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Secrets To A Swimsuit That Flatters Your Figure

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Being in a bathing suit is weird. You're, like, almost naked. I don't care how comfortable you are in your skin, it's kind of bizarre that it's socially acceptable to wear so little clothes in public, right? Meanwhile, with so little fabric and so little diversity in shape, it's very hard to apply a lot of the style principles I teach: how to be empowered over a garment, change the shape, the silhouette, the style chemistry, where the eye goes.

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How To Get Zooey Deschanel Bangs

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I have spent my life on a womanly quest, often ending in heartbreak {or heartbreakingly awkward photos}. I earnestly sought an answer, striving to be cool, or at least not uncool. It was a gift my mother could not pass down, a challenge my sister did not share. I journeyed alone and it took me 30 years to arrive. I wanted bangs. In 2nd grade I cried when forced to slick back my bangs for a ballet recital, convinced I

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Style In Bloom

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]First things first can we talk about how much I love the balcony-ette at the new Dean Street Studio?! I was on a mini mission with #ChooseJoyJune as something I'm trying to embrace more every month of the year: little intentional moments. I'm a master at hustling through life's moments of gumption, and I embrace seasons of grace when I get to travel, but in the everyday it's a habit I'm having to build. Do you empathize? If so, my

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