April Hot Buys

The April Hot Buys preview has been released and even though it may not be the best yet, it's better than last month anyway. That was my first reaction... but the more I look at it- the nicer and more stylish the clothes seem to be! They made a lot of the clothes small on the preview and the pink print dress it kind of covered up by the black fur vest so I can't wait to see them in big form. Anywho... I can see them well enough to review and grade them.

1. Splendid Hot Buys Headband- Hmm.. I don't really wear these types of headbands but this gold one is nice enough and it does have a nice unique design, it almost looks like a 'Celtic' design which is cool! B+

2. Rio Hot Buys Vest- This fur (seeing as it's virtual- obviously faux!) vest from 'Sonia Rykiel' looks more like a scarf to me and wouldn't actually look nice as a vest in my opinion. I would wear it as a long black faux fur scarf over a nice long dress and it would look gorgeous! Grading it as a vest..*shudders at the thought*... I'd give it a D-.... as a faux fur scarf...a B-

3. Bisou Hot Buys Print Dress- Even though I can't see the whole 'Stella McCartney' dress on the picture (and the Hot Buys Spring 2009 doll hasn't been released yet) I can see enough of the printed 'YSL' dress to know that I love it! It's design seems funky and fun to me, the shine is lovely too and the shape perfects it. A-

4. Pretty In Pink Hot Buys Blazer- I feel, for some strange reason, that I should like this 'Luella' blazer, maybe beacuse so many others do... but I don't. Believe it or not! It almost bores me, to me it's like something you'd see on a Western movie... and I have no idea why! Maybe it will look better on an actual MeDoll, anyways for now I'll have to give it what I think it deserves a.. C-

5. Pretty in Pink Hot Buys Heart Skirt- Unfortunately I don't heart this heart skirt inspired by Marc Jacobs. Sorry if you feel I'm giving out a lot! :) I know, the shape is pretty which would bring up it's grade but I actually don't like the colours or pattern used so from me it's a C+

6. Bisou Hot Buys Frock- This is one of my favourite items, the assymetric top and the bubble waist, it has a circus vibe (to match our blog's playlist!). I love it, possibly my favourite out of the April Hot Buys Collection and I'm giving it an A+

7. Fudge Hot Buys Tunic- I love this 'YSL' tunic- it's cute and flirty. Stardoll done a great job on this one, the real version isn't as nice but the real version has a 'YSL' locket instead of Stardoll's heart locket. B+

8. Bisou Hot Buys Necklace- I'm loving this necklace, maybe this is my favourite piece out of this month's Hot Buys actually! It's diva-licious! I am so buying this! A+

9. Rio Hot Buys Bow Purse- This 'Marc Jacobs' bow bag is so pretty and chic. I am buying this for sure! The shape isn't sooo unique but I love the simplicity of it. There's something about it that catches your attention! Yet another... A+

10. Pretty in Pink Hot Buys Heels- Oh Gawd, I love these! The colour, the design! So chic and stylish- I want these for my wardrobe, not just on Stardoll but in real life too! Do I have a new favourite of the whole collection, did I mention these shoes are 'Marc Jacobs'? A+

Well they’re my reviews- what do you think of the new Hot Buys? Did anyone else notice that Stardoll have lost their ASOS obsession but have replaced it with a Marc Jacobs one? See the designers of this month's Hot Buys if you don't believe me!

Bye for now!
Lisa

DenimDesign

Today I went to the StarDesign to see that there was 'denim' related items hanging on the wall of the clothes designing shop- a 'Denim' poster, denim colour samples and 'Carpe Denim' notes stuck on the pinboard. All of this suits Stardoll's current weekly theme, 'Carpe Denim'. I knew when I saw all of this that there must be new colours and clothes to suit the theme out in the StarDesign designing place so I went there and I saw I was right, well duh!

When I first went to design I saw the new 'denim' colours, (as seen above!), they're nice but that's what I was expecting anyway!

Above are the new available to design fabrics! Gorgeous, much?

I lurve them, especially the top two but... the prices... expensive, much?

I know, I know compared to LE or even Antidote they're cheap enough but I think Stardoll could have made them the slightest bit cheaper! Do you agree?

