The Do's & Don'ts of Fashion Instagramming

I have serious opinions on 

both fashion and instagram. 

Heavy topics, I know. I bet you're glad you were sitting down when you read that. If you feel like you can handle the serious, life-or-death matters that are fashion and social media, please continue forward.

I recently guest-blogged for the London-based website, Chloedigital! Chloedigital is a boutique agency that specializes in development and marketing through branding, web design/applications/development, social media, e-mail marketing, SEO and blogger outreach. They have a killer blog for any of you who are interested in fashion or technology!

Frolick over to read my guest post here.

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 Pink heels: Sam Edleman
Green dress: JC Penny's
Black cross body bag: Rebecca Minkoff MAB
Silver sunburst necklace: F21
Turquoise top: F21
Black ombre ankle strap heels: Jeffrey Campbell
Blue sequin top: Neiman Marcus
Lipstick: Something from Walgreens IdKkKkKkKkKk

InstaLately

Green Matcha Latte. Nails, Essie "first time." Shirt, F21. Ring, Mango.

Sequin shirt, Neiman Marcus. (AKA Buffalo Exchange, but Neimans sounds cooler)

Mind on My Matcha & Matcha on My Mind

Matcha Green Tea Powder

The other day on instagram (is this how I start out every sentence/story????????) a fashion blogger posted about a homemade green tea latte. DING DING DING you've caught my interest. She posted the recipe with the picture, and I've googled my way into finding a local health food store with all the products I need. The next natural step for me was to follow said locally owned health food store on Twitter. After writing this blog post, I have full intentions to go to the store, buy matcha green tea powder, and ask them who runs their Twitter account (I WOULD LIKE TO SPRUCE IT UP A BIT).

anyways... #tangent.....

Matcha green tea is some super stuff. You know how the health food retailers got all hyped up about Greek yogurt lately? Everything even remotely in the dairy or health category at the store has a greek version brand extension. EVEN YOPLAIT, Y'ALL. I could see matcha green tea products taking over the mass market. It's so powerful!!!!!!!

Matcha Magic Benefits (not all of them--just the ones I care about):

• Calms & relaxes (ahhh, bath time)
• Enhances mood (oh good, I hate it when my inner bridezilla comes out)
• Aids in concentration (nine-to-five werqe griiiind)
• Boosts metabolism & burns calories (more cals burned = more froyo -!-)
• Does not raise heart rate (I'm on the caffeine sensitive side... Probably why I'm addicted to coffee)
• Boost of energy throughout the day (GOOD BECAUSE THE HOURS OF 3-5 IS ROUGH)
• One glass of matcha is equivalent to 10 glasses of green tea in health benefits (s.w.a.g.)
• Fights cancer (GOOD BECAUSE I SWEAR ALL OF MY MOLES ARE MELANOMA) 

Read more about matcha benefits here. THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD THINGS TO READ ABOUT IT, I CAN'T EVEN--I CAN'T. 

Matcha Green Tea Latte

• 1-2 cups almond milk
• 1 tablespoon matcha
• 1-2 teaspoons raw honey (or any other natural sweetener)

Microwave the almond milk for 1 minute. Add matcha & sweet stuff. Blend 10 seconds. Microwave 1 minute. 

~oOoOo YuMmMmYyYy~

One last thing...

Through my tea-googling, I discovered this tea heaven website. Teavana.com. Special teas and products and wonderful little tea-trinkets that make me want to spoil and pamper myself on week nights with tea stuff. Oh, my inner 89-year-old just made a brief appearance, sorry about that. Stifling it. 

Tweet me if you have questions about where I buy my Matcha. I live in Dallas. Google is also an option, but I'm still open to being tweeted. @FashFoodFriv

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Guilt-free cookies, bread & cake- Love, Jordie

The following guest blog post is by my one of my longest friends, Jordie McGilvary, who is studying to be a dietician. She is always surprising and inspiring me with her healthy lifestyle choices, which you can follow on her instagram account, @brittany_jordie. People have requested her to start blogging about her clean eating habits, but until then, she's agreed to reveal some of her favorite guilt-free treats. She came up with the following recipes herself.

 I hope you enjoy her nutritious insights as much as I do!

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These are my “go to” baked goods. I love them and truly cant get enough. The cookies are way more processed than the banana nut bread and the carrot cake but I still love them. Adding protein powder to my baked goods really allows me to get more protein in my diet. Not too much, but some, and I typically don't think it's personally necessary. I used to make these and give them to my vegetarian friend because she definitely wasn't getting enough protein in her diet, and I'm sneaky.

