Fashion Basics 101: Best Fashion Tips On How to Improve Your Style

Fashion Tips

Here you'll find vital fashion tips -- which I often call the fashion 101, that can help you revamp your looks, from the fashion basics on what colors look best on your skin tone tofashion advice on how to put together chic outfits to the best flattering womens clothing for all body shapes.

Style isn't about the trends. It's about reuniting fashion with your height, shape, skin, eye and hair color, personality and age!

Reflect Upon Your Previous and Current Fashion Bloopers

Unlike men, you and I are blessed with endless variety in clothes and the freedom todress creatively with exciting embellishments and details like sequins, earrings and high heels.

But inspite of the many womens clothing opportunities, you might end up looking ridiculous or "just not right". Our instincts might be false, try counting the fashion mistakes you've made in your life, from the wrong colors to the unflattering cuts that made your butt look flatter, bigger, etc.

The Best Fashion Tips for Women

That's why I've gathered the best womens fashion tips and split the heavy stuff into smaller, easy-to-understand chunks. It works as a mini 5-step guide on improving yourfashion style without getting lost.

Now, looking good doesn't involve putting on some clothes you think you look good in. It's about knowing what looks good on you. It's about playing up your best assets and disguising the ones you don't feel confident about. If you want to look good you have to look at yourself in the mirror, objectively inspect the contours, shape, proportions and color of your body. It might sound terrifying at first but all these details are needed to create the perfect blueprint of what looks good and what doesn't look good on you!

That's what you're going to learn here. You're going to discover how making simple adjustments in your wardrobe and style can make a huuuge positive difference with how you look. You'll also understand how these small changes can help you save time and money when going shopping.

You're here to unleash your greatest beauty potential.. for less time and money!

4 Cold Fashion Style Facts

1. Some clothes and fashion trends just don't look good on you. 
2. Just because you think something looks good on you, doesn't mean it does 
3. We live in a shallow world where we judge people by their looks. So image does matter if you want to get a head start in life. 
4. "The more, the merrier!" doesn't necessarily apply to a real fashionista. Quality always outranks quantity. By quality, I don't necessarily mean the fabric quality. It's more about how valuable a piece of garment is to your style. It's about the versatility and how it makes you look and feel good. 

You don't need a fat wallet, model body or the fanciest clothes to look good. So let's put the latest trends to the side for a moment and start with the very basic fashion tips -- the5 key elements for looking your best.

1. Right clothes for your body shape 
2. Right clothes for your face shape 
3. The rights colors 
4. Creating a solid wardrobe foundation 
5. Putting together outfits 

With these points in mind -- you'll know what works for you and what breaks your look. And it'll make it easier for you to decide what type of clothes and outfit to invest in and what to avoid. 

Right Clothes for Your Body Shape and Size

By knowing the shape of your body and how proportional your upper and lower half are with each other, you'll know what clothing shape, colors and designs flatter your frame -- creating an appealing silhouette (we're all attracted to symmetry, think hourglass), accentuating what you like and disguising the "bad" parts.Click here for more information on how to determine your body shape and find clothing tips and recommendations for different body shapes.

Also learn more about the basics on what it takes to look good in your clothes -- how proportions, vertical body line, fit and confidence affect the way you look. This is important to help you gain a clearer understanding of thebigger picture of looking faaabulous :-)

Right Clothes for Your Face Shape

Your face shape is the first thing people notice, and you want to make a good impression! You can use clothes and accessories to enhance, de-emphasize and improve the impressions of your face.

Colors Suited for Your Skin Tone, Eye and Hair Color

The right colors make your skin glow, and you'll look fresh and alert. However, the wrong colors can make you look pale, tired and bring out the discoloration of yellow teeth and even dark eye circles.

Create a Solid Wardrobe Foundation

If you want to make it easier to put on clothes in the morning (or any time of the day for that matter) -- you need to make sure you have the important wardrobe essentials. These are your building blocks to creating a solid wardrobe that keep you covered on all occasions and seasons.Click here to learn more about your wardrobe essentials .

Note: You'll save time and money from buying clothes you really need. Take a quick evaluation and ask yourself: "How many outfits can I make of this... (insert fashion piece)?" "How many times will I likely be wearing it?"Messy wardrobe? Nothing to wear? Learn how to effectively organize your closet.

Putting an Outfit Together

Playing it safe by relying on basic clothing isn't enough. Fashion and style is about expressing yourself. That's why we also need the latest trends to add some personality to your outfit!Overdoing it can make you look like a fashion victim.Learn how to work with the current fashion trends and theright way to mix and match basics with trends.

