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After Jennifer Lawrence's big win at the 85th Academy Awards for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, we thought we'd centre this weeks Celebrity Style blog post around her.

Wearing a beautiful gown from Dior Couture to the awards ceremony we look back at some other wonderful dresses the star has worn. We particularly love her two outfits for the Hunger Games premier, first this stunning red mini dress (photo 1) and secondly a shimmering gold foil maxi number! We don't think many people could pull off such a metallic ensemble but she does so with ease.
Happy to flash a bit of leg too, Jennifer looks bronzed and beautiful in a coral mini pictured above.

We wonder if ex boyfriend Nicholas Hoult is currently kicking himself and whether their flame will be relit on the set of the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past film.

Do you like Jennifer Lawrence? Have you watched Silver Linings Playbook?

Last week the wonderful online fashion brand She Likes joined the etailPR Blogger Network! We couldn't wait to introduce this brand to you as they offer some fantastic, on trend, affordable clothing. And for this reason we just had to include them in our weekly 'Wednesday Wishlist' post.

What do you think of our choices above? We adore the cute ballet pumps, and at just £15 you can't really go wrong. Also they stock a range of disco pant dupes for just £22. These navy coloured ones would look great with a studded jumper, blouse or crop top!

Have you heard of She Likes before? What do you think of their clothing?

When we saw the new imagery for Forever Unique's Spring/Summer Prom Dress collection we just had to share it with you.

How beautiful are these images? The whole look book is fairy tale princess meets candy floss dreams! With pretty pastels, sparkles and intricate embroidery, we can see this collection being the go to for prom dresses this season.

Are you looking for a prom dress? Have you heard of Forever Unique before?

We'd love to know what you think of their collection :)

Who watched the Brit Awards on Wednesday? We certainly did! And the highlight for us... the beautiful outfits that adorned the red carpet.

Rita Ora and Taylor Swift in particular wowed us with their beautiful floor length gowns. Whilst the men of the evening pulled out all the 'suit' stops too. Mr JT looked every inch of bring sexy back in a dark grey tailored suit whilst Rizzle Kicks kept their outfits funky, looking very dapper!

Who were your favourite acts of the evening?

Congratulations to  Emeli Sande who won best British female and British album, and Ben Howard who won best British male. Best British group was won by Mumford and Sons, and a special 'global success award' went to One Direction for their hit status overseas.

To celebrate our fifth and final weekly competition that launched two weeks ago, we want to give everyone this week a chance of winning a fab prize!

So this week you don't have to be a blogger or signed up to our blogger network to win the goodie bag of prizes pictured above. These include a fabulous pink clutch bag and pink snake ring from Tallulah Tu, a Jelly Belly 50 years gift box, and 3 Oclock watches from Tic Watches.

etailPR often collaborate with lots of brands to create amazing prizes, so the lovely gifts above have all been kindly donated to us to giveaway to our followers!

All you need to do to enter is simply head over to our Facebook page :)
The competition is open internationally and will end next Friday 1st March.

P.S The winner of our last competition is...

Congratulations to Fearne Cotton and Jesse Wood on the birth of their baby boy Rex Rayne Wood this morning!

Fearne kept true to her stylish routes throughout her pregnancy, sporting some rather lovely maternity looks. She's certainly going to be one very stylish mama!!

We have always been a fan of Fearne's style in the etailPR office, and it's been lovely to see her develop her wardrobe over the last 9 months. She's managed to keep her eclectic mix of high street, vintage and designer, whilst looking radiant throughout the year.

We particularly think she looks beautiful on the red carpet in this sweet, floral, dip dye dress and clashing leopard print court shoes. We only hope we look just as good when we have children!

What do you think of Fearne's style? Do you like her range for Very?

This week we wanted to bring you something a little different on our blog by having someone within the blogosphere and design industry talk about their passion!

Someone dear to our hearts and based locally to our office in Cheltenham is Rhiannon Alexander, the founder of Vintage Style Me. Who better to feature on our blog first...

"My love of vintage started when I was about 14, when my mum would tell me stories of how she dresses as a teenager during the 70's. Together we would then make or source similar items which fuelled my love of this era, and also the thrill of thrifting began! Fast forward about 9 years and my vintage collection was huge!! Some of it I never wore, but it was so beautiful I just enjoyed having it.

After graduating uni I decided to open up a small online vintage store, as it was the only thing I had ever dreamed of doing. From there Vintage Style Me grew. For some reason I was completely unaware of how huge blogging was, and caught on really late. Vikki from The Magpie Girl was the first blog I ever read and from then on found more and more blogs I loved. Through chatting to Vikki I realised how friendly and fun bloggers were and started to get chatting over twitter about fashion. I definitely have bloggers to thank for the rapid growth of VSM, as they really are such a supportive bunch - and their love of shopping certainly helps!



Bloggers are also an excellent source of inspiration - Dunya from Dearest Deer inspired me for our best selling TFC Carrousel horse t-shirt, and the beautiful pictures from Kim of Sweet Monday and Paige of Paige Joanna in our cat skirt have shown the cat craze is going no-where.

I actually started my business before my blog, but they work so well together as you feel part of a wonderful community where bloggers and businesses can bounce off each other creatively."

Have you heard of VSM? Or have you bought from VSM?


We'd love to hear your feedback on this style of post :) 
If you have something worth sharing and would like to be a guest blogger for us please email bloggers@e-tailwebstores.com with a couple of sentences of what you'd like to talk about.

Today we wanted to start your week off on a good note by letting you know of some fantastic competitions!

1. FD Avenue have teamed up with Yogi hair to offer one lucky winner the chance to win a £100 FD Avenue voucher and a Yogi hair styling gift set worth £129.95! To enter simply click here.

