Corri and Bridget Love Color! Do you?

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Corri McFadden

Bridget and Corri are members of The Style Tribe, Chicago’s most fashionable personal style blog collective. Both were excited to partner up with me to promote the relaunch of the color-obsessed brand Cheer.

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“I love wearing color because it creates emotion and ads excitement to something otherwise monotone. Color gives that something extra, it allows you to stand apart. I make the best of my wardrobe by playing with different color combinations.”
– Bridget White

I am going to be launching a few more giveaways with Cheer over the next few days. In order to enter, all you have to do is write on our Facebook page wall about why you love color. While you’re on Facebook, make sure you go like Strange Talk, the Australian indie rock band that’s helping Cheer relaunch. They are giving away all sorts of prizes through their YouTube video, which you can watch here.

*FTC Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Proctor & Gamble 

 

Nicole Blaje in Libertine

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Nicole Blaje and I rapidly became friends soon after I started my blog. I used to drop into Cynthia Rowley on Damen Avenue during the winter to warm up during snowy street-style hunts in Bucktown. We’ve spent hours chatting about everything from 90s pop culture to fashion blogs (duh) and runway collections to deeper issues of social class and politics. Basically, Nicole is my intellectual fashion soulmate. Like me, she’s also a grad student in a master’s program at Loyola.

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Besides, only the coolest person in the world would rock this Libertine silk top dyed to look like it’s covered in bloodstains. Nicole told me she found it on Yoox, steeply discounted, and it was one of the greatest finds of her internet fashion shopping career. Like me, she’s a crafty bargain hunter when it comes to fulfilling her designer clothing cravings!

Shae Peppler of Vanilla Fringe

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Shae Peppler of the fashion blog Vanilla Fringe and I met up last week so I could photograph her for my blog. I first met Shae in April at a fashion show to benefit breast cancer research and to increase awareness of the disease, which you can read about here. Shae is a sports reporter and has covered Chicago teams for big networks like ABC and the Big Ten Network.

Shae’s current love and infatuation in life is Vanilla Fringe. Like most fashion bloggers, she will tell you that blogging has completely taken over her life. She has a really strong sense of personal style and is a pro at putting together really interesting outfits.

You can follow Shae on twitter, @vanillafringe, and make sure to ‘like’ Vanilla Fringe on Facebook too!