Testing out some fall trends

Here's a pic of my trying out some of the trends I just blogged about! This is the Cara necklace from Nordstrom I got. I am LOVING it!! I got so many complements on it! I even sold a few for the accessories department today! Well today I wore it with a $20 Target sweater by the Merona brand. It's just a simple crew neck black sweater. My pants were from Target too they were the Mossimo Ankle pants in fit 3. I have 5 pairs in this line and fit. They are amazing!! They have such a classic fit and they're only $25!! So I just went the all black route and then wore the collar. I was looking a little Wednesday Addams but whatever.



The lip I'm wearing in Giorgio Armani in Rouge d'Armani 400 and Gloss d'Armani 400.



I thought I would show one of my looking happy since I really do look like Wednesday Addams...
These two colors look amazing together or separate and it stayed on all day and was so creamy!!! Beautiful, rich colors!! Check them out!! Worth the extra bucks!

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The bold and the beautiful

Today I just want to focus on one trend I'm loving-ox blood! I think this shade is going to be big this fall/winter season!

I wrote a little about this in yesterday's blog but I wanted to go in depth on this trend in particular. I love it! I love the color, I love the subdued pop it brings and the impression it makes. It's something warm and different than the past fall/winter trends.

I am loving these pants from Target in this color and they are so comfortable!




Yes, yes, I know they are not in the color I'm even blogging about but it won't show the pants in that color. Sorry!! I have these in the ox blood red color and I really want them in the black too because they fit so well and look great!!! Plus, they're only $20!!! What a steal!

Here's some more ways I'm doing the ox blood red-



Here's my big 'ol feet and long toes but-they are painted an ox blood red color by Jessica. I do not know the color because at the nail salons all the names are off but this is by the brand Jessica. Of course I smudged my color so I ran to Target to pick up a similar color. I got Essie's skirting the issue and it looks great! Touched up the top of both of my big toes and then I painted my nails in this color. Check it out






It's hard to tell on the toes because the picture is so dark but it really is a deep red. But you can tell it's much deeper than the nails. I really like the Essie color a lot!! It is so pretty!

Painting your nails this color is a great way to go for the trend but not go crazy if you're not too sure about it.

Here's a top from Forever 21 for $25-love it!!






This beautiful dress is from asos for $38! It has the "it" color and the collar! A twofer! (Two-for-one, if you're not from the south)

So go check out something in ox blood red and try it out! I think you'll be hooked like me!!

Lots of love,

Andy
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Collars, and leather, and prints.Oh my!

I love fashion! I really, really do! I love reading about other blogger's adventures and seeing their sense of style and seeing what clothes they put together. The only bummer is sometimes it can be intimidating following these bloggers because they're out at fashion week (dream of mine, never gonna happen) and they're wearing these beautiful Chanel flats (another dream of mine, never gonna happen) and they have all these awesome labels and it's just not realistic to me. So I try my best to wear awesome looking (affordable) clothes on the brink of what's hot and just fake it til you make it!

So here's a little blog about some fall trends I'm predicting. I just watched the red carpet from the Emmy's (yes, I know it's almost been a week since the Emmy's. I've been busy!). I noticed lots of beautiful colors on the red carpet that I think will be big for fall. Ox blood is going to be a big color.



Here are a few of my faves from the red carpet




LOVE!!! I'm pretty sure the two dresses on the sides are J. Mendel the dress in the middle is Vera Wang.

I love gem tones will be big like this blue






These are BEAUTIFUL pants in that gem blue color. These are from Target and I really love these pants. I already have 4 pair in different colors. They come in so many beautiful colors that will be huge for fall! They fit and look amazing! And-they're only $25!!

And this beautiful mustard yellow





Love this dress from H&M! I have a cotton dress in this color from there as well, different style but I'll post it on here soon!

Some other trends I'm loving are leather!! I think bits of leather here and there is going to be huge!! But this year there will be very feminine touches of leather.




Trouvé Metallic Long Sleeve tee $38


Trouvé faux leather sleeve tee $88-love this one!!! Want it so bad!


Trouvé paneled faux leather leggings $68 I have these and LOVE them!!


