Classically Chic

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Winter Edition2011

Exclusive Interview With Janina Gavankar of True Blood

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A Look Into the Life of a Stylist, Elsa Carbajal

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1. Meet the Writers (Pg.2) 2. Letter From the Editors (Pg.3) 3. The New Girl is Heating Things Up (Pg.5-6) 4. Stores We Love (Pg.7-8) 5. Beauty Is Elsa (Pg.9-10) 6. Is Resale the new Retail? (Pg.11-12)

7. Garrick’s Fashion Breakdown (Pg.14)

8. Belle Drops the Ball (Pg.15-16)

9. Evil Reactions (Pg. 17-18)

10. The Ugly Truth About Beautiful (Pg.19-20)

11. Thank You To... (Pg.22)

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AbouttheWriters

Desiree is an athletic person, she plays volleyball and softball for LBJ. She loves fashion. She is usuallly doing some kind of sport, trying to relax, or just hanging out with her friends. Her favorite colors are turqouise, navy blue, and shades of dark purple. Her lucky numbers are 10 and 7. She always tries to dress cute, yet simple and comfy. She is a quiet, serious person but she loves to have fun. Her hobbies are shopping, playing softball or volleyball, and hanging out with family and friends.

Anahi is an shy and friendly person. In her freetime, she likes to draw and listen to mu-sic. She is usually busy everyday and sometimes she doesnt have time for fun time. Another thing she loves to do is cook food. She likes to bake with her mom. Her favorite colors are pink and light blue. She always tries to be healthy and be in good shape. She likes to party alot and have a good time with the family during the weekends.

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Garrick is a fun-loving, friendly and ap-proachable human being. He loves to talk which makes him approachable and he could listen to peo-ple talk all day. Garrick also loves to be around his friends, which easily raises his mood. Speaking of mood, he may be happy and approachable, but Gar-rick can be stormy and inclement when in the mood. Although no one wants to be called “moody,” Gar-rick accepts the fact and does not deny his quick change in mood. Garrick has had fun creating Clas-sically Chic and he can’t wait until it’s first issue.

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Dear Readers,

The Authors of Classically Chic have designed this magazine to provide an insight to the Austin fashion world. It will provide you with seasonal beauty tips, and up to date gossip about your favorite celeberties. This magazine includes articles that give readers an idea of what has happened or is happening that people may not know about. We hope you enjoy our magazine.

“I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.”Coco Chanel

“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman."

Mary Kay Ashley

Sincerely, Desiree, Garrick, and Anahi


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eyes comes to view in a soft sequence of blurs. The tune of a marimba finds itself in the midst of the song and other instru-ments join the beat. The same woman is playing the marimba, but she is now in a grand cham-pagne colored dress. The scene swiftly flickers and the tanned physique of the woman is bare. She begins to play with fire and starts to sing a slow-er and different version of Kanye West’s “Love Lock-down.” The woman comes back, but as a figure in a dirty room. She is also a bit dusty, but her singing continues.

Meet Janina Gavankar. Janina has recently be-come a person of interest due to her new role on one of America’s high-est rated TV shows, True Blood. She has taken on the role of a Shape Shift-er named Luna Garza.

Janina began act-ing as Garza on the fourth season and many hope that she will

return for a fifth season. So far, it seems that Janina’s acting career has taken her from working on shows such

as “The L Word” and “How I Met

Your Mother.” The work done on “The L

Word” and “How I Met Your Mother” included

some minor roles in which she had few lines. Now Janina is busting out of that minor role and has taken on a bigger role be-ing Luna Garza.

“You would think I was more than ready for True Blood. In a way, I was, but nothing can prepare you for the crazy bril-liance that falls out of Alan Ball’s brain. Your character will inevitably experience an unexpected roller coaster of emo-tions,” Janina said.

Janina has worked on many different sets, but the set of True Blood has definitely been a transi-tion. She has taken on the role of Luna Garza, a shape shifter that starts a relationship with Sam Merlotte. Luna Garza is of Native American and Mexican descent, and what’s also interesting is how her nationality plays a role in Luna’s hard-ships. For instance, when Luna was born she killed her mother through her own delivery and became what’s known as a “skin walker.” The Skin walkers were believed to be evil witches according to the Native Americans, which led to many of her family members to accuse her of witchcraft and later ostracize her. Her lover,

Sam Merlotte seeks ref-uge within a band of Skin walkers (including Luna) and the group begins self-therapy sessions where she must cope with the flashbacks of her shifting into her dead mother. The group sessions also result in a secluded and steamy rendezvous between Sam and Luna. Apparently, there is a roller coaster of emotions for Luna Garza, but her character is not the only one who goes through traumatic experi-ences. Characters such as Sookie Stackhouse, Sam Trammel and Bill Comp-ton also go through many harsh experiences.“I’m like Luna in that I live an insane life, filled with strange people... We both are in a constant state of trying to keep it all together,” Janina said.

