Prom Disaster

So I probably had legit the worst prom dress shopping experience ever. My prom was about a month ago, so sorry for the late update.

I bought my original dress from LightInTheBox.com, a website where you can pick the shape and color of your dress and have it custom made to your specific sizes. Cool right? And I know people who've had sucess stories with their orders and love the website; I guess in my case, I wasn't so lucky....

I ordered my dress a good month and a half before prom, so roughly the middle of March, and as you could see in my last post, I hadn't ordered it in a special size because I wanted it to arrive on time. Well, legit TWO days before prom I get an email saying "We're sorry to inform you, but your dress is having difficulties entering in the US and is stuck in customs in Hong Kong, China". WTF? My dress was made in Wisconsin?! How the hell did it get to china? So basically, the dress wasn't going to arrive until 2 weeks after my prom, so I instantly canceled my order - thank god I got all of my money back - and went on a crazed run to Ross, Nordstrom, Macys, JC Penny's, and other local boutiques. ALL SOLD OUT OF PROM DRESSES.

After a near panic attack I gave in and went to this really snooty, expensive dress shop where a lot of girls from my school got their dresses. (Like 700 dollar dresses) and I was not looking forward to paying a lot for another dress that I probably wouldn't like. But I go in and search the clearance rack and pick out dresses in my size (I had about 12).

The first two dresses were extremely big (I don't know how they were my size, they were more like a size 20 than 14) and so were the next four. Some were too big in the bust and too small in the butt, others were vice versa. Finally I tried on this purple dress which was a little tight, but could be a last resort dress if need be. It was 400 dollars, I still cringe thinking I almost bought that thing, and just to be safe I tried on the last few dresses.

Somehow, whether it be the grace of God or some other higher power, the last dress I tried on fit like a glove! Perfect size, length, and ONLY 200 dollars, which was my price range.

When I had first picked it up, I had been skeptical about the bright clementine - orange color. But it suited my skin tone perfectly.

Here's what it looked like:

 

This is a picture of me and my grandma, and my dress, and then one of me and my mom.

so all in all, everything worked out and I ended up liking this dress a lot more, but still, it was pretty stressful and I hope next year it goes a lot smoother.

xoxo, stephanie

Again, sorry for not updating in a long time...

Blogging is like school, sometimes I'm motivated to do it, and sometimes I'm not. So here's another late night update when I remember "Oh yeah, I have one of these thingados".

So prom is in the air and I just uploaded a video on a makeup idea. Here's the look:

It's pretty simple and straight forward, and it's most likely the look that I'll wear with my prom dress which looks like this:

 This is the color

and this is the style

I purchased it from lightinthebox.com which is actually a really cool website that if you pay only 30 dollars more they will custom make your dress to fit your measurements. Great idea for the everyday online shopper. I will definitely be doing an update vlog on all of my prom activities, as it is one of the most important day in any high school girl's life, and I'll definitely be doing more tutorials.


Go check out my channel for the latest video and I'll hopefully be updating sooner rather than later.

xoxo,
Stephanie

Sorry about my absence.... I have a good reason!

Okay, so actually I don't havea good reason as to why I haven't been updating my blog. But first and foremost I just wanted to say thank you to all 51 of my subscribers on my youtube channel. I love you all and I'm really happy that you're all supporting my channel :D

Onto an upcoming request.

I got a comment today asking for an olivia palermo hair and makeup tutorial for my channel. I thought that this was a great idea so that will be coming soon. So far i have the pictures I'm going to use.



this is the hair



and here is the makeup. I'm considering making the lips a little darker so that it's also kind of a holiday look. Idk.... but i hope you guys will keep an eye out for that.

xoxo,

stephanie

An Update

So, I got my hair dyed back to my natural color. I've been a blond since Halloween 2009 and my hair got really dry and dead within that time so I dyed it back to brown to have it be healthier (and cheaper). Blond is a very expensive color to maintain, so I've gone back to brown. And to add a bit of dimension I put red highlights in it to make it a bit more auburn.

 
But so far I really like it and I'm probably going to do a video on my hair soon. But first I have to do my July favorites.


xoxo, Stephanie

An Update

So I've been posting more videos and kinda forgetting about this blog lately, so just check out my channel for updates.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CheapChicBeauty13

Other than that I'd also like to mention that I am a book author (aspiring. I'm not published yet) so if you want to learn more about my books go to my other blog:

http://stephanie-evans.livejournal.com/

Everything on there is copywrited. So if you steal it, you will get a lawsuit.

Yep. So that's just a quick update on me.

xoxo,
Stephanie

Child's Play: Alice in Wonderland

Ohmigosh! I loved Alice in Wonderland when I was little and I collect little white rabbit trinkits now and then when I'm not collecting owl necklaces. And when I saw smokeypinkleopard's contest to do a look inspired by childhood, I couldn't help but do an inspired by alice in wonderland look.

I did used expensive products in this video mostly because I own the Alice in Wonderland Urban Decay palette. So here it is :D




Stay Chic!
Stephanie <3

Easy Summer Tutorial

Here is an easy summer tutorial using a maybelline eyeshadow quad.




Enjoy! And Stay Chic!

Stephanie <3