DOLLFACES. I miss you.

HELLO LOVERS!!! According to my google reader, ya'll did NOT get the memo that I have moved to Wordpress, and this makes me sad. SUPER SAD. Unless you just aren't subscribing because you don't like me, in which case-k bai. But if you've been wondering where I've been since Feb...I have a new home and I'd love for you to come visit. Seriously. I miss you.

Click on this link to subscribe...and update your readers-and yes, you can still "follow" me the old blogger way once you get over there! PROMISE! I'm LOVING it on Wordpress, lot's of amazing stuff going on-so come over.

http://www.itsunbeweavable.com/

Much love! xoxo

A Car Accident and Bye, Bye Blogger.

Here's the thing, lovers.

I was in a pretty gnarly car accident yesterday and shouldn't be alive. I'm shaken up but feel like the luckiest girl in the world. My Mom was in the passenger seat and I think I get more upset thinking about what could have happened to her. Or thinking what Gabby would have done.

But, here I am, alive, achy and bruised, but ALIVE. And also with a new, gorgeous website designed by Lilu. It's so pretty! I can't think of a better day than today to start fresh. Check it out here...this is also where Lilu tells you how to update your "feeds" and shit. I dunno. :)

If I'm on your sidebar/blogroll-everything should remain the same...just check that it's set to www.itsunbeweavable.com

Bye Blogger...you've been (mostly) good to me, but it's time to move on. Disabling comments, come tell me what you think of my NEW HOME! xoxoxo

It's For You, No Not You...You.

I rarely use my blog as a way to communicate with someone else, I think that's lame. However...in the spirit of the month of L-O-V-E, I'm breaking my own rule. So dear Mr.,

In the best way ever. That's all. Have a good day, you.

In other news-sorry for being M.I.A, been so busy, like away from the computer forgetting to eat have so much going on at one time freebasing klonopin omg southern Cali traffic is killing me I hate my ovaries must do taxes this is THE longest week EVER I canNOT get sick why is my blackberry being such a bitch busy. So yeah. Miss you.

I *think* Lilu is moving me to Wordpress this weekend...I'm so excited...I'm so...SCARED. I don't *think* there will be any problems with my url, and all that good stuff. Why yes, "all that good stuff" IS the technical term. You're welcome. Anyway, my Covergirl post will be over there, along with other make-up questions some of you have sent me. Keep on sending if you have any others!

Have a lovely weekend!! Sorry for the weirdo post, today just sucked the life out of me. Looking forward to the rain in the forecast this weekend, wine and lot's of blog reading. XOXO

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Winners and A Random Lil Happy List!

First of all, thank you all so much for your comments on my last post. Without further lagging, here are the winners of my blog birthday giveaways. I used random.org and have the formal documentation if you desire, but it's fugly and it would be fugly x 5...so yeah, just let me know if you have any questions!

Faire Frou Frou $100 G/C- Micaela at Dolce Vita

Mandizzle headband and hair pins or ring- Chelsa Bea at Pencil Skirts and Pearls

30 Day Supply of Glowelle-Styleezta

jkl designs print-Belle Renee

Ritzy Misfit-Chloe' at Sean and Chloe'

Congrats!! Please email me your shipping info-itsunbeweavable@gmail.com, and for the Mandizzle, jkl and Ritzy Misfit-let me know which one you've chosen so we can get it to you as soon as possible! And if you didn't win, count on new giveaways soon!

I'm hoping I can read your blogs tonight while the rest of the world is watching LOST...but for now, a lil random, happy list.

• Lovely, lovely blog Rococo Vintage. I'm kind of obsessed...and I can feel my anxiety lessen when I visit.
• Kelly Cutrone. Rachel who?! Kell on Earth is my new addiction, I have been mesmerized by this woman since first seeing her on the Hills...badass, no nonsense and smart as hell.
• DIY Honey and Aspirin face masks. My love Nina at Femme Rationale (and Kelly. Hi bitch.) showed me the way...and I'm in lurve. Most of us have honey and aspirin tablets around the house, so this mask is basically free, and makes me give my expensive skin care stuff the stank eye. Tips-use uncoated aspirin, and only a teeny bit of water when dissolving it.Wet 2-3 tablets with a tiny bit of water, crush/dissolve, add some honey to make a paste...voila! Let it sit on your skin, read some blogs for 10 mins, and then as you wash it off, rub it into your skin as an exfoliator. Get complimented all day on your skin. Repeat about 3x a week. Anyone else think Honeybears are the cutest things ever? Makes me smile. Random.
  
