My feet peronnal challenge!

We love shoes. Shoes are fun, great accessories and can you have so many options that can make or break the entire oufit! To chose my shoes I always go for the safe black colour and a common style. And I rarely wear heals or take care of my feet in any particular way like lotions, mask or nail polish.
But I recently realize that it has to change: I want to take good care of my feet! Why? Well, yesterday a saw a woman walking down the street. She was cute, nothing really special but when I look down at her shoes OMG! Her feet were distorted, with like dry bumps, the nails were yellowish and cutting unevenly and finally: they were hairy! 

That's why I decided to take an extra care of my feet. After all, they work very hard eveyday to support me and they deserve it. Plus I don't want anyone to think of me and my feet the way I thought of that woman. 

So there are my feet today:

Nothing special for now, but I want to make them cute and healthy. Does anyone have tips? Plus, I am 5'2 and I really need to start wearing heals. Does anyone have advices or sort of tutorials that could be helpful? Thanks for your help. I'll let you posted on my feet challenge.

XO, L.

Canada Day and T. first job in Canada

Yesterday, T. was contacted by the temp agency: she's going to be working!!! We are very happy because she's been looking for a job for a little less than 2 months and we were starting to be worried about our financials... and T's social life too!
On a down side, today is Canada Day and T is also training for her first mission! But only during the morning so we are still going to b enjoying what the city has to offer for this special day this afternoon. I can't wait for her to come back and tell me all about her first day.

Happy Canada day to all the Canadians! Canada has been really good to us so far. We are grateful and proud to be there...so "O Canada Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free! From far and wide, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee."

Model Spotlight on Freja Beha!

October, Vogue UK, The Rhapsody by Javier Vallhonrat

Bio (from IMG model.com): 

Freja, exploded onto the fashion scene soon after being discovered on the streets of her hometown, Copenhagan, Denmark. Despite having no prior modeling experience, Freja was a natural in front of the camera. Her unique beauty and easy nature made her a joy for photographers to work with. Freja’s career reached new heights during the Fall/Winter 2005 campaign season. She emerged as the year’s break-out star and appeared in three major advertisements campaigns, Balenciaga, photographed by David Sims; Jil Sander, also by David Sims, and TSE, photographed by Carter Smith. Since then, Freja has appeared in advertisements for Gucci, Chanel, Hugo Boss, Chloe, Gap, Calvin Klein, Balmain, Balenciaga, Gianfranco Ferre, and Pringle. Freja is also the face of Calvin Klein’s perfume, CK In 2 U, and Gucci’s perfume Gucci. She can currently be seen in the Fall/Winter 2008 advertisements for Emporio Armani.

In her breakout runway season, Freja walked a total of 64 shows, 12 of which she opened, 5 of which she closed. She continues to appear on the runway today and has walked for designers such as, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Christian Lacroix, Dolce & Gabbana, Givency, Gucci, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez, Prada, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent and Zac Posen. 

Influential magazine editors took notice as well. Freja has appeared on the covers and inside pages of the industry’s most prestigious magazines, including Vogue (Italian, French, American, British, Chinese, Japanese, Russian), V, W, Harper’s Bazaar, Numéro, PoP, Dazed & Confused and Self Service. Freja remains a favorite among the fashion elite and is consistently rated as one of the industry’s top models.

Dansk #8, Sub Surface by Andrea Sjödin

Birth Date: October 18, 1987 

Agencies: IMG (NYC, London, Milano and Paris), Louisa Munich, Unique Denmark, Dominique (Brussels). 

Rankings: Top 50 Models (Ranked # 3)
Height: 5'10" (178cm)
Measurements: 31-23.5-35 US, 79-60-89 EU
Shoe Size: 8 US, 6 UK, 39 EU
Dress Size: 4 US, 6 UK, 34 EU
Hair: Light Brown
Eyes: Brown
Debut Season: Fall/Winter 2005/2006
Debut Show: Prada (semi-exclusive)

Diesel Black Gold

Alexander Wang

Lanvin

Prada

Alberta Ferretti

Gucci

Chanel

The Bachelorette #6: lucky Ali...!

