Beauty + Fashion

Three moms.  Three different lifestyles. Three different perspectives.  One place of self-acceptance. As moms, and women, life can be hard. We nitpick ourselves. We focus on the things we want to change. We compare ourselves to others. We don't love ourselves enough. We overlook our...

Two direct sales fashion companies I follow announced they are debuting jeans this season and my social media world exploded with excitement and one main question - how much were they going to cost??? Matilda Jane's come in at...

I recently took a risk and cut my hair in a style that is a little edgy and a little scary. I’ve maintained a nice angled bob for several years. I love the cut, but there was one addition...

Bathing suits. Did you just shudder? Crazy how one word instills fear in your heart; fear of going shopping for a bathing suit or fear of wearing a bathing suit in public. Or maybe all of the above?  Since so many...

Ah, summer. You either love it or you hate it. Here in “famously hot” Columbia, it’s easy for me to fall into the latter group of people. Now that I’m not a student or a teacher anymore, the magic...

I know what you’re thinking. It’s only May and we’re already sweltering in 90° weather. It can get so hot here in the south. We only have a few days that feel like spring and then the rest just...

Something happened when I became a mom. I poured my life into caring for my son, and I spent less and less time caring for myself. While having a child obviously shifts your focus, it's also important to practice...

If you haven’t had one of these days, then I promise you will. I’m not talking about the beautiful confidence that comes with age and experience. Growing older is great. Maturity brings a wonderful mindset. Most days. And then...

I bet you have had a week, or weeks, that are bleak. It seems like the world is crashing in, and when nothing else can go wrong … BOOM. It does. When it rains, it pours. And so on. But...

2017 was another great year for the Columbia SC Moms Blog! We are so thankful to all you, our readers, who were right there with us as we shared stories about our families, highlighted all the fun things to...

Prior to becoming a mom, Target was just a store. It was a place to get random things I needed here and there. When I became a mom, Target became a place of solace full of wonderful things and...

When pregnancy rolls around, most of us expect there to be several added expenses to the budget for the next nine months. Your wardrobe should not be one of the expenses to worry about. I’m in my second pregnancy...

At this moment, my body is the heaviest it's been since I was pregnant. And, I just had a sassy, professional pinup photo shoot done. These sentences don’t often go hand in hand, but I took the leap anyway. It would...

I bet you read the title of this, and thought, “Yeah, right.” What is this “fashion” you speak of? And by accessories, do you mean the snot my kid just wiped on my pants? YES. That is exactly what I...