Black & Blue

Dress: Target (last spring) // Moto Jacket: Blank NYC // Heels: Calvin Klein // Bag: Kate Spade // Jewelry: Swarovski // Sunglasses: Nordstrom

I forgot I never posted these pictures in the early fall! I took these pics in late September, and my hair is up in one of them because it was soo hot, I was literally melting my face off (hence shiny complexion). Can you believe this dress is from Target? I love how sophisticated yet casual it is, and a little sexy with the side ruching and body-con style. When I saw it I immediately thought of pairing it with my edgier pieces like those above, and in fall/winter, I wear it with black tights, black stiletto ankle booties and this jacket! It's the perfect piece year round!

So just a little update on this space, I started my first semester of grad school this week, so I decided that just for the time being, during the winter I will probably only post on here once to twice a week. With winter it's especially hard to do outfit pictures outdoors when it's crappy and I work till 5, so it's dark by the time I get home. And now with school, training, work and lots of weekend extravaganzas coming up, it can be challenging and I rather not rush and just throw out content I'm not proud of. I envy those girls whose blogs are their full time jobs, and of course they can take great pics all the time with multiple outfit changes a day. I hope to be there one day! Once the nicer weather comes around, and it's not dark at 5 pm, that will be better for this blog! Thanks to those who stick around, I still have great content coming!

xo

Weekend Random's

 Necklace: Nordstrom // Top: Glamorous, old similar here //

 Andrea's top: J. Crew

The cutest apron I've ever seen. This definitely makes me wants to throw a dinner party! Shop it, here.

The most perfect earrings for the holidays, which I got as a gift. Shop similar, here.

Looks good enough to me!

Lips: MAC Russian Red

Jacket: Blank NYC // Top (linked above) // Denim: Old Navy // Shoes (sold out) similar Nordstrom

Jacket: Blank NYC // Tee: Splendid // Pants: Old Navy // Heels: Calvin Klein // Lips: MAC Lady Danger

So I saw an awesome video on Friday about Adele who went undercover in an Adele lookalike contest, and I was going to link it here, but it wont work for some reason so go google it, because you have to watch it. It's great. So then I was getting ready, listening to the Adele station on Pandora, and thought 'hey, I'm gunna try to do my makeup like Adele tonight'. Now I keep it real with you guys, I'm not much into wearing a lot of makeup anymore.

In college, I would get up early and do full makeup and hair before carefully selecting my outfit for my morning classes, then switching into another after lunch. When I worked at Marciano with my girlfriends, it was like a fashion show everyday. Full on hair, makeup, heels, the works. Then as soon as I hit 25 (true story) my skin started to change, and I noticed that no matter what makeup I wore, I always broke out the next day. My makeup routine the past two years is usually concealer, eyebrows, mascara and lipstick. It takes 5 minutes, and I look awake and pretty. I plan on doing a post soon about my cosmetic picks, and my 5 minute makeup. So on with the Adele thing (mind you the only time I wear eyeliner and foundation are at events, weddings, etc.) I did full makeup, contour, etc. and within 10 minutes, I already wanted to wash my face. Maybe its a mental thing, but I feel like when I wear face makeup, I can feel it clogging my pores and I know I shouldn't touch my face and I hate that. Its a habit. For the record, I switch between Chanel and Bare Minerals foundation, so its not cheap stuff.

I ended up happy with the results, and even texted my bff Andrea "1. you should feel honored I'm putting on makeup for you tonight, and 2. If Anthony wants to propose, tell him I would take advantage of it tonight since I'm not sure when the next time is my face will look this fancy".

Regardless, when your outfits on fleek, and your makeup's on fleek, and everything's on fleek, you feel good (I loathe fleek, fyi). So it was another weekend of friends with dinners and a birthday brunch, where I realized that me and Anthony may be the only people who cant eat anything that's not breakfast food before 2:00 pm.

Cheers to a short week!

xo