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Hello and welcome to a new issue of magazine TheStarPaper.
- Yes, it took time but now we are here with a lot of cool things.
Visnja ( a.k.a mixie*pixie on stardoll) have make an wonderful article about The Elite.
- Scroll down and read it!!
And we have also opened a club, with gossip, fashion , competions and fun things!!
Have a great time! Xoxo Pauline!
Contents:
Elite about Elite - by Mixie*Pixie
Vintage Hot Buys
WCPRC
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The Elite
As a member of the elite clique, I know a thing or few about it. That is what I will be talking about in my first column.
-The Stardoll Royalty-
As you all may know, the leaders of this clique, the Stardoll royalty, are Style_Magazine and Model-Selena. Their popularity exsists with a reason. Their style is unbeatable, and so is their knowledge in fashion. Both are highly educated and their vocabulary is fascinating.
Style_Magazine is the most famous user-created magazine. Their issues are truly breath-taking and outstanding. The entire Stardoll community sees a fashion Bible in Style_Magazine. The owner of the magazine is FdCcStar, the first person to have invented visible make-up before the Sephora shop. She is highly educated and a big fashion respecter. She is the author of (I believe) all the columns in the magazine. One thing is for sure, she is the one that started the Vintage HotBuys craze, with her „Editor’s Picks“ column in the magazine, where she mixed and matched old HotBuys with the nowadays clothing items from the shop.
Model-Selena is the fascinating, fashion-conscious, Stardoll fashion queen. Her outfits are an endless source of inspiration. There are prejudices about her, being unfriendly and reserved, but trust me, when you get to know her, she is the loveliest creature in the world. But, I am not here to talk about her as a person, but about her as a Stardoll influence. I believe there isn’t a member on Stardoll that hasn’t heard her name at least once.
-The Hippy Fashionistas-
These are elite girls/boys that have a hippy style with some rather crazy twists.
Zanegirl90210 is the leader in this field. She is trying to win covergirl, although in my opinion, she should have won it ages ago. Her style is hippy with modern touches. She uses clothing items you would never buy, and makes them into something so fashionable and wanted. By far, she is the only one, alongside the above mentioned royalty girls, that has been able to pull that off.
Devibabi is Kiyah’s (zanegirl90210) close, real life, friend. Her style is even more hippy than Kiyah’s, yet without modern touches. She is very kind and loving to her friends. She has invented the genius thing of putting your knee-length boots a bit lower so your doll looks taller. The Stardoll Fuggers (a team that reviews outfits of the elite) have called this a fashion mistake, yet I and many others, consider it very smart.
Branman4545 is also one of Kiyah’s real life friends. He has a hippy style and is one of the few rare elite BOYS. He made the Arty-Farty glasses fashionable for boys. He is a big “save the world” activist and is a member of many such clubs.
-The Close Ones-
These are the elite girls that are very close to each other and are best friends for ages.
Modelisous or Jenna, Jenji, Jenn, JizzJazz, is amongst the few rare rock-listening elite girls. She is a listener to the old legends, such as Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, The Clash, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan etc. and so is she a fan of the nowadays famous rock stars like KT Tuntstall, Amy MacDonald, The Arctic Monkeys, and Avril Lavigne etc. Her personality is sweet and she is VERY funny. Her style is rock chic, combined with some utterly elegant pieces.
Her best friend is moarayne, Nicole. She is very, very stylish. Her style is rather elegant. She is the owner of many vintage HotBuys which she doesn’t hesitate to use. She matches clothing items perfectly, and has never made a fashion mistake. Her friendship with Jenna is long-term and well known about.
Maril.Monroe are the famous twins of Stardoll. Even though they don’t count as friends, they are still in this group. Their style is very elegant and sophisticated; they follow the old Hollywood glamour. It is obvious that their idols are the likes of Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Twiggy.
-Fashionistas and style icons-
iiNA.LOVES.YOUx (Iina) is one of the bigger fashionistas on Stardoll.com. Her style is funky mixed with ultra elegant. As a person she is talkative and very friendly. She’d never get into a fight with anyone J
Sudanese.Beauty or Kaya, her real name, is a girl with sophisticated and fierce style. Her clothes are all black and white, inspired by Style_Magazine, very possibly. Yet, she gives them a special something… She is very nice to people and tends to maintain all of her friendships.
