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Gone With The Wind

Every few months Stardoll grants us access to multiple floors of top new hairstyles. Whether they're good or bad is of course always debatable, but it's always nice to be able to purchase some new looks for your doll to wear. This time around we were presented with a 'Tress Up: Gone With The Wind' collection, priced between 11 and 20 stardollars.

Unsurprisingly enough, more than a few of the 'blowing' hairstyles make your doll look somewhat insane, with their hair blowing in all directions while they stand as still as ever with motionless outfits from neck to toe. Although some of the styles are maybe slightly too exaggerated, a few do look good and work as a blowing hair piece. 

Priced at such prices I would expect better hair as some look unfinished, and in comparison the winter collection previous lack detail and style. The Loretta style for example, priced at 14 stardollars, looks undone at the top for light hair, while it has slightly more detail when put into darker dyes. The majority of hair styles available look better in the dark colours on offer, which is a slight annoyance for all of us bleached dollies out there. 

Ultimately I'm sure you can find a style that you like, however in comparison to previous collections that task may be a whole lot harder. Even though the store is packed with 15 new styles I find that I am uninterested in a good 5. Though at least we got a gorgeous advertisement to drool over the wonderful facial features which we are all so desperate for.   

LE - Review!

So yesterday at the pre-given time of 1pm (for me anyways) we got our latest dose of LE, and I have to say I think it was a mad rush, kinda like those ridiculous 7am Boxing day sales that I absolutely refuse to go to! I was online waiting, ok, I was in a study room at uni, shouldn't have been on Stardoll but had it open and sized it down small so no one would see (there were only 2 other people in the room though) and I like to have a good look through everything before making my mind up, and even then some things I was clicking were about down to half their numbers and the items had only been out 10 minutes, so I turned into a bit of a frantic clicker of the mouse and I'm sure the other people thought I was crazy (I kinda am though, lets face it =P)!!! But anyways, here's what all this fuss was about:

So we had 4 floors packed to the brim with designer-inspired LE clothing, including an outfit for the guys out there! I think there was a great mix of resort styled clothes with skirts and dresses galore, I do feel like there could have been a few amazing pairs of trousers there though! I really love pastels, but I'm not so sure about the abundance of black dotted in there, I think a little more cohesiveness between items could have worked out well. There was also a really good selection of shoes and accessories, sometimes they get forgotten about I think, but definitely not this time, although I only picked up a few, there were definitely accessories for everyone! 

Now onto prices, I believe them to be a lot more expensive than the collections have been in the past, with quite a few dresses breaching the 200 SD mark. Prices range from 30 for a necklace right up to 260 for a dress. I do think in the rush and madness that is LE people don't really consider the prices, if I had more time to clearly think through pieces and prices I do think things would be different and I wouldn't have spent over 1.5K on items! But I am happy with everything I bought and I do look forward to styling them when I have time =D That seems to be my new motto "...when I have time" =)

Here are some of the pieces that I chose to purchase from the collection, I would show you them all but my computer is being ridiculously slow and it's taking forever! I've not styled anything yet, but I will when I have the time ... in a month!

And finally for a whole lot of LE looks that I've spotted around the site:

B-S1997

Jennakorpas

LadyTiffannie

MandaMichalka

MilaDivaStar

Miloshki

SS-Diamond

LE is coming!

A quick post to let you all know that Limited Edition will be releasing collection 20 tomorrow! Stardoll have released a spoiler as well as list of time zones which tells you when LE will be released from city to city. Are you all ready for the new Limited Edition?

*My apologies if you are having trouble visiting the blog at our .com address. The domain was not renewed and the .com isn't redirecting back to the .blogspot.com at the moment.

PMR: X Summer Mini Issue

The second issue of X magazine was released during our very own fashion weekend last summer, which explains the reasoning behind the lack of reviews on the blog itself. As the magazine front sits quietly on Stardoll, I decided to being you all a more recent past magazine review post, as I delve into the details of X's Summer 2013 edition. Remember that in a magazine, instead of putting the page numbers, I will use brackets. The cover is [1/20]. This magazine contains 20 pages.

Cover: 7.5/10 I'm almost a text critic when it comes to magazine covers on Stardoll. As important as the cover graphics is, I think interesting and well set out titles can really make or break the opening page. In this case, the cover is strikingly simple. The pops of blue from the poncho and the yellow from the text really shine through on this almost mediocre graphic for X.  

