The Perfect Cocktail Ring from Forever 21!

This Flower Cocktail Ring from Forever 21 ($3.80) matches perfectly with our strapless dress below as well as any LBD or trouser/blouse combination!

A Great Party Dress from Forever 21!

Holiday party time is around the corner!!!!

This strapless dress from Forever 21 ($22.80) will look great at any holiday event! The a-line style of the shirt is flattering for all shapes!!!

Is it a bit cooler outside? Top with a short (cropped) black cardigan!

Complete the look with a black clutch, cocktail ring, and black peep toe pumps or metallic heels!!!

National Eating Disorders Association Announces a Media Watch Dog Facebook Group!

College Lifestyles (TM) is a huge supported of the National Eating Disorders Association. The Association announces it's Media Watch Dog program!!!

As stated in the Media Watch Dog Facebook Group:

'Help us encourage responsible media messages regarding body image issues.

Interested in being a Media Watchdog and keeping an eye on the media? SIGN UP! Go to http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/join-neda/e-alert-sign-up.php.

The Media Watchdog program was created to improve media messages about size, weight and beauty. The program brings students, educators, health professionals, parents, eating disorders sufferers, and concerned consumers together as Media Watchdogs to encourage companies and advertisers to send healthy media messages regarding body size and shape.

Media Watchdogs are volunteers across the country who choose to closely monitor various forms of media, commending or critiquing advertisements or programs that positively or negatively impact body image and self-concept. Watchdogs monitor TV, radio, newspaper, magazine and internet ads or programs and send notices of ads or programs worthy of praise or protest to the National Eating Disorders Association office:

E-mail: watchdog@NationalEatingDisorders.org
Fax: 206.829.8501'

Join the Facebook group today!!!

We did!

Salad Etiquette????

Don't cut the entire salad into bite size pieces, instead, cut bite-size pieces as you go!

A Great Fall Fashion Must - Tunic from New York and Company! (5 ways to wear!)

This tunic is great for the chilly fall season! We love the look of this tunic from New York and Company (on sale for $22.77)! The drape neck style is great for all body types and 'shows off' the collarbone (va voom!)

Tips for fit:
1. Make sure the shoulder seam hits the shoulder.
2. Go for more of a fitted look.

How to wear:
1. Casual to class - wear with a long necklace, jeans, and boots or flats.
2. Chapter meeting/internship - wear with a skinny belt, trousers, pumps, sliver or gold bangle bracelets.
3. Dinner - wear with a pencil skirt, wide belt, hoops or drop earrings, fish nets, T-strap heels, silver or black cocktail ring.
4. Jet set - wear with white trousers or dark denim, colorful scarf, gold hoops, and Jacki-O sunglasses.
5. Night out - wear with a bomber style jacket (if chilly!), black mini skirt, black tights, black boots, silver jewelry.

Our New Favorite Dorm Snack!!! (Or Apartment/Work Snack)

For a while there, we were in love with the JELL-O Dulce De Leche pudding packs, but now, we are having a love affair with JELL-O Dark Chocolate pudding packs! Yes, dark chocolate!!!!

Full of antioxidants, calcium rich, and taste great! Delicious = Nutritious! (Shh...we kissed and told!)

What's in our Directors Refrigerator?? A Juice that is Great for Energy and Skin Health!

We are starting a new game here! What's our director refrigerator!

Cranergy Cranberry Juice from Ocean Spray! Cranergy Cranberry Lift is a lower sugar juice, with B vitamins and green tea extract!

Let's see:

Lower sugar + green tea (anti-ager, skin health) + B vitamins (energy) + $2.99 = A Great Buy!

What is the Proper Way to Eat Olives?

Holiday and cocktail parties are approaching!!!! Delicious foods, great music, good times.....

.....and an olive pit.

How do properly eat an olive?

Olives with pits are held in the fingers and eaten in several bites, then the pit is discarded on the side of your plate or into a napkin.

A Cardigan Dress that Flatters all Figures!!! (3 Ways to Wear!)

We LOVE this draped open front cardigan dress from Twelve by Twelve (for only $24.90!)!

This type of draping is very flattering on all shapes! How? Tie the waist sash around the smallest part of your waist to create a lovely hour glass shape!

Other tips:
1. If you are trying to conceal a tummy, tie the waist sash under the bra line to create an empire waist.
2. For boyish shapes, tie the waist sash at the natural waist (belly button area).

Tips for wearing:
1. Wear as is with ribbon, the bracelet shown below, and round toe heels for a cocktail party!
2. Wear with a skinny belt, cami, jeans, boots, and hoop earrings to class!
3. Wear open with tights, riding boots, denim skirt, tank for a weekend look!

Great Accessory from Gap (Goes with our LBDs and our Blouse Shown Below!)

We love this multi-beaded bracelet from the Gap ($24.50). Wear it to your holiday parties with your LBD (little black dress) and with any blouse (especially our wrap blouse shown below)!

How to Be a Bad Holiday Guest (and How to Avoid it!)!

The holidays are approaching, many of us will be off visiting family as well as the families of our significant others!

Imagine, you sit down to your meal, grab the salt shaker, and pour the salt on.

What's wrong with that picture? Always, always taste your food before salting! Salting food before tasting implies that the chef (or host of the holiday party) doesn't know how to season a dish. (Translation, it's an insult!)

Butter and Bread? There's more etiquette to this?

Here is what we hope everyone knows!

1. Break bread into small pieces (one at a time) before buttering.
2. Break bread into small pieces (one at a time) before dipping in olive oil.

But here is what we want you to know as well! When using the knife to butter the bread, rest the knife on the bread plate throughout the meal. The dirty utensil should not touch the table!

Body Image Tip! Sunshine file!

Start a 'Sunshine' File!

Keep all thank you notes, funny pictures, emails from friends that make you feel good! Be sure to look at these every so often to remind yourself what others think of you!

A Mix in for Your Yogurt that is Great for the Skin! Hint - its a seed!

We love pumpkin seeds - did you that pumpkin seeds are considered a beauty food??? Full of iron, protein, magnesium and zinc - mix one spoon with your yogurt (shown below!!) or cereal!

David's All Natural Pumpkin Seeds fit the bill perfectly - affordable, storeable, and preservative free!!!

A Great Find for Dorm/Apartment Refrigerator - Dannon All Natural Yogurts!

We love yogurt here at College Lifestyles. Our director fancies Greek yogurt, while others fancy Dannon Light and Fit varieties. The new Dannon All Natural Collection is made with real fruit and no artificial chemicals!

Small enough to fit in a dorm refrigerator, and it doesn't break the bank!!! Priced at approximately $2.25 per four, once container is cheaper than a vending machine visit (and better for our body!)

Makes a great afternoon snack or study snack!

(Remember to recycle the container!)