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W2beauty.com: Beauty at Your Fingertips

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Nowadays, it’s not just women who are conscious with the way they look especially their skin. More men are taking care of their appearance by buying the best hair, body and skin care products available in the market. I believe that the secret to being healthy and having a good life doesn’t just lie in eating nutritious food or by exercising daily but by taking care of your outside appearance as well. This holistic approach likewise takes care of your well-being. Having said that, I sometimes look for online stores that sell high quality and yet affordable beauty products. I no longer wish to buy from the usual expensive brands but from other lesser known but equally effective brands.

I’m happy to have stumbled upon w2beauty.com, The Best Korean beauty shop. They sell skin, body, and hair care products as well as makeup from brands like Tony Moly, Etude House, Laneige, Skinfood, The Faceshop, Mamonde, Hera and many others. It’s great that they have a men’s category because a lot of online beauty stores only cater to women. Here you will find skin care, shaving and cleansing, and sun care products, makeup, and perfumes for the modern man. They have a wide selection of products but I was able to choose 5 that I would like to buy.

Collagen Moistfull Homme Multi Fluid Toner (150 ml)

The Collagen Moistfull Homme Multi Fluid Toner (150 ml) from Etude House is a multi-functional toner. It moisturizes men’s rough skin without the oily texture. It contains orchid with purifying effect, baobab fruit extract with its nickname of moisture tank, and collagen which is effective in making the skin firmer.

Collagen Moistfull Homme Multi Moisture Cream (50 ml)

The Collagen Moistfull Homme Multi Moisture Cream (50 ml) from Etude House contains orchid which purifies the skin, baobab fruit extract for added moisture, and collagen for a more firm skin. This multi moisture cream works more effectively after thoroughly cleansing the skin and after applying toner.

Collagen Moistfull Homme Moisture Skin Mist (200 ml)

Another product on my wishlist is the Collagen Moistfull Homme Moisture Skin Mist (200 ml) also from Etude House. Great for men with dry skin, this gel type skin mist makes skin softer. It has orchid,  baobab extract, and collagen peptide.

Engine Program Style Engine Wax

The Engine Program Style Engine Wax from Etude House is available in 80 g. This gel hair wax makes hair stay in place longer. It also adds shine to any type of hair whether it’s short or curly.

Moment Styling Good Guy BB Cream in 50 ml

I would also like to buy Etude House’s Moment Styling Good Guy BB Cream in 50 ml. It’s a hydrating BB Cream for men that provides sheer coverage with a moisturizing, radiant finish to naturally even out skin tone. It provides UV protection and has whitening and anti-aging properties. It’s best for normal to dry skin.

Warby Parker 2013 Fall Collection

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Sunglasses are the one versatile above all accessories today. Because they can be worn in sorts of styling and in every type of season we may have. Yeah! sunglasses are usable than to the other main accessories available today in the market. Why do I say so? Because look, sunglasses are the main piece as we got this summer season, right? for us to have this protection from the sun hit and into ultra violate rays thingy which can affects to our eyes if we dont wear any sunglasses in each of our end. Also, sunglasses can be a great accent too on those black inspired fall and winter pieces, just look at the photo below on how the guys did rock their fall outfits with their sunglasses on. Indeed! sunglasses are cant abolish in the fashion industry because it’s fashionable and functional at the same time.

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This how you may wear your sunglases as we got into cold breeze of air seasons, fall & winter.

Recently, the brand Warby Parker ,one of the leading eyewear brand today, had released their fall collection 2013. You may see the preview on the very top photo. I must say, each frame are greatly made and the lenses was looking fine too. Actually, I dont have any idea yet or information in hand yet regarding this Warby Parker 2013 Fall Collection – though I used to work with them before for their campaigns and yet they haven’t sent me out anything additional details regarding this awesome collection. I instead encourage you to head up to their main website for you to be updated as they release the further details about this Warby Parker 2013 Fall Collection which they’ve cooked for us this coming fall season.

Taeyang – Take It Slow (Acapella)

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Occasionally, I am also blogging up some music related topics on this blog, especially Kpop. Because this blog is mainly about Korean or Asians fashion and I think putting up some music that has fashion related to it is also doable. Most fans out there are really knew that this guy named Taeyang has this great and quirky fashion sense and tastes. That’s why then most of you guys,particularly Asians guys, are keep following and mimicking its styling every now and then. And I’ll be sharing some of his fashion statements which influences the today’s men’s fashion. So – please keep on tuning in here as I tackle Taeyang fashion by on my next posts.

Before that, let me also share this video ( actually an audio only) where this guy, Taeyang, singing his song entitled ” Take It Slow” acapella version.

I simply liked this acapella version because his voice is fully heard.

