Desperate Much...?

Please note, before you comment take this into account...
I am a bitch and I have a statement. If I feel like saying something, I will. No, I am not jealous, if you want to vote me though...Okay thanks.

So, like any other day, I log into Stardoll, but unexpectedly, I have a whole heap of new guestbook messages. Pssh. I expected it, I'm the most elite bitch you'll associate with. Anyways...

Members are asking me to vote them for Miss Stardoll World, which, I think that's fine. It doesn't bother me. I get messages asking for votes, which is also fine, but... Bitches on chat cranking out the desperate cries, cranking out the poorly written messages begging for votes. There is nothing more annoying than members that sulk for popularity. If you've been in high school, you will compare these members to the sluts that hang out the front with their naughty parts slopping out of their skirts claiming how much they "love" their "friends."
 Then, when they get the fame they have been starving themselves for, it all goes to their heads! Remember that bitch who won last year's MSW? *cough* grenade much! The worst member I've spoken to! Upset that I went to bed and couldn't finish her graphic, pretending she's the queen of Stardoll, come on sister, get off your high chair and stop acting like a baby.

We all know what will happen, covergirl, millions of friends requests, millions of guestbooks messages, blah, blah! Either way, congrats to the winner, as long as you don't become the world's biggest bitch, I may consider you my new best friend.

But You Gotta Keep Your Head Up...

I woke up, eager to start the day, excited to have my Special K breakfast and continue with my normal everyday routine. I gave my mom a hug, but where’s dad? Well, he HAS been going on walks recently, but usually comes home when I wake up. I thought he was just probably walking an hour or two longer, which is perfectly fine. But… his car wasn’t parked in the garage? He probably went to the hardware store; he had to fix some stuff outside the house anyway. My mom was in my dad’s office, and noticed something a little strange. His phone and wallet AND sunglasses were still in fact there. A little weird, since a man cannot leave the house without a wallet or phone, it’s just unlikely! Well, not to worry. He may just be clearing his head.

Hours felt like decades, and I wanted to see my dad. I was nervous and I didn’t know where he was. My mom and I just went out, like always, and were positive my father would be home when we got back. After buying some artists pencils from the local arts & crafts store, we called home to see if he was back yet. No answer, it just went into the fax machine because we forgot to turn the printer off. I sigh, and assure myself everything is alright.

We got home two hours later, and the garage was in fact empty. No black car I love to see when I arrive at my house. My mother and I are very concerned. I was so scared since it just started thundering and lightning. I hoped my father didn’t get caught in the bad weather!

My mom and I went out to look for my dad, to see if he was possibly at a local park or something. Whadaya know? He isn’t anywhere to be found. I was very worried, so we reported a missing person. We asked all his friends if he was with them, maybe he was with his best friend, after all, they are always going out together for a movie or a bite to eat and they don’t tell my mom (they think they’re such jokesters).

We waited for hours, soon it was midnight. I needed to have a sign that my dad was okay, I wanted to know he was coming home for sure. Suddenly, a strange white car parked outside of our house. I was scared shitless; I thought somebody was going to break in. But then they put their lights on, it was in fact the police. They knocked on the door, and asked if they could come in, not showing any signs of bad news. Finally, they tell us. My father had in fact passed away around 7:00 a.m. Wow. There it was. The news we certainly DIDN’T want to hear had been told to us in our own home.

At first, I was so shocked, that I was far from tears. I kept repeating to myself, it’s alright, he’s coming home. I questioned the police numerous times praying for a positive answer, hoping to hear signs that it wasn’t in fact my dad. But no, it was indeed him. Half of my life had been taken away from me, just like that. No last hug, no last words, just the memory of seeing him the night before. Luckily, we had great neighbors to help us. They let me sleep over their house, while I got my head straight- which believe me, didn’t happen.

I for one am not a person to talk about these things, nor will I ever be. I hadn’t spoken to one of my friends about what happened within a week of it. Then, obviously, everyone finds out sometime. I’ve had so much support from everyone, and it has helped me a lot.

