Stylish New Year Celebration

This New Year eve, among all the sparkling dresses, high hills and glittery eye shadow, the best accessory to all that glam is your confidence and a smile! No jewelry or hand bags could replace a brilliant smile and your head held high. When a woman walks in any room feeling amazing, she glows from within, and then jewelry is an enhancer and addition to already confident attitude.

When I talk about confident attitude we are not talking bitchy or snobby here, but a healthy feeling of looking great along with most important feeling good inside. The new resolution of all should be to carry this feeling durring the New Years Celebration into the 2012 and all the way through life!

So spend the last few days letting go of everything you want to leave in 2011 and walk into the New Year with overwhelming confidence! It is attractive, sexy and always in Style!

Happy New Confident Year!

Models to look out for

Some of the new models on the fashion horizon are strutting their stuff on runways and covering the pages of magazines. Fashion is obsessed with new faces and fresh girls. And one of the hottest debuts on the modeling arena is Lottie Moss. Yes, it is a younger sister of a modeling legend Kate Moss.

This picture is one of my favorite, even though you can see the immaturity in the model, but she is stunning, comes from model royalty and has amazing potential to be a big fashion model star. 13 year old half-sister of Kate Moss. Charlotte (Lottie) was set up on her first test shoot by Storm, agency that discovered Kate when she was 14. Andrea Carter-Bowman shot Lottie's first photos in black and white. She has full lips, cute nose, amazing hair and youth on her side that my prediction that she is going to be scooped by few designers to become their muse and inspiration for future campaigns. Good Luck Lottie!

Another model in the making is Kendall Jenner. From reality show to the NY Fashion Week runways and print shoots she evolved into a great model for fashion, editorial and commercial print. She is not a fan of runway shows, but has a few of them behind her belt already. Her stunning face and elongated figure will serve her well in the industry, and Kardashian clan will make sure she does well. Personally, I am obsessed with her face and natural modeling ability. I will keep my eye open for this up coming model as well! Good Luck Kendall!

From the test shoot to Forever 21 campaigns these two beauties are here to stay and rock the modeling world, and we'll be here to support the new wave of models!

Fashion Designer Pronunciations A to Z

Stop any further embarrassment at those uber luxurious brands! Here is a A to Z list of the pronunciations of those designers that sometimes leave us puzzled and our tongues twisted. No more of that. Now keep your head high and eyes on the trends when you are entering Louboutin, Harve Leger or Yves Saint Lauren for your shopping needs :) ENJOY!


