Author Archives: Desirae Espinoza

The Post Office

    So if you’ve never picked up a novel, or anything else, written by Charles Bukowski then I don’t really know what you’ve been doing with your life. Bukowski is blunt, offensive, crude and one of my favorite writers of all time. Sure he doesn’t have the eloquence of Shakespeare or the profound mind […]

The Bling Ring

The Bling Ring      After wonderful films like The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette, writer and director Sofia Coppola gives audiences another film to faun over this summer with the release of her latest project The Bling Ring. The lovely Sofia Coppola is sometimes criticized for her work because somefind it to be different, and […]

The Purge

      In a future version of America where the country has become a Utopia of sorts due to the annual "purge", James Sandin (played by Ethan Hawke) is suddenly burdened with ensuring the survival of his family as well as himself. The event known as the purge allows citizens one night a year […]

High Waister Shorts the Do’s and Don’ts

So the summer months are upon us and you all know what that means—shorts, skirts, and dresses galore! While all of these clothing items can be fun and fashionable, there is always the lingering problem that is the popular high-waist shorts. The high-waist trend is still going strong and while that’s great, we have the […]

30 Day Nail Polish Challenge Desirae Espinoza Edition

Both Kelsey and Desirae did the nail challenge together for the month.      So this month I used “Brushstroke Blush” from the Finger Paints polish line. This was the closest color I could find that matched Kelsey’s Oz polish so we could provide some different design perspectives using the same or similar nail colors.    […]

Shirts with Crappy sayings, why Couldn’t they have Stayed Gone?

Remember when you were in the 7th grade and that one kid would always come in to class clad in some t-shirt that was two sizes too big with a very "clever" saying on it?? Remember how we all hoped they would just stay locked away in the vault that is junior high shame? Well […]

The Great Gatsby

               Baz Luhrmann’s recent rendition of The Great Gatsby has to be one of the most aesthetically beautiful films I have seen in quite some time. The visuals used in the film help make it so captivating, which is only enhanced by the phenomenal cast and unique a soundtrack. […]

Evil Dead

“Everything's gonna be fine? I don't know if you noticed this, but everything's been getting worse…” and it really does continue to get worse and worse, until everything has gone to hell…literally. Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead, is the next installment in The Evil Dead films that is definitely worth watching. As a fan of the […]

How to Wear Leggings.

Now while we know that the legging as pants trend is definitely popular right now, it is a risk because it is very easy for an intended chic look to go disastrously wrong. I don’t know how many times I have been out and seen a girl sporting a crop top with sheer leggings leaving […]

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE book review

                  After a few years of my best friend telling me I just had to read this novel, I finally picked it up a few weeks ago and I am so glad I did. I finished it within few days after I started reading it because I […]

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