I’m not trying to get attention; I’m not trying to pull anything. Believe me, the last thing on my mind is being the most loved person on stardoll. I honestly would leave right now if it wasn’t for my projects and friends keeping me going. I have a life right now, and I have friends, heck, I’m popular! But that’s what makes me happy. Having a life filled with people I love. I made this post for a very specific reason. You don’t know what will happen to you in the future, you never will. Your destiny could be having no parents, being famous, having a normal life, or something you would NEVER expect. Trust me, this was so sudden. The one thing that I would never expect in a million years! Don’t be gloomy with life, love what you have, and be happy with who you are. Hearing this song always makes me feel… better. Maybe if you’re struggling with something, take some time to listen to it. It may not be your genre, but I’m sure it will put a smile on your face just like it did for me. ;)

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do it...

Being inspired by both Kimberly's latest post and all the things about MSW...

I just wanted to share this video with you... it's old, but no matter... I only showed it to Linus before, but I feel the message so powerful, that it can all cheer you up! :)

On a scale of 1 to 10... 

How strong you find the message?

Stardollars

I'd just came home from school, work, university, studying, whatever you want to call it, to find that Miss Stardoll World has officially begun, voting has started and people are going crazy with their stardollars to get themselves out there and known so that they can have even the slightest chance of winning. I'm the girl that doesn't have much stardollars, and I'm sure I can relate to 80% of you out there. Unlike the selected few, I don't have thousands of stardollars in my virtual purse, in preparation for big competitions. And I'm not going to complain, infact I don't mind not having many stardollars.

 I quickly check out my most treasured blogs and find everyone, literally everyone, broadcasting about Miss Stardoll World, and how they'd love to win. I'd been thinking about it for a while, the fact I'd love to have a chance. So off I go, I make a new presentation, clean up my suite and give my doll a new outfit. I'm raring to go. But there's one thing stopping me, the fact I don't have stardollars. I send some broadcasts with the few stardollars I have, send some messages and speak to some people on skype, politely asking if they could vote me. I get a good response so I decide to post on here about it. Within one hour of posting I already have 4 comments complaining about me posting this, then one which reaaally annoyed me. "You'll never win" it read. Yeah, it's a virtual world but it IS real people behind the screens. Words hurt, whether they are online or not.
The thing that annoys me even more, is that obviously, they are anonymous. Please, if your going to try and get me down then atleast show your name. It just proves how pathetic you are not even putting your name. I'm all for freedom of speech, but this is the kind of thing that puts me off people having the ability to speak freely anonymously. I don't really bother replying to it. I just delete the post, and get on with it. I mean, why have a post when people don't want it there? Can you blame a girl for trying? So whenever all you anons' want something broadcasted of yours, take into consideration how you put us down when we post about wishes of ours.

But moving on to my next topic, Stardollars. Stardollars are the key to basically, well, everything on Stardoll. If you don't have stardollars, well, you don't have much. I just think that Stardollars control waaay to much on how people are known on here. People who aren't Superstar and don't have that a good suite always get moaned at for not having many clothes, or a room stuffed full of items. Whereas the richer stardoll members are praised for the amount of items messily shoved into a room of theirs. In my opinion, quite a few active Stardoll members actually try alot harder to do things than the members with lots of Stardollars. I'm not saying that every single member with over 1,000 stardollars on Stardoll doesn't try hard, it's just a general message I'm putting across. It's like the real world, less wealthy families tend to appreciate everything more in life than the wealthier people who get it easily. It's just another thing for them, whereas others are grateful.

Once again, I don't think wealthy people don't appreciate things, it's just a general message. I'm going to stop ranting for now, because this post looks like it's getting rather long. But the main message is just, don't let anybody get you down, no matter what, try hard and go for it, even if people are complaining or bullying you, you'll be the one laughing in a few years time, when your the one who's gained respect as an adult, and has done well for themselves. Ignore the haters, they can go screw themselves.

Lanvin + Pitbull

Lanvin, one of the worlds most luxurious fashion houses found by Jeanne Lanvin in 1889, is now in every bloggers' fingers! Just now the French fashion house came out with their newest campaign movie. It's shot by Steven Meisel & features models such as Raquel Zimmermann & Karen Elson (& at the end also Alber Elbaz, the very head-designer of Lanvin) dancing, in the expensiveness of Lanvin, to Pitbull's first hit-song 'I Know You Want Me'! It's crazy good! Both fashionable & fun. See for yourself below, you certainly won't regret it.

Linus

Bit Lazy?

