Rough edges can be beautiful – just look at the artful irregularity of this woven Prada bag at Bag Snob.

Beauty Snob has an easy, peasy, lemon squeezy way to make that beautiful ballerina bun every girl wants – even if you don’t have enough hair to pull it off!

Coquette feels the beauty glow with easy summer lips + cheeks with mark.

The Jet Set Girls spoke to Brooke Burke about her favorite ways to splurge.

KRISTOPHER DUKES is hating Marks & Spencer mini umbrella with case.

Second City Style can’t get enough of the lace-up sandal trend for summer.

Shopping and Info loves Emilia Clarke from the Game of Thrones and the nude Sergio Rossi platforms she wore in Monte Carlo.

Want to know what the StyleBakery editors are loving this summer? This week, they each share their top 10 lists for the season.

The Shoe Goddess thinks this Prada Platform Boot would be a great addition to any girl’s closet!

This Rochas clutch at Bag Snob is a dream, and in essence, simply lush!

This Beauty Snob hair adornment is a little medieval princess (I could see this on Princess Buttercup in “The Princess Bride”), and a lot modern beach goddess!

Coquette loves the Coach Classics Collection now available exclusively at Net-A-Porter.com.

KRISTOPHER DUKES is wanting Matt Doody, Dublin designer .

Second City Style recently hit the streets of London searching for trends you can rock this side of the pond.

Shopping and Info designers like Calvin Klein and Alice + Olivia are using Alpaca in their collections for sweaters and skirts as a Fall Trend for 2011.

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The Shoe Goddess gets a sneak peek at Balenciaga’s Fall 2011 shoe collection!

Wanting:

Mostly I want to know if this DIY, at-home Liquid Keratin 30-Day Treatment works.  On Amazon, 20 reviewers gave the Liquid Keratin 30-Day Treatment a full five stars, and another 20 said it was worth one.  Given the recipe of a salon Keratin treatment — straightening your hair with a 450 °F flat iron, then leaving it perfectly alone for 72 hours — , maybe it’s a matter of making the most of what you’re given.

Like anything in life, right?  There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Beauty only comes from the inside when it’s cultivated by a mind fixated on achieving symmetry with needles in 90210…

Hating:

The time I spend figuring out how to save time is probably equal to whatever time I actually save, but that faux efficiency is just a justification for my obsession with semi-permanent beauty treatments: semi-permanent eyelash extensions that let me skip mascara, semi-permanent brows that let me wake up with perfect arches, and now a Keratin treatment has cut my blow-dry time in half.

It took a few months of pestering Sally Saito at Umberto in Beverly Hills — who’s cut my hair for years — before we did it.  I’d been bugging her about the Brazilian Blowout, which she said was a waste of dough. Beyond my not having long curls I wanted straightened, the Brazilian Blowout would cut as much volume as frizz, and its formaldehyde fumes were dangerous.  But she researched alternatives, and decided the Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy was a gentler treatment that would kill frizz but not body.  And it did: my side-swept bangs stay straight, but my burgundy, bed-head bob still has waves. Even when I let my hair air dry, it’s silkier than my most careful, pre-Keratin blowout.

Well, for a month and a half, anyway.  Flash forward to flash flood warnings in New York last week, and my hair had gone back to poodling in humidity.

But will I blow another $400 on a touch up Keratin treatment?

Gosh, I don’t know…

Will an alcoholic on Mad Men bang a secretary?

(Pictured above: me in New York during a thunderstorm.)

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Wanting:

Rene Furterer Okara no-rinse conditioner? No brainer, if I can really cut out a step of my beauty routine.

I spend so much time figuring how to save time it’d probably amount to the same thing if I just rolled with the regular ways of doing things.

We’ll see.

Forgive me if this post is short, I’m training my German Shepherd Major Dukes to type for me…

Using:

My vanity is only matched by my smart laziness. I’ll go a week without washing my hair: it keeps my hair healthier, faster to fix, and –

Gives me another reason to cloud myself with L’Artisan Parfumeur Tubereuse perfume.

When I finally get around to cleaning up my bedhead, I use Okara Protect Color Protective Radiance Shampoo by Rene Furterer. Rene Furterer Okara shampoo makes your hair so smooth it’ll cut down the blowdry time, and its rich price helps justify a weekly wash…

Hating

So this Davines Defining Texturizer probably works as well as the Davines Love “Lovely Smoothing” shampoo I dig.

I’ll pick function over form any day, if you convinced me I had to, but most of the fun of Davines hair care is in their stripped down packaging…

Wanting

I’m waiting to finish my current conditioner so I can pair this tub of Davines Love “Lovely Smoothing” conditioner with my Davines Love “Lovely Smoothing” shampoo. I’ve picked up this Davines Love “Lovely Smoothing” conditioner at my salon out of curiosity: you can turn it upside-down, and the conditioner won’t budge.

It’s that gorgeously thick, so you can imagine what it’ll do to your hair.

But really, it’s all about getting that strangely luxe, so comfortably lab-like packaging into your shower…

Using

It’s the packaging of Davines shampoos and conditioners that got me — not that it was so glossy and gorgeous, but the opposite. More stripped down than Kiehls economical elegance, I liked the minimalism of the presentation, the way Davines shampoo bottles vibe borderline DIY. That work-in-progress feel of Davines bottles matches their values — shampoos and conditioners are engineered with natural, eco-friendly ingredients — but belies their history — Davines was born in 1982, in Parma, Italy.

Whatever the packaging’s roughness, Davines shampoo, “Love” Lovely Smoothing works way pro. I trim my bob every four weeks, but my hair was getting frizzy for some reason. I switched to Davines shampoo after reading Beauty Snob’s review, and my waves are bouncing back.

Which is nice — but just buy Davines shampoo because it looks good in your shower…