May 16, 2012

Doggy Breath ⁰

by Chantal McCulligh • Dog Days • Tags: bills, Diva, dog dental, gingivitis, melanoma, tan in moderation, tanning beds, teeth pulled, vet

Today has just been a gawd awful, random day. I woke up whiter than white. Yes, I said white. My tan is completely gone and I am not happy about it. So back to the tanning beds I go, “Hey Melanoma!”

Okay, that’s not funny and to be fair, I tan in moderation, so I feel like that’s safer. Plus, I take good care of my skin. Did you know your skin is the biggest organ of your body. Yes, it’s considered an organ. I think? I may have, again, made that up, but I don’t think I did! I swear I heard that once.

Well, that was a random and fun fact of the day.

Diva and I went to the vet the other day and miss smelly breath apparently has the beginning of gingivitis. Great. All I heard was CHA CHING. No, my babies health did not cross my mind, simply CHA CHING did. I’m kidding (kinda). Seriously, $500 for a dental cleaning for a dog and that’s not including any teeth that have to be pulled.

I kind of rolled over and died. Well, I wish I did anyway.

I already guessed that Diva had gingivitis ’cause that bitch (she’s not spayed yet!) has some bad breath. Oh, and then there’s spaying. Oh lord. Can you tell I’m stressing about bills?

Today is the long weekend and my parentals want Jon and I up at the cottage to do some work so that’s what we’ll be doing. I fully intend to work on this white tan of mine. They fully intend to make me work hard. I fully intend to ignore that request of theres.

Shhhh! Don’t tell them.

I’m off to bed now. What an awful “what’s for my Wednesday” post, eh? You want to know what’s for my Wednesday? Bills. Bills. Bills.

Pay mah bills, pay mahh bills.

Hey! At least you can look good from my latest video.

Toodles xo

May 15, 2012

Smile For Today ⁰

by Chantal McCulligh • My Past • Tags: everything works itself out, i smile, memories, who I want to be, who I was

Today, I sat on my balcony, thinking and remembering my past and present. I thought about all the hardships and all the good times. All of the memories, and about all of the people that have come into my life, and who have left.

I smile for the people that are here, experiencing everything in my life with me, today.

I thought about my goals and my achievements and I reflected on all of the things I’ve done, thought I couldn’t do, haven’t done and about all of the things that I want to do.

As I breathed in the fresh spring air, I smiled at my life.

At that very moment, I realized that everything that I have, right now, right this second, is exactly what it’s supposed to be. I thought about the hurdles, tears and trials of my life. I thought about everything that I have overcome that has taken me right to this moment – right where I am today.

I thought about who I was and who I am today.

I smile.

Life has a way of always working things out and everything that life is, it’s supposed to be. Maybe at this second, your life seems far from perfect, but remember that at this moment, it’s what it’s supposed to be.

I have grown so much in the past two years, and I have come so far. I achieved far beyond what I ever expected that I would be able to do. You can too.

I learned exactly who I am. I learned exactly where I want to be. But for this moment, I am happy. I’m happy for what my life is today.

I smile for today and look forward to tomorrow.

Life has a way of working it out, the way it’s supposed to be. Trust in that.

May 15, 2012

Go To Outty Is A Must!! ⁰

by Chantal McCulligh • Outfits • Tags: belt, big square sunglasses, denim, go to outfit, hair style, high heel boots, makeup look, must have monday, push up bra, tank top

Monday, Monday, MOOOONDAY!

Actually, it’s technically Tuesday since it’s 1:30am – but heck, let’s go with it.

You know my girlfriend that runs Jordanas Boutique that I often talk about? Well she’s like my older sister, best friend, sponsor and a million other things so it only makes sense that we literally talk every minute of every day. Okay, maybe not every minute – but pretty damn close!

