Alexander McQueen for Scarlett Johansson in Lucy Movie

I just saw the Lucy movie last week and I almost let pass a dress that rocks!

Scarlett Johansson is wearing this dress at the begging of the movie -where the real excitement happens- and she is covered on top with a very punk leopard jacket with metal zipper. Loved her look.

In the scene where she is entering to the hotel I fell in love with this dress and said out loud: -She looks incredible I want that dress!- My friend next to me laughed and said: - I was going to say that she looked like a whore-. 

In the begging that comment annoyed me but then I saw him and said: -She looks like a rock star and we agree rock stars can dress however they want even as a whores.- My friend agreed with me.

This is an Alexander McQueen dress.  At a glance I thought the print was a red & orange tiger but if you look close enough the print is a butterfly in a Kaleidoscope and searching in the internet I found that the color is Terracotta.

You can read the dress details in the webpage below. The dress cost less than $150 dlls and I am seriously thinking in buying one for me :)

http://www.garmentquarter.com/mcq-alexander-mcqueen-kaleidoscope-beetle-cap-sleeve-dress-terracotta.html

In the rock-and-beauty-meter this dress got a 7 from 10 stars \m/

Keep on rocking!!

CHALLENGE YOURSELF EVERY DAY

I will not eat sugar all week!

This is from Monday through Sunday. Why?

It is time to challenge myself a little. I am tired all time for going from work to school to church, etc. But there are things that we have to try to get done a little better. Let explain myself. I have been very lazy since I have no longer a boyfriend, I am caught in this "I do not care" attitude. I arrive late to work, I choose the sugary drink instead of water, I skip gym days, I do homework one day before the day I have to send it to the professor, I procrastinate a lot, etc.

Now I want to change to the "I can do it better" attitude, "I won't give up" attitude, "Let's do it" attitude. Well I think you got the point.

The first challenge I want to try is to not eat sugar one entire week, this include candies -what convenient that Halloween just ended ha ha-, any Soda, my very loved Starbucks frapuccino with a lot of caramel on top, bread, juice, ice cream, and so on.

This will be really hard but it is time to change some bad habits in my life. The high consumption of sugar is really bad, cellulite is caused by sugar, also diabetes -that I have 50% of chances to have because my father has it, thank you dad!-, it is bad for my skin, it make us feel very tired just to mention some consequences.

I will let you know day by day how I am doing with this. Wish me luck :)

Are you challenge yourself any soon?

TIME TO MOVING OUT OF MY MOTHER'S HOUSE??

I'm 25 years OLD now. Should I move out of my Mom's house?
There is this very famous cliché that says that the youngest daughter (me) has to take care of the mother until she (the daughter) marries, most importantly when the Mother has no longer a husband.

The 21's sounds perfect for leaving the nest, some girls do it earlier in their lives but sometimes when you are really comfortable living with your parents you start to think that at the 24's you are still young enough to let your mommy do your laundry, after all your mother do it with pleasure :) but when you turn 25! oh my holy wow! suddenly you realize your are almost 30 and start to think about how you can still let your little brother sleep with you because you are afraid of dark -nothings that happens to me of course- 25 is almost 30 if you round it up!!o_o

So I have decided to move out :) and I am so excited about this new chapter of my life. This is not happening any soon yet because I am in the middle of my MBA and I have not saved enough money for my new car and I am planning moving to another city so I need to figure out a few things before give this big step. Sorry mother, your little rocker is leaving for good :)

I will move to a big city near and also I am planning to enter to the school again and change my career, it will be an impossible adventure, very dangerous and full of rock and roll. I imagine myself sleeping in a super small room with nothing but my hard rock boots and my guitar -that I do not have yet- and stay semi alive eating every two days ha ha I can't wait. But I know it won't happen exactly that way, I have family where I am planning to live, specially an uncle that I love that will give me a place to stay, but I'm totally buying that guitar \m/

And what are you ready for?

Divine Justice.

I have been thinking in God very much lately. Six thousands of millions of people in the world and, is He really taking care of me? How can He notice me? I am so insignificant, so small, so weak. Thoughts like these pushed me to pray and cry and pray. Then I had the sudden necessity to let go feelings that were suffocating me slowly inside.

