Today I'm going to show you three big fashion mistakes that we can all make when we're trying to style an outfit to hide our
tummy and disguise our belly fat
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No matter who you are. Our number one goal is to bring attention to the parts of our body that we like the most and
Take the eye away from the parts that we don't like
so I am
here in how to style an outfit to hide our tummy is to bring attention to the parts of our body that we like the
Best which will minimize the tummy area and the eye will be drawn away from it
unfortunately one gift from menopause is a thickening of the waist and
A larger belly so women who have never had a problem
with their belly and trying to conceal that tummy before are now trying to work out what to do and
How to fix it so I'm going to show you today the biggest mistakes that you can make and how to avoid them
I thought this would be a great place to start with a series I'm going to do on body time because I think it will
Relate to a lot of you. Let's get into the mistakes that we can make and I'll show you how to fix them
The number one mistake we make when we're trying to hide our tummy is to add things to our tummy
Oftentimes we try and conceal it but in actual fact, what we're doing is we're bringing the eye to it
so what we can do is wrap a scarf or a built around our tummy to try and minimize it but the outcome is that
The human eye is drawn to the point of interest. And in this case, it's the detail. It's what you're trying to hide
So it's drawn to the scarf or drawn to the belt around
The tummy other ways that we can make mistakes in this case is to use like a pleat
Around a skirt because we think it's going to give our tummy more space to breathe or we'll buy pants with pleats at the front
Because we think that it's going to give our tummy more room to be more comfortable
We think that the pleats and the gathers are going to hide the bulge
But what happens is the opposite the human eye goes straight to the problem we go straight to the detail
So, how do we fix this? Well, it's not so difficult. What we need to do is
Minimize any detail at all from the belly area?
We've got to minimize any bulk at the front. So we wear pants with flat fronts and zips at the side
We wear skirts with the pleats starting below the tummy line
So the part on the tummy is flat and skinny
And then the detail comes below the tummy and when we're wearing jeans
We wear not much detail at all at the front in our jeans no pockets or anything
There and a high cut that's going to pull out tummy in and minimize so dark colors minimize and no detail
Minimizes we've got to minimize any attention at all to this area by keeping it all flat
The number two big mistake that we make is to wear high net boxy oversized clothes
I know this feels very comfortable and it feels like you're kind of concealing everything
But it just makes us look that much bigger
Here's some examples when we wear like big dresses or big oversized t-shirts
We think we're hiding ourselves, but we're covering all of our beautiful feminine curves. And that's the meaning of feminine
It's soft curves
So if we've got some curves we've got to show them off if we're going to hide them
we make ourselves like a big sack high neck tops tend to shorten our neck area and then bulk up here and
What we want to do to minimize our tummy is to accentuate the good parts wearing large
boxy t-shirts and make us look shapeless and
I've made a video on a fashion rule about structure and flow and it's really helpful if you haven't already seen it
I'll leave a link up here so you can have a look at that
But we don't want to have all these lines and structure to cover up our curvy body
It doesn't work and it makes you look bigger. So what can you do instead of hiding yourself under all that fabric?
I'll show you some photos here to illustrate and you've got to get outside your comfort
Zone a little bit if you're used to covering yourself up, but you will enjoy it wearing clothes
This way is so much more
You can emphasize your bustline with a great bra you want to create the illusion that the bust is bigger?
than the belly and even if you have to really push up bra this will make a huge difference because then you're gonna have the
proportions of the hourglass which is the bigger bust smaller waist and bigger hips and that is
Ultimately what we're always trying to achieve that look here bigger smaller
Bigger and once you've put attention into this area and got a beautiful shape
Neckline the eye will be drawn to that part of your body
And then you allow the fabric from the top or the skirt to skim over your belly
Rather than cling to it an empire waist is also an amazing trick for this
because this is quite often the smallest of the body and
This is the part that we want to draw the eye to so an empire waist. It's like a little waistband
Underneath the bus that will make that part of you look tiny. So the eye will go to that
You've got something nice going on up here
And then the fabric will flow and skim over your tummy and that will be the last thing that people will notice
These looks are really soft and feminine and we don't want to be ashamed of our tummy
All we want to do is make our tummy and our body shape look as good as it can with a little bit of help
from illusion and
That's perfectly okay also shirts with ruching around the tummy are really great to minimize
So the eye is going to go to the soft flow of the fabric and that's really pleasing to the eye and the number three
big mistake we make when
We're trying to style our tummy is the opposite to number two is when we wear clothes that are too clingy
Too tight and showing way too much our clothes should skin not stick
here's some examples a
high-neck, very tight skin tight dress on any body shape unless you're like
This is very uncomfortable to wear and it's not elegant and not really suitable for our age group
What can you do instead? You can still wear tight clothes, but only on the top or the bottom one
Only choose one and then apply these rules if you choose a pencil skirt, and you're going to go tight on the bottom
Make sure first that it's flat at the front and then you pair it with the top. That's soft and feminine
So you can either use a top with some
Ruching around the tummy area or we can choose a top that has a beautiful neckline and an empire waist where the fabric?
Softly flows over the tummy area and then we go into a nice pencil skirt
Or you could wear a fitted top
Where everything's nice and tight all the way down to here you go to your smallest area
And then the rest of the fabric is flowy
It's elegant and it will move so it's going to skim over your body
the bottom half is loose but the top half is time at our age adding a little bit of softness and
- - and outfit can be very alluring
We don't need to go skin tight and dress the way that we did when we were in our 20s. That's not necessary anymore
Love your body and thank it for getting you through every single day. Don't beat up on it
If it's not the exact perfect shape that you would like and instead enjoy experimenting with new and different
Styles, let me know where your problem areas are and let me know if you'd like me to include your body type in the next
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