Today we were cracking jokes about her age (she’s only um… errrr….twenty….two…. but hey, it’s fun!) and somehow, like most of our conversations, we totally ended up off track. We started talking about how every woman must have their “go to” outfit. You know, that outfit that you can throw on and you know you’ll kill it. That outfit that you can toss together on and just know that you’ll turn heads and feel confident as all hell while in that outfit.

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It’s that outfit that you go to when you’re running late, need to let yourself know that you still have it, or wanna look banging! It makes sense now that every single woman needs one right?Jordana was telling me how her go-to outfit is a fab pair of denim (she’s got a “booty booty booty rocking everywhere” on her), a good push up bra and a tank top. Simple, right? But that’s hergo to. That’s her outfit that she feels the absolute sexiest in. That’s her outfit that she can always rely on to bring spice back into her and give her a little hop in her skip.I think I said that saying wrong – but whatever. Like always, we’ll go with it.
I started thinking about what my go to outfit is. It wasn’t until I stopped thinking about it that I could actually figure it out! Manizzle had called me and I had 5 minutes to get ready to run out – and that’s when I was like, “Yup! This is, indeed, the outfit that is my go to!” It’s that outfit I can rely on to make me feel good, confident and decent, even if I only have 5 minutes to get ready.Wait a second?

Of course, you’re wanting me to shut the front door and tell you what it is right?

Okay, so – I have too – depending on how bloated (ahem fat ahem heffer) I feel that day. Just kidding! That’s a lie! It depends on how tight my jeans are… let’s get serious!

So my go-to outfit #1 is … *drum roll please*

a great pair of dark denim (obviously)

- you know you have a favourite pair!

high heel boots

- ow ow!

loose shirt that shows some middrift

- oooh, how scandelous!

a fab push up bra

- lacking in that area… I need SOMETHING to help me out.

big, square, bold sunglasses!!

- the bigger, the better!

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However, if I am bloated (ahem jeans too tight), this would be my go-to outfit;

a fabulous pair of dark denim

great and an adorable pair of pumps or wedges

a tank

strapless shirt

a fab push up bra

sexy belt

big, square, bold sunglasses!!

Jordana said she has an hourglass figure… from the side only.
Oh how we make fun of ourselves. You’d think we hated ourselves, but the truth is, we love ourselves way way way way way too much.

What’s your go to outfit?

I read in my bible (ahem cosmo) that most woman feel sexiest in the simplest of clothes. Actually, I don’t know if I read that there. Okay, so it’s possible that I actually just made that up. I’m not sure – but I hope I did because I think it’s true!

Maybe next week I’ll do my go-to hair and makeup look.

Every woman must have a go to hair style and makeup look, right?

May 11, 2012

Jessica Simpson’s Yellow Vagina Dress? ¹

by Chantal McCulligh • dresses • Tags: bohemian style dress, fashion friday, how to style, jessica simpson dress, paper bag princess, scrunch the fabric, skinny belt, tie the fabric, waist belt

A fabulous fashion Friday, it has not been for me.

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Want to hear the story? Well of course you do!

So there’s this dress.

Looks like the paper bag princess, right? My old roommate and I actually named it the potato sack.

It has potential though.

Right? Right!!

But this dress wasn’t inexpensive, to say the least.

But that’s not the reason I haven’t been able to part from it.

Alright, so I purchased this Jessica Simpson dress probably more than a year ago, now. It was on sale (I love me some good deals, as you know) and the model looked so damn gawgeous in it. Plus, I was just loving the loose bohemian look of this dress.

I tend to steer clear of too-loose fitting clothes because often, I look like I’m drowning in them. Apparently I didn’t think of this when I clicked on, “confirm purchase” more than a year ago.

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I received this dress, and have put it on probably a thousand times, but always ended up putting it back in my closet – which is where it has hung, untouched for too long.

I mean, it’s a Jessica Simpson dress. What the eff am I doing not rocking this bad boy?

So today, I decided to make this bohemian style dress work, or may it rest in peace in the hands of someone else. Yes, I do truly believe that this is my coldmedication talking because let’s get serious, would I really be able to give such a fabulous piece away, regardless if I never wear it? Probably not.

