Refreshing.

Hey Guys,

So I don't know if you all have noticed or not, but I changed the layout and theme of the blog. Something a little more suitable for fall. Plus I like the vintage theme :)

I'm also working on a new Blogger/SD Twitter/ Formspring icon. So expect that to come here soon.

- Sara

Stardoll Clothing Haul!

Hey,

So last summer I made a post called " Stardoll Clothing Haul." where I showed you all some things I recently purchased in the Starplaza. And since I'm bored I thought I would do another one.

As you can tell I numbered them. Why? Because I felt like it...XD

1.  Antoinette Skirt

Store: Starbazaar  (Tingling)

Price: 4 Stardollars

Opinion: I bought this because it was simple and cheap. You can't go wrong with a simple black pencil skirt and there is endless outfits you can make with this.

2. Hotbuys Zebra Heels

Store: Starbazaar ( Rio ♀)

Price: 24 Stardollars

Opinion: These were released in the summer, but I didn't get the chance to snatch them up before they left the Starplaza in late August.  24 stardollars isn't bad because I've seen people sell them for 40+.  I think they're cute and unique ☺

3. Black Folds Belt

Store: Windows On The World

Price: 3 stardollars

Opinion: I like it. Nothing else to say.

4. Marfik Jacket

Store: Killah

Price: 18 stardollars

Opinion: This jacket is very versatile and wearable, and that's why I bought it. Although 18 stardollars  is a little bit of a hefty price to pay but since it's so wearable it's worth it.

5. Hotbuys Denim Corset top

Store: Starbazaar ( Rio ♀)

Price: 18 Stardollars ( Originally 20)

Opinion: Don't really have much to say about this, the only reason why I bought it is because it was 18 stardollars and looked sort of cute. 

6. Brown Cardigan

Store: Archive ( It Girls)

Price: 6 Stardollars

Opinion: Another item I bought because of it's cheap price. That and it looks like something good for fall.

7. Mizar Shirt

Store: Killah

Price: 14 Stardollars

Opinion: I LOVE THIS SHIRT! It's so spring like and pretty, I love it! 

8. Bryant Flower Shirt

Store: Miss Sixty

Price: 16 stardollars

Opinion: The prize of my haul. I love it! It's so summer-y and perfect for a hippie look. It's on my doll right now and I love it ☺

9. Hotbuys Diamond Print Frock

Store: Original Future

Price: 22 stardollars

Opinion: It's unique, and if you paired if with a simple blazer and proper accessories it would look like a really good outfit. That's why I bought it ☺

10. Nude Forties Blouse

Store: Windows on the world

Price: 81 starcoins

Opinion: Simple, pretty, I like it.

11. Queen of Sogo shirt

Store: Fallen Angel

Price: 8 stardollars

Opinion: I like it because of the color. IT'S GORGEOUS! 

12. Bow ruffle skirt

Store: Pretty in Love

Price: 12 stardollars

Opinion: It's pretty. End of story.

13. Daisy mini skirt

Store: Bonjour Bizou

Price: 13 stardollars

Opinion: This would be a good statement piece for an outfit. I like it a lot!

It's now 2:00 AM. I'm exhausted, good night!

xoxo Sara

Happy Halloween!( and what my doll is for Halloween...)

Hey!

So you know what today is, right?

It's October 31st, meaning it's Halloween!

As I said in my Halloween post from last year, every Halloween I do a fun doll.

So this year I decided to be...

a Gothic Bride!

Now the makeup look was actually pretty easy. It had to be dramatic  but dark as well. So here's the products I used:

Not a whole lot, but enough.

Anyway I've got to run, but have a nice Halloween!

xoxo Sara

And the winner of MSW 2012 is...

ashleesoul from Saudi Arabia!  

Congratulations Ashlee for being the 3rd ever Miss Stardoll World, and the first from Saudi Arabia! 

She will receive all of this:

The second place winner was rojda32 from France and the third place winner was Kusja from the Russian Federation. Congratulations to both of them!

The finalist for the USA, starlilly29, placed 26th. 

All things TRR

I'm declaring today International TRR Appreciation Day.

I just think the club deserves it. ☺

In honor of this very special day, I am going to highlight some of my favorite TRR posts and people.

First off there's Reneè:

I love her doll.  ♥

But I also love her posts on both TRR and the forum.

Here's a few:

I admit, I laughed.

Taken from the forum, Tacos are amazing. 

Yeah I went post stalking. I cracked.

And finally remember when I made a post about Stardoll publishing a book about winning Covergirl? Yeah, well I also made a topic about it in TRR and Reneè speaks the truth.

