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Category: Inspiration

Every Week The Beauty Spotlight Team Brings You Beauty and Style Tips

My beautiful readers, as you probably know, the Beauty Spotlight Team is featured every week here at Your True Self Blog. As a result, you can regularly find up-to-the-moment beauty and style tips. Today our bloggers present some of their best new finds, from tools to hand and body products that go beyond. They are so good, you might want to share them as gifts. As the fashion blogger on our team, I am connecting you with my post on dressing up your day look. We hope you’ll take a moment to enjoy each of the four topics below. Just click on each subject to get the full benefit of our offerings.

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From Easy to Awesome: Over 50 Ways to Wear a Plaid Shirt

Plaids are always loved and in style for fall and winter.  There are probably a million ways to wear your plaid shirts.  But I have come up with over 50 ideas here from easy to awesome.  I hope they inspire you to experiment with different ways to wear this closet staple.  And I start it all off with some style tips.  To me, a plaid shirt is a laid-back classic that evokes casual comfort.  Over the years, I have collected all these outfit ideas so that I never have to wear my plaid shirts the same way twice.  Getting dressed is more interesting for me that way.  In the process, I have discovered some awesome outfit combinations and some in-depth layering techniques.

You’ll be able to wear and enjoy your plaid shirts more often when you style them in new ways.  Age doesn’t matter.  You can be bolder when you’re older because you have the experience to know best how to express yourself.

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This Week’s Blog Roundup Advises You on Women’s Health, Beauty & Style

Welcome to this week’s Beauty Spotlight Team blog roundup! We have six blog posts today with great advice on women’s health, beauty and style. Here’s what we’ve got for you:

  • a quick hydrating mask;
  • a super glow moisturizer;
  • organic, pleasurable face products;
  • over-40 style;
  • how to dress up a sweatshirt;
  • information you need to know for bone health; and
  • styling your wardrobe after 40.

Just click on your favorite topics below to find out all about them!

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How to Get Inspired by Gothic Style

The elements of Goth fashion derive from the Victorian Gothic era in the 19th Century, styled on the dark side.  Think Edgar Allen Poe.  Present-day Goth originally emerged from the post-punk scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, and has caught on around the world and persists to this day.  It is mysterious and poetic, edgy and dramatic.  So whether you are Goth from way back or just looking into it, I have some up-to-date ideas here for how to get inspired by Gothic style.

Age doesn’t matter.  You can get bolder as you get older.  That’s not to say you can’t tone down this, or any, style.  You can always be your true self and then throw in an element of style for fun, experimentation or self-expression.  Trying out new things keeps us modern and youthful, and adding a third piece to a basic outfit is what makes things interesting.

So I am going to lay out the elements of Goth style, but you don’t have to use them all at once.  One at a time is just fine.  You can go crazy with it, you can add Goth pieces to something that’s the total opposite, you can wear it just for Halloween, or you can just buy one piece that you love and wear it forevermore.  😉

What follows are the elements and outfit ideas to get you inspired by Gothic Style.

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