Charmed Necklace, $29.95 (was $48) If you don’t like bows (monster) there’s also a fortune cookie, acorn, bird, fox, key and home pregnancy test. Just kidding about that last one.
Diya Jumpsuit, $38 (was $81) OH, SPRING! Don’t forget the shoes (only in a much lower heel because give me a break, lady).
Baggu Carryall Tote, $34.99 (was $69) You mean people carry tote bags that aren’t disposable off-white garbage and stain collectors? Good to know.
Topshop Premium Textured Sweatshirt, $40 (was $95) Some might even call this a fancy sweatshirt.
Boden Harper Boot, $53.40 (was $178) You already have this bootie, probably three times over if the feet of the women at this toddler birthday party I just went to are any indication.
Ribbed Thigh High, $9.95 (were $18) Thigh highs still “work.” Checked yesterday.
Blurred Floral Poncho, $29 (was $49) Fine over jeans, even better over a long, white cotton cult gown:
Mod-o-Doc Dress, $39.99 (was $78) That is not Alanis Morrisette.
Japonesque Pixelated Color Kit, $14 (was $28) Even the photo of the product is pixelated! Anyway, let’s talk about strobing for a minute. You go first.
That t-shirt dress is super cute but my underthings are either black or neon so unless that is some magic fabric, I don’t think I could wear it. Ahh, but it’s making me think of warmer days!
Solution: wear no underthings and look like Rihanna
That’s a good outfit for work (work work work work).
Or you could make a really bold statement….
If it were a little cheaper I’d buy it as a nightgown/housedress.
Target has some similar nightgowns in their sleepwear section this season. Full disclosure: I will probably buy one and wear it as a dress.
You can wear a different colored underthing or THIS in white: http://www.freepeople.com/shop/seamless-romper-22…
Strobing is just contouring using only light colors? I just use highlighter on my cheekbones because you told me to a million years ago. (I look great.)
I started highlighting this week and I don’t understand why I resisted it for so long. It takes 5 seconds to sweep the stuff on my cheekbones and I look so nice and glowy!
I use highlighter, and I think strobing and the super glowy, ultra sheen look is gorgeous. However, I have a lot of redness and some acne and it takes a couple of layers of foundation (thin ones, of a liquid) to really cover it, so I’m a little loathe to put excess product on my skin. Blush and a touch of highlighter, sure. But putting extra highlighter on my nose and temples and jawline or anything, as in the example photos, makes me nervous. I can just see my foundation starting to fade during the day, and then unwittingly having alternating patches of redness and shiny skin and looking like an alien.
ME TOO
What is highlighter though? I’ve got all sorts of shimmery blushes and palettes but I don’t know if they qualify. Is it a cream, a powder? What do you use? So many questions!
I generally use a bit of bronzer and blush so highlighter may be too much?
I use Stila’s Kitten eyeshadow, applied lightly with a blush or bronzer brush (whichever one happens to be clean). If you get a good colour match it won’t really be visible on your skin per se, it will just reflect more light off you (I think??) and generally make you look like a radiant visitor from a distant star.
This is a good reminder that I need to get another brush, since I use one for both bronzer and blush (I know, I know, this is bad.) I might have a light eyeshadow, all over-type shimmer thing I could use!
FINALLY MY MOMENT!!! It can be a cream or a powder! Shimmery or not! I tend to follow the rule that if you’re using a powder foundation use powder-esque stuff for the rest of your makeup and if you use liquid/cream you use that stuff. BUT generally it depends on the state of my skin and whether I’m going to melt outside. In the summer I like to use powder more. I have 3 in rotation now. 1.) The RMS living luminizer which is as perfect as everyone says. It’s slightly shimmery, but not overly so. It’s a creamy formula so you can use your fingers and get a really natural effect. 2.) I forgot all of my luggage when I was going to a wedding and had to get some makeup from walmart and I just picked up a white eyeshadow and it is now a favorite highlighter. Anything can be a highlighter if you like how it looks! 3.) a concealer that’s a shade or two lighter than my skin. no shimmer just a little defining. Also you can use all three and it’s not too much if you’re really doing a face, but maybe not worth the effort if you’re late for work in the morning? Thank you for allowing me to ramble on about highlighters.
Wow this is all extremely helpful! Looks like I need to start using highlighter!
It’s really good for creating a slightly more finished look to your face. I swipe it on an otherwise completed face full of makeup and I think “yessss, my masterpiece is complete!” (Masterpiece is hyperbole, of course)
I would add that when narrowing down your color choices, go with something that matches the undertone of your skin. If you’re cool-toned, go with something in the pale pink/white/silver family, and if you’re warm-toned, go with something in the the gold/peach/champagne family. That way it blends with your skin and doesn’t scream HIGHLIGHTER!
