If you're like me, you may have grown up with the glamorous 2000s TV series Gossip Girl. The show followed the lives of the overly dramatic, well-dressed Upper East Side teenagers and their intertwined stories of sex and scandal, but 12-year-old me brushed past all of that to instead watch the characters on the show I admired—the teens' fabulously opulent mothers. Lily van der Woodsen and Eleanor Waldorf aren't just impeccably stylish, over-the-top fictional characters, though. Their real-...

One of my favorite family traditions occurs on the night before Christmas. My brothers and I gather around as my mother allows us to peek into our stockings to hold us over until Christmas morning. The excitement a good stocking stuffer holds is pretty much next-level. While the biggest and most luxurious gifts are typically opened separately, a small stocking stuffer can really gather just as much excitement. There's a reason they say that it's sometimes the little things that make the bigg...

Sale season / gifting season is here and before you start to freak out about what to buy your friends and family, take a deep breath. It's my job to make sure you are crowned "best gift giver" this year and at the same time keep an eye on budget. Because let's face it, getting stellar gifts for all of the people in your life can get pricey. As a great gift giver who's budget conscious myself I decided to roll up my sleeves and get to hunting for the best beauty and fashion gifts to give this yea...

While I'm just as inspired by French style as the next person, it's the cool polish of Italian style that's really all I can think about at the moment. While their French counterparts may have minimal and effortless style down pat, Italian women seem to possess a natural glamour about them that I find just as intoxicating, if not more so. Growing up in an Italian American household, I was surrounded by great style at every turn. My grandmother and aunts were always dripping in gold jewelry 2...