First post in a while, sorry. I dropped my laptop and it landed on the charger and broke some wires. I had to wait to get a new charger but I guess it's all good now.

 

Clearly, they're capable of making amazing graphics but don't you think they've put their skills to waste.

Horrible posing, horrible effects and the shading, I could never be satisfied if I did that sort of shading.
They use hair that we have, use hair we don't have.
They gloss up everything but should they?

Does anyone remember the good quality dolls we had?

Like McDonald's, Stardoll has reduced the size of their products.

The doll on the left is AMAZING, wonderful shading and amazing clothes.
The doll on the right, nice clothes but... The shading looks like the model rubbed brown sugar all over herself and now she looks a bit, not right. The detail's good, the effort... Is horrible. I predict that soon the dolls will look like Mimi from the Drew Carey show.

Please Stardoll, cut the crap.

Fashion Police

Selena (Ruubin) and Eamonn (FashionMan.) have started a new blog called Fashion Police: Dollywood Edition where they once a week take one member of Stardoll high society (Elite) or a regular member and judges their style and then makes her/him GORGEOUS, telling them what to wear and what NOT to wear! There is going to be tears and laughter, fighting and hugging and last but not least; FASHION! Every week they will have an exciting guest judge at their panel, sometimes even two! I will tell you right now, this is something you should tune in to watch! 'I S.E TV' brings you 'Fashion Police: Dollywood Edition'

Click Here

They will star their journey through Silk, Stilettos and bad Polyester on Monday 5th of September 2011 - DON'T miss out!

Fashion Police: Dollywood Edition

Hello dear blog readers!

Do I got news for YOU!

Myself and Eamonn (FashionMan.) have started a new blog called Fashion Police: Dollywood Edition where we once a week take one member of Stardoll high society (Elite) or a regular member and judges their style and then makes her/him GORGEOUS, telling them what to wear and what NOT to wear!

There is going to be tears and laughter, fighting and hugging and last but not least; FASHION!

Every week we will have an exciting guest judge at our panel, sometimes even two!

I will tell you right now, this is something you should tune in to watch!

'I S.E TV' brings you 'Fashion Police: Dollywood Edition'

Click Here

We will star our journey through Silk, Stilettos and bad Polyester on Monday 5th of September 2011, DON'T miss out!

123,456,789 is a Magic Number

Well, at least for Stardoll it is. As somebody who's been playing stardoll for a long while now, I would never have imagined that it would get this big. And big it is. So to celebrate, Stardoll has released a few FREE items. Huzzah! Rejoice! Never thought I'd see this day again…



Surprisingly, they're not that ugly. Not great, of course, but not ugly. I must say I'm fond of the 'woven tights', the clutch is pretty cute and I love the lace collar. Of course, since it's Stardoll, you have to take the good with the bad. In this case, that would be a very basic pair of brown boots and a poorly made sequin dress. It's clear that not a huge amount of effort went into these items, but, free is free and nothing to be sniffed at.

In other news, there is a new collection of ridiculously priced nail polishes based on Mortal Kiss: Fool's Silver. To be honest, they look more at home with Monster High, but a few of them are cute; like the red and black bat print ('Batt Attack') and simple black-to-red gradient known as 'Oozing Blood'. As pleasant as that name is, it's nothing compared to…


Lovely!

'Brainiac', 'Ka-pow', 'Stitched Up' and 'Slither'.

Yes, that's brains, gunshot wounds, poorly-stitched skin and holes. With worms! Aren't they just perfectly repulsive? I personally hate them - they're disgusting, but I can see them being very popular with the neon scene/emo crowd. Only on Stardoll would you be expected to pay 17 stardollars to have your nails crawling with worms. Yuck.*

"For just 17sd, you too could look like you have chewing gum stuck to your finger with the all new Braniac nail polish!"

Yeah… no.

Hey Stardoll… haven't you heard of not biting the 123,456,789 hands that feed you? Just a thought…

What do you think of the amount of members/the new items?

(*No offense meant to those that like these items, it's only personal opinion :P)

Outrage Fashion Line

Hey, it's me again letting you know about my Fashion Line!

I'm the designer with Cachymakers and our graphic designer is rralucaa1996.

model : Bipasha2

This is the spoiler of the Fashion line, we're looking for 13 models!!!

