Banana Coffee Rhapsody

The other day my mom came by and I prepared some coffee. But we didn't drink it. Given the fact it was Starbucks Special Chrismas Blend coffee I got as a present I thought it was a waste of good coffee if I was to throw it away. So I put some bananas in the blender, some soy milk and the coffee we didn't drink. After it was all mixed and creamy I couldn't help myself but to put some actual whiped cream on top of everything. It was perfection.

And now.. the proof..

Oh, right.. that's me.. I just remembered this is the first photo of me on this blog.. Debut FTW :)

and one more thing..

I totally forgot bout this photo. It goes with the previous post. Love it. Love Lara Stone. Love the colours. Love the glitter (cmon.. who doesn't love glitter). If I think about it.. it's probably the best combo possible - glitter and boobs.

Love,
Ajolina

Bewbs!

So today I was reading old posts on a friends blog and I stumbled on a mentioning of a really interesting page. It’s called modfetish and it basically contains pictures of naked ladies (their words not mine). I started looking at them and there are some I just couldn’t resist posting. Of course not all of them remind you of editorial photos but some are really good. 

Because it's winter. And this is hot. 

This one i really like for the colours. Just pretty i guess..

 Love the underwater thing going on in this one.

 Again the colours. And the hair. And the pose. And the high waist skirt. And the make up.

My bf just passed me when I was saving this one and asked me surprised why this one. True it's not particulary sexy or editorial I like it because of the feel of some past decadent century. Don't you agree?

This one just has this 90ies feel to it I find incredibly alluring. Maybe because I was a teenager in that time hoping I'll someday be as hot as her, oblivient to the route my body decided to take afterwards puberty - curvy as some may say. Womenly. I just think it's chubby :))

 Do i need an explanation why??

This one I like cause it look so fragile. Reminds me of sunday morning. You know that feel? Like nothing could go wrong.

 I'm a sucker for b&w ever since.. since ever!

Ok :) this one  is a bit different. I chose this one as a tribute to this friend of mine. In her blog she talked several times about the bushy situation down under. And her stong pro opinion. I think she'd like this one.

Being a ‘well gifted’ in that apartment I thought why not have a post about boobies? We all do love them.. small big medium perky juicy.. sure at times I wish mine were smaller, especially when I’m shopping for bras or anything that is not stretchable in the breast area. And there are just some type of clothes I’ll never get a chance to wear them. Well I could, if I wanted to look pregnant. But I don’t. Not for now at least (now being the period of my twenties altogether and probably beginning of thirties).  I’m babbling again. Maybe the cause is that it is past midnight and I’m still not quite well. Oh, which reminds me.. I promised a photo of my rings and sorry to say it but it’s not happening right now. Not so much cause of the fact I don’t feel like it due to me being lazy as hell. But more cause I have no idea where my photo camera is. Blank. Just went missing. Maybe I should put wanted posters through and through Ljubljana. Maybe. I’ll let tomorrow be the judge of that. So here are some photos of the I’ll – never – be able – to – pull – this – off – look I like so much.

Ok.. I don't like this one so much as i mind the fact I'd look as a stripper secretary.

Alexander McQueen

 Same goes for this one..

Alexander Wang

 This one I do like very much. Too bad my boobs would just come out at the very first attempt to even slightly move.

Fendi

 I can just hear them asking me: Oh my darling.. When's your due?

Halston

 This one i love cause of the cigarette - smoke kinda vibe twirling around your silhuette.

Julien MacDonald

 Just looks like a fun dress. Again if worn by someone with my body type.. it would look just too huchy-fied for good taste.

Preen

 Love the simplicity.

Valentino

Other than that.. that’s about it from me. See you later alligator ;)

Take care

Love

Ajolina

WHY DON'T YOU CARRY ME ALWAYS??!!

By now we all have probably heard B’s ‘why don’t you love me?’. I have to say I wasn’t always her fan. Especially when she was a part of Destiny’s Child. At the time I thought she was totally neurotic/spastic/attention stealing singer in a group which above all produced music that was not exactly my cup of tea. But it turned out she just needed a solo career. If you’re wondering, this will not be about Beyonce, don’t worry. But I do have to say I’m in love with her before mentioned video. Especially the part when she’s on the phone with all her rings. And here’s where my story begins.

