via Movin' 99.7

Kaila, winner of Movin' 99.7's Justin Bieber look-alike contest.

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What's the difference between a butchy lesbian and Justin Bieber? One is a girl, while the other just looks like one.

In yet another affront to the Biebster's masculinity, the Bay Area radio station Movin' 99.7 held a females-only Biebster look-alike contest. Yesterday, they announced that S.F. resident Kaila was the popular choice among voters.

With all due respect to Kaila, while the resemblance is uncanny, anyone with a paddle brush, extrahold hairspray, and $1,000 to spare on laser teeth whitening can pass as America's favorite YouTube sensation.

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We realized that when we wrote about the best places to hook up in the city we threw you out of your crammed apartment into the love-filled streets of our fine city without a beauty parachute. Worse, it's the season of Pretty Face, meaning we ate so much over the holidays we're relying on our cute mugs and acerbic wit to get us into bed with a stranger. Since the effects of the "work-out/eat healthy" crap is going to take a few hungry, carb-less months to kick in, we need some here and now beauty solutions. We at the SF Weekly are on your side. Here's to looking good and getting some nookie, 2010 style.

1. Best Brazilian Wax in the City

​Pubic grooming does not make you look skinnier, but having a porn star punani helps accentuate the positive. We're positive we'd rather just be called fat, rather than fat and hairy. Remember, we love you just the way you are, but if you are into the pre-pubescent pubic look, we have the perfect place for you to go: "Pampered Nails by Tammy." Get a mani/pedi and,oh yeah, the best Brazilian wax in the city. Tammy's fast, uses two types of wax, and gets out the magnifying glass to make sure your downstairs looks like Mr.Clean's bald head. For only $30 you can get the best Brazilian wax in the San Francisco and still have money left over for that mani-pedi.

Pampered Nails By Tammy, 500 Sutter, Suite 509, 415-568-5085
 
 

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Happy first day into breaking your New Year's Resolutions! We're not psychic, but we're pretty sure we have pegged the top six trends of 2010. The Top Six is the new Top 10.


1. High-waisted is the new "skinny jean." ​ More >>

If you're like us, you've been hitting up the racks at Forever 21 more than you'd like to admit. And maybe after you've shown up wearing the same outfit as your cubicle mate for the third time in a row (like we have), you've finally realized that it's time to add more "curated" pieces to your wardrobe. ​More >>

Kirsty Evans

​The New People World center, which just opened with much fanfare in Japantown this last weekend, is a monument to the increasing American interest in Japanese pop culture. This modernistic glass and steel structure houses two clothing boutiques, a shoe store, a gallery, a store selling all kinds of cool toys and housewares, a coffee shop, and the brand new Viz cinema in the basement.

Kirsty Evans

​The mall opened on Saturday with a huge street fair centered around two stages, one in Peace Plaza and another just outside the mall itself, and a row of exhibitor booths. Highlights included the Harajuku Kawaii Experience on the main stage, during which TsuShiMaMiRe, Red Bacteria Vacuum, and Noodles all played live. There was also a makeover courtesy of temporary mall guests 6%DOKIDOKI, the winner of which got a return ticket to Tokyo courtesty of Japan Airlines. Other events included the premier of the movie 20th Century Boys, with a special appearance by one of the film's stars, actress Takako Tokiwa, and a fashion show by Baby The Stars Shine Bright and Alice and the Pirates. More >>

Most people rummage through their closets for something to wear for work, then run back home and change into something for happy hour -- then they might just have to have that third look when happy hour turns into an all-night thing.

Well, what if you could combine everything into one look so you don't have to go home, change and then meet up with your peeps for a fabulous night out? Look no further than 7 For All Mankind, with its new store in the Union Square area.

Let's shop talk! The designs for Spring seem to lack a bit of color, but 7 jeans are classics, perfect for new recruits or die-hard fans (they exist - the brand started in Los Angeles in 2000). Try this on for size: 7 jeans have created a series wherein there's only seven hundred and seventy-seven jeans with the same design. Once those are gone, they're gone. Each pair is marked with its edition number. So which number are you going to get? I recently got a sneak peak at the fall line for 2009 and can't wait to see them out in full color. Let's just say the accessories are going to be awesome! They have "break up" bags and others suitable for many moods: playful, chic, sophisticated, each with an appropriate touch of flare, and with an all-encompassing look for both work and play.

7 is just that little bit of hope for the fashion conscious, where surely many astute FIDM, SFI, and AAU fashion students will go when the semester is over. I suggest you take a browse at the new Spring line and UP your wordrobe if only to reduce that time spent lollygagging at home trying to find that perfect work/night-out outfit.

