How Fashion Girls Celebrate Valentine's Day

As we all know, Valentine's Day is the day we celebrate love. It is no longer a day reserved for couples alone, but rather, one in which we can send cards to family and friends to tell them how much we care. It's also a day to spoil ourselves, because loving yourself is the keynote to true happiness. Duh. Now that we've gone through all the cliches that allow us to acknowledge and perhaps "enjoy" Valentine's Day, let's go through a list of ways that fashion girls choose to celebrate this holiday. Ready? Here's my top five.

NUMBER 5

V-Day Inspired Nail Art

On this special week in February, Pinterest is flooded with Valentine's Day manicures to brighten up your day. Whether you have a man or not, this is just another opportunity to get your nails done. Rather than going for the basic red or pink, try some crazy nail art and get creative this year. It's the simplest way to enjoy the day without the flowers.

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NUMBER 4

New Lingerie

Let's get one thing straight. A woman must ALWAYS feel sexy whether there is a man in her life or not. Hence, the excuse to buy sexy lingerie for Valentine's Day. After all, you never know when you'll need it.

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NUMBER 3

Red Shoes

If you've always wanted that pair of statement shoes, now is your chance. Since V-Day falls on the weekend, what better way to showcase a pair of bold red stilettos than on the streets during Valentine's Day?

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NUMBER 2

Red Lipstick

If you're not usually inclined to wear a red lip, this is your chance to try it out. If you have nobody to kiss on V-Day, this is the perfect time to sport this bold lip color that women love and men hate to kiss.

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NUMBER 1

Heart-Shaped Jewellery

In this day and age, who needs a man to buy you jewellery? Any true fashion girl can buy her own sleek silvery heart on a chain and this is the perfect excuse to justify this type of purchase, wouldn't you agree?

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What are YOU doing this Valentine's Day. Have you finished your shopping yet?

XOXO

Bella

Books Vs. Lingerie: Which Camp Do You Fall Under?

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BIG NEWS: Victoria's Secret is coming to Montreal. For real this time.

All Montrealers (men and women included) can squeal with excitement now. You can now look like Doutzen or Candice ALL THE TIME (more or less).

Gone are the nights spent ordering online and paying the excessive shipping fee. Gone is the eagerness to head over to the states (or Laval) once a year for that VS bikini. This is going to be huge. In fact, its going to be the second largest VS store in the world.

Where will it be opening, do you ask?

Smack in the crux of St. Catherine street corner Peel as Chapters tumbles down in shame.

As an avid book lover, my first reaction was utter shock. Why oh why would you replace Chapters? I need both! Aren't there other shittier stores that can come down? Where has our love of books gone?

Many other book lovers reacted in much the same way, scorning VS for its decision.

Aren't books more important than lingerie?
What happened to intellect over beauty?

And then I realized: there's an Indigo several blocks down and it will be expanding. Book lovers everywhere, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Canada has allowed (encourages) us all to read books in our sexy new underwear. SCORE.

For a book lover like myself, this is incredible news. For La Senza down the street, not so much. No matter.

Chapters will close shop on Oct. 4th, so stock up on those books.

Will you be shopping at VS upon its opening? Or better yet: will one of the Angels be at the opening? I'm banking on Ambrosio.

Laval Opening (2012)
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Catch you later!

Bella

December 10th Is Officially Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Day and Don't You Forget It

Today is the day we've all been highly anticipating for 364 days. It's the day that we must mentally prepare ourselves for. It's the day we gather with all our friends, vowing to go on a health food diet and hit the gym. It's the only fashion show straight men everywhere take the time to watch, putting hockey on hold. You guessed it. It's the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Seeing as it hasn't yet happened and somehow, people are already talking about it on Twitter, I figured it merited that long introduction. I still remember little Bieber dancing with Ambrosio on the runway last year and Rihanna's earth-shattering "Diamonds" performance. This year, we've got Taylor Swift. Hopefully, her costume will compensate. Will she be singing "22"? Or "We Are Never Getting Back Together"? I don't quite see the relevance, but I suppose she is a tall blond and will therefore, fit in almost perfectly. And well, other people are probably performing, but everyone is so preoccupied with the T-Swift bomb that nobody is talking about them. 

Let me let you in on a little secret. I thought the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show already happened. As crazy as that sounds, considering it's almost impossible to miss all the hype surrounding the show, it was my reality several weeks ago. To be fair, I saw photos online and anyone could've gotten confused. However, I am now 100% prepared to watch my favourite Top Models as they strut down that runway like it's nobody's business. All I'm hoping is that there's live streaming because I don't have CBS. 

Toodles,

Bella

P.S In case you haven't read it yet, here is my article from last night: http://myfashionstatements.tumblr.com/post/69556385588/the-10-coats-you-need-if-you-live-in-canada