Basic Tips to Match Eye-glasses to Your Face

Glasses are an often overlooked accessory that people should learn to pay more attention to. After all, unless you frequently wear contacts, or are lucky enough to have perfect vision, chances are you will be wearing glasses every day of your life. Therefore unless you can afford multiple pairs of glasses for different occasions and to match different outfits, it's important to give your choice in glasses the time and thought this decision deserves.

Change can be Good
Just because you've been wearing the same pair or style of glasses for many years does not mean that you shouldn't consider changing things up a bit. If you've gotten used to wear half frames for instance, try on a pair of full frames just to see how they look. You might be surprised.

If you absolutely hate the way a new style of glasses looks on your face at first, then give yourself a few minutes to adjust. You have after all been looking at yourself in the mirror every day with the same pair of glasses for many years; it's natural that a different style of glasses will seem visually awkward. If after a few minutes you still don't like the way the new style of glasses looks by all means go back to your old style. Also ask your optometrist about his/her opinion. They fit glasses for a living and chances are that they may have some very valuable pointers.

Dress Appropriately
When you go to pick out a new pair of glasses, you should be dressing in the style of clothing that you most typically wear. If you wear a suit and tie to work every day you should wear a suit and tie to the optometrist to make sure that your new glasses will look good with the clothes you most commonly wear. Don't show up in jeans and a T-shirt and expect the glasses you matched to your T-shirt to look fantastic with your sharp Ralph Lauren suit.

Basic Eye-Glass Matching Principles
Finding a pair of eyeglasses that compliment your face is actually quite simple. According to the Vision Council there are three main principles that need to be followed. First of all the frame should compliment other colors on your face such as eye and hair color, or your complexion. Second, the frame shape should actually be in contrast to your face shape. If your face is round then you should be wearing more square shaped glasses for example. Finally, make sure that the frame size matches your face properly.

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Hairstyle 2009

The strongest trend for short hair in 2009 is without doubt the so called "pixie". This hairstyle is appearing everywhere, particularly in the famous, and those who have fashion style. The best known is Victoria Beckham; she goes through a cut Bob, who is also “inn” in 2009, the pixie cut. Another famous that has this style is the famous called Rihanna.

A good reason for choosing this haircut is that it is one of the short cuts that allow great freedom. You can see well in most women, as it is designed to flatter the shape of the face and their factions. Moreover, a cut that it is easy to maintain.

You can also take advantage of these angles and corners of the court, and accents, hairstyles. Or lift it, to achieve a more youthful and fresh style. Haircuts with knife or an element similar to that one, born in Japan, hundreds of years ago and were "discovered" in Europe about a century ago. Today this kind of hairstyles is quite popular because of its ease of maintenance and smooth and attractive hairstyle.

The cutting knife creates a smooth appearance, if the designer is experienced in this type of haircut and the hair is well prepared.

It is suitable for any type of hair, except for curly hair. The loops are often cut with razor very curl, creating a neglected aspect of hair. The knife is ideal for thick or too much hair as it tends to create the illusion of reducing the volume.

By 2009 the trends in hairstyles with this knife remain basically. The hair is cut into many layers and angles, with hair on the front or side.

Obama’s casual style makes her fashion’s first lady

US first lady Michelle Obama (R) and her British counterpart Sarah Brown In Britain two days ago. Obama's fashion taste has left the British press saying less than impressive things about Mrs Brown. - Reuters pic

LONDON, April 3 — First Lady Michelle Obama has wowed fashion writers with her casual style, use of color and her penchant for the sleeveless dress at the G20 summit in the British capital this week.

Newspapers in Britain and the United States were united in their praise for Obama’s sartorial choices for outings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah, an official reception with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace and dinner at Number 10 Downing Street.

The right-leaning Telegraph newspaper compared Brown unfavorably with Obama, saying the PM’s wife had upped her fashion game after being upstaged by French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife Carla Bruni during an earlier visit from the French first couple only to be trounced by Obama this week.

“In her drab navy ensemble by Britt Lintner which she wore to the same engagement at Charing Cross Hospital, she paled in comparison to Michelle Obama, the fusty matron to the Glamazon,” the Telegraph said.