Even when I was just a small girl, when my fashion philosophy was consisted with one basic thought: skirt, I always loved some BlingBling. I remember my mom used to buy me rings on a market. Very flashy very small (for small fingers) very fake-gold looking and very cheap. But I loved them. ‘The more the merrier’ always seemed to be my moto. As I grew older I started disliking the yellow color of gold, so for my bday or something equally festive I started getting presents made of white gold which I do prefer even now. Needless to say those presents weren’t exactly flashy cocktail rings but still I care for them very much. But I do like them pretty big ones. So I set up to buy some fakes. You can hardly imagine my surprise when I got to pretty known chain of accessorize store and asked bout cocktail rings and the lady in store didn’t know to what I was referring to. But she was kind of young so I thought maybe she really doesn’t know. And you certainly can’t image my surprise when I checked almost every store possibly related to accessorizing and no one knew what I’m looking for. For all they knew I wanted something like this:

which i totally do adore, altough i have to say not your ordinary cup of martini ;)

I did manage to score some pretty cool rings at the end and didn’t get too cashed out. It was just my fascination with their lack of knowing what is going on right now. I don’t want to sound bitchy but the truth is if I’d ask my bf what I cocktail ring is and he wouldn’t know.. I wouldn’t blame him. But if you work in a I-don’t know about the world, but certainly Europe – spread chain of stores, specializing in accessorize in the peak of cocktail ring frenzy and you don’t know what a cocktail ring is, well, I kinda resent you. Or at least I imagine that it’s only the result of my good manners that I don’t snap at your ignorance and demand you get fired for incompetence in the store! But I digress..

I just wanted to share some really nice samples for the rings I found on the net. And the best part is most of the stores actually sell them at really affordable prices. Of course ‘them’ being the cheaper/fake version of these ones.

Erickson Beamon for Target

handmade by unknown artist

Kat's Bag

Mathew Campbell

Mawi's

Zsa Zsa Bling

So my dear followers, wear them! And you don’t need a special occasion to do so! Trust me. I like to add them to my day-to-day wardrobe even if it might don’t seem like the first choice you’d make – pictures coming next time – as I said, I’m sick and even I’m not that excited to be wearing them when I can barely eat solid food. So this goes to all you healthy ones out there. Even though they’re not expensive or real or even worthy being mentioned near the pear/diamond section – they do make you feel better. Just a bit special. And there’s nothing wrong with that if anything, it’s welcomed!

Take care of you and your blings

Love,

Ajolina

Back!

So.. Guess I’m back. It’s been a while right? And I truly am sorry for that. It’s just the whole moving thing. I was without my apartment for almost 6 months. No.. actually for a bit more than 6 months. How bout that? Well you don’t need to worry about me sleeping under some bridge (although in Ljubljana I’m not even sure we have an appropriate bridge to live under). In the summer I stayed at my parents and when the school started I crashed my sister’s place. But now I have finally moved and I hope you understand the delay in my writing. And it’s funny for me to say this, because of all the lost nerves during the process, I think it was actually worth it. I love the new place (pictures coming as soon as it’s pimped out completely, wink). It’s fairly small place for two people (me+boyf), but after three years of disastrous room-mating it’s a blessing we’re alone. Oh, well.. not quite. I got a cat!

Which is another amusing thing, because I’m really more of a dog person. But when it comes down to it, I’m a sucker for all furry things so of course I fell in love with Berlioz immediately. Berlioz, that’s her name. Sounds familiar? Yes, I know about Hector Berlioz, the French composer, and that he was famous, but I meant in the ‘cat related’ context. Berlioz was the name of one of the kittens in Disney’s classic Aristocats.

 Oh, I loved that cartoon when I was little. Only thing is.. My Berlioz is all white. And a girl. So, according to the cartoon, she should be named Marie, because Berlioz is the little black one. But I preferred Berlioz or as my 2 year old niece cleverly came up with – Ozzy. I would love to post a picture of her but for now she is extremely shy so no pictures had been taken yet.

