Hair Love

I'm in love with Whitney Port hair here. It's so full and looks so touchable I'm having complete hair envy over here. I've never cared for WP before and never watched The Hills or The City, but after featuring her on this Beauty Inspiration post and putting up some pics of her hair on my Inspiration Board, I think I may be adding her to my girl crush list.

New Spring Inspiration Board

The heat in CA has been up and I've been wearing shorts every weekend, but it's still not "Spring". I haven't worn my new Go Jane wedges yet, even though I'm wearing flip-flops because I'm waiting to wear them with a Spring outfit.
I've been scouring my Nordstrom catalog along with my magazines and have finally put together my new inspiration board. I'm sure I'll be adding to it, right now it's mostly beauty-related things for make-up and hair, but I still wanted to share it with you.

Here's a shot of the whole thing:

Here's some close-ups of the board:

The top focuses on accessories- belting dresses, layering jewelry and different ways to wear scarves (Goodness I own enough of them). Then the middle, upper corner and bottom I have ways to change up your hair al la Whitney Port (remember her Beauty Inspiration post? Gorgeous!), a new nail look, tons of beauty trends I want to try, and some sunglasses I have my eye on (future post coming sone).

I think this board is perfect for this time of year because I can slowly bring on Spring trends before busting them all out at once in mid-February. Even though it is pretty warm here, I still don't want to wear something that could be deemed seasonally-inappropriate. I realize that fashion rules have evolved and I love Winter White, but some garments are too early to wear out sometimes, like lightweight sundresses. Please do not hold me to this because I'm keeping my right to change my mind at anytime. LOL. This time of year before Spring/Summer are really here I like to dress the part of the weather and wear a mix of Winter-Spring clothes Kramey Martin has geniusly dubbed Spri-nter.  For example, my light weight long sleeve with shorts I wore in this OOTD. Perfect Spri-nter outfit for CA!

Switching up my beauty routine to warmer colors, wearing bright lips, and changing my hair are easy switches that I plan on doing this month (and in the warmer seasons) to tide me over until I can officially bring out my Spring/Summer storage boxes of clothes and make the switch. If only it could hurry Mother Nature to bring on the heat!

What are you ladies doing in anticipation of Spring/Summer? From your blogs, I can see that you guys are as excited as I am, but I know many of you still have cold weather. I have a confession for you, since I grew up in Utah, I've never gotten over not having snow in wintertime (see my top 10 of both CA and UT here). All of your pictures that have snow in the background make my heart ache just a tiny bit. How are you divas doing in the cold? What are you looking forward to wearing?

Beauty Inspiration: Whitney Port

As I've said in previous posts here and there, I never got into The Hills or The City so I don't know much about Whitney Port, but what I do know is that she's likes to switch up her beauty routine. I've been looking through pics and I really love how just a little change of color or a swipe of something can make such a difference in your look.

As a Beauty Inspiration, I thought Whitney would make a perfect example because her make-up looks are relatively low-key and easy to copy.  As for her hair, it's generally the same length and color, just like how a majority of people keep theirs, but also take note how a quick change of parts, different types of curls, or simply a piece clipped back can change your overall look quite easily.

What's your favorite beauty look of Whitney's? Mine would have to be her fresh-faced one with a touch of eye-liner like the third picture in the top row. I'm also really in love with her lipsticks! Such an easy and inexpensive way to step up a beauty look. 

With these new posts of Beauty Inspirations to be sprinkled into the Celebrity Inspirations, I'm still trying to find my "groove" if you will. So any comments, criticisms, questions, or suggestions are openly accepted! Do you like these posts (check out the first one here)? Any suggestions for future Beauty Inspirations? Anything in particular you'd like me to focus on? Please share!

It's All In The Eyes

Tell me ladies, what's your eye beauty routine? Namely, what do you do with your bottom lid and lashes?

Do you go full out eyeliner, eyeshadow on the bottom and mega mascara like these bombshells?
 

Do you wear liner but no mascara or vice versa like these pretty young things?
 

Or are you more natural like these beauties?


I tend to switch my look up depending on where I'm going and what I'm doing. Before, I never used to wear mascara on my bottom lashes- just liner or nothing at all, but this year I've started putting mascara on the bottom lashes regardless of whether or not I'm wearing liner. It can kind of be a pain because I have long lashes and the tips will get mascara onto my cheeks and I have to clean it up, but I like the overall look it gives. I feel more "done" when I wear mascara or liner on the bottom. A naked bottom eye can always be appreciated though in my book and I still rock it from time to time.