Of course I knew there must be new designs in the StarDesign Interior too and when I saw these (above) hanging on the wall in StarDesign Interior I knew I was right but when I went to design the furniture I saw the new colours but there was no new furniture available to design, you'd be expecting to see the furniture on the pinboard pictured above but no..?

Weird, huh? Maybe Stardoll just haven't got around to it yet or something..?

Opinions?

Lisa

Antidote

The highly anticipated limited edition shop, 'Antidote', has been released at last and it won't be too long until it's gone because of the fact that all the items are limited!

This store is hawt and I really recommend you to get your hands on some of the items before their departure as most of the items are cheap compared to LE with prices ranging from 10 t0 100 Stardollars!

The best thing is... it's not just a girls clothes shop (though a lot of it is!) there are also some boys clothes (finally Stardoll realised they have a lot of male users!) and funky furniture!

I love the shop- the clothes are chic, unique and mostly denim! I bought my favourite clothes, which I will inform you about later in this article! Unfortunately there are a few ugly/boring items of clothing though! I don't take a fancy for the 'Antidote' vest top or a few of the jeans, also the cropped jacket with the huge number of zips! When it comes to the boys clothes, who am I to judge what boys like? Boys, I need you to comment on this one! As for the decor, one word.. funky! The only one I bought was the swaying 'Antidote' sign as I'm strapped for cash at the moment but some of the other decor such as the abstract punk painting and the hanging socks are cool too!

Above are the bag and parcel you get when you buy your items from the hawt shop, I'm lovin them! It was almost a shame to open them but I got over it when my favourite clothes of the shop popped out of the bags- all the clothes and the pair of shoes I bought from the collection= my faves!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Eeek, I'm happy!

You know why, it's good old Saint Paddy's day!

In case any of ye didn't know I'm 100% Irish and 100% Proud!

No school for three days and today is never ending, just to let you know there was huge parades and parties on in my town all day today but no, it's not over another disco is starting at half eleven so I'm practically going out the door now (of course I didn't forget about my loyal readers though!) so I thought I'd pop over to Stardoll for a few minutes! :)

I wasn't surprised to see that Stardoll was celebrating the joyous festival either by releasing a ton of fun, green merchandise!

Seeing as I had the few minutes (and Stardollars!), I made a very unstylish but fun and green room and dressed my MeDoll in the cheap, (I won't say chic!), green patriotic clothes Stardoll released for the occasion! They should have released an Irish flag too!

In real life, however, I hear New York put all of us Irish to shame (once again!) by having an even bigger parade than any of our towns or cities in Ireland! It's kind of ironic!

Well, gotta go- see ya in a mo! (Not really, lolz!)

Bye, hope you had a good St. Patrick's day (and that it's still not over!).

Lisa

White / Black: To The Future

There is a new theme out on Stardoll for the upcoming week, "White and Black: To The Future".

I think it should be pretty chic and futuristic judging from the pictures above!

Opinions? (Sorry for the short post!)

The Mysterious Changing Dress

We all know Stardoll have changed the design of a lot of clothes in our suites by a little bit in the past, usually for the worse.

Like the time they changed our once-valuable Chanel clothes by replacing the Chanel 'CC' Logo with a crummy circle.

Also the time they changed the Hello Kitty t-shirt to a t-shirt with somewhat-resembling but much more boring, less cute etc. etc. cat.

Also when they replaced the Fendi symbol on the HotBuys bag to a double-rectangle.

I've noticed yet another change to one of my items of clothing in my suite, but this time, in my opinion, for the better!

My DKNY Pink T-Shirt Dress from the Fall 08 collection has been slightly changed to a new, more modern, better version. it's still the same dress but look at the picture below and you will notice the difference!

Luckily I had a picture of what the dress looked like before saved on my computer from when I first got the dress! Yes, I know my MeDoll wasn't the most attractive thing back then!!

Your opinion on the change (the dress not my MeDoll, lol!)

Lisa

Worse Than I Predicted...

The new DKNY weekly necklace was released earlier today.

