Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays because it combines some of my favorite things: candy, makeup and dress up! I'm disappointed in myself this year though because I really didn't get to buy or make a costume, but I improvised.  

  Here's my costume:

I can post a tutorial if anyone wants it. The hardest part was honestly the nose and I did 3 different ones before I was happy with it.

I want to see all your costumes and makeup so please post them below!

OOTD Grown Up Polka Dots

I love this dress! Mostly I love it because it was an awesome deal at TJ Maxx, $39, for a $100 dress. Win for the Maxxinista! I also just adore the silhouette, it has something very retro, yet modern about it and I love it. It feels casual enough to go out during the day, but dressed up enough for a date night. The best part about the shape of the dress is that it makes me look 10 pounds lighter, which is fantastic, because Winter has not left me in my best shape. I love clothes that make you feel good, I think all clothes should be mood boosters.

I can't not mention the shoes. Another TJ Maxx score, these Steve Madden heels remind me so much of the Valentino Rockstuds, but for soooo much less! The best part, is that they are super comfy.

Here's hoping that sunnier days will soon be upon us!

Do you have an outfit that just brightens up your day>

OOTD Geometric Dress

So as promised I'm going to try to start posting at least one outfit per week. I work in a medical spa, so 5 days a week I wear scrubs, but once a week we get a dress up day. Here's what I wore this week. 

 

Can we just talk about how much I love this dress?!

I love the shape of the dress and how fun the skirt of it is. I must have twirled about 20 times in the office.

 









I love this dress. I got it for a great price at TJ Maxx and it's such a soft, warm, comfy dress. It's great because it doesn't need much since it has such a fun print. It's not something I'd usually buy, but would definitely admire on someone else, so I'm glad I bought it.

 I paired it with very simple jewelry and earth toned makeup.

Do you have a favorite easy to wear outfit?

Blog Update: New Features

Hey guys, so as you know I'm in the middle of moving. Oh, the fabulous confusion of living in a forest of cardboard boxes... Anyway, this has made it a little bit hard to keep up with one of my New Year's resolutions, a new recipe every week. If you've read the About Me post, you know that my current kitchen is a makeshift shamble of a plug in 2 burner unit and a toaster oven that's pretty much a grown up Easy Bake Oven. In order to make it up to myself and to you guys, once I'm fully moved in I'm going to do one week of a new recipe every day. If there's a certain kind of recipe you guys want to see, let me know in the comments below. After that I'll pick a day of the week that will be home to the new recipe each week. The other new thing I want to feature is a Fashion Friday post. At my main job I wear scrubs every day so I don't get to showcase any of my fabulous clothes and accessories. I convinced the big boss (a.k.a. my mom, yes it's a family business) that we should have a dress down day. Her response? No, but we could have a dress UP day. Even better. So I'm going to try to do an OOTD/OOTW on here.

If there's something you guys want to see, let me know in the comments. 


What new feature do you want to see on Gorgeous, Cupcake?