2. Ravi Famous are currently holding a competition to win two beautiful dresses from their monochrome collection. To win the two dresses pictured above click here.

3. And last but not least Lashes of London have teamed up with Fake Bake to offer one lucky person and their friend the chance to win 2x £50 Lashes voucher and 2x tanning kits from Fake Bake. This competition ends tomorrow morning at 10am so be quick to enter :)

We spotted these gorgeous looking cakes on Kaz's blog last week and we just had to share them with you.

Forever Unique have launched their colourful new Selfish SS13 collection. Featuring vibrant, going out styles with a contemporary twist, the collection combines a sports-luxe influence with an edge!

We ordered this beautiful angular Linus dress, on sale now for £70, and were over the moon with Forever Unique's fantastic packaging. Ordered by 3pm on Wednesday afternoon and delivered at 9.30am Thursday morning, their next day delivery was even faster than expected. The dress, complete with hanger and polythene bag, came perfectly folded in Forever Unique branded tissue paper, in a magnetic fastened box.

Well presented packaging adds so much more to a customer purchase, and therefore customer service. Boxes such as this hard wearing black glossy Forever Unique one can make great storage containers afterwards.

Do you care about the packaging when ordering items online? Have you had any really great experiences with delivery or any terrible ones?

We'd love to know your thoughts!

Bristol Fashion Week are running a live blogging show on Friday the 22nd March at 4pm and two of our readers could win a pair of tickets each! The tickets will get you access to the show, hosted by Mark Heyes and Andrew Barton, plus an exclusive goody bag!

Bloggers at the event are encouraged to take part in the live blogging by tweeting using #BFWSS13.

Enter through the app below for your chance to win!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Today's Wednesday Wishlist post is centred around Paul's Boutique. Founded in 2002, Paul's Boutique has gone from strength to strength over the last few years with the next step being a leather range exclusive for Selfridges!

Here in the office we have been coveting their latest 'new arrivals'. In particular their new holographic range of bags, they're like nothing we've ever seen before :)

You can shop all of the items above here, prices start from just £20 for the lovely grey cropped tee, adn the customised arm jacket is £80.

Are you a fan of Paul's Boutique? What do you think of their new items? We would love to hear your thoughts :)

Have any of you had a look at the new Motel Rocks video on their home page? What items catch your eye from their new collection? We are loving their new paisley and pyramid prints!

You can view their new collection here.


P.S We hope you all have or have had some yummy pancakes today! We can't wait to get home and have lots for dinner. How do you prefer to have yours?

With Valentines just around the corner we thought we'd bring you one of our favourite cupcake recipes... The Red Velvet Cupcake!

These are so yummy and look fantastic. We will certainly be baking these this week. Our favourite recipe has to be the Hummingbird Bakery one, which you can find here.

Will you be baking any Valentines treats?

Ok so this week we've gone a little Destiny's Child crazy in the office! With their spectacular come back performance at the Super Bowl we look back at some of their good, bad and very bad outfit choices!

Tina Knowles has styled the girls throughout their career together and sometimes we've had to question  her ensembles. But as the band matured so did the outfits, and we love the cream goddess type dresses in the center photo.

Are you a fan of Destiny's Child?  Who were your favourite band growing up?

This week we can't get enough of Marc B's gorgeous array of bags! If you are a fan of black handbags in particular take a look at their fabulous gift ideas for Valentines.
Our favourites are above, we adore the Lottie and Molly in particular, they would make perfect every day bags!

Do you own a Marc B bag? Do you like any of our choices?

How many of you watched the Super Bowl on Sunday night? Or at least caught Beyonce's half time performance? Some of us stayed up to watch the whole event and others of us caught her performance online yesterday, and what a performance it was!

We're huge Destiny's Child fans here in the office and were thrilled to see Kelly and Michelle join Beyonce on stage!

Beyonce did a great job to squash all of those lip syncing jibes, with an outstanding live performance. We would love to know where she gets the energy from for amazing dance routines at the age of 31, and after having a child!

We hear she's now set to do go on stage Worldwide with a tour this Spring/Summer, will you be hoping to get tickets?

Images courtesy of Gifted Heart Cakes

Whilst browsing the beautiful Amy of Amy Antoinette's blog we came across her post where she was lucky enough to wear her gorgeous wedding dress for a second time as part of a photoshoot.

Within the post there are many stunning photographs of her and her husband, as well as the setting, flowers, cake etc. And the cake featured was the one picture above with an intricate birdcage on top of a tower of cucpcakes. The cake was made by Gifted Heart Cakes as are the others pictured above.

Aren't they amazing? You can see more of their cakes here.

For our 4th competition to mark the launch of our blogger network we are giving away £250 to spend at Urban Outfitters!!

Up until now all you have to do to be entered into our weekly competitions is upload your 'etailPR Approved Banner' once you've signed up to our blogger network. Well, this week we'd like to mix it up a little and ask you to write a blog post instead. It doesn't have to be super long, it can simply be the image above with a short description on how your readers can enter and a link back to this blog post!

Then when you have published your blog post, email bloggers@e-tailwebstores.com with the link to your post so we can add you on to our entry form.

To recap:
- You must still have your 'etailPR Approved Banner' visible on your blog!
- If you don't have your banner/have not signed up yet, you can sign up here. Once you have signed up you will be notified by email if your application has been approved with details on how to log in.
- Write a blog post using the image above or an image of your own and some kind of description on how your readers can enter.
- Link back to this blog post at least once in your post.
- Email bloggers@e-tailwebstores.com with the link to your blog post.

Simples! :)

This competition will end next Thursday 7th February and the winner will be chosen at random and announced on Friday 8th February.

The winner of our last competition, to win a pair of Jeffrey Campbell studded Lita's is... Laura from Style and Sushi!! Congratulations Laura, expect an email in your inbox any second now :)