Sharon Haver – FocusOnStyle.com

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I inadvertently started my blog during my infant son’s nap time back in 1999… before the term ‘blog’ was even popular.

Through it all, I believe…

Your style is your fingerprint in all that you do… it’s how you see the world + how the world perceives you.

 

The blog archives go back to the beginning and are updated regularly.  You’ll find 1,000’s of posts about modern business, branding, positioning, marketing, photos, fashion, style, beauty, lifestyle… and most importantly, how to do anything authentically. Enjoy!

The Blog Posts...

Best Fall Fashion- Coats, Bags and Shoes to update your wardrobe in style

Sharon & Brad's Latest Radio Show: Talk show hosts Sharon Haver and Brad Boles dish up some of the hottest age-appropriate fall fashion trends. Style tips to look stylish and modern for fall, without breaking the bank! Brad is about to head off to China and he's brimming with style tips straight from the airport waiting area. Sharon, of course, will keep Brad grounded on style tips to translate style into your wardrobe! BTW: Brad says that you can buy a Hermes Birkin bag in the Hong Kong airport... imagine that. Lot's of how-to tips, and inspirational launch points to look classic and modern but never dowdy. Many designers for fall returned to classic silhouettes for fall making fashion is

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Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles- Episode 3, Underwear Tips to Avoid Unslightly Exposure and Old Hollywood Glamour

Sharon can't believe Brad found the Mark Weiss photo of Ozzy ironing Aimee... what else is on her desk and what does it have to do with ill-fitting underwear?! Underwear tips galore with a sense of humor: Muffin top, camel toe, back cleavage, shrimping, a kiss crazed poodle, and a mad queen... oh my! >> MORE Impromptu Madness Celebrity Chit Chat Video... On this show: Sharon and Brad talk housewife to housewife: Hollywood glamour, undergarments, and visible pantylines. Muffin tops, camel toe, shrimping, and kishke overload of exploding flesh. Stop the too much information madness and learn what underwear is right for you! From a 1964 issue of LIFE magazine with covergirl Sophia Loren to a Mark Weiss photo of Ozzy

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Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles- Episode 2, Plastic Surgery Pitfalls

Celebrity Chit Chat Video... On this show: Sharon and Brad talk housewife to housewife: Enough is enough with too much plastic surgery and why not to use those freaky face tapes. The best of Cher and beauty to accept yourself. Sharon Haver is the founder and editor in chief of FocusOnStyle.com. Brad Boles is the editor at large and also a reappearing cast member and Jill Zarin's gay husband on The Real Housewives of New York City Watch the episode.... >> MORE Impromptu Madness   >> LISTEN to Sharon & Brad on blogtalkradio   >> MORE FocusOnStyle videos on Youtube Sharon is wearing an Acne jacket, Barney's COOP T-shirt, and Nicole Farhi necklace, her own of course. .

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Anna Sui – Spring 2011 Fashion Show. Fun, Feminine and Bohemian Joy

Runway Review: The Anna Sui woman is a frisky pioneer chick by way of the late 1960's, all wrapped up in a very modern package! It's home on a VERY fashionable range for Anna Sui... Twenty years of Anna Sui and it will always be dreamy in my book! Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York went to the countryside for this show of pretty pioneer girls circa 1969 making daisy chains and playing the tambourine! Flirty dresses in mixed prints with fluttering hems were the highlight and perfect for spring paired with soft accessories. >> SHOP: Anna Sui at ShopBop Anna Sui - Spring 2011 Fashion Show Besides the perfectly pretty clothes, there was the accessorizing of feather necklaces, flower head

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Makage Spring 2011 Fashion Week Presentation for a Sleek, Sexy, and Confident Woman

Runway Review: Something for everyone in this line and I think certain pieces are very wearable no matter what your age A sleek, sexy, confident and practical woman is who will be strutting around in Mackage next Spring 2011. Mackage - Spring 2011 The Mackage presentation at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week was calling out to all ages of smokin' city gals wanting to play up their attitude and stand out in a remarkable, but not extreme, manner. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews If you picture yourself looking for a new outerwear jacket and dress pants I would head to Mackage. Those two items in particular had me wide eyed. >> SHOP: Mackage online Beautifully fit pants in skinny, peg

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Odd Molly- Spring 2011 Fashion Show for Sexy and Sweet Boudoir Femininity

