Vote for Carina100 in the Company Style Blogger Awards 2012 (pretty please!)

Morning! I've been nominated for a couple awards at the Company Magazine Style Blogger Awards 2012 and would really love if you'd vote for Carina100.com (you may have noticed the subtle button to the right!). I'm up for 3 awards 'Best Blog For High Street Lovers', 'Blog with the Best Street Style' and 'Overall Winner: The Blog You Love The Most'. So if you like my little blog I'd really appreciate your vote.

You can vote as many times as you'd like (nudge nudge, wink wink!) and if you enter your email address as well you'll be entered to win £250 to spend at New Look!

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Carina Covets Couture - Giambattista Valli Spring 2012

I always get excited when Couture Fashion Week rolls around, and if the start of the spring 2012 couture shows are anything to go by, this week is going to be awesome. The first catwalk show that I've fallen for is the Giambattista Valli collection. If we don't see some of these drop-dead-gorgeous gowns at the Oscars this year I'll eat my new Mulberry bag. I can't remember the last time we saw such a red carpet ready collection.

Staring with pretty pastels and elegant creams, the beautiful and delicate collections moves to show stopping dramatic black and raspberries and berry shades. Mix in oversized embellishment and sheer layers and you have one hell of a couture collection.

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Images: Style.com

Zooey Deschanel Golden Globes 2012: Hair, Make-up and Nails

I think that by now we all know I have a slight girl crush on Miss Zooey Deschanel, and while I liked her gorgeous, green and black beaded Prada dress at the Golden Globes, I LOVED her 60s style bouffant hair, feline flick make-up and cute as a button tuxedo nails.

Framing her famous baby-blues with her trademark heavy fringe and a sleek back-combed long bob, all the focus is on her peepers. I really love this polished-yet-retro look for the red carpet and my girl crush isn't going anywhere.

Pass the nail art please, I want my nails to suit up!

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2012 Golden Globes Red Carpet: Best Dressed

No one really set my world alight at the 2012 Golden Globes red carpet. Last year was stellar with Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie and Eva Longoria owning the 2011 carpet. While there were some a-maz-ing dresses, some weren't quite right on the people wearing them. For example Elle MacPherson and Sofía Vergara were wearing truly amazing, strapless fishtail dresses, but the dresses left them both looking a bit gaunt and weren't showed off to their full bombshell capabilities.

Having said that, I really loved these ladies and their looks on the red carpet. Charlize Theron looked flapper candy-sweet in her girly Christian Dior dress, while Emma Stone went to the (luxe) dark side with one of her staple designers, Lanvin, and a heavy belt. And speaking of Emma Stone, Heidi Klum must really dig Emma's style as she COMPLETELY ripped off Emma's 2011 Golden Globe Calvin Klein look (have a butchers). As you know, Lea Michele always get my vote and her gunmetal-shimmer Marchesa dress was just plain awesome. Salma Hayek deserves to be on the best dressed list for channelling Elizabeth Taylor like her life depended on it and, last but not least, pretty, pretty Zooey Deschanel in Prada because I'm biased and her hair was soooo shiny.

Who was your best dressed at the 2012 Golden Globes?

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