Steal This Style — Just in time for Mother’s Day!

This contest is closed, and the winner is Jacqueline in Atlanta! Congratulations, Jacqueline! I think the 30s and 40s is the hardest age to dress. We're too old for the hip, trendy styles of the 20-somethings, but we're too young for the classic, stodgy looks of the 50- and 60- somethings. I … [Read more...]

Shapeez

I don't know about you, but I'm always in search of miraculous undergarments to hold my post-childbearing body together. I'm what you'd call thin-limbed, but that means that I carry all my weight in my midsection. BLERGH. I've written about several shapewear pieces over the last year or so … [Read more...]

Get Your Wedge on This Spring

Spring is finally here and in my house, a new season = new shoes! Like a girl REALLY needs an excuse for shoe shopping! But for today, we'll go with....."Because it's Spring!" Grab your purse ladies..........we're going shoe shopping! The biggest shoe trend this Spring is wedges. I’ve … [Read more...]

Designer Duds for a Song

Every year my husband and I attend a black tie charity gala. And every year I find myself asking the same agonizing question: "What am I going to wear?" I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before -- I'm cheap. It causes me great physical pain and emotional anguish to drop $200 on a cocktail … [Read more...]

Bare Escentuals Minerals FREE 10 day supply with $4 shipping

Go to Moms Need to Know to find out how to order your supply! … [Read more...]

Beautiful Lips with Beeswax

During the winter I'm always battling the chapped lips. My chapped lips have the tendency to go from chapped, to a big ol' cold-sore, so as soon as they start burning, I start applying. I've tried chapstick, carmex, soft lips, and while they all were okay there was always something missing. … [Read more...]

Concealed Assets

Hello, Chic Critique Readers!! My name is Sarah and this is my first post here at Chic Critique. I am so very excited to be joining this wonderful team of ladies. You may (or may not) know me from my personal blog, Classy and Fabulous. Anyway, I think that today I am going to jump right in … [Read more...]

Structured Print Tops for Spring

My wardrobe is SOLID, man. And I don't mean that in a good way. I walked into my closet just now, which is pretty big, and looked at my side, where my clothes hang, and I have a lot of clothes (although I only WEAR about 20% of them). And out of all those clothes, I have FIVE, count 'em FIVE … [Read more...]

Do your tops suffer from fuzzy sweater syndrome?

I don't know about you, but when I look down and notice my sweater is fuzzy in all the wrong places, I get a little embarrassed and start picking it off. The underarm area tends to be the worst. (Slightly problematic when one is sitting in a place where one shouldn't pick at one's clothes. Like … [Read more...]