Lunch Break: Beauty Buy of the Week
Quick mall run at your lunch break? If you happen to veer by the side of the make-up counters, and you're ready for a corporate look upgrade, check out the Lancome counter. The Lancome Teint Visionnaire foundation is a great new foundation from the French line, which...
Lunch Break: The Purr-fect Holiday LBD
The only thing better than a LBD, is a slimming LBD! Like this keyhole front, cut-in shoulders, silky matte jersey dress with built-in shapewear, from White House Black Market! Can you say miracle? With a conservative cut, rich fabric, and sexy yet classic silhouette,...
Put a DOT on it: The Three Questions That Will Turn Any Project Into A Success
It's year-end, and when you thought you could finally (maybe) get a breather, new projects are piling up on your desk. When you have multiple assignments to complete, many hats to wear, and a to-do list that would compete with the busiest out there, you need to...
After-hours Shopping: For the Corporate Bag Lady
We all know how much corporate sisters love their bags (please notice the plural)! You'll catch us strutting down the street to or from work with our computer bag, regular purse, lunch bag, workout bag...etc. Well, for those of us who are chronic bag ladies (you know...
Lunch Break: It’s a Cinch!
For our lunch break shopping interlude, just to get away from these drab year-end reports, I'd like to make a quick fashion nod to one of the most understated yet most silhouette-saving accessories in the corporate wardrobe: Miss Belt! Yup, if your Spanx is on...
Winter and Your Work Wardrobe: How to Dress Well When Temperatures Drop
'Tis the season of dropping temperatures and icy conditions outside...Between the cold, wind and snow, keeping up with one's fashion is always a challenge, especially in a corporate environment when, as corporate sisters, we do our best to look polished and...
The Musical Chairs’ Theory: When Scarcity of Opportunity Breeds Disunion Among Sisters
I took part in the most interesting, and edifying of Twitter conversations yesterday evening. Black and multi-cultural women all over the Twittersphere came forward and bravely acknowledged that they sometimes did not feel it in themselves to support other successful...
Why Telling Stories Will Land You a Great Career
One of the best pieces of advice I got from an influential executive at the conclusion of a presentation to senior management that I brilliantly managed to, for lack of a better word, totally "flunked", is this: "Whenever you're presenting something, anything,...
Sister Talk: Why Your Natural Hair May Give You A Professional Edge
Natural hair in the workplace has been the subject of much discussion in and outside of the blogosphere and media. Should we, as corporate sisters, allow ourselves to wear our hair natural in the workplace? Or should we take the "Hairy" hair issue out of the equation...
Got Email? Why Inbox Management is Like Laundry Day
Managing your email inbox can be one of those daunting tasks that you really would rather devote very little time, if any, to. After all, as a corporate sister, you already have too much to do as it is. In the midst of year-end deadlines, reporting objectives and...
