I am the proud new owner of a brand new holiday: National Silly Earring Day celebrated annually on April 13th! I’ve been thinking about founding a holiday that celebrates unique earrings for quite some time. When I was younger, I thought that all earrings were expensive, made with fine metals, gems, and diamonds. As an…
Category: Fashion & Beauty
Kinder Beauty Box Review & Think Dirty Rating
A few weeks ago I got my first ever Kinder Beauty Box! I am a huge fan of subscription boxes and love my FabFitFun and CAUSEBOX. However, I’ve been stressing over the negative environmental impact of all my shopping. In this Kinder Beauty Box review, I’ll explain how this box is a greener option for…
BLAQ Activated Charcoal Teeth Whitening Powder & Toothpaste Review
I have always been a fan of using charcoal to whiten my teeth. The combination of braces stripping off my enamel and bad tooth genes left me with not-so pearly whites. Using charcoal is effective but not the most convenient, which is why I decided to try BLAQ Activated Charcoal Teeth Whitening Powder. I actually…
Ultra Violet Brightening Purple Clay Mask: Generation Clay
Yesterday I finally tried the Ultra Violet Brightening Purple Clay Mask by Generation Clay. I got this mask through my FabFitFun subscription; it was a paid add-on in my Winter Box. If I’m being completely honest, I already had a LOT of face masks and didn’t need another. However, I really wanted a clay mask,…
Think Dirty – Shop Clean: The App That Helps You Be Safer
“Think Dirty – Shop Clean,” is the brilliant slogan of a company that wants to help you make safer choices. Think Dirty is an app available for iOS and Android that tells you more about your products’ ingredients. Their database has over 850,000 cosmetics and personal care products, so you can just scan the barcode…
FabFitFun Personality Test: Apparently I’m a Dreamer
Today I took the FabFitFun Personality Test. I’ve been really into all things FabFitFun. Their magazine is full of great tips, their boxes are great, and their add-on deals are too good to resist. They even have a community where members can interact and chat. I don’t normally take the time to do personality tests,…
FabFitFun Spring Box Customization & Add-Ons
Today I got my much-awaited FabFitFun Spring Box Customization email! Just yesterdays the Add Ons opened and despite setting an alarm, I got too engulfed in my work and didn’t get to explore the options until three hours later. Some of the things I wanted were already gone! Today, there is even less. Which is…
Anese Body Creams: Care for Booties, Boobies & More
Anese is serious skin care for not so serious babes. They have a range of products with hilarious names and amazing reviews. After seeing their fun ads on Facebook I decided to bite the bullet and buy their Front to Back Set. I managed to find a coupon simply by Googling and I got the…
CAUSEBOX Winter Box 2020-2021: About the Products
The CAUSEBOX Winter Box showed up on my doorstep a few days ago! Somehow I had completely forgotten that it was on its way and I didn’t even think that I had personalized it. Looking back through my emails, it looks like I did in fact go through the customization process. Just like with the…
oVertone Hair Dye for Brown on Bleached Hair: AMAZING Results
I have written about oVertone Hair Dye before, but I had to do it again. Last time I dyed my dark brown hair purple using oVertone after Arctic Fox completely failed me and I was amazed. It was impressive that there was actual purple color on my dark hair. But I couldn’t help feel jealous…
Insect Mother: Unique Jewelry Collaborated with Nature
Marinea Heindel is not your typical woman. Known as Insect Mother, Marinea plays with bugs and makes art out of dead things. Intrigued? So was I. Which is why I contacted her and asked if I could share his unique work on The Travel Bug Bite! Check out her Etsy store ASAP, but keep reading…
Monthly Earring Mania: Earring Subscription as a Christmas Gift
I created Monthly Earring Mania because I am obsessed with fun subscription boxes. They have done irreparable damage to my wallet, so I wanted to make my subscription as affordable as possible. I decided to start my subscription when I discovered CrateJoy while working on an article about 99 monthly subcription boxes! It took me…
FabFitFun Winter Box: Customization & Add-Ons
I ordered my FabFitFun Winter Box on a whim after already ordering a CAUSEBOX. It did earn me a “do you really need both?” lecture from my husband who wishes he married Marie Kondo instead. However, this is not only a fun box full of heavily discounted lifestyle items that will spruce up my life…
CAUSEBOX Fall Welcome Box – Thorough Review and Item Investigation
A week ago I received my CAUSEBOX Fall Welcome Box. I have seen ads for CAUSEBOX for years and I was super excited to finally order one. Unfortunately, I chose the worst time to do it and it took the box weeks to get to me because I had moved and was unable to forward…
National Croc Day: Are They Back in Style?
