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Style Expert and Personal Brand Strategist helping you + your biz get out there (old 2018)

Hi! I'm Sharon Haver… All my tips and strategies come from my real-world professional experience. As a bootstrapping entrepreneur with a business degree in Marketing and a graduate of an extensive amount of business and personal development programs and high-level masterminds, my advice is based on how I successfully run my online business since 1999. Being a style expert and personal brand success strategist is the combination of getting your visual and brand message in sync. Previously to be being the founder of FocusOnStyle.com, I was a well-known New York fashion stylist on major photo shoots for 15 years, where I styled everything from Vogue covers to advertising campaigns for cheesy products that I made look so good that you

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Style Expert and Personal Brand Strategist helping you + your biz get out there (old)

Why you should listen to me… All my tips come from my real world professional experience. As a bootstrapping entrepreneur with a business degree in Marketing and a graduate of an extensive amount of business and personal development programs and high-level masterminds, my advice is based on how I successfully run my online business since 1999 Being a style expert and personal brand success strategist is the combination of getting your visual and brand message in sync. Previously to be being the founder of FocusOnStyle.com, I was a well-known New York fashion stylist on major photo shoots for 15 years, where I styled everything from Vogue covers to advertising campaigns for cheesy products that I made look so good that

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Discount Designer Style Tips- Life secrets for looking great on the cheap(er)

Honestly, this is one of my favorite posts...  Some kid's went to summer camp, I went shopping at discount stores (ok, some trips too)!  I consider myself lucky to have had a mother who from a very early age instilled in me the virtues of looking the best you can with any budget and who taught me how to seek out the best deals. I never (like to) pay full price for anything if there is a saving alternative! For this week's continuing reprise of some of my greatest evergreen material leading up to the 15th anniversary year of FocusOnStyle online, I want to spend this week’s review looking back at how you can get the best deals on great fashion.  Don't forget to tell

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CLONE-TEST-You’re in the right place to confidently learn to be your own personal stylist with insider chic style & fashion expert tips to make you shine!

[rev_slider home] Designer fashion from our friend: Designer Bags, Sunglasses,Ties Gucci, Prada, Miu Miu, Fendi, Chanel - Latest styles! Meet Sharon... I'm Sharon Haver, New York fashion stylist turned style mentor, fashion expert and bootstrapping web entrepreneur as the founder of FocusOnStyle.com, online since 1999 (that was waaay before there was such a thing as a fashion blogger! What I am passionate about is helping women feel confident in their style. I spent 15 years on photo shoots from styling Vogue covers to making cheap sweats look chic. My heart and soul was in making women confidently master ageless chic on their own terms. I took that yearning to my fashion advice column that appeared in 400 newspapers and then to founding FocusOnStyle.com, where

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I’m a style expert + success strategist helping you and your business get out there… Step Into Your STAR Power!

[rev_slider home] 7 Days To Amazing Podcast-  Interviews on how to make your life, business and style even more amazing this week! Why You Want To Listen To Me... Because I’m just like you. A real woman. With a real body. Who isn’t getting any younger. But certainly wants to look modern, relevant and stylish. Here’s where we are different. I have three decades of style experience under my belt and I can tell you it’s your time to shine so that you can look like you’re worth it! I’m Sharon Haver, New York fashion stylist turned style mentor, fashion + style expert and bootstrapping web entrepreneur as the founder of FocusOnStyle.com, online since 1999 (that was waaay before there was such

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Stylist Advice: Your Classic Uniform, My Way!

Classic chic uniform
Wardrobe Reprise- I don't know about you but this sudden cold snap has me relying more and more on my favorite classic pieces before I even think about turning my closet over (yes, I'm layering).  Take take a look back at some of my favorite tips to make getting dressed easier. And chic. --S.H. No-brainer fall into winter dressing starts with a great coat...  Dear Sharon: I get confused at what to wear when I have appointments all over town and getting ready for work gets complicated. I wish for the days of a classic uniform, like school but a stylish one of course! Do you have any ideas on how streamline my wardrobe to a few good, solid pieces to

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Passport to French Chic SIGN UP: French Chic Secret- Your style shouldn’t be an afterthought…

What if you could easily understand the essence of simple, everyday chic? In your business, in your life, you deserve to look like the confident + chic woman who you are. Enjoy, the BEST of my timeless FocusOnStyle stylist tips to the secrets of French chic style. Claim your free GIFT for subscribing! Treat yourself to my eBook. It’s FREE!. Subscribe me to "Style Flash" Newsletter YOUR FASHION + STYLE GUIDE TO EASY CHIC by FASHION EXPERT SHARON HAVER French Chic Secret- Your style shouldn't be an afterthought! Want to know the secrets of French chic style?  It's starts with making the most of what YOU'VE got! Let me help you start to be your own stylist with my FREE do-it-yourself French

