Junko Mizuno teamed up with French label Judith Lacroix to release a small edition of tshirts featuring Junko’s characters. The tshirts have some of her most popular designs reworked with new colors, glitter!! and french phrases. The first tshirt on the top is amazing. I absolutely love the red glitter and the teal blue combination. I really want to buy it except for the fact that the tshirts are priced at 49 euros and that exchanges to a little over $75 USD!!! I love Junko and have spent A LOT of money hunting down her toys on ebay, buying out of print manga and all of the typical crazy super fandom, but $75 for a tshirt is too much for me atleast now. But my birthay is around the corner. Anyone anyone?

Visit Judith Lacroix for more info and purchase the tshirts.

http://www.helmo.fr/

nothing in my mind is as sharp as a blue red combination. against black especially the colors are energizing and captivating to the eye.

Clockwise from top left: L.A.M.B. Los Feliz Nylon Wilshire Tote, Miss Selfridge Pink Ruffle Dress, Avignon Square Buckle Belt, Luichiny Silva Orange Platform, Lancôme Juicy Gelée Lip Gloss in Orange Burst & Lollipop Pink, OPI Nail Lacquer in I’m So India Love With You, China Glaze Nailpolish in Orange Knockout, Marc by Marc Jacobs Orange Cuff Watch, NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Red Square, Perfumeria Gal Orange Lip Gloss Tin, Medusa Makeup Eyeshadow in Red Orange & Pink

Indulge your senses with a taste of this spring’s citrus sweet colors. Dare to be different with a highly saturated color palette straight from your most beautiful tangerine dreams.

This shoe is called the “Jupiter”! I need it!! Sharp & sexy.

All Saints - Jupiter Shoe £95 ($188)

Nine West - Heathers $93

Made By Elves - Evan Oxford $50

L.A.M.B. - Gianira Peep Toe $325

Pictures of the new Reebok x Colette x M.O.B. sneaker came out today. I love the sole of the shoes but I’m not sure how I feel just yet about the rest. Do you guys love it or hate it?

source: clones.fr and sneakernews.com

Custom Stackable Sterling Silver Ring - $32.50 for 1

Custom 5mm Sterling Silver Ring - $52.50 for 1

Custom Sterling Silver Guitar Pick - $62.50 for 1

I really love these customized rings and guitar picks for Etsy seller chrisparry. You can choose up to 20 to 30 characters depending on the item. This would be a great gift for someone special or just something nice to have for yourself. The shop also has some other great jewelery designs including necklaces and bracelets.

www.chrisparry.etsy.com

please click to enlarge. i need to find out who painted this. i found it on stumble and have no idea where its from, not even it’s name. as you can see its a painting of several famous people throughout the ages. anyone with information on the painter please contact me!!

“Gwen Stefani will introduce her new Harajuku Lovers fragrance collection this fall. For the project, Stefani created dolls based on herself and her four real-life backup singers, Love, Angel, Music and Baby — and turned them into scent bottles.

The scents will each be available in two sizes: $45 for 30 ml. and $25 for 10 ml. A coffret, which includes solid perfume versions of all five will retail for $60.

In the U.S., the Harajuku Lovers collection will be sold in some 2,200 department and specialty store doors, including Macy’s, Nordstrom, Dillard’s and Sephora. The lineup will also be sold in 17 international markets, including Japan, the U.K., France, Australia, Germany and China. Worldwide, the scents will be in about 10,000 doors.”

I’ve always had a problem with this whole Harajuku Lovers thing. I mean, Gwen Stefani could not possibly begin to understand the incredibly vast and mind boggling spectrum of different styles/fashion groups that the Japanese youth take part of, let alone sum it all up in such a literal one dimensional way with your “cutesy” fashion line. I think that the people who buy Harajuku Lovers just want a piece of Gwen .. even if it is a watered down representation of just a small piece of what Harajuku/Japanese fashion actually is.

That being said .. I think the bottles are cute. I would buy one because of that fact alone. Does that make me a hypocrite? I mean I do love Hello Kitty. I love unicorns and rainbows and stupid glittery cell phone charms. I collect toys and pointless Japanese Kawaii crap. I have a manga collection and a Kuromi showercap. But I have never stopped and said “Wow, that’s Harajuku Lovers bag is so cute” ….

OK Gwen fans please do not send me hate mail. I love Gwen, I really do, but I think she may be playing herself here. That’s all.

source: WWD via Threadtrend

Obey Blair Jacket - $72 available at Karmaloop

I saw a post the other day on High Snobette about the top selling tshirts for women at Karmaloop.com. A very cute tank by Obey caught my eye (pictured below) so I decided to check out the site and browse around. I found this super sexy 100% cotton black motorcycle jacket by Obey. It’s a coated cotton which means it has a sort of nylon like feel and a semi-shiny look. I really want it! I am afraid however that it will be too small, I have tried on Obey stuff before and I’m 5′10″ so for some reason everything like hit me at my bellybutton. Now this is fine, if you are going for that sort of look BUT I’m definitely NOT. I wish I could try this on first. What to do?

Well anyways I found some other great stuff. I really like their Women’s line right now, it’s the best I’ve seen in a while. I want that jacket and the tank top below. This month has been bad, lots and lots of cute stuff to buy and not so much money in my hands to give away. Help me.

