RACHEL O. Beauty is a Chicago-based beauty & fashion expert. Rachel O. Beauty partners with some of the world’s leading brands to empower women to express their inner and outer beauty. In addition to her work with beauty brands, Rachel is a wife and MomPreneur of three daughters. As the creator of Chicago Natural Beauty Meetup, Chicago’s largest natural hair meetup group, she also provides natural hair, makeup artistry, skincare and other educational beauty resources for women in the Windy City. Follow Rachel on all social media @RachelOBeauty visit www.RachelOBeauty.com for more information.
This weekend my family and I took a trip to California for my sister's wedding. Erica was truly a beautiful bride, and I was so happy to spend time with all of my relatives and friends to celebrate with the bride and groom. As I looked back at all of the beautiful photos from the weekend, I realized thrift shopping is really in my blood. :) Most of the clothing we wore during our vacation was purchased at Goodwill.
Not everyone loves to thrift shop, I get it! Some hate the idea of wearing clothing once owned by a stranger. Others say it takes too much time to sort through clothing and they just don’t get the thrill of thrift stores. Believe me, I understand all of this as I wasn’t always a fan of thrifting either. Now that I’ve been shopping at Goodwill for years, I’ve developed some guidelines that have greatly helped me plan my shopping trips, save money and have the cutest wardrobe ever (if I do say so myself) I’m just sayin…
I am currently attending school in pursuit of a beauty college instructor license, and on my first day I received the dreadful news, “teachers in training must wear black.”
I wanted to scream no, please don’t make me! I loathe wearing black. It’s so boring and plain! I would much rather wear vibrant colors. As teachers in training, we have to be examples for the students, so I decided to comply with the dress code rules. Suddenly realized I had a challenge on my hands. How could I wear black without looking boring? Thankfully black is such an easy to color to find. The first part of my plan was to take a trip to my local Goodwill.
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