Hurry because you only have till the end of the month!

To apply you need to be a follower, click here.

What do you think about the spoiler???

Got your September Issue yet???

Everyone just knows about the important September Issue! You all saw the movie starring Anna Wintour and all the Vogue New York staff.

Then few days ago, I get mine... from Paris of course. 

On the cover this year : Charlotte Casiraghi, Caroline de Monaco's daughter.

Here are some pictures of the photoshoot by Mario Testino!

And my favorite one:

Then I still didn't finish to read it all... But I can already say that I am not disappointed. Vogue is still something very important for me, and like it says in the movie : september is the time to change our clothes!

Well, most of us aren't that rich to by an entire new closet... but I guess it's also important to everyone, to get the first day of class in a comfortable outfit that makes you even prouder of yourself and shows who you are from the beginning.

Then i just wanted to share my thoughts of country's Vogue with you. But, what about you, what do you think of Vogue Paris.

How's your Vogue?

Did you get your September Issue yet?

What do you think about the importance of September and changing your closet?

-AL

P.S. Little video of the behind the scenes of a makeup photoshoot.

Fierce is Back!

Hello everyone!

Today I'm here with big news. While I was checking through my favourite blogs I noticed on "Stardoll's Most Hated Webside" an article called like this one. First I though that's not big news, I already saw a comment by Alice (AKA Hunnigall) in the comment section of the application form of Stardoll Fashion Week that Fierce will be back and she also opened application for designers to have a feature in the next issue. But there's more! Apparently Alice released the spoiler for the upcoming issue. Here it is:

The Graphic is AMAZING, isn't it? Or shall I call it FIERCE?

I'm totally excited, are you too?

Chace

Les Femmes: Abbey Lee Kershaw

Today, Les Femmes is about a living legend. The model presented today is the one & only:

Abbey Lee Kershaw. A very familiar name within the modeling world. Very familiar, indeed. Ranked as the worlds ninth best female model she's surely one to count on in practically every fashion-happening. However she's not only the ninth best model in the world, she's also the 21st best payed model in the world! Thereby she doesn't only have beauty, but quite plenty of money too.

Abbey Lee was born in Melbourne, Australia, on the 12th of June 1987. However it was not until 2004 that her modeling skills was to be discovered. By participating & actually winning an australian modeling competition called Girlfriend Model Search she started up what was soon to be one of the worlds most successful careers in our time.

 Abbey Lee Kershaw with Malthe Lind Madsen & Victor Nylander by Mario Testino for Versace S/S 2011

This girls client-list is surely one of the longest. Her first modeling job on the higher levels was for W Magazine in January 2008. She's ever since worked fiercely for several other big magazines like Numero, several Vogues, i-D & more. A few labels she's been shot for are Gucci [whom she's been in campaigns for 8 times at a total!], cK, Donna Karan, Tom Ford & Mulberry.

At a height of 180 centimeters Abbey Lee has also walked on the runway for quite a few. Tom Ford, Michael  Kors & Chanel for example.

Now, what's your opinion about Abbey Lee Kershaw? Worth the ranking as the ninth best model in the world? Tell me your opinions in comments!

Linus

I'm just a silver fool...

Hello again, folks. Lana, back again, with another interesting starplaza find.



At first, I was just looking at the interior, when the brand of the item finally dawned on me. Yes, that's right. Mortal Kiss.

For those of you who don't know or simply didn't pay attention (which I seriously doubt you could) Mortal Kiss was an interactive reading experience from which many things were spawned, most notable of which, of course, was the Mortal Kiss shop. It was the predecessor to, and the very thing that laid the foundations for, the more recent Sea of Stars 'graphic novel'.

Upon researching the new Mortal Kiss item, I found that not only had there already been news posted about it in the star blog, two chapters had already been released, along with a club and a page. Except this time, there was a difference. Instead of the interactive reading experience we had before, where we could explore the locations around the story's town of Winter Mill, these chapters were posted in the star blog.

Talk about disappointment.

I, for one, very much enjoyed Mortal Kiss, particularly it's set up - the locations were awesome, and in places, rather creepy. It really set the mood for the story, and without it, I doubt I would have paid much attention. I probably wouldn't even have bothered reading. So, my question is - why, exactly, is there no interactivity now? Yes, there's a page, which features a calendar releasing an item per day, but it's just not the same. It all feels very lacklustre.