  
• BABYCAKES LA is open! Since I'm sticking to a vegan diet these days (woot), I am beyond excited that this infamous NYC vegan bakery is now in my neck of the woods. Seriously, even for non-vegans, vegan cupcakes/cookies/good stuff are amazing. Plus, they're open til MIDNIGHT. Danger fabulous danger.

• As I'm writing this, I'm realizing that there are so many little things that are making me happy lately, and that realization is making me even happier!-but I'll stop here, and leave you with this lovely cover of Beyonce's Sweet Dreams that I am obsessed with and makes me think of someone special. I am now a certified Marie Digby stalker. Who's with me. I also covet her eyebrows. Someone posted this on twitter but I can't remember who, so if it was you, let me know so I can thank you for sharing.

What's making YOU happy this week?!

I'm An Unapologetic Fashion and Beauty Blogger, It's Nice To Meet You.

"Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French cut jeans; it's an open mind."

This post has been swirling around my brain for days..almost a month. About a month ago, I won Featured Blogger for the month of January on 20sb-due to many, many of you voting. I joined 20sb almost the day I started this blog, and I met so many of you through it. I love that community and am thankful for the honor, and the WONDERFUL people I meet everyday.

But all the visits from people outside the fashion blogging community got me thinking, and I have to admit that this month I've been self conscious. It's nothing anyone said or did, but here I am, afraid, and I hate that. I've tried, but I couldn't seem to shake the yucky feeling that I was quickly becoming the poster child for "are fashion bloggers worthy, talented, etc"...and it kind of left me questioning where I fit in as a fashion blogger in a world of personal bloggers.

In conversations with friends lately about what my true passions in life are, not just the blog, but in REAL LIFE, people, there is no denying it. Fashion. Beauty. And that's not something I want to be uncertain or embarrassed of, no matter what.

Maybe this infamous article in the Guardian reignited my fire. I don't know. What I do know? The day I was hired as a MAC make-up artist was one of the best days of my life, and this is just a little of my story. I had dreamt about being a MAC artist for years, and after working for Lancome and Estee Lauder, I landed the chance to "audition." First, there was a group interview, and then a round of cuts. Then the rest of us left had to do make-up on a model while some of MAC's highest ranked makeup artists looked on, silently, with their elite judgey eyes. Nerve.Racking. Except? I was in the zone. I didn't give a damn who was watching me. My model looked fierce when I was done with her.

And I made it, to the "Pro" team, even. I got the call while I was in the car with my best friend, obsessing over why they hadn't called me because they said they would either way, and maybe I sucked, what if I didn't get it and omg I had to get it, right, and is my phone working?!

I'm not going to defend the fashion or beauty industries in this post. I am not their voice, I am only my own. I don't want this post to be-can you be pretty and a writer? Can you be a make up artist and smart? Can you be interested in fashion and have a blog worth reading? Because I hate to sound harsh, but if you answered NO to any of those questions-you're in the wrong place, and I'm relieving myself of the burden to change your mind.

My experience with MAC and since, freelancing, define my happy place. Doing makeup for a fashion show or photo shoot? I don't think I've ever felt so alive! How fun is doing prom make-up and talking to the giddy and nervous 16 year old in your chair about her dress, her date...and smiling at her mom, trying to communicate with your eyes that you will not have her daughter looking like a streetwalker when she leaves. There is nothing like doing bridal makeup. Nothing. Period. Being a part of someone's wedding day?! A pretty intimate part too, especially if I'm on site. It's an honor. For the rest of her life, that bride will look at her wedding pictures, and she has trusted in me that each time she does, she'll see herself as beautiful as ever. And there is nothing as simple, but as lovely, as spending ten minutes with a young girl who has saved up for a few new lipglosses.