I also really love adding unsweetened applesauce into my baked goods as a fat replacement. The applesauce makes my baked goods moist and chewy, and personally, I like that. It doen't taste too 

strongly so that's not a problem.

White Chocolate, Crasin Oatmeal Cookies

• 1 package Betty Crocker oatmeal cookie mix
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup crasins
• ½ cup white chocolate chips
• 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
• ¼ cup vanilla protein powder (optional)

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix all ingredients together. Using a tablespoon, drop the batter onto a baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cookies will spread a lot so make sure to space them well.

Banana Nut Bread

• 3 eggs
• 1 c sugar
• 3 large very ripe bananas
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
• ¼ cup vanilla protein powder (optional)
• 1 cup nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees farenheit. Mash bananas in bowl. Mix in eggs and sugar. Stirr in dry ingredients a little at a time. Add in nuts. Pour into a greased bunt or loaf pan. (I use coconut oil to lightly grease my pan so the loaf comes out easily) and bake for 45-60 minutes.

Carrot Cake

• 4 eggs
• 1 ¾ cup unsweetened applesauce
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 3 cups grated carrots
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch pan using coconut oil and all purpose flour. In a large bowl mix together eggs, applesauce and white sugar with 2 teaspoons of vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots and pecans. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 40-50 minutes or until a fork comes out clean.

For frosting I mix ½ cup plain greek yogurt, 2 wedges of laughing cow light cream cheese, 3 tablespoons confectioners sugar, 1 tsp vanilla. Mix all together until smooth and creamy. Stir in ¼ cup chopped pecans. Frost cooled cake and keep refrigerated.

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Insta-lately

Can't stop myself from posting what I'm wearing, eating and being inspired by. 

FLOWERS, STRIPES AND PEANUT BUTTER, Y'ALL, WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE HERE????

To you and yours

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Letters to BadGal

{disclaimer: kindly refer back to past letters to rihanna to gain a better perspective on this letter and undoubtedly future ones to follow}

Dear @BadGalRiri,

It has come to my attention that your recent concerts are living up to the first word in your instagram handle. We all already knew you were Lion King status of the party animal jungle, but you were always so good at carrying out your bAd B!<tCh duties the following day regardless of the inevitable hangover. But now you're showing up hours late to concerts????? AND LIP SYNCHING??????? Fans say you were still drunk and seemingly "on valium" whilst performing?????????????????? IS THIS THE SAME GIRL WHO GAVE THE LIFE CHANGING PERFORMANCE AT THE VICTORIA SECRET FASHION SHOW FALL 2012?????????????????????????????????????

I, for one, am rolling on the floor cyring. ROFC. And what's this I hear of you frolicking around in Coco Chanel's apartment? I mean, I knew you were a big deal, BUT DAYUM. Who does that???? WHO HANGS OUT IN THE LATE CHANEL'S HEADQUARTERS ON THEIR FREE TIME??? WHERE DO I SIGN UP FOR THAT???? If this is any hint to you being featured in a  future Chanel ad campaign, you better hope this Belgium scandal doesn't ruin that for you, Badgalri.



And ENJOY YOUR ENDLESS BAGS OF FREE CHANEL WHILE WE, YOUR FANS, WAIT ON YOU FOR HOURS IN BELGIUM WEARING OUR CLOTHES FROM THE LOCAL FOREVER21 THAT WE WALKED THROUGH WIND RAIN AND SNOW TO GET AND COULD BARELY AFFORD. ENJOY YOUR QUILT-SEWN, CHAIN LINK, TWEED MASTERPIECES.

Sorry, Badgal, I was harsh, but I've regained my composure. In fact, upon further investigation, I've decided you probably didn't show up late to your own concert because you were hungover. I have hard evidence to believe you were hiding incognito in the crowd, instagramming, and typing hashtags for hours, before emerging on stage for performance.

Evidence to my argument:

#AndIThoughtMyHashTagsWereAnnoying #ImeanThatsAlotOfHashtagging

Well, Rihanna, the rest of my Sunday duties must now commence, and unfortunately, I must now bring this letter to a closing. Please send Azzedine Alaïa my warm regards. 

Yours cordially, 
BadGalFrivolity

You have now entered a #NoBasicZone

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