While I'm all for the encouragement of reading, I can't help but feel the lack of 'experience' in Fool's Silver (yikes! what a name…) will cause many people to skip the story altogether and head straight for the shops. And beauty products now, apparently. How exciting.

I will be reading the sequel, only because I hate leaving a story unfinished. But I'll say it once, and I'll say it again: disappointment.

Links:
Mortal Kiss: Fool's Silver index page • the Club

Spotlight on: Gweneee

Don't you just love that fierce red hair in my banner? So fiery! Loving it Lana.

Hello everybody, how are you all? This is my first post since the renovation of Today's Top Trends, so I'm a bit nervous! Moving on to the actual point of my post today, it's a spotlight article, on the wonderfully awesome Gwenee; whom you can visit by clicking here.

Christine is a Stardoll user who has been on the site since 2007; and as you can tell from her suite, she has a love for the mighty, Alexander Mcqueen. Recently Christine has got quite a bit of recognition from her recreation of Mcqueen's Armadillo boots. She made the designs in stardesigns with the white panels at the back, so when she puts her body on white panels its like she is wearing Armadillos, how awesome?! Here you can see the design in action:

Aren't them shoes absolutely stunning?! All in all, Christine is a REALLY amazing user who you should totally check out and talk too! She's extremely fashionable, and is a sweetheart too, so why not go and visit her now?! I'm not too sure if she is selling her Armadillo designs at the moment but there are certainly something worth saving up for. And please do not copy the designs. Christine worked really hard on them so it would be a massive shame to see them go to complete waste. And she's secretly my slut too...

~Kimberlyxoxo

And also, why is everyone leaving?! *cries*

Graphics by Luxury

Hello everyone!

As (hopefully) most of you know, I'm a Graphic Designer. I think graphic design is one of the greatest things to express his creativity on Stardoll. I'm really happy to see more and more magazines and graphic designer spring up and turn out really well.

Recently a member called Luxury_Magazine released a mini series of Graphics. The title of the series is "Life is a Show" and she let herself inspire by songs like California Gurls or Edge of Glory.

I have to say that I'm truly impressed of how great it turned out. Here's my favourite picture:

To view the whole series please click here!

On her webside you find more gorgeous graphics, that almost bring back the glamour of Style Magazine.

In my opinion, she really deserves praise and fame, so please follow her blog "Graphics by Luxury"

What do you think of her, her graphics and her blog?

Chace

Feeling Reckless?

Et voila, it's the one & only Reckless Magazine's fall spoiler for all of our eyes to feast on! Just today the owner Ashton Eramya, aka. Ashy_Loves_You, released this piece of art on the Reckless Magazine blog. The graphic designers are Ashton & Gabriel, aka. Gbbe2 I know from a little gossip with the owner himself that this issue is going to become ah-mazing, literally. So keep your eyes wide-open for the release of Reckless this fall, for it will certainly not disappoint you!

What's your opinion about the spoiler itself? & how do you like Reckless so far? Tell me your opinions in comments.

& also, to clear everything up. It's true, I'm leaving stardoll. However, I'm not leaving blogger & will continue on to write on this blog for a while more. Mainly about real-life fashion & modeling though. But this was however practically what I wrote about before too, so not much change will happen. TTT do, as we all know, rock!

Linus

Return of SDNOH8

Hey everyone!

I'm back with great news for everyone who always wanted to be a part of a big and great organization! You probably know of JuciiMami827's SDNOH8 organization if you're a constant stardoll blog reader. Well it's making a comeback and it's searching for new staff members.

SDNOH8 will be adding:

• An Assistant: A Person who would Assist whenever needed; might step in for other jobs if needed.
• An Interviewer: Someone to Interview Stardollians who stand up for what they believe in for events, etc.
• A Press Person: This is really a part time job, because only during sdnoh8 events (w/ a few execptions) will they be needed. They will use the stardoll inbox, or skype to ask people questions about how they felt at the event, what they believe in, etc.
• Graphic Designers: GDs who would make photoshoots.

All the details of each job would be mailed to the people who make the cut.

You can find the aplication here.

So are you going to apply? What do you think of SDNOH8?

Chace

House of Worth Tribute Store! Wishful Thinking...

