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Brace Yourself For Fab's Biggest Handbag Giveaway, Ever

FabSugar — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:30:11 -0800

Next Monday, we'll be bringing you our biggest handbag giveaway yet. Let's just say, you will have a chance to win the holy grail of handbags. The coveted of the coveted. The classic of the classics. We are partnering with Portero.com and our blogger buddy The Purse Blog for an amazing purse giveaway – details to come Monday.

Link Time!

BellaSugar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:00:16 -0700

Hairstyles of the last century - Life
The new "she uses Botox" giveaway: bunny lines - Stylelist
All about the "hair down there" - and it's not where you think - Lemondrop
Benefit's holiday makeup offerings are super cute - Makeup and Beauty Blog
Four things all dudes need to know about skin care - Future Derm
Primate-kissing Paris Hilton wears huge fake lashes - FabSugar UK
How to make Rihanna's makeup work in real life - Beauty Product Junkies
Don't forget to share your Halloween makeup ideas here - Halloween Challenge
A different kind of Avon lady - Glamour
The nails at McQueen: in-sane - Allure

Daily Tech: Nokia Booklet 3G Only Coming to Best Buy

GeekSugar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:05:39 -0700

The only retailer in the US to get the 10-inch Nokia netbook will be Best Buy - Gizmodo
Google Mobile now remembers what you've searched on your desktop and displays starred map locations - Lifehacker
Sony is planning on releasing Blu-ray movie titles, which can only be watched on PSPs - Kotaku
Tomorrow's Martha Stewart show will be entirely dedicated to talking about Twitter and live-blogging - Switched
Sony's PSP Go hits store shelves today for $250 - Engadget
It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar! Be sure to log in and play our Best Video Game Ever bracket! - GeekSugar

Daily Tech: Google Sync Comes to the iPhone and Windows Phones

GeekSugar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:05:11 -0700

Google Sync with push Gmail functionality can now be used on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Windows Mobile devices. - Google Mobile Blog
To compete with Google Docs, Microsoft will soon be launching Office Web Apps - USA Today
Louis Vuitton has just released laptop sleeves with their classic damier canvas design - Chip Chick
Here's how you can use GarageBand to autotune your voice to sound like T-Pain - Download Squad
Amazon is selling AT&T phones for only one cent today, and it'll even waive the activation fee - The Boy Genius Report
It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar! Be sure to log in and play our Best Video Game ever bracket! - GeekSugar

Daily Tech: The Pure Sensia Touchscreen Radio With WiFi

GeekSugar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:10:15 -0700

The Pure Sensia radio offers a touchscreen, social networking apps, WiFi, an on-screen keyboard, and it will cost around $406 - Slashgear
Griffin's new kid-friendly headphones include volume-limiting settings to protect them from hearing loss - Popgadget
President Barack Obama is worried about people getting their information from blogs and not newspapers - The Silicon Alley Insider
Check out this solar-powered Bluetooth headset that is juiced up from the sun's rays - Gizmodo
Tweet Scenes designs customized Twitter backgrounds for $129 - TechCrunch
It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar! Be sure to log in and play our Best Video Game ever bracket! - GeekSugar

Tech Dating 101: Blogging About Dating

GeekSugar — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:33:39 -0700

Call it tech and the single girl; lately, we've been tackling a lot of couples' issues in Tech Dating 101, but today I'm going to focus on being single in a virtual world.

With so many people blogging, it makes sense to mine your rich personal life, particularly the joys and horrors of dating. Just think - instead of making several phone calls to your girlfriends and any other interested parties, you can just direct everyone to your latest blog post.

Sure, many people think this alone is poor form, but I don't think it is - as long as you follow a few ground rules. To see my advice, just read more.