In my experience, beauty and fashion go hand in hand. Sometimes, we'd spend longer debating the make-up when styling out a photo shoot at my previous job than what the model was actually wearing-there were dresses, pieces, looks we HAD to shoot...but makeup and hair?! THAT is where we could get creative, and artistic. Most of my marketing budget went to hiring the best makeup artists in the world. I've stood next to Troy Jensen on a shoot as he transformed Miranda Kerr into a badass sex kitten. She is SO sweet in person...but it was Troy I couldn't keep my eyes off of, the one who I grilled during downtime, the one who, when I was introduced to HIM, and he said, "Marketing manager and make up artist huh?!!" I became a complete stuttering mess-basically my "I carried a WATERMELON" moment- "Um, yeah I mean for MAC, not like you, you're amazing..." With every flick of his wrist, it was magic. He brought our vision to life.

I don't usually talk about things like that, because there is something sacred about them to me. I have had experiences with fashion and makeup that nobody can take away from me, that I haven't wanted to share, but I felt it fitting for this post, my point of which is that the self doubt, the blog doubt and "what will they think" stops here. Covergirl recently sent me a ton of products, and turns out-I LOVE THEM. I know, I was surprised as hell too. I've talked about the products with so many friends, including some of you-but I've been afraid to blog about it. In the back of my mind I worried, what will they think if I do a makeup review? A tutorial? What will the 2.5 dudes reading my blog think? Am I vapid? Shallow? Not "serious" enough? Wait, when did I start taking myself so fucking seriously...especially on my blog?

{There is nothing I don't love about this photo. Just sayin. All images via}

Well, dolls...expect the Covergirl review this week. Expect more "Liz is Loving" , Balmain, and badass shoes. Expect coverage of NYFW. Because if I take away the fashion and the beauty, I take away some of my joy and I stifle a lot of me, of the girl those of you who have been reading for a while know-and I won't do that. This is just a part of me though-that is truly what I want you to understand. I'll still be writing about matters of the heart (my heart is in a really good place, fyi) anxiety, or the dumbass situations I get into (that subsequently cause my anxiety), don't worry.

Your blog is YOURS, and no matter the awards, page rank, number of comments-my blog is still MINE, and I apologize for letting fear get in the way. I'm back, betches.

Thank you's and hugs to Lilu, Kathleen and Kyla for helping me gather my somewhat jumbled thoughts. :)

Winners of last week's giveaways will be announced soon! xx

Evolve, Help for Haiti and Giveaway #5-Ritzy Misfit CLOSED

Thank you all so much for being part of my week long blog birthday party! I have one more giveaway below but first I want to say a few things...I'm happy a new year of blogging is here. I am going into this new year with a lot of the same goals and hopes that I have for 2010. I'm letting go of some things, learned a lot but I'm in a much happier and healthier place, and I know this will be reflected in my upcoming posts. If we don't evolve or grow-as bloggers, as writers, as people...what's the point?

However, I haven't done a fashion or beauty post in forever, and I'm not ok with that! I'm excited to get back to the fun, I'm excited to keep on keeping on, to smile and I'm glad to know you. I have met some of the loveliest, kindest people through this blog-people who remind me what is truly important.

On that note-my friend Lauren took her pants off for Haiti. :) The shirt she's modeling can be purchased here, for only $15-100% of the proceeds go to the Haiti relief effort. It's printed on American Apparel and says "Until we are all free" I'm buying mine now.

I also want to direct you to my girl Tiffany at I am Style-ish-please check out what Tiff and her brother Billy are doing to help Haiti. Incredible.

And last but not least, check out the new website for loveharder! Over $3,000 has been raised in a week.

But now...Giveaway #5-it's a little sentimental for me...tear, tear!

My first giveaway ever was a Ritzy Misfit. Brooke of RM and I instantly bonded and when her pendants were worn on the Bachelorette last season, I freaked out as if it was a friend I'd known forever. Somehow she balances her etsy store with a family including small children. She is a TRUE inspiration to me. Plus, I freaking LOVE my Ritzy Misfit necklaces. I kid you not, I get stopped every single time I wear one. I'm insanely proud-Ritzy Misfit continues to blow up and will be seen on the Style network and celebrities everywhere soon. Yay!!

Brooke is offering a customized Ritzy Misfit necklace with the letter/design and color of your choice...

A for...Ahhhhmazing?!! I dunno. She didn't have a picture of one with an E or an L. So whatev. But that's the fun part, you can get whatever you want! Your man's initial, your dogs, a fleur de lis...and whatever color you want. I love my turquoise, I am just sayin. Although my plum is pretty rad too. Also? A proceed of each Ritzy Misfit sold goes to help Haiti...

Le Rules...As usual...