National Croc Day comes around every year on October 23rd and celebrates the loved by some, hated by others boating shoes. The “Beach” design launched in 2002 at a perfect event, the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. The shoes were such a hit that 200 sold that day and, over the course of time, 300 million…
CAUSEBOX vs. FabFitFun: At First Glance Comparison
CAUSEBOX and FabFitFun ads have been all up in my face while I have been MIA from the blog. Isaac and I are currently living in a hotel after selling our house. We are technically homeless with the hopes of moving into a new house soon. We are juggling work, freelance writing and Etsy, which…
10 Tips for Etsy Sellers to Boost Sales
These 10 tips for Etsy sellers can help you if you are just starting a store or hoping to boost your existing business. A year ago I would have laughed at the idea of giving Etsy advice to others. I started my store in November 2018 and I didn’t hit 100 sales until May 17,…
Crazy Hair Dye: oVertone Review
I am writing this while binging America’s Next Top Model. The girls are getting makeovers, some are leaving the show and others are merely simply. Then here I am, inspired to write about a super fun topic: oVertone hair dye! Like most girls, I have gone through many hair changes. I’ve had my hair dyed…
How to Wear Food-Themed Earrings? Part 2
Perhaps the most impressive earrings are also the hardest to wear. The egg looks like it’s about to ooze yellow goodness and the bacon even feels crispy! Outside of cooking class the only appropriate occasion I could fathom for wearing these scrumptious earrings was Sunday brunch…
How to Wear Food-Themed Earrings? Part 1
My recent obsession with food-themed earrings resulted in numerous “just one more” purchases at potvor.cz. This Czech online store opened up a whole new world of accessories for me while presenting a unique challenge: how can I incorporate food-themed earrings into my daily life without alienating friends or getting fired? Pink ice cream cone earrings…
10 Most Bizarrely Awesome Food-Themed Earrings
Food and fashion have always been in the spotlight of our society, playing an important role in our self-expression and identity. It is no wonder that food-themed fashion has made its way into our lives and onto many Pintrest boards. In the past, a pizza-print t-shirt may have been intended as a gag gift but…
Haggling for a Tailor-Made Suit at Shanghai’s AP Plaza’s Fake Market
In China, most consumer items are cheaper than almost anywhere else in the world. As we have posted before, Taobao is usually our go-to place for cheap goods, especially clothes. However, this particular item I wanted to buy in person. In person, you can get accurate measurements, try on the suit when it’s finished, and of course, in China you can take part in a coveted sport of sorts: haggling!
Taobao Trendy: Online Bargains in China
When I’m not traveling, crafting or telling other people to eat insects even though I don’t anymore, I’m trying not to shop because I have way too many clothes. How did I go from moving to China with five suitcases between Isaac and myself to having piles of clothes over the apartment and bursting out…
What NOT to do with Essential Oil
Two weeks ago I discovered the wonders of essential oils and became a walking cliche. I’m a vegan who loves essential oils and I blog about it. But hey, at least I don’t do yoga and I don’t have a cat… yet. Anyway, it seems like everyone and their mother is obsessing over essential oils…
My Beauty Farm: Natural Cosmetics in Shanghai
“Ooh, this skin cream looks great,” I have thought on many occasions while strolling through the malls of Shanghai. I lift the product off the shelf and glance at the label out of habit even though I don’t understand a word. More times than I care to admit, I actually took it home and put…
Chinese Hair Salons: Cheap Haircuts, Pricey Hair Coloring
I’m the type of person who puts off getting a haircut in fear of a hairdresser butchering my hair. This fear is magnified in a country where I can’t communicate properly with the man holding the scissors – which is my fault, but that’s not the point. Getting a haircut in China involves repeatedly showing the…
Getting Aliexpress to Deliver to China!
Aliexpress has been growing in popularity all over the world. People are slowly getting over the misconception that “made in China” means bad quality. You can save so much by ordering clothes and electronics “wholesale”. Due to some confusing legal mumbo-jumbo, Aliexpress doesn’t deliver to China. A lot of online stores in Europe and the US actually…
Tailors in China: Cheap & Genius
Chinese fashion isn’t for everyone. The clothes and sizes don’t sit right on curvy body types and shopping at Western stores isn’t cheap. During my crafting obsession I somehow convinced myself that I could make myself a dress without a sowing machine and I ordered beautiful material that just gathered dust. With the help of…
Living in Huaqiao: Basic Beauty 101 (Guest Post)
Keeping chic in Huaqiao isn’t easy when all the elements are against you! Here’s some tips…
How to Wear Food-Themed Earrings? Part 2
Perhaps the most impressive earrings are also the hardest to wear. The egg looks like it’s about to ooze yellow goodness and the bacon even feels crispy! Outside of cooking class the only appropriate occasion I could fathom for wearing these scrumptious earrings was Sunday brunch. Forgoing my usual outfit that closely resembled my pajamas,…
Up Close and Personal with… Alena Wilson, Prague’s Queen of LBDs
Alena Wilson is a 37-year-old fashion designer from the Czech Republic. She has two kids, a girl who is six, and a boy who is four. Her husband is American and runs his own business in Prague. They live in a household with two cocker spaniels, black and gold, and two goldfish that were recently…
Alena Wilson makes little black dresses for real women
Czech fashion designer Alena Wilson finds inspiration, in clients and models who are all “real women.” The 37 year old’s first collection was a series of simple and elegant small black dresses, or SBDs. She says every woman needs two SBDs in her closet: one that is simple and can be worn with anything and…
Gallery: Yoka Sola takes a personal touch to lingerie
French fashion designer Yoka Sola came to Prague seeking to fill a gap in the Czech Republic’s lingerie industry. “I always wanted to create something new, and the idea was to offer something that you couldn’t find in the Czech market: colorful sexy lingerie,” Sola says. Her aim is to offer her clients a personalized…
More Than Religion believes in the power of numbers
Alena Bělíková is the owner and curator of More than Religion, a company that combines creating fashion with network for photographers, models and anyone who wants to experience working in the fashion industry. Right now the company is working on publishing its first online magazine. http://www.praguepost.com/fashion2/38395-more-than-religion-believes-in-the-power-of-numbers
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