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Welcome to the Everyday Icon Style Podcast

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, your guide to unlocking your inner icon

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through the transformative power of style

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, wardrobe and closet organization

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. Join me , your host Tiffany

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, as we discover your true style potential

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and elevate your professional presence

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. Are you ready to unleash the Everyday

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Icon within you ? Then let's

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get started .

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Hi everyone and welcome back to the Everyday Icon

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Style Podcast . I am your host , tiffany

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, and I have missed you guys . I know it's been

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almost a month since I've done my last

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episode , but I am back

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only to go on vacation

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for real , for real this time in a few

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weeks , but don't worry , I will be back in January

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, but I wanted to leave you with a

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couple of episodes to help get you started

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with building and creating your style for

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the new year , because in 2024

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, we are leaving our old style

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fashion habits and all of that behind

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and with us expanding our

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careers whether we're getting new jobs or we want

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to go to that next level we

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want to look and feel our best . So

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let's dive right in today with

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how balancing professionalism

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and personal style . Now

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, with this , we want to start

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with the colors . Now

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, colors can actually be very

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important , so we

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do have to understand the importance of color . So

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the colors that we wear can significantly

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impact how we are perceived in a professional

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setting . So we want to choose the right

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colors that can enhance our appearance

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and convey confidence . Now

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, always remember we are dressing from the

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inside out , so if you put on

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, say , yellow , you should feel

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comfortable and confident in yellow

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, no matter where you go , no matter what you

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put on , and it doesn't have to be full

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from head to toe . It could be something as simple

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as when I talk about colors is

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. It could be a blouse , it could be a scarf

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, it could be shoes , it could be a handbag

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, just adding that extra pop

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of flair , but also just finding your

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base colors . Now , I

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know , because if I'm like any of you and you

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guys are like me you have a hard

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time with color . So here's

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what we are going to do when it comes to color

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we are going to create

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what I like to call your corporate

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career capsule

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wardrobe . So

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what that means is that

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we are going to buy the neutral colors

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your blues , your grays , your

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bones , your tans , your browns

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, your whites , your navies

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. We're going to stick with those colors

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and we are going to build

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up on that , because guess what , with

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these colors , they will

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go with everything , and

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we want to be able to build a strong

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foundation for our corporate

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wardrobe . And neutral colors

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are great . Now , I'm not saying go out and

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buy suits and things like that . No , you

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want to have a pair of pants in black

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, brown , navy gray

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, because they're going to go with everything the

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same thing with your blouses and

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your tops , sweaters

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, blazers , cardigans

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, shoes , the whole nine yards

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. We want to be able to start with this and

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build this , because anything

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we do on top of that , once we

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figure out what our actual

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style makeup is , you know

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, if we want to be and I mean by that is if

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we are edgy , if we

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are chic we

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will put that on top of and

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build on this foundation

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that we're creating , especially when it comes

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to the color . So , when

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it comes to color , if we're not great

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with color because I'm not always the greatest with color

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either we want to go ahead and

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build on our neutral colors

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, which will be the foundation , which

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is our corporate capsule wardrobe

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. I actually have a checklist

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of the corporate capsule wardrobe in the description

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box below , so be sure to go ahead

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and grab that today . The

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next thing that we want to do is we want

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to find a collection or brand that

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offers a professional look . Now

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we can go into tons of stores

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and we can become overwhelmed and

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it can become daunting because we

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don't know which brand , which

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store to go to . So , before

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you go shopping , you want to research and explore

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. So you want to go to places like

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Pinterest is a good place to

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start . You can go to the

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different websites and the different stores

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. Some stores that I'll give you right off the top

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of my head would be like Macy's

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, nordstrom's , new York and company

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. They're online Express

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. You want to try to find that

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and you want to start

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just by figuring

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out what stores and what style

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it or you attracted to . Now we're buying our

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neutrals , so the great thing about neutrals

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is that you can go to . I recommend

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anyway going to say

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your Macy's , your Nordstrom's , if you're in

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, you know , the South . We have Belk , we have

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Dillert to go ahead and find

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our neutrals there . Of course we have Marshall's

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and TJ Maxx . This

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will help with being able

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to incorporate

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our actual secondary type

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style . So say , if we're chic , we

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want to . We can then begin to add

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in our little chic pieces our

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scarves , our different

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blouses , our jewelry , things of that

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nature . If you work in an environment

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that you're able to wear graphic tees

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, guess what ? You can wear graphic tees

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with dress , slacks or jeans

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and blazers . For me

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, as I'm going through my style journey

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and building my style , I am actually liking

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the at leisure wear and I'm learning

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how I can actually wear that with

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my current corporate wardrobe

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staple pieces that I currently have

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, and I can incorporate it with

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that , so where it kind of looks really funky

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, really chic all at the same time

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and it's safe to wear in a corporate

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environment . So

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that is how we want to begin

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to look at that and also in

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my checklist

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there are a list of stores that will help you

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at different price points that you'll

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be able to go and look at and review

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. Great way to start is

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by going to just going to you know Pinterest

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and seeing the different styles of corporate

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wear and then finding out sometimes

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they are actually linked to stores

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or online boutiques to where you can get

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them from , and always remember when

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you're beginning to build this particular

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portion of your wardrobe , you

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want to make sure that you're buying your good quality

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pieces , so this is the area where