Rebranding Istarblog.com

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Yeah! I’ve decided to re-brand this blog, istarblog.com, in to ” ISTARBLOG – Fashion & Lifestyle Blog “, formally Jewelry and Fashion blog. Because I think Jewelry kind of sites are not the one in demand these days because I haven’t get any big clients yet these past few months ago unlike last year where almost everyday I got an new inquiries about the advertising space on this site istarblog.com from some Jewelry e-commerce business sites.

So – yeah! I think this may works and eventually got some big clients on my way soon. I am also crossing all my fingers here and all hoping the Seo stuff am doing for this site will be paid off pretty soon. By the way, as I’ve heard Google did an upgrade for their panda software thingy and it may affect hugely on our blogs by the next update so please get ready yourself for it and do your very best to optimize your each site particularly over Google search engine. Though there are many ways that we could actually do to enhance rather to built our site better in the search engine,however, Google is keep on changing their way on how they can give a site an page rank and related that’s why Seo masters out there are keep on trying new ways on how they can play with the algorithms of Google.

So – yeah! that’s it for now and welcome once again on my reborn site called ISTARBLOG – Fashion & Lifestyle Blog. I hope you can enjoy yourself by reading all the informative posts here about fashion news and related. Thanks you!

Dope Fashion Finds Only at Choies.com

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I was really lucky to have these pieces for free from the awesome online shop called Choies.com. I actually fan of Asian clothing than to those high-end labels and kind of styling. Because Asian clothing are the most cheapest and yet fashionable that can keeps you in trends and definitely makes you dope like the superstar. Yeah! believed me, Asian clothing most especially these sorts of Korean fashion are the one most look forward by the fashion forward and enthusiasts nowadays due with the influences of these artists who keep wearing these Asian clothing as their fashion statements.

As you can see on this blog’s sidebar. I got a lot of Asian stores hanging there for you to choose from on where were you feels to buy your things out. No worries, all the online stores listed on my sidebar are all legit and they do give some great deals too in each of their items selling. But of course, I highly recommended this Choies.com , an Hong Kong based clothing company, for you to buy your things. Because they do have this reward thingy as you signup on their sign even without purchasing a single penny. Yeah! that’s how they considerable on their each prospect consumers much more for their loyal customers.

Btw,  they’ve sent me this one tank top that has American flag Prints, which I supposed though to wear at independence day that I havent able too, because the item arrives late already.. Also, they gave me one dope black pullover that has a 3 stars in it which has resemblance with some boy London pieces, I think so, together with this kind of boy London cap too, I think I just imitating sorts of high-end brands and sell it in very reasonable prices. But do fairness to them, all the items has made of high quality materials like the originals. Go check them out now for further details and for the list of items they were selling on.

How To Style Men’s Hair?

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This summer, if girls cant leave the house without their heels on, men’s does it too with their hair. Because we dudes has this conception that if we do have a great styled hair with us, we can differently pull off any outfit or styling we got. I know most of the fashion forward men out there are can relate with me here, right? because even myself, I really spending like an hour or two by just fixing up and adding volume on my hair which my mom found me quite vain sometimes. LOL

Yeah! It’s kinda hard to us men to style our hair without using anything products or devices to achieve the hair style we wanted to rock on in the certain day or events. However, now a days, as the all things evolved and as fashion accepts in all gender. Fixing hairs and styling it is not really a problem now, for both girls and men. Because there’s a lot of techniques already , which relevant enough, to do even you dont have any hair products and hair devices with you.

If you are a guy, I really suggest you to have your hair done first with this salon who knows on styling hair. Because they really know on how to cut and trim hair with angel which may appropriate with your face shape and so that may compliment and fits on you most. I actually dont have any idea on how does they do it because I am not that professional with hair cutting and haircut things but am rest assured you that these guys , in the salon, really knows on how they can chop the hair that may compliment with your face shape.

I am again relay with the video sharing site, Youtube for this one. Because in here we can really find all the relevant videos and tutorial videos that does help us to know on how things happen. And here’s the video on how to professionally cut the men’s hair. This was really what I meat on the top which having a great haircut done is a must for you to achieved the great hairstyle you wanted. There’s actually a bunch of tutorial videos over youtube. You can just heads up there and search all the haircuts related videos for you to know the best fits for you.

Let me also share this video with you where a guy trying out to achieve David Beckham’s hairstyle on his H&M campaign this last season’s collection. You might also find this informative as you, yourself wanted to have the same hairstyle. 🙂

SOPHNET. 2013 Fall/Winter Lookbook

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Lookbooks or even some magazine photo styling are the one most helpful and informative as you wanted yourself to be stylish and fashionable for today’s trends industry. Because these are the basics and certainly a guide for us to know the dont and dos  we wear for us to get hip and dope above all. I actually seeing a bunch of lookbook photos from the sort of brands this very recent. I think, they were all working on it now for the upcoming season’s collection, Fall and Winter specifically. And one of the brand I’ve seen released an lookbook was this brand called SOPHNET.

