Celebrity Foot Candy. To Shoe or not to shoe?

 I see the latest outlet for the money hungry celebrity/wannabe is to design a shoe collection. Now I', not sure what makes these starlets experts on footwear considering they are collected and dropped from house to premiere to bar and have probably walked only a few meters in their Louboutin stilettos however they have been putting pen to paper or at least claiming to do so in order to exploit us naive females into parting with our cash. Easy targets! Celebrity + shoes + gullible woman on the street = megabucks!

One such woman is Cheryl Cole who is now on her second shoe collection for Stylistpick.com. I was impressed by her cute shoe boots and day time ankle boots with prices around €180. However the sandals were slightly on the tacky side. More pole dancer than disco. However her summer collection has improved slightly with chunky block heeled sandals for €146 in this season coloured brights. Not cheap but could be worse.

Rachel Bilson revealed her new shoe collection last November called shoemint. The new styles can be viewed at www.shoemint.com. She has definitely done her homework and taken charge of this project. Rachel has created quite a diverse collection with a slightly more relaxed edge to her designs, especially for Summer.

With prices around €100 per pair and reviews that the quality is very good, it's definitely a range worth looking at.

The latest designer on the block is Chloe Green, Topshop heiress and one time "Made in Chelsea" cast member. Now true celeb she may not be but she certainly has the knack of shoe designing. Her brand CJD (Chloe Jade Green) complete with green soles has launched in Topshop and I will be racing down to have a try on at the earliest opportunity. Apart from the heel height being slightly scary I absolutely love the designs as they are different to what's around at the moment. Here is where my shoe fettish begins......

CJD €165

CJD €130

CJD €175

My Millie Mack.

I have a new girl fashion crush. Millie Mackintosh. It started as a guilty pleasure watching "Made In Chelsea" in secret every Monday night and slowly through the help of the media it has now turned into full on green eyed monster obsession. She's is gorgeous has the perfect body, trendy famous boyf and the most amazing wardrobe in the worls. (slight exaggeration but you know yourself!)

Not only is she an expert make-up artist.       http://www.missmilliemakeup.co.uk/ 
But she is one hell of a fashionista!

Lets have a look at the fantastic fashion taste of "The Mack".

Millie in Prodiga

Millie in Morocco in Missoni Dress.

I loved this dress when I saw Millie wearing it in Dubai so I did some digging and found out it is from Prodiga again. (A Mackintosh favourite.) Absolutely stunning.

Jean Pierre Braganza

Millie and Professor Green.

I will be keeping one eye on "Made in Chelsea" and one eye on her blog so I can copy her secrets. Single White Female comes to mind!

Best Of The Met

Ooooh I love a good goo at the latest Celeb Black Tie event so This morning I couldn't wait to feast my eyes on this years attendees to the Met Ball which was paying tribute to Elsa Schiaparelli. There was surprisingly a lot of metallics at this years event as well as a slash of burnt Orange, yellow and of course black (the aul reliable!) Here were the ones that caught my eye.

Emma Stone in Lanvin

Karolina Kurkova in Rachel Zoe

Carey Mulligan in Prada

Jessica Alba in Michael Kors

Camilla Belle in Ralph Lauren

Mint Choc Chip

As you know I'm not really a pastel girl (apart from my obsession with all things nude!) But lately since I have been dosed in the flurry of pastels when I go shopping, my eye keeps being attracted by many a mint garment. It's so pretty and soft and reminds me of mint choc chip ice cream which is a bonus in itself..... Here are a few of my finds.

"Sold Out Forever" Polish by Catrice

Love Chiffon Wrap Hi Lo Dress €64

Bershka Vest €15

Aldo clutch €40

Zara Dress €49

ASOS Cuff €20

Flash Lashes!

For work I normally like to keep my make-up a little toned down as opposed to the transvestite borderline I like to tease at the weekends. Just a really smooth and flawless make up base and a really good lick of mascara. However I am going through a bit of a mascara crisis at the moment ( Horrific I know, call Primetime) . I want my lashes thick and full looking but also with length and not clumped. Sounds like I'm looking for the impossible........

I have a little trick which I have been using this last while but it does involve always having two types of mascara in the make-up bag. Its a double whammy.... First after curling my eyelashes I put on two layers of L'oreal Voluminous Mascara (My oldest and most reliable)

As you can see the brush is quite thick and it does give my lashes loads of volume but does have the slightest tendency to clump too. So now for the next step.....

Step two I use L'oreal Telescopic mascara. The skinny brush on this mascara separates out any clumps from the first coats and also its so tiny that it reaches the inner and outer corners or the eye and the lower lashline easily, plus the final bonus is that telescopic is magic and it adds extra length to the tips with its tiny fibres and Harry Potter powers..... Boom!   I also must add that using telescopic on its own makes really pretty long lashes for a paired down effect without the volume.

Now I know whta you are thinking how can I get those effects from ONE mascara. Well I'm not sure any I have found have yet to beat my double whammy but they do come darn close.

Maybelline Falsies is not a bad follow up Mascara. The curved brush gives good access and the colour was black black giving a dramatic effect. I must admit I was pretty impressed with the fullness and volume, the only issue here was having to use a lash comb afterwards to remove clumps but otherwise impressive.

Rimmel Max Volume is great value for money but I did find the brush quite big and was more difficult to use on the lower lashline. There was a again a good amount of volume but there was also a lot of clumping and was slightly messier to use.

Finally L'oreal (Yes they are the Queens of mascara) Lash Architect. I was slightly impressed by this discovery. Aswell as extra length, I found that I also got some addes curl from this mascara. Less volume than the others but still a dramatic effect. The only downside to this was that I had to use seperate eye make-up remover as it didn't come off with my ordinary cleanser.

For now I'm going to stick with my double mazzy approach but will keep on the prowl for any new releases to keep my peepers popping.