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Wear to Where, Day 1 – Office Attire

When I think of office attire, my mind goes blank. I haven’t had to wear something traditionally “office-like” in over a year. I work in a casual environment and while I’ll wear dresses and skirts, I’m pretty sure everyone would think I’m interviewing somewhere else if I rolled in with trousers and heels. So my office-wear is drastically different from a lawyer.

The one thing I do know about office attire is that you don’t want to lose your personality. And today’s Wear to Where ladies have some seriously professionally fun outfits.

Wear to Where blog tour: Office Attire

Check out Nicolina.Co, Fashionably Employed, Creative Counselor, and Sprouting JubeJube, today’s models to see how they’re wearing their office fashions.


Be sure to head over to Wild+Wanderful or Gardening in High Heels to check out the other brilliant bloggers, sewists and stylistas on the tour, as well as be able to link up your own looks and show us what you would Wear to Where! Now let’s talk giveaway prizes for this tour!! For the sewists: Choice of 3 patterns from Cole’s Creations, Choice of 3 patterns from Made for Mermaids, Pattern of choice from Patterns for Pirates, Pattern of choice from Scientific Seamstress, Sewing-tee of choice from Sewing Stadium, Pattern of choice from Simple Life Pattern Co, Pattern of choice from StitchArt For the Fashionistas: Set of 6 cards from Designs by Nicolina, 30 minute Social Media/Copy Consult by Gardening in High Heels, Tee of choice from Handmade Escapade, $20 Store Credit from Jenny Penny Designs, Tumbler from Joy+Tren A big thanks to our amazing sponsors! Cole’s Creations | Designs by Nicolina | Gardening in High Heels Handmade Escapade | Jenny Penny Designs | Joy+Tren Made for Mermaids | Patterns for Pirates | Scientific Seamstress Sewing Stadium | Simple Life Pattern Co | Stitch Art a Rafflecopter giveaway
Link up with our bloggers each day and follow along with #WearToWhereTour.

What do you wear to your office?

Sunday Lately, 45

I finally had nitro coffee at Allegheny Coffee and Tea this week. I went for a pumpkin stout. It’s refreshing and I love it. And you should try nitro coffee if you should happen to find it. Amazing.

Nitro Coffee at Allegheny Coffee and Tea

Completing

Awesome: Lists. I am making a ton of lists to keep me organized before I break and drive to Virginia for Thanksgiving. I have everything from “pick up chipped ham” to “make sure someone gets the mail.” And I’m really hoping I can get Christmas presents purchased and wrapped so I can bring them with me.

Awkward: I’m writing this and listening to an indie alt playlist on Spotify and it’s making me irrationally angry. I feel like such an angsty teen and it’s weird.

Visiting

Awesome: I’ll be visiting my mom in a few weeks, hence the list making. I can’t wait for 6 uninterrupted hours in the car to listen to podcasts and new music. And not answer emails for a week. And to see her, of course.

Awkward: I was helping at the door for Propelle’s anniversary party and I was telling someone about this awesome giveaway they were doing and it turns out I was telling the artist all about her wonderful piece that was up for grabs. Because I’m awkward like that.

Repeating

Awesome & Awkward: Coheed and Cambria’s “You Got Spirit, Kid.” I can’t help it. I think it’s responsible for the “I’m mad but I don’t know why..” feeling that’s going on right now. So many teen memories.

Applauding

Awesome: Propelle’s 4th anniversary!

No awkward applause here!

Scheduling

Awesome: Coffee dates with some awesome Pittsburgh ladies I’m looking forward to getting to know better. And emails with Boomerang. I’m loving Boomerang.

Awkward: Last year around this time, I did a doctor blitz where I scheduled a bunch of appointments on the same day to get them in before the end of the year for insurance and now I have to do it again. I’ve spent enough time in hospitals these past few years, I should have an honorary degree. Can’t I just tell myself I’m fine?

What’s been going on with you lately?

Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup with Katy, Nicole and Meghan. Use their themes or use your own. Just remember to link up with them so we can see what is happening with you lately!