I tried a skinny belt high, a skinny belt low. A thick belt high, a thick belt low. I tied the fabric, scrunched the fabric, tugged the fabric and swooshed the fabric and nothing ..still, was working. Hell! I even tried blaming it on the shoes and switched to 100 different pairs.

Believe it or not, but I even tried to blame it on my fading Florida tan!

I was absolutely, 100% not willing to admit that this Jessica Simpson dress simply wasn’t for my body type.

Absolutely not!

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That was not happening.

And then this happened.

And I grabbed a cute waist belt, scrunched all the fabric to the front so it was tight at the back (so I don’t look like I’m drowning) and it gave a nice waterfall flow to the front, providing some form fitting curves to the dress.

But here I sit, wondering if it looks like a yellow vagina at the front of my dress instead of a nice flow.

Am I wearing a big yellow vagina!?

What do you think?

Any suggestions?

May 10, 2012

A Detox For The Soul ⁰

by Chantal McCulligh • Love Hurts • Tags: 3 friends travelling, florida, honesty is key, insecure, life lesson, long distance relationship, show departures, world apart

Wednesdays post has turned into Thursdays post and I am so sorry for that – but hey! At least I’m here right?

There were several things that were for my Wednesday but the main one definitely tied into my life which is why I wanted to bring it all together for today.

What’s for my Wednesday was honesty. You know how they always say that you can’t have a good relationship without honesty? I always said this too, and agreed but never fully understood how important it was until yesterday.

Being 6 months and a world apart from manizzle was difficult. No one can judge him for being cranky on days, and no one can judge me for being insecure on others. No one can understand exactly what it was like and how difficult a long distance relationship can be for us – because it’s different for everyone.

Truth be told, I never thought that manizzle and I would make it. I hoped that we would but never thought that we would due to all the outside drama. You ever watch that show Departures where 3 friends travel, one of them has a girlfriend? It’s interesting to watch the show together, and see the one guy that has a girlfriend, deal with it while he is away. It puts it into perspective for me what it was like for manizzle through our little arguments and confusing times while he was gone. It’s just like, “*sigh* we totally get what he’s going through!” But if you get over the big giant waves while in a long distance relationship, worlds apart – it’ll be so much more worth it when you’re home.

We’re a perfect example – and far from perfect, we are.

The biggest thing for me was Florida. I was so adamant on going to Florida before manizzle got home and if I didn’t go, it would be damn near impossible for me to sit here and comprehend everything that was said and done from the time we said our “cya later’s”, to today. There’s a reason that “i just had to go before manizzle came home!” It was when I was in Florida that I realized how easy it is to get caught up in the moment of sunshine and ocean, and lose all realities and just live. You don’t think about anyone else because you’re in a moment.

I realized just exactly how it was for manizzle. Now, should I leave him for 6 months so he can realize exactly how it was for me? Ha! Who are you kidding? Neeee nuuuu neeee nuuuu.

Seriously though, if it wasn’t for me experiencing that exact feeling – things would definitely not be the way they are today. I would never be able to forgive, forget or understand things that have been or have not been done. But at the same time, it made me appreciate all the little things and efforts that manizzle made because it is so damn easy to simply not care. You’re in a mentality of, “I’ll care when I’m home.” It’s like your life is literally on pause. Nothing else matters. You’re in one moment and no other one exists.

It was impossible for me to understand fully – until I went to Florida and took a walk in his shoes.

And here we are. Travel changes you in a way that is unexplainable. So many of you have said that I seem so happy since Florida and it’s because I am.

I have never been more in love with myself and my life.

I needed this.

Now where does honesty come into play, you ask? Manizzle and I have spent a lot of time since he has been home getting used to one another again in our every day lives, and getting to know the “rejuvenated” side of each other. We have spent lots of time in deep conversation, talking about everything under the sun.

