Life in Style

Today I handed in the keys to my junior year apartment.  I wanted to capture the view on the roof one more time before I parted ways, and I'm sure you'll all see why it's just that much harder to say goodbye. But change is good and I'm super excited about my new place, my new roommate and going into my senior year of college on a high note! Nothing beats that view though. Hope everyone enjoys the last few days we have left in July! Next stop for me..Vancouver :) ♡Addison

Happy Birthday America. 240 looks great on you. Happy 4th Everyone! Stay safe and have fun. ♡Addison

Tomorrow may be my 21st birthday but today is also special. Today marks the third anniversary of Life in Style! I've successfully been posting photos for three years and that's a huge accomplishment for me. It doesn't matter that I had inconsistent periods where I didn't post for months, what matters is that I kept trying. My wardrobe has changed a lot over the past couple of years but so has my hair and even my makeup abilities. My favorite part about blogging is watching the transformation of not only my physical appearance but my self-confidence too. Life in Style has become the other half of me, and I'm so happy I haven't given up on it! Thank you all for supporting my journey, and I hope to continue for far into the future.  Happy Birthday Life in Style! & Happy Birthday to Me! (tomorrow) ♡Addison

Art is pretty neat but street art is even neater. Mainly because of how surprising street is since you never really know when you're going to stumble across it. Then there's the use of bold colors and line to make you stare harder at the artwork followed by their usual larger than average size. It's one astonishing package that could be right around the corner from you. Like this piece above that I just happened to find driving through town one day. It stops everyone! Right before these photos were taken, a women pulled over in her car to snap a photo of this larger than life mural. The colors in this piece are so bright and vivid that I wanted to experiment with brighter makeup for the canvas that is my face. Starting with my bold lip color in  Shocking Coral from the Maybelline Vivids Collections (buy here ). The colors in this collection are gorgeous, however they aren't the smoothest lip product out there and I find i...

Oh hello there. So I was going to start off by saying that music festival season has finished up but I really have no idea if that's true at all. I'm making assumptions since Coachella has come and gone, and that seems to really be the most popular one, or least on the west coast it is. Again, I could be totally wrong about everything. Summer concerts though have definitely not ended though, and so maybe festival season hasn't either! Even though I'm from Chicago which has the increasingly popular Lollapalooza, I've never been and wouldn't think to categorize that in the same boat as Coachella. Anyway, Lollapalooza isn't until late July, so clearly the summer music fun is still going strong. Funny story actually: when I was younger, my family and I were downtown in the city being tourists  (what else) and we were walking by Grant Park during the festival when we saw some protesters ...