Hey guys! So obviously everyone knows about the devastation in Japan and I can not tear myself away from the news, it is just so heartbreaking seeing everything that is going on over there. I know that everyone is doing what they can do help with donations and such and I just wanted to point you to this page that lists many places that you can donate to (found via designsponge) as well as one of my favorite youtubers manwomanfilm put together a video and links to many of the charities that you can donate to as well. And also, a special note about Worldvets.org which is one of the few rescue reliefs that I have found that is geared towards saving the animals affected in Japan.
How was your weekend? It poured buckets here so we just stayed in most of the weekend but it did inspire me to do a lot of cooking and baking which I really enjoy doing, I just usually don’t have the time (and sometimes energy) for it. This lookbook was from a few weeks ago but as you can tell from the ground, it rained a ton that day too, except it actually stopped for a bit so I could take these pictures. You’ll see two things in this lookbook that are pretty rare for me, putting my hair all the way up and wearing flare jeans! What can I say? I like to change things up 🙂 It’s not easy wearing my hair all on the top of my head like this because I have such thick hair (and it was so long that there was just SO much of it) so my head feels super heavy if I leave it like that for long periods of time. I piled it on a bit messy on purpose because I just wanted it out of my face that day. Do you have those days where your hair just bugs you because it’s all up in your face? I was having one of those days. When I was at Madewell last, I was trying on a bunch of jeans since they make my favorite skinnies and I figured since non-skinny jeans are making a comeback I might as well give them another chance. These flares fit the best out of all flare/wide leg jeans I’ve ever tried on because I typically can not pull off these kinds of jeans. I’ll never give up my skinnies but am definitely up for mixing things up once in awhile.
Oh! One last thing, Ebates is offering 20% cashback for GAP! Yes, 20%! It’s only for the next 3 days so get to shopping! 🙂 My picks are the really skinny pants – my favorite pants for work, the ruffle zip dress (on sale!), the Ombre plaid dress – so cute for the summer! And the Chambray tie neck blouseis really cute. If you sign up through my referral link you and I will get $5 after your first purchase over $25! If you don’t know what ebates is, click here for more info and tips on how to use ebates while shopping.
You know how much I love Yumi Kim. I own so many of her tops and dresses. The prints are always so much fun! This top is cute and on sale and love the polka dots on this top.
I can’t find mine online anymore but loving the look of the Rocker Jeans. Might have to go to the store and try them on. These widelegger jeans are fabulous but I think would only work for people with long legs. The wide leg trouser jeans from GAP are so cute and are a good “dressy” jean.
My vintage turquoise bracelet is my favorite antiquing find ever. Antique shopping is so hit and miss, more often than not you come home empty handed (at least I do) but when you find that one perfect thing it’s like you hit gold! I found this bracelet at a antique shop that I wasn’t expecting to find much at all but my little eyes spotted it in the case and it was one of those “I HAVE to have that” moments. It had a little card with some info on it but I forgot what it said except for that it was from the 1950’s which I think is neat when you can find out a little bit of the history of the things that you buy.
The winners of the ebates giveaways are Alexandra who won the $100 Nordstrom giftcard and Shannon who won the $100 Sephora giftcard! Winners have been contacted by email, thanks so much for everyone who entered!
Nga, I don’t have your contact info so please email me at tiffany {at} iamstyle-ish.com so I can send you your prize!
Thank you so so much for the hair advice and the support of my silly haircut woes. I’m so relieved that so many of you can relate to what I felt. I got some really great tips so if you are looking for tips on working with short hair, please check out the comments in my last post! I have a whole lot of lookbooks with my long hair, so it might be a bit before you see my new short hair in a post. The hairstyle I did here is what makes me miss my long hair, I certainly can not do that with my hair now!
Anyway, onto the outfit… I love this little lace skirt that Megan from Alainn Bella sent over and thought it was the perfect added “fluff” to the patterned tunic.
What I’m Wearing
Top: ASOS
Cardigan: J Crew
Skirt: gift from Alainn Bella
Tights: DKNY
Shoes: Miu Miu
Rings: Jewelmint (the heart ring) and Target
Eek! My bangs are so long here, they definitely needed a trim. But I like the rest of my hair! All I did was curl my hair with a flat iron, teased the top of my hair, pinned it back and then put an elastic around the rest of my hair for a low ponytail. Have you guys tried out Jewelmint yet? It’s like a monthly subscription site but for jewelry! Genius idea. I have gotten a few pieces and the heart ring is one of my favorites, I wear it all the time!
I just added this floral tunic to my cart, it’s perfect for the spring! I am addicted to buying blouses from ASOS. They have the best patterns. Loving this swallow print blouse too.
J.Crew Infinity cardigan
You gotta love J Crew cardigans. They are so comfy and they last forever. I have SO many in my closet, it’s craziness. I’ll pull one out of my closet that I forgot that I had bought! Love this one and its on sale for $19.99. I have it in black and wear it all the time. The striped one (also on sale!) is super cute too.