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How To Be A Stylist: It’s All About The Tzuj With Behind the Scenes Photo Shoot Fashion Stylist Tricks

A rare photo of me on a photo shoot and it’s becuase it was in a magazine! New Woman magazine did a feature story about me and here I am in a snippet photo as a stylist on the set with Brad Boles (FoS contributing editor at large) on makeup & North Rebis on hair. Yes, I still wear my Yoji Yamamoto shirt that I have on ! I kept my stylist scissors in a holster belt
I've been lucky enough to be involved in so many aspects of being a fashion stylist during my career that's spanned decades. In my continuing reprise of some of my greatest evergreen material leading up to the 15th anniversary year of FocusOnStyle.com online and the launch of my C'est Chic Crash Course, I want to spend this week's review looking back at what REALLY  happens as a stylist behinds the scenes on a photoshoot.  Read on & revisit... On a professional photo shoot knowing how to be a stylist is a lot more than selecting a pretty dress. Honesty is not completely the only policy when it comes to photographing clothing on a model for a commercial photo shoot and there

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Add some ZING! What color shoes to wear with dressy neutrals for holiday chic

Stylist Advice-  Decisions, decisions about what shoe color to wear. How can this reader add pizzazz to a neutral holiday dress… I am wearing a mocha dress with sequins at Christmas and wondering what color of shoes I should get? Please help!!! (A.W. via Fashion Advice) >> READ: Perfect Party ShoesStandout sequins in muted shades of nude are very of the moment this holiday season. They are a sultry take on subtle and can be styled two ways for maximum holiday style.When it comes to what color shoes to wear with dressy neutrals...Stay on the more demure or safer side by keeping the look tonal and sophisticated with shoes in same shade. Make it exciting by adding texture and detail for interest. What you want to

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In the Bag- Work The Color Block Trend One Piece at a Time

Now a perennial trend, color-blocking has become all the more accessible with heritage minded bags done up in contrasting hues for a quick, colorful & graphic addition to any look. Color-Blocking, we've seen it on just about every single runway over the past few seasons and as we've pointed out before, it happens to be one trend that you can use to your advantage. Especially when looking to highlight and conceal certain areas of your body while adding a jolt of unexpected color to your repertoire. And with a look at some of the latest purses available from labels at all levels, it looks like the trend might just become a bit easier to incorporate. >>TREND REPORT: How to Make

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Fashion How-To’s -Short Heels That Aren’t Short On Style

Think of this as your "How To Wear Low Heels" tip sheet... Blame it on the abundance of too-high heels, walking behind girls fumbling in them, or our admiration for the cool retro sophistication that Rochas has been championing as of late, but we are beginning to rethink the short heel and their recent wearable reemergence on the scene. Once matronly and down-right blase, the updates to what we consider the "smart" heel height offer an entirely new way to think about proportion and comfort. From gram to grand slam, there's plenty out there to give you an alternative to ho-hum ballerina flats. >> SHOPPING GUIDE: Low Heels We'll take the printed Rochas slingbacks above and our top three picks as featured below and

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Fashion Advice- How to Find A Stylish Swimsuit Cover Up

It can be tricky to find a swim suit cover up, but it doesn't have to be with these style tips... There seems to be two schools of thought on swimsuit cover-ups: the sheer and sexy or the short-shorts and terry. So what's a chic beach babe to do when she feels that running around in a one-off negligee or a kiddy romper is just too-too to suit her style needs? Well, go crazy. No, no, that's why I'm here. I don't know about you, but unless I'm camped out poolside at a luxury resort, the idea of prancing about in a sheer beach cover-up seems rather ridiculous to me, if not a bit risqué if you drive to the

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Rachel Weisz Knows How To Wear Leather and Look Totally Chic

I'll Have What She's Having: Rachel Weisz Best Dressed / Warm Weather Leather Looks The proposition of the summer leathers we've been seeing on the runways for the past few seasons has always seemed a little questionable, if not completely daunting. That is, until we saw Rachel Weisz donning a leather dress from See by Chloe's Resort 2012 collection so effortlessly mid-summer. Take a cue from the relaxed ease and classic, uncomplicated shape of her striped frock that's got a kicky a-line hem to help your body breathe. >> MORE: Resort Fashion Selected Femme Bella Leather Dress on SALE at ASOS In a demure, lady-like shape with graphic ivory stripes, she takes the aggressive nature out of leather garb by

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