Today I'm going to share with you some tips on how to accessorize and I'm going to share with you some really cool ways to
Repurpose something that may have been sitting in the bottom of your cupboard for years if you'd like to know more, please keep watching
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So today, we're going to talk about how to accessorize
But the first rule of style is to wear what you love and have fun with it, and you're over 50 so you
Can do whatever you like but?
here's some tips that I'd like to share with you and
some things that
Can make or break an outfit tip number one go out and find a statement piece a statement piece is something that?
Kind of is wow you've got some jewelry on you love it
And the color is great and it might be silver or gold or colored, but it just looks great on you
And it's probably big. I've chosen this this was really inexpensive, but I love the colors. It's a statement
I love it, and it makes me feel good now. This is really important when you're wearing a statement piece like this
That's it this owns the show
This is all that's needed if you go ahead and add earrings big earrings
To this look it looks too much. It's just busy and
You look completely overdone. This is too much going on and then if I added a ring as well
Hey, there's way too much going on so rule of thumb is
big earrings you can wear a big ring or
You know I've got this kind of a ring as well, so
Hands and ears is great and some bracelets, but don't do all three together, and if you're wearing a big necklace
just
Have that part of your face lit up and then you can wear a ring and
That'll just be perfect if you're wearing something big like this
Go ahead and wear some tiny earrings
If you like if you love wearing earrings if I'm just wearing these little tiny pearls they're not going to compete with
the big statement piece so keep those rules
And you'll be perfect tip number two wear something that will bring the eye down
Anything that goes down makes us appear longer and slimmer, so it's a great tip
This is also a statement piece because it's big so again
I wouldn't wear the matching earrings like these ones because
This is enough
If you have a look when I put the earrings on it's just like they might look nice
but it's just a little bit too much and overdone and so I take these off and
Just wear this I could also with this outfit. Just wear a beautiful
statement ring
like this and
that would set this off really nicely or I
could wear something like a
band on my arm so
This is really inexpensive and easy to wear
You don't wear too much, so just like this and this and that's enough I could also
layer this with a couple of bracelets just
little
Elastic bracelets, and that would be really good as well
so here's the thing keep it long kept I going down if you want to appear taller and
Slimmer and this is a good way to do it. I'll show you another way just another version of this okay
Here's another way to layer to add length and it's making me look taller
So I like the rule of three three different layers
But you can do whatever you like
This is just something that you could try and this top one can be you know it can be any
height at all they can all be any height see the difference when I just
adjust them, and you get a different look, so I'm sure you've got things at home that you could layer in threes and
Straightaway you I goes down and you look taller
It's the best trick in the world so see what you've got at home and give this a try
now I've taken the lengthening neck piece away and just wearing the earrings and
bracelet it's a completely different look but
The eye isn't drawing down. It's just staying up here. Which is great. Just it's just different ways to wear
accessories to really accentuate the look
My third tip is probably my most favorite. It's so cool
It's repurposing what you're not using anymore, so here's a great example
This is my mum's
wedding ring that
She left me when she passed away, and I loved it, but it doesn't fit and it's it's not my style so
Here's a really cool way that you can use something that may have been left to you or that
You don't a ring that you don't wear on your finger anymore. I already had this it's a choker
I don't really wear this much anymore, but what I thought about is
Adding this ring to the center of the choker
and you can just sew a little black thread to attach it and
You've got a piece of beautiful homemade special to you jewelry
it has a lot of sentimental value and
It's it's completely unique. No one else in the world will be wearing this so
This is a really cool trick if you've got one of your mums, or grandmother's rings or an old ring. You don't wear anymore
Give this a try
Okay, here's another cool thing you can with the ring you can get two pieces of leather, so you live it like this
Put it in
into the middle of the Ring and
Loop it through
Just like that same on the other side
Look like this through the ring and pull
That through like this so you can put it on and make a choker, it's so simple, it's really modern, it's
Timeless and for me. This is my mum so I love wearing it and it made and again, it's unique
No one in the world has this piece of jewellery
another way to wear this exact same piece is to take off one of your lip layers of leather and
Just simply
Put it around your neck and where at whatever length you like and
Again if I was wearing it this way I would layer it
With two other pieces of different lengths to make me look longer and taller
How cool is that?
Okay, here's another cool thing that I've done this beautiful pendant. I got when I was probably in my early
20s and my husband gave it to me and I loved it
But I've had it for so long and it's on a really fine chain, and I just didn't like wearing it anymore
This piece of silk came as is
but you could use leather or silk and what I've done is I've put it here so I wrap it around my neck once and
Bring it down. I'll show you
Okay, so I wrap it around my neck and I've got this left over and I can either
Tie it just like that and
The
Two different lengths here of the silver bits on the end is going to bring the eye down and make me look taller
this is really cool and
it's something different and
This piece here has a lot of sentimental value, and I'm not wearing it the ordinary way
So that's good so another way to wear. This is just to tie it around and put a bow and
take the bow off to the side a little bit just for something different and
Still got something coming down so it's lengthening. It's different. I made it myself and
You have probably got a whole lot of things in your jewelry cupboard or jewelry drawer that you can
Repurpose and where time and time again in a new way
so I'd like to say thank you to Vanessa Kennedy who is my jeweler and
She went through a few of these ideas with me the other day
And thank you to all of you beautiful ladies for watching. Have fun
With your style have fun accessorizing and have a great week