy dance and she won her first Oscar at age 11, which means she’s kind of awesome.

What really swayed the vote though? She’s seen here in a photo-shoot wearing Sunday Rocks. So she’s got my seal of approval, which is tough to earn, especially given the whole vampire nonsense.

Click here to see Luello’s collection of products by Sunday Rocks!

Click here to see a gallery of Anna’s style trajectory throughout the years, provided by InStyle! Despite some questionable outifits and the unfortunate use of some sparkly silver eyeliner, her style obviously turned out successfully, since she’s choosing to wear such Luello-approved brands as Sunday Rocks!

Creeeeepy. And Unnecessary.

We all know that people are crazy for celebrity memorabilia, which explains why someone bought Britney Spears’ already-chewed gum on eBay for $514. While that was gross, this story is just plain creepy.

Julien’s Auctions, an auction house renowned for selling the belongings of celebrities, has been known to sell some items that seem downright invasive. More than any other, Marilyn Monroe is a celebrity whose personal belongings seem to be in the highest demand (except for Michael Jackson, who’s giving the iconic blond a run for her money- if they had money in heaven and not just cupcakes and unicorns as currency).

The auction house has in the past sold such items as Monroe’s perfume bottles, her personal cheques, her divorce papers and even her therapists’s couch (creepy indeed). What could be worse, you ask?

They just sold a set of three of Marilyn’s chest X-Rays for $45,000.

Creeeeeeeeepy. With a capital C this time.

There was some kind of sketchy hospital policy at work here if someone was even in possession of these things, but it doesn’t matter, I suppose, since someone was content to drop almost 50K on them.

At that price you could hire a Marilyn impersonator for life and have them dress up like her, sing you Happy Birthday all breathy and probably serve you drinks. And prescription meds. ‘Cause those were Marilyn’s favorites.

Some other, more normal items that were sold during the same auction were Marilyn’s chair (sold for $35,000), Audrey Hepburn’s dress worn in Funny Face (sold for $56,250), Christopher Reeve’s Superman VI costume (sold for $32,500) and Kate Winslet’s Earrings from Titanic (sold for $25,000).

If any of you readers are feeling the strong inclination to purchase Miley Cyrus’ retainer, Michael Jackson’s toothbrush or Justin Bieber’s pacifier, I urge you to please take a moment to think clearly and then proceed to spend your hard-earned money on something much less alarming and much more practical- like a new fall wardrobe from Luello.

Miley Cyrus Wearing William Rast!

Here’s Miley Cyrus, reigning princess of Mickey Mouse’s family of actors/singers/pseudo-role models, wearing William Rast and giving a shout out to Justin Timberlake, a former member of the House of Mouse!

Here she is wearing denim by William Rast, taking time to walk her dog while on break from filming her upcoming movie LOL: Laughing Out Loud. Yep, that’s the title.

Ya, whatever, her dogs kind of cute, but mine is cuter (see below). While Miley’s legion of pre-pubescent followers would say that her highness’ presence is the best part of this picture, those of us with fashion knowledge know that the highlight of these paparazzi sniper shots are definitely the William Rast jeans she’s got on!

Click here to view Luello’s collection of clothing by William Rast!

This is Penny Lane. Way cuter, I know.

Inception. That Is All.

You’re waiting for a train; a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can’t be sure. But it doesn’t matter – because we’ll be together.

What with leading my very hectic blogger’s life and all, I was a bit late to the party when it comes to raving about Inception. Nevertheless, that certainly won’t stop me from doing it now.

Inception is nuuuuuuts.

No words that can be thought up in my pretty little head seem to be enough to relate just how wonderful this movie is to you. While open-ended, ambiguous endings to movies usually have me cursing the filmmaker’s attempt at making their movie edgy and shocking, Inception’s indeterminate ending was beautiful and entirely appropriate in terms of the movie’s entire trajectory, instead of just being thrown in for shock value as with other movies. The movie is a daunting two and a half hours long, but does not for a second seem long or in need of an edit.

Alright I’ll end my movie rant here, ’cause, trust me, I could keep this going for hours.

Instead, I’ll provide a little compilation of the fashion of Inception, in which all the men dressed like they were detectives in the ’40s (minus the fedoras), and the women looked perpetually glamorous (whether they were projections or otherwise). The only exception to the movie’s fashion rule was Ellen Page, who played a college student and who, instead of looking fabulous like her co-star Marion Cotillard, looked like, well, a college student.

Favorite Outside Blog Post of the Day!

For the fashion-minded, it’s never too early to start planning your looks for the coming season. Even though the only thing I want to wear right now is shorts, tank tops, sandals and anything that makes me feel like I’m on vacation when I am in fact spending every day of my life at work, there is still something to be said for looking forward and planning the dos and donts of your Fall wardrobe. Refinery 29, yet another glorious online destination that provides the latest in fashion news and up-to-the-minute documentations of the latest trends, provides an in-depth look at what exactly to avoid for the autumn.

Their recommendation? Avoid superfluous fur items, head-to-toe patterned outfits and pointy-toed kitten heels (although I would just avoid the kitten heel altogether, regardless of the angles of the toes).

Click here to read the whole post, and click here to start shopping for pre-approved items ready to be incorporated into your autumn wardrobe, courtesy of Luello.