Fashion Trends from the Spring Issue of Applaud Women

Spring Fashion Trends

by Susan Kanoff
It’s been a long winter and pretty soon it will be time to put away the heavy wool sweaters and start thinking spring clothes. If you’re worried that your spring wardrobe isn’t up to par, take a peek at what’s “in” this season & have fun incorporating some updated pieces into your collection.

Neutrals:
Soft neutral colors are everywhere this season – shades of pale gray, beige, peach, and taupe are this spring’s staple colors. Unfortunately, not everyone can wear these colors since they tend to wash some women out. If you have this issue, mix soft neutrals with bright colors such as shades of turquoise, coral, and blue. Some of my favorite color combinations are light peach with coral, light gray with turquoise, and layered shades of sand, beige and khaki. I also love neutrals with metallics!

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Springtime Savings: Looking Fabulous on a Budget

By Alana Finnie
It’s easy to go overboard spending-wise when springtime rolls around. All of our gray and black winter frocks seem so boring in contrast to the gorgeous colors that are on full display in every store. But you don’t have to break the bank to look fantastic this season. With my shopping budget of basically $0 (fine, maybe a tiny bit more than that), it’s tough to find ways to update my style. Sticking to accessories is the easiest way for me. You can update what you already have (ie: a little black dress, anything denim, a plain white t-shirt, etc.) with a few great accessories and make a huge difference in the way you look. Here are a few springtime delights that won’t leave you penniless.

Scarves

Buying a few scarves is a great way to step-up your wardrobe in the cheapest way possible. Not only does it warm you up during this transitional period, it also can turn your normal, everyday “blah” look into a totally different outfit. There are countless options out there. I like to go to flea markets and try to find deals, but if you’re wary of that, there are some great finds all over the place! This scarf from Old Navy is on sale for about $11. You can find this and many others at oldnavy.com.


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Mary Richardson of Chronicle, Channel 5 Featured-Applaud Women Spring Issue, Inspirational Women in Media

This is perfect timing for our interview with Mary Richardson, co-anchor for Channel 5's Chronicle as she steps down after 30 years. Read a brief excerpt of her inspirational story or read the entire article at http://bit.ly/bkyYQr.
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Mary Richardson has been a pathfinder for women in the news world. Currently the co-host of Chronicle on ABC’s WCVB-TV Channel 5 in Boston, her career followed a coast-to-coast path, which shows, as she says, “that you can have your dreams, and can dare to aspire to bigger things.”

A native Californian, Mary began a career in teaching after completing a degree in English. Upon assigning her students a communications project she began to appreciate her own interest in communications and started attending graduate school at night. The decision to quit teaching to attend school full time and undertake the required internship paved the way to Mary’s future in broadcasting.

Mary's message to our readers: “Mary advises, “Along the way, I have met incredible women. Don’t let anyone discourage you and tell you what you can and cannot do. Believe in yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, whom can you believe in?” Read the full story at: http://bit.ly/bkyYQr.

Applaud Women on-line magazine Spring issue focuses on Inspirational Women in Media including 24 interviews with the top women in media in newspaper, radio and TV in New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts (Boston, MA). Each woman's story in unique and carries with it an empowering message to our readership. The next series of posts will include excerpts from each article with a link to the full issue.
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Read about these other fabulous women:
New Hampshire
Alisha McDevitt, News Director, WMUR TV; Pamela Cook-Correia, Executive Producer, NH Personalities Television Talk Show,; Tracy Caruso-WZID Radio; Susan Sauer Laughlin-NH Magazine; Sarah Sullivan,-Frank FM Radio; Heidi J. Copeland-Business NH Magazine; Laura Boyce, WGIR Radio; Karen Kiley-WOKQ Radio; Sharon Ciechon-Union Leader Newspaper; Joanne Randall- WPTL Radio

