Oh, Oh, Oh!!! Thank God moccasins look good with everything and just in time for the warmer weather you will want to rock these with shorts and sundresses!! MANIMALS are the brainchild of Kristen Lombardi, each pair is hand-made by Kristen from her apartment in Jamaica Plans, Mass. She offers a variety of styles and colors not to mention her cute Rib Cage earrings and organic cotton jeans. I know summer is right around the corner and your thinking sandals and flip flops but change it up a bit with a pair of White Woven Booties or somthin’!!

Louis Vuitton just dropped some new costume jewelry and hair accessories on eluxury. The stuff is so cute and perfect to update your spring looks. And if you can’t manage a few Gs for a bag you can spend a few hundred and still feel like you’re treating yourself to something special. Splurge here!

Track+Field bags are made with Sunbrella, the bags feature 100% solution-dyed acrylic fabric. It is a performance fabric marketed specifically for use in marine, awning, furniture, patio cushion and market umbrella applications. Sunbrella fabrics are woven which allows the fabric to breathe and release moisture. They are also UV and fade resistant making them perfect fabrics for outdoor applications. This water resistant fabric’s strength and color refuse to fade even under the harshest conditions, while retaining the softness of spun cotton. Check out some of the new styles from Track+Field’s Spring 2007 collection is full of vibrant colors, so fun for Spring and Summer! Peep the styles at www.trkfld.com. via nitro:licious

Our very own Mama has an interview up on Nitrolicious right now! Peep her technique and get a look into what makes her tick…yeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

I’ve seen some funny USB memory keys but this takes the cake. Your gadgets need to look fly too ladies!

Swarovski and Philips are unveiling their first collaborative project called Active Crystals, a line of earphones and USB memory keys made of silver and transparent crystal.

The collection includes four pairs of earphones — with ethereal names like Space, Icon, Mirage and Amazone — each containing fewer than 20 grams of faceted crystal to ensure comfort and fit. The USB keys, in four models resembling either hearts or locks, retain as many as 1,000 photos or 250 songs and require a user password to protect the most sensitive information.

Active Crystals will be available in department stores, electronic retail stores and Swarovski stores in August. Until then, French concept stores June and Colette will be showing a preview of the collection and two exclusive USB locks produced in limited edition.

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Graffiti great, NORM of AWR and MSK is posting up in So Cal to do some tattooing. From April 27th - 29th he’ll be at the Tattoo Body Art Expo in Del Mar, CA. And from May 1st -4th at Pure Tattoo in Hollywood. Message him here for an appointment.

This week Karmaloop is offering some discount love. Use promo code MO1200 at checkout and receive 20% off your first purchase, and 10% off on every purchase after that!! We all love a deal, so shop now and shop often!!

Sometimes you just don’t have time to shampoo your hair, which is quite often my jam, in addition to having chemically treated hair that easily becomes dry and damaged from daily shampooing and styling. Here is a quick fix for when you need good looking hair in a hurry.

This week’s tip is how to freshen up your hair with good old baby powder.

Hair powdering dates back to 18th century Europe. Then, it was common fashion for men and women to powder their hair a gray or white hue, or wear a wig with this same bearing.

The powder served two purposes:

1) Aesthetic - To color the hair in the appropriate fashion.
2) Hygienic - To absorb moisture and odors, and to scent the hair.

As a lover of beauty and fashion history, here is a modern, practical, and minimalist approach to hair powdering, a salute to beauty of a bygone era.

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The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, taking place over five days in June, announced Ghostface as its 2007 headliner at the final event, the June 23rd concert at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Entering its 3rd year, the Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival is a celebration of Hip Hop music and culture, and the borough of Brooklyn as a premier cultural destination. A free event, the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival is an all ages event featuring the best in legendary performers as well as showcasing Hip Hop’s brightest new talent.

In partnership with the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, The powerHouse Arena announces a series of exciting events taking place throughout the month of June. Celebrating the hip-hop movement through soul music, film, and photography, this year’s programming is the most comprehensive yet. For more information about each event as well as the entire Festival calendar, please visit www.brooklynbodega.com and www.powerhousearena.com.

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The ladies of of I Heart have done it again . . . they’ve managed to find 2 cute new lines with great pieces just in time for Spring. First up is Lover, out of Australia, that makes pieces that are rocker yet girly . . . think Pat Benatar. Their must have pieces for this season are the high-waisted shorts and the perfect summer frock. Second is Valentine, a line of dresses that are sweet, very mod and sure to pull an outfit together in seconds. In addition to these new lines you also find spring collections from Isabel Marant, Karen Walker, Tsumori Chisato, United Bamboo, Sonia by Sonia Rykiel, Mala Brajkovic, Catherine Holstein, Phillip Lim 3.1, Cacharel, Spring & Clifton, Sunshine & Shadows, Superfine and Tsubi. Check them out on line here or at their shop at 262 Mott Street in NYC.