We have had so many conversations full of honesty. It’s hard to be honest because so often, you’re scared of the others feelings and it’s so much easier to be selfish. But we decided that honesty is exactly what has made us the way we are, and we needed to clear the air of all the bad stuff that has happened in our past.

We put our personal feelings and selfishness aside, and spilled the beans about all things imaginable. It was like a detox for the soul. A detox for the brain, really. We washed our hands free of anything negative, and washed our hands free of any wonders and worries and shared things with one another that most couples could probably never do. Well, could probably never do and then kiss, hug and make up afterwards.

A breath of fresh air – that’s what it’s like with manizzle. So many things about him has changed, and so many things has changed about me – and I can honestly say that things have never felt better.

Shed a few tears, shake it off and start fresh.

So the lesson of the day is to always be honest with not only yourself, but the ones that you care about and love. Even though things can be left unsaid, you will always worry or wonder – so clear the air.

What makes the difference is if you can pick up the pieces and put them back together.

Honesty is hard to do. Being selfish is easier, but anything in life worth having doesn’t come easy.

Remember that.

It’s surreal to have him back here and it’s so much more amazing to say, that those 6 months apart are over. I’ll roll over in bed and just hug manizzle. I hug him as if it’s the last time I’ll ever hug him again. It feels so unreal to have him back here with me and it feels so amazing.

We made it! The worst is over.

If there’s anything this temporary long distance relationship has taught me, it’s that the strength that we have when we’re together is unbreakable. That’s all I’ll ever need to know.

Now if he tells me he’s leaving for another vacation for that long, I’m hiding in his suitcase. I kid you not.

May 8, 2012

Never Ending Names ⁰

by Chantal McCulligh • Diva • Tags: Diva, dog, malshi, maltese shih tzu, names, nicknames

Well, I’m still sick so you guessed it – I have absolutely nothing interesting in my life to talk about right now. What do I do day to day? Lay in bed, blow my nose and fall asleep. Oh, and drink soup.

Wait a second! Do you drink soup, or eat it? Weird.

Since I have spent so much time with my beautiful baby girl, I thought I would share with you all the names that I call my Malshi (Maltese-Shih Tzu) dog, Diva.

I’m sorry guys – this is the most entertaining I will get for now.

Hey! I think they’re fun dog names!

Diva (obvi)
Divie
Divie girl
Diva girl
Dee
DeeDee
Deebee
Deedoo
Gleeba
Gleebie
Beanie
Bean
Bee
Deenee

And then of course, the baby girl and mommy’s girl gets thrown in from time to time.

At least she looks good, right?

Ehhhhh – not really.

May 7, 2012

Not Your Every Day Must Have Monday ²

by Chantal McCulligh • Sick Stuff • Tags: bitter, die, home remedies for colds, lozenges, natural things, sick, sore throat, strepsils, throat is sore

You know what’s for my Must Have Monday today? LOZENGES. Strepsils, to be exact.

No, I kid you not. My throat is so sore! I’m stuffy, sniffling, sneezing and what ever s words you can think of. I feel it.

Eff fashion, says the girl who’s wearing nasty 10 year old track pants that are cutting off my circulation and a grimmy old t-shirt.

Yes, if you guess that I am sick – you nailed it on the head!

If you guessed that I am bitter, it is a good possibility that you may be psychic.

I hate being sick.

Well, then again, who loves being sick?

I’m sure there’s some freaky freaksters out there that love it -but I, I am not one of them.

I kind of want to die even if I have the slightest sore throat.

Balls.

And apparently I’m writing this post as if it were a poem. Weird. Totally not intended. Maybe my lozenges got to my head. I’m just about to crawl back into my disgusting pile of pileness and watch a movie, in which I fully intend to fall asleep to.

However, I have been wondering about natural remedies to help colds and health and sore throats and gimme that sweet, that nasty, that gushy stuff.

Haha Do you remember that song?