Be vague. Give your dates aliases or just use initials so that if they or people they know found your blog, it wouldn't be a dead giveaway who you were talking about. Don't be too specific about details either. But if you do want to give many details . . .
Utilize any privatization settings your blogging platform provides. Check your settings and allow only those you want to see your posts, or password protect the site.
Don't TMI anyone. Or at least know your readers' TMI thresholds.
Don't post anything you wouldn't want someone dating you to be posting. And don't assume that no one would be interested enough in your little blog to pass it around.
What happens when one of your dates/blog fodder becomes something more serious? You have a choice: stop blogging about them altogether, or come clean and be honest about your blogging so that they're not hurt if one of your friends eventually blabs about it. Even if everything you wrote was totally innocuous, hearing you've been blogged about behind your back is unsettling.

Any advice from you guys? Have you ever blogged about dating or been blogged about?

Casa Interview, Part II: Domino Founding Editor Deborah Needleman (and an Awesome Giveaway!)

CasaSugar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:00:39 -0700

Deborah Needleman, the founding editor of Domino, is a goldmine of savvy advice on decorating your home, honed from years of experience heading up the style-centric magazine as well as decorating her own home. You can read the first half of my interview with her here. Deborah's tips and thoughts on decorating continue in the second half of this interview.

Our homes are really personal spaces. Considering that most of us are shopping from the same few décor retailers and finding inspiration in the same shelter magazines and blogs, how should we go about personalizing our homes?
Every home definitely needs a few old things and a couple unique things. And when most of what we have is mass-produced, it's more important than ever to have some things made by actual human hands, whether it's pottery, rugs, pictures, whatever. It is essential to find a few things that no one else has, whether you find them in a shop, at a tag sale, bring them back from a trip, collect them from nature, or even make them - like just tacking up drawings or notes from friends. Stuff that is meaningful to us, what we love or collect or find is interesting to our guests. I also do think it's really nice to have one really good piece - whether that's a table, rug, chandelier, whatever. It gives your room some substance, some weight - and also ensures it doesn't look like anyone else's.

To read the rest of the interview, read more.

I love your home, which I saw featured in New York magazine a few years ago. I know that you’re a big fan of neutrals and white, or at least you were when that article was written. Are you still a neutrals gal?
Thanks. It's funny, in New York City which is so chaotic and where I get easily overwhelmed, I need to be a neutral gal. It totally calms me down, and keeps my head clear. But upstate, where I feel more relaxed, I love layering patterns and color - florals, suzanis, chintzes, Indian prints, etc. I'm covering my sofa there in purple linen, my study is painted black, and one room is the craziest color green I've ever seen.

I love how your home is elegant and adult-oriented, yet still kid-accessible. What is your advice on and personal experience with creating gorgeous spaces that are also kid-friendly?
I have never understood dumbing down design for kids. No one had kid-friendly homes when I was growing up - people just had the homes they had and their children lived in them! A family home is for adults and children - why on earth would anyone give over their living room to let it look like a play room?! I'll probably get hate mail for this, but aside from a gate so children don't tumble down the stairs, and maybe a lock on the cabinet if you have the kind of children that want to eat the Ajax or whatever, children can be taught that table edges are sharp and that food is to be eaten in the kitchen and that open markers can't be left on the rug!

Other than that, if you have a fairly light palette like I do, you have to accept that you won't have the cleanest house in the world. Fortunately I like a bit of a patina on things! I like that the floor is scuffed by skateboards in part because I love a house where children feel free to run wild, have loads of friends over, and make forts out of the sofa cushions, but also where they have a sense of responsibility and respect for things. Oh, and I have cheap rugs, so if they get destroyed, I won't be sad! And I certainly wouldn't choose a linen velvet sofa fabric if I had to do it again! Kids don't rule the roost, they share it.

Your HomeGoods StyleScope tool helps home decorators find their style. How would you describe your own style?
I think I'm fairly conventional at core - I couldn't have furniture at funny angles or a bed floating in a room or anything too wacky or "fun." I dig symmetry. I like things that are classic in shape and form - not overly embellished, but I appreciate many kinds of design. I think I take this fairly classic base and mess it up a bit. I'm certainly not traditional. I like to layer on personality and quirk with ethnic textiles, cushions, interesting objects, fabrics, and art. I love stuff from India, Morocco, England. Thus, Bohemian Classic.

