OOTN: BarOne

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 This past weekend was crazy in Atlanta. The BET Hip Hop Awards was here as well as the HBCU Football Classic. I wanted to get fancy and go out but because of all the rappers and entertainers in town this weekend I knew all the groupies were going to be out and the club owners were going to be charging $100 plus a limb to get into the club. Plus, I'm just over the whole club scene anyway. Luckily, my old manager just so happen to call me wanting to go to a lounge. It's soo sad but for me to be from Atlanta I literally have NO idea what goes on and where everybody likes to go on Saturdays. Anyway, my co-worker suggested we go to BarOne so I made reservations and that's where we went. If you watch Housewives of Atlanta then you know that BarOne is owned by Cynthia Bailey's husband, Peter Thomas. He's soooo handsome in person! He was actually there celebrating his birthday. Ok enough of the rambling here's what I wore:

Curves Fashion Week

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A few weeks ago I was on Tumblr when I came across a post about Curves Fashion Week. When I saw the post I assumed that the event was going to be held somewhere other than Atlanta. However as I kept reading I learned that the event was held here in Atlanta!(Yaaaaayyy!!!) So I immediately began scanning the whole internet and sending emails to find out more information. The PR rep responded back with me very quickly and I was granted media access to the Independent Fashion Designers showcase. My curvy compadre Kim (kayelleknows) and I charged up our Nikons and headed to the show. This was my first fashion event! (That's the reason why it took my almost a month to do this post. My editing skills are on a novice level) The event was very nice! It's one of the best fashion shows I've been to Atlanta (other than the ones I've produced :-])Here are my favorite looks from the designers that were featured in the show:

I'm here!!

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I hope you still love me... Or kinda like me... I've been low key working on a few projects and trying to figure out what and how I wanted to do my blog.  Of course I'm still working on those things but I wanted to give you a few outfit pictures from my birthday.

Love YOU some YOU!

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I recently read two articles from two plus size fashion blogs that I follow about confidence (Diary of a Fatshionista and Frantic Dreams). It's kinda inspiring to hear other women's stories about their confidence and how they gained it. Unlike those beautiful ladies, I don't have lots of people emailing me about how I became so fabulous.  However, I did feel inspired to discuss that topic because it comes up alot in conversations that I have with other women.  So with that being said I decided to share my story...
Now my story is very much like everyone else's... I was always the tallest biggest girl in my classes, I got picked on, called fat, blah blah blah. I didn't really embrace myself until I was a Sophmore in college. I was 19 and was getting over my first real heartbreak.  At some point during that time I decided that it was time that I started loving me.

Wise words from my mommy: "No one will love you like you love you!"

*waves* Hi!!

Hello young world!
Sorry for the lack of posts.... It's not really like I post on a regular basis anyway (bad Tan!).  I really want to start posting regularly so I've been researching and brainstorming about what direction I want to go in.  Independent Fashion Bloggers has been a great help in my research.  If you are a blogger you must read their articles daily!  I learn so much from that site on a daily basis.  There's more to quality blogging then just taking random pictures and writing a paragraph or two about the random pictures.  I hope from now on that I will be giving my faithful few readers quality material :-)

On to some more fun stuff... My summer so far has been amazing! I'm having soo much fun!  I have to admit that I've become an Instagram-aholic so I've been capturing moments of my summer in pictures.

Style Project: KayElle

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I would like you all to meet one of my business partners/besties Kimberly (aka KayElle).  She is a blogger, photographer, Sneaker hoarder, lover of all things cute, all round cool chick.  [ You can visit her blog here].  Kim is also a Tomboy that tends to hide her curves under big shirts and hoodies.  *whispers* She doesn't own very many "girl clothes"! Don't tell her I told you!* Anyway, she works with me and as you all know we had a manager's meeting last week in Baltimore.  I took on the task of getting her dressed for both events.  Here are the pictures:

This is what she wore to the banquet

 Outfit Specs 

Dress: Torrid 

Shoes: Payless 

Jewerly: Forever 21 and Payless 

 We caught a great deal on the dress. It was only $50! Then she was able to get another discount because she applied for the card. Overall the dress was a good deal. Because Kim is smaller at the top I thought it would be nice to put her in something that was one-shouldered. I think the dress looked really good on her. She received several compliments. Yaaaaay me! :-)

 This is what she wore to the trade shows and the meetings

 Outfit Specs 

Skirt: Ross 

Denim Shirt: Walmart 

Shoes: Converse Chuck Taylors

With this outfit I wanted to keep her in her comfort zone with sneakers but pull her out a little bit by putting her into something more form fitting and show her curves off a tad bit.  

She really loved her outfits and felt good in them.  Let me know what you all think!

Thanks for reading! Make sure you go and check out her blog! KayElleKnows  

Chili

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Today was the second day of my business trip which actually included some business.  My day was full of meetings and a really nice trade show.  Last year I wore dark colors to the meeting so this year I decided to wear more colors.  I also wanted to take a chance and mix prints but I kinda chickened out. :-( Maybe next time....

Here's my outfit...

Outfit Specs:

Dress: Style 369

Cardigan: Torrid

Shoes: Bakers

In cased you actually noticed, I'm actually wearing a little make-up.  I've been looking for a really pretty orange lipstick and a friend of my suggested Chili by MAC.  I loooooovvvee this lipstick! It's absolutely perfect!



Stay tuned for my next post... I styled one of my business partners/homie for our meeting.  Everyone loved her looks and I can't wait to share them with you guys! :-)

Thanks for reading! Feel free to leave a comment... Or three... Or 90... :-)