Thursday, June 30, 2011

Real Talk: Today's Outfit & Hot Chicks

I hate it when people tell me to watch what I eat. I never hear, "Watch what you eat, you want to live a long healthy life".  It's always, "Watch what you eat, your a very pretty girl and you don't want to get fat". I'm not "fat", but you can tell I like to eat. Call me Thicky Ricardo. The more and more I hear people talking about how important it is to "look good", the more obsessed I get about my weight, and needing to stay "beautiful". It's not that I don't care about how I look; I do. But to put things in perspective, I'm Dominican. Yea, yea, I know I'm white. Not all Dominicans are black you guys, lol. And being Dominican, I have a pretty gigantic bottom, and real round hips...

Me and my bodacious bottom :)

It's not that I'm planning on letting myself go. It makes me feel good to be in shape. But the more I think about what motivates me to maintain my weight, my health gets bumped down further and further on my priority list, and I find myself caring mainly about my superficial appearance. I've been planning to head back to the gym to trim up, but I've been feeling so guilty about focusing solely on my looks. I decided to bust out something sexy today and enjoy my figure as it is. I still plan on returning to the gym, but for the sake of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, not only maintaining my weight. I decided to show some love for stunning women who are not by the strictest definition "in shape". Here is today's outfit and real talk about "hot chicks"...






First, I gotta show some love for my full figured ladies...


Queen Latifah is the epitope of poise and grace. Name one time you have ever seen her in the tabloids acting a fool in public, or getting out of a limo without underwear (cough, cough, Britney!). Never. She stays true to her soulful attitude while completely being a lady. She is confident, and hysterically funny. I don't think anyone in their right might could use any word other than stunning to describe Miss Latifah.


Scarlett Johansson wears a size 8, not a size 2. She is a full figured chick with big knockers and chubby thighs, and she is ravishing. You will never find her wearing something slutty, and you won't find updates on her drug habits in the magazines. She is always of maintained composure. She may be thick, but she is elegant and totally hot.


Ah, JLo :) You may not know but JLo came up from nothing. She started her career as one of the fly girls on In Living Color, and is now the highest paid Latin woman in show business! This lady is badass, with booty for days. She is curvy as hell, and a total knock out. She may wear tiny shorts with open dresses, and show some skin in her videos, but she is always proud to be herself and flaunt her sexy curves.

This is not some hater rant to put down thinner women. You don't have to be thin to be beautiful, but you don't have to have curves either. Here are some skinny bitches who are smoking hot too...


Megan Fox may be super skinny, but can anyone deny that she is sexy as hell?! Megan is very provocative, but somehow she manages to be totally tasteful about it. She is well spoken when interviewed and personally, I think she's kind of funny.


I think Angelina Jolie is an alien. No, seriously. How can anyones face be so perfect? More importantly, she is the U.S. Ambassador for Unicef. She dedicates so much of her time and money to children in need, not to mention the small country she is forming with all the kids she has already adopted. She may not be a curvy woman, but she is beautiful inside and out. 

  This song goes out to all my fat bottom gals ;) 




Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Style Buzz: Bad-ass Blue Jeans

Denim is totally awesome. Thanks must be given to the hippies who, in the late 60's/ early 70's, adopted the then "po' boy" working man's attire, and gave way to one of the most iconic materials and staples in popular culture; blue jeans. From 70's bell bottoms, to 80's bleach stains, all the way through to today's skinny jeans, blue jeans have represented shifts in cultural attitudes, and displayed the evolution of both attire, and fashion. Just about anything you can fathom looks amazing in denim. Here are some of my favorite bad-ass blue jeans from 2011...

Derek Lam '11
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Marques Almeida '11
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Miu Miu '11
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Stella McCartney '11
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How's about a crazy makeshift denim wedding dress??

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ex's & oh's,

D. Mia

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Style Buzz: Banana Flavored Prada

This years prints have been bananas... literally. Prada introduced their S/S 2011, and a set of banana print items. Naturally, I went ape shit when I saw their fruity new collections:





Here are a few more banana ideas...

Banan-a-rama

Banan-a-rama by daniellamia98765 


Why couldn't I find these when I was looking for nail art?!? DOPE! They remind me of Shell Silverstein bananas :)



That needle point, rhinestone pin is killer! I was feeling rather tropical myself today, so I pulled out my lemon mini-cardigan-





until next time,

D. Mia

Monday, June 6, 2011

Style Buzz: Crazy Nalis

I've been obsessed with doing my nails since I was old enough to pronounce the colors on the bottom of the bottles. My admiration took a turn to crazy town when I moved to California; Asians get down with nails like it ain't nobody's business. This is where my affection for wacky nail art has taken me...

Fast food nails?!? there are even little 3d burgers on them! 
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Hot pink leopard french manicure... pretty much anything with hot pink leopard print is awesome.
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dollar bill nails?? beyond awesome.
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half moon manicures are already fabulous... add a vamp claw twist and call it New Moon.
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If you want a fun DIY nail makeover, peep the O.P.I. crackle, and layer it over any color you want... I picked:

Base: Sephora by O.P.I- Metro Chic
Top: O.P.I.- Black Shatter


until next time...

ex's & oh's,

D. Mia


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Bag n' Swag: Horseshoe Bags & Platform Pumps

Bag addictions run in my family. Since I was tiny, I remember purses and shoes being my mother's most coveted shopping items. As we grew up, my older sister developed her own, yet intense, passion for style. Naturally, the power of this addiction was genetic; which is why I am a bag and shoe addict. I am the queen of frugality these days. A double degree with burn a third degree hole right through your college budget. Still, my addiction drives me to unspeakable lengths when I'm in the need for a fix. There are certain things I always need. Namely, a great bag filled with goodies, and 6" heels. 

