It.

It.

"It" is a secret...a powerful one. "It" can catapult plain, unpopular girls into model-pretty populars. "It" has discovered models like Kate Moss and Twiggy- otherwise plain, average girls. "It" has ruined politicians, sealed the deal for about everything you can name.

So what is "It"?:
"It" is not a superpower, though it deserves to be one, since most people don't have "It". "It" is a secret, and only those who are worthy can have "It". "It" is also known as a presence. And with a presence, anyone can be unstoppable.

How can I have a presence?:
Easy. Just follow our next (almost) painless-to-follow blog post about having a presence. And yes, it's perfectly safe. No tattooing, blackmailing, or binging and purging involved.

Do you have a presence?:
What does it look like?

See ya tomorrow!

- Abby

Writing Exercise Intro

So every week, we'll have a writing exercise. This is like writing a short story, based on a plot/story line we give you. Submit your work through the comments, and we will critique your writing. It doesn't have to be a whole, entire story, just a snippet of a scene with the characters.

We have only two guidelines: it has to follow our original planned plot. That means no emo poems if we asked for a girly short story scene. Also, the word count has to be 500 words, max. 500 words is one single-spaced page (and a snippet of another second page) on Microsoft Word. It is also exactly two double-spaced pages on Word.

Tips:

1. Spell-check! Enough said.
2. Check for grammar and punctuation marks.
3. The descriptions of the characters, and what each is wearing, should be a paragraph in all, maximum. That means no parts about how Jamie's "classy-but-bold, 2-karat diamond Gucci platinum horsebit cocktail ring glittered in the sunlight like the glassy surface of the cerulean, kidney-shaped pool." And if your readers are anything like me, they will forget the first part of the sentence before they finish the last part. So K.I.S.S.- Keep It Simple, Stupid. Because people like me are getting older by the minute. And we have better things to do than to read a long, boring story on a blog...though in my case, I don't.

If you feel uncomfortable submitting your work through the Comments section, fearing that some people might Copy + Paste your precious, then never fear! Just click on our profile, and email the story to us. We'll embed it with a anti- copy and paste code- (don't you love computer geeks?). Happy submitting!

PostScript- What is the whole point of writing exercises? Maybe because a lot of people here would like to get published as a writer. And others enjoy reading stories. It's a win-win sitch here. And writers need critiques to improve.

- Abby

Contest Winner

Okay, so the contest didn't have as much entries as we expected. =(
Under 12.
So anyways, Sarah, I luvvveed your quote: My calendar's too full to date you.
I've never heard of that, and it sounds so awesome.
Thanks, everyone, for entering!

- Ally

Scene Is Dead.

Yes it is. Died two years ago. At least in the trendy Los Angeles area. Here, people are either real preppy (no fitch or hollister for us!) or really hippie-retro-vintage.
Think big sunglasses, wild colors, highwaisted pleated skirts with granny cardigans. Anything that looks funky and from a vintage store. Big, bold bangles, and Forever 21 and Juicy Couture clunky necklaces in exchange for the elegant Chanel and Tiffany ones (for the hippies. the preps love chanel, but tiff's is for middle-class posers).
Ya know the wild, crazy, Teen Vogue spreads that you admire, but don't have the guts to wear? Yeah, well, most crazy-cool outfits in those pages are standard LA outfits.
Stores most of us shop at- vintage stores on Melrose and Rodeo, Juicy Couture, Forever 21, Marc Jacobs, Kitson, American Apparel, Fred Segal, Planet Funk, and the like.
Jean brands cali girls love: Seven, Blue Cult, True Religion, Genetic Denim, Citizens of Humanity, and Denim of Immortality.

I'll be posting a hippie-retro outfit on f.c.p. soon....

- Abby

Crack Our Password

So I'm really bored. Let's have a Crack Our Password (C.O.P.) game.
(the answer isn't our real password ;] )

This works like a crossword puzzle, but the answers are based on current events.

