Lena Penteado – Style Advice for Busy Women

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How to Choose the Best Pieces for You (Stylist in Your Pocket)

Today I want to tell you about a simple way to choose the best pieces for you. And how you can you have a Stylist – in this case, me – in your pocket ;) Sounds weird? Here’s what I mean… The other day a friend of mine who lives in New York, Cristina, wanted to buy some outfits to wear to some interviews. Since I couldn’t go with her (I live in Portugal), we did a Personal Shopping with messenger/email: Cristina sent me messages and emails with the pieces she found and the outfits she was thinking of doing, and we made the ideal looks for the interviews. Now on the Easter Holidays, a similar situation happened: Cristina wanted to buy a gift for my daughter Catarina, but we couldn’t be together at the time. So she sent me pictures of the pieces/looks she liked and I have her feedback…

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Makeover: Alexandra’s Before & After

Do you like makeovers? I love to see and make them ;) Today I’m writing about Alexandra’s makeover. She gained some weight because she had two kids in a row. Her body changed so she didn’t know what to wear anymore. She was also feeling a little outdated – she did not know how to use some of the trends she saw other women using. And she had a common doubt: how to look chicer and less sporty / casual (she has to be practical and comfortable during the day but also look sophisticated for meetings during the day). I gave her some tips to favor her body right now. And to be able to use the new trends easily, and also create casual-chic outfits, I showed her my app that solves both situations. You can see more here. The looks we chose for the makeover have to do with lengthening Alexandra’s figure so she feels more elegant, and also wearing the pieces she likes the most…

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Tired of struggling?

Do you know how things can feel hard? I do, that’s why my new hashtag is #letitbeeasy ;) If you’re like me, you may feel that your life so far has been a struggle. Fight to be in control of everything. Fight for the perfect life, to achieve your goals, to be happy, to be able to buy and do what you want, fight for everything. I’ve only recently realized that my life has been a constant struggle. The struggle to be better, to know more, to achieve, to get there. And of course the problem of fighting non-stop, it comes a point when we don’t have more energy. And then we start to realize that sometimes, we fought so hard and we did it and in the end we ruined everything anyway: for example, when I searched and searched and I tried to have that house that I wanted.…