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Bell Bottom Flare Jeans, yeah baby, they’re looking so right again

Instant Style Uplift: For both your butt and spirits! If you're looking for a quick style update that's right for summer and beyond, look no further than a pair of bell bottom flare jeans. The wide leg jean is creeping back into style and looks and so right. Pair them with some wedge espadrilles for instant height, your  platform sandals to raise your butt, and if you're leggy, a pair of Birks for off-handed charm. Even I, miss fear of white pants, bought a pair of chalky flares and have all intention of wearing them with a tush-covering top. They look so chic when paired with a classic sharp shouldered blazer from now into early fall. I am partial to a

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How to Wear It Week! How to style a white T-shirt

This week’s summer spotlight is How to Wear It Week. Let's look at different ways to wear everybody's wardrobe stable. 3 ways to dress up or dress down your favorite piece of clothing I don't know about you but I spend a good amount of time wearing classic T-shirts. They are easy, timeless, and I love the utilitarian edge that holds everything else together. If there's one workhorse item in your closet, it should be a white T-shirt. Be it designer or the kind that comes out of a pack. One of the ladies in a marketing group that I'm in asked me how to style T-shirts. Nicely, maybe for work and casual. So here goes it, in this installment of how to wear it,

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Style Motivation Week! When you are out of your comfort zone…

This week’s Spotlight is all about Style Motivation... 'cause if you can't get motivation, you can't get it together... regardless of what IT is. Sometimes, you need a little kick to get out of your comfort zone and that's what this post is about. So kiss that style rut bye-bye.- S.H. The other night I was sick. Really sick. A case of food poisoning to rival that scene in The Exorcist times seven. The following day had me feeling like I was bitten by a swarm of Tsetse flies (ok, I don't know what that really feels like, but it could be close to this) coupled with a case of cabin fever that I desperately needed a quick respite from. Vroom, vroom, it was

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Hold tight! Spanx jeans has you covered

Jeans spotlight week continues with a new entry for a flattering fit, introducing Spanx jeans! That's right, the sucking in power of Spanx built into a very stylish air of jeans. Can you believe that we just passed the last "official"  weekend of summer? I can't believe that I'm writing this from one of my last days of a mountain view :( I've been spending the month on a workation at my vacation place in Jackson Hole, WY. If you've been following me on Facebook, you'll see some of my cool outdoorsy snaps. The work part of my vacation comes from spending time with FocusOnStyle Team Jackson Hole and my developer editing videos, creating tons of content assets, and building

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What jeans to wear Spotlight Week! The Denim Pencil Skirt, Something to Reconsider

As the season on the calendar changes, the iffy weather may to exactly be a seasonal match. This installment of What Jeans To Wear Spotlight Week reviews a fantastic transitional wardrobe staple- the jeans skirt! Add a pair of tights + some ankle boots  and you'll be good to go to transition to a nippy day in no time. - S.H. If you're not a shorts person or looking for something that's perfectly styled for casual kickback style or city chic, look no further than a classic denim pencil skirt. In distressed denim, white or a dark wash, the denim pencil skirt that once was a wardrobe staple is looking all so right again. There are designer versions like the Victoria Beckham

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Style Motivation Week! Lighten up. Have fun. It’s only fashion.

This week’s Summer Spotlight theme pulls from some of my favorite style motivation posts. I don't want you ever to take style or fashion too seriously because you lose the spontaneity that makes it all so interesting. And unique to you. Lighten and move forward... it's only fashion. - S.H. Ok, I was (sort of) eavesdropping. Here I was, out and about, having an espresso and couldn't help but listen the one-sided conversation of the girl across the coffee bar. You know the type. Clutching her cellphone and talking at a decibel level as if she were orating into a can with a string rather than the gold earbuds that she had plugged in. REALLY, we can ALL hear you. Clearly. Even above the

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Ageless Beauty Week! How to get rid of turkey neck? Update on Ultherapy non-surgical skin tightening with Dr. Paul Frank

Ultherapy- Before & After
 This week's Summer Spotlight are some of my favorite ageless beauty tips. We covered how beauty is how you see yourself, a better than botox drugstore creme, how what you eat affects your skin, and now for those who want to consider an extra boost, some non-surgical Ultherapy to combat turkey neck.  Want to find out how to get rid of turkey neck? Let's look into Ultherapy non-surgical skin tightening with New York City dermatologist Dr. Paul Frank who specializes in the Ultherea non invasive skin tightening procedure to tighten and tone skin. I've been getting a lot of questions about non-invasive, non-surgical ways to tighten, lift, and tone skin, as well as an update to my Thermage non-surgical facelift article of several years

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Ageless Beauty Week! Beauty in Balance: Enhancing your Beauty Inside and Outside

 This week's Summer Spotlight are some of my favorite ageless beauty tips. Let's look at how what you at affects your skin... Part One- The best-ever foods to prevent aging…. Nobody wants to age. Nobody wants wrinkles or a waddly neck. So, how do we battle the aging process? Well, the quickest answer is---the way your skin and body ages depends on how you treat your body, inside and out! Here’s what most people don’t get: your aesthetic beauty depends more on the strength of your digestion and metabolism, the quality of your sleep, how often you have a bowel movement, the foods you eat and the cleanliness of your liver than on scrubs, cleansers and anti-wrinkle creams that cost you your

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Ageless Beauty Week! My anti-wrinkle experiment [better than Botox]

Skincare can take a downturn during the lazy days of summer. This week's Summer Spotlight are some of my favorite ageless beauty tips. I've been getting a lot of comments about my skin lately. In a good way... Truth be told, I'm lucky in the genes department, and have been using some kind of anti-aging/moisturizer since about 16, and avoid sun bathing. But the compliments and quizzing have most definitely escalated this fall. Truth be told, I've been working crazy hours developing a new project (you'll find out soon!) and haven't had much time to even think about replenishing my face creams. So, I took to some review products that were sent over & have been using them without much

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How to Wear It Week! What to wear with an off-the-shoulder dress

Marc Jacobs Off-The-Shoulder Satin Dress
This week’s summer spotlight is How to Wear It Week. Let's look at a classic way to wear a summer standby.I recently bought a black short, off-the-shoulder dress. It is body-hugging until the hips and then has a balloon skirt until the knees. I later realized on that I am not very comfortable wearing an off-shoulder style. Can you suggest a jacket type or coverup that I can wear with this dress and in what color or pattern?  (via Fashion Advice) >> MORE: How to wear a LBD postsHumm, what makes you uncomfortable wearing an off the shoulder dress now that you liked so much when you bought the dress? It's always best to try to fall out of love with something when you still have the

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

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

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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

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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

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