“If not now, when Slankets, Jumpsuits?”
Srsly – Jumpsuits – this is totally CTG’s Winter vibe for home-lounging. Click here to order your own – you can completely custom-make them!
Girls, if CTG wasn’t ‘already famous’ she would so enter this! Softlips is doing a search for a Red Carpet Style Reporter – pretty cool! The whole thing’s being run off facebook, so if you know any pretty young things over the age of 17 you should totally tell them to search for Softlips South Africa to find out how to enter. The prize: A column in Seventeen Magazine, a wardrobe by YDE and tickets to the hottest parties in town. You’ll also get followed around by your own camera crew. Oh, AND an iPhone – basically the most important part!
Check out the pics of the Stylistas in the running to see who’s already entered. Here are some of the entries so far. Dang. SA’s got some very pretty girls! Good luck ladies. I sure would LOVE that YDE wardrobe…. Click here to enter.
Pretty!
Super hot!
Very pretty!
“I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, “I feel fat.” Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, Oh, I look like a woman. And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, ’cause I loved it.” – Christina Hendricks (that HOT chick from Madmen)
So nearly 9 months down the line and I’ve just been given my ghd Style Lounge shoot pics. Hair by the ghd, makeup by benefit. These were taken at one of a series of events called the ghd Style Lounge, which you got to attend if you signed up on the ghd Style Diary site.
The events were super fun – you basically lounged around drinking champagne, eating cupcakes and getting your hair and makeup done, and then you got styled and you hopped up onto the set and voila! What was really hilaire is that there was a remote control floating around, so you can actually shoot yourself and your friends. You’ll see it in my right hand if you look closely.
Click here to see some pics that I took while being styled – behind the scenes fabulousness.
Super fun! Really hope ghd decides to run with these events again this year.
I get a lot of questions about how I do what I do. Like, what kind of focus, dedication, strength is required to maintain such a fun, light-hearted and rad blog. When y’all see pictures of me lounging around in lingerie, eating my cuppiecakes, you probably envy me. I make it look so easy. Trust me, I train hard for this. In fact, writing a blog like CapeTownGirl requires a rigorous year-round training schedule. I will attempt to break down my processes, so you can empower yourself to achieve at this level too.
1. It takes a lot of solid dreaming.
When you look at this picture, what do you see? You see a whimsical lass, prancing around a sunny field, as if she hadn’t a care in the world. I see a girl who’s focused. At the top of her game. This girl is fully in her zone. She is dreaming, not only for herself. She is dreaming for you, too. All sorts of things are running through her mind right now. Deer. Teacup Chihuahuas. Lady Gaga’s new video. This girl has reached the point where she has almost become the dream – an important step in the journey towards becoming a chick blogger.
2. It takes knowing your good side.
Looking good in photos is a skill – it can take years of practise to discover your Zone Pose. This is the point where your face comes together with your body to create a moment where you are one with your own hotness. But knowing your good side means knowing your bad side. You eat one too many cupcakes, and you could go to a dark place. The trick is to remember, you’re not alone. Focus. Go within yourself. Remember the dream. Remember the bambi. The chihuahuas. The cuppicakes. Use visualisations. One that works well for me is imagining myself puking up everything I just ate. This stops me from eating that extra cupcake in advance. But find your image. Do what works for you. Remember, this is a journey. YOUR journey.
3. Make sure you find yourself a friend who will take photos of you. And only you. Not them.
You can’t do this alone. You need support – and I’m talking real support. Get yourself a modelling coach. Get yourself a dietician. Get yourself a personal trainer. Get yourself a chick-blogging mentor (I’m happy to mentor you if you take plenty of pics of me). Most importantly, make friends with someone who has at least 2 Lomo cameras and an iPhone. Why all three? The Lomos are non-negotiable, since they will be flattering and abstract and instant hits. The iPhone because you can’t be seen with a BlackBerry pleb. While you need a friend to take pics of you – very badly – you certainly do not need to lower your social status. Be patient until you find the right person.