To help you look your best, you need to wear the right clothes that reflect your personality so that you feel comfortable, so take time to identify your clothing personality to make it easier for you to focus on yoursignature style -- your 'calling' card that sets you apart from the rest.Also do a read on the basics and ideas on how to put together an outfit.
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How to Determine Your Body Shape

"Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Your Body Shape"

 

Determine your body shape today and find a guideline for each and every body shape, providing you with clothing and accessory recommedations, and DIY styling tricks to help you look your best! The 5 main body shapes are Hourglass body shape, Rectangle Body Shape, Pear Body Shape and of course, Apple and Inverted Triangle.

Let's face it. Most of us don't have a proportional hourglass, "ideal" body shape. However, you can create an illusion of an hourglass shape :-)

Of course, there are body shapes that won't truly fit into any categories. You might bepetite or plus size. Short or tall. Thin-boned or thick-boned. Large-breasted, something in the middle or small-chested. Slim, curvy, chubby or overweight. And the list goes on.

That said, these body features might distort your frame, making it look like you don't fit in any of the shapes.

Right now we're going to look at your overall silhouette-- the contours of your frame and how your upper and lower half are in-line with each other -- to give you an idea on what you'll have to focus on to look proportional.

If you just want to know how to wear and what clothes to wear if you have a long torso/short legs or short torso/long legs, etc. then go straight to basics of dressing your body shape. If you're new to body shapes, please consider reading the rest of this pagefirst.

How to Determine Your Body Shape

1. Step a few feet away from a full-length mirror and blur out your boobs, neck, the length of your legs and arms, and observe your overall body shape. Do this naked as underwear can also disguise what's really there. For example: Wearing boy shorts can emphasize your hips and make you look more bottom heavy ;-)

2. Now, focus on the shape of your torso. And visualize a dress form -- shoulders to hips.

It's the contours of your silhouette that will determine the line and the clothing shapes that are best for your body.

Note: If you gain weight, pay attention to where the pounds get stored, because that's often a clue to what type of body shape you have.

And now let's look at which category your body falls into: 

The Body Shapes -- there are 5 main combinations of torso proportions:
Pear: Torso and upper body smaller than your hips -- with waist definition
Inverted triangle: Torso and upper body wider than your ships -- with little waist definition
Rectangle: Torso and upper body are the same width as your hips -- little waist definition
Hourglass: Torso and hips are approximately the same width -- with waist definition
Apple: Torso and upper body wider than your hips -- with little or no waist definition. You might have weight surrounding your waist.

Important note if you can't seem to fit in a category

What's most important here is to take a note of the proportions of your body - lower compared to upper half. And then figure out what needs to be trimmed or added to create a proportional body shape. Let me explain: Let's say this guide identifies your frame as inverted triangle body shape. You definitely have wide shoulders but you do have a waist and little bit of curves. Now what category do belong to now? You could still be an Inverted Triangle because your upper half, the shoulders, are despite everything else, the widest part of your body. Your focus should be to balance it out by adding more width to your lower area.To give you an example here are two ladies who both have a hourglass body shape but with a few differences:


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Kelly Brook is apparently a slimmer version of an hourglass body shape because of her thinner bone structure and overall size. Kate Winslet on the other hand is an hourglass but with a less defined waist and slightly fleshy hips (mind me, Kelly Brook is definitely wearing a waist cincher ;-) ). She could almost pass for a rectangle or a pear shape. For some this would make her, I don't know, a rectangle-hourglass-pear? This usually confuses you because it doesn't indicate what specific category she's in. In my book Kate is a hourglass. Forget about squeezing yourself in one single group! Look at the bigger picture -- if your overall figure is an hourglass but you have some extra weight around the waist find ways to slim that area down (like apple shape tips) as well as follow the guidelines for your body shape!There is just something about us humans, both men and women who find proportions beautiful and appealing. It's just visualliy appealing to the eye! It doesn't matter if you're a plus size or small petite. The point here is to create a proportional hourglasse silhouette on your frame because that's what strikes the eye.

Let's take a closer look at each torso combination(body shape)!


Here are the 5 Common Body Shapes

	Pear Body Shape 1. You have a well-defined waist 2. Your bust and shoulders are proportionally narrower than your hip-line 3. Your thighs and maybe your butt might be full and rounded
	Inverted Triangle Body Shape 1. Your bust and shoulders are proportionally wider than your hips 2. Your hips are narrow 3. You might have slim legs related to this inverted shape 4. You might have a flat butt
	Rectangle Body Shape 1. Your bust and shoulders are about the same width as your hip-line 2. You might look shorter and heavier than you really are 3. You have little waist definition
	Hourglass Body Shape 1. Your bust and shoulders are at the same width as your hips 2. You have a defined waist 3. When gaining weight, the fat usually stores evenly throughout your body
	Apple Body Shape 1. You have the appearance of being round, slightly wide around the waistline 2. Your waistline is undefined 3. Your hips and butt are wide and full 4. Your silhouette is round usually due to overweight or childbirth

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