Here are the TOP TEN Fashion Mistakes according to Fashion Pshychologists..
Ya, that's right its your moment of truth..
The doctor is in... your closet! (seriously.. ignore the bad jokes.. but not the post :P)
AGE:
1. Too young: Aging can involve a grieving of your former young self, part of this grief process includes DENIAL. Move toward acceptance and act your age.
This includes throwing away Seventeen magazines when you are forty, staying out of stores that serve as hangouts for the local middle schoolers, using crazy patterns and cutesy colors sparingly, lowering the hem of your skirt and pant, and raising the décolletage line of your dress or shirt. If you are wearing the same clothing as your daughter you may need to seek professional fashion help!
2. Too old: Nothing is more depressing than seeing a bright young thing dressing like Marian, Madam Librarian. The way to keep a wardrobe fresh is to purge the items that have come around a second time and get the new and improved versions of them. Open up the spaces of the body which includes wider leg trousers and v-necks. Keep the classics but spice them up with an appropriate trend for your age, which could include a change of a shoe or bag. Identify your assets and bring attention to them with your clothing and accessories.
BODY:
3. Too tight: Shrink wrapping yourself into your clothing will not fool anyone. You will not look a size smaller, but in fact make yourself look even larger. Keep casings for your sausages! If you see a pull, stretch, rip, or strain do not buy or wear the item. Sizes are not standardized in the everywhere, so a size 2 may be a size 10 in another store or even within a designer's line. Ignore the number. It does not measure your worth! Just find the right size.
4. Too loose: Would you put a sack over the Mona Lisa?
Then why in the world would you wrap yourself in an oversized garment? Do not hide from the world. Find outfits that fit you properly, which means fitting the largest part of your body and tailoring the rest if necessary. If it is comfort you seek, there are other alternatives to the over sized sweater or stirrup pant. Try a great wrap dress or jean. Trust me they can compete with your ratty sweatshirt any day of the week!
LIFESTYLE:
5. Too safe: Just because your life consists of staying at home to take care of your children or sitting in an office all day does not mean you can't buy an outfit that is an outlier. A statistical outlier is that data that lies beyond the norm. If you fashion norm would only include jeans and a t-shirt buy an outlier, like a cocktail dress. If your fashion norm would only include a suit, buy a cashmere lounge set. These outlier garments are great ways to try new things and think out of your box!
6. Too out there: If you still have your maternity clothes and you have just gone through menopause your wardrobe no longer serves a function. If you haven't seen snow in years and your closet is crammed with ski gear and winter wear, your closet wants its space back. You wardrobe should be useable. If the items in the closet don't match your life, and you are finding you have "nothing to wear". Find out what your life requires of you and get the wardrobe to match.
COMFORT:
7. Too casual: Are you oriented times four? In psych terms, that means oriented to time, place, person, and situation. Your outfit should reflect your orientation to who you are, where you are, when you are, and what you are doing. Wearing a ripped leather mini and bikini top when you are an octogenarian senior executive (who) raising money for a conservative initiative (what) in a church (where) during the dead of winter (when) may land you in a psych ward!
8. Too formal: All dressed up and nowhere to go doesn't make wearing sequins to a camping trip appropriate. A bit hyperbolic but true. If you are bracing the elements, such as skiing, biking, hiking, working out, or sailing, keep it simple with activity and weather appropriate ensembles. Remember your clothing will get dirty. Looking high maintenance is not attractive and using clothes that are too formal for an occasion can translate that message loud and clear. Your outfit should fit the occasion (see #7). If you seem to overdress add sparkle sparingly and think separates. A pair of jeans can look great with a white tank and sequin boyfriend blazer or jeweled platform pumps. If you look completely overdressed, just remove the "too formal" item.
IDENTITY:
9. Too predictable: I won't mention any names but there are some celebs out there who can have their heads chopped off, and you know who they are by the outfit. Wearing the same thing over and over again, even in different colors, can be bland. How would you like to eat the same meal every day? Be a feast for the eyes and change it up a bit. Avoid the temptation to get the same garment in different colors. Pick up the wardrobe item that makes your heart race a little because it is a "risky" piece. Start small by changing a shoe or accessory and then move to larger clothing items.