Janina and Garza are con-stantly in a state of trying to keep it all together. For instance, Luna must cope with the appearance of her ex, while she also tries to keep her rela-tionship stable with Sam Merlotte. Although Janina

never said who were the “strange people” in her life, we can guess that some of them may be the cast and Janina says, “Production days are very long; on True Blood, we work mostly nights (vam-pire hours), but that’s the life every cast and crew member lives...”

Every actress/actor prob-ably works long days, but for Janina those long workdays have been a “blast” thanks to her new “family.” Janina also

thinks that the show has brought so many people together. The show even ended up in marriage be-tween two cast members. Janina’s family and friends have been supportive, but she says that they inquire on what is going in the studio frequently. She says that the studios cast and crew must be very tight-lipped and she can’t tell her family what’s hap-pening on the set. Janina will probably return for the next season, but Janina says, “Who knows what will come in season 5.” Janina is finally getting some limelight through the role of Luna Garza.

“At the time people didn’t know I was also a musi-cian so I chose a song they knew, but did it my way... I guess that’s the only way I know how to do anything.” The woman playing the marimba becomes more to us now. She becomes more notorious, well known and even famous. We know that she’s not only singing, but she

acts and she performs. In the song, she por-trays her emotions over a major heartbreak and she takes those emotions and makes them more. She sings about them and she lets the lyrics of Love Lockdown take her away. Through the song she becomes way more than “The woman with the tanned physique”; she becomes Janina Gavan-kar.

“At the time people didn’t know I was also a musician so I chose a song they knew, but did it my way...”

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Walking to hair stylist Elsa’s apartment, hair-cutting machines buzzed around, and people chattered. On her porch, big orange marigold flowers hang down with little white glass ducks beside

them. Kids ride bikes in the parking lot in circles. Inside, a large, brown entertain-ment center with a TV in the middle of the living room, with candy, perfume bottles,

pictures, and lots of things surrounding it. “I do more things than just style hair,” Elsa said. “I sell candy, perfumes, and also telephone cards.” At the right side of her living

room, she has her own little place to style hair. In front of that, there are two large sofas for people to have a seat. After high school, her mom got her to study two careers at the same time, nursing and cosmetology, the one she wanted. Elsa’s mom was always strict with her children. Her mom only wanted her children to become nurses like herself, and nothing else.

“When I went to the nursing practices, I really didn’t like anything that we did,” Elsa said. As she grew tired of the nursing stuff, she decided to face her mom to tell her that she was only going to focus on her cosmetology career. “I realized that my vocation really was to fix people and make them pretty and not to be struggling with the sick,” Elsa said. Elsa knew she was making the right decision because she did not want her mom to waste money for a career that she did not enjoy. She continued to finish her cosmetol-ogy career.


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As Elsa finished her cosmetology career, she got her cosmetology license and certifi-cate from where she had graduated. She then came to the United States and got married. Elsa has been doing this career since she graduated in 1987. Her success was to have fin-ished her career as a professional hairstylist and from that day, it has helped her a lot. Elsa has had many challenges, but her favorite one was to have given her services to people and to be recognized by her work that she has given. She has also been thinking of a future for her son because she believes that there is no better heritage to leave to a person than a ca-reer. While she cuts peoples hair, she gives them advices to help them keep their hair healthy. She shows them hair products that would help them keep their hair from falling down. For example, some people have thin hair and some have thick hair. Elsa shows them how they could add volume to their hair and make it look like full. She also has products that she sells that are helpful for their hair. These products help keep their hair from being dam-aged and fluffing up. She charges $20 for women cuts, $15 for men and $10 for kids. The highest amount is the hair dyes for $30 because it takes more time to do it than the haircuts. “I just charge them for the time it takes me to do their hair.” Elsa said. Since the day she started doing hair, she has done old and new fashion styles. “I like to be in the latest modern days and cut,” Elsa said. Her latest cut right now for both men and women is the straight fringe with bangs cut. One day she went to a beauty salon with her sister to get their hair done. She told the woman that she wanted her hair dyed reddish brown. When they were done, she was not sat-isfied with the way it came out. She hasn‘t gone back to the salon since. “Wasting money for nothing that I don’t like isn’t worth it,” she said. Instead, she dyes, cuts, and combs her own hair by herself. Elsa also likes to be a model when she goes to the seminar to practice the lat-est fashion cuts and styles. Most of Elsa’s costumers are people living in her neighborhood. A lot of them are fami-lies with children and wives. Elsa has had many costumers for a long time. One of them is Marilu. Elsa has known Marilu for 15 years now. Marilu visits Elsa every two weeks to cut their young boys hair. Since Elsa knows Marilu for a long time, she charges them less. “I have more known people, but she is my favorite one of all,” Elsa said. Cosmetology has been the best thing Elsa has had. “It has giving me a success in my life,” Elsa said. She would never give up her career and see what her future will be later on. CC