And Obama has also put paid to those Americans fretting that the First Lady’s fondness for baring her biceps might be embarrassing when she met with the British queen in a sleeveless number disguised with an elegant black cardigan. The queen wore pink.

“Changing into an elegant black-and-white Isabel Toledo dress from springy J.Crew pieces Wednesday in London, First Lady Michelle Obama showcased her versatility and officially became one of the fab four of the political fashion world in the modern era-joining Jacqueline Kennedy, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Princess Diana,” enthused the Chicago Tribune.

The cardigan came off after the G20 dinner at the official residence of the British prime minister to even more applause from the fashion pack, revealing the sculpted biceps that New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd praised for being the “only bracing symbol of American strength right now.”

The Chicago Tribune also reminded its readers that in 1961 Jacqueline Kennedy and the queen both wore sleeveless gowns with gloves for their dinner.

“There really aren’t the same conservative old rules now,” British-born Avril Graham, executive fashion and beauty editor at Harper’s Bazaar, said.

Britain’s left-leaning Guardian newspaper gave both Brown and Obama points for their “homegrown style on a budget” that would be a boost for the fashion industry.

“Today Mrs. Obama arrived at Downing Street in a fresh, colorful combination while Mrs. Brown looked smart in navy,” the paper said. “But the two women’s outfits had a lot in common - both had been carefully chosen to support their native fashion industry.”

Calgary Avansino, Vogue magazine’s executive fashion editor, said that both women had dressed to reflect their own style.

“But I think they both are obviously trying to send a very clear message that they can wear what the average women would wear and still look great and that they are not above it.”

The British tabloid Mirror was also enthusiastic about Obama’s populist high street style, dubbing her the “First Lady of fashion”.

“Michelle Obama dazzled when she first appeared on the steps of No 10 not in a top designer outfit — but an ensemble from US high street chain J Crew,” the Mirror said.

The paper priced out Obama’s cream star constellation cardigan at 208 pounds (RM1,101) and green jacquard skirt at 110 pounds before admiring her understated way with the common folks during a visit to a cancer care center in London.

Mother of five Trudi Cogdell said: “She didn’t put on airs and graces - she just sat there and had a cup of tea.”

The Daily Mail sounded the only sour note, saying Obama stumbled on the style front when she donned a blue cardigan with a “garish argyle pattern” over a full-skirted prom dress for a visit alongside other G20 wives and partners to the Royal Opera House, where they heard a reading from Harry Potter author JK Rowling. — Reuters Life!

What Shoes To Wear With Your Straw Hats & More

Hats have been making a slow resurgence over the past several years, much to my delight. I am a big aficianado of the lovely ladylikeness or saucy jauntiness of a hat, as well as its practicality (goodbye facial moles!) and ability to complete an outfit. There’s something so cool, so nonchalant and yet so look-at-me about a hat. I expect that as more and more people start to wear them, it won’t be so noticeable anymore to wear one. They will become a much more mainstream accessory, hopefully, and will be paired well with shoes.

Jennifer Aniston was recently photographed carrying a straw hat, Beyonce and Rihanna love to wear them, and many a celebrity from Sienna Miller to Leonardo DiCaprio is frequently seen enjoying the cool Havana ease of a straw hat. Most of the ladies sport the look with shorts or a shortsuit/onesie type outfit. But the question is, what kind of shoes do you wear with them?

The lovely Jennifer Aniston goes for neutral Weitzman wedges, a perfect answer, in my opinion. (Aside: I love Jennifer Aniston more and more as the years go by. She annoyed me on “Friends,” of course, but she is great now. I think that she is an inspiration to a world that tells you that the sexiness of a woman dies at 40. Yes, she has the body of a 20-year-old, but it’s more the way she carries herself. She’s so much more confident now, and it shows. It’s all I can do to hold back a “You go, girl! Who needs Brad Pitt when you’re cougaring every hottie in sight and doing better movies every day and running your own production company?”)

Be, never the tame one, pairs yellow spikes that have been surmised to be YSL (since we all know she hardly ever lets anything non-top notch designer touch her body) with her yellow hat.

Riri, resplendent in white and a printed patterned onesie short, goes for casual bejeweled sandals.