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Seriously though, if you know of some good home-remedies, please share below. Oh and if you’re still sitting there wondering why I’m wearing nasty 10 year old track pants that are awfully too small, it’s because I need to do laundry – and yes, I am too sick to carry my baskets down stairs and wash them.

Bah.

I am seriously the biggest suck and shittiest person when I am sick. I feel bad for my roommate and manizzle. And my fashion is seriously non-existent. Sorry. I was going to talk about a new nail fad and give a tutorial – but you guessed it.

I haven’t done it yet because I’m sick.

I’m going to go wallow in self-pity now.

On the bright side, I have two amazing cuddlers. Just sayin’

Toodles babies xo

May 4, 2012

Floral Denim Pants?! Eeeeeh ⁰

by Chantal McCulligh • floral • Tags: fashion friday, floral lace, floral print denim pants, floral print denim shorts, gangster, loulou magazine, summer trends, TGIF, tgifriday, youtube

TGIF!

Did you know that I only figured out what TGIF stands for, like a couple months ago? And the funny thing is that I have eaten at TGIFRiday’s and didn’t even put two and two together. Oh I’m a special breed, I know. You don’t need to tell me that twice!

But, thank gawwwd it’s Friday!

I have a new lookbook coming for you, but I am going to be using a different system for that so it’s going to have to wait. Sowwie.

Today was a pretty legit Friday, though. I spent some time with Jon and his parents GAWGEOUS dogs and then went to dinner with Chaz, his mom and Lee, which you have all seen on my youtube more than once – and their own as well. Then we spent a couple hours visiting with Jon’s family and now we’re ready to relax and head to bed.

Oh – and of course, I spend the majority of my time today being a hardcore gangster rap star in the car.

BRAAAP!

I am totally ready to take out my NEW hair (I played around with it today and yes, you’ll be getting a tutorial) and hit the sack, but of course, not until I get my FASHION FRIDAY out for you.

Last night I was skimming through the June issue of LouLou Magazine and I came across flora print denim. No, not denim shorts, but denim pants.

I can’t really say that this is a trend that I am extremely eager to indulge in. A lot of the flora denim pants that I have seen have been dim and almost looked (not in a good way) worn out. If I was to get in on this trend, I’d definitely go with some bright and vibrant.

I do love the whole floral hype this fashion season though. Floral shirts, floral lace, floral bikini’s and all sorts of goodness. I just don’t know if floral print denim pants are pulling at my heart strings.

They aren’t my fave. Not just yet, anyway.

Maybe soon!

What do you guys think? Would you rock them? Have you rocked them? Do you plan on indulging in this Summer trend?

Okay, well these three styles of floral denim pants aren’t that bad. I’d probably wear them because they are super crowded like most other pairs! But there are some really awful ones out there.

Floral is super adorable though! I’ll have to say that. They’re feminine and have that old-times lady like feeling. It kind of reminds me of the rich, classy ladies on the Titanic.

Okay, maybe I’m a little weird – but it does! And it’s totally not a bad thing!

May 3, 2012

5 Injuries of Chantal McCulligh ²

by Chantal McCulligh • Random Facts • Tags: 5 random stories, bike, bone sticking out, brake handles, burn marks, cracked my head open, disgusting, injuries, lookbook, new video, stitches

For today, I thought that I would give you a little insight into my life. Today was a pretty boring day to say the least, and my work load has been cut so I did absolutely nothing. I sat on the balcony tonight watching the first big storm of the year roll in and thought about what in the world I was going to write. Seriously. I woke up, dropped manizzle off at his parents, visited for about an hour, then went to my doctors, than came home and worked for a bit, than fell asleep and was completely dead to the world for a couple of hours, woke up and worked, watched the storm and now here I am.

Not a very interesting post, right?

OH WAIT!

I do have something interesting to say! I added a new outfit to my lookbook today and tomorrow a new video goes live. That’s good news, right?

