Confession

I don't know what I did to deserve you.

You have this amazing ability to make just about anything in my life beautiful.

I know we haven't known each other for very long and we have to deal with pretty unexpected things in a short amount of time.

You think a storm has passed but then another one's on the horizon, which is why I'm sure about the way I feel about you.

I can't bear even just the thought of losing you.

I can't imagine a life without you.

I'm falling in love with you.

I know with certainty that the path I'm on is the right one.

If me and you last a week, a year, ten years, forever...

No matter what happens between us, you need to know where I stand all along.

Holding your hand is my way of telling you, "I got you. I'm here."

{Bold Color Combos!}

Spring's 2012 color theory is this: go bold and bright — and make your selections a little unexpected. Spring collections from Yigal Azrouel, Christian Siriano, Peter Som, and so many more are awash in high-wattage hues that get amped up when they're layered up and colorblocked by the twos, threes, even fours. Alongside neon, citrus colors, designers, like Azrouel, are adding cool cobalt, or peachy pinks, like Siriano, making the color pop affect another major trend we're craving on our clothes for Spring.

This spring and summer, get yourself wrapped in heavenly fabrics, adorned with fabulous vivid color!

Drink of the Week: French 75!

A little history with your buzz...
The French 75 may be a champagne cocktail, but by no means is it only meant to be sipped at wedding receptions and New Year's Eve parties. This is a drink that kicks ass and takes names, thanks to the ingenious addition of gin, its intensity masked by a little lemon and sugar.

The drink was allegedly created by a World War I fighter pilot of French and American origin who found champagne a little lacking in the potency department. The resulting drink was so powerful he said it felt like being on the receiving end of a French 75mm howitzer artillery piece -hence the name.

Hair-on-your-chest factor: 74/100
If a World War I pilot says it's strong, and if Ernest Hemingway and his cronies knocked these back at the Ritz in Paris, then you can be confident in your masculinity while ordering one. Just beware that particular kind of intoxication that comes from the mystical dovetailing of gin and champagne -- not for rookies.

Instructions:
2 oz gin
1 tsp sugar (superfine if possible)
1/2 oz lemon juice
5 oz Brut champagne

In a cocktail shaker, combine the gin, sugar and lemon juice and shake well with cracked ice. Fill a Collins glass partway with ice and strain the gin mixture into it. Top off with champagne.

Wonderwall:

Someone who you find yourself thinking about all the time.

The person who you are completely infatuated with.

Someone who surprisingly has become so important,

you almost feel ashamed that without him you feel like nothing.

Behati Prinsloo & her NYC Pad

From our vantage point, a model's life can often seem nothing short of otherworldly. They jet-set and have the ability to practically transform clothing into art. But really, when you get right down to it, they usually have super messy closets, eccentric book collections, and way too many pairs of ankle boots, just like us. Or at least, the ones we love do.

Twenty-year-old Behati Prinsloo is just such a lady. The Namibia-born beauty, who's graced campaigns for H&M to Marc by Marc Jacobs and has strutted for everyone from Chanel to Louis Vuitton, considers herself a "jeans and T-shirt" kind of girl, but there's more to this budding fashion star than meets the eye.

Her apartment, the local's East Village mixes up vintage wares, a hookah den, a giant Kid Robot sculpture, and various other curiosities reveals another side of this fashion plate... Here's a sneak-peek into Prinsloo's downtown crash-pad, where she shacks up with her pretty kitty Gollum. .

Come Away with Me...

We'll find a place between fact and fiction.

Stranded between heaven and earth.

We'll stay there forever.

Make an inception.

And as long as they don't know we'll be the masters of pretense.

Beautification

Cleansing.

A facial begins with a cleansing with cotton pads or sponges and a product chosen for your skin type (normal, dry, oily, combination, sensitive, mature.)

Skin Analysis.

The esthetician covers your eyes and looks at your skin through a brightly lit magnifying lamp that reveal various skin conditions.

Exfoliation.

Using a mechanical exfoliation, it has a gritty texture and usually happens while a steam vapor is directed at your face.

Extraction of blackheads or whiteheads.

Facial massage.

Using classic strokes like effleurage to both relax you and stimulate your skin and facial muscles.

Facial mask targeted to your skin type and condition.

Application of toners and protective creams.

Aaarrggh!

Can we girls just have an instant magical beauty potion instead?

Prada Crystal Encrusted Clutch

Going on a cruise?

Once you set your eyes upon Prada’s uber-swanky crystal-encrusted clutch from the brand’s 2012 resort collection, you won't be able to resist the temptation to own one to complete your resort look.

This stunning Prada clutch features pink patent leather construction with a crystal-encrusted, silvertone coin-purse closure is sure to turn some heads. This is 5.75 inches high by 12.5 inches wide by 2.5 inches deep that just means that this can hold all the things you need to remain looking and feeling fab all throughout the event. The beige leather lining and a detachable shoulder strap complete this stylish handbag.

Excellent little clutch to tote around and show off to all your cruise ship mates.

My Reality

Stop telling me I can't, I won't, I shouldn't.
Stop telling me how I should feel.

I think I know how this should be,
what normal is supposed to be like.

This my reality, asshole.

The Answer:

Begin to see the fiasco in its true perspective.

It simply wasn't worth feeling bad about.

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride,

just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs.

Circumstances might force you to live in this environment,

but the important thing is to keep from being contaminated.

The important thing, always, is to remember who you are.

So that you incline your ear to wisdom,

And apply your heart to understanding;

Yes, if you cry out for discernment,

And lift up your voice for understanding,

If you seek her as silver,

And search for her as for hidden treasures;

Then you will find knowledge.

Then you will understand.