One shoulder tops now my fav...Tuesday Mar 6

I am now a one shoulder top convert.  I used to not really get them.....but nooowwww.....ohhh yeah!  So thanks to Nicole, I now have my own borrowed for the next 10 years one shoulder top!

Don't mind my face....I was really grumpy when I took these last night.  OKAY so....new borrowed one sleeve sweater, my Lena Quist leggings (again...sigh....I know) and my Browns boots....add a leather cuff in there too!!

Detail on the one shoulder of the sweater....and of course my new tattoo! And Stella&Dot mixed chain earrings!

Zee leggings!!!!  Oh so yummy!  Don't you want to rub them??  It's okay...I don't mind.

Liquid Gold and Ginger Hair....Tues Feb 28

New hair!  So fun!  So a dazzling outfit to go with it!  I bought this dress last xmas (like not the one we just had, but the one before that) and wore it once to my husbands xmas party....annnnnd that was it.  The fabric of the dress is such that is shows EVER bump, lump, roll, dimple etc so I haven't been super comfy wearing it, until now!

Paired with black tights, black belt and my black heeled boots...which thinking about it after, was a bad choice for footwear when you work 10am-9pm and stand on your feet all day.  Whoops.

                                                            Gold dangle earrings....

The dress fabric closer....total shimmer.

New hair colour and a super smokey eye!

Tuesday Jan 24th BIG GIRL DRESS DAY!

I adore Bia Boro!  They basically own my soul....well a piece of it right after red wine, my husband, my kids and a good old fashioned dance party.  Wait....and after Halloween.  Okay so they're in line for a piece of my soul but I love them none the less!  Before Christmas I went in looking for a dress for my xmas party and wouldn't you know it!  I walked away with two amazing dresses!!!  This one I thought would be good for a dinner our or work so it was a win win!

So the dress is like a velour type fabric with raised parts and flat parts and texture galore!!  It's amazing!  Fitted and just the right length on sleeves and hem!

It has a zipper running allllllllllll the way down the back, which you can't really see but the dress is very slightly ruched (spelling?) up to the zipper down the back.  I have to be careful around Gillian at work though because she threatens to unzip me one day. 

And all my leggings are in the wash so it's thigh high socks for me!  Saucy!

The jewellery.  Red earrings from JJ's.

And the makeup.....cat eyes and red lips!

This dress makes me feel totally put together, professional yet amazingly sexy.  A friend came in and exclaimed "You look hot!  You don't even look like you have like seven kids!" which to me is the ultimate!  Do you have a dress that makes you feel this way??

I need you to give me "fashion challenges" next week! Oh, and it's Tuesday Oct 18th!

So I've been called out.

"I am sorry to say that I have been reading all your fashion blogs and looking at the pictures and your outfits all look about the same. Tight dark pants/leggings, loose layered shirts. Mostly black with a bit of grey."

They're onto me ALREADY!  I haven't been doing this long enough to have my secrets figured out yet!  But it's totally true.  I am completely afraid of colour.  I enjoy it on other people, but when I try and wear it myself....I just feel like everyone is staring at me!  And I have no problems with being the center of attention (understatement of the year award goes toooo.....) but it just feels weird.  Luckily with my job, black is "the" colour.  It saves your clothes from a multitude of messes.  Colour doesn't stain quite so much...the gazillion of hairs stuck to you every day don't show up as much.....and in our industry, it's the universal "professional" hairstylist colour.  There are many salons that the stylists wear all black (maybe a bit of white...maybe) and that's it.  Head to toe.  Now that I can do!  I always use it as an excuse when I'm out shopping too.  I do education for a colour company which involves me going into other salons and teaching staff there how to use the colour line.  My dress code for such occasions is black.  So I can always say "well, I need black for work so I can buy another black shirt!" but I know I need to expand my closet.  That was the point of this blog really.  To challenge myself and to have others challenge me.  So I'm going to accept this as challenge #1 - attempt some colour.  Maybe a few days in a row.  Maybe by next week I'll have a week of challenges?  Okay, that might be a bit much for an entire week...but it is almost Halloween.  And Halloween week, the challenges could even be a bit more "out there"!  Who's in??  Here's the next weeks schedule....

Tuesday Oct 25th - as much colour as possible (or is as little black as possible okay?)
Wednesday Oct 26th -
Thursday Oct 27th -
Friday Oct 28th -
Saturday Oct 29th -

So I'll update this week as the suggestions come in!  And try and post every day in real time next week with the outfits!  It was also suggested to me a sweater dress....which I love the idea of....but don't own.  So I'm on the hunt for one and that should come up soon too!!  So what else am I wearing next week?? 


Until then....here is Tuesday Oct 18th.  Keep in mind i'm attempting a bra today....and feeling much more perky!!

Oh yeah...the girls are up where they should be!!   Okay so black mini dress....leopard tights and belt!  Also the ugliest boots in the universe....

Ugh those things are hideous!  Hahaha!  I need some new work flat boots...maybe some mid calf length?  Or like....shoes.  A pair of shoes that aren't heels!!  Suggestions??

Look at those perky boobs!  It's alllllllll bra!

So what do I need for footwear?  And what are my fashion challenges for next week??





Tuesday Oct 4th

So I didn't take pics of me on Sunday or Monday...my days off.  I figured nobody needs to see what I wear on my days off.  It is pretty attractive mind you......Barry's old shirts, pants, long sleeve button up flannel and sometimes even his boxers and socks.  Imagine a homeless person, but like, a fairly new homeless person so really the clothes are mostly ill fitting and faded, ripped and a little stained.  Not like urine stained or growing mold or anything.  That's pretty much what I look like on my days off.  Honest.  Pop over on a Sunday morning and see for yourself!!  So here's Tuesday!  Now, let me set up the day for you.  It was COLD.  Like, wet and rainy and the kind of day where you don't want to get up or wake up or leave the house.  It was a really slow day at work and half my day was going to be spend getting my own hair done.  So I didn't really dress up much.  Comfort was top of the list!!  Nicole at work made fun of my sweatshirt but it's okay.  She probably was secretly envious that she wasn't wearing a super awesome baggy sweatshirt with pockets.  Maybe she can borrow mine.

Okay so it is pretty sloppy.  I didn't think it looked so sloppy in real life.  You can't see from this pic but I'm wearing a very long stretch tank under which covers my butt and comes mid thigh so it looks like a tight tube skirt under the baggy sweatshirt and over the leggings.  And the socks...

.....a little wicked witch of the west as my Mom likes to say.  I figured it sort of "dressed" up that dreary rainy day!  And of course my boots.  Favorite things ever.  Browns and a quite a few years old but I get complements on them still!  Best $(enter ridiculously high number here) I ever spent!! 

So what do you think?  Sweatshirts at work?  Too sloppy?