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Are Your Nails Ready For the Super Bowl? Here’s Our DIY Football Mani Guide

By Nora Crotty Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 / 5:07 PM


Here at Fashionista, we’re always up for a little DIY. And with the biggest sport (and advertising) event of the year’s kickoff happening in just a few short hours, we thought we’d first take a little quiet time to ourselves/fingers and invest in some ridiculous yet totally appropriate Giants vs. Patriots nail art! Our ‘artistic’ process was a bit on the trial and error-side of things, but the end results are certainly conversation starters. I mean, even we were a little bit impressed with our new-found mani-talents.

Click through our step-by-step guide to getting some super Super Bowl nails, and feel free to be inspired to steal some ideas in support of your fave team. At the very least, your sporty new polish job should effectively distract anyone else who’s going after the same chicken wing as you. And you’ll have something interesting to look at when you wash off the hot sauce later tonight! Game on.
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P.S. I Made This…With Fashionista: DIY Royal Wedding Fascinator

Fascinated by fascinators? Kate Middleton‘s fondness for fascinators (they’re de rigueur for royals and posh Brits at formal affairs) have created an increased fascination for the frou frou head pieces. Google searches for fascinator are up 50% since January and sales have spiked at the few US retailers that sell them, according to CNN.

So in honor of the big day tomorrow, we asked DIY goddess Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This… to come up with a fascinator that you can make at home so we can all be like Kate. You know you wanna…

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DIY Video: Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This Recites a Love Letter to her Closet, Makes a Necklace

By Leah Chernikoff Monday, Feb 14, 2011 / 3:17 PM


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DIY Video: P.S. I Made This…Gray Sweatshirt Edition

By Lauren Sherman Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 / 2:02 PM


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DIY: Make Over Your Not-So-It Bag

So, you got an It bag. You know you shouldn’t have splurged but you convinced yourself that you absolutely cannot live without it (this season anyway). You buy it. You notice that every girl (and Bryanboy impersonator) on the street is carrying “it.” Now you feel like that person wearing a fedora and you have no money to purchase anything from the Fall 2010 first deliveries. What to do?

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DIY: We Made a Fashionista Tee At the Topshop Bus Stop and Now So Can You

Last Spring, a tricked-out Topshop truck showered the city with gift cards and tote bags in anticipation of the store’s opening. Since this Wednesday, the same truck has been on a promotional tour around the city. We wanted to see what all the fuss was about, so we decided to, quite literally, get our hands dirty and head over to McCarren Park in Billyburg for Day 3.

What we found was a full-on t-shirt customization workshop, so we grabbed a free tee, and with some help and inspiration from a few well-dressed Topshop employees, gave it a full-on Fashionista makeover. While ours was certainly not the most intricate or detailed, it was pretty easy to make and we are proud of it, so here are some step-by-step instructions in case you want to make your own!

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DIY: Hair Bows Like Lady Gaga

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PS We Like This

Much to my chagrin, I’ve never been very crafty. And I’m always incredibly jealous of people who are. Enter Erica Domesek and her super cute website, PS I Made This. It’s packed with some of the cutest DIYs we’ve seen and they really don’t seem crazy complicated, even for the craftily-challenged. Actually our Tom Binns [...]

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DIY: Knot A Bow

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