Yes I enlarged it, and yes we are the greatest people you'll ever meet. 

Then there's Seth.

She also never fails to crack me up. 

And on the forum...

And there's more, I'm just too lazy to put it on here...ahahaha.

Next up is  Jasmine.

Jasmine

THE LEADER YOUNGLING!

Last December there was a topic about the older members of TRR, and how they formed their own little posse . So Jasmine, Kat and I formed our own little posse called "Young-lings" Yeah we're awesome.

This kills me, absolutely kills me. 

And so does this.

Finally there's Kat.

That medoll just says it all.

Her posts on the club and forum are awesome. Check em out yourself.

And everyone else in TRR is also amazing! Including Liz, Lel, Sabrina, Jordyn, and all the others I forgot to mention.

- Sara

MSW 2012 Finalists ( and the new achievement.)

Hey!

So yesterday, Stardoll released the finalists for MSW 2012!

I, of course, voted for starlilly29 since she's representing the United States which I'm from. Plus she's had some pretty good outfits.

Now I did take the time to see who was representing Turkey, because the winners of 2010 and 2011 were both from there. 

Her user name is SuperElizas and she's been a member since December 20th 2010. Her doll looks pretty good, so I say she has a decent shot of winning. 

All of the finalists ( and semi-finalists) will be getting an achievement for being in the competition.

The people who were Semi-Finalists last year and in 2010 also get this award. Which is good because they deserve it!

I have no idea if the finalists from last year will get this too, although they should. I like the design of it ☺

I don't know when voting ends, but probably sometime here in the next week or two.
- Sara

She returns?

Hey,

So I have a couple of hours to pass before I go to bed, and I decided to look through my guestbook messages and you will not believe what I found.

Does anyone remember lilSmiley101? If not, let me tell you.

On April 4th, 2011 she made a claim that I had accused her of being a hacker.

(Taken from this post)

On April 20th, she made a blog and posted this:

Oh the irony...

 I  never snuck onto her account,  nor did I make a blog post calling her a hacker. 

So now she's asking me to join her club?

The recent comment was made four months ago, but seriously do you think she forgot everything that happened?

Idk, but I'm certainly not getting dragged back into this mess again...

- Sara

Halloween Tutorials?

Last year, I did a batch of Halloween tutorials and I'm going to start doing them again!

This year:

Lady Gaga-Paparazzi look

Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz

80's look

Updated Marilyn Monroe look ( I did one last year, but it didn't turn out so well...)

and a lot more!

Another "The Stardoll Times"?

I am honestly surprised at this.

I typed in thestardolltimes.blogspot.com in my url, and look what I found...

Apparently there is another blog called The Stardoll Times, created one day after mine..

I made this a little large because of the text being so small. I highlighted the date that the post was posted.  November 6th 2010.

Now I'm not going to get into a whole thing here. Why? Well let me explain...

The urls are different:

Her's: thestardolltimes.blogspot.com

Mine: sbadvice.blogspot.com

Why is mine sbadvice? Well a couple months before I started this blog, I created an advice called spadvice. At the time I was new to blogging and thought that the other one was deleted (when it really wasn't...) and created this one. After I started blogging regularly, I thought about changing the url. But I was kind of scared that it would mess everything up. So I didn't.

Reason Number Two:

The owner of the blog, Chloe, probably didn't even know that there was another blog called The Stardoll Times. So I'm not going to start bashing her for something she didn't even know.

And lastly, reason number three:

It's not like the blogs are the same. I mean sure we post about Stardoll but the blog appearances are different, and it looks like she quit posting after November 9th, 2010. And during the time that she did post, it was about Freebies. Which I haven't done in a long time.

So yeah...

- Sara 

New Dot and Doree...and Sara's opinion

Hey,

So today Stardoll released a new collection of Dot and Doree. 

Dot, the first floor. 

It's getting to the point where the Dot collections are getting repetitive. I promise you that there was a collection with similar-if not the same, colors earlier in the year. I'm sure if I search around in the blog archives, I'll find something...

Second, didn't Stardoll just release a new Dot collection last week?    The MSW collection? 

I don't really have much to say about Doree. The colors are okay...I probably won't buy any.

Edit: AHA!

I WAS RIGHT! 

At the end of March, Stardoll released a Spring collection! The blue is a replica of " Malibu Blue" which I have a shade-stick of and the yellow is a replica of "Butter cup". Also the " Midnight black" is the same as the Black eye shadow that I use in my videos. 

A little research paid off.

- Sara 

Yet another look at my Starpoint plant..

Yesterday I posted about getting starpoints. Today I'll be showing you my Starpoint plant, for the third time.

