Lights, camera, lashes!

Listen up my Smashonistas who love and adore makeup.  I fell in love with this certain mascara by Tarte.  This magical wand delivered everything it promised and more.  Do you want what Tarte calls a push-up bra for your lashes?  It's a 4-1 (lengthening, curling, volumizing and conditioning) and clinically proven to increase lash volume by 424%.  Really 424%?  Who comes up with these numbers?  They had me at lengthening and volumizing.  Is volumizing even a word? who cares.  I love it.   For those of us with underdeveloped, puny, barely there eyelashes this is a God send.  I tried this wonder stick and I'm a believer.  Best of all it's cruelty free!  Not tested on animals and dead animal by-product free.  Yay Tarte!

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xoxo Olivia aka Smashonista

Salvage Baubles: Upcycling Done Right

Leave it to the coolest, hottest mama to be, Natalie Portman to start a new trend, salvage baubles.  I just love her and apparently I am not the only one, nothing says love like a $35,000 engagement ring. Her talented hubby is not only light on his toes but designs jewelry, for Natalie anyways. Mr. Millepied designed the intellectual gone actress an engagement ring made of recycled platinum and an antique center stone.  Can somebody say gorgeous. I have been collecting vintage baubles for years but I love the thought of upcycling these pieces into gorgeous, fresh works of art.  And guess what my like minded readers, in the spirit of Natalie, salvage baubles can be yours too with just a click of a button.  Fall in love with OverTheTop, a tiny store on Etsy.  This designer has taken salvaged beads and the like and has come up with some fantastic pieces with some paying tribute to Natalie's character Nina in The Black Swan.  Most of the pieces featured have a vintage feel to them, but wait! If you are a minimalist snob,I have a suspicion it won't be long before some talented designer starts pairing these salvage baubles with some modern-sleek-earthy designs.  Loving it!

Oh That Betty Crocker Never Looked So Hot!

One of my aprons from Anthropologie

Natori Gala Robe

Smashonistas, how did the holidays treat you?  I know, I know so anticlimactic.  I'm not complaining though, I'm blessed.  Today I found the baby Jesus in our Rosca de Reyes cake.  Some cultures just know how to milk this holiday thing. ahem... Now to debrief. I got to do some of my most favoritist things this holiday season and I got to do them together.  Spend time with my family and cook with drink in hand (thanks Kirk for sharing your central coast yummy wines).  I did it all with style I must say Smashonistas.  What's hot right now in the world of home economics you ask?  Aprons baby.  All kinds of aprons. I whipped out my holiday apron, and all my other cute little aprons I have managed to collect. My first apron was an all white with scalloped lace edges that I bought about 10 years ago, back then it was difficult to land a halfway cute apron kind of like how difficult it is to find an adorable robe these days. Just call me Olivia Crocker.  I also managed to spread the joy of aprons to my two sisters.  I bought them each a darling apron to bake, cook or do whatever they want (now, now settle down boys), from Anthropologie.  Now that I have satisfied my thirst for aprons I move onto robes, formerly known as dressing gowns. What happen to the glamor days?  What happened to those beautiful peignoirs? I love my house and I like to spend a lot of time in it and sometimes I want to feel stylish and sophisticated while doing it.  Is that too much to ask?  Hey you're talking to a girl that has a dressing area with a vanity adjoining my closet albeit however small.  Okay so fine, most of the time I just throw my clothes on my vanity (don't judge me) but it's always there when I want to sit down and untangle my hair and put my face on.  So there you have it Smashonistas for all you aspiring homemakers, and housewives and for those of you that just want like to look good while begrudgingly cooking and picking up after your loved ones, I give you the apron and its counterpart the dressing gown.  Always be stylish.