10. Too away from self: Trying too hard to be anyone but you often leads to fashion horrors. Clothing should enhance who you are not render you unrecognizable. If you can't find your fashion identity look at design elements of other items you like such as décor, photographs, paintings, and sculptures. Use these colors, patterns, and forms in your wardrobe.
Inquiring minds want to know.... tell me your list of fashion mistakes and tips! What are your tips for Winter Fashion?
Stop Embarrassing Yourself!
Mode Parisienne : Serena van der Woodsen
After the first new episode of Gossip Girl, I must say their Parisian fashion is to die for! I was especially wowed by the gorgeous outfit Serena is wearing in the promo for the next episode. The combination of gold with cobalt blue and white is literally a feast for the eyes. I, of course, had to go on the hunt for some similar pieces of my own. If I do say so myself, I think I nailed it!
1. Bop Basics Keep Me for Bop Basics Oversized Tank
2. Elizabeth and James Triple Pocket James Blazer
3. Moschino Cheap and Chic Tapered Cotton-Blend Pants
4. Dolce Vita Women’s Saber Peep-Toe Pump
Hello Gorgeous Hair
I don't want to write just another 'How to get Gorgeous hair' post, there's plenty of information available out there... Seriously... then what is this post about... ?
This is just to remind you that the best advice need not cost you loads of money or time. It is common sense!
FACT - It not require a multitude of hair products or handfuls of expensive vitamins to get luxurious locks. All you need to do is - get out of the shower, and step into the kitchen. (Shocker ... right?!)
Your hair grows about 1/4 to 1/2 inch every month, and the foundation of all of our new hair, skin, and nail growth is the nutrients we eat,
So, If you eat a healthy diet, you will grow stronger and healthier cells throughout your entire body -- inside and out."
FACT - Hair experts say that if you were born with fine, thin hair, you'll never have rope-thick tresses (ask me!)-- no matter what you eat -- but a well-balanced diet will surely be the Icing on the Hair!
Hair is your ultimate accessory; it can make (or mar) your looks instantaneously. Keeping it healthy is the only thing you can do to ensure they look fab.
Now that we've established the recipe for healthy hair is a Balanced Diet and Diet alone, here are the 5 ingredients on your Healthy Hair Menu to ensure Gorgeous Hair :
Green Leafy Vegetables: If you think Popeye, ate spinach only to double his muscles, you might just be wrong. It is an exceptional source of vitamins A and C, which our body needs to produce Sebum - a natural hair conditioner, secreted by our hair follicles. They also provide iron and calcium. So the next time you ponder about salad dressing, soup ingredients and sandwich fillings think of seasonal leafy vegetables.
Poultry Products: These products carry high-quality protein, which ensures healthy hair. Insufficient proteins or bad-quality protein intake can result in fragile hair and greying. Poultry products also carry iron that has great digestive value, which means our body is not required to make extra efforts to reap benefits from the mineral. They also contain B-complex and vitamin B-12, which are important beauty nutrients.
Spices: Most of think that spices aren't good for health but a few of them like turmeric, cumin and black pepper are essential for healthy hair growth. For eg., Oregano is a strong antiseptic so it helps you get rid of dandruff and itchy scalp. Salt contains iodine which controls thyroid hormones and prevents hair loss.
TIP : Be watchful while using spices however. They are healthy only if you use them adequately.
Stay Hydrated: Do you know that one-fourth of the weight of a strand of hair is made of water? Water nourishes hair to make them look silky and shiny. To keep your body well hydrated, doctors recommend drinking at least six to eight ounce glasses of water every day.
Go for Fruits. Haven't we heard this from our grannies and moms? Apples, Berries, Musk Melons, Oranges, Grapes and Raisins help make our hair healthy by providing important minerals and vitamins, and keeping our body hydrated.