So…Inmagic or Lizzie is a stylish girl and is very friendly. Her outfits are crazy yet glamorous. She is an insider on Stardoll news and style.
Sophia*Lauren is an elegant socialite from New York City. Her outfits earned her the title of one of the most elegant fashionistas on Stardoll. She is very educated and polite.
Fakeshake3 is the owner of some of the greatest clubs on Stardoll and has a fierce matching capability. Her MeDoll always has an “Inspired by…” section in the presentation. It has gone from Audrey Hepburn to Agyness Deyn.
Madison-Olivia is very elegant. She is pretty reserved and doesn’t give out a lot of information about herself, but truly when you get to know her, she is fascinating. She is one of the few rare that own the original Ashley Olsen clothes from when they were 0 dollars. Her style is elegant and very Old Hollywood-like.
Established1960 is very elegant. Her style blows roof tops off. She has some of the most creative rooms on Stardoll. The colors that are mostly seen in her suite are black and grey combined with purple.
Gemma_W is the fashionable covergirl, everyone knows. Her MeDoll looks pretty innocent and gentle. Her style is very romantic and so is her suite J
-The All Time Legends and the ones that have left-
Isabella.Arci is the all time legend of Stardoll. Her style won her 3 covergirl victories and a scenery winning award. She was the model for suite.designers (will be mentioned afterwards). Her style is either envied or idolized. She is also known for accepting her friend requests very rarely. But not that anyone cares, since she is the fashion queen alongside the Stardoll Royalty.
Sweetstarburst or Lily has left Stardoll, but she was surely one of the promising elite members. She was nice and friendly, very communicative. She left with no explanation just announcing her disappearance. She never returned again.
Clemensey_1 is definitely a legend. She was a writer for Style_Magazine. A covergirl. Her style was unbeatable. The reasons of her leaving are unknown to me but probably known to the people who were close to her.
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Vintage Hot Buys
Look at the broadcasts, what can you see?
„Looking for HotBuys, I’ll pay 20 STAR$ for them.“
As you already know, everyone on Stardoll is searching for hot buys. Prices vary from 15 to 20 stardollars, but there are cheaper ones to. I actually saw that someone was selling Hot Buys for gift code.
WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HOTBUYS?
Hot Buys are must have clothes on Stardoll. Beutiful look maeks them as a target of Stardoll shoppers. And the list of them, that changes every month is located in The Show. Hot Buys can be bought in Starplaza for relative cheap prices [~6 stardollars]. When they are gone from Plaza, everyone sells them for 20.
Members now don’t want to buy them for StarPlaza – they think that Vintage is worth more – and it sure is, but it’s not worth REAL money, at least I think so.
It´s time for a change. A lot of things have been happened the last hundred years so TheStarPaper wants to support people who have fought for the Childrens Rights. The magazine WCPRC (World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child) or Globen have a prize to people that have done great things. They started with it 2000. Now its 2008 and they have 3 nominees. Josefina Condori, Peru Agnes Stevens, Usa and Somaly Mam, Cambodia.You can read a little bit about them here.
Anne Frank, one person that have get the prize. But Posthumously.
Somaly Mam
Nominated:
Somaly Mam
The police start their search for Champa, 14, straight away among the criminal gangs that run the brothels of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. That’s where many of Somaly’s enemies are.
Her colleagues around the country search day and night. When Champa has been gone for four days, the police phone and say they have traced her to the northern part of the country, close to the Thai border. It’s an area known for its slave trade, where young girls are bought and sold. Somaly travels straight there. When she arrives the police have found Champa at a brothel. The kidnappers had raped her first and then sold her to a brothel.
Champa’s kidnapping was a horrifying experience for Somaly.
“I couldn’t stop crying when I held her again. She had been drugged and didn’t recognise me at all. I took her beautiful face in my hands and asked her to forgive me, again and again. It hurt so much. My enemies had taken their revenge on me by hurting my beloved daughter. She had been forced to go through the same horrific abuse that I was subjected to for so many years.”
No parents
Somaly’s own story begins in the tree-clad mountains of eastern Cambodia. She grew up in a little village with no mother or father. Nobody knew where they had gone. The people of the village took care of Somaly. There was always food and a bed for her at one of the families’ houses.