A big bow, ruffles and mary janes, ah, I couldn’t make this outfit more girly unless it was pink! I very rarely shop at H&M – I hate the layout of the downtown Seattle store even if there’s only 4 people in the store, the layout makes it so crowded that it seems like everyone in the store is all up in my personal space or I’m walking into racks of clothing – not how I like to shop, but I always see bloggers with such cute stuff from H&M so I decided to stop in and see if I had any luck. Didn’t end up finding any clothing but I spotted this headband and just couldn’t resist the size of the bow and the Miu Miu-ish bird print!
What I’m Wearing
Blouse: ASOS
Skirt: from Aritzia
Tights: DKNY
Shoes: Miu Miu
Clutch: Gucci (Vintage)
Headband: H&M
Bracelet: Vintage
I love ASOS blouses, the usually fit well and the quality is pretty good for the price. I only wish that I got a size smaller as it’s slightly baggy for my liking but it’s so hard with sizing for ASOS stuff. I’m also loving this military blouse and the detail on this blouse is really cute too, I think I may have to add these to my next order.
Gotta have the gray tights! I have so many tights and all varying shades of gray. You really wouldn’t think that I could have that many varieties of gray tights!
First, some exciting news! I’ve been asked to one of Smarter.com‘s “Fashion Experts” so will be blogging over there once a week. Click here to check out their profile about me and the other Smarter Stylists and my first post about how I’m still obsessing over faux fur! Nothing will change over here just that I will be linking to my blog posts over there once a week and hope that you will visit me there too! (For full disclosure I am getting paid to be a contributor to the smarter.com blog but I make the decisions on what goes into my posts and the opinions that I write over there are not influenced by them or anything else.)
I’m usually a big bag kind of girl since I carry so much stuff with me but I recently decided that I wanted to start carrying smaller size bags. I’ve also really been into cross body bags so when I saw this clutch with a removable shoulder strap, I just had to get it to try out my new “small bag” idea. There definitely is some getting used to not having all my lotions and potions that I usually carry with me but the best part about having a small bag? Not having to share your chair with it! I hate putting my bag on the floor so when I go to a restaurant I always share a chair with my bag (or I try to get a table with an extra chair for my bag) so with big bags, sharing a chair means I have little room to sit. With the clutch, I have the whole chair to myself!
What I’m Wearing
Cardigan: Target
Top: Madewell
Pants: Gap
Shoes: Miu Miu
Clutch: Rebecca Minkoff
Necklace: Vintage
Rings: Good Charma and Kimberly Baker
You’ve seen (half of) this outfit before in my hair curling video, so if you thought it looked familiar, that’s why! The cardigan is actually lace but you can’t see it very well in these pictures. I like that it still kind of showed the pattern underneath. What a good Target buy! Both the rings are gifts from the hubs, he picked both of them out without any help from myself and I love them both. I like wearing multiple rings on one hand but I can’t do more than 2 at a time. I’ve seen people do 4 fingers which I think looks cool on them but on me, it just looks strange.
I love all my Madewell blouses. They fit really well and are perfect for work. I want to get this silk one next! I love the blue.
Daytrip Metallic Lace Cardigan
Not sure if you can find mine at Target anymore but this one looks quite similar. I think I will be adding more lace pieces to my closet, particularly this crochet and lace cardigan isn’t it gorgeous? And this one is really cute with just the lace on the back.
Gap Really Skinny Pants
I’ve talked about these pants before and they really are great! They make for good work pants without looking too “office-y”. And the material is really comfy.
Kimberly Baker Maude Ring
One of my favorite rings that hubs has ever gotten me (besides my engagement/wedding rings of course). I just love the design and that I can easily adjust it to fit any of my fingers.
awww, how could I not love this ring from my love?
Rebecca Minkoff MAC Clutch
I liked my blue one so much that I had to buy another one so I got it in pink too! It’s such a great piece to add a pop of color to your outfit. And even though it’s a clutch, it actually still holds a lot which is great! I also really love this Marc Jacobs clutch. The color is so pretty!
Another sweater over dress combo (see my last one here). I also wore this dress during the summer. I love taking my, what would be a summer dress and try to winterize it. It makes having cute summer dresses worth it considering Seattle gets way more cold days than warm! Do you know how much I love cashmere sweaters? I want to wear them all day long and never take them off. This one in particular I adore because it’s a longer length, I actually folded it under for this look as it was a bit too long but with leggings or skinnies, it’s the perfect sweater. I can’t decide if I like the shoulder pads in there (they are removable) but I went with it for this outfit. What do you think? Bold shoulders or no?
What I’m Wearing
Sweater: from Aritzia
Dress: Forever 21
Tights: DKNY
Shoes: Miu Miu
Necklace: J Crew
It was so cold that day you could see my breath! And I had to prove it to you! 🙂
Forever 21 Floral Dress
Totally a cute summer dress that you could do the same thing with. Would look really cute with purple or gray tights! Lots of cute floral dresses at Forever 21 right now, like this ruffled one! Or you could just do a cute skirt like this little peplum skirt. I love the bright colors.
