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Say You’ll Be There

October 18, 2016October 18, 2016Posted in Fashion, UncategorizedTagged art, blog, Events, Fashion, feelings, graffiti, healing, life, lifestyle, love, model, new york, new york city, photography, quote, quotes, reflections, relationships, spirituality, style, thoughts, wellnessLeave a comment

“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe” -Norman Vincent Peale

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” -Confucius

“It always seems impossible until its done” -Nelson Mandela

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“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence” -Norman Vincent Peale

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“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it” -Charles R. Swindoll

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Top: Design Lab/Lord & Taylor

Bomber jacket: Zara

Pants: Zara

Necklace: Zara

Shoes: Vince Camuto

Lip Stain: Revlon

Eyeshadow Palette: Lancome

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Bradley Theodore‘s pineapple street art found on the side of Juice Generation on 18th & Broadway

Photography by Tiffany Chen @photosbytifff

I’m Not Your Toy

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016Posted in FashionTagged art, Fashion, graffiti, graffiti art, life, lifestyle, love, new york, photography, quote, quotes, reflections, relationships, spirituality, Street Art, Street artists, street style, styleLeave a comment

“It’s all false love and affection. You don’t want me, you just like the attention” -La Roux

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“I’m much more me when I’m with you” – Unknown

“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love”-St. Francis of Assisi

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” – Buddha

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it” -Audrey Hepburn

Top: Zara

Pleather skirt: Urban Outfitters

Bracelet: Baublebar

Choker: Forever 21

Thigh High Boots: Forever 21

Stud Earrings: Kate Spade

Lip Stain: Revlon

Eyeshadow Palette: Lancome

Photography by Tiffany Chen @photosbytifff

Street art by Jet Martinez (@jetmar1) found on the corner of Mulberry and Prince St.

Fall Into The Sky

October 3, 2016October 5, 2016Posted in Quotes of the MomentTagged Fashion, feelings, healing, health, life, lifestyle, love, new york, nyc, photography, quote, quotes, reflections, relationships, spirituality, style, thoughtsLeave a comment

Quotes of the Moment:

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Romper: Design Lab/Lord & Taylor, Ear Cuff Earrings: Forever 21, Lips: Laura Mercier’s Lip Glacé “Pink Spark,” Sunglasses: Bought on the street in Flatiron

Photos by Devon McLaughlin, The Leveraged Look @theleveragedlook

Radiant Aura

September 22, 2016September 22, 2016Posted in FashionTagged eatprayblog, Fashion, Flatiron, happiness, life, lifestyle, love, manhattan, new york, new york city, nyc, quote, quotes, Quotes of the Moment, reflections, spirituality, street style, style, summer, summer in the city, the universeLeave a comment

Flatiron, Manhattan

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life” – Omar Khayyam

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony” -Gandhi

“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more” -Oscar Wilde

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance” -Oscar Wilde

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow” -Helen Keller

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” -Oscar Wilde

Dress: Express; Shoes: Michael Kors, Choker: Forever 21, Lips: Laura Mercier’s Lip Glacé “Pink Spark,” Sunglasses: Bought them on the street in Flatiron 🙂

Photos by Devon McLaughlin, The Leveraged Look @theleveragedlook

Brighter Than Sunshine

September 17, 2016September 17, 2016Posted in FashionTagged art, eatprayblog, fall, Fashion, happiness, LES, life, love, manhattan, new york, new york city, nyc, quote, quotes, Quotes of the Moment, reflections, spirituality, street style, summer, summer in the city, the universe1 Comment

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves” -William Shakespeare

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none” -William Shakespeare

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be” -William Shakespeare

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another” -William Shakespeare

“To do a great right do a little wrong” -William Shakespeare

Bradley Theodore (@bradleytheodore) is hands down my favorite graffiti artist. He is best known for portraying fashion icons, including Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Wintour, in a colorful, skeletal way. His is most recent work consists historical icons, such as Queen Elizabeth, and infamous stars, including Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. His work can be found in galleries and on the street throughout the world, specifically in major cities like New York City, Los Angeles, London, and Hong Kong. In New York, most of his street art is found in Soho and the LES. The above are found on Rivington and Ludlow in the LES.

