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We are thrilled to hang out with Inspired By This the entire month of December as our Guest Editor. We have already found ourselves learning some amazing tips and can’t wait to be inspired the whole month!
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The Holiday Season is in full effect and with that comes parties, dinners and events. It leaves us searching into our recipe catalogs for something tasty.. but healthy.. yet something that will still keep people coming back for seconds (because let's just admit it now, we want to be know as the person who brought the most amazing dish.. am i right?)
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Photos by Courtnee Brown
Yep, I said naked. That tantalizingly taboo word that gets a bad wrap from time to time. I wanted to write about body image (specifically mine), so I began by googling the word naked.
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Photography by Renata Amazonas
Life can seem to deal you some bad decks of cards sometimes. A bad batch of lemons. But sometimes, it's up to you to take your lemons and make lemonade. Here are a few tips to help you get to the light side. The happy, helping, motivating side! The side, where you can't lose if you stay with it!
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Photo: Chris Parker
We’ve teamed up with Arsy Vartanian, founder of one of the top ten Paleo Blogs, Rubies and Radishes. She is the Author of two very successful cookbooks; The Paleo Slow Cooker and The Paleo Foodie Cookbook, and is here to help us learn more about this method of eating real food.
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Makeup can be a powerful tool.
Its application can be the start of a good day by lifting your mood or giving you that added boost of confidence. It may also be used to alter or enhance ones look for a dressed up night out by only adding to your existing features or creating a dramatic look for photos.
Read MoreWhen the air starts getting crisp and the leaves begin changing colors, I get a bit nostalgia for steaming cups of hot chocolate in front of the fireplace! But now, theres so much more to hotel chocolate than milk + cocoa!
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A flawlessly designed space can change your approach to how you tackle each day. Let me say my life has been forever changed. I’m obsessed with Kate Strickland of West Haddon Hall. There, I said it. She is cool, stylish, sassy, the whole package. Let me put it like this, if there was cool table to sit at in high school, Kate is sitting at the head of it and it’s everywhere I wanna be.
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The four talented women behind the handcrafted jewelry company, 31 Bits, have teamed up with us to be our October Guest Editors. This week we got to talk with Alli (a walking Yelp) who is always in-the-know of new restaurants.
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Images via Gracias Madre
I was recently in West Hollywood and decided to check out Mexican Restaurant, Gracias Madre. I could literally eat Mexican food everyday, specifically here in Los Angeles, and am very intrigued with the idea of Mexican cuisine that does not incorporate meat. I didn’t really know what to expect.
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California style is an eclectic mix. It's part relaxed bohemian, mixed in with a little edge, combined with colorful, feminine glam. But one thing can be said, there is a definite laid back, yet chic vibe to California style.
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The presence of October is California’s mark for the Fall season. We are automatically programmed to change out our clothing; not only to wear Fall’s coolest trends but also prepare for the cooler months. Just like our seasonal wardrobe overhaul, we should give our beauty routine a revamp.
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Photo by Zeke Ruelas
A good gallery wall is eclectic. There is a little bit of everything but an underlying cohesive nature to the wall as a whole. So here are our tips on how to make your Gallery Wall display one of your favorites parts of your home.
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In the everyday bustle of our busy lives, it's important to take a minute to reflect on the present... on our everyday lives. You might find comfort in a song, a yoga class or a sunset - but whether you are struggling with a bad day, or you just need to push "pause" on life for a minute, little affirmations help keep our minds at ease.
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This season’s makeup trends are taking a turn to the nude, it is the ‘No Makeup’ look with a healthy brow. If your skin is not perfect this tutorial will show you how to achieve flawless skin with minimal makeup in 5 minutes.
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Let's face it. The aftermath of taking an indoor cycling class leaves you covered in a whole lot of sweat and feeling a little less than glamorous. Before you get on that bike there are 5 essential items you should always keep handy in your gym bag.
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Now that NYFW has come and gone, we wanted bring some of our favorite looks from the SPRING 15 Runway to your day-to-day life. We teamed up with Makeup Artist, Michelle Hodnett to give us all of her tips and tricks.
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Fall is fashion’s favorite season of trends, and the “it” list of accessories far from disappoint. We’ve pulled the season’s appropriate accessories that prove they do not have break the bank to own.
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Images by Cortnee Loren Brown
Life happens, and sometimes, it's not always rainbows and sunshine. Sometimes it's little stuff, sometimes it's big stuff. Either way we have absolutely no power over what gets thrown at us. What we DO have power over is in the way that we preserver through hardships.
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