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Retail?Will resale soon be more popular than retail?

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H , i, welcome to Buffalo Exchange, how can I help you? Would you like to sell or trade your clothes today?” Stevie Poulos says, the manager of Buffalo Exchange. Everywhere one looks there are people scrutinizing every piece of clothing that allures his or her eye. On a typical day at Buffalo Exchange, you can find Stevie there, working vigorously to take in and exchange gently worn clothes. She makes

sure that she greets every customer as she tries to condense the line that reaches the back wall of the store.Resale stores are rising in prominence in the Austin fashion world. Hailed one of the most successful resale

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stores nationwide by the Association of Resale Professionals, Buffalo Exchange is here to stay.

“It is becoming more popular because people can buy the same things for a lower price,” Stevie says.

Most people are starting to become more comfortable buying clothes from resale stores. Now-a-days people can overhear teenagers talking about where they bought their clothes at, and it’s not rare for them to hear Savers, Goodwill, etc. The store that they, teenagers, are talking about no longer includes major department stores like Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, or Forever 21. They are not ashamed to say that they got their clothes from resale stores, considering the past stereotype of any resale stores.

“Resale seems to have become a lot more popular over the past 5 years most likely due to the downturn of the economy. People can’t afford to spend so much money on clothing and accessories like they could a few years ago so many people are happily turning to resale. I think resale used to have a more negative connotation than it does now,” Stevie says.

Buffalo Exchange was one of the first stores that bought, sold, traded, and took clothing items and accessories on consignment. Stores like Buffalo Exchange have attractive clothes compared to other resale stores, and are not used nearly as much as one would think. There is this stereotype about resale stores that they are all

ugly, very worn-out, rip-off clothes that people donate just because they don’t want to see them anymore. In reality some of them, such as Buffalo Exchange and Goodwill have clothes that were only worn maybe once or twice. Some of these clothes are from huge designers in the fashion world like Micheal Kors, Marc Jacobs, and even reputable sportswear brands like the North Face.

“We actually have a much more refined and desirable inventory than most thrift stores because we employ highly trained buyers who hand select each item we sell in our store. People are a lot more open to the idea of resale now compared to when I started working at Buffalo Exchange. Because of this we’ve really been able to expand our customer base to appeal to many different types of people,” Stevie says.

Looking at the prices of clothes at resale stores, it is a huge price difference. Many people don’t even realize that everything they get at the mall can be bought at a resale store for less, and still be nice looking.

“Secondhand shops can sell a month-old shirt that retailed for $21 at Charlotte Russe or Forever 21 for just $7. By buying only what they know is already popular and paying sellers 35% to 50% of the price for which they plan to resell each item, the stores can virtually ensure a profit.” says Buffalo Exchange employee Maggie Bard, in an interview with Anita Hamilton for Times Magazine in May of 2007.

A heavy North Face snow jacket that usually runs at about $200 can cost about $30 at Buffalo Exchange.

“There is some stuff from the mall, vintage, retro, all over really, which gives us a lot of customers,” Stevie says.

People have been shopping at resale stores for a very long time. Some people can’t even remember when they first started. Looking at the reactions on people’s faces from questions asked about how long they had been shopping at resale stores, all they could do was just be silent, let out a deep breath of air and count the number of years that had gone by.

“I have been shopping at resale stores for more than 15 years. I like resale stores because the quality of the clothes here is better than at other stores as far as price,” Magelly says, a customer at Buffalo Exchange.

Buffalo Exchange gets tons of clothes from the mall, some old vintage stuff, and some the 80s. It’s this variety of clothes that draws and keeps customers.

