Favorite Find: Lavshuca Tulip Flower Eye Shadow Compact

I'd been in search of the perfect purple color eye shadow. And I think the search ended when I discovered this 4-tone purple shadow compact from Lavshuca, an offshoot of Kanebo Cosmetics.



The brilliant tulip/flower shape palette is just adorable! But more than anything else, the colors are vivid and saturated when applied, and are just what I'd been looking for in a perfect purple shade. The palette includes a deep violet (super for doing smoky eye effect), a shimmering lavender, a shinning purplish bronze, and lastly a glossy pale pink. The four different shades provides more than enough ways to do gorgeous purple eyes, from doll-like look to dramatic smoky eye look. Can't wait to get started with a makeover!!

NY Fashion Week SS09 Wrap Up I

Who knew Victoria Beckham had a dress collection showing at Fashion Week? Where does the women get the time between her reality TV show, pedicures, designing jeans and sunglasses, whipping up a perfume and being a wife and a mom? But anyway, back to the collection. Despite her having graced Blackwell's Worst Dressed List many times and indeed having a questionable sense of style on occasions, I am still very much want to like her collection. At the back of my mind, I guess my love for the Spice Girl era still lingers, making me want to love everything about them. And Posh has always been my favourite Spice.

However, despite my best efforts to want to be wow-ed, I was not blown away. It was a small and simple collection, to put it nicely. The entire collection could be summed up by a few looks. It was basically a collection that contained a few versions of the same dresses. They were all slimming pencil skirts of the same slightly longer length (which I think is great for more sophistication and class). It was definitely cohesive!
There was the simple round neck dress in blue. The clean cut strapless dress in black (perhaps a reminiscent of the little black Gucci dress? Turns out it wasn't even by Gucci!). I believe they also showed this dress in white on the runway.There was the crochet (I think?) topped dress. They also have this in white. Then the dress shirt dress, which we've been seeing in the stores a lot lately. She has this in black with chiffon and silk, and of course, in white and black.
Finally there was this silhouette, which is my favourite. I think this silhouette is very clever and very flattering to the female body. It curves at all the right places. I can totally see Victoria in it. This was possibly the most inspiring thing about the whole collection and of course she has this silhouette in many different styles. In black, in white, a casual less emphatic version and a more dressed up version. Although personally I'm not sure it'll look very good on me, since I'm shorter (and definitely not as lithe as the models!), so the skirt will probably cut my legs exactly where it shouldn't!

All in all, it was not a very inspiring (besides that shape of course) nor wow-ing collection. To give Victoria her credit though, it was indeed a very simple and classic collection. They are definitely not dated, which was her aim. And I'm sure they are very well made and tailored given the $1500-$3600 price range. Plus, at 15 looks, she did not try to overdo the collection with more unnecessary looks. It is always quality over quantity after all. Though I think 4 looks would've suffice to get the creative message across. But then, that wouldn't be a very good show, would it?

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New Shopping Complex Opens Door!

Yay!! The new shopping complex "Garden Square" has officially opened its door last weekend. Being the super shopaholic and now the investigative shopping reporter of Ganguro Fashion Blog :-), I took two visits to "Garden Square" on its opening weekend!



Rather than being built as a mega shopping mall, Garden Square is a smaller 2-story courtyard-style shopping complex that houses mini boutiques of all kinds and also a nice food court. Each mini boutique specializes in everthing from shoes, apparel, to intimate wear. The best part is that the average prices of the trendy apparels sold here are all under $35 US. So you now all know what's keeping me busy if I've not been blogging :-)

Ganguro Spotlight: Chocolate Brownie Sporty Tube Dress & Shrug Set

Fall's arrival means a cardigan or a hoodie is essential if you're out partying or catching a movie. With this "Chocolate Brownie Sporty Tube Dress & Shrug 2-piece Set", there's no more fumbling through the closet looking to find a matchy cardi/jacket for your mini dress. Just put the tube mini dress on, throw on the matching cropped shrug, and a pair of knee-high boots, and you'd look fabulous to go!





The rich fudge/brownie color is perfect for the Indian Summer. Fabric is soft corduroy-like, and super stretchy. The fitted shrunken shrug keeps its sporty theme to it, as is the tube mini with "BOSTON" embroidered across the bust. A gorgeous set of 2-piece, and very flattering fit!



