Tip of the Week Series; “The Best Clothing Fit for Your Body Shape” – 2nd, Pear Shape. Smaller on top, wider hips. Choose looks that showcase your slim upper body (sleeveless, plunging neck) and balance your hips. Stay away from tapered jeans with cropped tops. Wear bootcut jeans with a fitted jacket. Dark skirts at the knee or just above with matching tights, tops with a collar or lapels add width to upper body.

Tip of the Day; 3rd in the series, heart shape face. 1st of all pulling hair back and off the forehead is a no no. Love short hair? Opt for a choppy bob that ends at the jawline. Leave hair flat and smooth on top, add fullness and curls around the jawline and down. Bangs are a good thing for heart girls, wispy, side swept, blunt, or full, just do it! Kerry Washington is a perfect example of a heart shape girl.

Here is my 2nd in the series for The Best Hair for your Face Shape; For Long shape face, Bangs, Bangs, Bangs, if anyone can do them IT’S YOU! Long straight hair? Volumize it or wave it, stick straight with a center part accentuates a long face. Try a side part, it will make your face look broader. Up-do with wispy pieces curved around the cheeks and chin, PURDY!

Beautiful Examples; Sarah Jessica Parker & Molly Simms

Tip of the week series; “The Best Hair for your Face Shape” – 1st, square shape faces. Stick to longish styles, with movement to soften your angles. Curly and wavy rounds out the angular shape. Love straight hair? Add volume at the sides. Avoid one length cuts, bobs, and sharp bangs, too boxy looking.

Examples of a square face shape; Gwyneth Paltrow & Angelina Jolie

Saint Valentine was actually a Bishop, who was a Priest, a kind and humane Roman Priest, who held the celebration of sacred love at high esteme, and he also enjoyed uniting young couples in Wedded Matrimony, and was executed due to that fact.
Now this act, performing wedding ceremonies, was frowned upon by the Roman Emperor Claudius II.  Claudius was a bit of nasty fella, a warlord,  nicknamed ‘Claudius the Cruel’, and when the big Roman war began, Claudius put out a decree for all available men to attend their stations, prepare for battle. Only not soo many Romans showed up. Infact, every year that the great battle was being fought, the number of soldiers signing up for Claudius’ army was declining.  Emperor Claudius was furious, when he discovered that his Roman’s didn’t want to go to war, because of love. They were either married, married with children, or engaged to be married. They didn’t want to leave the loves of their lives, their sweethearts. And this was unacceptable to the Emperor Claudius II.
The Christian faith was banned, marriages were banned, all engagements were illegal and ordered to be dissolved, and anyone daring to convert their faith to Christianity would be considered an enemy to the Empire and would be executed.
So, Roman Priest Valentine continued on in his work, teaching of his God, and performing marriage ceremonies in the eyes of God, all in secret. And the Priest, Valentine was caught, and imprisoned, after refusing to denounce his Christian faith. Everyone loved the Roman Priest Valentine, it is said they each had slipped him pieces of paper, rolled up, with a ribbon tied around it, through the prison wall, in continuing to ask the Priest for blessings, and also offering him words of comfort. The young, the old, the wealthy, the poor, scholars, and the ignorant. His popularity was unchallenged, the people had faith in Valentine, the people always knelt to Valentine, and asked for his blessings, before the fire was set to the alter for his preaching. He was kind-hearted, soft spoken, and the people were in melancholy due to the fact that their Priest was sentenced to death due to his refusal to renounce his God. The Priest, while in prison, developed a cherished friendship with the jailer’s daughter, and it is said, that she was loyal to Valentine. Valentine, also, converted most of the prisoners while he was in jail, when Emperor Claudius was unable to break the spirit of the Priest, and the priest’s love of his God, he ordered the execution by beheading..
The Roman Priest Valentine’s execution caused great mourning throughout the Roman Empire. The lovers loved, and the poets dreamed, and the jailer’s daughter received a letter. It was written by Valentine, to his sweetheart, in a goodbye note, that was signed, Your Valentine. It is said, Valentine gave the first love letter, or poem if you will, to a sweetheart, and the tradition of expressing your love and devotion through words was born, and signing it, your Valentine, was as well. Some legends say, that the jailers daughter was blind, and the Priest was able to heal her, and she could see, the evening before his death. Other legends say, that one of the men who died with Jesus, was named Valentine, and he took on the Christian faith the evening before he died, and Christ healed the sight of his friend, the jailer’s daughter, who inspired him to love and honour Christ.

The Roman Bishop Valentine was executed on February 14^{,  AD 269} he was burried on the Via Flaminia, where his moment exists today. Relics of Saint Valentine reside in Baltan and Malta.

 

 ATTENTION! MAXIMAL ART & JOHN WIND SIGNATURE JEWELRY FANS, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Do you love Maximal Art Jewelry? Have you been trying to buy a certain piece on KatieKay.com or elsewhere for ages and just can’t seem to catch it in stock? WELL, wait no longer! KatieKay.com is now taking special orders for Maximal Art and John Wind Signature Collection jewelry! Let me know what you need,and I will get back to you lickity split with the cost, expected ship date, and the wholc scoop. Remember, I have free shipping too. Here is my contact form; drop me a line! 

Well, I wasn’t the 1st, and I certainly won’t be the last to make a scarf tying video/lesson. Scarf tying demo videos and scarf wearing,  have really taken off this year.  1st of all scarves are THE  hottest accessory out there, and hopefully they are here to stay. Why? Scarves add a little something, something to any outfit.  It adds color, style and the finishing touch, it’s the sprinkles on your cupcake before you walk out the door. Yay!  They are so easy to wear, easy to find, all price points, any shape, color and print to choose from.  Quick tip; hang a sticky hook inside the coat closet door, then hang a tiered hanger, like a pant hanger with 2 or more bars, available at Target or a storage store, hang your scarves tiered over the rows. Believe you me, you will grab a scarf everytime you put on a jacket or sweater AND you will head out the door everyday, lookin’ fierce!

Yes! you have to go to work today.  You called in sick last week, they might get suspicious. We know you would like to wear your slippers or flip flops, BUT they are  just not office appropriate.  Who says?  The experts, huh! Don’t shoot the messenger on this one.  Here’s what they all agree on. Avoid the too casual pieces. Don’t; wear baggy tees,  ripped jeans-Duh!, shorts, flip flops-wha?, too many accessories, and low cut tops. Leave the sexy stuff for after 5. Do; wear pencil skirts with a fitted tee, dark denim, ballet flats, and just a few great accessories to make a conservative outfit pop. Less is definitely more sometimes.  Casual Friday is fun but let’s look classy-casual in the office ladies, after-all it is a place of biz!

Classic Hardware’s avant garde jewelry mixes vintage vogue style with today’s hottest trends.  Celebrities spotted wearing the cool line are; Madonna, Hilary Duff, Chris Isaak.  You can also spot some pieces on the coolest shows on TV; Sex and the City, Miami Ink, & Californication.  Karyn Cantor, owner and creative director, fuses her post-punk aesthetic with her love of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and adds a bit of rock and roll and pop culture to create very cool pieces of jewelry.  Her line of Retrolite (new age bakelite) is bright colored birds, flowers and fun shapes and charactors; look for these and more collections on KatieKay.com come Spring of 2010.