Sunday Lately, 44

I don’t know what happened, guys. I knew Sunday Lately was happening last week but I was stuck in a Parenthood marathon on Netflix and I just couldn’t tear myself away. Man that show is intense. I can only imagine how it would be if it were on HBO or something.

This week, I’m going to try something a little different. A while ago, I used to do weekly recaps called Awkward & Awesome (inspired by Sydney of The Daybook). And I loved it because, let’s face it, most days are sprinkled with both. So we’re going to try that.

Updating

Awesome: I bought papier mache pumpkins at JoAnns for 50% off the other day and I couldn’t resist busting out the spray paint and taking a crafting hour yesterday. I figured one could be gold, one could be ombre purple.

Spray paint paper pumpkins

Awkward: My ombre purple pumpkin. My purples weren’t quite the same; one was more lavender, one was more plum, so I tried to redo it. I painted over the whole thing only using one of the purples that I adjusted with black or white. Then I tried to sponge blend the seams together for a faded ombre. And that didn’t work. So it got covered in spray paint too.

Ombre purple pumpkin

Reminding

Awesome: My to-do list is getting crossed off. It’s a slow process, but I need a to-do list to remind me of the really important tasks that absolutely must get done. No work, no pay. No pay, no food. No food, no one wants to be around hangry Angelica. My lists are here for your safety.

Awkward: It’s November. How in the world did that happen?

Needing

Awesome: To catch up on other blogging friends and leave comments and support and all that awesome stuff. Blogging is no fun unless you have a community and people actually read what you write. Otherwise, you’re just pitching things into the void and wondering if they really make a difference.

Awkward: I haven’t been on other bloggers’ blogs in so long, I didn’t realize Katy changed up her header on her site. Bad Blogging Friend award goes to…..

Wearing

Awesome: A tutu! I made one quickly for my uncle’s Halloween party last night. It was inspired by Bobo. I’m not one for Halloween costumes anymore (even though I had some epic-awesome costumes like an old-timey radio and a bunch of grapes) so if I can make it and it isn’t too obtrusive (do you know how hard it is to trick-or-treat with a bunch of balloons sewn to your shirt?) I’m all for it.

Awkward: This week’s outfits were pretty awesome. No room for awkwardness in this closet. But just wait until I start taking pictures for Wear to Where. Then I’ll just feel awkward.

Being

I think being Awesome and Awkward pretty much sums it up today.What have you been up to lately?

What have you been up to lately?

Have you entered my You Guys Totally Rock so Here’s a Bunch of Things I Like and I Think You’ll Like, Too Giveaway? You should probably check it out. Like, now.
Sunday Lately is a weekly linkup with Katy, Nicole and Meghan. Use their themes or use your own. Just remember to link up with them so we can see what is happening with you lately!

Pin-up Inspired Look – The Makeup Mix-Up

I was feeling pretty good about this Makeup Mix-Up post. I had a solid idea of what I wanted to do thanks to Emily’s comment last week. So I tested the look and I was like yeah..this is it. And I did the makeup for real, shot the photos, and was getting ready to transfer them to my computer when I saw a tweet that was like, “12 Halloween looks that only require makeup!” and the photo attached was this insane iridescent mermaid scale look and that’s just going to blow my pin-up inspired look out of the water.

No pun intended. Well, maybe a little.

Anyway.. Emily mentioned that Halloween is all about being playful and sexy and suggested something like a pin-up girl. Any look that allows me to rock a red lip is cool by me.

Pin-Up Inspired Halloween Look for The Makeup Mix-Up | Gardening In High Heels

In my mind, a pin-up girl is flirty and fun and doesn’t take herself too seriously. But her lips are always on point and her eyes are bright. Instead of just a plain black cat eye, I decided to go one step further and add a little color. I chose purple because it doesn’t compete too much with the lips and it complements my eyes. I can also see this working with gold, blue, green..really anything as long as you do it with confidence.

