After strolling through the mad house that was my local Ulta during 21 Days of Beauty, I quickly decided to pop in on an "old" friend: Old Navy. Due to the extreme amount of outdoorsy-ness that I accumulated late in ...
If you haven't heard about it yet, here is your late bloomer's guide to Ulta's 21 Days of Beauty! Is this your first time? Well here's a quick & dirty background: once or twice a year, Ulta decides to run ...
Yay! Yet another day that no one knew existed before a company told us: National Organize Your Home Office Day. Did you know you had a home office? You don't? Well, you do now! And you need some more stuff ...
Every year, florals prints and patterns get a little bit more interesting in order to maintain our interest for yet another year in their centuries-long reign over fabrics. It's a universal rule that, after a certain number of years go ...
On one end of the fashion pricing spectrum, you have high end designers like Givenchy and Alexander McQueen, and on the polar opposite end you have foreign wholesale sites and fast fashion. Along that spectrum, at hundreds of different points, ...
There's an epidemic running wild among women who are hitting their mid-twenties and deciding:You know what? I should have been a mermaid. ...
2015 was the year that Marty McFly arrived in via time machine in 1984 in the legendary Doc Brown biopic/documentary, Back To The Future. According to the film, people in 2015 wore modular, super-modern outfits with weird cutouts, avant garde silhouettes, and strangely ...
I grew up splitting my time between two houses: one with a single father in it (we ate a lot of ice cream), and the other kept my mom and sister, whose skincare educations started in their early teens. I did ...
She's the Ann Perkins to my Leslie. My little illuminated squeak toy, my asparagus-flavored water peddler, my super buddy who also suffers the daily setbacks (and let's be real, advantages) of Chronic Bitch Face. I chose to give this Marshalls ...
For the book lovers in my family, I turn away from the obvious choice of "books" and give literary themed gifts that they're sure to love, and definitely don't own yet! ...
Maxi dresses are so comfortable when the weather is hot and humid and all you want to wear is a lightly tied bed sheet. There's something extra glamorous about wearing a floor-length dress as a casual outfit, too. I like ...
It's been a while since a graphic t-shirt brand has caught my attention enough times to make me actually look them up. I've been seeing Ten Sixty Sherman tees everywhere while shopping online... I kept putting cute graphic t-shirts in my cart over ...
I don't know what the fashion industry has against warm lower backs, but so many of the cute jackets I see around this seasonally transitional time of year stop just short of covering my coldest curve: my ass. Despite my ...
If you're a longtime reader, you may notice that I have a particular undying love for a few different motifs. No matter what the object, if it's covered in a cool photographic print, I dig on fair isle knits, and ...
Florals didn't do anything for me for most of my life, but over the last few years, their evolution from an octogenarian sofa favorite to modern, even edgy design element has been inspiring. The collaboration from budget-friendly British fashion shop Oasis and American-based photographer John ...
It's weird that backpacks are associated most often with grade school aged kids when, in reality, the need for backpacks never seems to end. College backpacks are essential because you have six times the number of books and twelves times ...
A good cocktail is a very special thing. Combining strong flavors together in one beautiful, highly flammable concoction is not a skill that one is born with. One reason that dinner parties are so much fun to host is the ...
You know that feeling when you're browsing Etsy and you come across a clothing designer that has great photos, cool designs, and makes your size for an affordable price? It's like finding a diamond in a sea of cross-stitch period ...
This is a giveaway for everyone who "can't justify" buying themselves a pair of prescription sunglasses, or people who have been wearing the same pair of glasses for almost a decade because "they still work." This is your chance to ...
Obviously, sunscreen is the most important part of your outdoor experience during the summer. But no matter how much sunblock you glob onto your arms and shoulders, it doesn't keep the sun from beating down directly onto your skin like ...