Cindy Crawford, still one of the sexiest ladies around, in my opinion, even more so for how well she’s aged, prefers a more cowboy style hat, at least for this ad. I think the cowboy style is a “Proceed With Caution.” If you are down South, or if you are on vacation, or at the beach, I think it is fine. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be caught dead in one, especially in New York. It nettles me that western style cowboy boots are in, AGAIN, this fall, when I have had to endure so many Williamsburg and downtown New York girls wearing them. It’s pretentious, in a word, to sport cowboy style when you are so obviously metropolitan.

This summer in New York, St. Marks, the street that is the arbiter of plebeian downtown New York fashion, where vendors hawk mainstream downtown fashion to NYU students and broke 20-somethings and 30-somethings, is loaded with straw hats right now. Go there for your bargain hats.

Here are a couple hats I bought on St. Marks.

This first smaller hat I bargained down to $11. (Pretend to walk away and you will get a much better deal).

This second hat was $18 (I bargained them down from $25).

The second hat curves nicely into a floppy brim when worn.

But what kind of outfits and shoes have I been wearing with these hats?

For the smaller hat: mostly a t-shirt, miniskirt and sandals or a big men’s shirt half unbuttoned with the cuffs rolled up, plimsolls or Keds and shorts.

For the larger hat: beachwear, a long buttoned loose white shirtdress with billowy sleeves, or a classic summer sundress in white, with wedges or cone stacked heels in soft gold or neutral colors. Do it up like this with simple black sandals for a more formal event.

For a dramatic floppy hat, you can do more with the other accessories than you can with a small hat. Work it on out with some shades, some artsy fartsy “ethnic” earrings and a white top like the sexy bohemian lady of our times, Kate Hudson.

For shoes, a great option would be straw-effect sandals as well, like these by milliner and shoe designer Eric Javits. I’m not a big fan of straw shoes, but man, do his look good!

Here are some of his lovely hats. I especially like the striped one on the right.

Here is Britney in one of Eric Javits’ hats. I bet you she’s wearing sandals, probably white and maybe with straw or bejeweled accents.

You want it to look like this with a straw hat. Effortless yet so chic. The shoes are a perfect match for the dress and hat, carrying the theme of yellow in the straw, black in the band of the hat and the base of the shoe. Gorgeous.

How Fashion Affects Celebrity Art

Many people consider fashion to be an art form all within itself. The way that certain designers can take clothes and sew them together, draping and shaping the image over the body can be a very beautiful vision. Some pieces of clothing are so well made that they are like works of art that people wear around every day. There is a natural grace and beauty that comes with well made clothing and most people recognize how beautiful these pieces of clothing can be. Many celebrities are often considered to be the best examples of how fashion can affect the world, wearing these clothes so everyone can see how well made some of these pieces are.

Different celebrities have all been considered to be fashion icons. They are often repeat customers of some of the most famous designers, who are celebrities themselves. They will often design outfits for these certain celebrities, using them as a canvas to paint their art upon. Designers are artist in themselves, providing the world with something beautiful to look at and even potentially purchase for themselves. Entire collections can be built around the clothes of a certain designer.

When different artists will make works of art out of celebrities, however, they usually will paint those celebrities at their best. Red carpet events are some of those places where those celebrities look their best and, most often, celebrities will be wearing these specially designer-made clothes to these red carpet events. Therefore, when artists take the image of a celebrity at one of these high-profile events, they are taking an image of the celebrity in these fabulous clothes and crafting the work of art around that image. The fashion that the celebrity is wearing will be incorporated into the works of art that the artist is designing.

Fashion will play a large part in the style that comes to be associated with a celebrity. When any work is made featuring a celebrity after a style has come to be associated with them, the very style that fashion helped to craft will come into play. In the past, very distinct styles were associated with both Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. These two were both considered to be fashion icons and are still recognized as so today. They are also very popular actresses and art is still made about these two today. The fashion style which they were associated with naturally comes into the picture when the art today is made of them.

Pieces of autographed art can also be made out of designs that a fashion designer might sketch about potential outfits that they want to make. These designs can be tailored to a certain celebrity and their personality and sketching is one of the most important factors to designing clothing. By making a sketch of what the designer has in mind, they can begin to see what elements may or may not work. These sketches could, in turn, become pieces of celebrity art that a person might want to collect.