I actually done blogging some pieces from this brand, SOPHNET, on this site, istarblog.com. Because I must say, most of their collection’s pieces are really speaks to my style and I simply liked the whole thing they implemented on each pieces they have done like the color blending, lining, patterns and even the clothes or the fabrics they’d used on each collection which in high in quality, I think so. And since I am an Asian, these styling are really in to us , Asians, because it is simple and yet the swagness are in to it already which most Asians are looking forward to.

In some ways, Asian fashion is quite complected. Because we used to mix and match all things we wanted without knowing the proper trends and on how the right way to wear certain pieces. And that’s how I think makes us way quirky for today’s fashion that most western people are trying to get when it comes to their styling.

Big Bang’s Taeyang & GD x Vogue Korea March Issue 2013

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Korean artists are often featured in the Vogue Magazine these past few months ago than to the other well known persona or artists from the other countries such as Philippines, Japan and Thailand, etc. I know, Korea has a huge contributions in the world of fashion today because of their quirky styles and guts to wear all the unusual wardrobes that we could ever seen. I think that was the edge of the Korean when it comes to fashion.

Recently, the 2 main and leading Kpop artists today, Taeyang and GD – Big Bang Member, had seen in the Vague magazine March Issue 2013 , yeah! this post is quite late already but still I’ve decided to post it up for me to have an document on which kpop artists are got featured on the magazine this whole year 2013. By the next year, I’ll all update you here with all the artists they’ve got in all for the  vogue magazine month’s issues, as my compilation post.

I actually dont have any idea on these photos ads. I just only found them dope by styling themselves in this quite emo inspired looks. Nonetheless, they’re both awesome in whatsoever they’d decided to wear and in every ads they made up this year around. And am quite sure that most of you folks are starting off to find all these pieces, the brands of the pieces they’ve worn here, for you to mic mic the styling.

B2ST x VOGUE Girl

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I used to blog up this guys b2st for their musics and fashion statements on this blog, istarblog.com, often. Because look, they have the awesome styling in any appearances they’ve made. This actually an magazine photos for VOGUE Girl  that had been released last June 2013. And I must they are looked so dope here wearing these neon and bright pieces from their major sponsors. Sorry, I couldn’t able to named out their list of sponsors here or the exact brands where these awesomeness came from. Because I supposed to focused with on the magazine cover itself and to the concepts they’ve used to here.

I actually pretty envy on these styling because this really me, I mean this speaks with my style – though I used to like the plain dramatic styling like only wearing an plain tee and pair with it in plain colored shorts or pants. It’s kinda neat looking though but yet I think, I still prefer myself seeing on these colorful styling especially now we were having this summer season.

B2st is actually demand in their country today, Korea. Whether it’s on music or any related with fashion like posting for VOGUE Girl , ELLE and some sorted of magazine’s covers. They’re alike with the leading group called Big Bang which also I follow and amazed with on their deeds when it comes to their musics and fashion too. I will blog up about them ( Big Bang group) soon or they might be the next after this B2ST x VOGUE Girl. So – please keep on checking this blog for more Kpop fashion updates as well with other fashion news around the industry today.

Ps: These styling can be serves as lookbook as you, yourself didn’t know on how to style. 🙂

Trends: Ankle Pants for Men

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Might most of you had noticed this which men these days are often wearing this Ankle Pants , most likely khaki or chino pants, than to those usual blue jeans pants that our father used to wear at their times. Yeah! as years goes by and as the fashion evolves too through years, men’s taste on fashion are become more forward and advanced than before, though there’s some minimal guys as well who’re still preferred the old way of men’s fashion.

Today, a lot of hip pieces are had released either still on process to be out in the market soon that we men can choose from with, there’s an awesome plaid, colored blazer, printed tees for summer and some sort of designs for ankle pants. All are great and can really help you to be dope for today’s fashion, however, you’ll have to consider the type of body you have. Like for example the khaki ankle pants, not all the guys can rock this out because this type of pants are usually skinny and has this rubberized fabric that may surely get fit in to your skin. I just suggesting this to those guys who has an skinny type of body or who got this great legs. But no worries, because as I’ve heard some brand’s done  new designs of ankle pants  that may fits to everyone. I will update you all with the brand names , availability, releasing dates of these new ankle pants. Sorry, I dunno further details about it yet, but I’ll surely update you all in here.

Other good things about the Ankle Pants is… you can pair it in any shoes you’d have. whether on sneaks or loafers you can still look great on this pants..