FASHION INSIDER : April 2013

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Tips from a Chanel Master Class

Natural brows

I’ve attempted to use brow pencils before but never really liked my results. I always felt they made my brows look too severe, overdrawn and heavy.
But I guess that’s just because I never knew the secret. It’s actually pretty easy to get natural-looking brows with a pencil.
Start with a brow pencil in the correct shade.
How do you know the correct shade? Well, if you have dark brows like I do, opt for a brown pencil, instead of a black one; black pencils often look too severe. I love Chanel Precision Brow Definer in Soft Brown , a medium brown without red undertones.
And if you have lighter hair, Chanel just released a new shade of pencil for fall called Blond Clair, which the instructors said works great. Not too dark, it has just enough color to define lighter brows.

Meow! Stylish Big Cat Prints Rule The Streets!

The safari/jungle trend has confirmed that big cat prints are still very much a wardrobe essential, and since they can be paired with everything from neon hues to other standout prints, they’re practically a neutral. You'll want to wear these playful motifs all season long.

RUNWAY-REALWAY!

Andy shows us an easy way on how to incorporate a look from the runway into your wardrobe.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Recipe Of The Week-Antioxidant Power Muffins

antioxidant power muffins + clementine glaze
adapted from Dr. Weil’s True Food
serves: makes 7-8 little bundts or 12 normal muffins notes: If you eat them, feel free to replace the mashed banana with 3 beaten eggs to avoid any trace of banana-ness. Also! I know if you’re high on health, you might want to turn your nose up at the glaze portion. I found it pretty crucial to the whole experience. This batter isn’t terribly sweet, so the glaze has a rather serious function in the grand scheme (way serious).
muffins:
1 cup whole spelt flour
1/4 cup almond meal (or use more spelt if you like)
1 1/3 cups ground flax + chia seeds (or go with pure flax or pure chia)
2/3 cup coconut palm sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
pinch of ground ginger
pinch of fine sea salt
1 ripe banana, mashed
2 tbsp melted coconut oil + extra for greasing
1 3/4 cups milk of your choice (I used almond)
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 cup frozen blueberries, thawed (or fresh if they’re in season)
3/4 cup unsweetened dried cranberries
1 cup roughly chopped walnuts
2 tbsp cacao nibs
clementine glaze:
juice and zest of 1 clementine
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease your mini bundt or muffin tins and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the spelt flour, almond meal, flax + chia seeds, coconut sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, ground ginger and salt.
Mash the banana in a separate medium bowl. Make sure it is fairly smooth. To the banana, add the coconut oil, milk and vanilla extract. Whisk to combine.
Scrape the banana and milk mixture into the dry indredients (flour, ground flax etc). Gently fold the batter until it is just combined/there are no more dry bits of flour. Add the blueberries, dried cranberries, walnuts, and cacao nibs and gently fold them into the batter until evenly distributed. The batter should be quite thick at this point.
Fill the muffin cups/bundts with the batter to 3/4 full. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean and muffins bounce back when you press your finger onto the tops. Cool the pans on a wire rack completely before turning out onto a plate.
While muffins are baking/cooling, make the glaze: whisk the clementine zest, juice and powdered sugar together until smooth. Apply glaze to the tops of completely cooled muffins.

Latest News-JOHN GALLIANO

JOHN GALLIANO will reportedly teach a masterclass series at celebrated New York fashion college Parsons The New School for Design. Students were allegedly notified of the news via email.
The session, named Show Me Emotion, will explore the power of emotion in relation to fashion design. Galliano will lead a three-day workshop and will join the college dean Simon Collins for a final day of critique, Lucky reports.
Last month, the designer met with Central Saint Martins students to comment on their work, having previously set them a project theme. Rumours of a permanent teaching post were dismissed by a CSM spokesperson.