Mission Indie Mart
Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Independent
Better Than: Shopping corporate!

The line stretched down the block for most of the day as eager shoppers waited to spend some cash at the Mission Indie Mart. The event began almost two years ago as a monthly shopping event in founder Kelly Malone's back yard in the Mission district with a few local designers, vintage sellers and BBQ. It then expanded, taking over Mission Street's 12 Galaxies for a monthly party with booze, DJs, food and of course, even more local art and vintage. When the venue shut down, Malone moved to Thee Parkside. Taking advantage of the spectacular warm weather, vendors took over the parking lot, with a few squeezed inside. But then Malone moved to Western Addition and Indie Mart moved with her, now residing at the Independent once a month. Weather permitting, several vendors set up shop outside with the rest inside on the floor, the stage and upstairs.

Indie Mart takes a suggested $2 donation at the door to support different organizations each month. Last month, money went to women's cancer charities, and this time around it went to SF Women Against Rape. There's a DJ, an open bar and channeling the days of back yard Indie Mart -- BBQ. Sausages, hot dogs (both vegetarian and not), corn on the cob, the biggest pickles ever and a large assortment of condoments. It felt like summer!

These are just a few of the Indie Mart Highlights:

Kingdom Cake - Cupcakes by Chelsea Mead
Everyone loves cupcakes! These happen to be some of the most astoundingly gorgeous cupcakes I've ever seen in my entire life. They come in two sizes: mini or large. The big ones have heaps of frosting and glittery sprinkles. I've only sampled the smaller -- the red velvet being my flavor of choice. Whether you want one or not, it's worth it to stop and just look at these darling little baked goods.

Turk + Taylor - Designs by Andrew Soernsen and Mark Lee Morris
Turk + Taylor make great graphic t-shirts. An orange shirt with a print of a lobster bib on it and an old school hunting shirt with a fox hiding on the back are just the beginning. They print on nice soft shirts with even better prices. Their Indie Mart t-shirt prices start at $10 or $20 for some of the older prints. A great deal for a very cool shirt.
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Recent S.F. to NYC transplant artist Tauba Auerbach is featured in Vogue magazine this month. We're not surprised, because Auerbach is afire, and has been for a while now. The opening reception for her show "The Answer/ Wasn't Here" at Jack Hanley last May was a madhouse, and she's just plain talented. She works with letters and symbols, mostly, stretching them, distorting them, and pointing out the ways in which other people stretch and distort them. At the moment, she's "working with the Cambridge University logician Byron Cook, designing new mathematical symbols for his research on what's known as 'the halting problem,'" according to Vogue. Why is the fashion magazine interested? Auerbach is also collaborating with Comme des Garcons on some t-shirts, but we think the real reason is that the editors like the way she dresses. --Hiya Swanhuyser

Photos by Janine Kahn

IKEA's a magical place full of cheap furniture, Daim chocolate and $0.50 hot dogs. It's also not a bad place for a newish couple to grab starter decorations (disposable, sadly, like many a relationship) for their Christmas tree. Cruising their website, I decided my favorite deal was the KALLT decorator set in red, a 48-piece ornament box to the sleighbell sound of $4.99. What I didn't expect to find when I finally descended upon the Emeryville branch (note: most decorations aren't available online), was a sea of black.

I'm not sure what those Swedes were thinking, but black garlands, balls and hearts? Perhaps it's a statement about the crap economy and bleak times ahead? Maybe their design team lost a bet to its resident goth? Whatever the logic behind these gloomy decorations, the Bay Area buyers didn't seem to be particularly enthralled: most of IKEA's red, gold and blue ornaments were swiped from the display while stacks and stacks of black remained. See more photos of said decorations below...

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(Photos courtesy H&M)

By Otto Chan

The world is going to hell in a hand basket. I mean, seriously, Armageddon must be near when you’re too scared of the plunging stock market (and dwindling retirement funds) to buy those skinny jeans, and the only way you’d feel better about yourself is if you rummage through your old clothes and do some fair trade at the nearest Buffalo Exchange.

All right kiddies, let’s say you want designer clothes but you really don’t want to buy the he wore/she wore-already outfit (at wacky “vintage” prices that rise as the economy shrinks). Well here’s the good news, boys and girls: H&M is proud to present a new line by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons (which is French for “like boys”). One of the most significant figures in modern fashion, Kawakubo has created a full men and women’s collection for H&M, complete with accessories and a unisex fragrance. Her pieces all have the uncompromising Comme des Garçons spirit, yet will all be available at H&M’s brilliantly accessible (now a practical necessity) prices.

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