10 Ways to Fake a Smaller Waist – Red Book Magazine!

Ok when I found this article trolling the web, 10 Ways to Fake a Smaller Waist – Red Book Magazine,

I knew I had to report it! I mean, who isn’t looking for great ways to fake a smaller waist?

You know by know that my philosophy on looking great is not about having the perfect body, it is about knowing how to dress the body you have perfectly! It is my goal to have an arsenal of tips and tricks for making my waist look smaller in my dressing toolbox. Naturally, I figure you want these in your dressing toolbox too.

So here you go, 10 neat ways to fake a smaller waist. Go forth and eat those cider doughnuts!

I hope these 10 ways to fake a smaller waist come in handy to you!

John Hardy Inspired Bracelet – From Magazine to Your Closet

Hopefully by now you know that From Magazine to your closet is affordable alternatives to the current fashion trends in the magazines. The idea for this section of the Achievable Fashion Magazine came from my own frustration with fashion. I loved flipping through the latest fashion magazines; however I was always left disappointed. Although I loved the beautiful things I saw as I flipped through the pages of the magazines, nothing was ever attainable to me.

I will always believe that the fashion world caters to the “ultras “of the world, the ultra – rich, the ultra – thin and the ultra-beautiful. Achievable Fashion caters to everyone else, what I like to call everyday women or the masses.

In an attempt to bring fashion to all I decided to create the From Magazine to Your Closet section of the Achievable Fashion Magazine.

Each Month I flip through the magazines, pull out my favorite things and find everyday versions. This month my favs include these John Hardy bracelets. I love, love, love everything about them. Well almost everything. The price tag I do not love. The price of these bracelets is way out of my league, so I image they do not fit most budgets. After visiting the site I can tell you most bracelets here are well over $1000.00 each.

It is my mission to bring the magazines to your closet so I am quite pleased to highlight the bracelets I found at one of my go to fashion jewelry stores – fantasy jewelry box. I think you may agree that these bracelets are a great alternative to the designer inspiration ones.

I realize they may not be an exact match; I am never attempting to get exact matches, just fabulous alternatives to the unattainable version of current fashion trends.

John Hardy Inspired Mesh and CZ Bracelets

Magazine to Your Closet – BVLGARI Statement Necklace!

After Searching through the latest fashion magazines, Elle, Vogue, Bazaar and others, there is one thing for sure; statement necklaces are a top accessory fashion trend for fall 2013.

As you know, Achievable Fashion caters to everyday women, the statement necklaces in the top fashion magazines aren’t really attainable to them.

So as usual I make it my job to interpret the latest fashion trends and find attainable alternatives to the high price versions of the latest fashion trends in the magazines.

Think of it like this, I bring the magazines to your closet! Sometimes the search for attainable versions of the latest fashion trends is easy and sometimes it’s impossible. I was so excited about this find.

This BVLGARI Necklace was in every magazine I flipped through this month. It is beautiful! I have no idea how much it is because I could not find this piece on the website. I can only say that much smaller pieces on the site were well over $10,000! Now, you know how I feel about this. If you are in that league and can afford it, by all means go for it. I, however, cannot and believe I am the norm.

So if you are like me, not able to afford the fashion trends you see in the magazines but love current fashion trends, Achievable Fashion will become your new BFF!

Here are two alternatives to the BVLGAI necklace. I like to call them the Achievable Fashion versions.

HSN, RJ Graziano. It also has a matching bracelet!

Emitations. One of my favorite stores for costume jewelry!

Article of the Month! Buy These 7 Pieces and Make 24 Fresh, Fabulous Outfits!

This article from Redbook Magazine is so Achievable Fashion that it gets the coveted Article of the month award!

To review, Achievable Fashion has one mission, rid women of their infamous closet full of clothes and nothing to wear. Let me step back and say that I did not set out to create Achievable Fashion; I simply set out to figure out why I had a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear. In figuring out why and creating my own solution Achievable Fashion was born.

