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How to Wear It Week! Everyday Mom Chic: Julianne Moore gets how to wear a cute summer hat and not look like a run of the mill hipster

Julianne Moore at LAX wearing Hat Attack’s Julia floppy fedora.

This week’s summer spotlight is How to Wear It Week. Let's look at this favorite post about wearing a summer hat with élan. I'll Have What She's Having: A cute summer hat that's classic and chic with easy, non affected summer style Hipster hats are really ironic. Afterall, the hipster style point of view for wearing a hat is to kinda look like an independent thinking progressive, anti-establishment cool dude. Yet, if everyone is running around wearing the same dang fedora, doesn't that morph into looking like an über establishment conformist? Humm. >> MORE: Hats But, a nifty summer straw can be rather chic. Not to mention add a bit of protective shade. Just look at Julianne Moore wearing Hat Attack’s Julia floppy

How to wear anything: Top 5 style maxims to tweak your chic

This week's 15th anniversary post looks at timeless ways to wear anything... including the lead photo of the late great fashion raconteur Anna Piaggi. Discover your inner Carrie, if you must. How to wear anything with aplomb? Follow the Top 5 Style Maxims. Did you ever notice how some women can barely pull off wearing a pair of jeans and a T-shirt without looking like they are about to clean out the garage? While there are others who are the masters of the craziest, most way out combination that always seems to work on them? From Sarah Jessica Parker's the character Carrie in “Sex and the City,” pictured below, to the late fashion impresario Anna Piaggi, pictured above, the Italian

Continuing this week's summer spotlight of Home Style... Let's get your home office to brim with inspiration. Mine is where I'm creating the C'est Chic Crash Course.... join me. Home Office Style: How to find decor inspiration to decorate your home office can be challenging. Let me share my design tips to help you make your work space a part of your personal style. You don't need to hire a decorator when you can do it yourself! I've been meaning to write a piece about how to decorate your home office for a while. After all, it's where many entrepreneurs spend most of their time so its design direction should be inspiring. Part of growing your business, is also the

Home Style Week! Turn Any Room Into A Glorious Guest Room In No Time…

This week's summer spotlight is Home Style... Let's review The Pack Rat's Guide To Create a Guest Room on the fly In this life, most of us manage to pack every room within an inch of it's wainscoting. So please don't dwell in the dust bunnies of red carpet despair, use this opportunity as your jolt of java to wake up your inner accommodating host. With just a few of-the-manner-born prompts, any room can be turned into a pleasing, glorious guest room at a moments notice. What time is better than the present to sit down and sort through all that countertop/closet/dresser drawer/behind the couch build-up that clutters up your decorating domain? If only the room that your guest will

Do you Pin? It's a fantastic way to catalog what you have while able to visualize the design inspiration that runs throughout your choices. This week's spotlight is Home Style. Pinterest is an excellent way to keep track of what you have and what you want to add to your design wishlist. Admittedly, I never remember who designed what when it comes to my home style design. Even though both my husband and I picked it all out ourselves. I'm a collector of modern classics-- vintage and new-- that have a sculptural edge which keep the eye engaged. Along with some quirky pieces, like the 70s hand chair pictured above, for the heck of it. RELATED: What to wear when

Home Style Week! Color Chic- How To Add Color To Your Life- Home, Fashion, and Beauty Tips

Make this a double header! This week's summer spotlight is all about home style, and let's take a look at this episode of FocusOnStyle Talk Radio to celebrate FoS's 15th Anniversary online. Enjoy! Sharon & Brad open up their homes and share style tips to make color work in your life in a very chic way From runway to your home... adding bold moves of color can be the perfect dramatic change to take you from drab to fab! Before you paint your home, listen to this show... The right colors are beautiful but so many of us are color challenged and fear color so much that they live a drab existence or overload on the wrong color that cheapens

This week's Summer Spotlight is Ageless Style... I'll Have What She's Having: What the heck is dressing age-appropriate anyway when Ageless Glamour rocks it out of the house! Have you seen Sandra Bullock, Christie Brinkley, Raquel Welch lately? Really, they are hard to miss. Sandra Bullock is 49 and promoting Gravity, something she is surely defeating. Christie Brinkley is on the talk show circuit for "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful." She is beautiful and 59. Heidi Klum (not too bad herself) wore the same leopard Dolce & Gabbana dress that Raquel Welch wore months ago, and 'who wore it better' tabloid posts are all over Raquel as the winner. Oh, yeah, she's 73. Ok, I'm probably going to get some

