Stardollars for ALL!

"You’ve just been given the key to unlock a world of posh possibilities!  New today: Stardollars are available to everyone on Stardoll.

Do you have some Stardollars already burning a hole in your purse? Your Stardollars are now available to spend your Stardollars in Starplaza, StarBazaar and Suite Shop!

The Superstar membership is still incredibly valuable, where as a Superstar, you have access to exclusive membership features and activities on Stardoll.

In need of a little-pick-me-up in your purse?  Visit the Stardoll payment page to find out how you can purchase more Stardollars!"

   - from the official Stardoll blog

To me, this is a marketing scheme to plant the seeds of temptation within the minds of non-superstars. Of course, It's a good thing, in that they'll get to pick up a nice item here and there; it's also a bad thing, in that there will be an increase of Superstar-only items. That's why Stardoll are so quick to stress that "The Superstar membership is still incredibly valuable."

And of course, it is. At first glance, I was ready to launch into a full blown tirade about why the newfound availability of Stardollars to non-superstars undermines the worth of Superstar accounts. Upon further reasoning, I've found that it's pretty much the same thing.

Let's look at the Stardoll hierarchy:

Royalty:
Same as superstar but with a useless club and a useless diamond. Ooh, shiny!

Superstar:
Penthouses, beach villas, extra rooms, Starbazaar, special clothes, special furniture... wait a minute, this sounds familiar...

Stardollars:
Still the currency of the aforementioned groups, but now with added temptation.

Starcoins:
Confusing, to say the least. They're the pennies of the people, but you can also convert your dollars into them to pay pretty much the same price you were paying anyway, give or take. Oh well, at least you can earn these.

So in essence, yes, you'll get the access to (a few) Stardollar items when you sign up. But once your initial amount is gone, it's gone. This is, in my opinion, simply a very calculated move from Stardoll - making them look like the good guys by giving everyone the access to Stardollars when in all actuality, it's meant to give you a small taste of the supposed "high life" before never seeing that kind of wealth again. Unless you buy Superstar, of course.

In conclusion:
Nothing's changed. Just Stardoll being Stardoll.

POSH FALL ISSUE IS RELEASED!!

You heard right!

And the fabulous covergirl is sevillana94!

click here to check it out!

What do you think?

The peoples competition.

I wanted to do something that everyone could take part in and that would have a great prize, but not take so long that you wouldn't be able to complete a task every week. This competition is aimed at whatever your talent is. If you can make a great scenery, outfit, graphic, pattern, make up tutorial, post, story, poem, photo or anything else creative that you can send an image to me, do so!

I am going to leave it completely open, because it can be hard to do something for a certain bracket sometimes if it isn't your thing. Just make it about whatever interests you or works. Then fill out the short form below and post an imgur or tinypic url of the thing you made. ( I will only accept these image hosting sites). You can keep your name and age anonymous if you wish so.

Name:

Stardoll username:

Age:

Image link:

You may want to give a description of what inspired you or what it means to you:

That is all you have to do and once you have posted this form in comments I will choose three winners. 

If you have any queries ask me in my guest book and I will get back to you. The contest ends on November 30th. Good luck.

Will You Be the Face of TTT-FW?!

 Could you be the face of TTT Fashion Week?

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Jesus is the New Black!

**I am Mugler Woman, Don't f*ck with me! **

** I am Mugler, I am quiet, I am strong. **

** Do not anger Mugler Woman, **

** She'll eat you! **

Here's another Fashion Video that I love, starring GaGa for Mugler.

And for TTT, I decided to remind you some information about GaGa and Mugler:

Nicolas Formichetti is the GaGa's personal stylist since 2009. Since one year, Nicolas has been hired to be the Creative Director of MUGLER House, and so he asked GaGa to be the Music Director of it... Then, at the F/W 2011-2012 Fashion Week, GaGa was there, walking on the runway while Born This Way and Government Hooker were the songs of the night. For the last Fashion Week (S/S 2012), GaGa wasn't there but she left a video...

So, what do you think of it?

If you have a video that you'd like to share, give me the link in the comment section of this post, and I'll put in my next post. :)

-AL

TTT Fashion Weekend, you say?

As Winter arrives and Stardoll is left bare without any upcoming fashion lines or new collections, and the lack of vibrant new magazines, I came to a decision that TTT should have it's very own fashion week! Taking into consideration the fact that Today's Top Trends is a blogging experience based around fashion, I think a week filled with fashion would be totally amazing, right?! 

  I know I'm going to get people saying I'm copying SFW, but in the real world there is numerous different fashion weeks! Obviously, Stardoll Fashion Week will remain the main one, but there's always rooms for more. TTT-FW is still in early planning stages, but if you are interested in participating drop us a comment below! P.S; I'm going to be posting alot of awesome updates of this Christmas at Today's Top Trends soon, so watch out for that! A Christmas competition perhaps... And the prizes? Think big!

Posh Sneak Peeks

Hey guys!

Long time, no talk! I'm sorry I didn't post for like 2 month! 

It's just that I have really much to do in real life and  I was in London for 3 weeks. And because I don't have anything better to talk about I give you some sneak peeks for the upcoming fall issue of POSH.

Here you are:

What do you think? Are you excited for the next issue?

Chace

Foreign Culture

When I was younger, about six to eleven, I had always planned to go live in Tokyo, Japan or Hong Kong in China when I was older. However, after my first trip back to America in 10 years I feel in love with it and I supposed I would move there and pursue a career in teaching and writing. Recently I have found a passion for Asian culture again and wish I could speak Korean or Mandarin Chinese. ( I may try to learn it, but it will be really hard on my own).

make up for MGPIN make up styling.

This lead me to take a look at the Spring/Summer Fashion Week in Beijing (China), which finished just a few days ago. The Fashion week, which lasted for ten days, doesn't include many of the well known brands we would look out for, but focuses on designers closer to home and helps them get their brand into the spotlight.  

This is helping designers in China sell garments and it also helps with the fabric industries, that although making many of the worlds clothing demands, get a small fraction of the profit.

 Another interesting fact was that there were a very large number of male collections on the catwalk. These featured clothes that were practical, but the women's wear was much more elaborate and Haute Couture. The models had smiles in many cases and struck fun poses, something not often seen in other fashion weeks.

I am not sure if it appears this way to anyone else, but to me the clothes have quite a different style to clothes seen in New York, Paris, Milan and London.  There is a large focus on big skirts, gold detailing and oriental patterns. It is nice to see this seasons fondness for hats is evident there too. In many you can see where designers have stayed true to Asian styles, but many have a modern twist.

Sorry I didn't realize how long this post was becoming. Thank you very much for reading.

What is your favourite fashion week? What is your opinion on the clothes and collections?

Deng Hao's 2012 Hate Couture collection