1. The birthday of Suri Cruise, and how old she's turning.

(month/date, and age)

_ /_ _ _


2. Fiancee of Eli Manning. [Hint: I j'adore her name!]

(four letters, first name)

_ _ _ _


3. One of my favorite TV shows, showing tonight. Reality TV, with Heidi and Spencer (ewww hate Heidi; she's so fake...love Lauren). Bonus: the show's name is short for the Hollywood Hills.

(eight letters, two words)

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Smash together all three answers (delete the spaces) , and comment the complete 'password' below on the Comments section!

(If this activity goes well, I'll start giving hints for the real password- so you can hack into our account and start posting! =P )

- Abby

Ashley Simpson: Pregnant

Okay, so of course Hollywood has seen a lot of stars get knocked up at young ages (ahem, Jamie Lynn Spears...you super-slut), but I (nor Hollywood) had seen this one coming. I was like, whoa, when I heard the news. Ashlee seemed so...unlikely to be pregnant. Especially since I was a devoted fan. Was.
The strange thing is that Ashlee knows perfectly well that her dad, Joe Simpson, doesn't approve of her fiance, Pete Wentz, member of the band Fall Out Boy. And then she gets pregnant with Pete's kid? Who in their right minds would do that?
She has a beautiful face (though thanks in part to a nose job), an amazing voice, a great body, and she's just gonna throw that all away?
Come on, Ashlee, don't think like your sister...who obviously doesn't think at all ("Chicken of the Sea? Is this real underwater chicken?" Of course nawt, you twit. It's canned tuna.)
And Pete Wentz, I can't imagine him being a dad. But then, I couldn't imagine that guy from Good Charlotte being a dad, either. But then, BAM, he went and had Harlow Winter Kate Richie Madden.
I, for one, am going to keep my fingers crossed that Ashley isn't pregnant. We don't want her to be one of those celebrity mothers who get knocked up, have a kid, and are never heard from again- at least, not in Hollywood.
Who's with me?

-Ally

Plain Rude: Classless, Bitchy, Trashy, Ghetto, w/e you call it.

So if you scroll down and click on the comments for the contest, you'll find that someone has written something very rude, very tasteless, very classless on this blog. Next time, we WILL moderate comments, deleting ones that need to be. Hey, if you don't like this blog, why do you visit it anyway? If you have that much time on your hands to insult bloggers, how about you go and serve soup to the homeless or read to the blind?

So a note to the Snark On The Loose:

When you actually have the guts, how about commenting un-anonymously?
And puh-lease, only 12 year olds would write, "Go screw yourself."
More mature people write the F-word, or D-word.
But I guess the using the F-word, to you is "Go Fudge Yourself." Or "Go Freak Yourself."
Whatever you lil' 6th graders call it.

-Abby

AWOL, MIA, w/e you call it.

I'm typing this on a really small keyboard on a palm treo, so yeah, this post won't have pictures, colored text, etc. I've been grounded from the computer, and just when I'm not, the computer shuts down. Oh yeah, great. Real great. But anyways, I saw a knockoff of this site. And another one. And another one. And I was like, wow. These people sure don't have ideas of their own. Pathetic slobs.
Let's have a contest, event, whatever you call it. The thing you have to do is to come up with the most clever, most tee shirt-worthy phrase you know. You can enter more than one phrase; actually, we encourage more than one phrase/quote/saying per entry. The phrase does not have to be unique, but don't post anything someone else has already posted. Contest entry phrases should be posted in the comments section of this blog. And remember- don't post your entry as anonymous! Use the name/url option instead when posting. Contest ends, idk, about in a week? Winner(s) will be announced in another posting- I will reveal further details once the winners have been picked. I haven't chosen a prize, but it really depends on the number of entries this contest gets! Invite your friends to join the contest, because the minimum amount of people needed, for the winner to earn a prize, is 12! And, please don't send in multiple submissions. Anyone doing so will be disqualified.
Good Luck!

-ally