OOTD: Chain mail

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Focus, focus.
As often happens with me, I walked into Banana Republic looking for one top and walked out with something else instead. The something else this was the Silk Origami Blouse ($80) in dark pewter. I love the dark silvery color and the pleats lining the v of the neckline. The color is a lot darker than it looks in the product shot.

It was also a great opportunity to wear a silver chain necklace I’d gotten from Forever 21 a while ago. I love this necklace so! It’s got tier upon tier of silver chains in a long bib. It’s hard to find the right top to wear it with so I’m glad this one did the trick. I layered it with an old Ann Taylor LOFT necklace that has purple crystals and a hematite chain — I could only find the gold version’s product shot though. This outfit was great at work for a day when I was chasing down engineers for a project; they could always hear me coming from the jangling of my necklace.

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For this look, I was playing around with some shades from my Urban Decay Naked palette. It’s amazing and it’s really no wonder to me that the eye shadow set sold out so quickly. A few of my friends were singing its praises (not before it sold out, of course) so when I had a chance to grab a set through a bloggie friend I jumped at it. It occasionally pops back on Sephora’s website — link provided below. If you can find it I highly recommend it! I’m wearing Hustle on my main lid, along with Toasted and Sin rubbed into the crease and above the eye. I also drew on a bit of MAC’s Macroviolet Fluidline eyeliner. On my lips is Jouer’s Julie (a nice sparkly dark pink) with the GlacĂ© liner over it.

In this outfit:
Top: Banana Republic Silk Origami Blouse ($80) in dark pewter
Skirt: Old Navy Cord Mini in blue-grey (now $22) — comes in tall too!
Tights: Merona Diamond Tights (similar here, here and here)
Shoes: Madden Girl Raazle (similar here, here and here)
Necklaces: Forever 21 silver chain bib (similar here, here and here) and Ann Taylor LOFT Long Hematite Fine Link Chain Necklace (similar here, here and here)
Bracelet: J.Crew Crystal Pebble Bracelet (now $40) 
Eyeshadow: Urban Decay Naked palette ($44)
Eyeliner: Mac Fluidline in Macroviolet ($15)
Lipstick: Jouer Julie ($22)
Lipliner: Jouer Glacé Liner ($20)


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