Get Your Greek On & 'A Whole New World' at Sephora

As part of Disney Parks' Limited Time Magic, Disneyland Resort will be hosting their very own Greek festival at the "it's a small world" Mall and Paradise Gardens. You can read more about it here.

What's this girl most excited for? Hercules and wine tasting, baby! No judging. Hercules was quite pleasing to the eye and you know it. Too bad Meg won't be joining him. Oh well, at least we also get a Greek sampling of the Food and Wine Festival. I wish they would bring that back. Maybe next year? Testing the waters?


Oh yeah, and remember how I told you that the Sephora Cinderella Collection was only to be the first in a long line of Disney Princess collections? Well, Jasmine now has her own wares out in stores. I snapped a few shots of the new makeup at Downtown Disney in Anaheim.

If you're missing the Cinderella makeup, Anaheim actually still has a display up of those items...guess they're not sold out after all :)

The Jasmine Collection is in the same format as its predecessor, but the colors and fashion in which they are delivered are more on the exotic side. The colors are very vibrant and beautiful! As for the perfume, it is just as appealing. From the Sephora website:

Enchanting as magic itself, this alluring blend of exotic flowers and rich, warm woods is fit for a diamond in the rough. Empowering and seductive, this tempting fragrance will allow you to be the master of your own destiny. So go ahead, make your own magic. 

Notes:

Carnation, Orange Blossom, Mandarin, Gardenia, Mimosa, Musky Accord, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Vanilla, Amber, Benzoin. 

Style:

Enticing. Mystical. Sensuous.

No actual jasmine in the notes? That's surprising. Anyhow, the perfume is appropriately titled 'A Whole New World.' As for new additions, we now also have a set of eyeliners and perfumed body shimmer.

What do you think of Limited Time Magic so far? Will you be going Greek Memorial Day weekend? And does the new Jasmine Collection look appealing to you? Talk about it here!

Disney Bridal Gowns – No Kirstie Kelly?

In 2007, Disney teamed up with wedding gown designer Kirstie Kelly to debut Disney Bridal by Kirstie Kelly.

The initial collection was released to, judging by internet comments, mixed reviews. Some were highly disgusted or disappointed because they either hated Disney in the first place (citing that the company feeds the female sex unrealistic expectations regarding love and life – to which I say, what piece of media doesn't?) or because none of the dresses seemed to look like any of the actual dresses of the princesses from their respective films. Others, however, were thrilled at the prospect of finally being able to purchase a "Disney" wedding gown. And while plus-size ladies were initially left out in the cold, eventually Kirstie Kelly added a line for them, too.

Fast-forward to 2010. At the beginning of the year, David Tutera teamed up with Kirstie Kelly and Disney to create a Disney Weddings book (comments are found earlier in this blog).

Imagine my surprise when I tried to check up on the collections at disneybridal.com – to find Kirstie Kelly's line eliminated and promoting a new line by Alfred Angelo.

Don't get me wrong – I'm happy to see that Disney is trying to include budget-conscious brides here. These gowns are significantly more affordable than Kirstie's. However, the former line was not in the most expensive category for bridal gowns. High-end designer bridal gowns can end up being $20,000 or more, and Ms. Kelly's line was around $1,000-$3,000.

I'm not terribly impressed by these dresses. They are pretty, but most of them look like dresses that the designer had already created and put on the market before Disney approached them. What especially disappoints me is that Rapunzel is not included in the collection. I know that the collection was released before Tangled came to theaters, but the time gap is not that big (then again, that film went through so many changes that perhaps when the designer was creating mock-ups for his new dresses the animators did not have anything to give him for reference). In any case, these gowns still suffer from the same issue with the first line – none of them look much like the outfits we actually saw our favorite Disney Princesses in (though I will say that Alfred Angelo came closer that Kirstie Kelly did).

For the record, here are some points of reference:

 Characters and their likenesses copyrighted by Disney.

But here's the real question: are we going to start seeing Alfred Angelo Disney Bridal Rings, too? Because at least that gives one room for interpretation without significant basis…