For this post, I teamed up with Miranda Xiong to show you how she created this everyday look for some upcoming shoots. For more information on Miranda, to see her previous work or to contact her, follow the link above.  Step 1 - Hydrate face and neck with embryolisse lait-crème concentré. Step 2 - Prime face with MAC prep and prime radiant yellow and prime...

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If you've been following my blog the past few months, you'll notice a significant change in what I am choosing to promote. Instead of featuring something because it is cute or fits the color of the year, I wanted my impact as a blogger to have a greater reach.  Since returning from my trip to India in January, I have decided that from...

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Do you ever want to look chic but struggle to do so because you live in an unpredictable climate and have to layer up? Me too.  With Minnesota's weather being so back and forth lately, I have really struggled to put together outfits that don't leave me sweating on hot days or freezing on cold days. (Actually at this rate, Minnesota's weather is...

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Nerd: /nurd/ a single-minded expert in a particular field. In "old-fashioned" terms (aka when I was younger, aka the late 90's/early 2000's) a nerd was an anti-social outcast who liked books more than they liked people. A nerd was not something you wanted to be and you definitely didn't hang out with them, or at least you didn't if you cared about your...

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When I say the words "clothing swap" what do you think of? If you had asked me a year ago, I would have answered with something along the lines of "ugly hand me downs" or "pieces no one else wanted." Looking back on that opinion now, I see that that was not my personal mindset on the topic, but was/is a societal view...

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