cintia dicker

Cintia Dicker (born December 6, 1986 in Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian model of German descent.

She has appeared in many fashion advertisements including Ann Taylor and Yves Saint Laurent and has been on the covers of magazines ELLE, Madame Figaro and Brazilian Vogue/Teen Vogue magazine.

She has paraded through many fashion shows including Gucci and Baby Phat. Her most recent campaign is the H.I.P. cosmetics line for L'Oreal Paris, and she is rumored to be one of the candidates to walk in the next Victoria's Secret fashion show.

Her trademarks are her red hair, pouty lips, and freckles.
Fellow Brazilian models Caroline Trentini and Bruna Erhardt are her roommates and best friends. They live in New York City.


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Fashion Mistakes And How To Rectify Them

At about 4:30pm on a Friday, very typical of my friend Dupe to call to find out if I’d be interested in either hanging out, going clubbing, going for a fashion show or something of that sort. Just like every other lady who wants to steal the show or be the girl every good-looking responsible guy would drool over by merely looking at, and as they say “first impressions last” the first thing that comes to the mind is “what will I wear?”.
The quest begins, looking through my closet, turning it upside down; in fact I don’t even bother arranging it back till the weekend is over. Finally, I try on numerous outfits including underwear just to make sure it doesn’t affect the look of my outfit. Right after I find a suitable one do I begin to ask anyone around for their opinion – HOT or NOT?? Yea or Nay? This is the most difficult aspect of getting dressed owing to diverse opinions of different people.

Well, I had to call her back to give excuses that I wouldn’t be able to make it and I eventually took a rain check…but within myself I gave up due to indecision.

It suffices to say here that we actually make the “littlest” and “silliest” mistakes in deciding what or what not to wear… To mention a few;

Most of us would agree that when we go with other people’s opinions, which sometimes are contrary to ours, we DO NOT feel comfortable when we go out. This is the utmost mistake we make and this is how to rectify it- you must feel comfortable in what you are wearing before stepping out or else you’ll end up feeling uncomfortable and actually stepping out as someone else and not yourself.

Another is unpardonable mistake is wearing what does not suit our body shapes. Please ladies, not everything you see on Kim Kardashian or Rita Dominic will suit you. Its okay to “copy” their style but make sure it works with your body shape. If you’re on the big side, minis are a “no no”. You can still be big, stunning & very beautiful. You do not have to be a size 8, or even now that 12′s are sexy, to be the hottest lady at a party. Please, wear what suits your body shape, you won’t just look stunning but also feel confident. And trust me people can see through you. We all love confident women, don’t we?
Also, you don’t always have to follow the trend. You can be a trendsetter by creating your own style by wearing what you’re most comfortable in.

Furthermore, when buying your clothes, always remember; firstly, the designer did not see you before making the clothes, they would not always fit “perfectly”. Secondly, do not settle for less, remember that you’re paying for it hence you deserve the very best from your money (even if it’s free!). Thirdly, don’t buy tight clothes with the hope that you’ll lose weight. If u can’t find your size, buy a size bigger provided it fits the biggest part of your body. That way you can always get a good tailor to take it in for you to your perfect size and re-adjust in the future if you gain a few pounds.
Again, you can never go wrong with at least 4 pairs of jeans; the black jeans, deep blue, white pants, and a lighter shade of blue jeans. These four go with any pattern of tops and I am sure we all have that one pair we put on almost all the time. Well I do, and trust me on this it’s very much allowed, rock it as much as u like.

I personally do not believe in “one size fits all”! It does not; really it fits one size better than the other. I’m sure you’ve heard this several times, no pattern on pattern, please!
This season, colour blocking is very much allowed, but be sure to have the lighter shade as the top and the darker as the bottom to produce more flattering figures.
Please ladies, it’s not cool to buy fake bags or “1st grade bags” all in the name of “rocking” the latest designer. Sometime ago, a friend of mine bought a Hermes Birkin for 50,000 NAIRA equivalent to about 330 dollars. I’m sure Thierry Hermes is not aware of its existence. With that amount you can get a classy and chick bag from Zara, River Island or even dune; all 3 for that price and you’ll still get that feeling as though you’re carrying a designer bag. It is not by force, is it?
Furthermore, if you’re going to expose your boobies be careful to cover your thighs. Please leave the fellas curious and, you know, keep them wanting more.
Another is the make-up issue; ladies, be very careful! No matter what you’re wearing or how stunning you look in your limited edition Herve Leger number, bad make-up will ruin your entire look! When you’re wearing red lipstick, ensure that your eye-shadow is not loud or no eye-shadow at all, you can work with really good eye-liner which gives that extra classy look. Some professional make-ups are as affordable as 3000 naira only. Better safe than sorry!


