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How to Style Your Summer Maxi Dress for Winter
I fell in love with this red maxi dress this summer and wore it entirely too often so when it came time to put it in storage until the sun comes back out I decided that a dress is a dress and there had to be a way to reuse this striking red maxi dress in the winter. The first thing that makes this dress easy to translate across seasons is its color. If you are trying to wear a true summer color such as turquoise or yellow you really need to pay attention to what you are layering it with. In this case I chose a jacket that was…
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The Burberry Poncho Blanket Coat: The Best Knock-Off Around
Clearly I am not the only one who is enamored with Burberry’s fall poncho, it seems you all are as well, as is the fashion world at large. Friends of mine who don’t even follow Runway shows or Ready-to-Wear collections know exactly what the Burberry Wrap looks like. So you will have to excuse my exhausting of the topic as I already did a post on how to make your own Burberry inspired poncho out of a scarf (see that post here) but I wasn’t just content with making my own, I wanted an almost identical replica. Except for my embroidered initials *working on that* and a slight length difference…
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How to Dress Like a French Fashion Blogger
Surprise I am French! Oui Oui!… Okay I am not French I am 100% American however who doesn’t daydream every time they see Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emmanuelle Alt or watch an Audrey Hepburn movie that they were at least a little bit French? France is clearly romanticized in film and has been for some time (Ah Paris…) but no one can question the fashion chops of these French citizens. The ‘French Cool Girl’ look has become a thing, an effortless, impossible to pull of disheveled elegance that makes everyone else look like they are trying to hard. You get the point, I too wish I had that vibe and may or…
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The Best Winter Lip Color
There is something so romantic about a dark lip in the winter. Your skin tends to be a bit more pale, your cheeks a bit more rosy, both contrasting beautifully with a purple or burgundy shade. As you have probably seen in recent posts my lip color has shifted rather quickly away from the sunny brights of summertime and instead have taken on a considerably darker pallor with the changing of the seasons. I have a few older go-to dark lipsticks but when I felt as if I needed a fresh new look and what I found I can’t seem to stop wearing. MAC’s PRO Lipstick in SIN is an…
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Where to Find Holiday Party Look Ideas that Don’t Cost Anything
With the Holiday season upon us we all find ourselves scrambling to sort out our schedule for all of the festivities and even more importantly we find ourselves scrambling to find outfits to wear to everything. I am no exception to that so often I turn to online shopping for inspiration. I know, buying a whole new outfit each time seems ideal but that’s not what I mean. Some retailers, such as Zara and Net-a-Porter (a personal favorite for this type of inspiration) not only post a photo of the item they are selling but they also style it as well with a jacket, bottom, shoes and maybe even a…