Massachusetts
Candy O’Terry-Magic 106.7 Radio; Rita Cary-The River Radio; Kendra Petrone-KISS 108 Radio; Kennedy Elsey-MIX 98.5 Radio; Karen Blake-WODS Radio; Gretchen Putnam-Eagle Tribune Newspaper; Jennifer Peter-Boston Globe Newspaper; Hillary Chabot-Boston Herald Newspaper; Maria Stephanos-FOX TV;
Paula Ebben-Channel 38 TV; Danielle Niles-NECN TV; Emily Rooney-Channel 2 TV and Frances Rivera-Channel 7 TV

Plus snapshots of 23 additional women in media throughout New Hampshire and n. Massachusetts.

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Inspirational Women (local, national and international). If you have something you would like us to share please e-mail applaud@comcast.net. Additionally we have resource listings for NH & MA restaurants, Hotels (NH only), Female Doctors, Wedding and Beauty related businesses.

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Applaud Women Winter Issue-Closet Clean Out Tips

Closet Clean Out Tips by Susan Kanoff

Do you have a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear? Chances are it isn’t because you’re lacking clothes, but that you have way too many of them! A clean closet will help you to coordinate outfits more easily, maximize space and better organize your clothes. Here are some tips to help you with your closet make-over:

1. Have the right supplies on-hand including the most important, good hangers. My favorite type is the slim-line hanger—a thin velvet covered hanger that keeps clothes from slipping off. The slim-line can be found in most stores or on-line at www.onlyhangers.com/Cat-122-1-105/Slim-Line_Hangers.htm. Never use the metal drycleaner hangers as they can stretch and ruin clothes. Other supplies include boxes and/or trash bags for sorting clothes (label them toss, alter, donate and consign), plastic shoes boxes, and organizers for belts and scarves. And to read the rest of the article go to the Winter issue of Applaud Women at www.applaudwomen.com. Click on the Winter cover image found on the homepage to enter the publication, turn pages (make sure you turn on your sound to hear the pages swish), print pages or download the entire magazine.



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Applaud Women Winter Issue Highlights

The Winter issue of Applaud Women in now on-line at www.applaudwomen.com. Here is a little bit of what you will find in it.

Four Fabulous Inspirational Women

Read the inspirational stories of these fabulous ladies -

Lawyer With a Mission- Sandy Kuhn-"I'd have to say that the most rewarding element of being a lawyer is just helping out my clients. When I do a good job and they are appreciative of what I've done for them, like solving a difficult financial problem, that is what is rewarding for me," Sandy explains.

Writer & Entrepreneurial Wife - Meg Hirshberg- "In the end, it's such a gift to be able to have a passion, to do something that you believe in and you love. People who find a way to incorporate their passion into their work really do live happier ....." says Meg.

Woman of Reinvention-
Kim Gobbi- "If you have a good idea, if it's what you want to do and you love it, and if enough people love it and want it too, it's definitely a good idea and people will benefit from it. You just have to follow your heart!", says Kim.

Woman of Reinvention-
Maureen Campaiola - "I struggled for a long time and it wasn't until I hired my own coach did things really take off. The reality is most successful people have coaches; someone who can show you all your choices ......" says Maureen.

What Else You'll Find in this Issue

This is our best issue yet. It's Winter & Weddings but as usual there is so much more!

Fashion Question - Is this a photo of a fashion trend to keep or toss? Find the answer in this issue.

In our Food Department: Three great personal chefs offering recipes and our brand new Healthy Tea article with tips on the health benefits of drinking tea.

More great articles from our ongoing columnists about Parenting: Children & Etiquette?
Advice: Do you have problems with worrying too much? Read Coach Ginny's article.
Beauty, Fashion (the lastest from Neiman's, Saks & Bergdorfs for Spring), and
Finance: Do you make good credit card decisions? Read Helen Dutton's article and find out.
Our Dating section with a brand new article called the Single Scene. We'd love to hear from you - Have you dated one of these types?
Our Sassy Fashionista www.sassy-fashionista.com has another fashion article about trends for 2010 and our new Fashion Coach Susan Kanoff www.agreatnewlook.com
writes tips on organizing your closet.