I have detected some areas of my life I can do a huge improvement and I am ready to do a lot of changes. First of all I went with the bishop of my church and I confessed everything I have been doing wrong in the last couple of years. It was really hard, I was very embarrassed, but when I was finally out of that office a huge weight disappeared from my body. It was a blessing.

In order to change you first need to recognize that you did something wrong and you have to feel deeply sorry about it, then you have to confess -until here I am doing fine-. Next step is restitution or trying to fix the things you have done wrong and apologize people you hurt -I am working on this step-. And finally you have to take the important decision to commit to never do the same mistakes again.

It may sound easy but Gosh! it is really really hard.

I have been in this process a little while and I am feeling alone and sad, and this is normal, it suppose you have to feel this way. This horrible feeling is what you get for not doing things right, its the price you have to pay, its the way you will learn and remember that everything has consequences. This is called Justice.

When I am feeling very desperate I start to think how patience is God with us. He waits and waits very patiently for us to do the things right, and when we finally do we want immediate blessings, like if we deserve that our lives were fixed in just one day. That is not how this works.

So relax, take a deep breath every time you need, pray a lot, be patience, be good, work hard, love everyone, be kind, and it may seem nothing is changing now but it will, once you change inside everything will change outside, for good and it will be magnificent. ♥

Emily Hern

I FEEL UGLY!

It is incredible the power a human being can have on someone. One person can make us smile, cry, even fly and sometimes -like me the last couple of days- someone can make us feel ugly.

Who is that ugly person starring at me in the mirror? oh! I am.

You are watching you, the same person that you have always been, but you do not recognize yourself anymore.

When that bags below my eyes appeared? Are these wrinkles? Oh my nose is too big. My hair is too dry. My skin is too greasy. My arms are huge. My teeth are not white enough. I look tired.

That person left you with nothing. No hope. No love. No self esteem. All is just empty.

And that is the signal when you know you don't love you anymore... and also there is no better time to start doing it again.

The thing we need to understand is that you are the only one that can grant that power to other people. That is the power to control you. How we feel everyday is the gasoline of our achievements. You have to learn to do productive things even though you are feeling totally destroyed inside. The days when we feel like crap will always exist. You need to learn how to make them work.

Be strong. Weakness will carry you to nowhere very fast.

Don't stop me now..

Writing. It is the one and only thing that I know I could be good at in this life. I am ready to follow that dream. There is an amazing college in LA that it is called Emerson. Wow. I would kill to attend that school. I just keep dreaming and dreaming about my first day there. On Saturday I was searching the requirements to assist and that was a really turn off. Tuition pfff.. I supposed mirrors have gold made frames. o_o

 After being a little sad about seeing my dream so far and almost impossible I realized that I will try it anyway. I mean, Why not?  There is only one life, even if I can go just one semester it will be the best semester of my life. I have to try to enter, there is no other way and I have nothing to lose.

Money should be the less worry when you really want to give the best of you in something that you love. I know being a writer is my really true calling and I will never let that money or any other sacrifice stop me to do it. I can and I will.

We should be strong and stubborn enough to embrace and defend what is better for us. Other people will never understand. It is not selfish to pursue what you want despite anyone else is thinking. After all you could never truly love someone if you don't love yourself first.

Don't hesitate. Don't slow down. If it is not know, when?

Liz Emily

Hate being single.

I broke up with my boyfriend last week. Even when I know it is the best still hurts when I remember him. The first two days I felt fine but I cried a lot the third day. I guess it is the abstinence syndrome. He was my best friend. I really enjoyed his company.

Still he is just another man in this world full of them, maybe I will be sad one or two months but later I will be fine. I really always knew that I was too much for him. I will find a man that really loves me. I have no intentions to think that I will never find a man like him or to be depressed. I refuse! I refuse! I refuse! It is not the end of the world.

The thing that I really hated of my break up is that in a moment of desperation I thought that I was not enough. How in earth we put a man in the top of the world and let him to run our lives? For a moment I let him be the owner of my future. When we lose a loved one, why we allow ourselfs to feel like life has no longer sense?

In a point I felt so miserable that I thought I could never be happy again. LIES! Those are lies that we create. A break up with someone is a door that has infinity of opportunities behind it. An opportunity to love yourself, to enter to that class of guitar or dance that you ever wanted but never had the time, to start going to the gym, a chance to know better persons, to travel to a new place. Anything and everything you want.

