Look of the day: Smile to the world and the world will smile to you

A smile is the prettiest thing a girl can wear.
Words of wisdom.
You can have the most precious bag or the most wonderful dress but without the right positive attitude they are only material stuffs. Is it you the one that makes everything special and with a smile the whole day becomes happy. Happy for you and for the people that will cross that beautiful smile.
In order to make the world a better place to live, isn't a good idea put a smile upon our faces? I truly believe that and I definetely will do it always, it's a promise that I do to myself.
And just because Valentine's day is just around the corner at the bottom of the post my sweet suggestion, for her and for him <3
Hope that you will like it, let me know what you think!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Pictures by SONY DSC-RX1 by Isabò

Charlotte's Dress

Hello beauties
as I told you several times I love animals, especially dogs, and my life is definetely more wonderful since I share it with my doggie Audrey.
I always search for her the best food, accessories and some warm hoodies during cold times and I'm looking for stylish and elegant stuffs, not ridiculous or too banal, and my favourite brand is Charlotte's Dress !
A pure love for dogs and a passion for exquisite fabrics and contemporary but refined prints are the basis of the philosophy of the brand, where glamour, comfort and convenience become the real key-words.
Muse of the collection is always the red poodle Charlotte, she is the source of inspiration for the sweet and fashionable hoodies, for the sparkling collar or harness, for eco-leather leash or also for the precious ceramic dog bowl and the soft doghouse.
Charlotte's Dress is the answer for all those people who want to give a comfy but elegant look to their dogs and also be sure that the stuffs are synonimous of safety and excellent and detailed materials with the strong warranty of made in Italy.
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Look of the day: The light

The light. Soft or intense, the most important thing is to be surrounded by it, it gives strenght and positivity to the whole day.
A little walk with the sunshine on my face and the wind at my back it's the best way to give a pop of freshness and joy, to see everyhting clear and to pull out all the doubts and to take every decision in the most easily way.
A precious optical coat by Christian Lacroix for Desigual, my favourite earrings by my beloved Giulia Boccafogli, my bag of the moment by Francesca Evangelista and the brand new baroque shoes by Sammydress are my friends during that moment. Despite of the wedge, these shoes are really comfortable and easy to walk in, I would never thought but it's so true!
Hope that you will like it, let me know what you think!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Pictures taken with SONY DSC-RX1 by Isabò

Caudalie Beauté Le soins hydratants corps

Imagine.
A tipical Spring day in the France countryside, the sun shining, a warm breeze that caresses your hair and a scent of flowers all around. When you open the window, a field of white blooms is in front of you and nothing can make you happier. You enjoy a sweet breakfast on the terrace and after it's time to take care of your body with the best beauty products that Caudalie dedicated to us for this Spring time.

The Baume Gourmand Corps is a smoothy and delicate butter for the body. A whipped cream consistence and a 95% natural recipe, this vine body butter leaves the skin silky and makes it healthy and hydrates. The scent is both sweet and slightly acid, thanks to the bitter orange, orange-flower and orange wood, created by Olivia Giacobetti, who has already made the Crème Tisane de Nuit and Premier Cru. Never without it!
The Soin des Levres is a lip conditioner that protects and hydrates dry and sensitive lips. The ingredients are 99% natural extracts from vine and grape, it leaves lips glossy and juicy. The scent is a mix of sweet orange, nectarine and vanilla, created by Olivia Giacobetti too. Very interesting and useful!
The Soin Corps Nourissant is a nourishing body lotion very intense that leaves the skin very ( but very very!) soft and mellow all day long. It's a very delicate cream, silky and not oily so perfect to be used also during hot Summer days, very easy to be absorbed and 93% natural. The scent is so enchanting and with a slightly acid note given by lemon matched with lavender and sandal. My IT product, I carry it always in my bag!
The Crème Gourmande Mains et Ongles is an hand and nail cream sold every 2 minutes in France and must say that is miraculous. The skin is super soft every moment of the day and nails are nourished and healthy. The texture is soft and it is absorbed easily and the scent is sweet and slightly acid, thanks to the bitter orange, orange-flower and orange wood, created by Olivia Giacobetti again. The very best hand cream ever!

