Red VERTICAL Stripes

.Skirt: Thrifted, Heels: Steve Madden, Shirt: Old Navy, Vest: Foreva 21

I tried this look for this week Tippy Tuesdays Episodes and found that I fell in love with the look. Since this week was kind of "LAST Summer week", I took full advantage and wore a casual jean skirt to work.

I recently got this Madden Luxe heels for work - do I ever love them! They are so comfortable, for walking around office all day.

What are your plans this weekend? I am taking a good friend out for her birthday and hanging out with Mr. Fiancee!!I also need to choose my bridal colors and bridal party and need to go looking for the Canadian Bridal dress (According to my Wedding planning book)..Looks like pretty fun weekend!

What are your plans? Thanks for stopping by! Happy Friday!

Parents advice

Blazer: Thrifted

Shirt: Thriftedd

Pants: Thrifted

Necklace: Claire's

Earrings: DIY

This outfit is from last week that I never got time to post. So, here it is.

Some days I try to control outcomes, especially when nothing is going right (Do you ever have one of those days?). I had this work situation to deal with today and I don't think I did a good job. I was trying to control things that were really out of my control. I should have kept my calm and done better. As my yoga instructor would say "If bad things are happening in your day, instead of reacting to them, just breathe through it"  I reacted and don't think I was breathing. haha

 But this one piece of advice my dad always taught me and my brother is that: Don't control situations, simply bec you can't. Just do your part - Work Hard and do it consistently. Because he says hardwork never goes to waste. In any given situation, when you find yourself getting stressed/demotivated - try to maintain prespective of doing an action - instead of playing mind games. Trying to control the outcomes, it just stresses you out and hinders you from working hard.  Opposite of what we should be doing! Hence, gotta stop being a control freak and get on it with life. LOL

Hope you are having a better day than I am. Thanks for stopping by.

What is one piece of advice your parents/guardians gave you that you still abide by?

TIPPY TUESDAYS #13 - 3 Back to School Looks, 1 Vest

Since it is Back To School period after the Labor Day Long weekend, I had to take this opportunity to present 3 easy back to school looks using one vest. The vest, I had bought from Forever 21 a month and a half ago (Lucky for you, now its on for sale!) I find it to be very versatile. I create many casual and work related looks with it and using many ideas from fellow bloggers, the options to use these vest are unlimited!

Vest - Forever 21 - buy here

The 3 looks I created below -  You can be comfortable yet looking like you made an effort to looking put together. Hopefully you like it! :)

Jeans: Thrifted, Shoes: Steve Madden via Winners, Sweater and Vest: Forever 21

Skinnies: Costa Blanca, Shoes and Vest: Forever 21, Shirt: Old Navy

Jean skirt: Thrifted, Shoes: Steve Madden via Winners, Shirt: Old Navy, Vest: Forever 21

Now that I have put them all together here, I quite like each look. I can wear all of them to the office also for casual Fridays! Yipeeeee!! :)

Let me know your thoughts below :) Come back and tune in for next Tippy Tuesdays episode next week.

Is it only me who can't get enough of stripes?!

I have striped shirts in every color seems like (well I dont have it in green, purple etc.).. but I think I buy so many sub-conciously and all of a sudden, I have 8 striped shirt floating around. My mind asks the following question before buying any shirts: a) Is it a good color? b)Would it make a good professional and casual clothing choice? c) Is it a color/pattern you don't have or is unique? d) Can you layer it to make it transistion from season to season? Once that list is taken care of, I think no further!

What kind of criteria do you use when making a shirt-buying decision?

PS I am so proud of myself for not shopping the last month AT. ALL - not on clothing, shoes, accessories - nada! (not even Value Village/Savers 50% off sale) - Applause please! I know I am so proud of myself!

What's in My Purse!!

I always love to watch video's or read posts of people who talk about what's in their purse and i always get so many ideas and try to incoporate them into my everyday bag. I am one of those girls who like to carry the whole kitchen in the bag - sp my bags tend to be on the Bigger side.

So I thought i would share my kitchen goodies with you all!!