Put your head up, start to think in the future, work in becoming a better person and in some point, when you least expect it, love will be in front of you again but in the body of someone better. Now smile.

Saturday or boringday.

What happened to my Saturdays?

I was boring all day long. All the week I beg for the Friday to arrive, then it arrived and I was on bed by 9:40 pm.Of course I had plenty to do but I was so tired that I preferred a warm bath and a cozy bed.

I woke up Saturday morning at 9:40 am -Yes, I slept 12 hours, it is a family condition- I ate breakfast in the garden to avoid the routine, I wrote like 2 hours with still my pajama on, then I looked for a movie in the TV and I found Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix and at the same time Revenge, at 3 pm I hit the gym for 2 hours, then I went to the ATM, then in my house I ate a hot dog and I took a shower. Now I am back in my laptop writing and checking my Facebook at the same time to see if one of my friends appears. But still I am boring. How Saturdays are suppose to be? Am I getting that old?

This is how I wish my Saturdays were.
Wake up at 8 am, get ready to go for a little breakfast with my best friends, then go to the gym, take a shower and get together with my family in a restaurant in the afternoon, write a few hours after that, drawing a little, watch TV and in the night go out with my boyfriend. Or escape to the beach all weekend long. Or go to a spa or to have a pedi and a mani, go shopping, and eat ice scream.

Well I like to think that not even Paris Hilton have all Saturdays like she wanted them to be. Probably she does not know what a weekend is, all days is Saturday for her.

I need a new hobby.

Happiness in the simple things of life.

In my new job there are these 4 people that adopted me like a new member of their crew. Three of them are married and with children, however there are still very young like in theirs earlier 30. The thing is that they are always complaining about their lives and their more frequent advise to me is: Marry someone with money.
For God sake, why they can't be happy with the simple things in life, like family and friends, health and ice cream? They are good looking, they have good jobs, they married the love of their life and had children with them, I would kill to have a family of my own!

When the things in your life are not as great as you want them to be you need to find the beauty in the things that surround you, for example, I love the little travel from my house to my job with the radio on, I love the sound of a soda when it is opened, I love drawing and to see pictures in the magazines, I love to sleep, I love to make plans with my friends, and to close my eyes and imagine my boyfriend near to me.

Everyday I see these people over the streets without shoes, asking for money to eat, under the brave sun, weak, hopeless, suffering, while I am in my car with the a/c on and on my way to my house with my family to rest, should I complaint about my life? Have people forgotten to be simply happy?

We need to be more grateful, we have been blessed with so many things for so long that we forgot that in any moment anything could be worst.. or better, if we work for it. In the meantime just remember to be happy with what you have that is a little fortune for those who have nothing.

A weekend in heaven..

There is this new song from Zoe that says "Quiero un fin de semana en el cielo ♪ (I want a weekend in heaven)" and that is exactly what I had. I did not go to a big city or a famous beach, it was just my boyfriend and I alone in his apartment without rules, without my mother watching the time I arrive to the house or calling me a thousand times because is late and I have spent to many hours with my guy. Yes, she is that kind of mom.

All my family were on vacation last weekend, and the serenity I experienced was just majestic. I had the chance to sleep two nights with my love, and in the middle of the night, naked and in his arms I just knew heaven. Watching movies at night, sleeping wrapped in his body, waking up next to his beautiful face, breakfast together, cleaning the house together, all those magic moments that I enjoyed so much, we did simple things but next to him it was just happiness.

You know, there are moments in life so special, moments that fill your heart and make you feel so grateful, and the greatest thing is that you don't need money to get them or travel far away, just need to be a little lucky and find the right person that make you feel complete in every way. It does not matter where you are, or what you are doing, sometimes the thing that only matter is with who you are ♥ :)

When I grow up I wanna be...

I wish I had knew since kid what I wanted to be in my life. I remember many people that told me that they always knew they will be doctors, engineers, actors, artists, but me, I passed from wanting to be a doctor, to fashion designer, to writer, to artist but at the end I went to the engineering school. What a mistake.

I am always complaining about this choice in my life, and people ask me: why did you study engineering? and I answer because I am dumb. 

