Nov 10, 2020Sitcom Style: Three’s CompanyHow Vintage Fitness Fashion Inspired the Post Covid Name Change Every Spa Should Make One of my most popular pinterest pins is how sitcoms are like spa treatments. Being a retro stylist & advocate of healthy living via fashion, I frequently find myself on Antenna TV or MeTV — sometimes only to clothes watch. …Fashion3 min readFashion3 min read
Mar 20, 2020Livestream Lessons. What to Wear for Video, Zoom, Webinars, FB & IG Lives: View from the TopOn a recent Zoom call, one of the chatters asked for style advice for zoom, conferencing, livestreaming basically any kind of live business conference video calls. You’re at home, is a t-shirt and jeans ok? What about your jammies? Does it matter at all? The truth is that most computer…Fashion4 min readFashion4 min read
Mar 19, 2020Livestreaming Lessons: Crush Your Fear of Video Forever with Four Words“It’s not about me.” “That’s it. Yup. I know. Stupid simple, right?” Now, I knew livestreaming with spas and experts would be a fun way to entertain and personally interact with our audience. But not just help our audience — my spa peeps could show off their stuff, while helping…Livestream3 min readLivestream3 min read
Mar 14, 2020Travel Show Pivots to Livestream Spa & Beauty Treats: Stay Happy and Healthy During the “Corona-cation”.Y’all may have heard that we were spa-ing and shopping our way across the USA, to produce Style Holladay a shopping channel meets Travel Channel show and supplement to Life’s A Holladay podcast. But something happened along the way: the coronavirus. Two weeks ago I wasn’t worried. I’ve been upping…Health2 min readHealth2 min read
Jan 31, 2020Spa Suitcase: How Izod Lacoste & I Started the Athleisure Trend in the 9th GradeI have a secret — I wasn’t always healthy — in fact, in high school, I was a PE reject, you know the girl so bad at sports that she was always picked last when choosing teams. But, there was one, um, sport, I stood out confidently in a good…Fashion3 min readFashion3 min read
Jan 24, 2020Spa Suitcase: Are Metallics Modern Day Suits of Armor?Spa Suitcase: Are Metallics Modern Day Suits of Armor? Peek into my #SpaSuitcase in this series, musings on how fashion improves our lives inspired by Style Holladay TV Shopping Show. …Fashion Trends3 min readFashion Trends3 min read
Dec 23, 2019Behind the Spa Mic: How Retail Therapy Could be the Best Spa Treatment EverAs I was creating and researching our end of the year podcast series, UK Festive Spa Holiday, which I designed as a spa break during the frazzling festivities, I discovered gift shopping is one of the biggest holiday stressors. To a shopaholic like myself, that may seem shocking. But especially…Beauty3 min readBeauty3 min read
Dec 21, 2019Behind the Spa Mic: Holiday Trees = Indoor Forest BathingA few years ago, our podcast’s holiday party was featured on the Today Show. So I went absolutely bonkers to make it as spa camera ready as possible as the focus was to be that it was a “spa” festive get together. I had just returned from Careys Manor and…Forest Bathing2 min readForest Bathing2 min read
Dec 16, 2019Behind the “Spa” Mic: How Finding a Holiday Hair Stylist is Like a One Night StandWhile recording this week’s Hair Raising Holiday episode of the podcast, I had the craziest aha!, finding a hair stylist on vacation is like a one night stand. As part of my trip departure ritual, I make a pre-vacay date with Ruth, my uber talented friend and hair goddess for…Beauty3 min readBeauty3 min read
Dec 9, 2019Behind the “Spa” Mic: How Putting on Fragrance is Like Making FriendsThe thing I love about creating Life’s A Holladay healthy living with style podcast is how much I learn, sometimes obvious, but mainly not so much. So each week, I’m going to share what epiphany I had whilst recording our latest episode. Our latest episode, part of the Festive UK…Fragrance2 min readFragrance2 min read