Sharon Haver

Thanks for reading my post! I'm Style Expert + Success Strategist for women entrepreneurs helping you and your business get out there so you can attract the high-level clients you want. All my tips come from my real world professional experience. As a bootstrapping entrepreneur with a business degree in Marketing and a graduate of an extensive amount of business and personal development programs and high-level masterminds, my advice is based on how I successfully run my online business since 1999. Previously to be being the founder of FocusOnStyle.com, I was a well-known New York fashion stylist on major photo shoots for 15 years, where I styled everything from Vogue covers to advertising campaigns for cheesy products that I made look so good that you would actually want to buy them. I've also had a syndicated newspaper fashion advice column and featured in lots of media. Learn more...  About Sharon Haver | Press Clips | Start Here | Work With Me Let's get social... Facebook  |  Twitter   |   Instagram   |   Pinterest   |  YouTube

Red Belt, But What Shoes And A Purse

Help needed! I found a great red belt to wear with my jeans. My dilemma though is this...what shoes do I wear? I always thought your belt and should match your shoes and purse...does this mean I have to buy some red shoes???? If so, besides a boot, what type of shoe would work? (San Diego, CA) Yaaaaaawn! Sweetness, there is nothing more boring than fashion gone overly literal. Jeans are casual, don't get so serious with them. Red, or any other vivid color, should be used as an accent. Excessively matching a bold color looks ridiculous. Scratch the matchy-matchy by starting to think out of the fashion box. Build personal style that's more spontaneous and ultimately more interesting.

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Matching Leathers

How to match leathers for a polished chic look I have chocolate brown leather pants that I would like to wear out in the evening. Is a light brown suede, outdoorsy jacket tacky to wear with these pants? (Kettering, OH) The most important thing about coordinating leather and suede is that the color, weight, and finish blend. For a fairly regular casual night out, you can probably fake them together by pulling in another soft texture, like a cashmere turtleneck . If the occasion is more formal, you may want to add a dressier wool jacket. Ruff hewn leather is very modern, don't match a well-worn finish with something totally done like pearlized, glazed, or patent leather… keep finishes like

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Wrinkle Repair

Wrinkle Repair, the smooth way to look great!  Push that iron to the back of the closet. Forget about the clothing steamer leaking all over everything. Looking crispy just got easier. Spritz and tug wrinkles away with Downy Wrinkle Releaser! It's genius in a pump bottle… now, if it would only do the same for the furrows between our brows. Available at mass merchandisers, drug and food chains.

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Taste The Hamptons

Taste The Hamptons-Recipe to take a bite out of style from The Barefoot Contessa.  You've read about every bold face gossip column name attending some Hamptons soiree or polo match. Maybe you've spotted a celeb buying tomatoes at a vegetable stand. You may have even heard tales about over crowded house shares as social-searching singles make their way into the Hamptons scene amidst cries of, "I dated him first" or "Why are you wearing my new Gucci bikini". Maybe you are just the serene type who spends weekends tooling around the mulch menu at the gardening store. If you are from New York, you've most probably, been there, done that, or live for the Long Island beach scene. In any

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Designer Water: Take 2

Glaceau Vitamin Water Move over Evian, there's something new in designer water. Ka-lunk!!! That's the sound of the server's jaw careening to the floor after being informed that tap water would be just fine. Call me kooky, but sometimes I'm simply not in the mood for H2O from The Water List. Then other times, I crave the bottled pleasure. Now, you can up the cool factor a notch. Energy Brands Glaceau Vitamin Water rehydrates, quenches your thirst, and refuels with vitamins all at the same time, plus it's kind of groovy colored. Love the kiwi-strawberry, vitamin A and Ginkgo "Focus," it's guaranteed to help you Focus On Style. Okay, so that's wishful thinking, but it sure tastes great! Glaceau Vitamin

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Vroom, Vroom…

the New Cute Car What could possibly make the PT Cruiser or the new Beetle seem so five miles ago in trendy retro car cuteness? The Mini Cooper! You'd have to be a fortuneteller with a cloudy crystal ball a bad case of turbantightis not to see this trend coming. What could possibly make the PT Cruiser or the new Beetle seem so five miles ago in trendy retro car cuteness? The MINI COOPER! As soon as I saw a preview of this cutie pie, I knew that the Cooper would be the next best rage on the road. It's incredibly modern in a classic black and white film kind of way. It's red is reminiscent of a perfect pedicure.

