Happy New Year to all! We all wish you a happy, healthy, successful and beautiful 2009.

As we usher in the new year, we take a look back at the Best and Worst of 2008, along with a look ahead to 2009. From all the Splendicity bloggers, here are some of our favorite (and not so favorite) things from the world of beauty and fashion.
Tracy at Hot Mama Daily tells you about the top 5 Hot Mama moments of 2008 and her top 5 favorites beauty products too. She also clues you in on the worst hot messes of the year.
Dexie …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week best in beauty, fashion and shopping.
SHOPPING
NY Spender suggests that “if you buy only one pair of shoes this fall, buy one with stacked heels.“
Her Accessories is celebrating the cooler weather with a roundup of her favorite fall jackets.

Gleaming Things loves Givenchy’s look of layered chains, but they just aren’t in the budget right now – these picks are though!
Shopalicious finds a very stylish quilted handbag — with an eco-friendly twist! (Plus a coupon for 10% off!)
Chic by Nature has a great wrap top that you can wear out and then to bed.
There’s …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week best in beauty, fashion and shopping.
FASHION
The Well-Heeled Society is giving subscribers a chance to win wall-to-wall shoes!
eye4style gets the scoop of fall footwear courtesy of shoe designer Faryl Robin Morse. Click here to read the exclusive interview!
STYLEnosh is offering a new approach to fall 2008 fashion.
BEAUTY
Come see what Teri and a few of her Beautiful Makeup Search friends thought about the brand new L’Oreal Féria Multi-Faceted Shimmering Colour.
Aging Fabulous tells you how to look ten years younger in five minutes.
CelebLOOK wonders if you like Victoria Beckham’s new pixie.
A Touch of …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week best in beauty, fashion and shopping.
FASHION
NY Spender reports some of her favorite, and not so favorite, looks from New York Fashion Week.
Viva Woman shows you how colored stockings can add style and fashion to your wardrobe.
Petite Fashionista says don’t miss the upcoming Petite Feet Sample Sales in Toronto!
Tops 2 Bottoms shares her Erin Fetherston favourites from New York Fashion Week.
Style…a work in progress has discovered some accessories which are decidedly…hairy.
BEAUTY
Beauty and Fashion Tech reveiws a new Pixi eye shadow palette from Target, complete with swatches.
Karen from Makeup and Beauty Blog gives you …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week’s best in shopping, beauty and fashion.

SHOPPING
The Well-Heeled Society reveals some skin for the upcoming Fall season.
eye4style shares an unexpected resource for all things chic.
BEAUTY
A Touch of Blusher reviews Velvet Creme Wash from L’Oréal’s De-maq Expert range.
Beauty Banter does the summer beauty product roundup – the 15 items you NEED to own!
Beauty Blogging Junkie’s Napoleon Perdis Lip Service is her version of Napoleon Dynamite’s precious ChapStick. If she were to leave it at home, she’d borrow “your guys’s” phone to get someone to drop it off, stat.
Teen Style Lounge is running a …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week best in beauty, fashion and shopping.
SHOPPING
With the economy in bad shape, NY Spender is looking for new ways to save, from coupons clipping to smaller perfume bottles.
Shopalicious shares the scoop on surfer-cool Toms Shoes latest release: the ultra stylin’ wrap boot!
Style…a work in progress finds some haute couture inspiration in the high street when she tells us that Coco joins the Crew.
ShopDiary reviews Bond No. 9 New York’s latest fragrance, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue.
Shoe Blitz adores the purple and black L.A.M.B. Miyagi.
Glamour Gift Guide suggests the gorgeous Marc Jacobs Ostrich Stam Satchel.
BEAUTY
Krizia …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week best in beauty, fashion and shopping.
FASHION
eye4style plans to be $990 poorer this Fall. Find out why here.
Teen Style Lounge wants your opinion on the Menswear Vest trend for women. Is it a Yay or Nay?
SHOPPING
The Well-Heeled Society is gifting their twentieth commenting subscriber a pair of My Sensual Almost Elbow-high Leather Gloves, and they get to choose from ten fashionable colors – including purple!
STYLEnosh asks you to weigh in on, “How much is too much to spend on a handbag?”.
BEAUTY
A Touch of Blusher brings you Fall 2008 Makeup Trend Report.
TheScentedLife is …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week best in beauty, fashion and shopping.
FASHION
Style Manila throws a question on locally-made shoes: where have all the Marikina shoes gone?
Tops 2 Bottoms presents a styling option The Man’s Suit for her Work Wear Monday Series.
The Space Between My Peers presents a fashion lab proving boxy tops are not the most flattering option.
Just A Formality loves this pink Justin Alexander ball gown for a fairy tale wedding.
Petite Fashionista knows the secret of olympic athletes and highlights a few petite powerhouses, that proves you don’t have to be big to be strong!
CelebLOOK …read more

The Beauty & Style channel has chosen our latest blog of the month, Burning the Scale – b5media’s weight-loss blog. In honor of it, the Beauty & Style channel have contributed our favorite “skinny” themed links:
Teri from Aging Fabulous embarks on her new weight-loss program – Sensa.
CelebLOOK takes a look at Marie Osmond and her weight loss.
Style It Less suggests swimming for pregnancy exercise with affordable Maternity Tankinis
She Knows Best is very happy that the Americans “smashed” the French in the 4 x 100 freestyle relay.
SP at Shopaholics Daily prefers to Bounce off her calories. It’s as simple as …read more

From the Splendicity community, comes this week best in beauty, fashion and shopping.

BEAUTY
Beautiful Makeup Search wonders if the mascara madness will ever end.
Aging Fabulous explores the possibilities of Botox.
The Fragrance Fanatic introduces us to the Twice As Clean gift set.
The Scented Life is helping you choose perfumes by the horoscope.
A Touch of Blusher talks about Paul & Joe’s lilac eyeshadow.
Beauty Banter reveals the Battle of the Body Lotions… See which lotion won!
Teen Style Lounge has tried the brand-new Cover Girl WetSlicks AmazeMint lip glosses and has fallen in love…have you?
Beauty Blogging Junkie is participating in synchronized beauty blogging with …read more