This week's Summer Spotlight is Ageless Style... Let's help this reader with stylist tips on how to look older Help, I need style advice fast! I am 27 years old, 5ft 1 and a size 4/6. I have a decent figure considering I have had two children but have a major issue... and I know in 10 years time if I still have this issue I will be laughing, but at the moment, I find myself at a complete loss. >>RELATED: Tired of being mistaken for a kid? Here's how to dress to look older My issue is I look roughly between 18/20 depending on what I am wearing but have been told I sometimes look near 15. I know I should be happy I look young for

This week's Summer Spotlight is Ageless Style... Just because you could doesn't always mean you should when it comes to senior style. But, then again… Can a 70-year-old fit woman wear a skirt above her knees? I'm never sure what is right for me. (L. via Fashion Advice) [box]>> RELATED: Did you read my essay on How To Master Your Look from the book Senior Style: 65 Things to Do When You Retire?[/box] When you ask if a senior can wear a short skirt, well, there really isn't a solid answer. It's a tricky question. I am all for feeling and looking young at heart. Appearing sophisticated, worldy, and wise isn't bad either. And looking hot at a certain age, that's pretty

Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 - Chanel

Oh la la... I'm shooting another segment for the C'es Chic Crash Course and so much is going on here on FoS. It's a triple threat for this week's Summer Spotlight of Ageless Style + highlights from FocusOnStyle's Best of 15th Anniversary online, PLUS, Day Three of the three-part FoS series Ageless, Age-Appropriate French Chic At A Certain Age. Master this style: How to pull off classic man-tailored jacket like Ines de la Fressange's tuxedo and school boy looks Wearing a jacket can get a bit tricky. If you're busty, you end up looking boxy (wear it open). If the jacket is too conservative, you just added 10 years to your appearance and, worse, the aura of being inflexible and boring (avoid anything

Makeover Etiquette- What is expected at a cosmetic counter makeover

It's so easy to get intimidated into buying everything at a cosmetic counter makeover, but you don't want to me a mooch and leave empty-handed either. In this week's look at FocusOnStyle's 15 anniversary online, lets check out an oldie but goodie from 2002 about what is expected at a cosmetics counter makeover. -S.H. Buy, try, or just say good-bye... the graceful guide to getting gorgeous at the cosmetics counter Makeup Artist Tips What to Expect From Your Cosmetic Counter Makeover Dear Sharon: I am scheduled for a makeover at an Estee Lauder counter in a department store in a few days. The only other time I've had a "professional" makeover was in a Body Shop, when I was 16. I'm

I don't know about you, but I was a little scared to learn how to how to touch-up roots or fix my faded highlights at home. Not anymore! [Fade out to memory of high pigment, over saturated color and brittle ends] It's summer and for many of us it means travel and spending more time outside. We're not always as diligent as we should be in protecting our hair from the sun and highlights can take a beating. But, what to do when you can't get to your hair colorist to touch up your roots or refresh your color? I have a simple at home tip that works for me. You can touch up your roots or add a gloss to

Not so happy with your toes this week? No problem, there are plenty of stylish closed toe shoes for summer that keep your lack of pedicure under wraps. Dear Sharon: I don't want to seem like Captina Obvious here, but what kind of closed toes shoes for summer look both stylish and not weird? The thing is that I don't have enough time to get a semi monthly pedicure at a nail salon. When I try to paint my toes myself, I'm like a little girl with swished polish everywhere on my toe except my nail. I'm looking for some fall-back shoes that don't seem so heavy but still cover my chipped nails. (M.E via Fashion Advice) >> RELATED: The Ultimate Summer Sandals Guide

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How to Wear It Week! Everyday Mom Chic: Julianne Moore gets how to wear a cute summer hat and not look like a run of the mill hipster

How to wear anything: Top 5 style maxims to tweak your chic

Home Style Week! How to decorate your home office with style (a peek at my space too!)

Home Style Week! Turn Any Room Into A Glorious Guest Room In No Time…

Home Style Week! Inside My Home Style Design Board + how to curate your Pinterest board

Home Style Week! Color Chic- How To Add Color To Your Life- Home, Fashion, and Beauty Tips

Ageless Style Week- Why dressing age-appropriate is usually bunch of malarky and looking ageless is genius

Ageless Style Week- How to look older? I’m a young mom and my sons are being mistaken for my little brothers

Ageless Style Week- Can a senior wear a short skirt?

French Chic at a Certain Age: Man-Tailored Jackets in the way Ines de la Fressange works them

Makeover Etiquette- What is expected at a cosmetic counter makeover

Quick At Home Hair Color Tip: How to touch-up roots + save your highlights

Didn’t get a pedicure? Try a pair of closed toe shoes for summer

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