This is it! It has certainly grown since November when it looked like this:

This was taken on November 11th, at the time I had 3773 Starpoints ( this before the new system was introduced.) and the branches were beginning to grow. And it has changed drmatically since I first told you all about my Starpoint Plant back in March of 2011.

At the time this was taken I had 2688 starpoints. Which is about a 1,085 starpoint difference.
- Sara 

On my way up, a little Starpoint prediction PART II

Last year I made a post about Starpoints and how to earn them quicker. Since then, Stardoll has changed their starpoints system and I decided to write a new one that is a little more up-to-date. There is some math incorporated in this, so enjoy!

Let's start off with the basics.

If you are a SS/Royalty member, you can now earn up to 14 starpoints a day, if you are a non-SS you can earn up to 12 starpoints a day-same as before.

Now that Stardoll has introduced the "Levels" system, things are a little different. In order to level up, you must have a certain number of starpoints.

Earning Starpoints has changed dramatically since last time. You can still do the Play and Earn system to earn Starcoins, but in order to earn Starpoints you have to complete achievements which I'll explain later on.

What is an Achievement?

"  Achievements are tasks that you can complete to win awards and gain Starpoints. For each achievement that you complete, you will receive an achievement award that you can display on your achievement shelf under your suite. Earning achievements will give you Starpoints which will help you level up faster and will unlock new items as well as functions on the website. The achievements are in one of 6 categories: Core, Design, Sell, Social, Collect and Competitions." - Stardoll's Help Section

Example of the Achievements section, this is mine. =) 

Confused? When this system first came out, I was too, but after reading it over a couple of times I got it.

Each Achievement that you earn gives you a certain number of Starpoints which will help you level up.

This particular achievement will give you 2 starpoints.

Which Achievements will give me the most Starpoints?

If you win a competition, such as Covergirl or Best Scenery, you will receive 25 starpoints.  That is the most Starpoints you can earn from an achievement.

But let's face it out of the 196,513,575 members of Stardoll, only 365 members will become Cover-girls this year. So the easier, high starpoint, achievements include:

Fit for a queen (Royalty Member) = 15 Starpoints

No place like Stardoll (logging in everyday for 30 days.) =  15 starpoints

Stardoll 365 (logging into Stardoll everyday for 365 days, or a year.) = 25 starpoints 

Social Butterfly (creating 10 chat-rooms) = 15 starpoints ( just got this one today, took me three days to do it, but if you create 2 chat rooms an hour it would only take 5 hours =P )

Girls, Girls, Girls (owning a club with 100 members) =  15 starpoints

Gift Giver ( give one gift to a friend) = 7 starpoints ( I know that isn't a lot, but if you give someone a cupcake, you'll be getting 7 starpoints for 9 starcoins which is a great bargain!) 

And a couple of more.

A little more about Levels.

Levels are a little more easier to understand. The concept is simple, in order to level up you must earn Starpoints. And since I just explained about that, from here on out it gets really simple. 

There is unlimited levels.  Right now I'm on level 51 =) 

As you can see, I have earned 80 starpoints so far in level 51. I have to have 199 starpoints until I level up in level 52 so it's going to be awhile.

The best thing about labels...well to me anyway is this:

YOU CAN PLAY WITH THE STARPOINT HAIRSTYLES! :D :D 

You can't save them on your doll, but I can use them in Youtube Tutorials.

WHICH IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

^^ Happy Sara ^^

Here comes the math...

I'll start this off easy.

Let's say you get 14 starpoints a day and you need 199 points to level up. 

199/14 = 14.2

So it would take you 14 days to earn 199 points, to level up.

Now let's say your a non-SS and you can only earn 12 points a day and you need 199 points to level up.

199/12 = 16.5

So it would take you 17 days ( When it comes to decimals, if it is .5 or greater you just go onto the next number.) to level up, which is a little longer.

But not everyone gets 14 or even 12 points a day. So let's get a more average number.

Like 7.

199/7 = 28.4.

So 28 days.

But not everyone needs 199 points to level up. Let's say you need 88 points.

88/14= 6.2

So you can level up in a matter of 6 days, which is pretty impressive really.

Now if you earn 12 points a day, it won't take that long either.

88/12= 7.3

A week? Not so bad...

Let's put in our average number, which is 7. 

88/7 = 12.5

13 days. 

So yeah that's your math lesson for today kids! XD

- Sara 

MSW '12 Semi Finalists

Hey Guys!

So I know it's been a little while, but I finally got my home internet back.

Which means I can post more often =)

YAY!

