Styling Comp (Velvet Orchid): The Winner

Hello hello!

This will be a very short post just to announce the winner of the comp from Velvet Orchid... We asked you who you wanted to win and the results have arrived. No more votes are accepted! The graphics speak for themselves...

CONGRATULATIONS AMAIA_ESTEBANEZ!! 

Your outfit was very good Amaia! I'm glad you won. Please, let me know via guestbook or in the comments below what item from Velvet Orchid you would like and put in in your wishlist, that would make it so much easier for me. 

Thank you to everyone who participated and to the ones that voted! 

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If you want another comp, and you liked our partner blog (Not So Much But The Doll), don't forget to join the Givenchy comp in kickherout's newest blog: La Mode + The Doll. She did first amazing Givenchy outfits with lots of humor and my favorite characters rocking them, like Linda and the architect. Click here or on the image below to go to the comp and post respectively. 

Spotted: Wearing Velvet Orchid

Hello again!

This time I'm here to share with you the entries we had for the Velvet Orchid comp that I organized like a lifetime ago and never published the winner. As I was going to pick the winner with Judith and she's not here, I decided that you will help me to choose the winner. I do have an opinion on who is the winner for me, but I'll say it once the results that you vote for are up. Anyway, enough chit chat. Here are the outfits the contestants delivered:

Please, vote for your favorites (maximum 3):

Seen on FM-Style: Front Row

Hello again! Today the review for the third task of FM-Style's Cycle 14 arrives!
As I'm writing this, we are on a week break from the cycle. Contestants are having almost two weeks instead of one to deliver Task 6. And while they were working on their outfits... I was creating something else... a brand new blog for Inspiration Albums! I used a Tumblr, cause it's very useful for photography and I quite love the final result. I hope contestants like it too!

Here it is.... FM-Style Inspiration !
This is a little preview of how it looks like now (denim blue jeans, white shirts and little black dresses is the theme for Task 6 as you will see in some future posts):

 

That being said, let's jump to what is more important... the review.

If you want to follow the cycle closely you will need to join the club FM-Style on Stardoll. To show you a little of what's going on in case you don't know the fashion competitions we host there on the club, this time we have a special cycle (Cycle 14 omg, we're getting old). We got to 600 members, and to celebrate that we're hosting a team cycle, meaning contestants don't take part individually but in teams, forcing them to work together and deliver kind of coordinated entries.

Welcome to the first ever #TeamCycle !

Task 3: Front Row

Look for your best clothes and your more original statement pieces cause for this week you're all attending fashion week. You already know how the street style out of a fashion show is, if you want to stand out you have to be BOLD. 

Luckily, you will be accompanied by your team mates. Coordination or not is your choice but you and your team are ATTENDING TOGETHER and with the goal of looking the best.

Inspiration album: http://imgur.com/a/v8ISy

The Stylish Stardoll Sisters tried to show some examples to the contestants: 

Unluckily for the cycle, the team Trinity disappeared from the scene and didn't present anything, being 8 teams left. They delivered the next, with their respective scores: 

1. SHADES - 8.50

2. The Flaming Jalapeño Gang - 7.49

3. The Hex Girls - 7.81

4. Team KAL - 7.62

5. Sarcasm. - 8.19

6. A Team with No Name - 8.00

7. MAC Team - 5.17

8. Just Team 9 - 6.84

I have to say that I was expecting so much more from this task. I don't know if my expectations were to  high, but there was not really a team that make me say WOW. And this time my 3 favorites were, in order: 

- SHADES. I like how each member of the team is doing her own thing with their own colour, but at the same time they look very good together. That's what Judith meant when she said "coordination is optional but you have to look good together".  They are my favorite team for this task. 

- Then we have The Hex Girls. I really love the outfit they made, but that presentation is hurting my eyes so bad. Leaving that behind, their outfits are my second favorite. I just love fur and how they are all incorporating it in their own style and in different items. 

- For the third position I have a very complicated decision and I've been debating it for a while, but since I can't decide I will mention everyone: Team KAL, The Flaming Jalapeño Gang & A Team with No Name. Each of these teams have bold outfits very fashion week material, and they are pretty much coordinated. Even I don't think they are perfect, I can't decide for one better than the other. So this is triple tie for that third position. And no, I'm not having preferences over my teams. At least I try not to. 

See you soon, at Task 4 review!

and... join FM-Style 😉

Seen on FM-Style: This Is Us

Hello beloved readers!
After four weeks already into the cycle you might be thinking that reviews weren't going to be made, right? You were wrong!! I've wanted to start typing about Cycle 14, for weeks! I didn't have the time before, but I have it now.

This reviews will all be made by me (Mireia), unless Judith wants to take part in one some day. It will be a little different than before.

If you want to follow the cycle closely you will need to join the club FM-Style on stardoll. To show you a little of what's going on in case you don't know the fashion competitions we host there on the club, this time we have a special cycle (Cycle 14 omg, we're getting old). We get to 600 members, and to celebrate that we're hosting a team cycle, meaning contestants don't take part individually but in teams, forcing them to work together and deliver kind of coordinated entries.

Without further ado, let's jump right into Task 1.

Task 1: This Is Us

Welcome everyone to the Team Cycle!! First task is for warming up, for getting to know your teammates (if you don't know them yet) and start encouraging team work and making decisions together. This is your presentation task. 

First of all, you need to pick a name for your team. No rules here, a name that sounds cool for the three of your and to which you feel identified or whatever. 

Second, you need to create each one an outfit for this little presentation. This outfit can have relation with the name of the team or not at all, but what it is obligatory in this task is COORDINATION. The three outfits must be coordinated. Each one of you can do the outfit in your own style but make sure there's something that matches with your teammates (if it's not style it can be colours, shapes, similarity of items, etc.). Imagine it as a group ID.

