After being a fashion intern, I totally agree with this quote.

"Ask any old fashion assistant, those lowly magazine trolls who work 12-hour days for twenty-something thousand dollars a year, about the ethics associated with accidentally forgetting to return a sample and accidentally taking it home with them, and most will tell you it's mere income augmentation." -- Derek Blasberg's vocab lesson on Style.com.

Hey, Its Okay...

Glamour Magazine always has a section called "Hey It's Okay" in every issue. This section features statements directed towards girls to let them know that its okay not to be perfect, to have those little quirks that make us who we are. In a society that is obsessed with unattainable perfection, I think these little anecdotes remind us that we're all human- and that we don't have to feel guilty every time we do something that may be a little selfish! I've compiled some of these statements from various issues and thought it would be fun to post them here. If this works out, I may post them every month. If you have any that you would like to add, please comment with them and I will add them to the next post!


Hey, It's okay...

..to flip right to the end of a book you aren't loving. No one's going to test you on it.

..to get seriously annoyed when he stops calling- even if you never liked him in the first place.

.. if you don't leave the house all day, just because its raining.

..to mentally count the piece of lettuce in your sandwich as one of your five-a-day.

..to glance at pictures of yourself when you were 16 and think "Ha! So much better now!"

.. to buy new underwear in order to avoid laundry.

.. to make faces at people on the other end of the telephone. It may be childish, but oh so satisfying.

.. to run out of toothpaste, but own eight different shades of the same color of nail polish, "just in case."

.. to buy more than one pair of shoes for that perfect outfit!

..if you think your friend's baby looks kind of funny. (As long as you don't tell her!)


Credit: Various issues of Glamour

Viva La Vida

“As soon as Barack Obama becomes president, people will be a bit more optimistic. If Obama was to be president, it would immediately change the whole outside world’s opinion of America overnight. America’s public image at the moment is really bad. And it’s a bummer, because over half of Americans are the coolest people on the planet. But they’ve been so misrepresented… But I think that, really, the fair thing would be, in electing the American president, to let everyone in the world vote, because it affects all of us. If there was a world vote, there’s no question who would win. No question. Of course, Barack Obama is human like the rest of us. He’s going to f— up. But I’m just trying to look on the bright side. What’s the point of being negative? Where does that get us? It gets you your own radio chat show, but it doesn’t really do anything for the world.”- Chris Martin

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