Who or what inspires your style? Many of us use musicians (like Debbie Harry) or movie characters (like Elvira Hancock) as style inspiration, even though, most of the time, they are being dressed from head to toe by the best stylists. Which we don’t have. And sometimes it’s damn near impossible to work their Hollywood looks into our not-so-Hollywood lives. I’ve made it my mission to tap into the mind of a fashion stylist and show you how to take your style inspiration – whatever it may be – and make it more you!

I’m probably not the first person to break the news to you that Annie Hall and (500) Days of Summer are essentially the same movie. (And if I am, I’m sorry.) Diane Keaton and Zooey Deschanel play basically the same character and each movie illustrates love, going back through time to figure out what (or who) went wrong with back and forth over-analyzing.  But to me, the most important aspect of these movies (besides the “groundbreaking” lessons I learned) is they both demonstrate the iconic style of the fashionably quirky female protagonists.

In Annie Hall, Annie and Alvy attempt a relationship.  They break up.  They get back together.  The process repeats, blah blah blah.  It was a great movie no doubt, but half the time I was watching, I was more focused on how I can dress like a women trying to dress like a man without looking like a man.  Does that make sense? Let’s hope so.

For those of you who don’t know, Annie Hall’s style was revolutionary for its time. Before this movie, it wasn’t extremely popular for women to be rockin’ a tie, vest and high-waisted, wide-legged khakis without getting “WTF are you thinking?” looks from their peers. Annie Hall pushed the envelope, blurring the lines between male and female style, forever changing the landscape of women’s fashion. There’s a difference between something a man would wear and menswear, and the character of Annie Hall proved that. Katherine Hepburn may have started the “pants-on-women” trend, but Annie took it to a whole new, somewhat crazy, level. And it worked, because it was classic and bold at the same time. Read More »

Well that’s the most unsurprising win ever.

Yay for Tina Fey!

That’s an interesting business venture, Jo Bros.

The 20 most ridiculous break-up lines.

Bethenny Frankel’s showin’ off Baby Bryn.

Ellen DeGeneres is gettin’ into the music biz.

OK. One question: where were Spencer and Heidi on last night’s episode of The Hills? I kept waiting for them to show up at the bar, sit down with Stephanie and Lo on their double date, and pop out of the couch cushions with some healing crystals when Kristin and Brody duked it out. But they were nowhere to be found.

Did they roadtrip to Mexico to get Heidi bigger boobs?
Go on a retreat where they sacrificed baby goats in the name of their new cult leader?
Kidnap Enzo and hide out in their house until Us Weekly promised them another cover?

The show just wasn’t the same without them. Sure, watching Kristin fail miserably at this whole “I’m really cool and I totally don’t want a relationship with Brody” facade was fun to watch, but it would have been way better if Spencer was there to slam some doors and perform healing breathing exercises. And watching Heidi try to emote would have been far more entertaining than watching Brody stir up the drama pot by throwing his new chicadee (a brunette LC look-alike) into a boiling pool of bitch. Read More »

[There are over 100 million sites on the Internet. 100 million! You might think you know about all the important ones (CollegeCandy, Gmail, Google, TFLN…), but there are thousands of other sweet sites out there (like ThredUP, Blah Therapy and Life is Beautiful) and more showing up every day! We get it – it’s not easy or fun sifting through the crap and porn to find those gems, so we’re gonna bring the gems to you. Just sit back, kick up those feet and allow us to introduce you to the diamonds in the internet rough.]

Summer is finally here for most colleges, and I know I’m not the only one celebrating. I love having the summer off to hang out with my friends, go to the beach, and not have to worry about having to wake up on time for class.  Even though I love having time off, however, I feel like I should put some of that free time to better use than just lounging and drinking—like learning a new language!

I’m not talking about spending your time and money on summer school, your local community college, or Rosetta Stone—I’m talking about Livemocha.  Livemocha is a website that offers beginning, intermediate, and travel online courses for over 30 languages (for free)! The lessons offer instruction in reading, writing, and speaking, which are evaluated by fellow Livemocha users who speak the language you’re learning. Read More »

Why they are only realizing this now?

Does pro-choice mean pro-Duggar?

The top 10 movies for summer lovin’.

Get the Jimmy Choo look for less. Holleration.

Major hotness in NYC for the SATC 2 premiere.

10 beauty tricks you need to know now.

Summertime is for tan shoulders, beachy hair, and big, icy umbrella drinks.  And after a day of fun in the sun, who doesn’t want to come home to a backyard barbecue?  We’ve got you covered with all the essentials to blow the guys away as you DIY your way to hamburger heaven.

