Apothica Giveaway!

Hi everyone! Do I have a surprise for you guys today! Apothica.com has generously offered to help me host a giveaway! We are going to be giving away a $25 Gift Certificate! I've ordered off of their website, and their shipping is superb! And not only that but they have a lot of great brands that I'm fairly certain a lot of you would be interested in checking out!

First off, they carry Paul & Joe, one of my favorite brands of all time! If you know me, you know that I will hunt down Paul & Joe where ever it is, but unfortunately, it's hard for me to find this brand in any store, so when I found out that Apothica carried it, I was shocked! 

Apothica.com is also associated with SkincareRX.com, and SkinBonica.com, which is really awesome for those of you who want to try skincare products!

Some of my favorite things from their website include: 

P&J Whitening Serum (Read my review on it!)

P&J Whitening Essence (I'm going to be purchasing this next!)

Deborah Lippmann Nail Polishes (I really really love her polishes!)

Bobbi Brown Foundation 

How to enter: 

1. Have to be my follower via Google Friend Connect!

2. Leave your email address, so I can contact you as soon as this giveaway ends! 

3. Tell me which product you want from Apothica.com! 

4. Follow Apothica on Facebook (give your FB name) And write on their facebook wall about what you want to purchase from their website if you won my giveaway! (+4 extra entries)

5. Follow Apothica on Twitter (give your twitter name) and tweet about my giveaway! (+4 extra entries)

6. Sign up for their newsletter, It's at the very bottom of their website, on the left hand side! (+2 extra entries)

7. Write a blog post about this giveaway and include a link to Apothica.com! (+5 extra entries)

This giveaway ends on August 12, 2011! 

What the Winner of the Apothica Giveaway Needs to Know:

1. Apothica will contact the winner to verify information is correct

2. After verification, Apothica will email the a code for the gift card to be used at SkinCareRx.com, Apothica.com, and SkinBotanica.com

3. The contest is open internationally, but Apothica does not ship to all countries

4. Please save SkinCareRx as a contact in your email box so that it doesn't go to the Spam/Junk Mail folder

DIY Bubble Skirt

So I'm kind of known as a DIY girl, but I've never thought of documenting what I've done. Because one, I'm lazy, and taking so many pictures can get annoying. So when I saw this bubble skirt, I thought to myself, I can probably just make that myself! I had seen a different picture of a similar skirt on one of the Olsen twins, though which one I cannot seem to remember. The Olsen picture was what got me inspired to DIY my own skirt. I had this James Perse skirt from when I worked at Nordstrom, and I always found it a pain to have to iron the bottom of the skirt, because it would always get wrinkled so easily. 

What I was working with. If you can't tell, I ironed out the bottom of the skirt, but it's still wrinkled, hence why I rarely wore this skirt: 

 James Perse. 

 So first up you want to pin the bottom of the skirt to the top of the skirt. I pinned the bottom very close to the top of the skirt: 

 There is thin fabric underneath that's considered the underskirt, so you want to tuck that in: 

 I'm tucking it in (Camera strap fail, haha):

 A little more tucking: 

 Then you want to make little stitches  along the parts where you pinned at: 

 Another stitch: 

 The easiest way to make the stitches, is to match up the sides and the back and the front: 

 This is what the skirt looks like when it's turned inside out: 

 The front: 

 And voila! You have your own little mini bubble skirt. 

I'm hoping this DIY tutorial isn't super confusing. I'm trying out this whole fashion blogging for a bit, and I know a lot of people enjoy reading fashion related posts.

I'm going to be doing an OOTD with this skirt this weekend! Stay tuned for that! 

OOTD 07/24/2011

Can you believe that I found this dress at Forever21 for a mere $9? I couldn't believe it either. I had seen this dress at my local Forever21 in the Love21 section, but at the time they didn't have my size. So I was kind of bummed out. But then afterwards, I went to the next closest Forever21, and I found this dress! The first picture was candid, I was trying to get my bag on my arm, and my brother snapped the picture, before I could get it on. 

Dress: Love 21, Forever21

Necklace: Forever21 Tennis Necklace

Purse: Aldo Montross 

Shoes: Steve Madden (I bought these shoes 3 years ago)

Outfit of the Day

So I think doing Outfits of the Day (OOTD) is easier on my blog, than on youtube. Because on youtube, I always have to edit the videos, so I think that if I do them one by one, on my blog it's easier, because all I have to do, is take a picture. I want to thank Jessica for this top. She meant to give it to me last year, but she misplaced it, so she gave it to me this year, as a late birthday present. :) 

Top: Juicy Couture, Hat and Jeans: Forever21, Cardigan: H&M, Shoes: Charlotte Russe. 

I took this picture to give you a better look at the pleating on this top. 

I don't know why, but my legs always look so short. Next week, I will have better outfit of the day pictures. I've enlisted my brother to help me take pictures! So stayed tuned for that!