1.Open to followers of It's Unbeweavable-however, seriously, I don't care. This is a thank you to my readers-so just let me know how you follow in the comments.

2. Visit Ritzy Misfit...what color would you want?

3. Become a follower of ritzymisfit on twitter/re-blog/tweet this giveaway-I'm @misslizzymarie

4. Separate comments if you don't mind, my loves

I'm going to have some fun this weekend that does not include excel or random.org, SO-enter all of the blog birthday giveaways until Sunday at 5pm PST-I'll disable comments after that. Do it, do it.

Faire Frou Frou

Mandizzle

jkldesign

Have a fun weekend!! Thanks again for playing along this week! xoxo

Blog B-Day Giveaway #4-Art I Covet CLOSED

New day, new giveaway!!

This is the second giveaway I've partnered with Leigh of jkldesign on...I adore her and her work blows my mind. Leigh's fashion inspired art has been featured in Dujour Magazine, Skirt Magazine and on both Forever 21's blog the Skinny, as well as inside the premier issue of Forever 21's editorial magazine. Below are a few of my favorites, but if you win you can choose any print from jkldesign.

{Eiffel Blush}

{Bisous}

{Well Read}

{Lanvin 01}

{Greenwich Reflections}

Le Rules...As usual...

1.Open to followers of It's Unbeweavable-however, seriously, I don't care. This is a thank you to my readers-so just let me know how you follow in the comments.

2. Become a follower of Leigh's blog CREATE (if you already are, lemme know)

3. Check out jkldesign...what print would you choose?

4. Become a follower of jkldesign on twitter/re-blog/tweet this giveaway-I'm @misslizzymarie

5. There are tons of ways to enter, and I hate to be a pain but pleasepleaseplease leave a separate comment for each entry, it will just make my hot date with Excel next weekend that much easier.

Faire Frou Frou Giveaway

Mandizzle Giveaway

Happy Thursday!

Blog B-Day Giveaway #3-Glowelle

Happy Wednesday!

Today's giveaway is going to be a lil different...I feel like I've been making you all do so much work commenting/tweeting/posting-thank you, and if you're new to my blog I will be saying hello soon...if you comment on any of my posts until Friday, you're automatically entered for this one. Does that make sense? You look pretty.

Ok...Glowelle. Some of you may remember last week I directed you over to my bff's blog, when he was giving away a 30 Day Supply of Glowelle. Coincidentally, I met Istvan when we were both working for Glowelle and having way too much fun in NYC together eating fried oreos at 3am and listening to Britney Spears. Ahh, memories. He has just left the company but not without stocking up on Glowelle for me...and now for you.

GLOWELLE (retail value $89), is the most potent anti-oxidant beauty supplement on the market. It is clinically proven to even skin tone and protect against the damaging effects caused by the sun. Rich in anti-oxidant vitamins A, C and E, combined with goji berries, green and white tea extracts, Glowelle nourishes your skin from within, and is essential in fighting off free radicals (those things that age your skin and destroy collagen).

I'm not joking you guys...this stuff works, and I was very skeptical, plus I hate drinking vitaminey (nice word, Liz) things, I don't even like Gatorade, but I had no problem with it, and there are tons of things you can mix it with, but I usually just threw it in a bottle of water. We used to sit around the office looking at each other and just saying, "your skin...it's glowing, what the hell." I don't think any of us actually expected it to work but it DID. I had way more energy than ever, my insomnia disappeared, I needed less concealer, and my hair was super shiny-so I'm really excited to get it back and have one of you try it too!

So that's it my loves. One of you will have a 30 Day Supply of Raspberry Jasmine (my fav flavor) coming your way.

If you haven't entered these already, get into it, as Istvan would say.

Faire Frou Frou $100 G/C Giveaway and the Mandizzle Giveaway!

Tomm (Thurs) back to our regular scheduled programming of giveaway madness-really excited about this one. :)

Have a beautiful day-comments disabled so I can get caught up with you xoxo

Blog B-Day Giveaway #2-Mandizzle! CLOSED

New day, new giveaway!

My love affair with Mandizzle is a pretty dirty one. I want everything in Mandi's Etsy shop, and I know that if we didn't live so far away, we'd totes be skipping through fields holding hands with fabulous headbands in our unbeweavable hair. Truth.

