Your Aesthetic Style BLOG
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Your Aesthetic Style BLOG
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Craving more 🤩 energy in your closet? Try this 3 Step Summer Closet Refresh!
1) Take out items from your closet and put them on your bed. First, items you LOVE and can’t wait to wear in the summer. 😍 Second, items you’d like to wear more in the summer. ☀️ 2) Create outfits with those items AND hang those outfits together on the same hanger. Ready and waiting for you on those ‘nothing to wear’ days. 🫠 3) Let your summer outfits shine in your closet! Rearrange other season items and double items on hangers so that they take up less space. Allow more space for all your summer outfits, the key is for them to be easy to see and get you excited about wearing them! 🤩 Final & most important step! SHARE photos of outfits you wear. It’s a great boost of self love AND you never know who you’ll INSPIRE.
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It’s 2016, I’m an overwhelmed mom of two children under 2 years old… I couldn’t stand that our bedroom had become a defacto storage room but I felt like a terrible mom for caring so much…
“Why couldn’t I just be grateful that my boys were healthy & we had a roof over our heads?” 🏠 I tried denying it because I thought that was being a ‘good mom’ But denying it only made it worse. I was waiting for permission to have a beautiful home… for something circumstantial to change, my kids to be a certain age, to move into a home we owned…then I could have a beautiful home. 🗓 I ultimately give myself permission when I got to the root of what I wanted from my a home ⬇️ ✨”a place that inspired me to create”✨ Seeing that written down, I realized I wasn’t a ‘bad mom’ for wanting that or even asking much. So I gave myself permission to make changes now - starting with our bedroom ;) I also got a lot of help from my husband and mother-in-law to do so. Asking for help was easier because I finally knew what I wanted & why. The craziest part is that once I had that ‘inspired space to create’, I ended up creating a business a year later to help other women do the same! Still gives me chills...something I’d denied myself, thinking it was selfish, became the origin of serving others beyond myself. 💫 In my story, my decision came after defining what I wanted but the key is that I needed both of those steps first - my circumstances didn’t change, my perspective did. This process works with homes as well as outfits. In the ‘Vibe’ class you’ll experience this perspective shift towards clothes you own.😍 ‘Defining’ personal style isn’t through capsule wardrobes or lists, those put the items as the focus, not you. ‘Defining’ is about the essence - what makes it ‘you’.
General style advice focuses on being stylish by creating cohesive looks. This can either feel too vague or too limited. By following common tips and trends, you’ll have an aesthetically pleasing look but what makes it ‘you’? You know how some brands instantly jump out - you don’t even need to see a label you already recognize it? That’s ‘defined’ style and that’s not reserved only for brands or fashion labels. Each of us intuitively know what we find personally beautiful. 😍 To be honest, sometimes scrolling Instagram or Pinterest the color palettes and items in outfits and home decor blend with each other. It’s hard to define a style beyond ‘current/trendy’… but all those trends have aesthetic styles. 🙃 And every style ‘genre’ has an aesthetic style. The literal definition of what makes something stylish are the ways the design elements & principles (e&p) are used together. For example: Bohemian style genre's aesthetic style is ‘texture & organic form’. BUT liking Bohemian interiors doesn’t mean your aesthetic style is ‘texture & form’. Defining your aesthetic style is about going deeper when something jumps out at you as ‘Ooo pretty 😍’ Observe and define specifically what design elements & principles you love most. This is what I teach in my signature program YAS Stylists. How to add personal touches that bring you extra JOY in your home and outfits. When you know the specific e&p combo you can create that look without buying more items or even better you can put your own spin on it and be ‘ahead of the trend’. See how that’s more expansive than just learning how to pair certain items together? To find out more about your aesthetic style read here. You’re an aesthetic - someone who prioritizes aesthetics over order & function.
Or if you’re like I was for years…you might be a suppressed aesthetic, trying to minimize/push down how important aesthetics are to you. But going back to capsule wardrobes…As an aesthetic you likely own a lot of stand out beautiful pieces that are harder to style together. Sooo trying to identify a few key staples to repeat is much harder with the type of items you have. Hence feeling constrained by capsule wardrobes. 😕 Here’s what to do instead 👇🏽 Focus on defining what attracted you to the pieces you own… there’s a red thread of design elements and principles that ties them together (psst it’s your aesthetic style 🤗) and that’s how you tap into outfit inspo that feels like ‘you’. *Disclaimer* this only works for items you LOVE 😍 If they’re items you feel you ‘should’ buy or items you see everywhere and you’re trying to keep up… those items won’t help you define the specific design elements & principles you’re drawn to 🙈 Let your intuition & your eyes guide your style choices more and they’ll lead you towards your aesthetic style 💗 How do you find your aesthetic style? Inside my signature program: YAS Stylists where you’re the stylist your home & closet need most. To find out more about your aesthetic style read more here. Can I share a personal pet peeve? Many of you already know it 😆👇🏽 Advice about color is so misplaced 🤨 Color gets a bad rep cuz color relationships aren’t understood. I read a few posts/threads saying that neutrals & grayscale aka minimal color palettes are inherently more chic…and that’s just not true. First off, chic is subjective but if I were to give a general definition 👇🏽 chic = subtle sophistication, less is more, timeless… Colors easily get pegged as ‘loud’ or ‘too much’ but the flower and branches show how chic/ subtly sophisticated color is 🌱 The flower’s greenish brown stem, petals in shades of purple to white with a bright orange stamen… 🧡💜💚are secondary colors but it’s combining them in a variety of shades that makes it all ‘work’ together beautifully 😍 Or the tree branches in multiple shades of green and brown… show that it’s alive 💗 When style advice is oriented in a ‘what’s in, what’s out’ it fosters rigid concepts. But all of these concepts from color theory to design elements & principles stem from nature. They’re not man-made but from the OG Designer ;) ✨They’re not rules - they’re descriptions To help us articulate why something is pleasing to the eye. And because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you can stick with the ones that resonate most. 😉 No shade to the 3 Color Rule 😅 it’s helpful for embracing colors more but it’s not something to live by. Spend more time observing and learning about color relationships. 🎨 If you need some help coming up with colorful outfit ideas, take the VIBE class. |
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