Roll up those sleeves, girls; here’s everything you need to cook like Giada…or at least look as good as she does while you guess your way through marinades and spices. Read More »

It’s that time of year again: The season of the skirt. In all honesty, shorts really aren’t my thing. Sometimes they squeeze in all the wrong love handles places and give me some serious wedgie dilemmas. That is why I have a great relationship with all of the skirts out there. They are girly, breathable, comfortable and wedgie-free. What more could a girl ask for?

One of my favorite things about summer is slapping on some sunscreen, shoving a towel and a Nicolas Sparks novel in my beach bag and throwing on a skirt and a tee. Then, come evening, all I have to do is slather some aloe on my arms, exchange the flip flops for some comfy wedges and hit the town for some summer lovin’. Care to join me/rub sunscreen on my back? First, take a lookie at these pretty numbers.  I promise they will not disappoint.

[Click on the skirt to get all the shopping info.]

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Here’s a fun bit of information for all you “sex is way better when it’s with the one you love, blah, blah, blah” peeps.

Turns out, it’s not.
And, no, I’m not just saying that. I’ve got some stats to back it up!

As much as many of us would expect women to crave and adore the standard missionary position with their man in the same bed, for the same amount of time, night after a night—well, shockingly, many do not! A recent sex study found that the majority of married women would rather catch up on their reading or get extra sleep than have sex with their husbands. And an even greater majority of women (a whopping 81 percent!) complained their sex lives were way too predictable, based on location, position, time of day, duration and foreplay.

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Sorry, dozed off there for a second. That sex routine is bor….wait for it….ing. Read More »

I did it! I graduated. Although the moment of hearing my name, walking across the stage, receiving my diploma, and turning my tassel went by incredibly fast, the road to Commencement has been an unforgettable eye-opening four-year journey.

It’s been made up of classes I’ve loved (like Arab-American literature) and those I’ve hated (Computers 100, I’m talking to you and your Microsoft Word projects). There were those endless papers analyzing literary theorists, ethical dilemmas, Shakespeare’s couplets, and acts of radical feminism. I worked on and cried over hundreds of math problems and graphs, all while reading books that would forever change me and the ways I think about the world around me. I wrote and edited poem after poem for numerous workshop classes, while expanding my poetry vocabulary from e.e. cummings and Emily Dickinson’s collections to the voices of Lorine Niedecker and Naomi Shihab Nye. All these academic experiences led me to learn things I would have never known if I strayed off on a different path.

Outside of school, I interned – a lot. There were the internships I learned a lot at, and the ones that failed to utilize their internship programs to the full extent. There were the people in the business world I met that I admire and respected, and then there were the ones that made me promise myself “I will never end up like that.” I traveled, whether it was from the Upper East Side to SoHo in New York City or from London to Paris for a weekend. Honestly, I even spent most of my time in college traveling to and from other colleges around me (this was part of my college’s campus culture – especially at such a small all women’s college), which convinced me that a two hour car ride is nothing but a quick ride down the road. Read More »

TuffyLuv@collegecandy.com. Ask away, dahlinks.

Dear Tuffy Luv,

Let me just say it: I am a 21-year-old-virgin. And let me also say, it’s really starting to bother me. I am not some crazy, anti-social person, it just hasn’t happened for me. I am very open-minded and consider myself to be adventurous. For my first time, I want to be with something that I really care about, not just some random guy. It’s not that I dislike sex (I have a vibrator and I use it!) or that I’ve never fooled around with guys, I’ve just never had sex. Of any kind. Nothing below the belt.

Now I’m worried that it’s hurting my ability to open up to guys that come into my life with boyfriend potential. At this age, it’s kind of assumed by everyone that you’re NOT a virgin…and I don’t know how to bring it up. Actually, I can’t even tell my new friends that I’ve made at college; almost all of my friends from college don’t know I’m a virgin. When they start talking about sex, I just go along with it; I know a lot about it, just haven’t actually done it, so it’s easy to be believable. I just don’t want to answer all the questions that would come along with my confession, and I also don’t want to be the weird girl who doesn’t have sex. I was stereotyped as the goody-goody in high school, and that’s not who I am, so I’m not going to help perpetuate that again! I’m not telling a blatant lie to them, more like a lie by omission.

So anyways, I don’t know what to do. I’m getting tempted just to find a friend and get him to “do me a favor.” It’s not the way I’d pictured losing it, but I’m beginning to think that it would help me be more confident with guys (and truthful with friends!). It’s kind of getting out of control. I kind of feel like an inadvertent tease. There’s a guy right now who has serious boyfriend potential, but I don’t really know how to go about this. This is really starting to affect my life.

Please help Tuffy!
- Kinky Virgin Read More »