I tried them and I highly recommend them to you, they are the most valuable and helpful products at the moment in shops. Caudalie is been ages my favourite beauty brand ever because their products are created with about 93% natural ingredients and all of them made my skin soft, silky and with a delicate scent, and this collection is more than words, it's larger than life.
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Sony DSC-RX1

Hello beauties
today I've prepared for you a technology post about a real jewel of photography sector, the SONY DSC-RX1 !
This cyber-shot camera is a compact with excellent and high level features, such as the CMOS Exmor full frame sensor and the Carl Zeiss T 35 mm f/2 lens. Called it compact camera diminished it because it's a real small reflex that takes perfect and high quality pictures.
DSC-RX1 has a minimalistic and essential design, a magnesium body, a bright and large LCD screen, five personalized buttons and has not unnecessary elements. Thanks to the opening ring on the lens you can control the preparation and the focus sleeve allows you to choose in almost a second the modality you prefer.
The anti-aliasing filter let you shoot clear pictures and automatically erase moiré effects and chromatic artefacts and the SteadyShot function reduces out of focus also in inadequate light conditions!
I'm in love with this camera, I'll never be without it because it has reflex features in a small and more comfortable shape!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

The Wedding

Hello beauties
today there's a special post for you dedicated to one of a girl most important day and it's written by one of my oldest collaborator, the sweetest Catherine Moraru!
She wrote some article for my blog last year and we continue our partnership this year, I'm definetely super happy but this is not the only news of this part of the year... Stay tuned because next days there will be big surprises <3
Hope that you will like it, let us know your thoughts!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Look of the day: Aloha

Hello beauties
I love pastel colors but definetely my favourite combo is the eternal black and white one, it's so classy and always chic.
A warm and comfortable black coat by Gazèl and a skater dress by Ax Paris matched with some giant size sunnies by Vogue Eyewear new collection and my beloved bag by Francesca Evangelista do all to make me feel like a glamourous girl <3

Must confess that I love so much this kind of fashion, a lil' retrò sometimes and always sophisticated, it reminds me Audrey's style.

Which is your favourite one? In which one do you feel the best or do you really feel to be yourselves?

Hope that you will like it, let me know what you think!

Bisous

yours Carolyne O'

Pictures taken with SONY NEX-3n by Isabò

January My Beauty Box

Hello beauties
as some of you already know, I'm a huge fan of make-up and beauty products and, since I'm the My Beauty Box Blogger Ambassador, my passion is growing very fast. 
Today I introduce you to the the very first box of the year, the January one, "Be My Valentine" edition created to make every girl feel wonderful and special with all these products.

FREE AGE Lip pencil: A soft pencil with mat effect that defines perfectly lip shape and, thanks to its ingredients, it prevents ageing. Mine is in plum shade, matchy matchy with the lipstick. Recommended, the texture is fantastic.
FREE AGE Diamond lipstick: I personally adore Free Age lipsticks because they last long time, have a creamy texture, the shade is very intense and it hydrates lips. In eight different shades, I found a plum color that make lips very sensual. Highly recommended.
FREE AGE Shine polish: A multivitaminic complex makes this polish one of the best available in shops at the moment. The finish is brilliant and covering, dries very fast and lasts for a long time without chiping, the brush is flat and so the coat results very homogeneous. Mine is in a dark shade, an intense plum like pencil and lipstick. 
DELAROM Face Cremè Revitalitè: A soft cream that absorbs easily, gives brightness and a firming effect to face skin prolonging youth. Full of green elements such as macadamia oil, cyathea cumingii and karitè butter. Very recommended, my skin seems born again!
DELAROM Gel nettoyant: For every day use, this gel is very delicate and perfect for every kind of skin, it removes impurities and make-up residuals. The main ingredients are jojoba pearls, white nettle and desert date and make the texture very soft and not unctuous. Recommended.
EQUILIBRA Karitè intensive nourishing body cream : this intense body cream nourishes and hydrates skin, perfect for dry ones. It doesn't oil and it can be absorbed very easily.

With the purchase of the box, My Beauty Box will send you a coupon of 10 Euro that can be used for a dinner out with your soul mate or a close friend, you can buy yours here!

Did you try any of these products? Will you like them?
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Look of the day: Relax

Sun. Breeze. Sunset. A grass.
Some moments all dedicated to free the mind and to relax, in simply clothes that make us feel always glam and not banal.
I love taking a walk in the countryside to empty my head and only hearing the sound of lil' animals and wind. All the thoughts and solutions truly come out and they can find their ways to express.
A so warm and particular white faux-fur coat by K-Way, fluffy as a peluche, a fresh pop of color given by Wholesale oxford shoes and my inseparable and beloved Gas Pop-Up jeans and Maiden-Art necklace.
Do you know that special feeling when you are alone and you open your heart without comfortable lies and you find the truth? It's the feeling after which you feel invincible.
Hope that you will like it, let me know what you think!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Look of the day: Life is a flower