Abaeté: Ah-bye-ah-tay
Agnes B: Ah-ni-ess Beh
Alejandro Ingelmo: Allay-handro In-gel-mo
Alexandre Herchcovitch: Ah-le-zan-dreh Hair-ch-co-vich
Andrew Gn: Andrew Jen (rhymes with “ten”)
Andy Thê-Anh: An-dee Tay-Ann
Anya Hindmarch: Ahn-ya Heind-march
Arthur Mendonça: Ar-thur Men-doe-sa
Badgley Mischka: Badge-lee Meesh-ka
Balenciaga: Bah-lin-cee-ah-gah
Balmain: Bal-mah
Bebe: Bee-bee
Bettye Muller: Beh-tee Meu-ler
Bottega Veneta: Bo-tega Ven-e-ta
Bulgari: Ball-gah-ree
Burberry Prorsum: Bur-bur-ree Pror-some
Carolina Herrera: Caro-leena Hair-era
Cartier: Kar-tee-aye
Cesare Paciotti: Che-sah-ray Pah-cho-tee
Chaiken: Chay-ken
Chanel: Shuh-nail
Christian Lacroix: La-Kwa
Christian Louboutin: Loo-boo-tahn
Dana Buchman: Day-nah Buck-man
Dior: Dee-or
Dries Van Noten: Drees Van Know-ten
Diane von Furstenberg: Fur-sten-berg (pronounced as spelled)
Dolce & Gabbana: Dole-ch-aye Ga-bon-na
Dries Van Noten: Drees Van Know-ten
Emilio Pucci: Eh-mi-li-oh Poo-ch-ee
Ermenegildo Zegna: Er-men-a-geel-do Zen-ya
Etienne Aigner: Eh-tee-yen On-yay
Furla: Fer-luh
Gareth Pugh: Gareth Pew
Gianfranco Ferre: Gee-an-fran-co Fr-aire
Giles Deacon: Jy-els Dee-kin
Givenchy: Jee-von-shee
Giambattista Valli: Gee-ahm-battista Valley
Gucci: Goo-chee
Hedi Slimane: Eddy Sli-mahn
Hermès: Err-mez
Hervé Léger: Air-vay Lay-jay
Issey Miyake: Ee-seh Mi-yah-key
Jean Paul Gaultier: Zhan Paul Go-tee-aye
James Perse: James Perse (as in a lady’s purse, not ‘pierce your ear’)
Joeffer Caoc: Joe-fur Kay-ock
Junya Watanabe: Joon-ya Wah-tah-nah-bay
Lambertson Truex: Lam-bert-son Tru-ex
Lanvin: Lon-vahn or Lon-vawn
L’Wren Scott: Le-ren Skot
Loewe: Low-ev-ay
Louis Vuitton: Loo-ee Voo-ee-ton
Madame Gres: Mah-dam Gray
Marchesa: Mar-kay-sa
Mainbocher: Maynbo-shay
Moschino: Mo-ski-no
Monique Lhullier: Mo-neek Loo-lee-ay
Narciso Rodriguez: Nar-siss-so Ro-dree-gez
Nicolas Ghesquière: Ni-co-la Guess-ki-air
Olivier Theyskens: Oli-vier Tay-skins
Pierre Cardin: Pee-air Car-dain
Prada: Prah-da
Proenza Schouler: Pro-enza Skool-er
Ralph Lauren: Ralph Lauren (as in Lauren the girl’s name, not Sophia Loren)
Rei Kawakubo: Ray Kah-wah-koo-bo
Rodarte: Ro-dar-tay
6267: Six-two-six-seven (not Sixty-two-sixty-seven)
Sonia Rykiel: Saun-ya Ree-kee-eel
Sophia Kokosalaki: So-fee-a Ko-ko-sah-lah-kee
Tapeet by Vicini: Ti-peet by vi-ch-ee-knee
Thakoon: Ta-koon
Thierry Mugler: Tee-air-ree Moog-lay
Tibi: Tbi or Tu-by (not Tee-bee)
Tocca: Toe-ka
Ungaro: Oon-ga-ro
Versace: Ver-sah-chee
Vionnet: Vee-oh-nay
Yohji Yamamoto: Yo-jee Ya-ma-mo-to
Yves Saint Laurent: Eve San Lor-ron
Zac Posen: Poe-zen

AskNatela Pandora YouTube channel

I wanted to share with all of you my You Tube Channel called AskNatela. It was inspired by this blog and all your e-mails about Pandora ideas. The AskNatela Channel has several short videos about Holiday gifts, ideas about your Pandora collection, tricks of Pandora and much much more!

AskNatela Channel will expand to a lot more in 2012 and I am very excited about it and looking forward to share it with you. Subscribe to the Channel so you don't miss anything :)

Here is a direct link for you! ENJOY!

http://www.youtube.com/user/AskNatela

Pandora rings

Few of my favorite Pandora rings are created as a single look or as a stackable collection. The smoked quarts is a complete beauty on it's own and I love wearing it on the middle finger as a cocktail ring. The way the stone is cut, makes it sparkle like it's worth million dollars. At only $105 it will not break your bank, but add a timeless piece to your Pandora collection. Both sides of this ring have two gold circular shapes, with smaller quarts imbedded in them. The ring sits high enough to add simple rings to this beauty for more of a bold look.

Another amazing look from Pandora stories is grey pearl rings. I like to stack few of these rings for a bold fashion look. It is very stylish to coordinate few of your favorite pieces and use them as a new creation. That's is what so precious about Pandora collections is that they not only create stories and have sentimentality to them, but are are interchangeable. When one pearl is just not enough, seven might do the trick :) The color of this ring is grey, but it looks amazing with purple and pink as well, because the color accommodates and shifts closer to shades of the outfit. 

If you are looking for a Holiday gift or a present for yourself it is always a great idea to look no further than Pandora ring collections.
Stay stylish!

Hair Style

I got a great blow out from Madison at Planet Salon. I couldn't help to post about it as she was so fast and knew what she was doing, that I was more than happy to share my experience at Planet Salon with you.

Madison used 1 1/4" curling iron and Wella products that I love:
Brilliance for fine to normal hair shampoo and conditioner
Velvet amplifier-style product
Natural Volume-style product
Firm Finish hair spray

Easy California beach look could be achieved my curling medium size hair locks outwards from the face and downward on the curling iron. Don't let the tip of the hair curl as Cali Beach look has more of a straight end. Curl all sound the head and then run your fingers to loosen the curl up and get shape to a bit of a messy look instead of prom perm :) Easy, fast and beautiful!

Thank you Madison for teaching me the style!