What Makes Love True

New York City; a metropolis of sky-scraping blocks with the avenue of adventure and where the possibility of success reigns supreme - The City That Never Sleeps. As a woman in her element when surrounded by all the hussle and bustle a city can offer, the thought of being in The Big Apple takes me into a daydream of hailing down yellow cabs, having coffee over the New York Times and trotting around in Manolo Blahniks with a packed diary fit for a high-class city socialite! So I may well be slipping into Carries shoes from Sex in the City, but I reserve the right to remain blindly hopeful that one day my big American Dream can become an oh-so perfect reality. 

As independent as us City creatures are, what women also dream of is romance, and nothing helps more that the ideal setting. Tiffany and Co is already acclaimed as a first stop for any declaration of love - diamonds really are a girls best friend - but now they have announced themselves as romance experts too. Their site, www.whatmakeslovetrue.com, offers a guide to NYs most romantic hideaways off the beaten track, as well as a music & film recommendations, true love stories and 'Tiffany Tips' to love by. 

I hope to see Tiffany start to include other Cities in this soon, namely London! Until then, I'm just going to have to make note of all the beautiful NY escapes and wait 'till the day I can cross the stream...I have a dream.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden

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Italian Wine Merchants

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The Conservatory Garden in Central Park

104th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029

Imperfect Beauty

How far would you go for the sake of fashion? 

Not a lot actually shocks me now-a-days, but today I saw a short clip from America's Next Top Model which made me quite angry, to say the least. (series 15, episode 3) 

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Aspiring model, Chelsey Hersey (shown above), entered the competition with a natural gap between her two front teeth. Rather than plain flawless beauty, the trend of having slight imperfections has been on the increase, with a gap in the teeth being more of a fashion statement than a oddity. Hersey, needless to say, would be deemed quite desirable to most, however it didn't make the mark for the presenter and founder of the show, Tyra Banks.

'We love your teeth, and if you agree, we'd love to exaggerate that and take you a little bit more to Lauren Hutton' - Tyra Banks

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Only 22 years of age and with a determination to win the hearts of the nation with her dedication to her work, Hersey agreed to undergo a dental procedure to widen her gap. With what looked like a power tool, a quarter of a millimetre was shaved off each front tooth making the barely noticeable diastema into an attention-grabbing, 'fashion' statement. 

We are no stranger to the world of plastic surgery, but is this just another step too far in the name of beauty? After-all, trends come an go and unlike Lauren Hutton (shown above) who was the first model to be noticed with a gap, is it really enough to establish any aspiring model as unique? 

Other celebrities known for their gap include: 

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In demand and last years highest paid model, Lara Stone. 

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Lindsey Wixson

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Georgia Jagger

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New to the scene, Ashley Smith.

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Vanessa Paradis