Hello beauties
how was your week-end going ? Did you do anything cute?
I had quite relaxing days and I enjoyed so much the wonderful sunnies moments that bring me lot of positivity and fresh energy.
I love flowers, especially the white ones, and when I saw for the first time this Gazèl dress I completely fell in love with it, both for the print and for the soft shape. 
I matched it with Sisley coat, my oldie but always so goodie Gucci bag and my beloved Armani pumps with a little bow on the toe.
Sun and flowers. They are enough to make my day more than special and happy.
Hope that you will like it, let me know what you think!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Pictures taken with SONY NEX-3n by Isabò

Summer IT bags: Coccinelle S/S 2014

Imagine a soft wall of flowers. A wall of wonderful and scented roses and peonies.
Imagine an elegant woman, a positive soul with a smile on her face, who carries happily her new bag that will become her new best friend. 
Now think about a talented photographer, known worldwide for his undiputed genius.
Mix all together and you will have the new breathtaking Coccinelle ADV campaign for the Spring/Summer shoot by Billy Kidd, famous American fashion photographer, with top model Giedre Dukauskaite.
Dedicated to a woman who knows both her cosmopolitan and metropolitan sides and likes to play with them and to match. The return of the iconic Celeste bag and the moderization of solid shapes such as the clutch, the postman or the shoulder bag and the shopping tote. With the best and exquisite materials used, Coccinelle has invented new structured bag with fresh color block, refined prints, black and gold and perfect S/S colors like yellow, green, pink and orange.
I'm so enthusiastic about this campaign, I find it very chic and with a strong touch of eternal elegance. That elegance that is pure and delicate, that will last forever.
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Look of the day: Love me as I am

Hello beauties
my holidays are officially over and it's time to come back to work and to my routine! 
How were your festivities going? Did you do anything cute or any trips around the world?
My very first look of 2014 reminded me the famous Fashion Shower song performed by Anna Dello Russo, for her capsule collection for H&M, and in particular Lesson number 8: Wear coat as a dress!
Fashion is experiment, is to challenge yourself with new ways of styling but always comfortable to you so I decide to wear my new favourite Manila Grace coat as a dress! I love its perfect shape and how it fits, so close-fitting to the body with embellished belt and collar and I matched it with a warm colors Gazèl pochette, that can be used as a clutch or as a crossbody as I did, and my new Desirù bracelets made with kimono fabrics.
Hope that you will like, let me know what you think!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Pictures taken by SONY NEX-3n by Isabò

My 2013

Hello beauties
my holidays are close to an end and on Tuesday I'll come back to my daily routine of works :)
These first days of 2014 are very positive but I couldn't turn my head back on 2013, that was a very important under lot of levels. I reached big satisfactions with this blog, and I will be always grateful to make them, I discovered the pleasure to say NO some times and to put myself in the first position, I lost some people, from whom I learnt new stuffs about me and about what I want and need, and I found new ones, especially in the last part of the year, who I would love to bring with me in next years.
As a final goodbye to this important 2013 I made a recap of my fave looks, thanks for always being here girls!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Maiden-Art, the Duchess is here

Happy new year beauties!
How did you spend your new year's eve? :)
I really hope that 2014 can be YOUR year, the year where you dream come true and a wave of happiness and joy will crush on you :)
Maybe some negative things could happen but remember that everything happens for a reason, and also in bad situation you can learn something that can help you to discover more about yourself and to do not make the same mistakes in the future. I'm wishing that all the beautiful and positive things will go to you, I feel so blessed and thankful to have you in my life, even if I haven't still met you some of you, I must say that I love you and think about you as friends, virtual friends but always friends <3
Probably my favourite Christmas gift, I love it so so so much the stuff itself and the fabulous brand, is Maiden-Art Duchess necklace. I'm speachless about this necklace because it's just perfect, it's very eye-catching but so so so elegant.
It's made with antique silver plated brass and crystals, perfect for both for day and night and for every kind of look... With a fluffy dress in Summer for a night party and also with a sophisticated LBD for a date, this necklace will turn every simple look in a special one.
And I also adore the brand, Maiden-Art, especially the designer Maristella Colombo, who has a great and polyhedric talent and I wish that this 2014 will be the best year of her life, surrounded by lot of love, success and joy <3 I can't wait to meet you again babe!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Pictures taken with SONY NEX-3n

Francesca Evangelista Melany

Hello beauties
it seems that the problems with my Wi-Fi connection at home are now over and I really hope to be more present than past days <3
One of the greatest gift I received for Christmas is Melany bag by Francesca Evangelista, a very verastile bag that can be used both for day and night.
The thing I like the most about this bag is that it can be used in three different ways! It's the perfect clutch for the night, capacious and so elegant, becomes a crossbody for the daily routine where what you deserve is to be comfy and then the you can reduce the chain and give it the right touch to make it more sophisticated.
Francesca Evangelista is an Italian designer, very talented and with a special allure of elegance that she can transmit through her bags and through her breathtaking collections that you can see here.
For this festivity Francesca has launched a super cute video that you can watch at this link, it's so fashionable and funny!
Hope that you will like Melany, let me know what you think!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Ezra+Tuba fashion show