This is the true reason, and I am so embarrassed of it, and I will say it in cold without drama. My dad was an engineer, and he left me when I was 5 years old, all my life I felt this desperate necessity for he to love me and I always though that he would be proud of me if I studied engineering, but he is not. He told me: Daughter why did you study something so difficult?, and he told this in a very cruel way. It broke my heart.

The funniest thing here is that when he retired from being an engineer he entered to the fashion school. I laughed at myself so hard. 

I wish I could start again, go back in time and choose to be a fashion designer, an artist or a writer as I always wanted, but we know this never will be possible. Now I have a full time job in the manufacturing field, I am always tired, the stress is unbearable and the money is never enough, poor tiny little me. Currently I am trying to change my life, I must to. If not I will be alive but dead inside.

The point here is that nobody will ever be happy if they do not become what they wanted to be.  This very important choice -perhaps the most important choice in life- is taken at a very young age, the sad part is that there is almost not another option, you cannot wait much longer to take it. At 17, are we ready to choose a path on life? 

Most of us were ready, I think I was ready, but when I said that I wanted to be a writer my family laughed at me, they never believed in me, they never told me that I could be whatever I wanted, that is why I never thought about being a fashion designer, because you know, that is only for rich girls.

You should choose something that you are passionate about, this is the only way that you can make an excellent work, and to be happy in an imaginable way. If you are bored of life then you should leave your job and start your own business and to die every day for it, at the end you will look back and you will realize that your life has a meaning and a purpose, and the world will become finally beautiful.

Karlie Kloss on Vogue mag!

 

I found this picture of Karlie Kloss in VOGUE magazine. It caught me instantly.

 

If you notice, the background is made of big squared mirrors. This reflect very particular items that caught my attention. The golden chair with the emerald seat and the black and yellow lamp made this subtle color contrast that is always desired.

 

Most of the picture is in neutral colors and that helped the black and white clothes to stand out. I sigh when I stare at the dress. Super short, no cleavage, elegant pattern. It is just ready to hit the city.

 

I did not love the shoes, I would wear this with neon blue pointy flats for the day and golden stilettos for the night. I like the shelf behind the model with the piled books, it is the décor element that made this picture unique. Bravo!

 

 

Emily Hern

 

Chocolate chip cookie milk shots :D

I love sugar :( I can't help it.
And I am starving right now, and when I saw these awesome chocolate chip cookie milk shots on the internet I melted!  I couldn't help to paint a little of my red lipstick in the center glass ♥

What a magnificent invent! Sometimes I am late for work (ok maybe always) and I grab a piece of bread and a glass of milk and I eat them in the car while I am driving, after a whole week my car has more dishes than my kitchen, so I think is a very good idea that you can eat the glass too :)

What's next? Spoons made of cereal and plates made of granola? I would buy them :)

This beautiful cookies were invented recently by pastry chef  Dominique Ansel in NY, so it will be a while before I taste them :c Maybe I should try to do my own cookie shots :D but I can't afford a reconstruction of my kitchen right now, you know, because it would be on fire the moment I enter to cook there D:

hahaha ok you can see the article about these cookies here -->  http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/cronut-inventor-creates-milk-cookie-shots-article-1.1713099

Have fun today! Love you beauties :)

Emily Hern

86th Academy Awards. Flawless head to toe!

The Academy awards. *Sigh*.

It is an event that every human being has dreamt to go.

All year long actresses and actors wait anxiously for the most important event of the year (with the permit of fashion week).

Now, Imagine you filmed a blockbuster movie and you are nominated in 5 categories to won an Oscar, can you imagine the pressure of looking good in the red carpet? Hundreds of cameras from reporters of all the world will capture you maybe 20 shots by second O_o

Or imagine that you are an A-list celebrity, a wealthy heiress, the daughter of a rockstar, or even better you are a rockstar, or a model, or producer, or director, anything, you have a bunch of money in your bank account and every six months you take a long vacation to some five start resort in a private island, but darling, there are many things that money can't buy and other things that only came with genes, like beauty or talent and one of the more useful, good taste and style.

No wonder why a good stylist earns that much! ( I am considering change my career).

I saw the Academy awards pictures in a few magazine's webpages, I really have something to say for every outfit I saw there, some of them gorgeous others like if someone wrapped itself with sorority curtains.