Other new columns: Health - What Mothers Don't Tell You - The Secret Conspiracy of Motherhood; &
When Cuts & Scratches Don't Heal Quickly.

And: Marketing - Social Networking - Is it Worth it?; Home Organizing - Organizing During a Difficult Time - Bereavement.

Our Wedding Feature articles include: Wedding Trends for 2010, Bridal Gowns & Attendants Dresses, Once in a Blue Moon - A Personal Wedding Story, Destination Weddings and our very own Wedding Checklist.

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An Inspirational Story

An Inspirational Story
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I was reading through my Google Alerts today and found this wonderful story on another blog. To give credit is was on Crista’s blog, location Utopia. And here is the story.

I like that story about the fellow who went to the pet store in search of a singing parakeet. Seems he was a bachelor and his house was too quiet. The store owner had just the bird for him, so the man bought it. The next day the bachelor came home from work to a house full of music. He went to the cage to feed the bird and noticed for the first time that the parakeet had only one leg.

He felt cheated that he’d been sold a one-legged bird, so he called and complained.

“What do you want,” the store owner responded, “a bird who can sing or a bird who can dance?”
Good question for times of disappointment.

From Let the Journey Begin: God’s Roadmap for New Beginnings © (J Countryman 2009) Max Lucado

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Beauty Reporter Blog - Beauty as Muse at the Met Gala

Beauty Reporter Blog - Beauty as Muse at the Met Gala Provided by Allure Magazine
May 05, 2009

The theme of last night's Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was "Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion," so maybe that's why actors mimicked the models by trading in their more traditional red carpet staples to test some of the latest hot-off-the-runway looks. The results? Hmm... There was some craziness, but some stars managed to pull it off. Here, our favorite beauty moments. (Click here for these, and tons more, photos.)

Most Dramatic Beauty Moment
Controversy! In-house, we're a little divided over Anne Hathaway's look: Did she go too far? Still, when it comes to risk taking, we salute that big hair and '60s go-go dancer makeup juxtaposed with jewels and a Marc Jacobs dress. Hey, she's young, she's so hot right now. Why not?


Best Turban-Matching Makeup
Okay, some people will always be anti-turban no matter what, but last night's host Kate Moss knows Grey Gardens chic is all the rage now, and besides, she can handle this tricky trend just fine. Bonus points for taking the whole effect to the next level by donning extra dramatic, metallic cat eyes like an opera star. Because really, if you're gonna wear headgear, just go for it. All the way baby.

Best Classic Look
Tinsel Town blonds tend to play with crazy color, but Kate Bosworth oozes glamor by sticking with the velvety LBD, cherry red lips, and '30s diva waves while managing to make the whole shebang look modern as well. It may be a tried and true formula, but she really does ace it every time.

Biggest Beauty Trend Follower
Rachel Weisz was all over the dark lips trend, and even paired her deep berry stain with a peachy pink dress. Normally, that would give us pause, but the effect is stunning with her chocolate brown hair. Still, in shots where her teeth show it looks a little much. Does this prove the trend is simply too unwearable? You tell us, and then tell us who you thought rocked it (or not so much) last night.

PHOTO: WIREIMAGE (Kate)
Posted By Erin Flaherty

Check this link for more photos and info about the gala. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Metropolitan-Museum-Art-Costume-Institute-Gala/ss/events/fashion/050509metcostumegala/im:/090505/ids_photos_en/r2386425558.jpg/#photoViewer=/090505/photos_fashionwire/9a

I know there's a lot of serious stuff to concentrate on now. Health concerns, the economy, so many people loosing their jobs and companies going bankrupt. Well I don't know about you but I love my fashion!!! So maybe I'm alone in this and I'd love to hear from you about it. Personally I think Madonna's was more out there then Ann Hathaway, but what do I know. For more fashion info and other articles and resources for NH & MA women check us out at www.applaudwomen.com

Great New Style Invention - The Nail Polish Pendant

Guest Beauty Blogger Wednesdays - The Nail Polish Pendant
Posted Apr 29th 2009 at 4:00PM by Laura Kenney



This week's Guest Beauty Blogger, All Lacquered Up, dishes on her newest discovery - nail polish pendants!

