Here's to the New Year

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope everyone has enjoyed their holidays and had some quality family time. Starting with my first post in 2014, I will be showing off my favorite Christmas gift.... a new CAMERA. This means no more ghetto/pixilated iPhone pictures! I kicked off 2014 with the perfect New Years Day: a movie in bed, a blog shoot, dinner with my Gay Boyfriend and ended the day with a gym sesh.

This outfit below is an outfit that I wore out to LA on January 2nd for ten hours of BCBG meetings. It might look put together but this outfit experienced a lot: the beginning of a NYC snow storm, lost luggage in LAX, broken rental car, and endless hours in the airport due to the storm. It's amazing how a great outfit can help mask the stress and drama that we experience on a daily basis and put our best heel first.

Outfit Details: Dress Clover Canyon on sale from Saks, Boots Pour La Victoire on sale here at 6pm.com , Leather Jacket BCBGeneration found it here on sale at Amazon, Bag Rebecca Minkoff smaller version here at Zappos

 

 

 

Weekend Recap: Babes in TOYland

Saturday night my girlfriends went down to TOY in the Gansevoort in the Meatpacking District for dinner to celebrate one of my best friend's birthday. This is a location that has been on my bucket list since it opened so I was so excited to go! When we walked in, the whole place was dark like a club and only lit by strobe lights. As we were waiting for our table to be ready, there was an awesome acrobatic performance in a lifted cage and then also go-gos dancing on one bar. Once we were seated we scanned over the extensive exotic drink menu and finally decided on 2 Giant fishbowls to split with the table. We decided on the "Barbie" and "Checkmate" and both were fruity and delicious. For dinner, I ordered the Beauty Roll which was Toy's version of a naruto roll with no rice and wrapped in cucumber. The food was pretty good but this spot is much more about the entertainment and the nightlife than the dining. Throughout dinner there is loud music from a dj in the corner and if you look around the room, everyone is moving in their seats. This is definitely not a place you take someone to talk - our waiter could barely hear our order haha

    

 

Somewhere through fishbowl number 2 our waiter decided he took a liking to the bday girl and started bringing out trays of shots with sparklers. Before we knew it, the whole restaurant was up and dancing including the host and wait staff and TOY had quickly transformed from dinner to a club with endless bottles of Dom Perignon. It was the perfect venue for a girls night and a birthday celebration and I definitely recommend that if you are looking to try something out of the box that you rally your friends and make a reservation. I would 100% go back

The whole group :)
 


Barbie & Checkmate Fishbowls
 

Michele's face is priceless as the next round arrives 

With Kelly, the Birthday Girl before heading to Gansevoort. My dress and Leather bomber are BCBG Max Azria and my clutch is Ted Baker

Nail Art in Nolita

Last night my roommate and I went down to Nolita to get our nails done at Valley Nails. It's been on our bucket list for a while but it's so popular that you have to make appointments weeks in advance. It's a nail salon that specializes in gel manicures with designs. You name it and they can do it - you just have to be willing to pay for it. When you first get there they have you pick colors from a pinwheel of 121 colors.

 

You can do ombré, regular designs, or 3D designs. You have to book your appointment by what caliber of design you are looking for because all of the girls that work there have a different skill set. My roommate opted for ombré and I went for designs. It only took an hour and we are already planning our next trip! Check out their website here Valley Nails or their Instagram: ValleyNYC for more examples of what they are capable of!

 

Blue Ombre Nails

 

Reverse Polka dot, Heart <3 and bow with rhinestone