FashionLove - Classy Basics 101 - The Breton Stripe Top

There are little as timeless pieces of clothing as the Breton Stripe top. Audrey and Marilyn loved it as much as nowadays celebrities. But why is this simple piece so timeless? Well maybe because you can dress it up and down however much you want. You can dress it up by wearing a black skirt and ballet flats or heels along with it, just as dressing it down by wearing it with casual boyfriend or skinny jeans and sneakers.

That's the awesome thing about the Breton, you can wear it with almost everything you want! The key is to find the right shape, colour and setting of stripes. The most classy and timeless variety is probably the white 3/4 sleeve with black medium stripes starting from the top of the chest ending at the very bottom of the top. The same type works just as well with navy or red coloured stripes. These are just a few, of course there is so much more! One thing is sure that as long as the stripes match with the ground colour and aren't too off this is a bullet proof timeless piece to classy up your wardrobe!

Best worn with (Dressy):
Dark Skinny Jeans
Ballet flats
High heels
Black skirt
Blazer Jacket
Boots

Best worn with (Casual):
Boyfriend Jeans
Skinny Jeans
Shorts
Flip Flops
Sneakers
Sandals

Quick Tips:
To add a dash of colour to your black- or navy-white striped Breton, wear red nailpolish or red shoes!

Wear the Breton a bit oversized to make it more fashionable.


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BeautyLove - Biotherm 3 product review

When swapping products recently, my friend gave me a set of samplers of Biotherm's Biosource and Aquasource range in addition to the goodies I got. Trying them out at home I was fairly impressed and really think about getting some of them myself. Especially the toning cleanser was really great! So here are my reviews on three of Biotherm's products.

Biotherm Biosource - Hydra Mineral Cleanser Toning Mousse 23€
Out of the three I tried, I really liked this the most. The product has a really nice soft green colour and has this typical cucumber-like scent most of the zinc formulated products have. If you like these kind of smells, this product is definitely something for you! When applying and massaging the product into the skin, the pasty consistency turns into this wonderful soft mousse. It is very gentle and feels so nice that I could have kept massaging my face for hours. After reluctantly washing it all off my face it felt fresh, cleansed and very soft.

Biotherm Biosource - Hydra Mineral toning water 19€
I guess I don't have to talk a lot about it's colour, consistency or smell. It is all just like all the other cleansing waters. For I don't usually use them I couldn't really make out the difference to other cleansers. Maybe it was a little less agressive than other ones I used before, so it is definitely very gentle.

Biotherm Aquasource - Cool Hydrating water gel (oil free) 33€
I finished off my whole Biotherm skin pampering session with the Hydrating water gel. I really liked this product even though I think that it was a bit too rich for my skin (I have normal skin). So I guess this one is perfect for dry skin and oily skin. After applying it to my face my skin feels very soft, silky and of course hydrated!


I would really recommend all of these to everyone who searches for better but not peccably expensive skin care products. Especially the Cleansing mousse was really nice. I hope that this review helped you out! ;-)

xo Cory

Stylespired - Charlotte Casiraghi

As the granddaughter of Hollywood legend Grace Kelly, it is no wonder that Charlotte Casiraghi is fashion royalty. Talking about her direction of style she is definitely the queen of preppy. She loves clear lines and cuts. Also the princess would rather combine black and white with minimal light pastel tones than being too daring with colours. As a horse rider she definitely loves wearing riding gear inspired clorhing such as riding boots and pants also in private. I love how her style is simple but fashionable with a minimal of accessories. During the day she pulls off great looks and always reminds me of a Ralph Lauren model. Going out or on events she reaches out for the little (or long) black dress, accessorizing it with just the right amount of jewellry.

As always I picked out some of my favourite looks for you guys to check her out!

This is a typical charlotte look. She looks preppy and chic as always.

I love this look so much! Charlotte combines a lovely ballet-ish dress with bold
black heels and black accessories!

Charlotte with her boyfriend. I love that loose kind of boho-esque blouse she wears
together with them white pants - lovely!

This outfit is very edgy, cool and typical French chic. As most of the time it's not too
bright in colour and very classy! 

I really love her floral dress and that she only accessorized it with a bracelet and a ring. The
colour of the dress matches her skin tone perfectly. 

BeautyLove - Rimmel London - Lash Accelerator Mascara review

After my probably 20th Maybelline Volum' Express Mascara came to an end a few days ago, I got the feeling that it's time for something new. Though I really love the Volum' Express I felt like a change was necessary. So I browsed the web for reviews and top 10s of mascaras and found a post on Fleur's blog (which I really like to read, check it out, it's awesome) about the best & worst drugstore mascaras. The lash accelerator was the one that caught my eye because it looked best to me. So today I went and got it for 9,90€ at my local drugstore.

The special thing about this mascara is that it has some sort of lash growth collagene in it's formula where I don't know yet if it is true but I will definitely report on that after using it for a while. The wand is very thin, tapered and consists of rubber. I like how small it because you easily catch your baby lashes that may be missed out with a bigger wand. All in all the aim of the mascara is to lengthen your lashes to a full of 80%. I was of course really curious about this because barely any drugstore mascara was able to achieve that for me yet without totally spiderlegging your lashes within three coats. So when I came home I took it out of my bag and tried it out and I was AMAZED! This mascara is so good!

Not only does it lengthen your lashes immediately it kind of gives you this great definition. Even after applying two more coats there was no clumping, no disgusting sticking, nothing like that. It built up the length of your lashes leaving them looking amazing! What I also liked is that that the lashes were still flexible after the mascara dried (which happened very quickly). That's because the formula also involves bamboo extract that keeps your lashes moisturized and flexible. Also it has a really nice hold, there was no flaking, smuding or detrioration in shape. The only maybe a bit negative thing is that it isn't available in waterproof, but therefore it comes off nicely with only a few wipes of the pad. Definitely a great mascara I recommend everyone of you to buy!

xo Cory

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