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Wear Your Dang Sunscreen!

So I’m on this buying things for a cause kick … Did you know that May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month? Austinites have already been soaking up the rays for months, while poor Aspenites are still wearing our down coats because it’s STILL snowing, but everyone needs a small reminder to protect ourselves from the…

Relief for the South through a Tee

I love the trend of buying a tee to support a cause: not only do you then donate money to the cause, but you advertise it every time you wear the tee. AND you get a cute tee to wear! Souther designer Billy Reid is selling this tee and donating 100% of the profits directly…

Austin: Sophomore Fashion Show

My sophomore year in college, I might have been considered a bit of an overachiever. But the email I got recently might top even myself: It was from a sophomore at Texas State who is hosting a fashion show. For her line. That she sells on her website BeAllos.com. And the show benefits Love Is Respect!, a foundation…

How Genius are RunPhones?

On a recent cool-ish April morning, I cruised Town Lake for a run. I had recently read about this awesome idea: a headband with headphones built in. I was super excited, because then you can jam out running without the need to adjust earbuds or wipe sweat!  For someone with small earholes (weird, I know),…

Lisse Leggings + A Summer How-to-Wear

Leggings … that most-lambasted, favored by many a starlet, pants-substitute. It took me a little while to come around to the legging (and even longer to accept jeggings as part of my life). As summer approaches, what, erm, leg does the legging have to stand on? See, summer leggings are what caused my initial legging…

Take a SXSW Break to Shop for Freewaters

When all the hipsters invade town (I’m looking at you, MUSIC festival), inevitably TOMS take over the streets. What’s more hipster than donating a pair of shoes to a barefoot kid somewhere else in the world while rocking the UGLIEST shoes known to man? (Even the wedges are ugly, and I really, really tried to…