How to Style a Little Black Dress for Winter/Spring

Hello Beauties! Welcome to Wear It Wednesday. Today I will be featuring one of my favorite dresses! 

I got this Little Black Dress at Express a year or so ago. Its the perfect dress because its comfortable, yet classy. It can be dressed up or down and be worn during all seasons!  

Since I'm dying for warmer weather, I decided to spring it up with an aqua bandeau under a hot pink tank top, high heel skin tight boots, hit the deco necklace and the good hair day clip.  

I feel like this look is good for the transitioning into spring! Its springy with the bright colors, but the boots keep my legs warm! 

Come back tomorrow for Time Management Thursday! 

Stay beautiful,

Kailey 

The Carrie Diaries: Identity Crisis Reaction

If you haven't started watching yet, The Carrie Diaries is a t.v. show prequel to The Sex and the City. It follows Carrie Bradshaw in high school. Carrie is played by the beautiful AnnaSophia Robb. It comes on Mondays at 8/7c on the CW. 

Warning: Contains Spoilers! 

- Aww, Sebastian and Carrie are so cute

- I want to be that in love with my job! 

- Really Sebastian's mom? I don't even know her name and shes cucko for cocoa puffs. Showing up at school then talking to him about her and her ex husband getting back together (dirty details and all)... sheesh..

- haha Bennet "Are you drunk?" just because Carrie shows up to work on a Monday happy! 

-Ah typical 80s stuff... fun. Gotta love the casual drug references! 

- I don't really see why Larissa is in charge. She's so flighty!

-hahaha Carrie trying to be Larissa is HILARIOUS! 

-Sigh, I want to like Mouse but... she just annoys me. CHILL OUT girl!

- When is her dad actually going to date? Not just freak out around women?

- I have a bad feeling that there is no package.... hmm....

- Way to go Mouse, ruining the team! lol. I do like the tension between her and the jock though. 

- To take the clothes or not take the clothes, that is the question

- So, there IS a package... but it came with a death threat. Yikes!

-Of course the woman he freaked out on would walk into the diner. 

-From annoying to making out in the back of a car? Seems legit. Her dad needs to sort out his dating issues. 

- I LOVE Maggies clothes!

-HAHAHA Maggie and Sebastian catching her dad making out in the car!

-Carrie freaks out in like every episode but for some reason I don't mind 

-"We want them to be parents, not people" LOL

-Way to be sketchy Mouse

-Uhoh, Mouse's plan backfired 

-So, I'm all for Sebastian finally telling his mom off, but I find her reaction hard to belief. Oh well! Tv shows are allowed to speed things up a bit.

- And now Carrie's plan backfired! 

-Flawless logic there Carrie. 

- I guess Mouse's plan didn't backfire AND she may get a hot boy out of it. Ow, ow!

- Love her outfit at the end! 

That's all folk! See you tomorrow!

Kailey 

New in mark. Makeup Mag 4 2013

Since it is the last day to get this great deal: 

Correction: 3/22-3/25

I thought I would share some of the newest mark. makeup products that I am most excited about! 

New Color Me In Eye Crayon and Lip Crayon! 

                                                                                                                                             

Not only am I excited about these because of the gorgeous colors, but I am equally excited by how easy these will make it for application! You can make it look like you spend hours on your make up in mere seconds.All you have to do is swipe and you're done! Furthering my excitement even more, these colors are right on trend. 

Nude and fushia lips, and gold and aqua eyes were spotted all over the runways this spring. 

I for one cannot wait to get my hands on the "Wild Blue" Color Me In Eye Crayon.

Lip and Eye Crayons are sold for $12 here. 

Stay beautiful,

Kailey 

The Vampire Diaries Workout

Hello beauties! 

Welcome back to Fit Friday! I just got done watching The Vampire Diaries (a day late, I know! But I had a mark. national webcast I didn't want to miss! Check me out on facebook for the mag kickoff offer) 

Anyways, it got me to thinking, there are certain things that happen a lot in the episodes, for instance, people talking about "the cure" so, I decided it would be fun to make a Vampire Diaries Workout Game. 

Here's what I came up with:

This obviously works better for the current season, Season 4. If this works out really well maybe I'll make one for next season as well! 

I'm going to do this for next weeks episode, will you join me? 

It's like a guilt free way to watch tv! 

Stay Beautiful,

Kailey 

Time Management Thursday: Stick to Your List!

Welcome to Time Management Thursday! 

So, confession... I had  have some of the worst time management skills. Take today for instance, even though somewhere in the back of my mind I knew I was writing this post on time management, I slacked off on the things on my to do list and watched Smash instead... Oh, and talked to my mom, and looked at jobs but only applied for two babysitting jobs at care.com . 

Despite this sad example of how I spent my day I am slowly getting better at managing my time. So, I guess thats my first tip to you. Don't expect it to just happen. Like with any new habit (yes, its a habit) it takes time to take hold. You have to work at it, otherwise its never going to happen. (Kind of like those killer abs I want but don't want to sweat for). 

So, one of my favorite things to do for time management is to make a to do list. Pretty simple, right? 

The problem with me making a list is that I make it, don't look at it again until the next day or just forget about it all together. It still makes me aware of what I need to do that day but, I find if I don't look at it its a lot easier to get distracted with other things or put it off.I don't know about you guys, but that doesn't seem like the list thing is working out. At least, not the way I'm doing it.

So, what to do? 

I love lists and I don't want to just do away with my to do list all together so, I came up with a solutions I want to try out. You can try them with me and let me know how they work for you. 

