{Giveaway} The Perfect Summer Travel Kit: Mosaic Photo Book, 20 Legz Leggings and LeSportsac Bag

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One of the best things about the summer is Friday office hours and saved vacation days.  For those impromptu beach trips and weekend jaunts with friends, LeSportsac fun, colorful and printed weekender bags and totes are the best! Which is why a patterned LeSportsac tote bag is the perfect tag along to hold all you will need for last minute trips.  What I love about the LeSportsac is that it comes with a little pouch for makeup, toiletries and little odds and ends.  And they are waterproof and easy to get anything from sand to lunch spills off of.

Summer is all about traveling light, our perfect ensemble for the train, plane or automobile is a pair of printed leggings from Brooklyn-based clothing company 20Legz, which sells fashion forward leggings for just $20 plus $5 shipping.  Of course you can’t forget to capture all your favorite moments from your trip without a Mosaic photo book. Mosaic is a free app, which lets you create a custom photo album book using pictures stored on your Smartphone as well as your (or your friends/family…) Facebook pages for just $25. Best of all, it arrives in 2-4 days and takes minutes to create. 

We’re giving away a summer travel kit pictured above to two lucky readers!

1. Enter below using Rafflecopter below:

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2. Tag a photo from a past or current trip using the hashtag #MosaicMoments and make sure to follow Mosiac on twitter at @heymosaic and/or instagram at @mosaicbook) to enter. Tweets without images that use the hashtag and follow Mosaic on their social handles also qualifies an entry. 

Pretty Connected Launches In His Clothes Blog! (& I Need YOUR Help!)

In His Clothes Blog

As some of you may have seen on my social channels, I started a new style blog, In His Clothes (InHisClothes.com).

In His Clothes examines the influence of menswear in women’s style. From varsity jackets to boyfriend jeans to oversized watches, I want to see how women incorporate a piece of menswear (or menswear inspired) item into their look. Does that mean I want dude looking outfits head to toe? No! Keep it feminine, edgy, rocker or however you define your style; the point of this blog is to explore how women incorporate menswear into their look.

We see articles about it all the time, celebrity features, street style (by the way if you see any of those articles in your daily website scans, please send them my way!

How many times have you adopted a piece of clothing from your boyfriend or seen something on a guy and thought, I want that?

If that sounds like you or someone you know with great personal style, have them email us a picture for the chance to be featured on this blog! (Please include links to who you are wearing and how you would like to be credited).

Interested? Email me at [email protected]

Check us out at InHisClothes.com and I’ll be so grateful if you follow us @InHis Clothes on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram!

xoLara

 

 

Susan Sarandon Lights the Empire State Building to Celebrate Only Make Believe

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Oscar winning actress and philanthropist, Susan Sarandon, and Only Make Believe Founder, Dena Hammerstein are flipping the switch to light world famous tower purple, blue and gold in celebration of Only Make Believe’s 15th Anniversary.

Susan Sarandon lights the empire state building

The lighting ceremony took place this morning at 11am in the lobby of the Empire State Building. As some of you know Only Make Believe is a charitable organization that creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care facilities.  The program, provided free-of-charge to the hospitals, using professional actors, has brought interactive theater to over 35,000 children and families in 52 hospitals in New York City and 3 in Washington D.C. Only Make Believe is dedicated to the principle that freeing a child’s imagination is a valuable part of the healing process. For more information, please visit www.onlymakebelieve.org.

Susan Saradon Empire State Building

The lighting ceremony took place this morning at 11am in the lobby of the Empire State Building. As some of you know Only Make Believe is a charitable organization that creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care facilities.  The program, provided free-of-charge to the hospitals, using professional actors, has brought interactive theater to over 35,000 children and families in 52 hospitals in New York City and 3 in Washington D.C. Only Make Believe is dedicated to the principle that freeing a child’s imagination is a valuable part of the healing process. For more information, please visit www.onlymakebelieve.org.

Susan Sarandon and Dena Hammerstein at the Empire State Building
Susan Sarandon and Dena Hammerstein at the Empire State Building

Empire State Building Only Make Believe

PC Video With L’Oreal: Learn How to Ombre Your Hair At Home

Lara Eurdolian, L'Oreal Feria Ombre Kit Review

So how exciting is this! I partnered with Beauty High to show you how to ombré your hair at home using the NEW L’Oréal Paris’ Feria at-home ombré hair dye kit.

Have you always wanted to try the ombré hair trend but didn’t want to spend the money or time at a salon? Well now you don’t have to! L’Oréal Paris’ Feria at-home ombré hair dye kit is an easy at-home kit at a fraction of the cost of salons and it took me less then an hour to do my locks! Plus nothing beats being in the comfort of your own home when getting your hair did (especially since most of the time you’re just sitting around). And for anyone that already has an ombre but it’s fading or growing out, this kit is the easiest (and most inexpensive way) to help you maintain your look.

Considering summer is here, what better time to try out a fun new hairstyle? For someone like me who has dark hair, I don’t have a lot of options, especially given that I have long hair and don’t want to fry my roots (or cut it to do something and different). An ombre is the best solution since it looks good with any hair color and  hair length, and it’s such low maintenance — you don’t have to worry about your roots growing in! Plus, you decide how low or high the ombre goes. For me I like it at the bottom so if by the end of summer I’m over it, it’s just an easy hair cut from going away. Minimal commitment needed.

In the video above, I show you how to get the look and home and walk you through the steps of using the L’oréal Feria Wild Ombré Hair Kit. The whole process took maybe an hour and could not have been easier!

Step 1: Make sure your hair is dry and detangled, and put on the plastic safety gloves.

Step 2: Put the shimmering powder packet into the bottle, put the flat cap on, and shake. Put the lightening cream into the bottle, put the flat cap on and shake. Then replace with the applicator cap.

Step 3: Part your hair naturally and clip your top layer of hair up to access the bottom layer of your hair.

Step 4: Squeeze the dye evenly onto the applicator brush, and brush it onto the bottom parts of your hair that you would like ombré. Add more product until the lengths are completely saturated, and let sit for 25 minutes.

Step 5: Use the conditioning shampoo, rinse, and style as usual!

Now all you need is to pick up a kit for yourself and you’re ready to DIY ombré your hair at home!

Video by Beauty Hight/Alissa Huff. You can see the original Beauty High post HERE

Thank you Beauty High/L’Oreal for helping me share this tutorial!