Trouvé faux leather Bibb top $68




These are all from Nordstrom. This skirt is in the B.P. section for around $36. Pretty sure I'm going to buy this tomorrow!



I really want this skirt from the new Target line, Kirna Zabete but, it's sold online only and it's sold out...bummer.

Another beauty from the Kirna Zabete line from Target is this



This is $45 and I love it!! You can layer it and wear tights it would be so cute!!! I can see the outfit now!



These are from the same Target line for $30 or so. I was so excited about buying these babies but when I got there I was a little disappointed in the quality of the faux leather. I'm a little concerned with the faux leather skirt from Target as well but I liked the length better than the one from Nordstrom. But the one from Nordstrom looks good and not as cheap.

Next trend is collars. I love collars!!! I just bought this and I am completely obsessed!! I'm trying to make sure I don't wear it every day because I love it so much!


These are both from Nordstrom by Cara $34


I have the one and cream and I love it!!! It will jazz up any plain 'ol sweater or top!



This top has an embellished collar but you can't tell from this picture. This is from the Rock & Republic line from Kohl's and it's on sale for $17!!! Woooo! I have this and love it!!!
Here's a couple of snaps of me in it and my best friend's birthday party.



This is me and my handsome hubby. ( I NEVER use that word! Wow it felt more natural than I thought!)


This is typical me-wearing white to eat chocolate fondue and getting it all over me, as usual. But it came out, thank goodness! I'm loving this shirt!


I'm also rocking a sock bun. I love that trick, it's my new go-to hairstyle if I don't know what to do! I don't even do it for the waves it gives, I love the look of the big bun!

Here's some other colors I think that will look amazing for fall. But-I will say use these colors just for a pop! Not too much!

Neon chartreuse





This is Julie Bowen in Monique Lhuillier, love it!



And this is Julieanne Moore in Christian Dior. Some didn't like it, I loved it!



I think little pops of the neon chartreuse will be beautiful!!

Last but not least on this trend wagon (I don't know what that means, just felt good) is prints! I always love leopard so that will be awesome. But this dress from the same Kirna Zabete line from Target is AMAZING!!!!



It has a little star print, which if you have read my previous blogs, you know I LOVE stars!!! But it also has some snake print which I think will be huge as well! This is $45
This is a little combo of the mustard yellow and the snake print from J. Crew




Check back at my Stars and Stripes blog from a few days ago and there's a print and mustard yellow trend happening there too!


Ok check out my other posts and I am going to be posting daily things on here so check out daily! Some will be longer than the others, and they will be ranging from beauty trends, makeup to fashion. Whatever I'm feeling for the day!


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Old faithful

Yes, that is what I call my eyelash curler. And you would call yours old faithful if you had yours for almost 5 years too! I swear I went through eyelash curlers like crazy before I found this baby! I love a nicely curled lash. If you have ever read my blog, it's no surprise that I'm big on lashes. I'm always trying out new mascaras and always looking for that big va-va-voom lash.

I took this picture above one day while getting ready for work. I looked down and saw that lash curler and thought, "man! You have been around for a long time and you're awesome! I need to blog about you!"

When I was younger and always flipping through all these beauty mags I would always run across this one eyelash curler. It was saturating every magazine I would read! It was winning every award it could and I couldn't even pronounce what it was, let alone find out where to get it! (Pre-google days!)


It was the Shu Uemura eyelash curler. It was beautiful, it worked on lashes, it was supposed to be the best, and it was affordable (score!). Growing up in a suburb outside of Nashville I never knew where to look. Not to mention Nashville just got on the fashion map not too long ago so reading about these amazing lines was as close as I was going to get. But within the last few years Nashville has really gained some major credit in the shopping world.



So when I first started working in cosmetics the store I worked at carried the Shu Umuera curler. It was the first thing I bought. When I first saw it I stared at it like it was a rare piece of artwork I had just discovered. When I purchased it I would clean it after every use and keep it in the original box. I was crazy! It really does work well. I have longer lashes but they are straight as can be and this actually curled them. And I had tried everything! I even tried those heated ones and those didn't work!!


Shu Uemura is a Japanese makeup artist from the 50's who was inspired by nature, science and art.