1. Make to Do list on phone and set a "due date" and priority high- I'm not sure how well this works on other phones, but this is how I would do it on my Android htc phone. But basically, just make the to do list on your phone and have it remind you. 

2. Set alarms for certain times of the day to check your to do list- mid-afternoon, evening, and night. This will be helpful just because I keep forgetting to actually look at my to do list and check things off. 

3. Schedule Your To Do List- what I mean by this is basically laying out approximately when you are going to do each item on your to do list. That way you have to look at it to know whats next. 

Stay Beautiful,

Kailey 

Blog Under Construction

Hey Beauties,

A few of you may have already noticed but I wanted to address some of the changes that are happening around here. After all, a blog is just a diary without any readers so, I need to keep ya'll informed! 

I was thinking about giving up on blogging all together because of my spottiness with this blog but then I had a better idea. First, I decided to start blogging more regularly... everyday in fact, except for Sunday. Well, how was I supposed to do that? I've said it before and 30 Day Blog Challenges certainly don't get me into the habit (and honestly, don't make for very good blogging for me... some people do them well but I am not one of them!). So, I decided to come up with a certain topic to post about each day of the week. I am keeping them vauge enough so that I can do multiple types of posts. These are subject to change, but here's where I am at right now. (most of which you've already seen)

Makeup Monday- Where I will post tutorials, inspiration, current favorites, foundation routine... stuff like that. 

TV Tuesday- Where I review my favorite tv shows (although I don't know what to do since the Pretty Little Liars finale!) or do a fashion or make up post inspired by one of my favorite tv shows... you get the gist. 

Wear It Wednesday- Fashion! Will mostly be outfit's of the day but may also be me dreaming with polyvore.

Time Management/Tried It Thursday- So, Thursday's were going to be Tried It Thursday where I tried out things on pinterest or DIY's I came up with myself or something but then I realized I am a poor college student. I don't have the funds or means to do stuff like that once a week so, I may do Tried It Thursday posts sparingly until I am married and am living in my condo. In the meantime, they will be mostly Time Management tips because that's something I really need to work on and I figured I can share what I've found and what works for me!  

Fit Friday- I need to look fabulous within 72 days... Join me on that journey. Food and excersice tips! 

Scene It Saturday- This one will be fun with its ambiguity! Scene It Saturday mostly means movies I've seen but it can also apply to tv shows and celebrity fashion/beauty. 

So, now that you know what to expect from the week... I want to let you in on what the heck happened to 100+ posts on here. Well, I want this blog to be something that I'm proud of... something I can put on a resume or show off to people and be proud of my work. My three halfhearted attempts at 30 Day Blog Challenge's, tags, and short rambles of nothingness just weren't cutting it. The posts I have kept I will either leave them as they are or edit them to give them a little bit more spice. 

If you'd like to see what I was up to on my brief hiatus, check out campuschatter.hubpages.com . I'm not sure if I'll continue posting there but, I have some good articles and I learned a lot about what to do and not to do in blogging. 

I hope to see you around more often

Stay beautiful,

Kailey 

Wear It Wednesday! How to Wear a Swirl Scarf

Hello Beauties! 

Welcome to Wear It Wednesday! Despite it being the first day of spring, it is still very cold outside! 24 degrees! Maybe I'm a sissy for think that is FREEZING but, I like my weather to be in the 80s! This whole groundhog was lying when he said spring would come early business is just not for me! 

That being said, since it was so cold outside, I decided a scarf would be a nice touch. It's a swirl (or swirl and ruffle, whichever you prefer) scarf that was given to me by my loving mother. Someone else made it so, I didn't pay for it. Major stores don't really have these (yet) so, I would suggest to make your own or buy one on etsy.  I know that my mom was a little unsure of how to wear them because these aren't your average scarves. However, I found a way that works well for me thats simple, easy and doesn't make me look like I have 18th century type frills around my neck! 

First of all, I suggest pairing the scarf with a solid or mostly solid shirt in a complimenting color. Here, I chose a grey thermal with a pink undershirt to bring out the pink in the sweater. I suppose you could wear the same color as your scarf but, you want the scarf to stand out. And I just really hate that, personally. 

Alright, now to HOW to wear the scarf? I chose to wear mine like this.. How did I do this exactly? Easy, peasy. I just folded the scarf in half, wraped around my neck and put the "loose" ends through the hole. Make sense? Here's a picture in case if it doesn't! (and its pin-able, so you wont forget!)

Lastly, I paired it with boot cut blue jeans. Personally, I don't think the pants matter that much in this case. I can't wait until the warm weather hits so I can start really playing with my skirts and dresses again! (Having to wear tights all the time is so limiting. Unless you have an outrageous collection, that is) 

Some other ways you can wear this scarf: 

More detailed description below

Simply wrap around neck, tie then add a brooch or hair piece. I'm using mark's Good Hair Day Clip

Same as above, but no clip. Doesn't it look lonely?

For this one, make one side longer than the other when you place on your neck, then wrap the longer side around. 

Unleash your inner drama queen and tie to the side, flipping one side of the scarf over your shoulder. I'll admit this is cute, but it's hard to get to stay like that! Anybody have tips on that? 

And last... just simply let it hang on your neck. I'd only use this one if you really need to make yourself look super skinny or want to frame something on your shirt. 

Alright beauties! I hope you enjoyed and are inspired to wear, buy or make a swirl scarf yourself! 

Stay Beautiful,

Kailey 

P.S. Come back tomorrow for Time Management Thursday! Join me on my journey to balance out college, wedding planning, blogging, and more!