As you may have figured by now, this post is not about fashion. Don’t worry, I have a plenty of material in stack. I kind of thought that after so much time it would be nice to have a sort of welcome back thing going on. Plus, it was New Years few days ago and with all the resolutions for the 2011 I came up with some fresh ideas and changes. Sooooo..  I changed the name. Why you may ask? Well, there are several reasons. First is a striking similarity with the name ‘not just another fashion blog’, which is another blog about fashion. Imagine that. But that was actually completely my fault, because I didn’t check the name before using mine. The other reason is I may have been a bit overwhelmed with fashion at the time of creating my blog. Don’t get me wrong. I still loooooooove it and all. It’s just I’m not sure it is everything I want to write about. Ok, there is also a bit of obsession from my side about numerous thing connected with teeth and stuff - hygiene, Rocky Horror Picture Show poster, lip-glosses that can either make your smile better or worse, the whole ‘geishas used to dye their teeth black’ thing I don’t quite understand.. And many more.

And here we are with brand new name ‘SweetTooth BitterTooth’. I think it’s a perfect name. And I like it. And I didn’t find any other blog using it :) I just hope that in a while you’ll understand the fitfulness of it.

That (sadly) is everything from me now because the real reason I ‘picked’ right this time to write isn’t because I just happened to have a bunch of time on me, it’s because I’m sick. And I really should go back to bed now.

I really hope u had a lovely NY’s and great holidays or that you’re going to have them. Either way, whatever you do or however you celebrate.. I hope you are doing it fashionably!

Take care

Ajolina

Ugg-ly Duckly

Even though it’s only the beginning of October, it’s pretty cold already. I see people wearing all kinds of jackets, parkas or some (never quite understood that kind) just sweaters. People don’t mind if you have a warm cardigan on, or if you’re sleeveless jacket kind of type. People don’t even mind if you bring your old Toper jacket out of your closet. Yeaaah, you remember them dontcha?

Hell, some may even say that you’re cool with your old-school vintage look. But it’s a given fact that they will most definitely mind you wearing Uggs.

So what is it with these boots? Are they so ridiculously uncomfortable so you have to mock every girl you see them wearing? I doubt that. Are they truly so unbelievably gruesome that your eyes suffer when looking at them so you have to turn away? I don’t think so. So what is it with Uggs?

First of all, I would like to make one thing straight. When I speak of Uggs, I do mean Ugg ®. If you didn’t know, ‘uggs’ in general mean Australian boots made of sheep skin. Not defining a label. But as far as I know, only Ugg, the brand, made the worldwide phenomenon. That is way today I’m talking about Uggs and not uggs.

As I was saying people like to hate Uggs. Sometimes it seems like only people who like Uggs are their owners. How come? I’ve been doing quite a little research on this topic for quite some time now. I found many, many forums that debate about Uggs. I saw that you can simply divide all opinions on two views:

a)      I loooooove Uggs. I bought/got them ?? time ago and ever since I’m in love with them. They’re warm, never too hot, the most comfortable shoes I ever owned. They get little dirty, have to admit that.

b)      I haaaaaaate Ugg. Aren’t you aware how stupid you look? You shouldn’t wear them with your skirt, with your sweat pants, your pj’s…. And you’re a complete idiot because you paid so much for them.

Ok, so I want to focus on a) a bit. They’re warm. Being made of sheep skin I have absolutely no doubt they are really warm and fuzzy. Never too hot? According to Ugg brand, the sheep skin works as an insulation and as they are keeping you warm in winter, you should have your feet temperature nicely balanced even in warmer days (summer). Right. Summer. Really? Who would want to wear Uggs in summer (except for Pam Anderson, who is obviously a fan). 

Wow, she really went out of her way with this picture. I mean Uggs on beach? What the hell? Well.. if you were to learn about the origins of these boots, you would find that Ugg boots were primarily worn by Australian surfers, and only when their American stoner friends came to get ‘some really nice waves, dude’ to Australia, they found out the practical use of Uggs. So, Pam on Baywatch really isn’t overdoing her wardrobe. She kinda is ‘theshit’. I think that this also proves them being comfortable, because I seriously can’t imagine a stoned surfer wearing come pain-in-the-ass, hot-as-hell boots. But they do get a bit dirty. Can’t argue with that.

That leaves us with b) clan. Looking stupid? I find that kind of comment on the third grade level, when you get to school looking a bit nervous because you’re wearing Beatles t-shirt your sister gave you for your b-day and the class bully wannabe Barbie says you’re stupid because you don’t have Justin Bieber T. Right. I think this analogy works just fine.

