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Girly Nerd

Oh man my allergies are terrible right now. It’s best no one sees my itchy eyes this week, so I’ve been sporting my glasses more often, which means I’ve got dress around them. Wearing these, I have to resist the urge to go all-out masculine prepster with a button-down shirt and trousers…I mean, it’s not […]

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Preppy Nerdy Casual with Red Jeans

Sorry to pummel y’all with my favorite jeans AGAIN, but I cannot tell a lie. I wear these suckers all the time. I thought today I would document my rumpled, messy-haired, bespectacled, self and share a weekend-ready look fit for the luckiest day of the year: 11/11/11. Or just fit for a weekend of bike […]

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Rusty Layers

I’m really into oranges, rusts, browns, and reds right now. Maybe it’s because I miss a fall where the leaves don’t just shrivel up on the tree before they fall off onto the hot ground. Or maybe because of my redhead status, I want everything to go with my hair. Either way, I thought this […]

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Those Little Details

This year has really been a practice in impulse control around Trophy Boutique headquarters. In January I began my ill-fated resolution to not buy anything new save for accessories, stopped shopping at Forever 21, and spent a lot of time exploring Austin’s thrift and vintage stores. I fell off the wagon sometime around April, when […]

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A Waist (Before & After)

One of my favorite tricks to make my clients super excited and happy is to show them where their natural waist is hiding. But sometimes I forget where my own waist resides, as seen in these photos. I was so excited about my Tortoise & Blonde glasses, that I didn’t realize that this untucked, unbelted […]

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New Specs and Old Memories

You guys, I have a not-that-embarrassing confession. I have terrible eyesight. Ever since I was six I have had to wear some sort of corrective lens. My first pair of glasses were pink plastic with these little divots in the side that looked like eyelashes. They were probably three sizes too large for my face. […]

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