TIP : An easy way of ensuring a balanced diet is by eating at least one fruit daily from each of these color groups - red, green, orange and purple. Red fruits may include apples, strawberries and pomegranates. Green fruit choices are grapes, guava and custard apple. Orange fruits are peach, orange and mango. And purple coloured fruits include blackberries, plums and raisins.
Meat and Minerals: Meat and seafood have a high content of zinc and iron, which are proven to prevent hair loss. "To improve the natural color of your hair, include copper in your diet. Apart from vegetables and nuts, meat and liver are good sources of copper.
TIP : If your hair is dry and breaks easily, the reason might be deficiency of vital fatty acids. For strength and luster eat oily fish such as tuna and salmon.
Aisha - Love the fashion
In the past decade, Indian films have been increasingly associated with the fashion industry.
Now, comes Aisha - an Indian movie that promises to give glimpses of high street fashion in India and set a benchmark for Bollywood.
Budgeting 20 crore rupees the movie features brands like DLF Emporio, L’Oreal Paris and Portico...le sigh!.. .
the Dior association is visibly the strongest.
Its been said that the tie ups with the fashion brands took almost six months to work out before and during the scripting stage. Both Portico and L’Oreal have a number of TV commercials lined up that uses imaging from the film to promote their products. .. looks like Bollywood has a far wider impact and reach than anticipated before.
Stay tuned for more...
Beauty Trends that need to be dumped this fall
ICE THE FROST "I’d like to see the end of the frosty trend. I think frost, as a rule, should be avoided. So if you’ve got a frosty pink gloss or a frosty nail polish – not that there’s not an exception to the rule once in a while – but in general they aren’t flattering and they’re kind of dated looking to me. I don’t think it’s modern."
FRUMPY FRIZZIES Girls always want what they haven’t got, especially when it comes to hair. Brundage has noticed a trend of girls spending hours in the chair to achieve towering, frizzy tresses. “It’s a surprising trend that I’m not wild about.”
ROLLERS?! “I got a phone call not too long ago from a New York paper wanting me to comment on the trend of people wearing rollers in their hair. And I was like, ‘are you kidding?!’ They told me Reese Witherspoon was recently pictured with rollers in her hair, and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I just can’t go there.’” Smart woman.
DARK LIPLINER “I wrote a column recently on the biggest beauty blunders and one of them was girls who wear dark, dark lipliner,” remarks Brundage. “Or, girls that draw in these really overdone lips where we all know that those are not their real lips.” Yikes.
THE REAL SECRET TO BEING FABULOUS
Having witnessed one too many beauty blunders, Brundage has observed that the truly chic and stunningly stylish woman understand something crucial: they only embrace trends that actually work for them. “What differentiates the “stylish” from the people who just try and never really succeed,” explains Brundage, “is that you want to embrace what works for you. So take a trend if you see a trend, and let’s say it’s dark nail polish, let’s say it’s red lips, whatever it is, if it doesn’t work for you, it’s not a good trend for you to embrace. Wait until the next season when something that will suit you better appears. You always kind of want to pick and choose based on what works for you. The most important thing is that you never want to embrace any kind of a trend that isn’t making you look fabulous – that isn’t embracing you back.”
Dress to be in
Need the latest trend, or simply an inspiration? Check out these really chic dresses making waves :)
Indian Kurti : An ethnic style statement
Embellished kurtas will never go out of style in India. At the moment, however, they are cropping up on the international fashion scene as well and not without good reason -- comfortable, trendy and very eye-catching, you can wear them to practically any social do.
The best part is the availability -- you can snag yourself a kurta pretty much anywhere in your city. 
Stores selling both ethnic and Western wear usually have some lovely ones in stock, or you could even take your pick from the streets -- some tiny roadside stalls sell truly stunning kurtas embellished with sequins, embroidery and bandhani work. Of course, you could go for high-end creations as well, by prominent Indian designers who will charge you as much.
To make a style statement, pick a colourful kurta and team it with a pair of jeans or formal trousers for a night out. Stilettos will add that classy touch and you will be looking your best!
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