There are many things that were considered outrageous when I was in college that are now commonplace today. Just two of those things are unnatural hair colors like pink, blue, and purple. The other is getting nose piercings. You see these things more and more each day, and people do not even bother to turn [...]

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Hunting for a home is not quite as easy as it used to be. Those with sticky or shaky credit could always go to a mortgage broker to see what they could find for them. The reins have tightened, so to speak, because the bottom fell out of that particular market. However, it does not [...]

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Retro fashions and vintage everything are the signature of today’s hip young fashion trend setters. Not for the faint of dress, the wearer of these past fashion hits automatically has panache and charisma. Vintage hats are plentiful, with decades of hat fashions from which to choose. Vintage hats, perhaps even more so than vintage clothing, [...]

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Investing money while in college is not a priority for people. After all, most folks are busy just trying to keep up with tuition payments and general cost-of-living expenses. Nonetheless, investing in college is possible. I know –  I was one of the first people in my school to do it.
I was pretty inspired by [...]

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Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. Usually, I spend weeks and weeks preparing for it. I make the best Halloween costume I can, and I usually get some very positive reactions. Nevertheless, last year there was a change. I was just coming into town the day before Halloween from an extended business trip, [...]

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There are a few things that my husband refuses to do with me, and one of them is shoe shopping. He complains that I have too many shoes, and I don’t wear some of them. I can’t blame him for being a bit upset about that, as there is a lot of truth to what [...]

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Ironically, Retro fashions in your wardrobe may well be some of the most individualistic pieces in your closet. After all, almost everyone else is wearing a modern costume, which you’ll see on a dozen different people walking down the street. Although Retro fashions have already been on the scene before, in decades past, people tend [...]

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When it comes to hairstyles, nothing may be worse for aging someone as having the same hair that they had in high school. It can be hard to let go of a style if you think it is something that looks good on you, but you may be adding years to your appearance without realizing [...]

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Fashion trends change with every season and most women cannot afford to buy a whole new wardrobe that often, much as they’d like to be able to do so. Other women may not care for the styles currently available, leaving them to opt for retro or vintage clothing. Some will simply stick with the wardrobe [...]

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I actually got my first pair of colored contacts as a gag a few years ago. It was Halloween and I wanted to go all-out. I decided on a pair of cats eye colored contact lenses. Back then, they was sort of a novelty. I had not really seen many of them before, and I [...]

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