Please let the record show that most women have a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear because they have never taken the time to build their Ultimate Wardrobes. If this is you, and you know who you are, please begin building your Ultimate Wardrobe with our Step 1 – Build Your Basic Classic Wardrobe!

Achievable Fashion keeps evolving, but our core idea still stands. Our core idea is that if you have the right wardrobe items in your closet you will actually have more with less. We have added to our Basic Classic Wardrobe and we now refer to our Basic Classic Wardrobe as step 1 to building The Ultimate Wardrobe. We will be adding Fall / Winter Basic Classic Wardrobe Add-ons, Summer Add-ons, Beach Add-ons, and Casual Add-ons, with more coming!

Back to this article from Redbook Magazine – Buy These 7 Pieces and Make 24 Fresh, Fabulous Outfits written by Chris Eckert 8 of the 12 items are in the Achievable Fashion Basic Classic Wardrobe and the other items are in are Add-on guides. You simply add trend items each season to multiply your closet and stay trendy.

When you have less items, but each item is perfect you can mix and match for multiple looks.

This article shows you how adding in some trendy items can give you tons of new looks as long as you have the basics. If I didn’t know it, I would think Achievable Fashion wrote this article!

Needless to say, I think this is the most useful article out there right now, which is why, is has won the coveted Achievable Fashion Article of the Month Award!!!

Read and enjoy!

The 10 Makeup Brushes Every Women Should Own.

I love this article. I found it on Huff Post Style, The 10 Makeup Brushes Every Woman Should Own – by Sarah Kelsey. This article is as direct as it gets, which I LOVE. After reading this article you will know what makeup brushes you need, why you need them and how having the right makeup brushes will make your makeup journey a bit easier. Helping make your beauty journey a bit easier is The Achievable Fashion Beauty Reports mission, so I am thrilled to report this article to you.

Now that will you know what 10 makeup bushes you should own, I am sure your next question will be, where do I purchase these 10 makeup brushes? Part of the answer to that depends on your budget. Achievable Fashion caters to everyday ladies, for the most part everyday ladies stick to strict budgets when shopping.

From experience I can tell you expensive does not always mean better. If you are building your makeup brush set from scratch, I suggest getting what you need inexpensively. Then over time add higher priced bushes into your kit one at a time. You may never see the need for more expensive brushes and that is ok.

Elf has a large selection of budget friendly brushes.

Beauty.com has a large selection of brushes if you are looking to invest a bit more.

The Look for Less – Blake Lively’s Red Carpet Look!

Get blake livelys red carpet look I love Hollywood! I love the romance and style of Hollywood. I love the celebs, they are always put together!

Although I love admiring the celebs, I find it a bit frustrating to attempt to get the same looks. For those of us who do not reside on Rodeo Drive or anywhere near, trying to achieve the same looks our favorite celebs tout can be a bit daunting.

Let’s look at the facts. Celebs have “a bit” more disposable income to drop on looking great, generally tend to be super beautiful, and are put together by people whose jobs are actually to put them together.

Since most of us do not have the same perks as the celebs achieving the same looks are not easy.

That’s why I have made it my job is to bring the runways, magazines and red carpets to real women’s closets. I think it is only fair for those of us non – celebs to have some red carpet in our lives!

With these pieces you can be Blake Lively fabulous!

35% Off all Necklaces at InPink!

I love In Pink for fashion jewelry. They have beautiful, on trend, budget friendly fashion jewelry. Right now In Pink is offering 35% off all Necklaces. The Sale Ends 7/31/13 so hurry! Use code IPNECKLACE35

10 Fast and Easy Fixes for Common Beauty Issues – Glamour Magazine

Article of the month!!! Why have I selected 10 Fast and Easy Fixes for Common Beauty Issues, Glamour Magazine as Achievable Fashion’s Beauty Report Article of the Month? Because if we can avoid these common beauty issues, our beauty journey will be a bit easier. And that is my gig, to make your fashion and beauty journey a bit easier.