Tonight's Bag & Swag:





Amazing vintage bag
with horseshoe clasp 
& woven brass handle

Talk about baller on a budget- $5.00!!






 Polaroid i1035
-10.0 megapixel
-5.7-17.1mm
-manual f-stop, shutter speed,
white balance, & ISO

This is a MUST for me. I never leave the house without some type of camera. For a reasonably priced pocket camera, this one is awesome.





Cover Girl makes some decent stuff. The majority of their liners are chalky, but this one has a really nice tint if you have rosy lips like mine. It is really subtle under a nude or sheer gloss.

$6.99 @ Ulta








 Le piece de resistance! This Lip gloss
is a little more pricey...

NARS: Belize
$24.00 @ Sephora

but I swear by it!
It has the most natural blushing 
tint. It accentuates your lips
beautifully. This baby is worth every penny.






I LOVE Mac eyeshadows. I usually get my Mac info from Kabuki Kosmetics, and her make-up reviews on A Girl's Best Friend. I'm dying for her to do a crushed lip/ stains article! Crushed lips are my summer fancy.


Sumptuous Olive- $14.50
(their prices change yearly I think,
don't quote me on this.)




Speaking of stains, this cheek and lip tint is another higher priced commodity. It lasts forever, and it looks like you are blushing rather than wearing rouge. 


Benetint Lip/ Cheek Stain
$28.00 @ Sephora







These heels are great. They make me almost as tall as Shaq, but they are super comfy.                                                                                                                                       







You cannot go wrong with a pair of cropped trousers and black stiletto pumps. Cannot. German Shepards make awesome fashion accessories to these outfits :)

Kicks- suede; Steve Madden 








Until next time,

ex's & oh's

D. Mia

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Photo Love: Elinor Carucci

I really lucked out with professors this semester. Typically when I try something for the first time and it's not perfect, I get turned off almost instantly. So when my first set of color prints were not Museum of Metropolitan Art worthy, I was ready to throw in the towel; naturally. My color photography professor is exactly what I've been needing. She wasn't particularly gentle my first critique, but she did recommend that I look at photography, a lot of it. So I have been, looking at A LOT of pictures...


title: Mirror Reflection, 1999
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My first time alone in the photo lab, I think I only printed two pictures. I spent the rest of my time traveling the pages of countless photography books, as though each one were a road map, leading me somewhere; anywhere. 

title: Feet Moving on Bed, 1999
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I decided to cool my heels when I arrived at Elinor Carucci. I picked up Closer, and I remember reading just the first three paragraphs of her introduction. After absorbing a mild dose of information about her family, I was fiend-ing for more of her pictures.


Admittedly, I will tell you that I'm an amateur in every sense of the word when it comes to photography, despite my perusing it as a degree. Nonetheless, I choose to believe that my distinct perception of things makes me a potentially beautiful photographer, notwithstanding my amateur status. Believing as much, I think former is proven by what I discovered while visiting her pictures. 


At first, I was curious about how many times she photographed herself naked. Nudity doesn't bother me at all. I actually find myself instinctively drawn to all things vulgar. Only her pictures weren't vulgar at all. Instead, a sense of privilege came over me as I turned the corner of each page. She was being so honest; each picture more telling than the one prior. 



title: Mother Puts On My Lipstick, 1993
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Those three absorbed paragraphs I mentioned earlier, informed me of her photography obsession starting at 15, and beginning by taking pictures of her mother. She described her mother putting on her lipstick and the revelation, if I may be so bold as to label it that, which made itself relevant because of it.  I didn't read any more of the introduction until earlier this evening, even though I've looked at her pictures everyday since that first private photo session, two and a half weeks ago. I felt I knew enough by the little information fore mentioned to interpret the honesty and truth described in her photographs.


So I looked at them, over and over again, for days. Sometimes looking at the same picture for minutes on end. After enough of this, I realized what she was trying to tell me, trying to tell everyone, with her pictures. Nothing. They were not riddled with lessons learned, but rather lessons captured. They were souvenirs from her day-to-day; memories from a trip to her own life. And she was discovering when she took them, and printed them, and looked at them endlessly herself. Unknowingly yet ever so inquisitively, taking each day a frame at a time, and learning to see new things, though they may have been there all along. And I understood why I felt so privileged in those first moments when I experienced her pictures, because she encapsulated the essence of her discovery, and I got to be a part of it.


title: Naked, 1999
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I won't water down any more of her intellect with my own interpretations. If you feel so inclined to venture off and dicover her for yourself, start with her intro to Closer. Or, visit her website and tour her bodies of work, then read the info and see what resonated with you both before, and after. Here are a few more of my favorites from her earlier work. While you look at these, ask yourself if you have ever done anything this honest. I only hope that someday I can produce something with this much self generated truth.


title: Menstrual period, 2000
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title: Nipple Hair, 1996
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title: Eran Holds Me In Hotel Room, 2000
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title: After Argument, 2003
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For more from Elinor herself, check out some great interviews on her:


until next time,

D. Mia

Saturday, May 21, 2011

I Love My Fans.

I am on the hunt for fans and parasols .

I want to strut down the streets of Miami, masked in the shade of a parasol and fanning myself with one of these...

Art Deco Celluloid Fan







Hand painted girls blowing bubbles


Hand painted vintage silk

Click the images to brows the listings...

ex's & oh's

D. Mia