While flipping through June’s Elle last night, (I go through it a couple times, once for the pretty pictures, once for the articles and once to tear all my favorite images out of) I stumbled across a quote that seemed incredibly relevant: “It just reminds us how different “real” women and celebrities are when it [...]
I bought Style Statement as the ultimate lifestyle guide/workbook. Danielle LaPorte and Carrie McCarthy put a lot of time and effort into this book and gal pals raved about it. Nothing but glowing reviews and two-word revelations about how people I knew had found their true selves. So when I became so suddenly unemployed, I [...]
You guys know what that’s from – don’t even lie. (I can hear Alicia over there cackling to herself…) In a grand gesture of “I DO WHAT I WANT”, last night Scarlet bleached out sections of my hair framing my face and I took the plunge. See, my hair is this mix of blue demi-permanent [...]
“If you don’t want to spend money shopping, don’t shop?” He helpfully offered. Don’t shop? The words roll around in my head. Don’t shop? Isn’t that what fashion and style bloggers do? I had stopped checking all the sample sales, I turned a blind eye walking past the H&M when I was laid off – [...]
I was flipping through titles at the book store the other day and something caught my eye. In Entre Nous, the author Deborah Ollivier insists that French women have more “je ne sais quoi” than American women. American women ask themselves, “How do I remake me/my wardrobe/my life…” French women who possess that “je ne [...]
I had a day full of promise, killed by the droning rain and my inability to sleep past 4:30a. Yes, I woke up at 4:30, tottered around the house, was finally able to go back to sleep until around 8. After breakfast the TORRENTIAL rain started and I have wanted to do nothing since. While [...]
After five long and often unpleasant years, I was laid off from the company I had been working for. It wasn’t some enormous toil on the office to have me there – unless, of course, you count all the ways I refused to suck up to keep my job. I had a job to do, [...]
Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to [...]
“We are all going to die at some point so you might as well wear a crazy hat, you assholes.” -Auntie Marie at Agentlover.com Girl has a point. Your life is too short to do things like: Purchase a party dress that will never get any play because you don’t have somewhere to wear it; [...]
You know the feeling. You’re rehashing. You’re reliving. You’re thinking of all the ways you could have handled it better, but you’re left with the way it actually happened. The actual course of events depicted something other than the real-you, or the you-you-want-to-be. How does a girl get over feeling bad about the way x, [...]