Have you ever had red lipstick on your teeth? If you have you know that it is no joke. Getting lipstick on your teeth is actually a common issue. What makes it worse is that we don’t always know when lipstick gets on our teeth, so unfortunately we can be walking around with lipstick on our teeth looking very foolish, until someone is kind enough to tell us, YIKES!

Lipstick on your teeth is just one of many common beauty issues. There’s too much blush, eye shadow fallout on your cheeks, deodorant on your dress – to name a few. The thing with common beauty issues is that we don’t have to have them; there are easy fixes to avoid lipstick on your teeth and other common issues that occur. That’s why when I came across this article, 10 Fast and Easy Fixes for Common Beauty Issues – Glamour Magazine, I had to report it. Once I reviewed it closely I decided the info was so useful I would give it the coveted Article of the Month Award!

Avoiding these common pitfalls will help our beauty journey will be a bit smoother!

Enjoy!

The Best Summer Nail Polishes for Your Skin Tone – Glamour Magazine

I am convinced that many of us can’t seem to get fashion / beauty right simply because we have no time to do so. I remember wishing for one place I could go to and get all the fashion and beauty info I needed. Trends, how to info, just any and all info I needed to make my fashion journey a bit smoother. I longed for one place that would keep me updated and in the know on all things fashion and beauty. Not only did I want this place to keep me updated with current trends, I wanted it to help me, an everyday woman add these trends into my life. Looking back, all I really wanted was someone to tell me what was in and where I could get it. Because this “place” didn’t exist I decided to create it myself.

I guess the jokes on me, because now that I created it, it takes a ton of work with equates to a ton of time. In case you are new to us, Achievable Fashion and The Achievable Fashion Beauty Report are for the un-fashionistas of the world. They are for every day ladies, who I believe, rule the world. I affectionately call us every day ladies, the masses.

I sort through the sea of fashion and beauty info, sift out the crap and report the good stuff. I love this article The Best Summer Nail Shades for Your Skin Tone, Glamour Magazine. I love to not only report the trends, but to also bring useful tools to women. Although this article focuses on what summer nail colors work best on your skin tone it will help you know what colors work best for you in all things. So whether you are looking at nail colors or other fashion items you will begin to know what works best on you. The key to mastering fashion is to know what works best on you!

For a great selection of nail polishes visit Beauty.com.

Enjoy!

Your Body Looks Awsome in That Suit! Glamour Magazine

Welcome to summer 2013! Now that July is ¾ of the way through I guess I’ll post some new swimsuit articles. LOL! As you know my gig is to search through the sea of fashion information, magazines and the web, sort out the crap and report the useful stuff. By useful I mean information that will help us every day ladies on our fashion journey. Because it is summer I will attempt to solve the ultimate mystery, which bathing suit will make me look fabulous. I think this is a mystery to most so any information that will help crack the case is worthy of reporting. I know I am a bit late in the season – story of my life. So in stead of looking at this like I am late, I’ll look at this as being super early for holiday travel!

My ultimate goal is to stock the Achievable Fashion Magazine with so much fashion information that anything you may need will be in one place. (No matter when you need it – making what time of year I post virtually non -important!)

Ok, back to summer 2013 and finding a bathing suit that is right for your body. With all the bathing suit choices out there where does one begin to find the perfect one? Finding the perfect bathing suit is more about learning what works best with our bodies. As with all fashion it is about highlighting our assets and lowlighting our areas that are not what we would call assets. It is about learning what works with what we have. At some point, I’m not sure when, I took a sharp right off Wishing my Body was Something Else Lane and Landed on I Love What I Have – Can Someone Just Tell Me How to Dress it Boulevard. My way of saying, I learned to stop wishing for the body I didn’t have and appreciate the body I do have. I am hoping you too take that sharp right and learn to love what you have!

This article, Your Body Looks Awesome that Suit, Glamour Magazine May 2013, highlights bathing suits for athletic legs, bathing suits for plus sizes, bathing suits for larger butts, bathing suits for boyish / straight figures, bathing suits for curvy figures, and bathing suits for larger chests. Learning what works best for you will have you looking and feeling fantastic on the beach!