WINTER COATS

                          It's getting really cold, and the best way to protect us against it: a nice coat!

                                                            Coat by Stradivarious

                  Ring by moa                                                               Art nails by Alba Sanchbel (me)

                                                                     Coat by Blanco

                                                          Print animal coat by Zara

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Lana Del Rey: Glam and Art

You probably have heard recently about this New York girl called Lana del Rey. I really like her not only for his music but also for her style. As you can see in the following photos she has a really particular style, it's all glamourous with a touch of rebelliousness, which is the perfect mix.

Thanks to her we come back to the glamour of the Old Hollywood.

Gracias a ella volvemos al glamour de los viejos tiempos de Hollywood.

                                                         

Me encanta el estilo de la cantante Lana Del Rey. Un estilo glamuroso con un toque de rebeldía a su vez, simplemente lo adoro; sin olvidar, por supuesto, su música, tan grandiosa como su estilo único.

I do not own these images.

NEW YEAR, NEW POST BITCHES!!!

It's been a while since I wrote here but I've been very busy studying for my university exams, so I'm sure you will understand.
I have loads of things to share with all you, but step by step, there is no rush!
First of all I'm gonna show you how I started the year: obviously in glossy bright!

                                                       Dress and shoes by Zara

Moreover, I have started a facebook page to keep you more in touch with the latest news:
SanchBelGlam

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RED

                          IT ' S ALL ABOUT RED


Christmas time? Not for me! For me it is Red Time. As the winter clothes use to be in black wich is really elegant and glamorous, although it is necessary to combine it with accessories of  different colours, and the red colour it's a great choice because it is glamorous, sexy, gorgeous and everything. It also has a lot of important connotations, if you have read Nathaniel Hawthorne's book "The Scarlet Letter" you will know why, but I am going to explane it briefly: there is a woman punished to wear always a letter A (representing adultery) in her clothes and she do it with class and courage, I admire this charapter for being such a brave at that time. 
Moreover, the red is a strong colour that represents a lot of powerful emotions, from love to 
danger.

                                                                                                           

                     Lipstick and nail polish in red, of course.

                     And if it is glossy bright, better.                                                                    

SOME DIVAS IN RED:

I don't own Lady Gaga and Marilyn's pictures.

I KILL FOR THE GLOSSY BRIGHT!!!!!!!!!

GLAM, GORGEOUS, SEXY, BRIGHT, GLOSSY, SHINY AND STYLISH!!!!!!!

That's what any fashion girl is loking for:

               

                                 Handbag by Zara (and it is really cheap)






What else can I ask for? If I have Glam, I have all.

BORN THIS WAY, BITCH!!!!!!!!

I am glad to share with you, my loved and gorgeous readers, that Lady Gaga and his mum have just recently founded "The Born this Way Foundation" a place for Bravery, Love and Acceptance. Everybody deserves to have the choice of being himself whathever some "religions" have make the people believe through all the history, because love, respect and tolerance are the most important things in life. In fact, our generation should end up with the bullies and the people who hate others only for the simple fact that they don't share the same ideas. And that's why I feel such a huge admiration for Lady Gaga and a lot of more people who fight for all this humans rights; and also, of course, for all the lovely people who say "This is me and this is who I am, so what the fuck?" Thank you all!

"The Born This Way Foundation" A place for Bravery, Love, Acceptance.http://www.bornthiswayfoundation.org/

Born This Way Foundation

www.bornthiswayfoundation.org

Join Lady Gaga's movement to build a brave new world where humanity is embraced, individuals are empowered, and intolerance is eliminated.

                 BORN THIS WAY, BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NEW YORK NEW YORK

Muchos de vosotros os habéis quejado de qué siempre escribo en inglés. Pues bien, ya que en este post voy a hablar sobre mi persona aprovecharé para hacerlo en Spanish.

Nueva York es una ciudad a la que siempre he querido ir y todavía no he ido, pero que no obstante algún día iré. Iré y visitaré las mismas calles que en su día fueron pisadas por artistas tales como Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly James Dean, la escritora y poeta Sylvia Plath...entre otros. La ciudad de Andy Warhol, Irene Cara, Lauren Bacall, Lindsay Lohan, Anne Hathaway...

Además de todo esto, hay que tener en cuenta todas las letras que le dedica Lady Gaga a esta maravillosa ciudad, de hecho en la primera canción de su último disco "Born this Way", titulada "Marry the Night", podemos apreciar el cariño y la fascinación que siente la cantante neoyorquina por su ciudad. Fascinación que seguramente también sentiré yo cuando la visite, aunque de momento me tendré que conformar con llevar  un vestido con la imagen de Nueva York y soñar, algo es algo.

MARRY THE NIGHT by LADY GAGA

I’m gonna Marry the Night
I won’t give up on my life
I’m a warrior queen
Live passionately
Tonight.