And to revive a favorite Domino feature of mine, what are 10 things that make you happy?
Hilarious question! Well, first of all, we never let people say their children or their dogs!!! Too boring and obvious.

Nearly all Santa Maria Novella products (if I could only choose one thing, it'd be their potpourri. But I'm crazy about the milk body cream, the honeysuckle perfume, and the pomegranate soap and bath salts). I am obsessed with scent - on my body and in my home!
My veg garden. (Really, seeing my children eat their way through our veg garden, but at Domino I would've edited that out as too sentimental!)
Making flower arrangements for the house.
My white parsons table (I have two) - and a brilliant new parsons side table in the pitch-perfect green color.
Comfy chairs in kitchens and bathrooms.
Cheap weekly blowouts from walk-in, no-appointment places.
Summer dinner outside with friends.
Staying in a lovely hotel room (never a trendy hotel, I like old-school, old-fashioned hotels). I love that nothing belongs to me and the beds are perfectly made. The Duc du St. Simon in Paris is pretty excellent.
Bobbi Brown makeup. Makes you look sun-kissed, not dolled up.
I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't say this, but having a decorator!! Specifically having the genius Rita Konig as a decorator!

Thank you, Deborah! We have a special giveaway for you CasaSugar readers on the way. One of you lucky readers will win a $500 gift card to HomeGoods! Check back for more details about the giveaway later on today!

Oprah Stirs the Pot With Free KFC Offer

YumSugar — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:00:57 -0700

Two days ago, Oprah offered her viewers a free coupon for KFC's new grilled chicken - complete with sides and biscuit. The promotion took off, and by the next day, Oprah's KFC coupons were the fifth most popular search on Google. But rather than getting recognition for offering her viewers bargain bites, Oprah's fallen under fire for the move.

Last year, the talk show guru was named PETA's Person of the Year for exposing the cruelty of the factory farm industry. But KFC buys its meat from Tyson, a company that has come under attack for supporting CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations). This conflict of interest has sent environmental media outlets into outrage; sustainable food blog Civil Eats called the free KFC offer "Oprah's most hypocritical move yet."

Moreover, the free KFC coupons have caused upheaval in stores. The demand for free chicken has overwhelmed many KFC franchisees: one manager at a midtown Manhattan outpost told customers the promotion was over for the day, prompting patrons redeeming coupons to hold a sit-in, refusing to leave the store until they received free chicken.

After all the backlash, I can't help but wonder whether Oprah regrets promoting the offer. Did you partake in the promotion? Do you think the free grilled chicken giveaway was a mistake on her part?

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Link Time!!!

FabSugar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:31:28 -0700

Do discount designer duds make the grade? - WSJ
Carine Roitfeld does NOT look pleased - The Daily Chic Report
Save the best for last: Linea Pelle final giveaway - Purse Blog

Isabel Marant's element of exclusivity

American Apparel: Naked - The HuffingtonPost
Deal of the week: Gap's Striped Summer Tee - Lucky Magazine
Kate Moss and the Met Ball - Fashionista
Matthew Williamson for H&M Spring ‘09 collection release in NYC - Nitrolicious
Seeds of change: Ananas plants trees for purses - Teen Vogue Blog
Michelle Obama, by the book - Style File

Link Time!!!

FabSugar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:50:00 -0700

Daria gets us in the mood for H&M - The Daily Chic Report
Linea Pelle month: week 3 giveaway - Purse Blog

Tao Okamoto climbs into the major league with Ralph Lauren Fall 2009

Start the season with cropped pants - The HuffingtonPost
Creativity in Blum - Style File
Overcoming my fear of cleavage - Lucky Magazine
London vs. NYC: Explain - Fashionista
Naeem Khan designs a party - WSJ
Tarina Tarantino Fall 2009 handbag and leather accessories collection - Nitrolicious
British Invasion: Zandra Rhodes return tour - Teen Vogue Blog