How to Get Accessories Just Right

Accessories can be a lot like your spouse – total joy inducing one moment, so frustrating you want to throw something (0r someone) across the room the next (but at the end of the day you love them so much)!

Don’t throw anything (or anyone) across the room. Instead, keep reading…

The questions I get asked the most are about styling. Accessorizing is really one of the most important concepts to grasp when it comes to fashion, because you can have a gorgeous outfit but if you don’t style it right, the beauty of it can get visually lost.

By “visually lost” I mean you’ve put on too much jewelry. The edit I want to most often make is to take jewelry away. If you’ve ever asked yourself if something is “too much,” take it off. It’s better to err on the side of wearing too little, rather than too much.

Pictured is a great example of what I’m talking about…

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On the left I’m wearing a necklace and dangle earrings.  This necklace does not belong with this outfit because the top of the jacket is competing for attention in that same space. Now if the jacket folded out like a blazer, then this necklace would be acceptable. But I don’t want to deal with competing visuals in that space, so I need to take the necklace off. If I had changed jackets and kept the necklace, I would have paired it with simple stud earrings.

Why? Because the necklace is really pretty and the more jewelry I add to myself the less any of it (or ME for that matter) is going to get noticed.

These earrings would technically work with this outfit, but I changed to these slim triangle ones because I love how they have a mix of silver and gold going. Plus they add more edginess to the whole look.

I have seen these rules broken before, and watched even celebrities wear strong statement necklaces with equally huge earrings. And sometimes people can pull it off! But in my book, less is always more. You don’t want to tire yourself out (we all know a heavy necklace and/or earrings gets old after a while) and I don’t want to look overrun.

Let your beauty shine the brightest, and make accessories just the tastefully added icing. (Print THAT on wood and hang it in your bathroom).

 

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