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25 Fashion & Style Tips to Brighten Your Day

25 Fashion & Style Tips to Brighten Your Day
The weather is awfully depressing in the northeast right now, and it’s enough to make anyone feel down! Fortunately, dressing up and looking fabulous always seems to make a bad mood disappear. That’s what inspired me to create this list. Fashion is not only functional, it’s fun! It can lift your spirits on a bad day and help you transcend the times when you’re not exactly blissed-out. If you’re not in the best mood or just want to beat a sudden case of boredom, here are 25 tips on how to light up a gloomy day with fashion and style. 25 Fashion & Style Tips Wear a basic pair of jeans and a tee shirt, accessorized with the hugest, boldest pair of earrings you own. Buy yourself something cheap and impractical at Forever 21. Use neon blue or lavender eyeshadow as liner. Give yourself an at-home manicure. If it’s raining, ditch your standard umbrella for a kid’s umbrella – they come in fun prints and colors and are the perfect size for one person. Invest in some really amazing lingerie.

Inspire Bohemia The Top 5 Must-Read Fashion Books Photo by chotda. If you’re like me, your fashion research isn’t just limited to fashion blogs and magazines – fashion books can be a great source of the kind of in-depth info you can’t find anywhere else. If you want a career in fashion and want to learn more about the fashion industry, books are an essential source. There are so many great ones out there, but I’ve picked my top 5 of the moment for this article. The Fashion Game Book: A World History of 20th-century Fashion If you want to learn about the fashion industry, you’d be hard pressed to find a more in-depth book than this one about designers, clothes, trends, and style throughout the ages. If I could recommend any book to someone who wants to learn more about fashion, this would be it. The Little Black Book of Style Nina Garcia is a fashion icon & Project Runway judge, so it’s safe to say she knows a thing or two about putting an outfit together! That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between Influence

Home - Creature Comforts - daily inspiration, style, diy projects + freebies D.I.Y. Nail Project | general I’m not sure where this came from in the tumblr universe. I traced it back as far as tumblr blog, kayliafisher, but I thought the creative readers of BUST would enjoy this fun D.I.Y. nail project! One blogger, Lost In Drawers, gave it a try with some really cute results. Here are the D.I.Y. So easy! Update: Original source is blogger Zuzu from Insideofmy purse.com

Oh the lovely things Seven tips on how to wear colour When it comes to heart health, is it better to eat a low-fat or Mediterranean-style diet? Either one will do just fine, according to recent research. A study led by Dr. Katherine Tuttle of the Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., showed both diets provide equal cardiovascular benefit, and people on either diet fare better than those not on a diet program. The study involved 101 people who had recently survived a heart attack. Both diet plans were low in saturated fat and cholesterol; however, the Mediterranean diet had a higher fat content in the form of monounsaturated fat and omega-3 fatty acids from plant- and fish-based sources. The study also featured a comparison group: 101 patients hospitalized for a first heart attack who received standard care and a low-fat diet but no intensive dietary counselling. Both diet groups did equally well. This finding was welcome news for some participants, Tuttle notes.

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