Also Ladies, underwear is “under” wear, be sure to keep those bra straps and thongs “under”. For those of us who like full panties or granny pants, please be sure to conceal your panty lines. We don’t want no VPL – Visible Panty Lines = Tacky + Huge Turn-Off!!

Chipped paints are a turn off and they just make you look unkempt.  Invest in nail polish removers and at least one colour of paint just in case the need arises

BE CAREFUL OF BODY ODOUR!!!! use your deodorant or spray and if you can afford it body splash and perfumes will do no harm!

SHAVE/WAX YOUR ARMPITS! You don’t want to wear an armless with hair sticking out from your arm. Whether you decide to shave the hair “down there” or not is up to you

Finally, before stepping out draw the curtains and take a look at the mirror with the sunlight refection just to make sure, for indoor lights can be very deceitful.

Princess Polly

Skirt, $70, top $65 – Princess Polly Adelaide St, The City

Brisbane Fashion Festival

As spring fashion starts to blossom in stores, the temptation to banish the bulk and black of winter to the back of the cupboard and shop up a storm for brand new looks is strong.

But every intelligent woman with a head for fashion and economics knows new seasons do not have to equate to expensive new wardrobes.

Instead, identifying a few key trends and investing sensibly is a practice that offers most satisfaction in the long run, both in terms of style and spending.

The Brisbane Fashion Festival offers a great opportunity to preview the core looks for summer, showing collections from leading Australian and international designers, styled by experts.

Here's our guide to what's coming up this spring/summer.

Hair

Hair stylists continued their love affair with curls when it came to designing catwalk looks for this year's festival, with tousled, carefree locks featured in most of the parades.

Bob styles were also popular, though that doesn't mean a trip to the hairdresser to chop off long tresses.

Head stylist Geoffrey Herberg showed us how to create a beautiful summer look with the help of a few bobby pins, some hairspray, hot tongs and lots and lots of teasing.

Colour

Designs from Tengdahl, retailer Lylah, Paul Hunt, and Francis Leon show off this season's hottest hue: blue.

Blue, blue, blue, with splashes of green and tangerine, were the hottest hues on the catwalks this year, delivered by way of punchy blocks or clever digital prints.

Strong colour can be daunting for those who favour muted tones, but full specturums were on show meaning there's space to find the right shade for you.

Scanlan & Theodore, Easton Pearson, Akira and Pia du Pradal all used variants of the key colour orange in their collections.

Basic black and white remained strong, as it tends to do when designers create with conservative spending in mind, and the array of feminine neutrals we saw come on strong last summer will be popular again.

Paul Hunt, Aurelio Costarella, Tengdahl and Talulah all used neutrals to great effect.

Make-up

All the make-up for the festival was designed by Australian cosmetics king Napoleon Perdis, though you can recreate the looks without having to buy their full range of products.

Beautiful skin returned as one of the key features of this season, with the look dewy, youthful and fresh. You'll need a good cleanser, moisturiser, sunscreen, and primer to make sure your make-up doesn't slip off.

Minimise shine and keep skin in good condition with a mineral-based powder applied to set light foundation and keep you looking satiny throughout the day.

Spend time priming and preparing the skin before applying make-up, which was kept relatively minimal save for bronzer and shimmer cream used to highlight cheeks, jaws and eyes.

