wearing: purple and lace

Do you have any weird fashion rules you've given yourself? For some reason, I can't convince myself that wearing my hair up with a lower-cut shirt is perfectly fine. I don't know why I think it's not a good look, but most of the time, I fine a higher collar when planning to throw my hair up.

So this time, I knew I wanted to do my side-braided-teased-pony, and needed to find a top. This lace tee with pleather lining was perfect.

As I'm typing this, I realize that EVERYTHING I'm wearing is from Forever21, including the earrings and shoes.

How fab are these?! And they're probably the best fitting/most comfortable flats I own. I need to see if they have more of the same, but different. They were only $8!

Playing with purple on my eyes is my favorite. Both of the purples are from Urban Decay, called Fishnet and Ransom from the Deluxe palette.

French braid the sides, tease the top, double band it for some extra kick in the back, and I feel like a rockstar.

This was actually for a day when we had Haim in the studio. We didn't get to record anything, but they were hilarious. Turns out, one of them accidentally slapped Chingy in the face one night when trying to excitedly high-five her friend at a club. Oh, the LA life. 

Someone took the picture on 2 instead of 3. Woops. 

Welp. See ya.

love,
elizabethany

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wearing: polka dots and lace

Pinterest gave me the one math equation we can all remember this spring:

                 floral + polka dots = a must! 

I'm down with it. Switch out the polka dots with stripes, and we have TWO things to work with!

It was just the inspiration I needed for a client party I went to for my Norfolk/VA Beach station last week. I wanted to be dressy without being too much. I dug though my skirt drawer and found this gem that I too often forget about.

Originally I left the shirt tucked in, but I ended up untucking the back half. It felt more casual. 

-LC Lauren Conrad top c/o Kohl's

-crochet/lace skirt from Charlotte Russe clearance

-booties from F21 clearance [similar]

-necklace from F21

-simple gold studs

-light pink/nude lip gloss from Ipsy that I'm still getting used to

The necklace is actually a lot more pink/rose gold than pictured, I think... 

There's something I have to admit, though... Just as I was leaving the station to head down there, I ripped the freaking skirt! I ended up having to take the hooks from a pair of earrings in my car and "sewing" it back together so it wasn't flapping around. Hi ghetto fabulous. I'm really hoping I can figure out a way to sew and fix it for real. 

love,

elizabethany

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giveaway! get some goodies from white owl boutique

Ya know what's great? Sales, discounts, and free stuff during the holidays. Duh. Know what's even better? Treating yourself with them.

I'm pumped about this new online boutique that I connected with on Instagram. It's called White Owl Boutique, and just launched on Black Friday. Since then, they've been having great deals like free jewelry and cheap shipping.

NOW.. you can get 25% off just for following me around the world wide web!

But first.. let me just show you what I got. [Don't mind the dirty mirror. Guess I'll wipe that down when I get home....]

Been wanting some fake leather leggings for a while, so I decided to go for it! My friends helped me put this outfit together, even though I'm totally apprehensive about the leggings-as-pants thing. Now... I'm loving it. It's half daytime and half going out... perfect!

Check out the lace detail to make em all fancy and fun and different!

This necklace and the black sweater were some of my Black Friday finds. [More on that later!]

This is my What Ya Wearin Wednesday outfit! I got the cardigan with leather detail and super long earrings from White Owl! I figured I should just go all leather and lace for this post!

Normally I'd be all "WOAH THAT'S WAY TOO MUCH" with earrings this long.. but after five minutes of wearing these I became slightly obsessed. I forgot how fun earrings can be.

SO... if you wanna buy something, make sure you use the discount code elizabethany! It'll get ya 25% off anything! 

And while you're at it, enter the giveaway! Yay-yuh, I'm excited to be able to give someone $25 to White Owl Boutique if you enter in various ways below: 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Yay! Good luck!

love,
elizabethany

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fashion inspiration: joan watson of elementary

If you don't watch Elementary, you're missing out and probably should. First of all, it's a great show. Second, Lucy Liu/her character Joan Watson has a style that I'm growing obsessed with it.

I noticed it last season, but always thought "I can't pull any of this off." Then I realized I was subconsciously buying a lot of things she wears.

SO.. I gathered some of my favorite looks of hers for us all to be inspired by.

She does a lot of skater-style dresses and skirts, but she dresses down, too. She also has a great collection of jackets and cardigans, winter shorts, and booties.

There are also a lot of drop-waist dresses like this.

So many ways to rock the loose shorts and tights!

Or leather shorts..

Pretty obsessed with the leather and lace outfit on the right. You also don't see a whole lot of accessories on her outside of hats and scarves.

I totally saw a dress just like this at H&M... then add a military jacket and tights.. bam!

A white blazer or jacket in the winter.. Casual but so goodddd. 

I'm going to start paying even closer attention to her outfits and posting them even more. After getting almost the exact same boots she has on in the last picture [on Target clearance!], I realize I might have a lot more of what she's wearing.

What's your favorite look of hers? OR.. is there a fictional character's style you're loving?! Do share!

love,

elizabethany

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eb fashion: white dress after labor day

Lauren Conrad said it's 2012 and you can totally wear white after Labor Day, and what LC says- goes.

I've seen a lot of lacy dresses all over Pinterest, a couple that were white, and I've totally wanted one, just never thought I'd find one for cheap. Then I did. It was a whopping $14 at Ross, and couldn't be snatched up by my fingers fast enough.

I have a lot of plans for this dress, and maybe I'll combine them all into one eventually, but this is the first quick one I threw together:

The belt came on a pair of shorts, and the sandals are from Express, on sale, with a $35 off $75 coupon... I think I ended up paying about $18 for them. Gold leaf earrings from a random NYC street shop for less than $3- Bam. $35 outfit.

And just to "EB" the outfit a little bit [AKA make it less classy], I was later seen riding a bull with a hott German twin later that night... while having blurry vision.

I've been really lucky at Ross lately, but I definitely think it has everything to do with the location of the store and the day you go on. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out which day is the best yet. I do know that if you're in the Hampton Roads area, get your butt in the Princess Anne location in VB.

love,
elizabethany

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