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New Makeup - Lena Chavez for Laura Mercier Today I went shopping for new makeup: more tinted moisturizer and a new foundation. I was pretty sure I wanted to stick with my trusty Laura Mercier for everyday. As it turned out, I got a new foundation, a new face, and a new friend. All because Lena Chavez happened to be working the Laura Mercier counter...

Cycle Style - SF Bike Party and Wear Red Day The theme for the last SF Bike Party was "Red" in honor of National Wear Red Day. I got to wear my favorite red boots from Milan. Any excuse to wear my favorite red lipstick lip stain: Josie Maran Magic Marker in Flamenco. Observing the classic makeup rule of lips or eyes, I kept the...

bikepretty, bike pretty, cycle style, cycle chic, bike model, bike fashion, cute bike, bamboo bike, liquid, spinster, artcrank, art crank, brick wall, niners, forty niners, san francisco Go 49ers! San Francisco at the Super Bowl I'm so excited to watch the SF 49ers play in the Super Bowl! It's a great excuse to pull out my gold jacket. These pictures are from the Artcrank...

Vintage Style Flare Jeans by Seafarer Garance Doré directed this adorably bike-pretty video in honor of the relaunch of venerable American work-clothes brand Seafarer. Established in 1900, Seafarer supplied bell-bottom denim work-pants to the U.S. Navy. When flare jeans became mainstream in the seventies, photos of Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, and Farrah Fawcett made the style emblematic of the era. By the late nineties, production...

Guest blogger, Alison Lucien of Eleanor's: Stylish Bicycle Accessories for Ladies, picked out a few adorable helmets for us.

Elisa & Lola Cute Girl, Cool Bike: Featuring Elisa Sassi and Lola Elisa told me that she picked this vintage-looking outfit based on her bike's 1970's origins. Although she normally prefers flat shoes and jeans for her daily biking, this is the sort of thing she would wear for an evening out. Elisa and Lola Elisa and I climbed to the top of Dolores Park...