To follow suit with Tiffany and Lan, here’s a quick revisit of a sampling of this past month’s posts:

Fashion
Project Runway Live Blogging: Minute by minute breakdown of the finale episode and all my crazy thoughts for anyone who missed it.

Heel Compendium: Less-than-official guide to all heel-related shoe terminology.

Beauty
Bobbi Brown Makeup: Review of eye shadow and lipstick and Bobbi Brown’s au natural philosophy.

Cosmetic Expiration: When is it time to throw out old cosmetics? Answers here!

Gossip
Carrie Bradshaw Love Column: I actually think the boy in question doesn’t read this anymore so I can start bitching about relationship stuff here without having to worry about him getting an upper hand on my deep dark private thoughts and confusions… whew…

Design
My Room Deco: A peek at some of the easy dorm room design compilations I threw together to make my space girlier and more liveable.

Interview with Modondi: Questions and answers with the designer of the adorable emoticon T-shirt and pin company.

RandomNicknames and Petnames: CUTE PUPPY PICTURE! And some embarassing truths about my animal-derived nicknames.

Tags: bobbi brown, carrie bradshaw, cosmetics, decoration, heels, just in case you missed it, mondondi, nickname, project runway

Here we go again! Just in case you missed a post or two, here’s a recap to get you up to speed.

Beauty

Squeaky Clean: In my search for a new facial cleanser, I’m tempted to try Neutrogena’s new Pink Grapefruit line, because well, for one it’s pink. And it smells like one of my favorite fruit!

Fashion

In Pursuit of Fafiness: I’ve finally figured out what I want to be for Halloween, now the real question is “which”….

Fashion OOPS!-Raven Symone: Raven usually looks great on the red carpet. But this time around, she should have NOT listened to her stylist.

Calling All You Wanna Be Stylists!: Hurry, quick if you think you’ve got the chops to be the stylist for Lesley Roy’s new PV! But you gotta get moving because the contest ends soon! It pays to be a Polyvore addict O_<

Entertainment/Gadgets

Sarah Palin on SNL: YAWN

Beyonce: If I Were A Boy: Despite not really liking Beyonce’s music, I think this song is really beautiful. Check out the video for yourself.

Fliptastic!: A little bit late, but I’m still impressed with this totally cool and cute miniature camcorder! The Flip is something definitely to flip over!

Emi Maria, Next In Line: I LOVE Emi Maria’s music. Here I give a track by track review of her “iTunes presents: Live from Tokyo” performance.

Tags: camcorder, emi maria, face wash, Fashion, music video, recap, SNL, stylist

Tiffany’s recap of her posts was such a good idea that I’m going to copy her. After digging around Ming’s Bubble a bit here are some of I think are worth scrubbing down for another look. Hope you do too!

Fashion: NYC Fashion Week Coverage: Thuy Diep - My first live Fashion Week show ever!

Facebook App Feature: Bevy - My interview with the women who makes all the fun fashion picks on Bevy possible.

Entertainment: Seriously?!? - Picking on America’s Next Top Model. Couldn’t help it.

Politics: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit - Highlight of all the convention performances by all the amazing women of the Democratic Party went to Hillary and her orange pantsuit.

Gadgets: Shower Lovin’ - We actually did get a shower radio in the end (just not this one) for $5 from Walmart. It broke. Very soon.

Culture: The Enormous Tiny Art Show - Looking through all this tiny adorable art never fails to delight me.

Food: Cutest Cupcakes Ever - People make cupcakes in the form of sushi and coffee cups. SO GOOD.

Curiosities: Solemates - Review of a cute contraption I found over the summer to make stiletto-wearing easier.

Tags: ANTM, art, bevy, bubble, cupcakes, ming, pantsuit, recap, shower, solemates, thuy

Here’s a little recap of some of posts from my bubble that may (or may not) be of interest to you.

BEAUTY

Tiffany Loves Mila Victoria!~ a post in which I gush and squeal at the talent that is make up artist and photographer, Mila Victoria. I’m in love with this girl’s work. werd.

Kinky Curly Custard–Yum!~ here, I talk about how this sugary scented, snot like concoction is the gift from the Curly Gods. Trust me, if you have curly, wavy, bushy or kinky hair you’ll wanna check this out.

FASHION

Cute Coats For Fall and Winter~ like the title says, I’m on the hunt for a new coat. Check out some of the coats that caught my eye, and maybe let me (and other readers) in on any styles that you may like.

