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The Best Beauty Advice I Ever Received
My parents divorced when I was young and my brother and I grew up living with our dad. Dad’s really loving and supportive in general, but sometimes I think he went the extra mile to try and bridge the Mom gap when we were with him. Out of the blue one day he announced that my grandmother had always had beautiful skin. He went on to add that she was religious about moisturizing. I didn’t know where this random thought was coming from, so I just listened. Then it got personal: “It’s really important, Aimee – you need to moisturize.” I didn’t know what to do with this new self-care directive, so I…
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What Do You Do When The World Hands You More Alone Time Than You Know What To Do With?
If you’re me, you do the thing you’ve been thinking and talking about for ages: you finally launch your website! You also pop up around town as inconspicuously as possible in your favorite outfits and teach yourself how to take stylish self-timed photos to add to that website. You might look and feel a little silly, but you’re also likely to have a lot of fun along the way! And if you’re really gonna go for it, you hit publish while the site’s still in development, because you know if you wait until it’s just right, it’ll never go live! Can you relate? Are you working on any passion projects? Tell me about…
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When a Forgotten Seed Blooms in a Beautiful and Unexpected Way
Growing up, I absolutely adored fashion magazines. I waited eagerly for them to arrive each month, pored over the outfits, and saved the ads and articles that inspired me. Of all the details I took in, one photo especially stuck with me. It was part of a fashion spread featuring a tall, curvy girl next door in jeans and a chambray shirt, barefoot, outside, and looking like she was ready to host a picnic in her yard. What stuck with me most was that she had a fuller figure than I was used to seeing in magazines and the bottom few buttons of her shirt were undone, exposing a cute little triangle of…
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Gorgeous, Wear Anywhere, $26 Plus Size Maxi Dress
Sometimes our favorites sneak up on us. That was the case with this stretchy floral maxi dress I bought from Amazon three years ago. I’d never really been comfortable in maxi dresses, but Instagram was abuzz about this one. I’d also never bought clothes on Amazon. The dress came in several colors and patterns, and unlike many that I’ve wondered about online, I was assured this dress actually fit the women with similar figures to mine. The price was reasonable ($26!), I really liked the pattern, and if you saw my IG post about it, you know the clincher was… it had pockets! As much as we all rave about discovering pockets in…
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In the Dark About Which Jeans Suit You Best? That Might Be a Good Thing!
I enjoy ordering clothes online, but notice that I tend to order more dresses and tops than pants. I think it’s because I have better luck with things I’m not expecting to expertly hug and enhance my curvy hips, belly and booty. I’d been hearing good things about Old Navy’s jeans, but never tried them, so when they had a big sale, I ordered a bunch to compare. I prefer high-waisted pants – everything stays where I want it to and they’re less likely to roll at the waist when I sit down. Old Navy’s high-waisted jeans have Secret-Slim pockets that “hold you in, while an interior elastic waistband helps shape and smooth,”…
