Covet is like playing paper dolls for grown ups. It's an app you can play on your phone or your tablet, so if anyone asks, you can just say you're checking email or reading a book, so no one has to know you're playing grown up paper dolls! Basically, you dress up your person for themed challenges using clothing that you've purchased (using the in-game money). Each challenge has a little story behind it, as well as guidelines, such restricting your outfit to only formal gowns, needing at least 3 striped items, or requiring an item from a particular designer. Once you've submitted your outfit, you earn money to buy more clothes, and then other users will vote on your outfit against another outfit and choose the better one. If you get a high amount of votes, you can win more clothing items! The really cool thing is that all the clothes and accessories are real items that you can actually buy, except you can't afford them in real life, so you can live vicariously through the game! Nothing is cartoon-ized; it all looks pretty realistic - for example, if you put a belt on an outfit, it will actually cinch in, instead of just being superimposed awkwardly over it, like I thought it might. Covet is a surprisingly fun app, and I think anyone with even a passing interest in fashion would really get a kick out of it.
One of my new favorite clothing brands is Pink Rose. I went shopping a couple weeks ago, and bought 3 Pink Roses pieces at 2 different stores, completely by accident. I love how soft and cozy their clothes are. They've got a lot of great sweater-y clothes, so perfect for winter. I love the description on their website: "You're a laidback girl who always has an eye on the latest trends.You never sacrifice your comfort for style, but you never give up your style for comfort, either."
I've really into watching makeup tutorials on YouTube. I've watched a ton but I still couldn't do a winged eyeliner if you held a gun to my head. Honestly, I really have picked up a lot of tips and tricks from a few of them. They always make want to go out and buy a bunch of makeup that I don't know how to use. One of my favorites for makeup tutorials is Lauren Curtis. She has a great Australian accent and looks like Barbie. She used to a makeup artist in real life, and now she gets paid to put makeup on herself in front of her computer! What a great life that must be! Someday I'm going to pay super close attention to one of these videos, and use all the exact products they do in the exact same way they do, and then maybe, finally, at the age of 30... my makeup will finally be perfect! Until then, it's fun to have them on in the background while I play Covet (look, it came full circle!).
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