What’s Your Ultimate?~ You know, that one thing that you wear with everything, everywhere. I like sweater dresses of the hoodie kind. Check out mah steeze. (lol what?!)

Blah Blah Blah! Talk To the Hand!~ Got something rude to say? Or maybe just something quirky? Need to cutely  display your sarcasm? Grab a David & Goliath Tee…..
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Tags: bubble, dolls, hair, makeup, posts, style, takoyaki, tiffany

Do you hate how you get spammed by Facebook apps every day from people who invite everyone on their friends list so that they can get extra points? Well, Bevy is a Facebook app that’s different. It can best be described as a social shopping platform for girls and women to discuss and discover products. I just started using it recently and love it! Basically allows me to indulge in a virtual closet in ways that I could never do with my real life closet ;)

Lisa Conquergood, the Director of Content and Community for Bevy, was kind enough to do a phone interview with me about Bevy, its plans for the future, and her favorite items in her own closet!

Ming MIn Hui: Where did the idea for Bevy originate? What was the inspiration for the name?
Lisa Conquergood: The founder of Bevy, Kevin Fourman, was working as an EIR in a Seattle incubator [editor's note: Bevy Inc. is based in Seattle, Washington] and one day his daughter Alex picked up an advertisement that had been sent to Kevin. Usually these mailings are quickly tossed out and never looked at but Kevin started to think that these ads, most of which are targeted at his wife and daughter, should be where his wife and daughter (specifically daughter) are. Where is his daughter? Well, she’s not looking at newspapers, she’s on Facebook and texting. So he developed this idea to build a platform right around the time Facebook opened third party applications, which turned out to be great timing. Focus groups told us not to create a new social network because everyone is already on Facebook, so rather we’re catering to the women that already exist within the Facebook network.
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Tags: application, bevy, community, designer, facebook, retailer

When I was younger I would wake up at 5am to turn on RAI television to watch the fashion shows from San Remo and Rome. I would watch these larger than life models take to the stage in the best of the best couture had to offer. So when I had the luxury to witness Chris Han’s show at Bryant Park I was elated at the opportunity.

Chris Han’s prêt-a-porter spring collection for next year transcends a classic femininity to a more of a progressive femininity for today’s fashion savvy chick. The runway was ablaze with many selections of style that diverted from her traditional monotone garments. Although, she has never had a bad collection, in the past there seemed to be less of a choice in the color palette of her collections. The colors she used for this collection truly embraced the season she was designing for. This is Chris Han’s best collection yet and her audience was very appreciative of her rising to the occasion.
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Tags: Bryant Park, chris han, NYC Fashion Week, prêt-a-porter, Spring 2009

To the tents! For the second installment in the Fashion Week Series, we bring coverage of Vivienne Tam, who showed her spring collection Tuesday night to packed house in the Promenade at Bryant Park. As the woman standing behind me as we waited for the room to clear out explained so eloquently to a friend on the other end of her iPhone, “Vivienne Tam used to be like, huge, in the nineties. She does a lot of, like, Asian-inspired stuff.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself: over a decade later, Tam’s iconic look— the only look really easily associable with the brand—remains the slinky stretch-nylon dresses silk-screened with a repeating print of Mao’s face, released in 1994. Tam, still drawing from China’s vibrant culture for inspiration, has established herself as one of the country’s premier designers, and purveyor to the West of what she calls “China Chic”.
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Tags: Bryant Park, china chic, lekeliene Stange, NYC Fashion Week, peony, vivenne tam

Welcome to our three-part series covering NYC Fashion Week! We are pleased to bring you a firsthand look at the Spring 2009 collection of not one, not two, but THREE talented young Asian female fashion designers over the course of this week.

I had the pleasure of attending the Bryant Park debut show of our first feature, Thuy Diep, a fast-rising star of the designer women’s ready-to-wear market.  Lan and I arrived at the Salon at Bryant Park about 10 minutes before the show was scheduled to start (9pm). After all was said and done with navigating the masses and waiting on lines, we finally got into the show at 9:30pm and of course the lights didn’t dim until 9:40pm. This, I assume, is not an uncommon way to run things in the fashion world and the explanation for the term “fashionably late.”
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Tags: Bryant Park, chic pragmatist, collection, kitty fane, NYC Fashion Week, Spring 2009, the painted veil, Thuy Diep