By Leeanne Griffin

Do you find yourself dreaming of Fashion Week and red carpets while you’re working on spreadsheets? If you’re a style addict stuck in a 9-to-5 office gig, here’s a few fashion and beauty-related sites to get you through the day.

Go Fug Yourself
gofugyourself.typepad.com

Celebrities often make more money in a week than many of us will ever earn in our lifetime. But despite boatloads of cash and the best stylists on speed-dial, sometimes they’re photographed looking like absolute trainwrecks. Mind-boggling, right?

Well, Jessica and Heather, the Fug Girls behind this cheeky site have turned celeb fashion-bashing into an art form. Recent posts found them addressing a Janet Jackson ensemble as “twenty minutes away from Hammer Pants” and shrieking in horror at photos of a Gossip Girl cast member’s red carpet choice (“A freaking LEOTARD? Is this really where we’re heading now?”)

Sometimes the jokes write themselves ~ but the Fug Girls write them better.

Jolie In NYC
blog.nadinehaobsh.com

Nadine Haobsh, a twentysomething magazine beauty editor, blogged anonymously about makeup, skincare and hair products under the handle “Jolie In NYC” until 2005. When her identity was revealed by a New York publication that summer, Haobsh lost a job offer from Seventeen magazine – but since then, she’s become a well-known, sought-after beauty expert and has penned two books.

“Jolie’s” blog is full of down-to-earth beauty tips and lists of her personal favorites, complete with information on where to buy them. And when she’s not a fan of something, she’s clear and specific about her reasons. “For more than $200, it shouldn’t just be perfect…it should buy you dinner and do your laundry, too,” she writes of a hair straightener, and goes against the grain by describing Maybelline Great Lash as the “…single worst, most uninspired mascara on the market.”
Nonetheless, Haobsh comes across as endearing, knowledgeable and helpful, like the cool girl in your freshman dorm that had the new, hot products and let you try them all.

Daily Candy
www.dailycandy.com

It’s not a daily delivery of M&Ms and gummy bears, but it’s just as much fun. Daily Candy, a customizable e-mail newsletter, gives you the full rundown of what’s new, hot, hip, special or on sale in your big city of choice (Boston is the closest to us.) Features include spotlights on seasonal fashions, spa treatments, store and restaurant openings and weekend event guides.

Fashionista readers might remember this newsletter’s mention in Sophie Kinsella’s book Shopaholic in Manhattan, when it alerted heroine Becky Bloomwood to a major sample sale in New York City. Just make sure you don’t end up financially strapped like she was…