My Personal November Style Challenge

What is keeping you from being the chic fashionista you know you are?

We all have things we could work on with our style. Maybe we wear too much black. Perhaps we default to wearing the same safe outfits. Maybe we do not wear all the scarves we have. Maybe we never wear sunscreen or eye liner. We all have our style challenges. They may not even be things we think about when we get dressed in the morning, but they are things that we feel are limiting our ability to be the chic fashionistas we really are. Whatever your challenge, and whatever your reason, here in an opportunity to grow.

Take part in my Personal Style Challenge for November. Think about how you want to grow and evolve your style. Think about what is holding you back and Work It! Choose to work on that one area for the month of November. They say it takes 21 days to make a habit. So, you can change this style challenge into a style strength, in just one month.

My challenges:

Since November is my birth month, I’m going to really challenge myself with three Personal Style Challenges:

Less of these

• Layering necklaces: I have so many necklaces. However, I don’t tend to think about layering them. Also, I’m not the most confident at layering necklaces. So, I am challenging myself to layer necklaces in November!
• Fewer ponytails: I have done this one before, but I need to work on it some more. Ponytails are my default hairstyle, and more so as a toddler mom. I just got my haircut, and I’m ready to rock it down or up in different ways. I’m also saving some ideas on Pinterest. So, I challenge myself to wear fewer ponytails in November!
• Water: I used to be a solid eight-or-more-cups-of-water-a-day person. But now I am slacking and I need to pick this back up. It is better for my health, my skin, and even my allergies.  Bring on the hydration, November!

 

My plan:

Walking away from the ponytail?

My plan for all three is simple: layer necklaces, wear my air in different styles, and drink more water.  I have a great necklace collection, with some fabulous pieces from Shine Chaser Jewelry, Solid Treasures, and, just recently, eBSe (I have two fabulous stylists: Suzanne Joffrion Stylist ID #246131 and Kathy Roush Stylist ID #246276).

I may report back and post pictures (probably not many of drinking water). I’ll certainly be talking about this on Instagram, so follow me there for more!

So, what about you? Do you have any personal style challenges you want to conquer? If so, join me! Select a challenge for you to work on, develop a plan, and let’s kick those style challenges to the curb! Use the tag #WorkingMyPersonalStylechallenge to show us how you are doing on Instagram. Or, leave a note for me in the comments here.

I am even working on a prize for one of you who worked their personal style challenge! I’ll post what it is once I have that worked out!

What is holding back your style? My Personal February Style Challenge

We all have our own style challenges. You know, those things that we just are not good at. Those things outside our comfort zones. Those things we should do, but don’t or do do but shouldn’t. Maybe we always wear pants. Maybe we never wear heels. Maybe we don’t wear orange. Or maybe we love the spikes so popular right now in jewelry, but are just not sure if they are us. Maybe we only wear our hair down. Or up. We live in yoga pants.

I know I have a lot of areas I’m not good in or I’m down right lazy about. I have my own style comfort zones. But I want to get better. I want to be aware, and then I want to change it.

So, I’m starting my own personal style challenge. Join me! Each month I’m going to come up with a personal style challenge and I’m going to work to correct that challenge over the month. I’ll report back (and maybe along way) on how it went. Maybe I’ll share pictures of my success or failure.

This month, I’m giving myself two challenges:

• Posture: My posture has gotten bad. I blame it on work (I work on the couch too often and hunch over the computer) and all the breastfeeding and holding of my Griffin when he was younger (plus I went up a cup size permanently and several while breast feeding). I think the bad shoulder dislocation I suffered two years also led to me hunching more to protect it. Look at my excuses! No more excuse. I am working on it now. If my posture is better, I will look (and actually be) taller, thinner, and my breasts will look bigger and firmer. My back will hurt less. My head will hurt less. I am already working on this, but I thought I would include it to give myself more accountability.
• Ponytails: I hate having my hair in my face. But I love long hair on me. So I tend to throw it back in a ponytail. It’s quick, it’s easy, and my fly-away thin hair is likely to stay more or less out of my face. Great. Except boring. I need to do more with my hair. So, I’m going to work on being less lazy and do other things with my tresses.

Game plan:

"Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory." - Curtis Armstrong

See a pony tail. And probably bad posture.

Posture:

• Awareness and self-correct: Simply being aware of the problem helps. The I can correct it when I notice problems.  
• Yoga with a back and posture focus at least three times a week: I love the Yogamazing app and will use this. I already did a tight shoulder one this morning. 
• Plank: I’ll do the plank twice each day
• Exercises: I’ll do my shoulder and back exercises I should be doing in the afternoons
• Advice: I will talk to my massage therapist (who owns the Posture Project—good choice, right?) for other ideas
• Massage: I’ll get two massages, because we have to make it enjoyable

Ponytails:

• Limit: No more than two plain ponytails a week
• Braids: I suck at braids, but I will try one a week
• Research: I will check out cool hairstyles and tutorials
• Try: I will try those new styles

I am giving myself a minor exception to this style challenge. I’m having outpatient nasal surgery on the 10th and am going to give myself a few days, if needed, to put my hair back in a ponytail and not do yoga or other stretches, which might be rather painful for a bit. Recovering is more important.

So, what about you? Do you have any personal style challenges you want to conquer? If so, join me! Choose a challenge, develop a plan, and let’s kick those style challenges to the curb! Use the tag #WorkingMyPersonalStylechallenge to show us what you are doing.

Do let me know your challenges, plans, and how it goes!

Another ponytail. Doesn't this cute guy deserve a mom who stands up ovelyy tL and can do more than ponytails?

Lovely picture, right? Cute kid. Cure jacket. Lovely falls and rocks in the background. But, look! A ponytail and bad posture! Photo taken at Screw Auger Falls, in Grafton, Maine.