If you’re darker-skinned, non-matte lighter bronzers work great as a more-subtle highlighter. Didn’t realize it until I accidentally used the non-highlighter pan from a Too Faced bronzer/highlighter palette on my highlighting spots and I looked sooooo fresh-faced.
Highlighter is a pretty vague category and it can be whatever you want it to be. I use a couple of different things. I have a Clinique chubby highlighter stick, which is pretty low-glitz, then I have a Nars dual blush where one side is a shimmery ivory with a pink undertone which is like a medium, then I have Nars Copacabana illuminator, which you can probably see from orbit when the sun hits it right.
I think a judicious touch of highlighter is not too much, if you like the effect. I use a drugstore brand foundation stick in a medium brown to contour with, and since it’s matte, I feel like a little illumination on my cheekbones is a nice complement.
I have loved highlighter, and I think that using a lighter eyeshadow is totally doable.
Just seconding here, I also now use highlighter thanks to you! And it is one of the single greatest things that has happened to my makeup routine.
I have to be so careful doing my highlighting or else I look like a skull peeking out from under my skin. Only way to describe it.
This is actually A Look for me. Sometimes I just want to be a ghoul.
I just pretend I’m aiming for the early Romantic Turbuncular Look.
I’m on the lookout for some cute wedge sandals! I had a pair of really nice Toms ones last year but the upper was made of this fabric with no give to it whatsoever, so it rubbed my toes raw.
Those thigh-highs are hot but I have yet to find a pair of thigh-high socks or stockings that don’t just roll down my thighs with a sad womp womp sort of noise, no matter what the size chart on the back says.
My thoughts exactly. Thigh highs make me look like a Presswurst.*
*I am neither responsible for the content of this link nor endorse all of it.
The only truly comfortable wedges I have are from Clarks — they’re quite tall cork wedges but they’re made of magic because they’ve never given me blisters and I’ve never rolled my ankle in them (an achievement when you’re as clumsy as I am). It looks like they’ve got some cute ones this year: http://www.clarksusa.com/us/c/womens-sandals-wedg…
I love my Toms wedges! When the first pair wore down I bought the next pair at Nordstrom so I could always return them free for a new pair when they get destroyed.
I love thigh-highs but they do slip down, unless you go through a phase in college of wearing a garter belt and thigh highs under dresses and skirts when you go out, mostly out of pleasure for yourself because let’s be real the sheer act of wearing them is a powerful jinx and means no one else will see them that night.
the number of times I’ve pulled a muscle in my back trying to reach around and fasten the back garters to my stockings is too damn high
It’s such a pain! I’ve basically done away with the practice. Sometimes I think the effort you put into primping and dressing yourself is inversely correlated with the chances of someone undressing you…
Ah, but the secret feeling of knowing you’ve got some damn sexy underthings is totally worth all the work, IMHO. Especially when you’re rocking a matching bra. Confidence, through the roof.
My favorite comfy and compliment inducing wedge sandals are from Miz Mooz.
All I can think of whenever someone mentions wedges is this quote from the hairpin’s bracket of “worst things SO’s have said” : “You know why you’re never going to be in a healthy relationship? Because you’re selfish. And you keep wearing wedges. No wonder you can’t make anything last.”
RIP hairpin.
I finally found thigh highs that DO NOT BUDGE. They are compression stockings which sounds hideous and I technically bought them because I have Pregnancy Feet but they are incredible and sturdier than regular stockings anyhow. Sigvaris, they have them at Nordstrom and they are glorious.
Ahem:
http://www.sockdreams.com/products/extraordinaril…
Thank you! I might check these out if the CAD ever climbs back up from the bottom of the sea.
I ordered these for my wedding on Monday and they are somewhere in SockDreams and ShippingToCanadaLimbo and I am so sad.
My wedge sandals are these from BOC and they are perfect, I wore them for my sister’s wedding (8:30am hair & makeup appt. until 1:30am end of party) with no problems. Cork wedges seem to be the best kind.
I have a similar pair by that brand and they are amazing. Wish it was warm enough where I am to wear them.
(american apparel makes some cableknit ones now that stay up)
I have an amazing pair of wedge sandals which are super comfy and although they’re quite high they feel like flats, BUT I bled all over them when I cut my toe on some glass at Bastille Day celebrations 2011 and I’ve kinda sorta just been wearing them with a nasty bloodstain on one strap ever since. I should probably get some more this summer.
There’s glue for that!
My amazing, fantastic, light and cute wedges are, no lie, Crocs. And when someone tells me how cute they are, I get to say, “I know! And they’re Crocs” and look smug.
