If you’re still looking for gifts for your closest friends and family, check out our handy list, where everything is budget-friendly and easily available.
For Your Girl Friend:
Lipsy Beaded Antique Leaf Applique Hair Band, ASOS, $17.24
Snowblossom scarf, Madewell, $43
Kate Spade 2011 desk calendar, Fredflare, $22

Hi Mochi readers, we are now welcoming submissions for our upcoming Relationships Issue (due out in December). We are looking for candid quotes from Asian American college guys on what they look for in a significant other—along with their name, age, college and a photo (preferably large, high quality photos).
An example of what you would submit:
“I like it when girls are confident and stay true to who they are.” -John Doe, 18, New York University
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As a follow up to our post yesterday featuring JetPens co-founder, Lily Kim, JetPens has graciously offered to sponsor a giveaway for our readers, with the prize of a Uni-ball Signo DX UM-151 Gel Ink Color Pen Set.
All you have to do is tweet the interview article, (URL link here: http://su.pr/1Yml1e), with the @MochiMag and @JetPens mentions.
The contest will come to a close in one week, at 11:59PM eastern on Tuesday, Oct. 19 and we will announce the winner the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 20. Tweet away!

Ten seconds after chatting with Karmia Chan Cao, I became one of her many admirers. Originally from Xinjiang, China and now a senior at Stanford University majoring in English with an emphasis in creative writing, Karmia is one of the most incredibly articulate people I’ve ever spoken with—which I guess shouldn’t come as surprise, as her writing talent and success in the theater realm at Stanford has garnered her great acclaim from critics.
Karmia writes, scores, directs and performs her own musicals—which include Forgetting Tiburon, a play about a man who endures the …

As a teenager, I was tantalized by glossy magazines promising a better beach body, sexier hair and cute boys. (Okay, I’ll admit—they still draw me in 10 years later). Magazines like Seventeen were my guilty pleasure. When I got my hands on an issue and subsequently devoured every page, I only took the advice offered as entertainment, however, not as gospel.
So when I stumbled upon high school senior Jamie Keiles’s blog, “The Seventeen Magazine Project,” I was pleasantly surprised to find that Jamie has embarked on a special research project to …