Seriously who wouldn't be happy to be able to date 20 men on national TV? Well, except for the TV part, I know I would love to! That is why T and I love to watch every week the adventures of The Bachelorette #6: Ali Fedotowsky.

We are following this show (The Bachelor too) for 2/3 years now and this is becoming a tradition to watch it together with a glass of wine, and of course we bitch and gossip about the bachelors and the bachelorette. I have to say, since the bachelorette #4, DeAnna Pappas, the show is getting much more interessant as we can watch the heartbreak bachelors or bachelorette trying to fall in love. So far, we really enjoyed watching Jillian (fellow canadian!) falling in love with Ed, one of our favorite, but this season of The Bachelorette is great. We love Ali! Why? Well, first, she is our age. Second, she is ambitious, career driven, but really down-to-earth (at least she seems to), so we can relate to her. And third, we've got to know her and loved her on the last season of The Bachelor with Bachelor Jake Pavelka.
Of course, we always have our favorites, and this season we have four gentlemen we could totally see Ali (or us!!!) ending up with. Who are they? (in no special order) : Roberto, Frank , Kirk, and Chris L.

We just can't wait to know who Ali is going to pick! What do you think? Do you watch this show?

Spotlight on fashion designer Tara Jarmon.

T and myself are newbies when it comes to fashion. Which means we know some designers' name, we read fashion magazines and follow fashion blogs, and we love shopping! Since this blog is all about improving ourselves, I decided to try to change it. One idea to improve our fashion culture is to write about a fashion designer at least once a week. For the first fashion designer, I decided to pick Tara Jarmon. 

• Biographie: Tara Jarmon is a Paris-based Canadian fashion designer. Born in Canada, she moved to Newport Beach, California in high school. Jarmon launched her self-titled clothing line over 20 years ago, which now spans 23 free-standing Tara Jarmon boutiques and 80 store-in-store locations throughout Europe and Asia. 

Tara Jarmon

• The Brand: Tara and her husband, David Jarmon, combined their talents and gave birth to a clothing line. He manages it, she is in charge of the design. She gives it her name and her spirit, that is to say joy, pureness, freshness, spontaneity. A brand is born, Tara Jarmon. Smart and comfortable pieces, colored and sexy but never provocative, embellished with details such as embroidery, a bow, a flower; sober cuts, in sweet and silky materials : muslin, cotton, satin, velvet. In short, a line which is perfectly adapted to a modern, elegant, self-confident, dynamic woman. Tara Jarmon is the embodiment of a pure feminine simplicity. A Parisian and at the same time a universal brand.

These are my 15 favorites pieces from the spring/summer 2010 Tara Jarmon collection: 

Results week 1

Hello,
Just a quick post to let you know how it went for our first week of diet:

• T: -4lbs => 29 lbs to go
• L: -4lbs => 32 lbs to go

We are on a good path, I can feel it... We need to keep up the good work, focus on our goals and make it work!
More coming up soon, the sky is our limit - XO, T

Thinspiration of the day: beautiful Jessica Stroup star from 90210. To me she is one of the prettiest of the cast along with Jessica Lowndes. We are not big fans of the show, but it is fun to watch during rainy days... She was chubby before and got really skinny during the first season of the show. Now I think she looks fantastic and healthy with the weight she put on recently. Amazing legs, don't you think ?!

My Silhouette!

We've decided to start the NIVEA My Silhouette! Gel-Cream, starting monday !

Because we love to illustrate with nice pictures, I'll give you these :











The results expected after 4 weeks of use (1 to 2 times application / day): Slimmer looking and noticeably defined silhouette. I can't wait to try it and see the results... They wrote on the box that it was "the highly effective 100% natural Bio-Slim Complex" gel cream. Ingredients to make us be slimmer : white tea and anis extract (doesn't it seems like a beverage to you? LOL).
Does anyone tried that before ? Is it really effective or it's a big scam!?!

More coming up in 4 weeks.... The sky is our limit - XO, T