Look one, as featured in the Brisbane Arcade parade

Prime · Using Artist Foundation/Base Brush 19b, apply Auto Pilot Pre-foundation Skin Primer to the face. · Prep lips with Auto Pilot Lip Service. Buff the lips if needed using a clean mascara wand. · Apply your first coat of Peep Show Mascara Madame Curl Curl. Base · Using Stick Foundation, apply a small amount onto the ‘feature focus’ area of the face and blend well so it disappears into the jaw line. For best results, use Artist Foundation Brush 19b. · Conceal with the Pro Palette Concealer. Either mix Deep Sand and Light Amber, or layer the shades on the under eye area to conceal darkness/discoloration. Use Eye Priming Brush g10 for best results. · Mix the appropriate shades from the Pro Palette Concealer to match the skin tone and apply to blemishes. Be sure to warm the concealer into the skin with your finger tip or a sponge. · Apply a touch of concealer across the entire eye lid from the lash line to the brow bone and set with a touch of the Mattifying Mineral Primer, creating a base for your eye shadow. · Lightly set the foundation across the ‘feature focus’ area of the face with the Mattifying Mineral Primer. For best results use Polishing Brush 50r. Eyes · Using Sculpting Brush 10r, sweep a blend of Color Disc Trench Coat and Prismatic Eyeshadow Quad #2 Grey through the socket of the eye. For a beautiful blend to the eye, sweep back and forth into the socket and inner bridge of the eye. · Pat Color Disc Trench Coat over the mobile lid using Flat Shader Brush 10b. · Line the inner rim of the eye with Eye Pencil White On. · Apply one coat of Peep Show Mascara Madame Curl Curl to the top lashes. Brows · Comb the brows and define with Eyebrow Pencil Pale Rider. · Hold brows in place with Peep Show Mascara Madame Crystal. Cheeks · Apply the Ultimate Contour Palette Contour shade in the hollow of the cheeks to create definition. For best results use Reflective Contour Brush 20b. · If necessary, apply the Ultimate Contour Palette to the temples, chin and jaw line. Lips · Ensure the lips have been hydrated well with Auto pilot Lip Service. · Wipe or pat off any excess Auto Pilot Lip Service and pat Front Row Red Lip Gloss onto the lips. · The effect is a ‘stained’ lip, so you can use either Flat Shader Brush 10b or a fingertip to apply the gloss and achieve this result.

Prime· Apply Napoleon Complex Skin Renewal Serum to the face.· Using Artist Foundation/ Base Brush 19b, apply Auto Pilot Pre-Foundation Primer to the face.· Apply Mattifying Mineral Primer to feature focus area of the face using Artist Foundation/ Base Brush 19b.- Prep lips with Auto Pilot Lip Service.· Curl eye lashes with the Lash Curler. Start by pressing the curler close to your lash bed, and then slowly walk the lash curler out.Continue to press the lashes as you walk the Lash Curler out.· Apply your first coat of Peep Show Mascara Madame Prep.· Start at the base of the lash and then work the wand out towards the end ofthe lash in a wiggling motion to distribute product evenly.· Follow with the application of Mesmer-eyes Mascara.

Base· Using Advanced Mineral Makeup, apply a small amount onto the ‘feature focus’ area of the face and blend well so it disappears into the jaw line. For best results, use Artist Foundation Brush 19b.· Conceal dark circles with Pro Palette Concealer. Mix the appropriate shades, or layer the shades and apply to the under eye area to conceal darkness/discoloration. Use Eye Priming Brush G10 for best results.· Apply a touch of concealer across the entire eyelid from the lash line to the brow bone and set with a touch of Camera Finish, creating a base for your eye shadow.· Lightly set the foundation across the ‘feature focus’ area of the face with Camera Finish.

Eyes· Apply Color Disc Clean Slate from lash line to brow bone using Contour Brush 16b.· Pat Color Disc Clean Slate onto the mobile lid using Flat Shader Brush 10b to create a more opaque shade on the lid.· Line the inner rim of the eye with Eye Pencil White On.· Apply Loose Dust Holy Smoke to the lower lash line. Apply using Flat Shader Brush 10b.· Apply 2 coats of Mesmer-eyes Mascara to the top lashes.

Brows· Comb the brows and define with Eyebrow Pencil Pale Rider or a suitable brow product.· Hold brows in place with Peep Show Mascara Madame Crystal.

Cheeks· Add Mosaic Blushing Powder onto the apples of the cheeks and blend up towards the temple using a Chisel Blush Brush 22b. · Highlight the top of cheekbones using Pro Palette Concealer Light Amber.

Lips· Coat the lips with Divine Goddess Lipstick Hess using Lip Brush 2b.· Line the lips using Lip Pencil Nude Awakening.· Finish with Love Bite Lip Plump.