“But at bedtime I saw how the other children lay close to their mothers. I lay alone and it was so cold. I felt so abandoned.”
One day when Somaly was nine, a man came to the village to buy wood. He was going to sell it in the lowlands. Someone from the village told Somaly that the man came from the same town as her father.
“He said he knew my relatives and I was delighted when he asked me if I wanted to go back with him. I hoped I’d find my dad in the town.”
Things didn’t turn out the way Somaly expected. She couldn’t find her dad, and the man who she had started to call ‘grandfather’ wasn’t so kind any more.
“He wasn’t married and didn’t have any children, so he needed someone to help with the housework. He also needed help to earn money so he could buy alcohol. I became his slave. I had to get up at three in the morning every day to fetch water from the river. I sold the water to different restaurants that served soup for breakfast.”
Somaly walked around with the heavy water buckets for several hours. When she was finished, she did the dishes at one of the restaurants before running home to make lunch for grandfather. She spent the rest of the day working for neighbours who needed help in their paddy fields.
“After that, in the evenings, I went to a place in town that made noodles. I ground up rice grains to make flour using a heavy stone mill. I was never home before midnight.”
If Somaly came home with enough money for grandfather’s alcohol, he was happy enough. If not, he went crazy.
“He would tie me up, beat me with a cane and kick me like a madman.”
Agnes Stevens
Nominated:
Agnes Stevens
Ryan gets off the school bus and starts walking towards the worst part of town. Drugs are sold openly on street corners here and homeless people crowd the sidewalk.
Ryan and his family have moved around a lot and lived at shelters and in run-down hotels. But they’ve never yet had to sleep on the street, as tens of thousands do here, in tents or on cardboard.
After a couple of years Ryan recognises many of the homeless people, but he rarely says hello. Some of them are mentally ill or on drugs and could turn angry or violent if they feel bothered. That’s why Ryan rarely looks people in the eye; it’s safer that way. During his short walk Ryan has to step over people sleeping on the street, in sleeping bags or wrapped in old blankets. Once he has to jump out the way when an angry old man charges past pushing a shopping cart overflowing with old clothes and odds and ends. Ryan is used to the dirt, the stench and the chaos. He isn’t scared any more but sometimes he sees things he doesn’t want to see. Like the other day, when an old woman squatted to pee on the street corner. Or when a couple were arguing and started fighting on the street and all of a sudden the woman tore all her clothes off and ran around naked. “Nobody should have to live like this,' Ryan thinks to himself.
When he sees the familiar yellow sign brightening up the grey concrete, he feels happy. The round black letters read ‘School on Wheels’. The windows are painted bright colours and when Ryan steps inside he meets Agnes, the founder of the organisation. Ryan knows she’s more than 70 years old, but Agnes talks and jokes around with the kids as though she was one of them.
Josefina Condori
Nominated:
Josefina Condori
Josefina started the organisation Yanapana-kusun in 1994 to help girls and women who work as maids in the city of Cusco in Peru.
Josefina herself worked for a family in the daytime. In the evenings she went around the city’s evening schools, along with Vittoria and Ronald who helped her start the organisation. They told people that all domestic workers have the right to a decent wage, the right to a day off every Sunday and the right to always be treated with respect.
It was on one of these evenings that Josefina met Dionisia. That very night, when Dionisia had fallen asleep in a corner of their one-room apartment, Josefina said to Vittoria and Ronald,
“We must do more to help these girls. In the future I want to build a house, where all girls who need help can come. Until then, they must live here with us.'
Dreams of Lima
Josefina’s own story begins when she is seven years old and lives with her family in a village in southern Peru. She is sitting in her favourite spot, perched on a rock that looks like a horse crying. Her dad is dead.
Without her dad to take care of their farm in the jungle, the family soon grow poorer. Before long they can afford neither food nor clothes.
“And there’s no point in harping on about going to school,' Josefina’s mother tells her. “You have to help out at home, school is for boys.'
Her whole life feels empty since her father died. Josefina starts to dream of moving to the capital city, Lima. She knows that many girls from her area have moved there to work. “I would be able to go to school there, and buy pretty clothes. And shoes! And sweets!' Josefina thinks.
So when Josefina’s mother tells her that she is going to live with a relative in Lima she is delighted.
Source: www.childrensworld.org
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