I am one of those people who just love glamour! If I had the money, I would only wear amazingly glamourous floor length gowns every day! I'm serious! I would love to sit on a extraordinary sofa in a big country house or mansion, wearing a black diamond studded floor length gown and the biggest fur stole you ever saw, oh don't forget the Christian Louboutin platform pumps! Oh, stop me before I max out my credit card! Again...

There are times when I think that I was born into the wrong century! I would fit in in the 1800's so damn good! Ah, imagine it, being a socialite, invited for tea in all kinds of posh houses, going to court to kiss the Queen's rings, having your own personal seamstress who would bend over backwards for your satisfaction. (Get your mind out of the gutter) ;D

anyway, I was born 1992, destined to live a life wearing boring fashion like this:

Well, it's only boring in comparison to this gorgeous creation:

Isn't it GORGEOUS? Its made by 'The Father of Haute Couture' Charles Frederick Worth! (1825 - 1895) 

Charles Frederick Worth established 'House Of Worth' which is one of the oldest fashion houses there is! (Founded in 1850) He is called the father of Haute Couture! He was the one who started the trend for ladies to wear the dresses with the big bustle and richly worked long trains!

(House of Worth Court dress, 1888)

I would love to see this kind of dresses in Starplaza! I would even pay LE prices for them! This is really my kind of fashion, THIS is what I call REAL high fashion (Haute Couture)

The appreciation of this kind of clothing is fucking lost to the world and it makes me so sad!

Personally, I think Stardoll should make a 'House of Worth' tribute store! What could be better than tributing the father of Haute Couture?

-Selena

The fashion detective: Smells like Vintage.

Bonjour mes lecteures!

My name is Melinda Pires. I'm 17 years old and one of the new writers for TTT! I will write about fashion as well as Stardoll modeling. I'm on my way to find out what I want to be doing after I finished school. It will definitely be art related. That's what actually inspired me for my first post. I hope you like it and I will have a great time here : ].

As we all know for a model building up her career there couldn't be anything better than gracing the cover of what?!Vogue. Of course.
 Founded in 1892[!!!], as a weekly publication, by Arthur Baldwin Turnere this magazine seemed to be promising. Lacking the addiction-factor, Grace Mirabella became the editor-in-chief in 1973. Under her the the magazine underwent editorial and stylistic changes and became a monthly publication. Nowadays we all know Anna Wintour as the editor-in-chief. She is not only famous for her cutting-edge visual sense and ability for radically revamp a magazine, but also for her practice of wearing sunglasses indoors.

So I will be leaving you guys with some Vintage Vogue covers. I love the fact that these aren't photographs! Still they look so much like a Vogue cover nowadays could look like!

1919

1927

1933

1935

 Oh! And I almost forgot that this will be the name of my segment: 'The fashion detective'. I will try to keep you updated on everything that is happening in the industy. And will also try to crack some serious cases! *Puts on her monocle*

Toodles!

Introducing... The Kooples

First of all, I needed to thank Lana for the amazing banner that is even more than I could think it could be.  So, thank you Lana!

And now just let me do what I want... Introducing you a new Fashion Line that you may not know.

Seeing all the crap Tribute store this year... I wanted stardoll to have a ''The Kooples" store!

But talking about the brand...

It's a french brand that was created in 2008 by Alexandre, Raphaël and Laurent Elicha. As the name let us hear... they proclaim to be a brand for couples!

Before they start having their own shops, they already had done a lot of advertisement for the brand showing real couples (straight or gays) and adding how many time they're a couple. 

The brand only has shops in France and in the U.K. I guess because it's a style that fits perfectly on both countries!

They say they're 'chic de rue', but I rather believe they are classic and young. I personally own a lot of The Kooples clothes, so that's why I thought about doing a post about them.

What I really like the most is that they know how to catch your attention. Their success was amazing from the beginning and the fact that they chose that name, with all the related things to 'love' is really international and everyone can feel good wearing The Kooples.

Also the fact that they choose some real person to be their models, shows that it's affordable...

Even if I think they're a bit expensive, it's still a ready to wear brand that deserves this kind of prices!

Now if you want more information go to the official site clicking on one of these image of the Fall/Winter collection of this year!

So... what do you guys think about 'THE KOOPLES' ?

-AL