I borrowed some of the Glamour magazine pictures. (What? I wish I could go and take my own pictures too haha)

There were many good outfits in the red carpet but this actor and these actresses know what they are doing (or at least their stylists). They are flawless head to toe. Check them out.

 

I want to review in detail every centimeter of these gowns, but I am too perfectionist and that will take me 3 hours and 377 more rows (I would do it with pleasure but you neither do I have the time!)

I will try to make a sophisticated resume.

 

Jennifer Garner, she looked so happy (who doesn't? married with Ben Affleck!) and she brought the sparkle to the red carpet, she looked younger and the strands made her gown dynamic and put the fun element in the scene. Her clutch and jewelry matched perfectly giving her even more shine. The hair, perfect length and color, resting delicately in soft curls at the sides of her head. The lips and nails gave the touch of color to the outfit and the arms, perfectly toned. I think I'm in love.

 

Sandra Bullock gave to the elegance word a whole new meaning, the blue in her dress is perfect for her skin tone, the satin fabric captured the light, no necklace just a single bracelet and earrings to not overcharge the outfit, neutral makeup giving the dress and hair the attention they deserve, the brown curled hair to the side, very fresh, and the final touch, nail color matching the dress. Definitively my favorite from the night.

 

Leonardo Dicaprio, He deserve an Oscar since Titanic, everybody knows that! The thing that I like the most in this picture is that he looks so confident, very calmed, his black suit remind me to the most passionate lover ever, James Bond. I love the shiny shoes, the black bow in his neck is very elegant and very appropriate for the magnitude of the event, his hair combed to the back highlight the light brown in his hair and his adorable blue eyes (I'm melting right now). He deserve an Oscar just for his outfit and confidence.

Louise Roe looked like the nature Greek goddess in the red carpet. The one shoulder dress with the lace sleeve make super chic and fun the outfit. The golden clutch is the luxury element here, without it the overall outfit would have been very ordinary. The red nails are very subtle and contrast very nicely because the short length. The hair and makeup were simple and this was necessary because the dress was completely dark green and it was already too much color.

 

Meryl Streep.  My fav since the devil wears Prada! she is probably already tired of the Oscars, she have won already too many of them. She wore NOT A DRESS! fabulousity!, White and black and gold, could be a more glamorous and elegant color combination? And even better SHE TIED HER HAIR!, Not a dress and not loose hair, how she do it to look this awesome? The answer is simple, she is Meryl Streep. No earrings worked great, the neutral makeup made her look younger, the uncover shoulder made the outfit super sexy. I totally love her!♥

 

And last but not least Kate Hudson, her skin is her best gown, she should go naked to everywhere haha. Her hair, jewelry and purse combined and looked like crystal against the sunlight, just perfect.

Her dress was so glamorous. White, pure, and sparkle fabric, and the very special about it was that it is symmetric but in a very accurate weird form, very unique, I can't stop seeing it. She looked like a million buck.

 

If you noticed, you can't see any of the women shoes, and that is how it should be! It was the Academy awards red carpet. Some elegance were needed there :)

 

Write you next post beauties!

 

Emily Hern

Natural Makeup remover!

Hello beauties! :)

 

I remove my eye makeup with magic :) haha Almost true!

 

My magic eye makeup remover just cost approximately one dollar (see note 1 in the end) and I would never change it for anything in the world!

 

Do you want to know what it is? keep reading!

 

Once my girlfriends and I were talking about makeup (what a surprise :P) and we were talking about how to remove it without scrubbing your eyes because the skin below the eye is very delicate and it is highly prompted to horrible wrinkles.

 

I was surprised to know that my friends spend 10 times more than me in a makeup remover, they started to talk about fancy cosmetic labels and the miracles they did in their eyes but I spend too much already in other more necessary face creams and hair products to fall for the products they were recommended me.

I will go always for the natural stuff first.

 

I use olive oil. Ta tan! That is. Clear, natural and fresh olive oil that is really magic.

