It's wedding season! What to wear?
Presenting: my top 10 favorite dresses for all your wedding-going needs.
Top 10 Wedding Guest Dresses
Style
Introducing: Ramshackle Glam for Allure Insiders
So here it is - a quick intro to a little project I've had in the works for the past couple of months.
Did I say "little"? I think what I mean is...
ALLURE.
Huffington Post: Right-This-Minute Beauty Favorites
Thanks so much to the Huffington Post for today's feature!
Click here for some right-this-minute beauty favorites (including the African Marula Oil that I've been applying every single night and LOVING despite the fact that Kendrick thinks it's incredibly weird, a cheap drugstore pencil that's an instant eye-brightener, and the lipstick that you may have noticed I've been wearing every single day).
In The Evening (Dress)…
Nighttime (meaning cocktail- or black-tie-requiring) events at nearly seven months' pregnant can be tricky.
I try to avoid picking up big-ticket maternity items, since I don't see the point of spending a ton of money on a piece that will only be wearable for a couple of months…but formalwear presents a bit of a conundrum. When I was about this pregnant with Indy three summers ago, we went to a wedding and I didn't really plan in advance, figuring that I'd just yank some black dress with a bunch of stretch in it out of my closet and be done, but when I went to try on those stretchy black dresses: nope. Not even close. (I ended up wearing a high-waisted maxi that I had bought at a discount store in Canada with the intent of wearing it to my baby shower.)
Recalling this incident, I actually thought ahead for the Yale SOM spring formal and sifted through my closet in search of potential candidates a good week ahead of time…and was pretty excited to discover that two of my all-time favorite evening pieces - my neon BCBG dress (which I also own in pink, because I love it that much) and my retro-looking swing coat, both which are on my Favorites List mostly because they are super-floaty and comfortable whether pregnant or not - are both cut in a way that totally accommodates my new shape.
Teeny-Tiny Earrings For Your Second (And Third, And Fourth) Holes
You may have noticed I'm very into extra ear piercings lately. I first got a whole bunch when I was in high school, then let them close up…and then re-pierced them all over the last year or so. Right now, I have three holes in my left ear, two holes in my right, and a cartilage piercing on my upper left (plus a belly-button piercing from 1996 that's persistently uninterested in closing up despite the fact that I haven't had anything in it in a good decade).
Love them. Want more. Next up (after the baby arrives, and next time I get a chance to visit Los Angeles): a tiny stud in my tragus (which is much less pornographic than it sounds; it's the little area that projects out in front of your ear canal) and a couple more hoops in each ear. I'll probably also throw another tattoo or two on there, just for fun (and because when your family expands seems like a good time to add some commemoration in ink form).
Why do I love these extra ear piercings so much? Because I think that if you choose the right earrings for your extra piercings, they're elegant while still being (just a little bit) unexpected. What I wear are super-small, super-slim continuous (i.e. no ball closure) gold hoops that I had custom-made at Body Electric in Los Angeles - if you give them a call and describe what you want, you can have them shipped to you, but if you'd like to swap yours out every so often (or just wear tiny, adorable earrings in your regular holes), oh my goodness are there ever some cute options out there.