So today Stardoll selected the Semi Finalists for MSW 2012

I voted for CrystalsJoy, like I did last year for my country. I'm not surprised that she got in, after all she was on the Top Designer list many many times.

I went over to see who placed in Austrialia, because my TRR friend Kat (popcornDaisy) decided to run again. And if you may remember, last year she got in the Semi Finals and she got in again this year!

Congratulations Kat! 

In TRR we all made bets on MSW. And I placed 5 Starcoins that Kat would get in, and she did.

I now am getting 5sc!

Who do you think will make it to the finals? 

- Sara 

MSW Store relased!

So with today being the first day of MSW 2012, Stardoll released the store!



I like it! I like it alot! And I like it so much that I think it's better than last years!

And the prices are cheap too! The pink and sliver dresses were only 15 stardollars! Which in these days, is a bargain because usually they're priced at 20+.

So I bought them =)

- Sara

MSW 2012 begins today!

So the first round of MSW '12 beigns...today!

And so far I have people already asking me to vote them.

Which I honestly don't mind doing.

Anyway, on the campagin page if you promote yourself you can free gifts. So I took a shot at it.

(Here are the gifts...)

The gifts are the same as last years, but just in a different color... blue. But I think it's a very pretty shade of blue so, for freebies they're pretty good.

- Sara

A Rant.

I know it's been awhile since I've made a post, but I am still without my home internet. So forgive?
Anyway, today I wanted to make a rant. This time it's about Stardoll Royalty.



I recently let my Royalty membership expire. For the first time since May of 2010 I was a non superstar. I was-and still am, suprised on how Stardoll has changed the way it treats the Non-SS's.  I still had some Stardollars left and bought a skirt from the Dolce & Gabanna tribute and it let me! Even though I wasn't a SS! I was stunned.

But here's the ironic part. In that one week I got little to no friend requests, people barely visited me.

But then I renewed my membership and the requests started rolling in!

I find it sad really. Are we so obsessed with a diamond, that if someone doesn't have it we won't be their friend?

Miss Stardoll World 2012!

Hey guys,

So before I start I just wanted to say I am really really sorry for the lack of posts. I still don't have home internet, and probably won't for a little while longer. I know, it stinks, but when i get it back i will make it up to you...big time.

Anyway, it's that time of year again... for the Miss Stardoll World Competition!

A couple of days ago, the official Stardoll Facebook page posted this picture:

I think it looks similar to last years.

And today, they posted this:

So MSW begins next Wednesday, August 29th.

I wonder why they gave us such short notice, last year they started getting everybody excited weeks before the competition even started.

Anyway, the MSW club has re-opened and there is going to be a YouTube contest. I'll explain that in another post.

I'm probably not going to enter, because I probably wouldn't  even win and I would waste Star dollars and Star coins and valuable time. 

But anyway, yeah. MSW 2012. Are you going to enter? Or are you like me and probably not even going to try? Leave your opinion in the comments below!

- Sara

Hey...

So I know I haven't posted in awhile, but I have a pretty good reason.
I lost my internet on May 17th, and I'm a little unsure of when i will be getting it back. So until tehn I am using library computers.
I will be interviewing the winner of my contest in TRR soon, so exxpect that!
But yeah, sorry for the short post, but the library is about to close ;\
- Sara

Stardoll published a book, about winning Covergirl?Sara has something to say about it!

This isn't a joke. Earlier today, Callie Stardoll posted about it.

Think this is photoshop?  When you click on the picture ( in the StarBlog post. Click here to read it.)) it leads to Random House.uk's webpage.

I clicked on " Buying options" just to see how much they wanted for the book, and since it's the UK ( who's currency is different then the US, where I live.) I had to convert 5 pounds to US dollars, and it came to be $8 dollars. Which is ridiculous.

Now this "book" ( which I put quotation marks because it's a pretty poor excuse for a book if you ask me.) will probably tell you the same crap.

" 1: Get a Superstar membership.

2: Put all the rares you can on your doll.

3: Broadcast day and night, the more people who see your name, the more chance you'll have to win.

4: Repeat steps 1 and 3 until you get that trophy."

^ That's called Sarcasm my friends.

Will this be a New York Times bestseller? No way!

- Sara



Hotbuys Pin Hat released!

Hey Guys!
So today Stardoll released the Hotbuys Pin Hat.

You can find it at Evil Panda for the  not-so-bad price of 12 stardollars.

I really like this hat. It's unqiue, and perfect for spring. Not sure what I'll wear it with ( maybe the jacket that will be released later in the month), but I'll find something.

It's a very pretty hat, and 12 stardollars really isn't all that bad of a price.

- Sara