Twisted hair ties/Knotted hair ties like Emi-Jay

A funny story about this type of hair tie. About a year and a half ago, when my sister and I had a pretty cool opportunity to work at the same cell phone store, I asked her for a hair tie on a bad hair day. She pulled out one of these in a pretty minty color. I put it on without much examination. Then, one day we were taking about this type of hair tie and the girls who got famous for inventing it and had a business or whatever, and she said "like the one I gave you" and I busted out laughing because I thought she had improvised that from a broken headband or something. I remember even the little knot and elastic that hangs off the side bothered me a little bit. Then, we started talking about the benefits of them and the design idea and I thought it was pretty cool. I thought they hit the jackpot because just by looking at them I could tell it was a piece of elastic knotted at the end. SO EASY!

Fast forward to about a month ago, I googled, I found, I ordered and received elastic and made these with my daughter. When I saw the elastic in person, it was confirmed that I picked out the most awesome colors, and she helped me cut while I knotted. It was so much fun!

I've never done a tutorial or DIY so I didn't venture out to try yet,  and I have set up an online store where I'm selling these at a pretty affordable price for anyone who would like to have them but can't make them and won't spend the $12 for 5 of the designer brand.

There is a few companies, such as goody, that sell them, I'm not just aiming to talk about the designer brand but as far as I know, they are the inventors and I guess I want to give them credit.

*SOME FACTS:
-They are supposed to not leave a crease in your hair but to be honest,  I still think they do,  but even goody's left a crease if I'm to be completely honest, so I'm not sure if it's the fact that it's a thicker kind of elastic or if its that I tie it too tight?
-they for sure look absolutely beautiful on your wrist! You can even stack them with bracelets as arm candy! (even my boss asked me what it was on my wrist)
-lastly,  I would say they are ouchless when it comes to taking them off a ponytail, definitely not a messy bun if you tangle it up in there like I do

Oh and you can buy at girlyonabudget.bigcartel.com!!
They start at $4.00 USD! [Sorry I can't ship internationally yet!]
Check out my store for more colors.  :)

Here is the pic of the awesome product I keep taking about! :)

FabKids Review

Subscription services are so much fun! You have stuff that not everyone has from their local mall shipped right to your door!
I find pieces that are as unique as me and are sure to be in my closet for a long time.

When I found out that JustFab had a subscription service for KIDS, I was so excited!  My daughter is usually always excited to open anything that comes in the mail for me [and no, I'm not a selfish mom that only buys shoes for myself, I take her shopping, but that's at a mall and she always prefers toys from the disney store anyway, so I end up spending double buying cute girly clothes and toys, but anyway!] being able to buy her something she can open up was awesome!  My little lady was so excited when I told her this was coming!

FabKids is a monthly subscription to get unique outfits for your daughter. (outfits for boys are coming up here soon in August!)  It costs $39.99 and from what I can see it always comes with 3 items; top, bottom and hair accessory.
For example, my daughters came with a dress, leggings and a headband.  I've seen a variation of her outfit that comes with shorts instead of leggings and a lot of the outfits come with a bow or hair flower instead of the headband.

You get new outfits in your fabshop on the 1st of the month and you have until the 10th to choose which one you want or to "Skip the month" because there is not commitment required.  Which is always good, for the months where splurging is not an option.
At that price, it's not the cheapest price around for an outfit for your kid, that wears it outside and grows out of it fast, I know.  But for a special party dress or birthday outfit, its a great option, and also the convenience of having something shipped out to you instead of shopping with a running toddler in a mall is nice.

The quality of the clothes is excellent!  The dress is a stretchy cotton that I'm sure is very comfortable, the leggings do not look cheap at all and neither does the headband.  My daughter is very active and it seems that the clothes move with her very well.  Sizing I felt was true to size.  And my daughter is one of the taller 4 yr olds I know, and everything was great on her!

Your order arrives in a super cute hot pink box with pink stars printed on the inside!!
Each piece is individually shipped in a plastic bag and everything has JustFab tags.
Just like the website says, half the fun was opening the box!

My daughter tried on the outfit right away and wore it as soon as she could, the next time we went out to the mall and to dinner.

I see this outfit transitioning into fall nicely with cute boots and a longsleeve under.

Use my links to subscribe to other awesome subscription services (I will be reviewing later):
-Shoedazzle: Gorgeous Shoes start at $39.99.  Your CC gets charged $9.95 a month, which then gets converted to store credit that accumulates for you to buy shoes. (Sign up now and you get 25% off your first pair, oh and how gorgeous are their shoe grocery store commercials!? :D )
-Julep: Beautiful One of A Kind nail polishes in One of A Kind packaging.  (Sign up now and get your first box for FREE with promo code FREEBOX)
-JustFab: Who doesn't want style advice from the beautiful Kimora Lee Simmons?! Need I say more?? Shoes also start at $39.99. (Sign up now and get 20% off your first pair!)
-FABKIDS: My absolute new place to find my daughter one of a kind outfits! (Sign up now and new members get 50% off your first outfit!)

LEOPARD PRINT #OOTD H&M and Victoria's Secret PINK

I went from no leopards to two leopards!

I recieved my beautiful red shoes from shoedazzle the week before last and immediately stated thinking of ways to wear them. (I am reviewing my shoe dazzle shoes later)

The first and most obvious combo I could think of was with leopard print clothes.

So I was on the hunt!

That weekend, they had an awesome sale at H&M, buy two sale items, get one free, so I bought into it! (Which, after I thought about it, is not as good as 50% off sale items, but that comes later when the selection is much less)

One of the items I picked up was this leopard print long sleeve sheer** button up blouse.

I wore it with black dress pants and my new red shoes and was office ready!
my shoes actually looked like booties under the pants.

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Then I went to Victoria's Secret with my mom and found these awesome "Yoga Leggings" That I also picked up. (You can't see in the pictures, but they say PINK in small print all over next to the spots! <3)

I wore these with a sheer** black sleeveless button up and my black blazer with the new red shoes and didn't feel too office ready, but I wore it anyway!

I think with a longer blazer or even a longer top, I would feel better.  I probably won't be wearing them to work again. (Until the winter, with boots! YES!)

This outfit was instagram worthy that day! (:

**I always wear my sheer blouses with a tank top for the office, but I skip the tank top and put on a cute bra when I wear them to go out.

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I feel that wearing these prints doesn't require much from the accessory department.

I wore a red and gold bow ring just because I felt like it with the leggings outfit but that's it.

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So after a not so extensive search on google, I found that most people said you call it Leopard print when the spots are more than one color and Cheetah print when the spots are only one color.

Which brings me to this conclusion, The Cheetah Girls on Disney Channel are the ones that confused me when I was growing up!  They were called the Cheetah girls but wore leopard print clothes in all colors all the time! What a contradiction! LOL