The Holiday season for me was not only visiting with my family, there also was a bit of visiting the cookie plate of the ready bake Peanut Butter cookie’s my sister in-law would make every evening after the full course dinners we’d have, including two or three appetizers to start. After all that visiting let’s say like many, I’m starting my New Years off feeling a little fluffy. So until the results of my resolution of better eating habits kicks in – promise this not about a diet – my thoughts turned to the one wardrobe accessory that always comes through when the fluff factor is higher than it should be and the favorite pair of jeans just can’t make the cut.
Jewelry of course! What better accessory to give that little lift in the step, boost the confidence and provide needed resolution! Plus a really dynamic pair of earrings or broach will always detract the eye from the fluffier areas that we all see (real or not).
Here are a few quick tips on how jewelry can highlight your best features and in a flash make the fluff disappear – or just make us look slimmer.
Big Earrings
As they say in Texas, the bigger the better, and if you want to attract attention upward, toward your face and neck wear large hoop earrings, dangly earrings and if they have some flash to them the better – they will frame your face and add definition to cheekbones.
Long Chains
The trick, to a longer slimmer looking neck, is wear long chain necklaces – they make the neck look longer and slimmer by drawing the gaze downward the length of the throat along the light of the chain. Caution, when wearing long chain necklaces best to keep the earrings short and bright as a dangly earring with a long chain necklace and be a bit much and overwhelm your look defeating the purpose you set out to do.
Wear a Statement Piece
18Karat Yellow Gold Hoop Earrings Curated by GemLily
18Karat Yellow Gold 28 Inch Chain Curated by GemLily
Having the right piece of jewelry, such as a brooch, worn in the right place, near the face on a sweater or jacket, can make fluffiness look very minimal – but wearing too many statement pieces at once can detract and confuse the eye.
If your figure is pear shaped best to wear long necklaces, chunky earrings, also bangles and bracelets that will pull attention way from areas that may have gotten fluffier over the holidays such as hips and thighs. If your apple shaped, wear shorter chains, bracelets and earrings to draw attention away from any mid-section fluff and bring it up to your bust line, neck and face.