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Fashionista514
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life + style = my lifestyle
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Montreal Fashion Week Observations (The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly)

I just woke up from the deepest, fog-induced sleep.  Even now (after drifting off last night in a horribly drained mood), my head still aches and my body trails behind feeling slow and sluggish.  Mon...

6 days ago

Aqua Di Lara Shoot & Authenticity Bravery

It happens twice a year – the pre-fashion week jitters/dread. I can’t explain it, rationalize it, or even come close to remotely figuring it out, but every season without fail it shows up...

06 feb 12

Lucky Links I Love & The Visa Everyday Challenge Summary & Giveaway Winner

Today was my very last day of the Visa Everyday Challenge (learn more about the rules and objectives themselves in my last post).  Five days monitoring my spending on sometimes everyday items, and ot...

03 feb 12

Visa Everyday Challenge, Home Decor & Mint Giveaway Winner!

A couple of days ago, I announced on twitter my participation with the Visa Everyday challenge.  You may have even seen a few of my instagram pics showing a few of my recent purchases… peanut b...

01 feb 12

Natural Beauty & Pink Ribbons Inc.

I don’t want to sound paranoid, really I don’t, but the more and more I look into things, the more selective and horrified I become as a person. It’s no mystery that the world can b...

31 jan 12

Giveaway – $100 Dynamite Gift Card

Just in case you ever thought there was a shortage of giveaways on this blog, here is another one for all the Canadian residents out there! Dynamite has very generously offered one of my readers a $1...

30 jan 12

Giveaway Trio!

In celebration of Stylemint, Shoemint, and Jewelmint now shipping to Canada, they have very generously offered a giveaway for all of y’all! The concept behind each of the sites, is dissecting y...

20 jan 12

Why Does Making Money Hold Such A Stigma In The Arts?

As I get approached more and more to do sponsored written posts, incorporate banners on my sidebar, and collaborate with companies to bring you giveaways, there comes something of a transformative sh...

19 jan 12

Oh God Gucci!

I’m having a serious 20′s mood wash over me, dreaming of fringe, beaded geometrical designs and looser silhouettes to compliment my blonde short cropped ‘do.  Making more of a shift...

17 jan 12 1 person likes this

514 Outfit Post – Mink & Lace Loungewear

Been reading some interesting articles as of late… Psychology Today is one of my favourite magazines (the cover always sports some alluring promise of self discovery, personal configuration or ...

15 jan 12

VOTE F514 For Lagerfeld!

How we all love the man that is Karl Lagerfeld… shall we count the ways? “My thing is to work more than the others to show them how useless they are.” “Please don’t say I work hard....

11 jan 12

Fashionista Finds – Farfetch.com

I’m not the kind of girl who generally raves or holds a rolodex listing of favourite boutiques – call it practicality or indifference, but I find myself to be more of one who understands ...

09 jan 12

514 Outfit Post – Shabby Chic

Montreal has been playing us all with this yoyo mild then suddenly frozen weather… In my attempt to keep warm but not overheated, my comfort is increasingly lying in layers (oh the miracle of a...

04 jan 12

GIVEAWAY – Rowenta Beauty Professional Titanium Ceramic Iron

With the new year comes the last of my Rowenta Beauty Giveaways (tear)… the Professional Titanium Ceramic Iron (my stylist Luigi’s favourite of the bunch)! I don’t think I have to t...

03 jan 12

Living With An Insured Merlin Peace Of Mind

As the new year rings in and I try to simplify, improve and make my life both practical and more enriched/rewarding, comfort always rings in top on my list.  It’s my philosophy that you first h...

03 jan 12

514 Outfit Post – New Year Promises

I’m welcoming the new year with this clusterfuck of a post. 2011 was a tough year.  Lots of bad happened, lots of good equaled it out… every step of it felt like a struggle in any case.  ...

02 jan 12

I know I haven’t posted anything over the holidays, but I think this more or less sums up 2011 for me… Daily posts to come for 2012! Have a beautiful New Years Eve, and REMEMBER – w...

31 dec 11

When Loyalty Becomes Controlled

Loyalty. The value that as cherished as it is, seems the hardest to uphold. There are so many ways to show your loyalty to someone you love – be it friends, family or a lover.  It is said that ...

23 dec 11 2 people like this

21 dec 11

Holiday Gift Guide

Holiday shopping can be excruciating.  Scanning your brain for the perfect resolve when it comes to pairing the material with the personalities you know and love is an exercise in itself.  Often, I f...

20 dec 11

Links I Love

Letters From Men Who Go To Strip Clubs - why it isn’t always about hot chicks and nakedness. The toxicity of being a fashion insider – why joining the exclusive world of fashion kills cre...

19 dec 11

What You Want To Hear Vs. What You Need To Hear

If you’re incredibly lucky like me, you have a lot of support in your life (be it through family, friends, or just an innate sense of purpose and confidence in what you’ve been put on thi...

17 dec 11

My Month In iPhone Pics

Just finished watching the Bill Cunningham documentary (yes, I know, I’m the last person on the face of the earth to see it), and honest to god – I almost cried.  For those of you who are...

14 dec 11

Fit For A Monday Madonna Quotes

“Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.” “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” “Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permissi...

12 dec 11

She Played Her Heart Out One Moment At A Time

Like this?  Check out 25 Ways To Turn On. Have a beautiful start to the week ladies, xox

12 dec 11

Q&A With Celeb Latex Designer Abigail Greydanus

Every day we are kick started and jilted by the beautiful and equally edgy fashions celebs and entertainers alike get to sport on a daily basis.  Very rarely do we ever get to jump inside the minds o...

10 dec 11

514 Outfit Post – Inverted Technicolor

Just got back from an afternoon/evening and soiree out on Laurier street (exhausted by fabulosity)!  Today, media members were treated to a tour of lifestyle, fashion/beauty, gastronomy and nightlife...

09 dec 11

New Pad, New Beginnings

Finally moved into my new place.  Finally unpacked.  Finally enjoying a functioning workspace with friends who study in the area (my studio is quickly becoming a makeshift Starbucks).  Finally gettin...

08 dec 11

Getting ready to get glammed up for an event tonight at Queue de Cheval, so I leave you with some fun light reading lovelies – the best of the internet as seen by moi today!  Enjoy! Bow Berlin ...

29 nov 11

Rowenta Beauty 2 In 1 Ceramic Curling Iron GIVEAWAY & My Month In IPhone Pics…

Before I get into talking about anything else – it’s long overdue for the Rowenta Beauty 2 In 1 Ceramic Curling Iron Giveaway!  After this giveaway, there is still their classic Titanium ...

28 nov 11 1 person likes this

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