There are 21 utensils in my purse (kitchen):

1 ROOTS Wallet
2 Sunglasses
3 KeyChain
4 Mini-Tripod (for those self blog outfit photos)
5 Camera
6 Body Mist - Lavendar and Cocunut
7  Four Pens (because one is not enough)
8 Bus Tickets
9 Kleenex
10 Gum (from work - ah the perks of working here)
11 Female Stuff (for that time of the month)
12 Work ID
13 Lip Stuff - Lip balm, another lip balm, lipgloss
14 Hair Elastic (if I ever wanna put my hair up)
15 Hand Cream (Butter)
16 Book (Don't sweat the small stuff)
17 SUBWAY Gift card (Eat Fresh!)
18 Pocket Mirror
19 MP3 - music source
20 - Phone (didnt take a picture of it)
21 - Water Bottle (No Picture)

Do you carry this many items too? Is there anything you carry around that I don't?

Thanks for visiting, following and commenting! Have a great day! :)



I am Engaged!!!

So you know how life happens - yeah that's what happened. I was so super duper busy with an engagement party last saturday. It happened and I am so happy how it went. The ceremony was my favourite part. The dance party, the guests, my friend looked so beautiful, the ring (which I love). Seeing my dad dance across the dance floor - seeing him so happy for me and Ryan brought tears to my eyes. 2 years ago, it was tough phase for my family trying to accept Ryan in the family and I can say that all the hard work paid off!! The lesson: Fight for your life, because love conquers all problems! Seeing both sides of the family happy and lovingly doing everything to make the day so special for Ryan and I, I am so blessed!!!

Here is a sneek peek at the engagement - enjoy!

So happy together!

me and Riya - my niece

Chunni Chadai ceremony - my fav part!

There you have it. I am on Cloud 9!!

Will be back on doing outfit posts soon!! Thanks for visiting and hanging around :) I got the best followers! :)

Six Months Flashback

I often spend time reflecting on my habits, my accomplishments, mistakes and about my passions and all of it got me thinking about the evolvement of my blog and style. The reason I started this blog six months ago was to learn from others and experiment with my looks with new things learned and keep a diary of it. I recently spent some time and picked out "some popular outfits" that you and I have enjoyed. And these are not "I like" outfits, this is something I "Love Outfits" and probably will wear it again.

Six months ago, I didn't know a thing about fashion. Like I didn't even know the word "Gingham" and what it meant. I would wear dark, boring and dull colors to office with little to no experimenting with colors except on the weekends. I used to fancy girls who knew how to make their closet work. That's when NavLandStyle was born! I remember when i got 10 followers..I was like really, people enjoy what I write - thanks for your inspirations and lead e to try harder!

These are my favourite 12 most favourite office looks so far and 4 casual (sorry folks, I work in an office and so you will see more cubicle fashion here).......so here we go. I strictly chose some of my top Favourite looks that I am proud for creating them and WEARING them too!!

#1,2,3,4

One pop of color in any piece is essential - either in accessories or top or bottoms or shoes. I try to not go overboard with too much color for office attire.

# 5,6,7,8

I wore accessories in every outfit. Belts, necklaces, scarves are also essential in creating an outfit from drag to beautiful. I always loved accessories but now only I am getting more MILEAGE out of them.

# 9,10,11,12

Creating a uniform - pattern top with solid bottom or printed bottom with a solid top. Some weeks, I wear this sort of uniform all week to the office. Just mix pattern with solid colors in the closet. It simplies things to get ready in the morning.

#13,14,15,16

Here is a collage of my most favourite casual looks. I like to be comfortable on the weekends mostly in my PJ's unless I am headed out (ahem, therefore absence of casual looks). In each look, I have paired something unusual - and by unusual I mean (out of my comfort zone like pairing red pink together in the 14th outfit) --- but that zone is expanding and I quite enjoy it :) I look forward to learning much more and creating more fun looks.... so stay tuned! =]

 Thanks so much for Stopping by!!!

AND...........Time for some outtakes...

These outtakes are so funny!! Hope you will follow along so we  take this journey one step at a time and see how far we can get!! :)