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I think one of the keys for me has been easing into it, as other ladies have said. You have to find out what you like for yourself.
Practice doing your hair on days that you stay home (so if it is a disaster you don't have the stress of leaving the house with it horrible AND you can learn to do it fast enough to actually get it done in the morning). Start gradually with the makeup, and experiment. I actually wear about 12 different colors of lipstick throughout the year with different things, but to settle on those colors I must have tried nearly every one in the store. To get to those 12 colors it took 2 years, and let's just say that most of the colors I bought were so bad on me that they didn't get worn out of the house. Also check these things under different kinds of lighting, it can drastically change the way makeup looks.
One trick that has helped me to pick out outfits is to throw everything for a single season (skirts, pants, sweaters, and blouses) into a pile on the floor or the bed. Then I match by color and texture, pulling things out as I go and hanging them together, and then recording what is stranded without a "mate." This tells me what I still need. (It can also tell you lots about what colors you like and what colors you need, especially if your pile is all one color
). It can really help you to think outside the box for putting your clothes together. If you always wear x with y, try to see if you can find something else to wear x with in your pile.
Practice doing your hair on days that you stay home (so if it is a disaster you don't have the stress of leaving the house with it horrible AND you can learn to do it fast enough to actually get it done in the morning). Start gradually with the makeup, and experiment. I actually wear about 12 different colors of lipstick throughout the year with different things, but to settle on those colors I must have tried nearly every one in the store. To get to those 12 colors it took 2 years, and let's just say that most of the colors I bought were so bad on me that they didn't get worn out of the house. Also check these things under different kinds of lighting, it can drastically change the way makeup looks.
One trick that has helped me to pick out outfits is to throw everything for a single season (skirts, pants, sweaters, and blouses) into a pile on the floor or the bed. Then I match by color and texture, pulling things out as I go and hanging them together, and then recording what is stranded without a "mate." This tells me what I still need. (It can also tell you lots about what colors you like and what colors you need, especially if your pile is all one color
). It can really help you to think outside the box for putting your clothes together. If you always wear x with y, try to see if you can find something else to wear x with in your pile.