People will probably not go to the mall as much as they used to. Buffalo Exchange is still currently on of the largest, most successful nationwide stores in the country. Resale stores will continue to rise all over the nation, but retail stores will still remain dominant everywhere.

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BelleDrops

theBallInside the Mishap That Resulted in a Feud Between Rihanna and Local Irish Farmer, Alan Graham

By Garrick NicholsOur Pop Super-Star Performing On-Stage

Art By: radio1interactive (flickr profile)

Belle Drops The Ball

All I can say for Rihanna is “wow.” From her scandal with Chris Brown to the con-troversy revolving around

her promiscuous music videos, she has probably never been this embar-rassed. Recording her next music video for “We Found Love” (featuring Calvin Harris) in a thong-like bikini complemented by low-rise jeans defi-nitely turned heads, including that of the owner of the music video’s set-ting. Being seen in a thong-like bikini got Rihanna kicked off the property. I believe that the owner of the land was being unfair to Rihanna by ask-ing her to leave.

It was revealed that the producers of the video made a deal with Alan Graham (the owner of the land) that allowed Rihanna to stay on the prop-

erty and shoot the video. According to the British Broadcasting Corpo-ration (2011), Graham stated he

had no idea who Rihanna even was before he made the deal. “I didn’t know who was coming. If the name ‘Rihanna’ had been mentioned, well, no disrespect but it wouldn’t have meant anything,” he explained. To make an agreement without know-ing the other party is unprofessional on Graham’s part. He ought to make sure he knows with whom he was making an agreement whether they

are an international sex symbol, or a local farmer.Secondly, Rihanna’s appearance may have contradicted Graham’s beliefs. Other than that, there was no seri-ous threat. A crowd of fans was re-ported to be seen at the farm, but this should be expected when dealing with an international superstar. So, I argue that her bikini was not of-fensive and Graham shouldn’t have overreacted. However, his “beliefs” were contradicted (conservative beliefs, at that) and he felt that was enough to call of the deal. This was unprofessional because your beliefs shouldn’t be brought into this sort of agreement.

Lastly, Mr. Graham’s primary argu-ment towards asking Rihanna to leave was invalid. According to Peo-ple Magazine, Graham claimed he had an ethos and wanted to stick to it, “From my point of view, it was my land, I have an ethos and I felt it was inappropriate.” Even though he didn’t research what kind of deal he was making, Mr. Graham shouldn’t let his beliefs conflict with what’s going on in the agreement. Wow readers, I think I just served up some juicy gossip! I think that Gra-ham owes Rihanna an apology, and maybe a new contract agreement! Well, I think that’s been enough gos-sip for now… Ta-ta!


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Evil Reactions


By Anahi V.

One day my mom got ready to go to a party. She wanted to try on

a new face cream that she had bought from Avon. Later in the party, she said that something was burning her face. She went to the bathroom to see what the problem was. I asked her what she had put on. “ Well I just put on some lotion and the new face cream I brought”, “ I don’t think it was the lotion because I always put it on and nothing ever happens”. She realizes that the cause of the problem was the cream that she had put on. She was lucky to know it was the cream and not something else causing the burning. Some people have had similar reactions on some other products. Makeup can get many reactions depending on what type of makeup it is and if it is good. For example, if the product hasn’t been used in a long time, it might have mold on it because of all the time not being used.

An Avon product caused a client reactions and is still trying to figure why it happened. “I am still trying to identify the cause of my problem with the Avon face cream. I have undergone many patch tasting and have been told that I am allergic to a substance called tetrahydrocurcuminm,” said Trish in a post in health boards website.. Based on Erin’s opinion that she posted in “Truth in Aging” about tetrahydrocurcuminm, she says that it is an antioxidant and skin whitening ingredient that is used in many Avon products.

There’s many ways that a company can do change the way of their products. By my opinion about companies, I think they should stop selling cheap makeup and start using products that won’t

effect people’s skin. One thing that companies can do is approving their products with the FDA(Food and Drug Administration) so that they know the reactions the buyer will have when they wear it. If companies do change their way of making the makeup then more people will want to buy it and use it more. Some companies that people might ignore because of the effects they have had and because of their cheap products are Avon and Mary Kay. Avon , a beauty company that most people ignore, has many products that many people can chose from instead of only makeup.