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Serious Rainboots

In the pass I've blogged about pretty, rainbow colored rainboots that you can play matchy, matchy with and have a lot of fun. But after a particularly bad day yesterday, braving the pouring rain for half a hour (even though it is usually only a 15 minute walk!), squeezing onto the bus and getting my jeans soaked even though I have an umbrella, I am thinking that I should really invest in a serious pair of rainboots. Something that will just keep my feet (and hopefully half my jeans) nice, dry and CLEAN. Something I can wear so then I would NOT have to avoid puddles or worry about slipping. Something that is simple, versatile but of good quality.
Something like the classic Hunter rainboots. I'm not sure how it warrants the $115 price tag, but I guess it is an assurance of quality? They are the rainboots of rainboots after all. If you want to buy a trench coat, you got to go to Burberry. If you must buy trunk-like sheepskin snow boots, you have to buy Uggs. And if you want to buy rainboots, then you should get Hunter rainboots.

The style itself is simple and as sleek as rainboots can get. It is sturdy and definitely slip-proof. While the buckle makes the boots not so plain looking, it is also functional. These are serious no nonsense rainboots. Just what I need. They also come in many different colors, to add a bit of color to a dreary day. I'm considering this iris color. Black is just a bit too dark and yellow reminds me too much of those yellow wellington boots that cartoon bear wore. Now the only thing is convincing myself to make the splurge. Just that it's hard when it is all I want on a rainy day, but the furthest thing in my mind on a sunny (good for shopping) day!

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Ganguro Spotlight: Black Lux Double Breasted Vest Dress

I wasn't particularly excited about "his vest" when over the Spring and Summer everyone else was taking from their men. But that could be because all I'd seen were the cropped versions worn over babydoll dresses, Ts & skinny jeans.







This "Black Lux Double Breasted Vest Dress" is a fabulous "stand-alone" piece! It's not at all too musculine, rather it's sexy and modern. It's a versatile piece for the weather now as you can either layer a tank/short sleeve underneath it, or with a long sleeve dress shirt/henley when it gets cool! A pair of black pump would up its gorgeous level even more!



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90210 Is Strangely High School

Tuesday night's premiere of CW's 90210 was... okay. It wasn't particularly boring but we didn't exactly love it. Throughout the show, something felt off to us, something we couldn't really name until it suddenly occured to us that the show felt SO high school!

The show is about high school, you say, so obviously it's supposed to feel high school. But the characters in the past few 'high school' dramas that I've watched have been so un-high-school, 90210's characters and enviornment seemed relatively young and teensy. Think back: While The OC was also about spoilt kids who go to a rich, Californian school, Marissa (Mischa Barton) and Summer (Rachel Bilson) seemed to deal with more non-school-related issues and the only time we see them at school was to see them talk by their lockers. Veronica Mars was so mature and smart that I never really thought of her as a dumb teenager. As for Gossip Girl, Blair, Serena and sometimes even Jenny seem so worldly and glamorous that it just doesn't seem like normal high school to us.

So watching the kids on 90210 actually doing high school things like playing lacrose, messing up the rival school, copying a friend's homework, being grounded, participating in school plays and boys beating each other up. Obviously high school's not supposed to be sophisticated but we're just not used to it! And yes, of course we noticed the clothes!

The main character whose name was so forgetable I had to look up, is Annie. In the first episode, she wore very basic high school clothes, like a camisole with denim skirt.

And look, jeans with basic tops. Nothing fancy!

Silver (yes, that's the character's name,) whose supposed to dress hipster/ hippie/ edgy is my favourite 'fashion character' on the show so far. (She looks way cooler in the show than in this photo. I couldn't find a better one.)

The popular girl, Naomi dresses only ok. As you can see from her ugly outfit here, she's no Marissa Cooper. And she's really into wearing designer-flashing things, like Chanel logo accessories.

As for the party outfit, Annie got to wear an expensive dress (because Naomi bought it for her.) Silver looks so cool with a simple ballerina-looking American Apparel dress with long necklaces. I'm looking foward to more of Silver's outfits!

So you can obviously tell I am not impressed with the girls' outfits -but that is one of the things that is making this show seem so 'high school' to me. Hopefully the drama will get more interesting in the next few episodes. How much did you like the new 90210?