Runway Review: The sexy and sweet boudoir look is so fun for spring, and especially in these soft champagne and rose colors Playing up the feminine side of dressing has been a key feature at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and the young line Odd Molly certainly wasn't going to take a backseat in that department. Odd Molly - Spring 2011 Fashion Show I will never look down on a girly line, but there is an extreme that Odd Molly hovers on and I feel these delicate, super feminine pieces are best worn pared down, in small doses. >> SHOP: Odd Molly at Farfetch Odd Molly - Spring 2011 Fashion Show Thin knits with shimmering gold were lovely compliments to the silk

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Holy Cannoli, It Costs More to be a Plus-Sized Gal

Study reports a big bite into a financial whopper to be a big gal! It costs at least $4,879 more a year to be an obese woman than "regular-sized" and nearly twice what obese male counterparts have to pay, reports a study in The New York Post. "It's much harder to be an obese woman that an obese man," said researcher Christine Ferguson, a George Washington Universityprofessor." That $4,800 number is a very conservative number." The story continues to say that according to the study obese women don't earn as much as thinner ladies and rank in $1,855 less annually, while big guys are unaffected in the wage department. >> Plus Size Shopping Guide A body-mass index of more than

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Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles- Video Episode 1, Barbie and American Fashion

Chit chat video... On this show: Sharon and Brad talk housewife to housewife: Barbie, trendsetters, American fashion, and post New York Fashion Week Spring 2011.   >> MORE Impromptu Madne >> LISTEN to Sharon & Brad on blogtalkradio  Sharon Haver is the founder and editor in chief of FocusOnStyle.com. Brad Boles is the editor at large and also a reappearing cast member and Jill Zarin's gay husband on The Real Housewives of New York City >> MORE FocusOnStyle videos on Youtube Sharon is wearing an Acne jacket, Barney's COOP T-shirt, and Nicole Farhi necklace, her own of course. .

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Donna Karan- Spring 2011 Lighter, Softer and Very Beautiful

Runway Review: The "Raw Romance" Donna Karan collection, soft yet strong perfection. Most hair stylists will tell you that at a certain age we look better with softer edges and a lighter color. Well, Donna Karan is celebrating her 25th Anniversary in fashion this year and she has all but softened and lightened the look for Spring 2011. >> SEE DONNA KARAN FASHION SHOW PHOTOS- COMPLETE SPRING COLLECTION Once the almost shock of the all sand color palette passed, it was clear that the hallmarks of an urban wardrobe were still present, but this time the city looks were meant to travel to a more relaxed place and time. SHOP: Donna Karan at Bloomingdale's Groisgrain ribbon belts gently defines the

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Isaac Mizrahi- Spring 11 Fashion Show, Enough about Trends, Lets be Pretty

Runway Review: When looking pretty speaks volume Every once in a while we need to cleanse our palette of trends and unneccessary froufrou and get back down to what a woman really wants to be when she gets dressed. For most of us over the age of 20ish, it's simply to look pretty in a way without unneccessary artifice or pretention. Pretty doesn't mean boring or dated. It means that you are in control of your look and want ot look stunning for yourself in a timeless and ageless way in clothing that is designed with YOU the woman in mind. >> SEE ISAAC MIZRAHI FASHION SHOW PHOTOS- COMPLETE SPRING COLLECTION The Isaac Mizrahi spring 2011 collection called "IM Xerox"

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Martha Stewart Does a Mean Iris Apfel Impersonation

Martha Stewart and Iris Apfel
“If you don't expand your waistline, you can expand your closet," Iris Apfel How fabulous is it when one legend impersonates another?! Ok, Iris Apfel may have iconic style to those in the fashion industry but when Martha Stewart dons a pair of Apfel's signature bug-eyed specs for an interview, it's fashion TV kismet and makes us just love Martha even more! Apfel along with designer Ralph Rucci and fashion model, Tatiana Sorokko were guests on today's ‘Consignment Show' edition of THE MARTHA STEWART SHOW (Hallmark Channel, 10 AM ET/9 AM CT), which was entirely dedicated to consignment boutiques and vintage collections. Iris Apfel, the self proclaimed “revolutionary of costume jewelry,” showed off some of the most notable pieces from

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Edition by Georges Chakra NY Fashion Week- Spring 2011

Runway Review: What to wear when life is your red carpet I don't know about you, but I have certainly gotten tired of looking at overdone "Princess" fantasy dresses worn by celebrities on the red carpet. They are ostentatious dresses that often wear the wearer rather than spotlight her total beauty. I'm all for a bit of eccentricity and quirkiness, but when everyone wears the same quirky big number, it all looks the the same. For me, those over-the-top dresses look like a young girl's small town dream of what a "fancy" dress should be rather than an elegant ideal of what a real grown-up woman should wear when she has the opportunity to glam it up. >> Fashion Shows

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