Welcome to the first-ever Fabulous! Festival of fashion, beauty and style!

Each week, the Festival brings you the best blog posts about fashion, beauty, style and shopping, all in one place.

This week, we bring you:

• great fashion advice
• articles and opinion pieces on the latest happenings in the world of style
• a stack of beauty product reviews
• shopping advice to help you find the latest trends for less

Enjoy!

But first…

The Creme de la Creme

My favourite articles this week: helpful advice, great writing and all-around Fabulousness.

Look Your Best Every Day
How looking your best helps your career, and how you can achieve it every day of the week. At Debra Moorhead.com.

How To Pick Your Colourist
Insider tips to help you find someone to make you look Fabulous from the blogosphere’s best hairdresser, Dean at OFFICEHAIR.

Why I Love Dresses
Nadine at Thriftyspend loves dresses. Here’s why.

Great fashion advice

What to wear? What makes you look Fabulous? Who to ask? The Fabulous Festival’s fantastic fashionistas share their best tips right here.

What’s Your Best Neckline?
If you’d like concrete advice about choosing clothing that really suits you, Rebecca’s great blog The Space Between My Peers is the place to go. Here, she talks about picking necklines that makes your face look Fabulous.

Of Brands and Bags
We’ve all seen designer handbags emblazoned with logos — but what does it say about you to carry one? Find out from Meg at Faking Good Breeding.

Fashion Help For Recovering Goths
How to get out of the all-black rut. Gala Darling shows Goths and other all-black wearers how to embrace colour at iCiNG.

Her tips for finding colours that suit you are well worth reading, even if you’re not a Goth.

Striped pants, you just gotta be careful
Icy from Individual Chic talks us through a potentially problematic piece of clothing: the striped trouser. How to wear them and still look Fabulous!

Style news: articles and opinions

The Fabulous! Festival’s stylish newshounds bring you the latest developments, so you can be the most well-informed style queen around.

Making a fashion statement or a stink?
An artist named Alex Martin recently completed her Little Brown Dress project:

So, here’s the deal - I made this dress and I wore it every day for a year. I made one small, personal attempt to confront consumerism by refusing to change my dress for 365 days.

Juicefairy weighs in on whether Alex made a fashion statement… or just made a stink.

The Lunch Time Face Lift

Cosmetic surgery is a controversial topic. Would you risk your health (or even your life) for slimmer thighs and a line-free face? Some of us would, some of us wouldn’t.

Cosmetic surgeons are working hard to create less invasive, less risky procedures, and the thread lift is the latest. There’s no incisions and it requires only a Valium and a local anaesthetic, meaning it’s much less dangerous and at $3500 it’s a little bit cheaper — but is it effective? Teri Cosenzi has all the info at Aging Fabulous.

Whether you revel in your maturity or have a little work done is up to you, just know your options and make informed choices.

Beauty product reviews

Are these beauty products worth your money? Find out from The Fabulous! Festival’s gorgeous beauty reviewers.

Get Your Hairapy!!
Do you need Hairapy? The new Sunsilk line promises to fix your haircare challenge, for only $4 a bottle… but does it work?

It does for Dexie at Bargain Styling, who says “It’s solved my hair problems in a very affordable way.”

Angels, miracles & maraschino cherries
At That dress is divine!, Gauri reviews three Lush beauty products: Angels on Bare Skin Cleanser, Aqua Mirabilis Body Cleanser and Mama Caca Noir (their version of henna). Plus, a bonus review of ‘Hot Lips’ Glossy Lip Balm by Zoya, in Maraschino Cherry.

The best products for Dry and Frizzy hair
If your hair’s dry and frizzy, you’re probably looking for a product to fix it. Anita from Beauty Bento Box finds them for you in this informative post.

Fake Eyelashes: L’Oreal Volume Shocking Mascara
The ads promise that L’Oreal Volume Shocking Mascara will make you lashes look just like falsies. True or false? Find out from Tracee Sioux at Blog Fabulous.

Phyto Organics - the Ultimate Organic Hair Care Line from Nexxus
It’s organic, budget-priced and available at your local mall. The new Phyto Organics haircare line, reviewed by Teri at Pretty by Nature. Yum!

Shopping!

Time to hit the shops. The Fabulous! Festival’s shopping samurais know where to find all this season’s most fabulous looks, for a great price.

The Grey Cardigan Look
One for the boys (and those who shop for their boy).

If you like this season’s hot grey cardigan look, as seen in Men’s Health, Dexie shows you how to get it for a lot less at She Knows Best - Lifestyle Tips for Guys.

Top 5 Bathing Suit Trends for Summer 2007
For readers in the Northern Hemishere, spring is here and that means bathing suit season is just weeks away. Briana at College Fashion .Net shows you all this season’s hottest trends — and where you can find them cheaply.

I hope you enjoyed this week’s Fabulous! Festival.

Next week’s Festival will be hosted by Anna at Individual Chic. If you’d like to take part, you can enter your favourite blog post for the week using the