Graphics: 8/10 All the graphics in X are undeniably pretty top notch, although we weren't treated to particularly many this issue. The obvious stand out is the Be You graphic [18/20], which really highlights Jack's phenomenal artistic presence. Although this is a mini issue I was still slightly disappointed with the lack of graphics in the issue, with only 5 full graphics making it to the final cut.

Writing & Articles: 10/10 Although the graphics are stellar, the articles are where X really stands out from most other magazines of the current time. Articles and writing have become far less popular in the modern day Stardoll magazine and X is one of few magazines to keep the original tradition running. There are multiple articles on Mexican fashion, Frida Kahlo and feminism, which are all written wonderfully. 

Editorials: 7/10 I enjoy the trend report shown in the magazine, but I feel that it does not work well with the edition only being a mini issue. In a full magazine I would be fine with it, but in the mini it leaves me wanting more - which I suppose is what every magazine intends to do, so props for that. Other than the trend report there are no other editorials. It's a mini issue sure, but please give me some of that graphical goodness!

Creativity: 8.5/10 On a whole I thoroughly enjoyed the Mexican inspired route Jack decided to go down for the issue. The bright colours really worked, and it was an interesting blend of simplicity and brights. I particularly enjoyed the colour blocking used on page [16/20] as it reinforced both the magazine's theme and the strong ideas in the article. 

How did this magazine score?

 41 out of 50 points, at 82% or B+

Final Comment: On a whole this issue of X magazine achieved what it set out to do, but I feel that not every aspect works with the concept of the mini issue and a few extra pages to beef up the magazine slightly would have made a huge difference to the overall feel. "More editorials" is not usually a comment I could imagine myself giving to this particular magazine so I am sure that this flaw is a mere one issue thing which will be corrected more than happily in the next issue. 

TTT, what did you think? Agree or disagree? Comment!

Boreads

Fierce magazine, owned by Alice (hunnigall) and Emma (mysecketlover), was possibly the most influential magazine of Stardoll's golden era. When the final issue was released only last month, after almost four years since the issue prior, it spelled the end of the Fierce era... Or did it?

"Boread: the great great Greek god of the northern wind. He had two children Calaïs and Zethes. Alice and Emma. The Boreads; children of the northern wind.

Respectively 18 and 20, Alice and Emma live on each side of the North Sea. One is British, the other Danish. They both have a love for art and cheese. And Fierce. But struggling to make time for it, with social lives and school a blaze, they decided to leave their love behind and start on something with a bigger flexibility. Hence Boreads.

We bring you a more mature, yet bolder side of the Stardoll blogging scene. We bring you back to an era long forgotten. We will not limit ourselves to anything. This blog will feature things, passions and thoughts from our private lives as well as everything else. If you went looking for another Fierce or another typical Stardoll blog, this is not the one. Keep on looking."

After only days of setting foot into the Stardoll world, it has set the blogging scene alight with interesting articles and wonderful graphics to go alongside. Although Fierce may be over, the story lives on in the form of the interesting new blogging world of Boreads. Both Alice and Emma bring such interesting takes on Stardoll and the world to the blog, whether it be through writings or art, and I am excited to see what they have to bring in the near future.

*Click here to visit the blog.

R.I.P Peaches Geldof

1989 - 2014

"Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. Writing 'was' destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable? We loved her and will cherish her forever. How sad that sentence is. Tom and her sons Astala and Phaedra will always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken."

Ink'd!

With an ever growing fan base but a failing blogging scene it's always exciting when Stardoll introduces a somewhat useful and interesting feature. There are of course a few things that people would like to see on Stardoll, but aside from that few Stardoll are somewhat limited to the features they can add and how often they can add them. Instead, users have to make do with what they've got until Stardoll are ready to unveil their latest addition to their beloved site.

Today, Stardoll's brand new tattoo and piercing studio Ink'd was released. When Stardoll first unveiled through the store through a youtube video of an artist sketching I was somewhat skeptical about the release, but the awesome store put me to rest, never minding the tattoos themselves.

I'm somewhat obsessive when it comes to the interior of new stores, hence why I was probably so disappointed with the recent collection of the growingly mediocre Limited Edition in that ever so wonderful backdrop. However unlike LE, this collection has some substance as well as style.

The tattoos Stardoll can offer are obviously slightly limited, but the designers have given a reasonable selection of tattoos and piercings. Annoyingly, some of the smaller tattoos go over clothes and hair, but the larger ones on a whole are fine. Prices range from 2 - 13 stardollars, which is reasonable considering a regular bag can now set you back 13 - 16 stardollars.

Interested in tattoos and piercings? You should definitely check the store out. Not interested? Take a look anyway; the shop is pretty!