Now don't get me wrong the title of the post doesn't mean I don't like the necklace, I actually love it! There's a very summer/coral feel to it!

It's the price that will make your jaw drop, it's even worse than the last time...

30 Stardollars,

yes you heard me...

30 Stardollars!!

C'mon Stardoll!!

New Hairstyles

Yes, today Stardoll released new hairstyle for our MeDoll in the Styling Studio.

No, don't get your hopes up, it isn't a huge lot of gorgeous hairstyles like the last time...

it's two boring (and in my opinion ugly) hairstyles.

When I first heard the new hairstyles would be in the short hair section I got bored.

I despise short hair on girls, whatever about everyone saying it's "chic" and "stylish", I just don't like it. In my opinion it makes girls look like trannies.

Please don't get offended if you do like short hair or have it, I'm just simply stating my opinion.

Anyway, I don't know what possesed me to do it, but I tried them on to show all of my loyal readers, that includes you, what they look like.

Exhibit A

This reminds me of Rihanna's latest do, yes the one where her fringe covers her eyes. I don't fancy it but I'd say it would look nice on some people. Again, you know how much I hate short hair on girls- that includes MeDolls! Woah, it was a sigh of relief when I put my gorgeous long hair back on my MeDoll. Anyways, this hairstyle is nice compared to the next one you are about to see...

Exhibit B

I think the eww-ness of this picture speaks for itself...

Anyway I know everyone has different opinions, I'd be delighted to hear yours, please comments (I'm begging you, lol!)

Lisa

DKNY- Stylish Spring

Hi there,

before I start my post on the DKNY Spring Collection I would like to apologise for the lack of posts recently, I know I haven't posted in like two weeks! The reason, you ask? Basically my life has been taken over by studying and concentrating on school, I'm sure you will all understand!

Now one other thing before I start my DKNY Spring 09 post is that, yes, I do know that the first part of this collection was released like 3-4 weeks ago and the second part, a few days ago but I never got around to giving all of you my opinions, rants and raves on them yet!

Shall I start:

DKNY Spring 2009: Part I

Despite the fact that a lot of people are saying that this collection isn't as good as they hoped it would be for the "Stardoll DKNY comeback", I love it! I think it represents everything Spring is supposed to be about! It contains all the latest trends for Spring: bold prints, polka dots and big bows. I also love shoes, they're funky yet stylish. My favourite items of this collection would have to be the Ikat Print Dress (the design is so unique and chic) and the oversized-bow belts, they're just gorgeous in every way! Unfortunately, I do have one or two complaints (hey, I am only human!) The scarves... ugh, I hate the shape Stardoll made them in and they remind me of Western movies for some strange reason! Also the pale yellow clothes would, in my opinion, have been nicer white.

What do you think?

DKNY Spring 2009: Part II

I love this part of the Spring collection too! For some reason I always connect orange with Spring so I feel this a very suitable colour Donna Karan used, ditto to the blue. In the first part to this collection most of the shoes were the same, just different colours but in this part they are all unique and individual, which is great! I especially love the black Open Toe Ankle Boots but they really remind me of the MKA Oxford Peep-Toes! My favourites of this collection would be the blue Sky Print dress and tube top! I love them, especially the shape of the top, so fun and energetic! I also adore the Twill Colourblock dress, it seems very 'organic' for some reason, like so may others, I am unaware of!! :) I don't want to diss Donna and her magnificent work but... those tasseled-tunics again remind me too much of Western movies! That skater-type printed tee with jumper underneath doesn't take my fancy either!

Once again, what do you think?

DKNY Spring 2009: To Be Released

As you can see from above, a lot of fabulous accessories will be released in the coming month from DKNY. See the picture to see when each lovely necklace or bracelet will be on sale and for how long. Yes that's right, there is a time limit to each one: one week. Don't get your hopes up though these probably won't become rares because of the one-week time limit because nearly everyone will always log on at least one a week! They are all to be pretty expensive though... seeing as the first one which is on sale now, the '20 years' one is 24 Stardollars! I bought it though, like the fool I am with money! :) My favourite is the 'DKNY' chain though I like them all!

What about you??

Bye for now,

Lisa.