 

You just need to apply a few drops in a cotton pad and put it directly in the eye (with the eye closed!), let it there about five seconds and then gently start removing the makeup, it should be easy and soft, the makeup will be gone in a minute. Use one cotton pad per eye to avoid the exchange of impurities between eyes.  (I will upload pictures soon promise) :*

 

I found this page about the benefits of the olive oil consume and I am surprised about all the benefits
it has, even it helps protecting against breast cancer! o_o  (Link in the end)

 

The difference is that here we are not eating olive oil, we are applying it to the skin. This page has an article that says that olive oil helps preventing malignant melanoma (most dangerous type of skin cancer :c) because it is rich in antioxidants and the skin get protected of the damaging effects of UV rays. (Link of the article in the end)

I know you feel like if you want to submerge yourself in olive oil :P I found this other page (link in the end) where you can buy olive oil products like soap bars and creams in a really affordable price. I will try some to be able to recommend them to you :)

 

I love you beauties, keep improving your inner and outer self :)

 

Liz Emily

Note 1: One dollar approximately for a 75 ml olive oil little bottle, it will last 1 month if you use it every nigh :)
Olive oil benefits --> http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil
Olive oil prevent skin cancer article --> http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-health-news/olive-oil-prevent-skin-cancer/10302)
Olive oil boutique --> http://boutique.oliveoilsource.com/browse/for-the-body-and-mind/505)

POINTED NAILS ♥

I am a pointed-nails fanatic! I do not know where this tendency came from and suddenly it was all over the media. I love it because the nails look so punk rock and gothic like if they came from a scary movie, it does not matter if they are pink they still look like if you were a glamorous vampire princess.

 

I definitively should try it but I need to wait for my nails to grow at least another centimeter (3 months o_o), right now I have a little ones and the point is very subtle. Of course you can go straight to the Salon and get ones done (E-e-easy).

 

I have a problem (I think :/), I did my nails pointed, I did not think that I have a weeding next weekend, are these nails appropriate for such event? Well I have tree choices, the expensive one, the easy one and the risky one, the expensive one is to go to the salon to get my nails done, the easy one is to cut my nails to make them squared but very short, and the risky one (of course the one I chose!), to leave my nails pointed but to look for a formal style to rock them in the wedding, this is what I found:

Katy Perry blush nails and Florence Welch golden nails were fabulous in the Grammys 2013. My bridesmaid dress is soft purple and I am inspired to paint my nails blush with golden tips. What do you think? :)

I found the photos in another blog (link in the end) about celebrities and trend, please check it out because it is a-a-amazing.

There are different levels of this nails, since the ones that Lady Gaga use that are extreme, long, pointed and, and, and, (Did I say extreme already?) until the little ones Serena Gomez use. You should choose a level with the one you can feel comfortable and that it is right for you, I rather the sexy diva style from Lana del Rey with her long and unicolor nails, this woman is so mysterious, I definitely fall for anything she wears and use (Have you seen the cape this women used in a red carpet? OMG Fabulousity!)
 

Do you think you are going to give this nails a chance? Because you should ;)

 

Emily Hern

Katy Perry and Florence Welch nails -->  http://anthonyvaccarello.blogspot.mx

Lentes en forma de corazón ♥

Ya  es mitad de febrero y es la fecha ideal para empezar a prepararse física y mentalmente para el verano, se acabaron las escusas de las festividades para comer esas cosas deliciosas pero altas en calorías que tanto nos gustan. No, el verano no esta tan lejos como piensas, cuando menos te lo esperes los accesorios mas geniales de playa se habrán ido. Puf!

Mis favoritos sin duda son los lentes para el sol, son un "must" todo el año, pero es en verano cuando los lentes de corazón brillan en la playa. Imagínate paseándote a la orilla del mar con tus lentes y un mega sombrero para el sol, Pawn! estas listas para impresionar. Y lo mejor de todo es que le quedan a todo tipo de cara ;)

Las celebridades mas Chic de Hollywood las usan para cualquier ocasion, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Madonna, entre muchas otras han sido captadas con este accesorio, inclusive la diva Amy Winehouse solía portarlas.

 

 No importa el estilo personal que tengas, si eres bohemia, rockera, hippie o lo que sea siempre podrás encontrar unas gafas en forma de corazón que combinen perfectamente con tu atuendo. Acompáñalas con un manicure en tus manos y un labial que combine, atraerás las miradas de las personas que pasan y seras recordada como la mas chic de la playa.

Mis favoritos son los de orilla metálica y las tuyas? ;)

Emily Hern