Today's NBC segment, in which we talk simple beauty routines…and the one thing you actually need to look like a human being in the morning.
Product rundown after the jump!
Two-Minute Morning Makeup Routine
Style
ColorPop
{ Everlane Tote; Zara Dress; Ann Taylor Blazer }
Where I'm headed today: to the NBC studios in Rockefeller Center to film a NY Live interview about my book (and give some new-mom beauty ideas). And this is what I'm wearing.
I've been doing a whole bunch of these segments lately, and while they still make me kind of nervous (albeit less and less with each one that passes), I've been having so much fun getting dressed for them. Mostly because my life doesn't usually involve places to which one needs to wear things like sheath dresses and blazers and pumps (at the same time) - even if I'm headed to a meeting, it's usually a pretty informal event where the person I'm meeting with cares more about what I'm saying and what I *actually* look like (which usually means jeans, a t-shirt and too much jewelry) than that I'm dressed Like A Professional. Which is my kind of meeting.
Stripes To Match
I've had this shirt for about five years now, and I've never worn it. Ever.
Want to know why?
Because it's actually a dress. And if you wear it as a dress it is both band-aid tight and covers approximately one-sixtieth of your body...and not even the sixtieth of your body that you sort of need to have covered if you're going to go out in public. I don't know why it's never occurred to me to wear it as a shirt before right this very moment, but there you go: pregnancy breeds innovation breeds wearing dresses as t-shirts.
This Old Thing
I write a lot about the stuff I wore in high school. I wore everything from chartreuse prom dresses from the ‘50s, not-quite-right overalls, Salvation Army pajamas, and for-real witch's robes, and it was all very confusing-looking…but the fact that it was confusing-looking makes sense; I was confused. About who I was and what I wanted, and a lot of that came out through what I wore.
I probably wouldn’t throw on a neon ball gown “just because” these days (although you never know), but I always think it’s interesting when I notice that despite just how different everything in my life is now, so many of the things I loved two decades ago are still hanging around.
Whoa.
Bare Legs And Boots
I don't work with Stuart Weitzman (I went to an event of theirs once and went home with a gorgeous pair of shoes and a discount card that enabled me to purchase additional pairs of shoes without passing out, but that's the extent of it).
I start with this caveat because this is now the second time I have needed to comment on their advertising campaign, because it is just so good. The first time I rhapsodized about just how very much I had fallen prey to whatever the people in their marketing department are up to was when they hired Kate Moss to wander around on the streets of London in over-the-knee boots looking hotter than a person should ever look…and this time it's because they've been posting shots over on their Instagram (which I follow, and shouldn't, because following their Instagram gets expensive for me) with the simple caption:
