How many times have you tried to make your bangs do that Hollywood perfect swoopy thing and failed miserably? It’s hard – no, nearly impossible – to create that perfect swoop-bang that your hair stylist does so effortlessly. Mine (love you Amber!) taught me this little trick, which has made her well known about town for her amazing bangs. Seriously, girls actually ask for “Amber bangs.”

And now you don’t have to have Amber to get her bangs.  I’ll show you how to get that perfect Nike style swoosh that grazes your forehead perfectly.

This morning, I was extremely lucky to be one of the VIP attendees of Ruffian’s Fashion Week show in NYC, thanks to Lockerz. While I’ve had tons of really cool experiences interning in New York (I mean, it’s NYC, baby!) getting a taste of the socialite life was pretty freaking awesome.

Below is my experience VIPing it up at a real NYC Fashion Week Fashion show. And let me tell you – those shows attract some weirdos. But it’s only a small taste; there’s plenty more coming soon, including some behind-the-scenes fun at the VIP Ruffian After Party. P.S. I’m bringing Su Beyazit as my date.

Ok, we get it. Megan Fox is hot.

Is that Kim Kardashian?!

Is there such a thing as the middle-school 15?

50 Cent’s got some beef with Lil Wayne.

Look who’s official. My, my, my. What a surprise.

Pretty sure there are more appropriate ways to honor 9/11

It’s been a big week—since classes started on Tuesday, I’ve freaked out about my upcoming thesis proposal approximately 3,849 times, eaten tons of free food at our Activities Fair, and seen Rihanna in the flesh (there are perks to going to college in New York City).

My fellow CCers have been busy too, doing everything from getting pumped for Fashion Week to preparing for football season to pruning their Facebook friends list—hey, it’s not as easy as it sounds. We’ve been occupying ourselves by debating whether guys and girls can live together in harmony, and whether it’s a good idea to be in a serious relationship in college, despite the fact that men are stupid. And if they’re not dumb, there’s probably something else wrong with them.

At least we’ll always have these guys to dream about. And hey, since college is a time for experimentation, maybe we should just throw caution to the wind and ditch monogamy altogether: the more the merrier, right? Unless that sexually freewheeling attitude means that you consider buying this for your little niece or cousin. That will never be okay.

Okay girls, brace yourselves. If I told you that you could design your own clothes, try them on and buy them, all while taking notes in class, would you believe me?

Well I’m pinching you and it’s still true.

Thanks to Ralph Lauren and his preppy-meets-chic Rugby line, you can now download an application to your phone that allows you to design your own clothing, try it on by uploading a picture of yourself, and then order it. You can also design your own stuff right on the website, for all you students “taking notes” during class (Yea right…).

You have a huge selection of pieces from sweaters and jackets to t-shirts and dresses (a totally adorable hooded, polo dress might I add!) to choose from and you can completely customize it all with patches, embroidery, numbers and your name.

But your design doesn’t end there. It’s then posted on the website in the “Make Your Own Gallery” for everyone else to see (and to buy if they like it enough!), and you can share it through Facebook and email so all your friends to check out! No joke, people could be walking around in something you designed.

Seriously, is this not a fashionista’s dream come true? Create, share and buy your own designs at the click of a button? Now I not only have the ability to make the clothes that I want to wear, I also have something to keep me awake during calculus.

Thank you, Ralph. Thank you very, very much.

Don't run away from me. I'll get you!

I just went on a date with a guy who blathered on about himself (which is only okay when I do it!), and referred to women as, and I kid you not, “dumb bitches.” Since said date last Friday, he has not called me.

And I really, really hope he does.

Look, I like to consider myself an intelligent, rational person. But what I will never get is why a person becomes 10 billion more times appealing to me when they don’t want me. The day after our date, I was actually dreading the dude calling me…I didn’t want to spend a second evening with the most egotistical person since Tucker Max (who he, by the way, actually quoted. Good role model!). But as each day went by and no call came…I suddenly found myself only focusing on his good qualities. He was smart. He was cute. He was funny (maybe he was joking when he said women were dumb bitches…). Why was his unavailability suddenly turning him from nightmare to dreamboat? Read More »

That wheezing sound you hear is the last original idea in Hollywood dying a slow, undignified death. Fox announced a few days ago that it’s developing a TV show based on Texts From Last Night, a website founded a little over six months ago that aggregates embarrassing texts sent in by users (sample: “I woke up in my own vomit, a chunk of cactus in my thigh, shirtless, with jons mom poking at me with a glass of dr pepper and a talk about god….damn alcohol”).

After years of airing reality shows that have been progressively more awful, I shouldn’t be surprised that Fox has yet again proven to be the network most willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Still, though, I’m amazed that the Hollywood Reporter claims there was “strong interest from several networks” in a TV show based on TFLN. Don’t get me wrong – TFLN is the second best. site. on earth (this is #1), but how exactly do you write a show about funny text messages? How could anybody have thought this would be a good idea? And isn’t there already a show highlighting embarrassing moments of 20-somethings? I think it’s called The Real World.

Maybe Fox is just trying to compete with whichever network ends up with the inevitably terrible Twitter game show, which promises to “harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format.” Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing, has also announced that he’s working on a feature film about Facebook. Seriously.

After hearing about movies and TV shows based on web sites, the film adaptations of board games like Monopoly, Candy Land, and Ouija Board that are currently in the works sound positively Oscar-worthy by comparison. What’s next, a movie about Netflix? A miniseries about Wikipedia? A weekly series based on FML?

Actually, what am I talking about? I’d totally watch that.

You know how girls always go up to you in that high pitched voice and are all, “Ahh! Oh-my-god I LOVE LOVE LOOOOVE those! Where on PLANET EARTH are they from?” (And you know they are thinkin, “OMG, that girl is SO cool. I totes have to be her bffaeaeae and copy everything she does and then steal her boyfriend.”)

If the aforementioned scenario doesn’t happen to you, it’s because YOU my friend, aren’t wearing booties. Much like me without coffee, many times an outfit is not yet complete or adorable without a bootie.

I know, I know – I’m putting a whole lot of importance on the must-haveness of a bootie when there are more important things to be talking about right now. Like fashion week. Um I mean, health care. But the bootie is an evening essential. Why? Because booties are cute, and a lesson we all must learn at some point or another is that sometimes cute things in life are essential. Why? Because I said so.

Seriously, though; pair them with skinny jeans you can bunch at the ankle, a skirt or dress worn with thick opaque tights, or leggings (gentle reminder once again – LONG TOP!). They make everything look instantly cooler, which is good for all you jeans-and-a-black-top girls out there.

I’ve done the research and scoured the internet for you. Well, I was scouring the internet for me, but I’ll share my bootie loot with you too. And let me tell you, my findings are cute and cheap. And by that I mean cute enough for any night out and cheap enough that if someone spills beer or throws up on them, life will go on. Read More »

Su on the right, Su's dress on the left. Hotness.

CollegeCandy loves lots of things, but two of our favorites? Fashion Week and terrific, creative college girls.

And guess what? There’s one fabulous female who brings our two favorite things together (besides peanut butter and chocolate): student and fashion designer, the lovely Su Beyazit.

Su, who hails from North Carolina and has ties to Turkey, resides in the Lower East Side of NYC and attends the New School (oh hey, Project Runway!) studying Integrated Design. Yes, she’s sick of answering, but indeed she has met Tim Gunn and was in an elevator with Miss Klum.

“She’s tall,” Su said of the encounter with Heidi, “Really tall.”

Su’s most recent design was spotted on “As the World Turns” star, Meredith Hagner on the red carpet for the daytime Emmy awards. Twenty two years old and already designing for the red carpet? Color me impressed.

I met with Su at a vegan cafe in the Lower East Side where we discussed fashion, grafitti and Frida Kahlo over veggie burgers and handmade drawings with the crayons provided for us. Su’s effervescent personality lit up the entire cafe. She demystifies the fashion industry and her personality sits at the opposite end of the spectrum of Rachel Zoe’s; it’s all smiles and no “ba-nanas” with this curly haired pin-up doll of a person.

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Back when I lived in Wilmington North Carolina, I had this boyfriend who was wild, and my good friend Anna was a wild child too. So one day my boyfriend at the time goes, “Let’s graffiti downtown!” We didn’t have any spray paint – all we had were these cans of interior paint and these brushes – so we dressed in all black and put on those cowboy neckerchiefs and went downtown to the roof of this brand new fancy parking lot.

So there we were, in all black, painting poetry and words in other languages on this giant white wall. It was everywhere – dark interior paint on this 30 foot tall wall in the parking lot. Read More »

In a world where former strippers get their own TV show (thank you, Girls Next Door), 16-year-old girls are dancing on polls in front of a live audience (I’m looking at you, Miley), and middle-schoolers are rocking thongs, seeing a pole-dancing stripper doll for children comes as no surprise.

I’m just curious as to what’s under that (rather modest) dress… What? Is that gross?