Marianna Lykhina Stylist

The very first rule of a great style is simplicity. Style must be simple. It could be the only recommendation from a good personal stylist, but there are some tricks which you would probably need to know if you want to look stylish, not just decent.

As they say either you have taste or you don’t. I believe that maybe in the beginning not everybody has it, but everybody can work it out with time. I am a child who was raised in USSR where even a pair of tights was luxury. When Russia opened its borders, tons of colourful, vulgar and weird things came into the market. Women loved it! It was like catching some fresh air after sitting in a small stuffy room. So, women loved it because they needed it. Bad thing that some of them still love it.

It’s time to change the habits and go further. Find your personal style and stick to it. Find your real beauty, enjoy it and cherish it. Keep it simple and you can spare a lot of money too. The best look is if you look like you didn’t even try. You just grabbed first pieces from your closet and run.

My goal would be to help you to get there.

If you read articles and books about how to style yourself or how to pick the clothes for your body type and appearance in general you know that the first and the foremost important thing is the fit. Good stuff fits well and looks flattering on you. It doesn’t matter how much it costs – if it fits badly – it is bad.

Strange as it may seem but in all these articles and books you can hardly find how to make your clothes fit well. Of course sometimes we are lucky. We just grab them in the store and it’s perfect. But most often it may take us a while until we finally realized that we once again failed to find the perfect outfit.

If you want to save your time and money you should bear in mind two key elements to perfect fitting. The first one is an undergarment. Your bra has to fit ideally. Maybe you will spend more time and money for finding the right one, but it is absolutely worth the result. You are all set if you have one black and one or two nude smooth bras (all other bras are not only pursue your comfort and style but also to delight lucky others).

The second element is tailoring. Very often some minor alterations can work wonders. Just make sure these are minor ones and not introduce some major change. For example, it can be a hemline, a sleeve-length or some tuck alteration. All other changes maybe a harder task to accomplish  and may turn out to be pricy. No doubts that we need to do it once in a while but not very often. Ready-to-wear clothes are supposed to be ready-to-wear not be ready-to-alteration ones.

I wanna share pics of this young girl with strong personality features. I took them just to train my styling skills, but I do like them.

Hair and styling by me.