He has Skincare, makeup and hair products but he's really known for the lash curler. It grabs even the shortest of lashes and curls them. Never pinching or pulling the lashes. It truly is amazing and it's only $20!


After his passing in 2010 they stopped selling all Shu products in the U.S. but you can still order online. Do yourself a favor and go buy one of these puppies! It will change your life! I'm all about instant gratification and I hate waiting for something but this is worth the wait! Hang tight it'll be there before you know it and you won't buy another lash curler for a looooong time!!


Www.shuuemura-USA.com

Stars and Stripes

I LOVE Stars and Stripes! Let's just say I'm real patriotic. But I freakin love this trend!!

Outfit of the day-


Stars and (accordion)stripes

That's me with no head this morning. I just decided to take a little snapshot because I thought this was a fun little number and it was super affordable!

This is a Target sweater, that is a little too big might I add, with an Old Navy slate gray accordion pleat maxi skirt.






I think the sweater wouldn't look as big on me if I were wearing skinny jeans or cigarette leg dress pants. But when you wear a long maxi skirt that is real flowy it's always best to wear a fitted top but I thought this worked...it might not have but I liked the unexpected combo it created.
Here's an up close of the skirt so you can check out the detail. I love accordion pleats!



I love stars and these two are splurge items I really want with star prints



By Wildfox-love it!! It's perfection, and it's $230 so.... But, I really love it so I might have to buy it!

From Polyvore-it's $150 and I've seen some for even more so that's a bummer


But I found an AWESOME one at Nordstrom Rack (for $20 might I add!) and now that I've purchased a star blouse I am finding them everywhere!! But I love stars so I think I'll buy more!! BoooYahhhhh



This top above looks like the top I bought at Nordstrom Rack but it is not the exact one. I'll post a pic next time I wear it!

I just also want to point out that I love spell check because I have misspelled accordion (just did again) EVERY TIME on this blog post! Oy!

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Changes are a comin'

Hello world! I'm back! Two days in a row blogging, I'm on a roll. I'm going to be honest people, a lot has been going on. For one, I got a new job. I'm not doing facials and brows anymore, even though I do still love it and can't watch anything on tv without judging people's brows. I still dabble here and there with brows and facials because I love it, I can't break away completely but I am working for a Skincare line called La Mer at Nordstrom. It's a great gig and I am so happy that I am working there. The line is amazing and it's just the best!! I'll write a blog about it soon!




Not only am I loving the new job but I just feel refreshed! I went to school for fashion design and truly loved fashion, always have. But doing aesthetics, I was so separated from one of my true loves, fashion. I wore scrubs every day to work, didn't worry too much about my hair or the full look because I mean come on, I was wearing scrubs. I distanced myself so much from something I loved and that made me feel alive. I was in a rut for sure! Once I got the notion of possibly working for Nordstrom I got excited. I started buying all sorts of shoes and cute outfits, I was back!!! I hadn't even gone to my interview yet and I was buying tons of clothes for the job! I was really getting ahead of myself haha.




Needless to say, I got the job but now I'm in a new predicament. I have been in the beauty industry for almost 6 years and I completely devoted my life to it. But when I got to Nordstrom I still hasn't heard of some of these makeup lines. It was like a whole new world was opened up to me. I couldn't believe that I wasn't familiar with so many lines! So the predicament is this-I'm falling in love with not-so cheap makeup lines! But the truth is, they are some pretty awesome products!



So, with this being said I don't know if I'm going to be thrifty makeup artist all the time or if I'm just going to be the it might not be thriftiest but you definitely won't be wasting your money on the best of the best makeup products in the world makeup artist....so what do you think?

Not only will I be introducing y'all to new lines that I'm loving, I think I'm going to incorporate fashion and what's going on in my life into the mix. I won't bore you with

"I ate steel cut oats with fresh berries today for breakfast after my spin class. And for lunch I had local eggs on whole grain toast and blah blah blah"

That's not going to happen! I might just give a little update on a new Pinterest idea that I tried or some thing like that! It'll keep me blogging more and it will probably shorten up the length of these puppies so it can be something quick you check on and hopefully there will be something you're interested in and maybe something will inspire you to try something! We shall see!

Lots of love,

Andy


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