Why should companies change the way they make their makeup products? Many people have gotten

effects with beauty products and they just want something good for them to look good. A girl in a college net website says that people wear makeup to make their personality more enhancive. “Many people wear makeup to enhance their appearance. I know some

people who will not go out in public unless they

put some on,” she says. I agree with her because girls or boys, especially girls just wear it to make themselves more attractive and more feminine. Women like to feel beautiful and attractive, so if they don’t have products that are good

for them then they won’t want to buy more products from the companies ever again.

According to Michael J. Wheatley, a surgeon doctor “color addictives of makeup has to be approved by the FDA because the dark color

addictive “kohl” isn’t allowed in the United States because it may cause lead poisoning.” “Hypoallergenic means that a product is less likely to cause an allergic reaction, but it doesn’t mean that you won’t have one. If it says “all natural” or “organic,” it is still possible that you may be allergic to the ingredients,” Michael says on his explanation about hypoallergenic.

Companies against me say that there nothing wrong with makeup and that nothing should be changed about it. They just say that because they don’t know what effects people have had. What companies should do is see carefully what ingredients they put in the products and test them first before they put them in stores.CC


“Makeup has to be approved by the FDA”

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Beautiful By: Desiree Moreno

The ongoing disease of eating disorders


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wha t younge r g i r l s and o l de r women th i nk abou t t he i r bod i e s says body- image r e sea r che r Sa rah Murnen , p ro f e s so r o f p sycho l ogy a t Kenyon Co l l ege i n Gamb ie r, Oh i o . A c co rd i ng t o l ead au tho r A l i s on F i e l d , i n s t ru c to r i n med i c i ne a t B r i gham and Women ’s Hosp i t a l i n San D i ego du r i ng 1995 , a su rvey t aken abou t 47% o f g i r l s wan ted t o l o se we igh t because o f p i c t u re s t hey saw i n magaz i nes . Based on Murnen ’s r e sea r ch on l y abou t 18% o f g i r l s c an r e j e c t t he t hough t

o f a t t a i n i ng t ha t i dea l body image tha t o the r peop l e wan t . A f t e r 21 s tud i e s by Murnen ’s r e sea r che r s , t hey f ound tha t t he med i a ’s e f f e c t on 6 ,000 g i r l s , ages 10 and o l de r, g i r l s mos t exposed t o f a sh i on magaz i nes we re more l i ke l y t o have poo r body image . Ac co rd i ng t o a new s tudy ove r g i r l s f r om the f i f t h t o t he 12 th g rade showed tha t magaz i ne pho tos do i n f l uence t he i r i dea o f t he pe r f e c t body shape , says Ch r i s t i na Roache f r om the Ha rva rd Schoo l o f Pub l i c Hea l t h . Based on wha t I have hea rd peop l e say abou t how they w i sh t he i r body l ooked l i ke , mos t peop l e I know ju s t w i l l no t a c cep t t he f a c t t ha t t hey do have good f i gu re s , o r t ha t t hey a re t h i nne r t han wha t t hey t h i nk . Some shows tha t may a f f e c t t ha t way someone l ooks a t h imse l f o r he r se l f i s Amer i ca ’s Nex t Top Mode l . Some shows tha t a c tua l l y show th i s i s Mean G i r l s , whe re t hey g i r l s t h i nk t ha t t hey a re f a t , bu t c l ea r l y a r e sk i nny, and they t r y t o s t a r ve t hemse l ves t o l o se t he we igh t . Amer i ca ’s Nex t Top Mode l c an se r i ous l y k i l l a g i r l ’ s s e l f e s t eem l eve l i n j u s t one ep i sode because a l l t hey have i s t he mode l s t ha t I have been desc r i b i ng , s k i nny, and the t h i ng i s t ha t t hey a re a lmos t a lways t he ones who w in and j u s t wa t ch i ng t ha t makes a g i r l t h i nk t ha t t hey need t o be t ha t s k i nny t o w in .

You a s t he r eade r shou l d encou rage t he des i gne r s t o ban unde rwe igh t mode l s and se t a h i gh l im i t f o r t he i r we i gh t and BMI . Even though des i gne r s wan t t o s t a r t pu t t i ng ou t t he l a rge r s i ze s on hea l t h i e r mode l s , mos t o f t hem w i l l no t ge t ou t o f t ha t m indse t t ha t t hey need t o be t ha t s k i nny i n o rde r t o be suc ces s fu l o r chosen t o be a ca twa l k mode l , because i t has been t augh t t o t hem eve r s i n ce t hey s t a r t ed mode l i ng .

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