2011 Hairstyle Trends

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Lady Gaga's "You & I" Video to Premiere on Aug. 18 Tue

Lady Gaga's new video for "You & I," which is her fourth single from Born This Way, will debut on MTV on Aug. 18. That's Thursday and it's set for 7:50 PM. The Mother Monster tweeted two photos of herself –one in a white dress, one of her feet in a pair of killer stiletto heels- which are presumably from the video. We never see her face, but we can assume it's her in the shots.

Gaga filmed the video for the epic track in Nebraska, since the song references the state in its lyrics; her once and former boyfriend Luc Carl is also from the Cornhusker state, so leave it to Gaga to make Nebraska in vogue with one of her songs

Victoria Beckham Ordered to Wear Flats During Fashion Week

Poor Posh.

The notorious publicity lover has been out of the picture since giving birth to a daughter recently, and as it turns out, the reason is that she has been in excruciating pain from a slipped disc.

But the news only gets worse from there.

Doctors have ordered her to only wear flats, in order to avoid aggravating her injury ...

... even during New York Fashion Week, when she's set to debut her Spring/Summer 2012 collection.

What's a stylista to do?!

This is definitely going to be difficult for Victoria, who wears some of the highest designer platform stilettos that I've ever seen. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she opts to skip Fashion Week altogether.

Besides, who'd want to go anywhere at all with a slipped disc? Better to rest and mend quickly so that she can be back to her old self (and in her old heels) for good.

According to London's Mirror, Victoria has been quoted at various times saying that she hates the gym because she can't wear heels there, that she's "beyond hating" ballet flats, and that she "can't concentrate" unless she's wearing six-inch heels.

Being ordered to wear flats must be the worst punishment she can think of!

Victoria is rumored to be frantically searching the web right now, looking for flats suitable enough to be worn on her uber-stylish feet.

stockholm emma ahlund elite street

coat -- Danish brand, Storm and Marie
top -- Majestic

‘World’s prettiest boy’ bares it again

Gender bending Serbian-Australian model Andrej Pejic does it again — this time with smoky eyes, rosy pout and a chiselled topless body. Pejic, a 19-year-old male model, has spurred frenzy in the fashion world by posing topless for the cover of New York magazine’s Fall 2011 fashion issue. The
magazine carries an article on him with an more interesting headline: ‘The Prettiest Boy In the world’.

The doe-eyed androgynous model, with his enviable blonde locks and a sensuous pout, is also earning adulation of netizens for his comments about his gender choice. “I’ve left my gender open to artistic interpretation,” he said in an interview to the New York magazine.

David Ahen-bec Fuentes posts on facebook, “I like when things get challenged in fashion in a fab way.” While Rakhsha on autostraddle.com posted, “I wish the popularity of models like Pejic meant there was a growing acceptance of the diversity of gender expressions.” On the same website, Madeline posts, “It’s good to see someone in the mainstream bending the binary gender rules that society works so hard to enforce.”

Closer home, fashion designers are voting in his favour. “Pejic is being true to his own creativity. He is doing it so beautifully that he has made the world sit up and take notice. It takes a lot of courage to do something like that,” says fashion designer Neeta Lulla, who says she is open to work with an androgynous model. Designer Ritu Beri says, “It would be interesting to work with someone like that. It hardly matters if it’s a guy dressed as a woman, if he beautifully takes the message of my show across.”

Lawyer Shashi Bhushan of Naaz, a LGBT organisation, believes that Pejic’s growing popularity could pave way for effeminate gay men and transgenders in modelling. “We have such pretty gay men and transgenders with great bodies. They can be absorbed in a big way by the Indian fashion industry.”

Pejic in the news

He had earlier stripped for the May 2011 cover of Dossier Journal, a New York-based magazine. The shoot evoked mixed responses from people — some voting for his gender-bending act, while some calling it ‘offending and unacceptable’. The androgynous model defended his picture as ‘art and not porn’ opposing a ban on the cover by a few US book chains. This January, Pejic created a buzz across the fashion world by hitting the runway dressed as a bride for Jean-Paul Gaultier at his Spring/Summer 2011 haute couture show in Paris. He recently shocked FHM magazine when he was named the 98th sexiest woman by its readers.

spring summer collection

chichia for made by africas springsummer 2012 collection

Euphoria of winning the Ethical Fashion Forum Innovation Award (Pure Awards), Chichia has released a sneak peek into her spring/summer 2012 collection for Made by Africa.