Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

I had some brand new shoes...

Yes, I promised outfit pictures soon, but I've been in a kind of slump. I had an amazing outfit on today, and this awesome giant bun in my hair, but was unable to get any pictures of it, at least decent ones. :(  (Yes I just did a cheesy frowny face, but that's the look on my face right now.) My older sister took them, but only wanted to take unflattering pictures of me, like ones that made my head look really big and my body small. Think the Queen of Hearts in the new Alice in Wonderland movie. Yeah. So I only have a few pictures, none showing my face because it was distorted in many ways. To make them interesting I photoshopped them a little.


Today, I decided to plan my fall wardrobe, on a budget.  I need a considerable amount of fall clothes, since I dropped two sizes since last fall, but don't have that much to spend. So first, I looked at my closet and decided what fall clothes I already had, and what I needed.  I then made a list of the item and the number of the item I need. I wrote...

2 cardigans/sweaters
4 Tops
3 Skirts
2 Jeans
2 Pairs of shoes
2 dresses
Tights

After that I looked online (where I do most of my shopping) for things that would go under those categories. After I picked a bunch, I narrowed the selections down to the number I needed. So for 2 cardigans/ sweaters I picked a cardigan from Urban Outfitters and a sweater from Fred Flare. Now I am going to keep those slightly expensive choices in mind and look for cheaper version or something that functions like the one before (either thrifted or from a less expensive store). Following me? Then if I can't find something like it cheaper, I'm going to buy the more expensive thing. This way I save money, but get the items I want.

The two dresses I want
urbanoutfitters.com                                          asos.com
I actually went to the mall today, and tried out my method. I was looking for a full black skirt, which was on Urban Outfitters for $68. I went to H&M and found a different black skirt, the worked just as well, for $17.95.  I also bought a pair of skinny jeans there for $10. My method is working!

Anyways, sorry for boring you guys with my anal shopping strategies. Tomorrow my sister said she'll take some outfit pictures for me at different locations. Then I hope do a wonderful mega post. Isn't that exciting!

Listening to: Brand New Shoes by She & Him

Saturday, July 3, 2010

All that glitters is nail polish...

So, sorry I took a little break from blogging, I was so busy, but  now I'm back and ready to start posting again. I was actually going to write an outfit post this afternoon, but I was actually shopping online this morning when I came into a little problem...

I am obsessed with sparkly nail polish. I always have been. Usually people put sparkles over another color nail polish, but I like to glob on the sparkles. Though it creates amazing nails, I tend to run out of sparkly polish fast. I'm almost out of my current sparkles so this morning I decided I would go look for some sparkly nail polish online.


When I first started looking for nail polish I remembered a blog post from The Clothes Horse a while back where she was wearing a really fun sparkly nail polish. She said that it was Lippmann's Happy Birthday nail polish. I looked up the nail polish, and found out it was $18.00, too much for me, I was thinking $10, $12, so I decided to keep looking.


Then I remembered that Urban Outfitters opened up a beauty section online. I thought that they must have some sort of sparkly nail polish. So I searched for it on their website and voila! there was the Anna Sui Sparkle Nail polish (shown above in assorted color.) The best thing though was that I would be able to get the $15 nail polish for $12.75 because of the discount code SUMMER15.( I never buy anything online without looking for a discount code)


Now my problem is deciding what nail polishes to buy. I looked at my shopping cart and realized I want $91.09 worth of nail polish. That's not in my budget. So now I need some help. I'm going to ask you guys which color I should buy in a poll, multi color is not an voting option because I ame definitely going to buy it. (See side bar) Please vote, I need help in this important decision in my life. (Just kidding it's not that important, but I do need help picking the sparkly nail polish I want).

Listening to: Souls of Gold by Sister Crayon

P.S. I might be back later today with an outfit post... I hope.