I'm always looking for creative uses for my beauty products. I love discovering new ways to utilize my overwhelming beauty arsenal and Total Beauty found a slew of innovative ways to turn beauty closet staples into multitaskers.

Well, have I got a new one for you. Like infomercial legend, Mike Levy and his crazy sweaters, I have found THE discovery for us nail polish fanatics.

The nail polish pendant! How many times have we described a polish as being jewel-like or having a jewel tone? And I know I can't be the only one who has tried to coordinate polish with my favorite gemstones. I mean, haven't you ever wished your favorite shade was jewelry? Wish no more! My genius pal Tracey from Ginger Kitty Designs has found a way to make that dream a reality. That's right, we're talking nail polish AS jewelry.

Twitter followers will recall my little freak a few weeks ago over a package I received in the mail. Wonder no more for this is what sent me into a frenzy. Tracey shipped her first batch of nail polish pendants, just in time for my cruise and needless to say, they're stunning.

What exactly are these nail polish pendants? Well, Tracey discovered a way to encapsulate nail polish in a pendant. It's sealed with a resin to give a glass like finish, making the polish appear like some rare, unique stone. Being the green queen that I am, Tracey turned two of my fave emerald shades into jewels using Barielle Date Night and Sinful San Francisco. Images really don't do them justice as they are beyond fantabulous in person. I showed them off at work before leaving and everyone was raving.
OK so are you totally dying for a nail polish pendant of your very own?. Well then head on over to Tracey's Etsy shop, Ginger Kitty Designs where she has a listing of pendant polish choices or you can discuss creating your own custom design.

All this amazingness for only $35. Can you even handle it?

What an awesome idea. For more ideas for women in NH & MA go to our website at www.applaudwomen.com. Do you have a beauty or fashion idea you would like to share? Email us at applaud@comcast.net

Much ado about a 'do: Competition sees hair as art

Model Amaris Brown smiles in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009, after winning the International Fantasy Hair Competition with a hair style called "Proud Peacock" designed by Kevin Carter of The Artistry of Hair from Farmington Hills, Mich.

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Model Amaris Brown smiles in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009, after winning the International Fantasy Hair Competition with a hair style called "Proud Peacock" designed by Kevin Carter of The Artistry of Hair from Farmington Hills, Mich.

