Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Carolyn Braden's Urban Outfitters Shimmer Kicks
I love my new shimmering shoes! I'll wear them of course but I really just love looking at them. I purchased these at Urban Outfitters.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Phillip Lim for Target:The Lookbook Has Arrived
I like the day looks for the Phillip Lim collection. Being a fan of comic books, I prefer the Boom! sweatshirt.
The collection will be in stores and online on September 15th.
You can view the lookbook for Phillip Lim for Target here:
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Carolyn Braden: Fall 2013 Phillip Lim for Target
It's official. September 15th, 2013 is the official launch date for the collaboration of Target and Phillip Lim.
Go to the follow site to find out more:
http://pressroom.target.com/
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Simple Neutral Nails: Good or Bad Fall '13 Trend?
I'm trying the neutral nail that is the next "big" trend in nails. While I like the versatility of a simple neutral nail, I had to add some flair. With only putting the design on one nail, it still keeps it simple.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Egyptian Gold With Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift: Fall 2013
Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift had glowing skin at the MTV Awards thanks to the upcoming Fall 2013 trend. The golden style looks borrowed from an Egyptian royalty mind. Accent your look with a shimmering detail like golden sunglasses or metallic shoes if you don't want to shine all over. Here are some gold fashions seen on Style.com.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Carolyn Braden: Good Beauty With Sephora, Bad Fashion With Shoes.com
I had to report on a good beauty company and a not so good fashion company.
Good news first: Sephora brightened up my week by drawing my name during their ladies night event. I won $650.00 worth of beauty products. I looked up the price of each item and was seriously wowed! I was just there to use my 10% off coupon in order to restock on Urban Decay's De-Slick spray and I purchased the perfume sampler (sample perfumes then return the certificate for a full size bottle, great deal!) I never knew I would be greatly surprised with leaving the store with so much more! See the photo of what I won. I will report on which products are "Worth it!"
Bad news: I'm sad to report this about a fashion company: I will never ever purchase anything from www.shoes.com again and I highly recommend people follow suit. I purchased Franco Sarto's Poet boot on October 3rd. A week went by and my credit card was charged but no boots arrived. After being on hold for over 20 minutes, a customer service rep told me their warehouse was not shipping orders until 10 days after purchases are made. The website stated they would be shipped within 3 business days. I told her to refund my money knowing I could make the purchase through Zappos.com or Amazon.com and have my boots within a couple of days. The only reason I purchased through Shoes.com was to try out the company that offered a discount of 15% and free shipping. Trying to save money did not pay off. It is now October 13th and my money has not been refunded. The rep said I would receive an e-mail confirmation of the cancelled transaction and I have not. An e-mail to customer service on Wednesday the 10th was never replied to. I tried calling yesterday and the phone wait time said it would be 20 minutes. Today I tried calling and the wait time said 46 minutes. What the.....? So, I will try calling and e-mailing again. My husband will be helping me out as well. I may end up having to file a dispute on never receiving my product through my credit card company.
So in a nutshell, Sephora is great, Shoes.com is horrid.
By the way, I've ordered the Poet boot through Amazon.com and I've got the tracking number and will receive my package on Monday. Yay Amazon!!!!!
Good news first: Sephora brightened up my week by drawing my name during their ladies night event. I won $650.00 worth of beauty products. I looked up the price of each item and was seriously wowed! I was just there to use my 10% off coupon in order to restock on Urban Decay's De-Slick spray and I purchased the perfume sampler (sample perfumes then return the certificate for a full size bottle, great deal!) I never knew I would be greatly surprised with leaving the store with so much more! See the photo of what I won. I will report on which products are "Worth it!"
Bad news: I'm sad to report this about a fashion company: I will never ever purchase anything from www.shoes.com again and I highly recommend people follow suit. I purchased Franco Sarto's Poet boot on October 3rd. A week went by and my credit card was charged but no boots arrived. After being on hold for over 20 minutes, a customer service rep told me their warehouse was not shipping orders until 10 days after purchases are made. The website stated they would be shipped within 3 business days. I told her to refund my money knowing I could make the purchase through Zappos.com or Amazon.com and have my boots within a couple of days. The only reason I purchased through Shoes.com was to try out the company that offered a discount of 15% and free shipping. Trying to save money did not pay off. It is now October 13th and my money has not been refunded. The rep said I would receive an e-mail confirmation of the cancelled transaction and I have not. An e-mail to customer service on Wednesday the 10th was never replied to. I tried calling yesterday and the phone wait time said it would be 20 minutes. Today I tried calling and the wait time said 46 minutes. What the.....? So, I will try calling and e-mailing again. My husband will be helping me out as well. I may end up having to file a dispute on never receiving my product through my credit card company.