Okay, so as I was sitting on my balcony, I thought a lot about being stuck by lightning (weird, I know) while I was watching it zip and zap around the city sky, so without further ado, here are 5 random stories about my scars and injuries!

What’s that saying people say?

Scars are tattoos with better stories?

Well these stories suck!

I have two burn marks on my leg because when I was a child, I picked up a kettle and spilled boiling water down my leg.
My brother threw a cup at my head and I have a scar at the top left of my head, right on my hair line.
I jumped into a light once and cracked my head right open which left me with 6 stitches and a giant scar on my scalp. Sometimes (always) my hair parts around it and it’s just awful.
My brother and sister, who are both older, and I were biking with my Dad as kids, and they had cool bikes with the brake handles. Well, we were all going down a hill, and my older siblings and their cool bike brake handles were taking their legs off the pedals and sticking them out to their sides. Being the baby, I copied them – only to come down that hill way too fast and I didn’t have enough time to put my feet back on the pedals (which were my brakes), because I obviously wasn’t privileged enough to have a big-girl bike with brake handles. CRASH. BANG. BOOM. It was a 3 kid pile up. To make matters worse, my dad was behind up, panicked and totally flipped off his bike into us as well. Lesson learned? Never follow your older siblings.
An old friend rolled his car window up on my finger in high school which left my bone sticking up through my skin. In a panic to get me to the hospital, he then drove over the back of my foot and leg. Luckily, I only had tire marks on my leg as I was able to get it out from the car before he crushed it. My shin would have been touching the top of my foot. Ew. But it got me out of GRADE 9 French class for the day!

Now how’s that for a disgusting Thursday post? Hey! It’s better than nothing, right? I want to hear about your fun, crazy, sad, wild, disgusting and disturbing injury stories. Please share.

I know.

I’m sick.

Have I learned to be more careful and less clumsy? Absolutely not! Some things never change.

May 2, 2012

Too Bodacious or Not Bodacious Enough ⁰

by Chantal McCulligh • denim • Tags: blazer, bodacious, coloured denim, denim jacket, fashionista, size

Oh. em. gee.

Do you know what I am dying to purchase and add to my wardrobe? Well, of course you don’t, because I haven’t told you yet – or maybe you do because you want the same as every fashionista out there should.

I am dying to get a cute little denim jacket. Oh, but that’s not it. I am also craving a cute little blazer to be added to my wardrobe. Can you believe that I have never owned a blazer before? I know, it’s a staple – doubleyou. tee. eff. But just wait ladies, I’m still not done, but I know I’ve mentioned this one before, but coloured denim! I am craving these things like a… umm… hmmm… well apparently I can’t think of a good comparison right now – but I’m craving it hard.

I keep seeing all these adorable lookbooks with a denim jacket and blazer and I want, need and desire. They’re capturing my eye as if they’ve never been in the fashion scene before, which is obviously not the case.

Hey! A girl can’t have it all – but I will! I will get it all! Okay, probably not, but I’m hoping! Fingers are crossed, ladies and gents!

As for the coloured denim, I have been wanting a pair for oh-so long but every time I go to get a pair, the stock in store is low and they never have my size, and trust me – I’ve looked more than once. I was in The Bay and came across 3 adorable pairs from Madonna’s line Material Girl but there was only one pair per colour left – and of course, not in my size. I was either too bodacious or not bodacious enough. Damn you, body.

So needless to say, denim jackets and blazers are kind of taking the #1 spot in my fashion heart right now and third, coloured denim but I still can’t wait to get them. Coloured denim is the perfect splash of fun, summer sparkle!

Do you guys have a denim jacket, blazer or cute adorable denim? I’d love to see and know where you got them!

And that’s what’s up for my Wednesday… craving a shopping date to get the three beauties mentioned.

Oh and Wednesday means a new video went live today. Check it out ladies!

Oh and since I clearly don’t have pictures of any of the items that I talked about (yet – and depressing, I know) I added this hilariously ridiculous photo because everyone needs a little laugh and to be silly from time to time, right?

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