Once the province of shopping mall mavens, gum-snappin' waitresses and Amy Winehouse, bouffant was in and big hair was beautiful, if only for one night.
The ladies - and one gent - of the International Fantasy Hair Competition proudly wore their hair hats high in the name of art and a good cause.
The competition attracted stylists and their models from around the country with prizes ranging from $1,000 to $7,500. All proceeds from Thursday night's hair-art show at the Verizon Wireless Arena went to the New Hampshire Food Bank.
In the final minutes before the show began, stone-faced stylists put the finishing touches on their chicken-wired and pomaded masterpieces. What emerged from the piles of discarded Styrofoam clods and noxious clouds of hairspray were divas with heads decked out in pink lilies, forests of furry trees, and coifs of cotton candy.
Top honors went to model Amaris Brown of Detroit and stylist Kevin Carter of the Detroit suburb Farmington Hills for "Proud Peacock," a big spray of feathers with hair shaped into what looked like the bird itself.
But the real secret to being a big bouffant beauty?
"Pain. Lots and lots of pain," said 5-foot-1 Melody Longobardi, 26, an account manager and one-night model from the Hyannis, Mass., area who sported a 3-foot cherry tree on her head. "It's all about posture and pain."
Longobardi was standing at a 45-degree angle, the hairy cherry tree on her head giving her a gravity-induced, yet graceful, backbend.
Stylist Dru Sisson, 25, said she chose the cherry tree to symbolize the strength and beauty of womanhood. Of course, she said, her previous models were mannequins, with plastic necks, who didn't need to walk.
Longobardi said she had a strategy to keep the tree aloft: "Keep your bum out and your head straight."
Sisson chimed in that women need to walk like that to be ergonomically correct anyway, not just when they wear foliage.
But that approach would have been the undoing of Melissa Minuti, who was tightly wrapped in a slinky slip of inky black hair.
"She hasn't been able to sit for five hours," stylist Jamie Rogers, 24, of Weare, N.H., said as she added a last dash of hairspray to Minuti's backside. "The idea came to me in a dream. I saw someone in a hair suit in my dream. It was like an epiphany. I just woke up and thought hair suit, that's what I need to do," Rogers said.
Minuti, 23, of Manchester, didn't look amused.
"It's a little itchy," she said.
Some people might dream of having the freedom in real life to walk tall with a bun of birds, or windmills of feather-duster frills. But Boston paralegal Kelly Norton, sporting a gigantic puffball of tufted hair clumps and chain mail, said she was seriously considering wearing the hairstyle to work the next day.
"Actually I might have to," said Norton, 28. "I think it's welded to my head."

AND THE OTHER WINNTERS ARE:


Model Danialle Esjunin smiles in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009 after taking second place in the International Fantasy Hair Competition with a design called "Indian Fertility Goddess Parvati" designed of Colleen Jamieson of Alden James Salon of Nashua, N.H



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Model Rachel Bishop shows off a hair design in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009, during the International Fantasy Hair Competition called "Prosperia," designed by Christine Sheldon of Salon Thairapy of Hookset, N.H.
Model Rachel Bishop shows off a hair design in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009, during the International Fantasy Hair Competition called "Prosperia," designed by Christine Sheldon of Salon Thairapy of Hookset, N.H

It's not too late to be trendy in 2008

There is (at least one) company that tracks color trends several years ahead. I want that job!

In December 2007, Color Marketing Group, the leading international association of color design professionals, announced that genuine concern for the environment remains the strongest influence on the colors we’ll see and buy next year.

"Our members specify color for everything from paint and furniture to cars and carpets," said Jaime Stephens, executive director of CMG. "They track trends several years ahead, and they’ve rarely been wrong in more than 43 years."

So - are you all looking "green?" It seems that people want things they wear, and use, to look "green," no matter what color they are.

In 2008, looking stylish means looking natural. Materials will look hand-made, un-dyed and unbleached. Products will look more like what they're actually made of, with lots of texture and all the natural imperfections proudly showing through. Off-whites, sandy and linen-y colors, rock and soil colors, brownish-greens – the colors of nature are seriously fashionable now.

Does that mean all my pink tops are seriously unfashionable?

I've never been one to wear a lot navy blue - blue being the "trust me" color - but this year, while buying your fall attired, think deep, vibrant navy so dark you'll swear it's black.

So ... why not just wear black? Oh well, onwards.

Metallics are in, but they should be coppery, or bronze-y. Guess that DKNY Jeans shirt I just bought at TJMaxx with (disappearing) metallic lettering and the Life is Good rosy pink one were right on target (no pun intended).

I love that DKNY shirt, by the way. It's my new favorite garment. As soon as it comes down off the line, it's going on my body.

Ah, well, we get to colors that are good for the fall - Moroccan reds, glowing oranges accented by rosy pinks (Hey! Pink!), sunny golden yellows and lots of turquoise.

Color Marketing Group forecasts color trends up to three years into the future for its members, many of whom must plan ahead for product, space and materials introductions.