The reason I wrote ‘u shouldn’t wear them with whatever’ is because few weeks ago I watch this video on YouTube. There was this absolutely insignificantly styled generic girl, with no personality (except annoying) who was telling us how not to wear Uggs. Apparently you can’t wear them with skirts. Or your sweat pants. Or your pjs. Actually the only way you can wear them is with skinny jeans tucked in. 

wrong

wrong

wrong

ok, i guess

All of this is so wrong I don’t even know where to start. Skirts. To be quite honest I don’t really see the problem here. Especially if we’re talking about younger girls. I think they are adorable in short wavy skirts and Uggs. But that’s just me. But if we’re talking about young adults (I’m gonna go crazy here and say 15-30) it depends on a skirt. If you pair them up with a fancy elegant skirt, well you probably don’t have much of a fashion sense anyway and Uggs really aren’t the problem here. If you’re 28 and have a hot pink ruffle skirt paired with idunno, baby blue Uggs.. then I think it’s more of ‘age appropriate’ type of question. Everything between, I don’t see why not. If you’re still not convinced how about this: can you honestly tell that Uggs+skirt is in any way more wrong than cowboy boots+skirt? And I don’t hear any cowboy boots fans complaining.

Sweat pants and pjs. To be quite honest I can’t really imagine more comfortable combination to wear on a cold day at park than sweatpants and Uggs. I may be wrong but that’s how I feel. Of course this is not a look for work or even school. But to go to the store? Sure. I really don’t see the difference in that or just sweatpants and sneakers. If your problem is sweatpants, than it will be your problem with any type of shoes. Similar goes for pjs. If you see a poor soul walking around in her pjs does it make a difference what is she wearing for shoes? I don’t think so.

I think I looked on these problems as fairly and objectively as I could. So I think group a) holds better grounds then b). The thing I find really funny is that group b) almost never mention the cleaning problem. Which apparently is the only rational problem in group a). Yes, cleaning and the price. I didn’t mention the price before because I’ve come to a conclusion which may upset some. Given recent arguments that prove team b) to be wrong, it is the only logical explanation why would somebody care how much money do you spent on your shoes. Envy.

The thing I personally find troublesome with Uggs is their genuineness. Usually Uggs can get a bit expensive. It is just ridiculous how much more do they cost here in Slovenia than US.  So let’s order them on net. Here’s the problem. Most, and I do, mean most of the pages are counterfeit. Which causes more problems than you can think of at first. Sure there is whole ‘respect the real label’ thing. But the thing is those counterfeit pages are really good. You can’t always know they are fake. At the beginning you were able to follow your gut with ‘if it’s so cheap that it almost isn’t true, then probably it isn’t’. Now these companies got smart. The prices aren’t so low so you almost pay full price for a fake. And a fake won’t last that long, trust me. And I don’t even want to think about hygiene. It may sound funny but I know you ladies. I know these boots were made to be worn bare feet. But if you buy some cheap poly-something imitation, god knows what kind of steamy funky smells your-otherwise clean and flowery-feet will be producing. Not to mention athlete’s foot. Ok, I don’t know if you can actually get an athlete’s foot, I’m not a biologist or a doctor, but I bet it can get nasty.

What I’m trying to say I guess is wear them! Or don’t. Either way, don’t pick on someone who has them just because you don’t like them. Or if you see someone wearing them in their pjs.. try to take them home (not your home!). Or to the nearest hospital, coz I know they aint right ;)))

And if you do buy online check for genuineness of the page. You can do so right here. And if you are wondering whether you bought real or fake here are some clues.

And most of all.. if you do decide to wear them.. make it fashionably!!

Love,

AjoLina

Feel Good Inc VS. Error 503

My dear readers. You’ve surprised me. After posting my first blog involved mind thread, I was sure it will take days, weeks even, for people to wander to my page and read it. You proved me wrong, for which I am thankful. So here I am again.