The Bolts Tank by Obey $24	In Your Face Icon Tshirt by Obey $32
The Kinky Love III Jean by Obey $54	Hamptons Romper by Obey $74

“The famously avant-garde Japanese label, spearheaded by design powerhouse Rei Kawakubo, will provide a range of both men’s and womenswear, as well as childrenswear, accessories and a new unisex fragrance for the retailer. In honour of its Japanese roots, the collaborative line will launch exclusively at H&M in Tokyo in November before being rolled out worldwide a few days later.”

WOW. Now THIS is something to be excited about. I really never got into the H&M guest designer lines except for Victor & Rolf, but when it launched I went into the store, got trampled and scratched and didn’t even end up buying what I wanted all within 5 minutes. So I am a little apprehensive about even attempting to get some of this stuff because I have been traumatized.  I guess I just have to wait and see the line before I can commit to getting beat down for it again.

source: vogue uk via style bubble

I confess, I am a nailpolish addict.

I have ALOT of it and I am always looking for new shades to try. Although back in my tween days, I used only black or red and on top of that, I would never remove it… just letting it chip away and apply a new coat. (tisk tisk) I remember back then wearing black nailpolish was a big no-no. People would just look at you weird, and then out of nowhere all these celebrities started wearing it and then it became OK because Allure and Vogue said so. What’s up with that? But anyhoo, nowadays I like to wear colors that are a contrast but also complimentary (if that makes any sense) to what I’m wearing. So here is my long wordy post on some shades I have tried and what you may want to try yourself:

Yellow, White, Gray, Navy Blue, Fuschia & Bright Pink

click photo to enlarge
photo sources for m.a.c. nail colors: spektra and temptalia, photo sources for all others: google images and respective company websites

top row: Rescue Beauty Lounge - “Yellow Fever”, OPI - “Need Sunglasses?”, M.A.C. - “Phosphur”, China Glaze - “Solar Power”, OPI -”Kyoto Pearl”
second row: N.Y.C. - “French White”, Chanel - “White Satin”, OPI - “Oh So Chic”, Rescue Beauty Lounge - “Concrete”, OPI -”Moon Over Mumbai”
third row: Rescue Beauty Lounge - “Stormy”, China Glaze - “Recycle”, M.A.C. - “Plasma Blu”, China Glaze - “Shower Together”, M.A.C. - “Naughty Nautical”
fourth row: N.Y.C. - “Skin Tight Denim”, NARS - “Midnight Express”, Chanel - “Blue Satin”, Dior - “Poison Blue”, OPI - “Russian Navy”
fifth row: Bourjois - “Rose Vamp”, Misa - “First Kiss”, OPI - “All That Razzberry”, Color Club - “Pink Flame”, OPI - “Koala Beary”
bottom row: N.Y.C. - “Fuschia Shock”, Essie - “Mod Squad”, China Glaze - “Shocking Pink”, M.A.C. - “Steamy”, Rescue Beauty Lounge - “Coral”

Read about what colors I’ve picked up recently after the break…

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COLOURlovers

COLOURlovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews. The name says it all, a website community for people who love color and patterns. You can create an account, upload your own color stories and patterns, browse the hundreds of color stories they have already and gain a lot of inspiration for your personal art or design work, color schemes for your house or just to pass the time. You can even download patterns that you have made on the site as wallpapers for your computer.

FFFFOUND!

FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user’s tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!! I have spent many hours just going through the huge collection of photos other people have bookmarked onto the site. This is a great place to get inspired for photography or art. You will find some of the best photos on the web here and it is a little bit like Flickr and del.icio.us combined into 1 site.

Polyvore

Polyvore is a website that any fashion lover will soon grow obsessed with. It is a unique, easy-to-use web-based application for mixing and matching products from any online store. Items are pulled together into a visual set of products that can be shared with anyone. Each product within the set is then linked back to the online store where it is available for purchase. I love this site because it makes it incredibly easy to create great fashion and trend inspiration boards.

More from the Boosted folks:

One of my favorite graffiti artists and fashion designers Claw Money designed an 8 piece limited edition collection for Boosted Mobile’s Product line.

The collection includes a duffle, backpack, tote, fannypack, laptop sleeve and 3 phone/pda cases. I want that duffle bag! Gotta love the Claw.

“The collection is made from low-toxicity “vegan approved” artificial leather, which includes oversized custom prints, custom charms and customized gold trims.”

Source: High Snobiety

Grande Headphones in Raspberry $70

Stiloso Headphones in Pink. $52

I was poking around on Urbanoutiftters.com and while browsing through my favorite section on the site (apartment/entertain) I saw these really great headphones from Boosted.

I love the neon color combination on the Grande set, but I really love the vintage inspired style of the Stiloso, in fact I think I am going to pick a pair of the pink ones up, although there are no specs on the sound quality, they look really good for $52.  But I did see these Panasonic RP-HTX7s on Turntable Lab for $49. They are practically the same except not pink, which for some reason has foolishly got me mesmerized. I have to think this over, buying headphones is a pain. A lot of times they don’t live up to your expectations and can stifle your full enjoyment of a great tune!

Both headphones come in 1 other color. Check them out for more information:

Grande Headphones and Stiloso Headphones Designed by Boosted Mobile, on sale at Urban Outfitters.