Inspiration album: http://imgur.com/a/DsFGN

For this new reviews, I would like to show you first how the Stylish Stardoll Sisters would have addressed the task (individually). As judges, we provide examples for the contestants, and these are our attempt to present ourselves.

With this task, each team presented themselves, and we got to 10 teams:

1. The Trinity - 8.60

2. SHADES - 9.14

3. The Flaming Jalapeño Gang - 7.89

4. The Hex Girls - 7.85

5. Team KAL - 7.04

6. Sarcasm. - 6.73

7. A Team with No Name - 7.38

8. MAC Team - 7.05

9. Just Team 9 - 4.93

10. B-SIDES - 8.54

However, we already lost some participants and some teams were re-organized for the next task, as you will see on the next post about Task 2. 

My personal favorites of this task, being totally impartial and not having preferences over the teams that I coach, were: SHADES (B.E.A.T.K.A + Lawliet. + FedericoMosi), The Trinity (Isabella8103 + blinnes + minaj131) & The Hex Girls (oayes + kickherout + cami-camilla). Let's not forget the amazing work all by o397 on her own team B-Sides.

Next... Task 2!

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Shopping: Fudge miniskirt

Hello everyone! Do you know kelzsprouse_1? It's a friend and former contestant of FM-Style Cycle 12! And do you know her amazing club? It's called as her doll: KELZSPROUSE_1 and it's fashion related, just like FM-Style. If you haven't joined yet, we highly recommend you to do so. They are currently on Cycle 2, with a great judge panel (kelzsprouse_1, kickherout, Malisandrew, strobarycake and yulissahermosa) and some great contestants! Task 4 came out recently, and I found it so interesting and challenging, that I decided to give it a try myself. 

The task consists on styling this old Fudge skirt. It only cost 48 starcoins, in case you want to give it a try as well, it's affordable. The judges always post some examples and they did amazingly, giving new uses instead of as a skirt, and creating super gorgeous outfits. 

In order of appearance: kelzsprouse_1, kickherout, Malisandrew & strobarycake.

I personally love those sleeves that Malisandrew created, or the belt on kickherout, or just using it as a top as Kelly and Whitney. However, for this post, my objective is to try some stylings using it actually as a skirt. 

I got inspired mostly by 90s fashion for my outfits, and then I asked Judith to try and style it as well. She based her outfit on "the fusion of borders because they looked really nice" (literally said by her, only in Spanish haha). Enjoy them! 

Seen On FM-Style: Side to Side

This the new (FM-)style with the fresh type of flow

The difficulty is getting every time higher folks! Styling cycling leggins in a cool street style way it's definitely not a piece of cake, and when the competence is so high it's even more difficult. That's what our contestants had to do during this week.

From my point of view there were only two ways of approaching this task, you either style the Active shorts the best way you could, or you hide them and use only their waistband.

All the contestants opted for the second option but shoutout to Maurice (kickherout), former cycle winner and current judge, who made this beautiful outfit without hiding anything.

And now, my favourite entries from the contestants. 

The one who got the highest mark from me, and therefore my favourite one this week, was Andrea (Andre1396) who got inspired by Dior and used the waistband of the pants on the upper part of the top. I love everything about her outfit, it's casual but so fashionable and on trend. Couldn't be more envious of being unable to have that top she created. 

Not all the judges agreed on this one though, and Andrea got third place this week, while my second favourite, Stefan (Sweet_gal11) won the task with his amazing use of the net top and shorts as underwear.

As I said in his feedback I wouldn't change any of it. Stefan has participated in several of our cycles and I've been seeing his amazing outfits for even longer, as I met him in another cycle competition club which is closed now, but he is really bringing everything to this comp!! He's doing so well.

There were three other girls who got my attention with their amazing outfits: Beata (B.E.A.T.K.A), Alicja (alusiak123) & Letícia (leiona_-).

I gave all of the people I have mentioned in this post marks of 9 or higher, and I have to say that I'm not a soft judge, so congrats guys for your amazing work.

This week there were not one, but two girls who didn't delivered their task, so we will be saying goodbye to two of our former contestants this week. This might be good news to the ones who are still competing, as we were going to have a double elimination in Task 6 which it's going to become a single elimination now, and obviously everyone who did deliver is still on the cycle!

We will see what happens next week. You might want to phone your friends for advise for next task! ;) 

Sharing HotBuys Style: October 2016

Hello everyone and welcome to the first recap post of Stardoll's monthly HotBuys. This is October 2016, and here you have your favorite Stylish Stardoll Sisters recreating the HotBuys add from last month, October.

#1 - Gucci Cat Eye Glasses

N/A

#2 - Balenciaga Bracelet

N/A

#3 - Kick Flare Pants

amaia_estebanez & SunnySidesSue

#4 - High Neck Sweater

ambroseyy & xIn.lov.met.u.

#5 - Valentino Platforms

lolitka1444 & oayes

#6 - Flower Earrings

amaia_estebanez

#7 - YSL Inspired Bag

kickherout

#8 - Velvet Ballerina

NickyMinarsch & Vogue_veronica

#9 - Star Dress

amaia_estebanez & Marta-43

#10 - Multi Fringe Vest

Marta-43 & whatsernam3

And that is all for October my friends!
See you soon on November
xx

For the winners (the selected outfits): 
to collect your prize leave a comment on this post on Stardoll's Most Wanted. 
Remember that the prize is a HotBuys of your choice*, so let her know which item you want and make sure it is on your wishlist. 

* Marta-43 wins 2 items

* amaia_estebanez wins 3 items