I’ve always said “red is NOT my color” and deep down I still feel that way and sometimes waver in my opinion on the color of love. I honestly think it is because my skin has such a pink / red undertone that I always feel like anything red makes me look like a cherry. 

When it comes to Christmas and Vday looks, I have always gone more the neutral sparkly or pink route. Why I’ve never had any reservations about pink I’ll never know – I actually love pink. Red has always been super harsh for me and I’ve really hated it until I started giving it more of a chance. I couldn’t tell you why I started dabbling in it now and never before… I have always lived in an environment of red: high school colors, sorority colors, Wes’s hockey team colors and of course the fore mentioned holidays. Regardless my past feelings, I have started to sing a different tune and am now seeing red as more of a classic color. I started with red lips. It seemed simple enough and a held a low enough commitment level that if I hated it I could throw it away or at the very least wipe it off. I tried at least 100 different brand/shade combinations to find the perfect red and I landed on two (the one I’m wearing is linked below and the other one is here).

 Next I went for staple wardrobe pieces (again- low in cost and commitment in case things went south). Long story short, I landed here! I found this great plaid sweater (it actually has a cute black ruffle hem you can’t see here) and then the cool quilted bag and then these booties (total designer dupes of these and these). They come with standard black laces, but I found some red laces for only a few dollars at Walmart and swapped them out. Voila! I guess the moral of the story is that as I get older and as this blog continues to grow, I am trying to be less closed- minded. Is there anything you are dead set against? I’m pretty pleased with my second chance experiment so far and am excited to continue to grow and evolve! Happy Thursday guys! Hope it’s a good one!

XOXO

Sweater (old) // Shirt // Leather Skirt // Coat // Bag (old similar here) // Sunnies // Lips // Watch // Lace Up Boots // Earrings