Hi guys:

I was thinking about what I was going to write about while looking at the pictures on my phone and the perfect thought came up. Has it ever happened that you see a really cute outfit online, in a boutique, or at a window display and fall in love with it but can't afford it? I know this happens to  me at least once a month and to be honest kind of bums me out. The las time it happened I saw this really cute outfit of a skirt and a crop top at a boutique and was dying to ask the price, yet I didn't because I knew that at that moment I didn't have the money. I sent a picture of the outfit to my mom to try and see if she would fall for it and buy it (;p). Instead, she replied by telling me that it was cute and that it reminded her of a skirt she had bought for christmas a year or so ago. That got me thinking and it was true the skirt, though not the same, resembled it a lot. With that thought in mind, I looked closely at the outfit again and saw that I could create an outfit that really resembled it. I had a similar skirt, I had red sandals, and all I needed was a cute crop top (which was a lot harder to find than I thought). The picture below shows the outfit I wanted and the similar outfit I put together.

In brief, I wanted to share this personal experience to let you know that you don't have to spend a lot to have those outfits that fascinate us. If you have enough money or the budget to buy the outfit, then go for it! But if its a bit hard to spend the amount of money then look in your closet and see if you have anything that looks like the outfit. Or look for less expensive pieces that are similar to the outfit. It's not necessarily about the outfit, its more about the look of it!  Hope this helps :) 

Xoxo,

Mariola <3