I'm gonna Marry the Dark
Gonna make love to the stars.
I'm a soldier to my own emptiness.
I'm a winner.

Gonna Marry the Night                                            

I'm gonna Marry The Night
I'm not gonna cry anymore
I'm gonna Marry the Night
Leave nothing on the street to explore

Ma ma ma Marry the Night

I'm gonna lace up my boots
Throw on some leather and cruise
Down the streets that I love
And my fishnet gloves
I'm a sinner
 
We're gonna go down to the bar
Where I won't cry anymore
I'll hold my whiskey up high
Kiss the bartender twice
I'm a loser

I'm gonna Marry The Night
I'm not gonna cry anymore
I'm gonna Marry The Night
Leave nothing on the street to explore

Nothing's to cool
To take me from you
New York is not just a tan that you never loose
Love is the new denim or black
Skeleton guns or wedding bells in the attic
Get you're engine ready cuz i'm coming out front
Won't poke holes in the seat with my heels,
Cause that's where we make love.

Come on and run
Just come on and run

I'm gonna Marry the Night
I'm gonna burn a hole in the road
I'm gonna Marry the Night
Leave nothing on the street to explore

I'm gonna marry (marry)
Marry (marry)
I'm gonna marry (marry)
Marry (marry)


Letra: Lady Gaga

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SOME GENDER STEREOTYPES

It is popularly believed that a good advertisement should have a great impact on the public and to be controversial in order to gain people’s attention. It is a fact that the advertisements which have the greatest impact on society are the most controversial, in fact, some of them are usually against human rights, especially women’s rights. As a rule, publicity is more controversial when the women are concerned, due to the high level of sexism that it is shown.

According to advertisements that appear in Fashion magazines like Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, InStyle…We can see that there are different kinds of advertising: on the one hand, we can observe respectful images and slogans; and on the other hand, there are some which are disrespectful towards women. The publicity arge about big sizes, for instance, they all are really debatable because instead of showing a big size woman, it is shown a woman with a lot of curves, but not in all her body, only in their bust and hips, seemingly the erotic and sexual parts.

Furthermore, there are others sexist advertisements, like for example publicity about anti aging skin, since it defends the idea that it’s not right that women should have wrinkles, it suggests that women are not allowed to show signs of aging, whereas men are and they are free of aging also. This publicity shows that women have to look younger than men, therefore a woman has to be a slave to youth if she wants to be accepted. Obviously, women have the choice of not having wrinkles using those anti ageing creams, but it should be this, a choice, not an obligation. It happens the same with botox’ advertisements, they all refer to women, for them it seems a crime to be old, and what is more, these adverts don’t even show old women, but beautiful young ladies…instead.

Nevertheless, apparently since Dolce & Gabanna’s incident regarding one of their advertisements, one in which a rape was represented, these designers and other labels and brands have opted to use feminist images in which the female figure is the dominant one, as we can observe in the pictures above, and there are also other examples, like Gucci Guilty new advertisement in which a woman is the dominant in a sexual image.

Advertising of women’s clothes, perfumes, accessories, seem to show the image of confident women, for example: Chanel, Diesel, Blumarine, Miss Sixtu, Gucci…, But at the same time what they are trying to do is to sell you clothes, and maybe that is why they want to make women powerful through the idea of using their products.

Nevertheless, there’s one advertisement really interesting, which belongs to the brand Jones New York, its slogan says: “Women as half of all workers changes everything”, it consists of an image of nine women who are preparing to go to work and they transmit confidence, strength and power.

However, there are clinical advertisings whose slogans are: “inspiring confidence in women everywhere (The Harley medical group, specialists in cosmetic surgery women). They talk like the confidence of women consists on looking pretty, only their bodies are important. The image of women holding their children, that we can see in some advertises, is really common in our society, and I would even say that in all societies. It shows that the first responsibility of a woman should be being a mother and to look after her children, no matter whether she had a job or a career before her motherhood.

That kind of stereotype confirms that women have to make more sacrifices in order to keep their dreams and objectives alive. In fact, women have a confidence problem when it comes to the workplace. A recent survey has showed that women who don’t fulfil 50% of the criteria for the job tend not to apply, whereas more men would.

As it has been said, some kinds of advertising contribute to sexist views in society. Moreover, most of the images show that women have limitations in terms of working life and in a society where media is a predominant source, a gendered language and the promotion idealized feminine bodies and sexual stereotypes have a huge impact. Sexism is truly ingrained into advertisements and it has an impact in the audience.

Taking everything into account, I would like to say that we certainly have a serious problem where gender stereotypes are concerned. Sexism is truly integrated in society and, unfortunately, women are often used as objects.
As was previously stated, advertising stereotypes are all around and most people don’t even notice them, due to the fact that people are really used to seeing this kind of images in their daily life, therefore they see it as acceptable when it is not and, as a result, they give up fighting against discrimination.

   Photographs rights: Dolce&Gabbana

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