Dress: Zara, Earrings & Bracelet: C Wonder, Shoes: Steve Madden, Lipstick: Lancome #333 Pink Preview (Matte)

Photos by Devon McLaughlin, The Leveraged Look @theleveragedlook

Empire State of Mind

September 7, 2016September 17, 2016Posted in Fashion, Quotes of the MomentTagged art, eatprayblog, Fashion, happiness, life, love, manhattan, new york, new york city, nyc, quote, quotes, Quotes of the Moment, reflections, spirituality, street style, summer, summer in the city, the universeLeave a comment

This past week marked my 2 year anniversary in New York! Most days the score is New York: 1, Marisa: 0, but I must thank you, New York City, for making me the person I am today. Can’t wait to see what year 3 holds!

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Romper: Design Lab/Lord & Taylor, Ear Cuff Earrings: Forever 21, Lips: Laura Mercier’s Lip Glacé “Pink Spark,” Sunglasses: Bought them on the street in Flatiron 🙂

Photos by Devon McLaughlin, The Leveraged Look @theleveragedlook

Quotes of the Moment No.14

August 30, 2016Posted in Quotes of the MomentTagged eatprayblog, feelings, happiness, life, love, manhattan, new york city, nyc, quote, quotes, Quotes of the Moment, reflections, regret, relationships, spirituality, summer, summer in the city, the universeLeave a comment

Unlimited Vitality

August 26, 2016August 26, 2016Posted in art, FashionTagged art, Bleecker Street, Crash, Fashion, graffiti, graffiti art, Graffiti artists, happiness, Joey Ramone, life, Little Italy, Little Italy Art Project, love, manhattan, mural, new york, new york city, nyc, quote, quotes, Ramones, reflections, relationships, Solus, spirituality, Street Art, Street artists, street style, summer in the city, the universeLeave a comment

“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest” -Maya Angelou

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated” -Maya Angelou

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them” -Maya Angelou

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude” -Maya Angelou

“Nothing will work unless you do” -Maya Angelou

This colorful mural, featuring musician and singer-songwriter Joey Ramone, can be found on the side of Saxon + Parole on Bleecker Street. In 2015, this piece was commissioned by the Little Italy Street Art Project (L.I.S.A., @thelisaprjectnyc) and painted by Dublin’s Solus and the Bronx’s John ‘CRASH’ Matos (#SolusxCrash). The L.I.S.A. Project is “a 501(c)3 charity arts program founded in historic Little Italy bringing events & diverse artists to Downtown, creating NYC only mural district” (-L.I.S.A.). The mural was strategically painted across the street from CBGB, the location where the band the Ramones originally started.

Top & Sunglasses: H&M, Bracelet: Ralph Lauren, Choker: Forever 21, Shorts: Urban Outfitters, Shoes: Christian Siriano, Lips: L’Oreal 8hr New Nouveau Infallible #320 “Mirror Underneath”

Photos by Devon McLaughlin, The Leveraged Look @theleveragedlook

Quotes of the Moment No.13

August 23, 2016August 23, 2016Posted in Quotes of the MomentTagged happiness, life, love, manhattan, new york, nyc, quote, quotes, reflections, relationships, spirituality, summer, summer in the city, the universeLeave a comment

Color Therapy

August 18, 2016August 18, 2016Posted in FashionTagged art, blog, eatprayblog, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fashion, graffiti, graffiti art, happiness, life, love, manhattan, new york, new york city, nyc, quote, quotes, Quotes of the Moment, reflections, relationships, spirituality, Street Art, summer, summer in the city, The Great Gatsby, the universeLeave a comment

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Top & Skirt: Zara; Choker: Forever 21; Eye Shadow Pallet: Lancome; Bracelet: Baublebar; Lips: New York Color Expert Last Lip Lacquer “#100 Bare Brooklyn”

Photos by Devon McLaughlin