Mischa Barton launches flagship London store

   Mischa Barton has launched her own boutique in London, Her bag range has been highly successful and is currently in it's ninth season. 

   Furthermore she has designed her own clothing and cosmetic collections, which are available to purchase in the new Spitalfields store, the prices are highly affordable (something Mischa felt strongly about) and range between £25-£250, "It has to be accessible" says Barton.

   The collection has been loosely based on her own style, but has also aimed it at a wide-ranging age of audience, stressing the importance of affordability. The boutique opens tomorrow but will have an official launch day on Saturday, where you can meet Mischa and recieve 10% off all items.

Mischa Barton boutique, 52 Brushfields Road, Spitalfields Market, E1

Victoria Beckham designs range of eye wear

   Today it has been announced that Victoria Beckham will be launching her own range of prescription glasses at international eyewear exhibition SilmoParis on 4 October.

    The eye wear range is expected to hit stores in early 2013, they will retail at around £260 a pair, and will follow Victoria's already successful sunglasses range launched in 2010. The range consists of six pairs, for which she has teamed up with manufacturer Cutler & Gross, the collection includes several unisex pieces, and are available in three different colourways.

   The range will be handmade in Italy, Victoria was inspired by her own short-sightedness, she told WWD " "I do need to wear glasses - [but] I haven't found glasses thatsuit me or that I particularly like. I've always been quiteself-conscious ... I will be wearing my glasses now".

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River Island could be opening US stores

   There have been reports that River Island could be planning to open stores in the US, it is suggested that the British high street brand is set to open a store in New York next year.

   The chain already has almost 300 stored in the UK and abroad. According to The Independent the store has looked into potential sites in Manhattan. The move could possibly be timed with the launch of their collaboration with Rihanna in spring 2013.

Rihanna on the cover of Vogue November 2011.

Pacman Ghost Nails

Step one. Paint the nails with a base coat, then paint a nail red, one orange,one pale pink and one turquoise. paint the thumb black.

Step two. After the colour coat has dried, paint using a dotting nail varnish pen (available from eBay in large sets, alternatively use a clean cotton bud and dip it into the white nail varnish), paint two 'eye' dots (the eye end of the nail should be the end of your cuticle).

Step three. After the white has fully dried, using a black nail polish, wipe off most of the nail varnish and angle the brush and paint three diagonal lines across the tip of your nails, repeat on each nail.

Step four. After the polish has fully dried, paint two eye dots (looking to the side) using either a black dotting tool or dip the tip of a cocktail stick into nail polish.

Yves Saint Laurent renamed Saint Laurent Paris

   Designer Hedi Slimane has announced the renaming of brand Yves Saint Laurent to Saint Laurent Paris for the upcoming Ready-to-wear fashion line.

   While SLP is a less catchy initialism the original YSL logo will remain in use for shoes, lipsticks and handbags and it will remain the 'house' name. The brands new logo has also been released, and it is less recognisable than the original interlocking letters.

It's an iconic logo that's been around for more than half a century, but now YSL's interlocking initial stamp is set to change.

   Slimane has removed Laurent's first name from the brands logo and now can be categorised alongside brands such as Chanel, Prada, and Versace. The name change is seen as away forward to re-brand the collection, Laurent was also the first brand to release a ready-to-wear collection for sale.

Ciate Velvet Manicure

   After Ciate's extremely successful caviar manicure, they have released a follow up set for the Autumn, it is inspired by Autumn/Winter velvet fabrics (seen on Alexander McQueen and Balmain AW 2012).

   The new set includes a miniature Ciate paint pot, a tube of 'crushed velvet' and a little black brush to apply the velvet with. This will be available from Selfridges from August for £14, £4 cheaper than the Caviar set, and unlike the beads this won't fall off and is far easier to apply.

  However a similar cheaper and more accessible product is Rimmel's Matte top coat, which has been on-sale for over a year already.  This produce retails at £4.59 at Boots UK. 

   I Painted my nails with a green polish from Collection 2000, waited for it to dry and then covered it in a matte finish topcoat, it doesn't alter the colour of the polish and the wide brush makes it easy to make the polish matte.

Colour Changing Nail Varnish

   American nail polish brand 'Colour Club' are set to release a new line of nail polishes called ruby wing, these polishes change colour in the sunlight. They claim that the polish uses 'photochromic' technology and according to Fashionista.com the colour change is is rapid after going outside from inside. It is not set whether they will be available in the UK yet, however I have no doubt that another brand will release their own.