Latin Culture
The Snow Princess: Revealed!
Friday, January 1st, 2010As mentioned earlier this week, I wanted to reveal the purpose of my Snow Princess project, are you guys ready?….. *drum roll please* Here it is!
My secret inspiration was my sister’s theme for her fun winter wonderland Quinceañera, in Latin America this is a huge event that marks a girl’s coming of age into adolescence, [...]
The Snow Princess – 2nda Parte
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Today I wanted to share with you another sneak peak of my winter inspiration ;) I will reveal the the purpose of this theme at the end of the week, my Snow Princess is getting ready and I can’t wait to share the news and all the pictures of this wonderful project, stay tuned!
Much love [...]
Photoshop Victim: Penelope Cruz
Tuesday, October 27th, 20098
Vanity Fair -October 2009, Vogue-November 2009
Penelope Cruz is gorgeous and one of the few famous Spanish speaking women in Hollywood, however I am astonished by the amount of photoshop used in her recent covers. Vanity Fair went overboard with the contrast and I don’t know what happened to Penelope Cruz’s face on the October issue [...]
A Latin Wedding + D.I.Y Fascinators
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009A few weeks ago I attended my cousin Julio’s wedding, congrats to the new married couple! I decided to wear something simple and seeing so many beautiful vintage feather fascinators I knew I wanted to wear one to the event. However, having a small head can be a disadvantage especially when I found out that [...]
I’m back from Guatemala
Saturday, May 16th, 2009About 3 weeks ago, I decided to pack my bags and leave New York City for my home country Guatemala. Hey after seeing a $250.00 round trip ticket and knowing how amazingly cheap food is (less than $3.00 a day) plus free family accommodations I could not pass up this opportunity! I had decided to [...]
Obscure Fashion Icon: Gloria Trevi
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Dear Gloria Trevi:
I have not heard from you in a while but this year I finally saw you in “bailando por un sueno” (Spanish- for dancing with the stars). I still remember you as the beautiful wild haired girl with the ripped and colorful stockings, I loved your music when I was 9 years [...]
The Low Budget Quinceañera
Monday, January 19th, 2009To those of you who are not familiar with the term Quinceañera…to put it simply it’s a big FAT celebration in the Latino community that includes an over the top gown, huge Merengue cake, stretch limo, church, flowers, sparkly tiaras and non-stop dancing, not necessarily in that order but you get the point. The celebration [...]