I feel like this is the perfect place to morn the loss of my perfect cork wedge sandals. The leather was butter soft, and the wedge just high enough to make my legs pretty, but not so high that my ankle would start complaining. I could walk hours in them. And because I stole them from my mom’s closet fifteen years ago, they’re elegant and slim and subtle, not those clunky monstrosities they sell today. I literally wore them to death though, and last year, one strap broke, along with my heart.
Thanks to Edith my winter wardrobe is 50% fancy sweatshirts.
I bought the key necklace. I also bought key earrings.
LOCK IT DOWN
This bargain bin makes me feel springy, as in Tigger, and also the season
Roll on warmer days roll on
Yussss totally snagged the jumpsuit!!
Btw, I totally looked at the BC covers you linked me in the comments a couple weeks ago. I wasn’t super into them, but it inspired me to try and make my own!
Those little deer by the tote bags are really cute. Why are they not up for sale? 🙁
They abound on Etsy, though 🙂
That is so Alanis Morrisette.
Nope, I can totally confirm that it is not. She is WAY older than that model is.
Good doppelgagner, tho. I tots had to look twice.
Warning: The shipping for those bougie-ass socks was 8. Freaking. Dollars! Geez! (I still bought them, though…)
I am so sad because my orange Tretons (featured on the last FBB) were delivered yesterday and they don’t fit. In the feet (too big) or the top (too small)! I am trying again with a slightly different style because this grumpy Goldilocks deserves a happy ending.
Ugh I loooove those booties and have been searching for a pair like them, but 3 1/4 in heels are way too high for my mom lifestyle. How do baby/ toddler moms wear heels? I cannot carry 20 pounds of baby and walk in anything more challenging than my Born flats.
Do they say they’re that high!? They do NOT look that high. Maybe that’s why they’re on sale?
The description says 8cm/3¼”. BUMMER.
Good for date night maybe?
So, I got a little link lost in the last bargain bin and saw this cutie while looking at the paint-by-numbers tray: http://preview.tinyurl.com/z6b3w69 It is so cute and pointless and long story short I now own a plate specifically dedicated to holding used teabags and tea infusers while I finish my cuppa.
ETA: AND IT’S PUNNY! Like, are you kidding me?!
That just reminded me to get my tea.
Awesome! I’m counting this as my good deed for the day.
So, about this time last year, I was looking for a dress to wear to a wedding and found a blue-and-white floral maxi online that struck me as sooooo dreamy and pretty, like, the fantasy version of me who spends a lot of time standing on beach dunes gazing out to sea wears it all the time, but I doubted that I would really wear it much in real life so I bought something else. BUT: now, a year later, the same dress has just popped up in a sidebar ad. And it’s still really really pretty. And I still wouldn’t wear it much, but… I don’t know, y’all. Should I buy it?
Yup.
You SHOULD unless the sidebar add is from the same company that I’ve been getting a lot of all over the internet, shein/sheinside or similar.
Follow your instincts!!! (Get the dress!)
If you are still thinking about it a year later, it will be some good therapy to buy it.
I wasn’t, really — but I did recognize it right away when I saw the ad. (Thought process along the lines of “Hey, it’s that dress I liked! Wait, that wedding was last March. It can’t be the same dress. *clicks on ad* *clicks on a couple other similar dresses, feels no similar sense of recognition* Nope, it’s for sure the same dress!”) And I did just get a small windfall, and it’s from Nordstrom so if it sucks I feel confident I will be able to return it without getting jerked around. SOLD.
Yes! There will always be weddings or posh things to go to.
I ordered some of those Tretorn rain boots from the previous Bargain Bin, after endorsements from you guys! Very excited.
I shall buy no tote bags until I buy a Toast tote bag. Here I make my stand.
I shall stand with you.
YES
I have had money earmarked for Toast totes for myself and for a friend for MONTHS. On the days I haven’t had time to actually read through Link Roundup (may that number be fewer once my new hire starts) I still skim in case the announcement that totes are for sale is up. I would happily be late to a meeting to successfully buy a “take to the sea” tote.
Oh please oh please oh please!
I had that bow necklace on my christmas wish list and never got it. Today is the day! Also, just noticed you can get an extra 30% off sale stuff at Anthro with the code “XTRA30” at checkout YOU’RE WELCOME!
Totally just used this to buy the Chanteuse Jumpsuit and the Marled Knit Joggers. Thanks for the tip!
That jumpsuit is so awesome!
The plan is to wear it to some friends’ wedding in May! I hope it fits! (And if it doesn’t, I have plenty of time before the wedding to take it to a tailor and MAKE IT FIT, DAMN IT.)
Now the big question is: What shoes do I wear???
That poncho tho. I fear that as a plus-size person, I would look like a ship at full sail or maybe like I was a claw-foot table elegantly draped.
What I’m saying is I want to become the kind of person who can wear a poncho unironically.
No, you will look like a famous folk singer. Do it.