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you will want to spend the most time

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on , when you

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actually go shopping . All the other things

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will work about that . We're going to integrate

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. We will worry about those

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pieces later , but just building this foundation

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so that we have a professional

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look with incorporating

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and integrating our personal style

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. This will allow us to do that

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by going to see where exactly

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we can actually buy these pieces

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, and you'd be surprised . You can

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find them , even on Amazon

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. You can find them um

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TJ Maxx , marshalls , all of the

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stores . Remember , when you're

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building this particular section of your wardrobe

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, you want to make the purchases at

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the price point that you can afford . So

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I don't want you go out there breaking the bank

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, but the checklist will be able to also

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give you a great starting point on

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where to purchase and get the clothes

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. So next , you want

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to look at finding a flattering

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silhouette that will make

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, that will help you and give you

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the shape and the figure and accentuate

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what we already have . So

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do you ? Is it pencil skirts ? Is it

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a line skirts ? Is it straight

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leg pants ? Is it a little flare

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or a little bootleg ? Is it

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a crew neck ? Is it a crop , not

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a crop top ? Is it a ? Is

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it a crew neck ? Is it a V neck ? You

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want to begin to find those silhouettes

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. If you look at

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your favorite person and

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I want you to pick out their favorite person's closet

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or person that you love

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, their style , if

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you notice and look at them and Beyonce is

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a great person that I always

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like to use as an example , because

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she literally sticks to what she

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knows . She doesn't really

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deviate for much

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of anything . She always wears the same

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type of silhouettes whether

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it's dresses , whether it's pants , whether it's skirts , she

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pretty much has the same type of silhouette that

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she carries all the way through . So

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I would highly recommend going and figuring

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out that Another good person to

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look at is Michelle Obama . She always

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has and keeps the same silhouettes , so

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that way it's easier to shop

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, because then say for me , for example

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, if A-line skirts don't go well for me , but I know

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a pencil skirt does , I

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know that I will be looking for a little bit more pencil skirt

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than A-line . And

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it also takes into effect what looks

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good for your body shape . So there are

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different body shapes as well . You have a pair , you have

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an hourglass , you have a rectangle

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shape , and knowing your body

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type is also crucial in finding

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a flattering silhouette

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, because what works well for an hourglass may

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not work well for a rectangle . This

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is , of course , going to take trial and error , and

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this is why I always highly recommend going

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and trying on clothes before you

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purchase them . So if it doesn't

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look good on you in the dressing room , then

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you know you can leave it at the store

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. Another great way

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for finding reason to finding out your silhouette is

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you get to camouflage your areas of concern . So

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for me , it's my stomach . So I'm

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going to find ways that I can kind of camouflage

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my stomach and accentuate

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my waist , because I have a small waist . That

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way , people are more focused on that area and

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not the areas that we don't like . And

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there are areas that all of us don't really like and

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for me , I can definitely say , is my

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stomach . So I want to

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make sure that I'm also finding clothes that

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don't bring attention to that but

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puts their eyes and puts their focus

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on another area of my

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clothing . Another

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good thing for this is if you find something

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and it may not be necessarily

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in your size , you

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can go have it tailored to where

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. That way it can tailor to your body

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shape and body type . And

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what I'm also learning through this journey is that

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even if you buy it off the rack , you

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still want to have it tailored to your body , because

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guess what when you see it , when you

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buy it , and what it looks like when you first

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bring it home , as opposed to having a tailor

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take it in and make all the necessary

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adjustments . It will literally look like an

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entirely new outfit that is

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made just for you and fits

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like a glove for you . Also

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, when you get your

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main silhouette

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down , then you can begin to experiment with

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others , so you can begin to add

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a different variety with this , but right now

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, we just want to stick with creating and building

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the foundation that we really

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need so that eventually , we

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can build up on everything else . So

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, to recap what we talked about today

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, one we talked about finding

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a collection or brand that

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offers a professional look . We've

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talked about a color palette that suits

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your skin tone and hair color

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and when it comes and I didn't touch on hair

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color , when it comes to hair color , work

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with a stylist that will be able to help you with

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finding a color that suits you , that

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brings out your eyes , that

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accentuates , you know , all of your beautiful

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facial features and

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your skin tone , that will look

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great and wonderful , you know , no matter

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what style you have or anything of that

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nature . So you definitely want to make

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sure of working with that , and

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if you want to experiment without

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having to mess up your hair , there are

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wigs that you can experiment with

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. Buy some inexpensive wigs just to

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go in and

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experiment with colors before

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you actually make the full commitment

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of actually , if you have to say , dye your hair

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or adding pieces in to give

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yourself a little extra color and

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, last but not least , finding a flattering

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silhouette that will make

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you look amazing and great

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and confident . And , at the end of the

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day , that's what all of this is for . When

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we're building our foundation

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for our wardrobe and I think we always

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forget and I've talked about this before

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that we always tend to forget to build

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and lay that foundation . This

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foundation will carry you no

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matter what or how your style changes

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over the years , because it will change , but

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the foundation of your wardrobe will

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always stay the same . So

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I hope you enjoyed today's episode today . If

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you did and you love us and you

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do that as well . So I hope

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you guys have an amazing rest of your day

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, stay healthy , stay safe and

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, as always , I will talk to you guys next

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week in the next episode . Bye

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, guys .