Chic Look: Missoni For Less

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Get The Missoni Look For Less

Who doesn't want a piece of Missoni in their lives? Especially when the designer-inspired items are actually nicer than their more expensive originals! Forever 21, in the US, have come up trumps with an amazing Missoni-lookalike, on the top right there, it looks quite short and fitted though, so perhaps one best left to the skinny minnies amongst us. Otherwise, layer over a crisp white blouse and some royal blue opaque tights, and anyone of any size could get away with it. It's very flattering on the waistline and bust, and of course the heavy pattern will detract eyes from any sore spots. At just $29.80, it's a far cry from the $1,766 which Missoni is charging for the dress in the top-left.

The scarves are not to be worn with the dresses - I'm sure I don't have to tell our gorgeous readers that - but they're a cheap way to incorporate their infamous patterns into your wardrobes. On the bottom left is a scarf from Missoni's latest collection, for £77, but the more true-to-original-style scarf on the right is only $58 from Anthropologie. I myself am sorely tempted by Forever 21's dress, sob!

Chic Product: Best Beauty Products

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Health Magazine picks best beauty products

By Sarah J. Gim on vaseline

Filed under: Coiffure, Cosmetics, Skin Care, Soaps & Salves

We might look to some of the glamour glossies for lists of the best beauty products, but Health magazine has named their choices for Best Beauty Products, that not only do their job of cleaning, moisturizing, covering up, lenthening or plumping, but are also healthy for you. They've tested hundreds of products and came up with these, everything from the drugstore to the department store:

• Best Facial Cleanser for normal to dry skin - Aveeno Ultra-Calming Foaming Cleanser ($6.99)
• Best Eye Cream for all skin types -Prescriptives Intensive Rebuilding Eye Cream ($65)
• Best Sunblock for all skin types - Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunblock SPF 55 ($9.49)
• Best Makeup - Almay Smart Shade Makeup
• Best Body Moisturizer - Vaseline Intensive Care Renewal Age Redefining Body Lotion
• Best Shampoo - Garnier Fructis Body & Volume Fortifying Shampoo ($3.79)
• Best Mascara - Ramy Triumph! Mascara Revitalizer ($19)
• Best Conditioner - Burt's Bees Grapefruit & Sugar Beet Conditioner ($8)
  
• Best Lip Moisturizer - Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Plump Perfect Lip Moisture Cream SPF 30 ($27.50)
  
• Best Hair Styling Product - PureOlogy DryShine Styler
• Best for Pedicures - OPI Feet By OPI
• Best for Manicure - Carol's Daughter Lemon Ginger Mint Manicure in a Jar ($10)

Chic Product: OXY

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Cheaper drugstore products work just as well as Proactive

By Brigitte Dale on skin care

Filed under: Drugstore Beauty Queen, Skin Care, Celebrity Style

Sorry Puffy, Jessica Simpson, and Lindsay Lohan... but it turns out you haven't found something miraculous after all. A recent segment on the Today show said that local drugstore products for fighting acne prove to be just as effective as Proactive, just without the celebrity endorsements. And, of course, they cost much less.

I've always remembered Proactive more for its impressive list of celebrity spokespeople than anything else. Somehow in the past few years this acne medication became a hot product to endorse. Brooke Shields, Kelly Clarkson, Elle MacPherson, and Vanessa Williams all claim this product has changed their lives. Now that it's been equated with regular drugstore acne medication on national television, I wonder if this "revolutionary skin care system" will lose some of its star power.

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Share Your Look on a new website

By Sarah J. Gim on shareyourlook

Filed under: On location, Style in the media

As much as I'd like to encourage you, our Styledash readers, to come and check out our own Styledash Flickr pool, there's a new website that deserves a mention.

ShareYourLook is an entire website dedicated to the idea of uploading photos of yourself to "share your style with the world." The site, which is currently in beta, is basically like Flickr, but filled with photos of people in their share-worthy outfits from across the world. Users can browse photos, collect them into Lookbooks, make comments and "meet" other users. ShareYourLook also has a Pricesortter function that I am guessing is meant to attract designers and vendors who want to "share" looks, and sell them, too.

Chic Site: Like.com

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Do you like what you saw? Here's where to find it

By Sarah J. Gim on paris hilton

Filed under: Bags and Purses, Accessories, Jewelry, Men, Celebrity Style

With the Holiday shopping season almost in full swing, new shopping-related websites are popping up faster than your can say "Charge it," and I'm not just talking about your basic online store where you click in knowing what you're going to buy and buy. I am talking about the whole new world wide web 2.0 of shopping -- browsing, discovering new things things to buy on the fly, and just sort of "hanging out."

One new site in this genre is Like.com, which helps answer that question we also ask in our heads when looking at photos of celebrities, "Where did she get that?" From their database of celebrity photos, a shopper can zero in on a specific accessory with their cursor, and Like.com's technology will search and show results of products that are similar. For example, drawing a box around a wristwatch in a photo of Paris Hilton brings up hundreds of watches that look similar.

It's a cool concept, and of course, there is room for improvement as the site is still in "alpha." For example, most of the time, I don't care about finding shoes like Jessica Alba is wearing. I want to know the exact shoe, designer, and style. Also, Like.com doesn't do clothing yet, which means I am still on the hunt for that plaid skirt on Victoria Beckham!

Chic Finds

Knit winter baret from Forever 21 $9.50
Not the same with what Rachel Bilson wearing but similar in style:


Stone necklaces from Forever 21 $5.50 each




Bubble skirt from Marshal for $7 (mine's in black)


Gold ballerina flats for $15 (mine is a bit different from the picture)

Another Grey Skinny Jeans Source

Frugal Fashionista found one more store that sells grey skinny jeans.

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Reader request - Hilary Duff