OTTAWA FASHION: LITTLE BLACK DRESS WITH A TWIST (+ NORDSTROM OTTAWA UPDATE)

It’s sub zero outside. It’s inhumanely cold to be prancing and strutting around in your cocktail dress and high heels but the fact is, life continues despite this frigid winter. The fact is, you need to get up and get dressed to go to work. We, Canadians don’t shutdown and stop all the festivities just…

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#RUMORESTIMORTALIS: LAINEY GOSSIP’S { @LaineyGossip } DEBUT HER BOOK “Listen to the Squawking Chicken” IN OTTAWA

Lainey Gossip’s faculty of celebrity studies – sophomore session! #rumorestimmortalis Celebrity gossip lovers got a chance to be schooled on Monday night at Events InStyle in downtown Ottawa. The gossip maven, Elaine Lui (or Lainey as she is more commonly known as) was in town for her Faculty of Celebrity Studies tour and to promote…

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FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK AND GREY

Thanksgiving Day (Jour de l’Action de grâce for French Canadians) is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.  Although we really shouldn’t wait for that one day a year to feel grateful and thankful…

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IN THE GARDEN OF FLOWERS AND PEPLUMS: WELCOMING H&M CANADA IN OTTAWA

HUGE Expansion seems to be the mot du jour in Canada’s capital recently. Everywhere you look, streets are getting widened, condos are getting vertically extended, supermarket are getting to be super centres and this is not exclusive to one place we, fashion lovers, consider our own go to mecca – the shopping mall. Having been…

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@20YS FASHION WEEK 101: WHAT TO WEAR TO FASHION WEEK

Oh it’s that time of the year again! No, not December but September! Fashion’s most ubiquitous solstice month, where the big fashion magazines release their biggest issues ever! Magazine as thick as brick you can probably build a house of fashion on top of it! This month is also the month of thousand fashion weeks…

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DON’T SAY GOODBYE TO SUMMER – HOW TO KEEP YOUR SUMMER HAIRSTYLE THROUGH FALL

As you may already know this, I have been very privileged to be part of one of Canada’s Top Fashion Magazine, the Fashion Magazine’s Beauty Panel. A panel of experts on beauty, skincare and make-up, the BEAUTY PANEL is comprised of beauty bloggers from all over the country! I have been a lucky contributor since…

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NEON NEON ON THE WALL

There is no doubt my absolute favourite days of the week are Saturdays on Sundays. With the anticipation starting on Thursday evening, my Fridays are usually jam packed, events on Saturdays and Sundays are the glorious lazy days especially in the summer! This year however, it really hasn’t been all that lazy as Twenty York…

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KOKU UPDATE + HOT AS WHITE YET COLD AS BLUE

  It has been another whirlwind month of amazing and exciting things, the highlight being the much awaited launch, the Grand Opening Night of KOKU NAIL BAR! Though I will be posting a proper post-event coverage of this highly anticipated Media, Bloggers and VIP Night, here’s the list of all the fabulous event coverage by…

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