4. Take rest days. A lot is said in the silence.
As a professional chick blogger, you may find you want to push yourself. Maybe you want to push yourself a little too hard, to blog more, now, again. This is when you need to step back, and regroup. You need to refocus, and remember why you’re doing this (for free entrance to the hottest clubs in town). The truth is that sometimes not posting can be more powerful than posting. You really need to gauge this for yourself. You need to listen to your audience. What do they want? What are they saying about you behind your back? What are they not saying about you behind your back? (bitches) It is important to slow down for your own sanity. Tweet a little less about your daily @vidaecaffe. Twitpic self-portraits in mirrors even more less. Just take time out for your inner chick blogger to remember who she really is. This is not a race, remember. This is a lifestyle.
These may seem like extreme measures, but you’ve got to decide how badly you want this blogging thing. You have got to get your head right. It’s all in the mind. Either you are in this to win this (and other competitions that will benefit from your free blog-PR) or you are just another (f-ing) chick blogger with pretty pics you’ve stolen from other chick bloggers all over your site. Make up your mind. How badly do YOU want it?
Think about it.
xxCTG
Love this top! Apparently it’s Hurley? Seen on Alwine.
1. It is rude to stretch your body out over the middle of the top shelf.
Why? Because the top shelf is the spot where the sauna is at its most effective, hence the most desirable spot. It is large enough to fit 2 bodies, if they lie with their knees up. But when you stretch yo ass out over the middle, you don’t leave enough space on either side of you for another person to sit. Just pick a side, s’all I’m sayin’. Pick a side, so one of us others can also get some prime sauna positioning. ‘Share‘ would be the keyword here.
2. Lie with your legs facing the wall.
Why? Because lying with your legs splayed facing the middle of the sauna is antisocial. Come now. This is a public space. Not to be confused with a pubic space. Think of the children! (we’ll get onto those in the next point). Besides, why would you lie with your head under the glaring lightbulb? Lie with your head in the middle of the shelf, and your feet facing against the wall. It’s just better that way. For everyone.
4. Don’t bring children into the sauna.
Why? There is a sign that says as much. The sauna is HOT. Your child is small. And chirpy. It won’t stop talking. Talk talk talk. ‘Mommy, your face is red. Mommy, why is your face red? Mommy, why do your boobs point down?’ The sauna is a place for quiet relaxation, for recovering post-workout, for detoxing, for contemplating Eat, Pray, Love. It is not a place for ‘Mommy why is that lady looking at me like she wants to kill me?’. Please.
3. Don’t monopolise the sauna shower with your full-body-treatment-scrub-masques.
The sauna shower is for quick, icy dowsing, not for mini-spa-day times. Yeah you may think to hell with it, and take yourself a 15 minute shower in the sauna shower, while we poor pruny souls in the sauna dehydrate slowly, losing all rational thought, wanting to voice a protest but too weak with heat… just know, we see you. Uh huh. We seen yo FACE.
Rub or sing to Sarah Palin's TUMMY?
You’ll find a sassy l’il Miss Mercede (no ’s’) Johnston, sister of Levi Johnston, the bro who knocked up (USA presidential candidate) Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol. Remember that whole thing. Sarah Palin shoots buck and preaches abstinence, then her daughter gets pregnant, lots of lols. Well it gets so much better! Please click here to get on the blog of Mercede Johnston to read her hilarious Q&A answers to life 1 degree removed from the Palin family.
Nice easyboy there Merc.
You know what I’m thinking… we need one of the (20) Zuma sisters to start a blog. Just imagine the Q&A on THAT.
Q: “Have you ever seen your Mom sleep with her bodyguard?”
A: “No, you’re thinking of one of the other wives, or should I say, one of my other moms, lolsies.”
Love this sea green number that belongs to my friend Carol. She has an unbelievable collection of beautiful dresses. Her wardrobe is quite an experience! She kindly lent it to me for a shoot last night with the ever amazing Robert Miller. More (of the dress and the shoot) to come at a later stage.
Check out this fab collection of cute Japanese girls dressed like Our Lady. Honestly, I think this is just the beginning… Kawaii!
