Late nights and early mornings are par for the course in many professional jobs, but you can’t show up to your job looking like you just pulled an all-nighter.  Looking fresh as a daisy (or as fresh as you can) is part of presenting yourself to your clients, constituents and employers as a person who […]

When the winter months comes around, you should re-stock your office emergency kit.  You never know what mini-crises you might run into working 9-to-whenever-the-work-is-done.  A professional lady should always be prepared. The Laundry Room.  Spill coffee on your blouse?  Skirt clinging like a bad boyfriend?  You can’t have your carefully chosen outfit ruined by an […]

Filling in the eyebrows is the step that most women leave out of their makeup routine.  To many women, it seems unnecessary.  But have a look at the photo below from Erin Ashley’s blog, and see for yourself what a difference filling in your brows can make. Filling in your brows is like a facelift. […]

Dear Belle, I was wondering if you could do a blog post on beauty and contouring your face. I want to do contour makeup myself for my engagement pics, but I’m at a loss on what products I need and how to apply. Do you have some favorite brushes, foundations, powders etc. that you would […]

A few years ago, I mounted a crusade against visible panty line.  Working women don’t always think about the smoothness of their rearview, and many types of full-seat underwear cause this unsightly fashion faux pas.  I was once afflicted with this terrible disease, but I never thought that I would be the kind of women […]

Last week, I wrote about how much I disliked the Dr. Jart Detoxifying Primer that I tried.  But even though the product may have been an epic fail, switching makeup, even if only for two weeks, caused me to take another look at my current routine.   A couple of days after switching back to […]

Last October, I published a packing list for cold weather travel.  Since then, I’ve had numerous requests for packing advice, specifically packing advice for warm weather work travel.  So here you go. Three Blouses: Dot-Chambray Blouse ($88), Featherweight Cardigan ($120), Naomi Blouse ($110) Pool Attire: AX Classic Sunglasses ($70), Madewell Flip-Flop ($50), End-on-End Tunic ($60), […]

Summer can wreak havoc on your clothes.  Dirt, sweat, grass stains and the like can permanently damage our wardrobe.  But they don’t have to. I’m a firm believer that women who love fashion must also love laundry.  Separating lights and darks, removing stains and hand washing are a pain, but they’re the only way to […]

Last week, I reached into the cabinet under my sink to grab my blowdryer.  Not realizing that the blowdryer was tangled up with the curling iron, I yanked from its hiding place with sizable force.  In doing so, I dropped the (cold) curling iron onto my foot.   If you’ve ever dropped a 1.5lb object […]