Hello beauties
how was your Christmas going? I had troubles with my WI-Fi connection at home past days and I didn'y have the chance to wish a merry Christmas :( So sad about that but I really hope that your day was full of joy and happiness surrounded by people who love you.
Today I wanna show you the breathtaking new collection of my Turkish friends Ezra+Tuba, who launched their new pieces during a magical fashion show that took place in Istanbul early this month.
A collection characterized by femininity, delicacy and charme... Sensual shapes caresse the body, an atmosphere that has a futuristic taste enriched with golden moments symbol of the luxury that is innate in each of us and a class, a self-confidence that are the main characters of Ezra+Tuba woman.
The palette of color is very essential and elegant with white, gold, blue navy and a large use of transparency, soft fabrics and precious details.
Thanks to the artistic genius of Ezra+Tuba to have created a collection that makes me dream and that brings sophistication to every woman's closet.
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Sony Christmas Event

Hello beauties
how was your week-end going? Finally today is my last day of working and then two weeks of holiday, super yay!
Few days ago I had the chance to attend to the sophisticated Sony Christmas event, a very elegant party that Sony organized to make the best wishes to their friends.
At Space Watt in Milano, the famous ex Lux Cinematografica, in a so refined atmosphere , Sony displayed some of its hot products such as TV plasma screen, headphones, MP-3 player, Vaio pc and incredible photo-cameras.
I really liked the place, the perfect decorations and the intimate, delicate and polished air that wavered in the loft, so I took some pictures with my Sony NEX-3n to bring also you to this fantastic event.
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Baileys Christmas Lounge

Hello beauties
few days ago I was invited to the special Baileys Christmas Lounge in Milano, to celebrate the new Christmas drink inspired by The Nutcracker. 
If you are in Milano today I highly recommend you to go because the atmosphere is really cozy and warm, it's open from 5 PM to 8 PM in via Varese 1, Verger space, by calling 0039 02 34970731, it's the last day!
The drink is very sweet but intense with chocolate chips, perfect for a night in front of the fireplace, bounded in a blanket and listening to some jazz music. 
The video ( you can watch it at the end of the post!) of the Christmas campaign signed by Baileys was again inspired by the famous The Nutcracker and costumes used are exposed at the Lounge.
I also had the chance to try false lashes and a personalized make-up by mua MAC, my gaze became more sensual and deep and I totally love it!
I'm so happy and grateful for this great experience and I took some pictures to share it with you, in case you can't go to see it personally <3
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Pictures taken with SONY NEX-3n

What's Inside You S/S 2014

Hello beauties
if I look outside my window all I can see is some snow and dark atmosphere, and so the best way to fight them is treat myself with something fresh and vitaminic like new S/S 2014 collection by What's inside you.
What's inside you is the clothing line of one of my iconic muse, Eleonora Carisi, who can't be categorized as a designer, Grazia IT girl, a blogger or an influencer because she is a chamelonic person, she can be everything in only a single body and mind. 
Very talented and histrionic, Eleonora dedicates her collection to women who know what they want and who are not afraid to express theirselves in a different way every day but always unique.
I'm really enthusiastic about S/S 2014 collection, characterized by solar colors and prints, mainly flowers and minerals, in neoprene and silk organza, with soft shapes that seem to embrace bodies and soul. Yes because Eleonora was able to touch the inner side with What's inside you, her creative mind pierces and you can only abandon yourself and enter in her Italian secret garden...
Bags are created in collaboration with Italian brand Hibourama.
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Look of the day: Caresse my soul

Hello beauties
this is my last week of work and then I'll be on holiday for two weeks, I can't believe and I can't wait. I already plan to sleep a lot, to read much books as I can and then sleep again :) You know, just relaxing and chillin'! And what about you? What are you going to do during these special days? Any trips?
I love to challenge myself with new looks different from my daily style and when I saw for the first time the burgundy dress with soft collar by Manila Grace and the tricot cardigan by Christian Lacroix for Desigual I fell in love with them. I would never thought to style them together but when I tried them it was love at first sight!
The dress is really warm and embracing while the cardigan is so particular and cozy, the final result was a mix of hippie, chic and urban styles and I super like it :)
Hope that you will like it, let me know what you think!
Bisous
yours Carolyne O'

Pictures taken with SONY NEX-3n