Pin-Up Inspired Halloween Look | Gardening In High Heels

Pin-Up Inspired Halloween Look | Gardening In High Heels   Pin-Up Inspired Halloween Look | Gardening In High Heels

As much as I love makeup, I can’t do my hair to save my soul. I would have loved to rock some victory curls, but lord knows that wasn’t going to happen. So I went with a big bouffant. It totally goes with my polar-bear thermal shirt.

Pin-Up Inspired Halloween Look | Gardening In High Heels

Products used:

  • Naked Skin Foundation
  • Benefit Hi Beam Highlighter
  • Revlon Colorstay Bronzer in Bronzed & Chic
  • Sephora Baked Sculpting Trio in Sassy
  • Revlon Brow Fantasy in Brunette
  • Lorac Unzipped Palette
  • Maybelline Color Tattoo 24 Hour Metal in Painted Purple
  • Mary Kay Liquid Eyeliner in Black
  • Benefit They’re Real Mascara
  • NYC New York Color Angel Lash Mascara
  • Forever21 Love&Beauty Lipstick in Brick

What are you being for Halloween?

I’m joining in on the Makeup Mix-Up with Making Mrs. M and Miranda Writes.

Have you entered my You Guys Totally Rock so Here’s a Bunch of Things I Like and I Think You’ll Like, Too Giveaway? You should probably check it out. Like, now.

Vampy Vixen – The Makeup Mix-Up

Playing with makeup is great fun for me, but I tend to do the same thing over and over. I’m definitely stuck in a makeup rut. So I thought I would join in on the Makeup Mix-Up with Making Mrs. M and Miranda Writes. This week’s challenge: Vampy Vixen.

Vampy Vixen Makeup for the Makeup Mix-Up challenge using Urban Decay Naked 3 and Urband Decay Smoked palette | Gardening In High Heels

Now I’m not one for dramatic smoky eyes every day. I typically wear the same two styles: one all-over shadow or a simple smoke for daytime with purples/golds. So to jump in with this on Vampy Vixen is kinda like, “If I’m going to do this, I’m going to go balls to the wall.”

When I think Vixen, I think a strong cat-eye, lots of lashes, and bold lips. But when you throw in “vampy,” well, you gotta kick it up a little. When you do a Pinterest search for “vampy makeup,” it’s all dark, smoky eyes and blood red lips. That’s where I first went with this, but then I decided to do things a little differently.

To me, a vixen carries her power in her eyes. If looks could kill, you’d have already died. So I really wanted to focus on the eyes and bringing a lot of drama with a smudged out smoky cat eye.

True story, I had an entirely different look planned out, but it ended up being too dark. I need to have a little brightness to get the power in my eyes to stand out, so instead of dark all the way up to the lashes, I focused some gold on the inner corner and really smoked out the corners.

Vampy Vixen Makeup for the Makeup Mix-Up challenge using Urban Decay Naked 3 and Urband Decay Smoked palette | Gardening In High HeelsVampy Vixen Makeup for the Makeup Mix-Up challenge using Urban Decay Naked 3 and Urband Decay Smoked palette | Gardening In High Heels

Talk about if looks could kill…I’m throwin’ some serious shade here.

Vampy Vixen Makeup for the Makeup Mix-Up challenge using Urban Decay Naked 3 and Urband Decay Smoked palette | Gardening In High Heels

Vampy Vixen Makeup for the Makeup Mix-Up challenge using Urban Decay Naked 3 and Urband Decay Smoked palette | Gardening In High Heels

Products used:

  • Urban Decay Naked 3 / Smoked palettes
  • Pop Cat Eyes in Black Dahlia
  • Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Pencil in Uzi
  • Maybelline Color Tattoo 24 Hour Metal in Barely Branded
  • ColourPop Lippie Pencil in Tootsi
  • Revlon ColorBurst Matte Balm in 215 Shameless
  • Urban Decay Naked Skin
  • MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Light Year

What does “vampy vixen” makeup mean to you?

Next week’s look for the Makeup Mix-Up is Halloween Tease. I have no idea where to even begin with that. Any suggestions?

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