So in a nutshell, Sephora is great, Shoes.com is horrid.
By the way, I've ordered the Poet boot through Amazon.com and I've got the tracking number and will receive my package on Monday. Yay Amazon!!!!!
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Carolyn Braden: Intriguing Dot
I'm very interested in the new fragrance, Dot, by Marc Jacobs. I loved the rosy scent of Lola and loved the bottle. If the scent is as intriguing as the packaging, I may need this for my new fragrance.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Friday, September 23, 2011
Carolyn Braden tries OPI Muppet Polish Color!
What a great fall color! Warm & Fozzie,
Carolyn J. Braden
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Carolyn J. Braden
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Carolyn Braden's Missoni for Target Scores
There are advantages to being small when it comes to the Missoni for Target collection. Being a teacher, I could not go and wait with the crowd of people at my local Target store at 8:00 in the morning. My local Target store told me the crowd was like a crowd seen on Black Friday. Just about everything in the store sold out by 8:30 a.m. When I went tonight to see if anything was left, I had an idea. I headed back to the fitting room to see if there was any Missoni items that they had not gotten around to putting back out on the racks. There was a wonderful sales girl back there that dug through the piles of clothes and found me two items I purchased immediately. The floral trench and a cardigan. They were in size Large, but a girls size large. Fortunately, I am very petite and both items fit me perfectly and looked great on. I was sad I wasn't able to get a dress, but this coat and sweater will certainly add some fun colors to my fall clothing collection.
Carolyn J. Braden
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Carolyn J. Braden
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Friday, September 25, 2009
Carolyn Braden: All fall style is in!
Fall style......very interesting.
Basically everything is in for fall. I mean it!!!!
Um...
Shoulder pads, check!
All colors for clothing, check!
Belts, check!
Tights, check!
Boots, check!
Versatility in clothing, check!
Leggings, check!
Trench coat, check!
Matte makeup to get rid of shine, check!
Matte anything (car paint, nails, etc.), check!
Draping and layering, check, check!!!!!!!!
If you have any kind of eye for style, wear what makes you feel good this fall and you will be in style. Really. I can't say one exact thing stands out to me because there is so much out there right now. It's as if the designers just can't come up with anything new so they just said "If it's old, it will be new again this fall!"
I do really like the draping the clothing is doing right now. I like a tight dress or jeans to show off the figure, but the draping is awesome. Some days, you just don't feel comfortable. I should explain it as "The Bloat." We all feel uncomfortable sometimes in our regular clothing so it is nice to have such beautiful, draping clothes to let our bodies breathe sometimes.
A somewhat rose scented perfume is nice right now. I just purchased the new Marc Jacobs perfume "Lola". Smells great.
Oh...try shopping at TJ Maxx. If you have one in your area and you feel like hunting for some good buys, go there. I love it. I know there are women who would rather just hit up a mall store, pay full price for something, and not want to go "hunting" for deals, but come on girls!!!! Money is tight. Shop the sale racks and be smart with your money. I believe bargain shopping is SOOOOOO in style!
---Carolyn
Basically everything is in for fall. I mean it!!!!
Um...
Shoulder pads, check!
All colors for clothing, check!
Belts, check!
Tights, check!
Boots, check!
Versatility in clothing, check!
Leggings, check!
Trench coat, check!
Matte makeup to get rid of shine, check!
Matte anything (car paint, nails, etc.), check!
Draping and layering, check, check!!!!!!!!
If you have any kind of eye for style, wear what makes you feel good this fall and you will be in style. Really. I can't say one exact thing stands out to me because there is so much out there right now. It's as if the designers just can't come up with anything new so they just said "If it's old, it will be new again this fall!"
I do really like the draping the clothing is doing right now. I like a tight dress or jeans to show off the figure, but the draping is awesome. Some days, you just don't feel comfortable. I should explain it as "The Bloat." We all feel uncomfortable sometimes in our regular clothing so it is nice to have such beautiful, draping clothes to let our bodies breathe sometimes.
A somewhat rose scented perfume is nice right now. I just purchased the new Marc Jacobs perfume "Lola". Smells great.
Oh...try shopping at TJ Maxx. If you have one in your area and you feel like hunting for some good buys, go there. I love it. I know there are women who would rather just hit up a mall store, pay full price for something, and not want to go "hunting" for deals, but come on girls!!!! Money is tight. Shop the sale racks and be smart with your money. I believe bargain shopping is SOOOOOO in style!
---Carolyn
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