Christian Louboutin Relika
Love the super tall mary janes. The ones with a platform in front like this are so much easier to walk in however my Miu Mius are still fairly comfortable. I just saw these super tall mary janes that I am really liking (I think I’d get the black/eggplant combo). You know how I feel about cheap shoes (not for me and my picky feet) but these floral mary janes are TOO CUTE!
I know you’ve all heard me talking about all my new additions to my shoe collection and have seen a few pairs here and there but I finally did a little photo shoot with one of my new pairs. It’s been forever since I’ve done a proper shoe collection post so I thought it was time for another! What is it about Mary Janes that just make them adorable? I love the shape of them and the color was the reason why I had to get them! You don’t see navy blue suede shoes very often right?
You will see them on me in tomorrow’s outfit post but here’s a little preview!
P.S. Remember my Prada bow flats that I got awhile back? Well, they finally have them available online! Who knows what took them so long? Click here to get them but limited sizes available.
Last week was a super stressful week and when I got back from my business trip I was still dealing with a lot of stuff. So when I discovered on Friday night that my right eye was completely swollen, I freaked and knew I needed to relax a bit. Does your body react oddly when you are stressed because mine does! This isn’t the first time that my eye has swollen because of stress. Anyway, Saturday morning the eye was still swollen but we had plans that I didn’t want to miss so I had to go out looking like a freak show. If you follow me on twitter you may have seen my tweets that I was debating on going with an DIY eye patch but I actually ended up putting a cold tea bag on my eye for half an hour (green tea if you want specifics) and that helped tremendously! The swelling went down to a reasonable state. Not back to normal but at least not freak show status. Phew! I didn’t have to try and pull off the pirate look!
Okay enough about my eye, onto the outfit of the day! (note, this was taken weeks ago so no swollen eye lookbooks to scare you away. haha!) I’m a bit slow to the whole Groupon thing and only recently started buying the deals but I forget to check every day so I miss out on some good deals. At least I was smart enough to nab the Nordstrom Rack Groupon but then of course silly me forgot all about it until 2 days before it was going to expire so I went to the Rack and crossed my fingers that I could find something that I loved to use the Groupon with. Well, I ended up getting this blazer and I adore it! I know a lot of you got that Groupon as well, did you guys get something good with yours? Also, if you didn’t know yet, use ebates to get 3% cashback from your Groupon. It’s like a deal for a deal! I like Nordstrom Rack but I never have much luck when shopping there (unlike some of my friends that have found some amazing deals there!) so I was happy to have found this blazer. I was actually just there the other day and saw that they have a few left so go check there if you are looking for a great blazer. It comes in black too!
These curls were flat iron curls! Check out my video tutorial if you haven’t yet!
Thank you to Lucky Brand for sending over the Lola Skinny Jeans! I love the dark wash. I didn’t have a chance to take them to the tailor to get hemmed just yet so rolled them up and thought that looked great too. I figured that this outfit was a bit girly with the pink, the doily embellishment and the bow headband so added the Alexander Wang bag to toughen it up a bit. I’m trying to add handbags to my lookbooks when I remember as I’ve been getting requests to see more of my bags. Plus I think it does complete the outfit a bit more right?
I often get asked about my favorite brands and See by Chloe is one of them, their clothing fits my body type really well and the blazers always fit like a dream without any alterations. This See By Chloe Boyfriend Blazer is on sale and looks great. What’s great about spending a little more on a blazer is that it will always keep it’s shape and will last forever! Or this is a great price for a Phillip Lim blazer (also a great brand). And speaking of light colored blazers, I’m absolutely in love with this lace one!
Sizing wise I went a size up (which I typically do for ASOS) which I recommend. It’s a lot more pink in person (true to color in my pictures than their picture)
I might just be weird but I like my skinny jeans to be super skinny so I’d classify these more in the “straight leg” category for me if that makes any sense. Also I went with my regular size but it was a bit too big because there’s a bit of a stretch to them so I’d size down if you want a tighter fit.
I love these. I actually bought them but my sales associate at Nordstrom could only find me a 5.5 and it was just too big so I had to return them. But they are super cute and comfy! I actually really want this pretty pink color now. These Jessica Simpson pumps are really similar to the Miu Miu ones but WAY cheaper! (and get 8% cashback from ebates!)
I got mine when the bag just came out so it’s the older style but he’s now released a new version with a shoulder strap and I’m so jealous! This bag is super heavy on its own so holding it kind of hurts my arm if I’m holding it too long. The shoulder strap would definitely help! And if you don’t want to drop that much money for a bag (to tell you the truth, it’s not worth it unless you LOVE the bag. It’s a bit too heavy for everyday use so I don’t use it often) then you should take a look at this look for less for $84! So similar right? And you can also get 6% cashback from ebates!
***oh yes my post title is from the Britney Spears song. I couldn’t resist. Got it stuck in your head now right? hehehe 🙂 ***
is really cute. If you sign up through my referral link you and I will get $5 after your first purchase over $25! If you don’t know what ebates is, click here for more info and tips on how to use ebates while shopping.
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