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De-clutter This!…

The Harness Motorcycle Boot is Back I don't care what efficiency "experts" say. I just paid a visit to a demonstration initiated by a "professional organizer'' to see if she has some brilliant secrets about realistically storing a collection of boots. Her solution: Toss out what you haven't worn in a year. I guess that's why she looked like she couldn't give a who-ha about style! Well, if I had tossed my old faithful harness-strap motorcycle boots years ago, I'd be kicking myself in the proverbial fashion can right now. The chunky harness boot is back in a big way. Get one pronto or dig out the pair that you used to wear with that Chanel tweed jacket. What goes

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Forget the Dancing Elephants…

Dralion Circus costumes can be gorgeous, just look at Cirque du Soleil's Dralion. Yeah, yeah, I know you think a circus can't be a style thing, but that's just not true. Dralion,Cirque du Soleil's newest production currently touring North America, and sponsored in part by Swarovski crystal, is just one of the most fabulous visual spectacles around. Of course, you knew that all Cirque du Soleil's are gorgeous, didn't you? In fact, the NYC opening night crowd at Dralion was pretty chi-chi too. There were more babes teetering in their Jimmy Choo stilettos to keep the storyline of Sex and the City going ad infinitum. To heck, with dancing elephants… I'll take the cinema-fantastique costumes, Chinese acrobats, and the techno-tribal

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DJ Cool Saved My Life…

Don't have to be a DJ, just look like one The DJ Carrying Case-- in nothing more of-the-moment than camouflage print-- from Triple Five Soul ups your hip-o-meter tenfold. It's cooler than a messenger bag and may even inspire you to tune your ear a bit. What could possibly be cooler than being a DJ? The hottest babes-or guys-knocking at your booth. Mixing music that rocks their world. Have them spinning "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" over their bagel and latte. Yet, your musical inclinations are sooo dismal that you thought Johnny Rotten was a toilet gone bad. What to do? Just look like one! The DJ Carrying Case-- in nothing more of-the-moment than camouflage print-- from Triple

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Halt The Airborne Tampon…

Stylish holders for feminine hygiene products Halt The Airborne Tampon! Cool tampon cases and maxi pad cases. Occasionally, there's the why didn't I come up with it idea. How many times have you opened up your purse only to find that the tampon stashed at the bottom of your bag has now catapulted itself into full view like a Jack-In-The-Box gone mad? Bashfuls has cured the airborne feminine care product dilemma with a line of adorable tampon and maxipad holders… just love the denim ones! Oooh, Bashfuls are soo trendy, that Tyra Banks and Daisy Fuentes tote them. http://www.bashfuls.com310-573-1140

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Pin-Up…

Instantly Glamorize With Glitzy Multiples Accessory designers- like Nicole Miller and Amy Chan-- are gearing up for the next big handbag trend-- retro-inspired purses encrusted with a large jeweled brooch.But why wait?Tiffany Dubin, author of Vintage Style, and Swarovski Crystal teamed up to "crystalize". Accessory designers- like Nicole Miller and Amy Chan-- are gearing up for the next big handbagtrend-- retro-inspired purses encrusted with a large jeweled brooch. But why wait? Tiffany Dubin, author of Vintage Style, and Swarovski Crystal teamed up to "crystalize" Tiffany's apartment and a cast of goodies. The best seen: a little black dress and vintage handbags covered with Swarovski pins. The more, the better. "It's all about multiples," says Tiffany. Dig into grandma's closet, shop

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Underneath Chic…

The Black Pantyliner We know the color black rocks. So, why is it when it comes to feminine hygiene thingies, they do the job but usually come up flat on aesthetics? No more! Now, there's CAREFREE® Black Pantiliner Guys, go away. This Style Thing! is strictly for the girls. With that said, we know the color black rocks. Sixty-six percent of women* say it's a favorite to wear. Black is also the most popular panty color* and we know how you love those sexy undies. So, why is it when it comes to feminine hygiene thingies, they do the job but usually come up flat on aesthetics? No more! Now, there's CAREFREE® Black Pantiliner -the first black pantyliner available in

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Mad Hattery…

The Chapeau Strikes Back for Fall Fall 2001 fashion is head first into a major hat attack. The fashion must-have look is menswear inspired. If the hat doesn't recall Rex Harrison puffing a pipe, elbow resting on a mantle piece, it's not it. Grab a tweed or private school plaid slouchy crusher or a newsboy cap. We warned you that it was coming and now it's here-- fashion is head first into a major hat attack. The fashion must-have[/link] look is menswear inspired. If the hat doesn't recall Rex Harrison puffing a pipe, elbow resting on a mantle piece, it's not it. Grab atweed or private school plaid slouchy crusher or a newsboy cap … jeez with our every breath

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