You know that feeling, when you’re cleaning your room or car or flat.. And you find some old CD, that you were craaaazy about few years back and then totally forgot about it. Then naturally you put it in your player and get absolutely overwhelmed with all the memories, feelings and warm fuzzy feeling of nostalgia. This happened to me today. I loved it. Actually, last couple of days were pretty amazing, which was a well deserved workship of mysterious ways. First I found out that I made it into my next year on faculty. Yes, I am aware that I said I blew it on picking the right one, still.. I am set to finish this one nonetheless. Then my sister invited me and my darling bf to join her family of three in the spa center – herself, her bf/life partner (they’re not married but it’s kind of weird to call him her bf after such a long time) and their almost 2-year old (my niece Sara). It was fantastic. Earlier though, my bf realized he forgot his bathing suit, so we went shopping. As I walked by a really nice shoe store I noticed they still have a pair of this adorable boots, I’ve been drooling over for the past year. Being the lovely man he is, he bought them for me as an early birthday present. First I didn’t want to accept them because they are pricey. But after half a day of convincing I was a proud and utterly happy owner of these beauties (sorry bout the crappy link, but it was the only one i found in the right color). And today, when my lovely Sara came to me, for the first time ever, during our hug, she said that she loves me. Melted my heart literally. BUT, this is not a blog about my ‘koos-a-la-goop-a-goop’ feelings. It’s fashion darling!! (sounds really great imagining Mr. Andre Leon Talley saying that).

Speaking of Mr. Andre, I would like to start a topic of fashion knowledge. As I said in my previous blog, I like various aspects of fashion. But if you don’t know who is who (even behind the scenes) how can you say anything about it in the first place? For me it is like selling apples and not knowing they come from a tree.

For several years I’ve been a great fan of ANTM. The appeal of this show for me is not in the liking of models or looking up to them or wanting to be them. It is the process of it and the opportunities they are given during the show. Which I may add, are really extraordinary for young girls with no previous true contact with fashion industry. And I think it’s sort of sad, that they (sometimes) just don’t appreciate it. But the thing I love/hate the most is auditions. Love them, because you get this great insight of the girls and how far would they go to impress the judges. And hate because mostly you see some really ignorant girls, who you would just like to slap. Now, don’t get me wrong. I know all kind of girls come to the auditions, and I think it’s really remarkable that they are given a chance, even if they have some shady background or if it is clear they had rough time surviving in this world. And this is not the ignorance I am talking about. What I really dislike in some of the girls is that when Tyra asks them if they can name some designers or photographers, they completely fall short. Yes I know, the footage is edited to be more interesting, but I will never forget an audition of a girl (which ironically enough I have forgotten) who was collecting pens. Funny shaped pens. She was a real hard core thing too. She even had them with her on the audition. And then Tyra selected 5 of them and asked her to name 5 designers. Nope, a bit too hard for that outstanding young lady. 3? Couldn’t do it either. Apparently, all of this girls time was consumed with pen collecting. And this is what I really hate. Of course she then burst to tears that this is her dream and everything. I don’t want to single her out, over the last 15 cycles many girls were in similar situation. But how can someone stand there and claim this is their dream, when they don’t know the basics of it.

Don’t even think I’m picking on models (I know there are some stereotypes about them not being the sharpest tools in the shed). The wannabe designers can be the same. I was watching the second season of Canada’s Project Runway (which is hosted by fabulous Iman, really worth watching). There was this young designer who was all about fashion and how he couldn’t imagine life without it and what not. Then in some ‘influential designers’ challenge he asked his team mates who is this ‘Yves saint Laurent’ or 'YSL guy' they’ve got. Seriously? No, for real – seriously? And I don’t even mean that in cool/semi passé slag ‘seriously’, but truly SERIOUSLY? I was flabbergasted. In fact I still am, so I won’t even try to bother with how wrong that was.

I just realized I haven’t mentioned much of education in here. More just the lack of it. For some basic, and I do mean basic info I warmly recommend a film ‘The September Issue’. It is about, well, many things actually. The main focus is on editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Ms. Ana Wintour. You may not like her (many people don’t), you may worship her (many people do), but I believe it is essential to know her. I knew for a long time who Ms. Wintour is and I never had any special interest in her or her doings. Not even when ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ came out – which is supposedly inspired by her immanent persona. It was after seeing this film that I became interested with her. At first I wasn’t sure whether to like or dislike her, but I was surely fascinated with her. Only after I read Kate Betts’s (once seen as most likely Wintour’s successor) critic I was convinced I not just like her, but adore her.

//.. what it might cost a person like Miranda Priestly to become a character like Miranda Priestly.//

(Miranda Priestly – the main character in The Devil Wears Prada.)

So my dear fashion lovers, today I got a bit theoretical again, I know. I am hoping to be more visually compelling next time. I do hope your eyes are not starving for beauty, like Mr. Andres do, still, I’d like to take care of your occasional munchies.

Take care of you AND your shoes.

Love,

AjoLina