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There are days when I wish I could dress up and go to an office to work. Today is one of those days. Yeah, I know, sounds a little crazy, right? Who wouldn't want to work from home and wake up whenever?

Well, to get the creative juices flowing today while pretending that I am getting dressed up for work, I decided to create this fashion spread to showcase one of my favorite looks right now...menswear inspired fashion.

Items used in this fashion spread:

Oasis button shirt
£35 - oasis-stores.com

Helmut lang jacket
$690 - barneys.com

Rag & Bone black wide leg pants
$275 - barneys.com

Christian Louboutin high heel shoes
$815 - shopsavannahs.com

Prada tote hand bag
£775 - flannelsfashion.com

MICHAEL Michael Kors gold tone jewelry
$250 - bloomingdales.com

Tom Ford plastic shades
£185 - flannelsfashion.com

I am on the hunt for a couple blazers that I can wear when going out to dinner or meeting with a client. I really like this fitted, one button blazer from Bebe...

The boho side of me likes this lace blazer by Free People...

What do you think about the menswear inspired look?

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Emjoi Micro-Pedi Review: Joy For Rough, Dry Feet

It's been a whirlwind week of attending Cosmoprof in Las Vegas (stay tuned for posts and reviews!) and then coming back to San Diego to check out the Sassy City Chicks fashion bash. My feet were crying for attention because I had tortured them in what I thought were my most comfortable heels.

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you know that I enjoy giving myself manicures and pedicures at home. It's a very rare occasion that I go to the nail salon for a pedicure because I have such ticklish feet. Whenever someone starts scrubbing my feet with a pumice I just start laughing hysterically. Besides that, they scrub your feet so hard!

But now I have the Emjoi Micro-Pedi, which came at the perfect time for me to review. (I received a sample from the company.) After all the pain I put my feet through last week, the soles were starting to get rough and dry. I was going to post a picture, but I didn't want to gross you out in case you're eating right now!

This little device that looks like a shaver removes all the rough dry skin on your feet so effortlessly. It comes with two types of rollers - magenta for course feet and blue for extra course feet - that spins as you glide it across your foot. In a matter of two minutes both my feet were relieved of ugly, dry skin.

Emjoi runs on AA batteries and comes with a plastic cover and a little brush to clean it...

The soles of my feet feel so soft and smooth now!

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It's My Arm Party and I'll Have Fun If I Want To...

There's a huge party going on over at Pretty Shiny Sparkly - an Arm Party, that is! Out of all the "Bloggers Do It Better" challenges, this has been the most fun for me this week.

My jewelry collection consists of so many different types of bracelets, but as I mentioned before, I've always just worn two...maybe three...but usually just two at a time. You would think a jewelry designer and hoarder like myself would always have an arm party, but I'm just a big party pooper most days.

What do they say about parties? The more the merrier, right? I finally went from party pooper to wild child this week when I went from wearing bracelets on just one arm to wearing them on both arms...