Seriously though-Mandizzle and the beautiful Mandi have been such a huge support to me, both on the blog and off, and while I appreciate her crafty ways, because lord knows I don't have any, I appreciate her friendship even more.

Ok...and that? Is PMS. I mean, Mandi dude, I love you but I'm near tears. OMG. Anyways! :)

Mandi is generously offering the following from her Etsy Shop to one of YOU-

The Dreamy Headband (we can talk colors if you win)
And either a set of hair pins or a ring. I'm partial to the Wild Rose Ring...
Or the Prettiest Hair Pins-Black Raspberry Blooms (Set of 3)
But that's just me! You can choose whatever ring or hair pin set you want, along with the Dreamy.

Le Rules...

1.Open to followers of It's Unbeweavable-however, seriously, I don't care. This is a thank you to my readers-so just let me know how you follow in the comments.

2. Become a follower of Mandizzle's blog (if you already are, lemme know)

3. Check out her Etsy-what ring or hair pin set would you want?

4. Become a follower of Mandizzle on twitter/re-blog/tweet this giveaway-I'm @misslizzymarie

5. There are tons of ways to enter, and I hate to be a pain but pleasepleaseplease leave a separate comment for each entry, it will just make my date with Excel next weekend that much easier.

Note-I'm keeping all the giveaways open all week, so you can keep entering. I've been planning this week for a while so don't be shy-this is my way of saying thank you. :) Day 1's $100 G/C to Faire Frou Frou is here, if you missed it. See you tomorrow! xoxo

Just found out Mandizzle is nominated in the Poppies-vote for her here! Woot!

Bringin Sexy Back-Faire Frou Frou $100 Gift Cert. Giveaway! CLOSED

So. Hi. I haven't read a blog in umm oh I dunno 4 days? Working on it. In blog friend turned real life friend news-Today, Gabby and I had lunch with Lilu and Amanda swung by for a min! I adore them both and can't wait to see them again, it was just too short (TWSS).

It's almost my blog birthday, which is fitting because I am going through some blog changes-the major being, with Lilu's expertise, moving to Wordpress. Whenever she's done ya know, flying across the country for 30 hours to have brunch with me. :) As a way to thank you for reading/stalking/lurking, I have partnered with some incredible shops and artists to bring you...

Five days, five fabulous giveaways.

With Valentine's Day approaching, I thought this would be a fun and fitting giveaway...

A $100 Gift Certificate to Faire Frou Frou! Get it, girl. (I totally just said that.) Anyways...you might already read their LOVELY blog Frou Frou Fashonista, but if you aren't familiar-Faire Faire Frou is the ultimate celebration of all that is feminine and flirty.

The store provides an intimate setting in which customers can select from must-have sexy, flirtatious dainties from top designers such as Fifi Chachnil, Vannina Vesperini, Myla, Strumpet & Pink, Guia la Bruna, Fleur T, Damaris, Carine Gilson and Nina Ricci. The store also showcases designs from new talents, as well as its own private-label collection of camisoles, tank tops, sweats, boy shorts and panties. And of course you can find favorites such as Hanky Panky, Cosabella, Keep Me, Only Hearts and The Lake & Stars. Faire Frou Frou is the perfect store for anyone who is looking for hard-to-find, luxury brands in intimate apparel; it brings the best of Europe straight to Los Angeles.

Fair Frou Frou has been featured in Lucky, WWD, W, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Modern Bride, FHM and been seen on Daily Candy, E!, MSNBC, among others. Kiiiiinda a big deal.

The darling owners-mother daughter team Gail and Alison (love)-are offering a $100 G/C to one of you, redeemable online, unless you want to come to LA and hang out with me, but picking out lingerie is kind of an intense first date, no?

Le Rules...

1.Open to followers of It's Unbeweavable-however, seriously, I don't care. This is a thank you to my readers-so just let me know how you follow in the comments.

2. Become a follower of the Frou Frou Fashionista blog (if you already are, lemme know)

3. Check out the site! What would you buy if you won? I'm nosey.

4. Become a follower of Faire Frou Frou on Twitter/re-blog/tweet this giveaway-I'm @misslizzymarie

5. There are tons of ways to enter, and I hate to be a pain but pleasepleaseplease leave a separate comment for each entry, it will just make my date with Excel next weekend that much easier.

Thank you so much to Faire Frou Frou! Tuesday a new giveaway!

Thank you to Faire Frou Frou for the verbage and image.