And as a short person, I would look like I was wearing part of a maxi dress but had forgotten the sides.
Personally, I’m pretty sure that it is not possible to wear a poncho unironically, and now every time I see one I will be envisioning that person as a draped claw-footed table… thanks for that image, haha
(But by all means, I would not think any less (or more) about a larger lady wearing a poncho than a petite one. You can do it.)
The only person I’ve ever seen IRL pull off a poncho was one of my instructors in college. She was plus-sized too, built a lot like me (which is to say round rather than hourglass), and she wore these nice, thin, drapey ponchos a lot. They looked great on her.
So basically, don’t write ponchos off yet if you aspire to wear them!
I’m pretty tall, and “a ship at full sail” is legit the visualization I have in my head whenever I walk anywhere longer than across a room. Sail! Claim your space!
Yes, I was coming down to say – looking like a ship in full sail or an elegantly draped table actually sounds rad! I never wanted a poncho but now maybe I am sold!
I am amply proportioned and I knitted myself a poncho and it is like having an awesome wearable blanket. Do it and rock on with your unapologetic bad self.
A ship at full sail is MAJESTIC AND BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL
Buy the softest one you can and wait for a day when you are so tired that you wish you could go to work in your pajamas. That is the day you wear a poncho.
(I’ve had the same black rabbit fur one for the last 12 years now and I pull it out when I need a portable blanket. It’s like wearing a hug.)
So I read The Cat Ate My Gymsuit at a very young, impressionable age and now any time I see a long drapey item, I, as a Short Round Person, hear someone saying, “I would look like a volleyball covered in rubber bands on top of a tent.” (Or whatever that line is as to why Marcy can’t wear the skirt/top her friend has picked out for her.) Usually my problem when I try to wear anything too flowy is that I look like a hassock with a dust ruffle.
Is this a good place to confess my inability to get a glowy,dewey complexion except through luck, the exact right atmospheric conditions,and possibly the alignment of certain stars? Halp halp, what products/methods do people use?
Maybe try MAC strobe cream? It gives you allover shimmer but goes on under other makeup so it’s subtle.
I’ll check it out, thanks! I haven’t had great luck with MAC skin stuff – I have a foundation that goes on beautifully but looks ghastly after 2 hours. A lot of those classic favorites (Laura Mercier, etc) just do not work on my weird face 😫.
I haven’t been in the sun in 20 years, that seems to help.
I recommend cultivating a hermit-like devotion to Netflix and living under a pile of blankets.
Done and done! I’m very careful about sunscreen, SPF chapstick, sunglasses, but while I am wrinkle-free, I am not as radiant as I’d like.
i highlight with NARS’s “albatross” and then use a setting spray instead of powder! nyx’s anti shine stuff, or the urban decay matte. it keeps my makeup on all day (and i’m a bartender in constant, sweaty motion), and also gives me a really awesome natural finish, without being uber matte like a powder might be. also if i really do need the powder that day for whatever reason, i always use a kabuki brush for ideal diffusement. humblebrag time, but i am the kind of person who is allllways getting comments on how “great my skin is” and sure, some of that is down to genes, but mostly it is how i apply my makeup, pretty sure. if these people saw me without makeup they would be horrified.
NYX! Love, they are the best. I guess my problem is using powder instead of just a spray and giving it time to set. I’m always worried about smearing, so I dust on some powder, but it detracts from the dewiness.
I love you guys. That’s all.
I have one of Baggu’s canvas backpacks and can confirm the quality is really good!
Today is a treat yo’ self kinda day and goddamit I bought that poncho (even though I probably won’t have the courage to wear it when it arrives in a week)
Do it do it do it! I’m not someone who enjoys being the center of attention, but I wear a lot of crazy crap because I can. Honestly, you only need to go out in public wearing something weird a few times before you’re like “fuck it” forever.
This is why my winter hat is a fleece jester’s cap.
Wear it! You will be majestic and awesome and snuggly (or at least, that is what I always presume when i wear ponchos)
Target has some similar nightgowns in their sleepwear section this season. Full disclosure: I will probably buy one and wear it as a dress.
So I read The Cat Ate My Gymsuit at a very young, impressionable age and now any time I see a long drapey item, I, as a Short Round Person, hear someone saying, "I would look like a volleyball covered in rubber bands on top of a tent." (Or whatever that line is as to why Marcy can't wear the skirt/top her friend has picked out for her.) Usually my problem when I try to wear anything too flowy is that I look like a hassock with a dust ruffle.
This is why my winter hat is a fleece jester's cap.
Ah, but the secret feeling of knowing you've got some damn sexy underthings is totally worth all the work, IMHO. Especially when you're rocking a matching bra. Confidence, through the roof.
That jumpsuit is so awesome!