Bright Floaty Floral Babydoll Dress + Orange Heels.

Full spring ahead in a floral babydoll dress.

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I’m in a major floral mood over here, guys. And this dress is perfect for a mood like this! Bright flooms, floaty chiffon, and a short hemline. A babydoll dress is just the dress for some springtime twirling.

Here’s what I love about a babydoll: there’s lot of room. Sure, you’re showing leg, but it’s offset by all that volume in the skirt. So the dress doesn’t end up seeming as short as it is. Balance, baby!

The orange pops in this floaty babydoll dress inspired me to grab these orange heels I scored over the winter from Amazon– you could call ’em a quarantine purchase. I’ve been snapping up quite a few pairs of shoes with a translucent feature (peep these blue snakeskin slingbacks from last week) and I couldn’t resist these under $40 stunners. They come in a ton of colors, too! A quick swipe of an orange-y red lip (Selena nailed it with this shade) and the outfit was late-April perfect.

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By this point in the spring, I’m normally back on my self-tanning routine. I’m usually all bronzed up and ready to go. But there’s something about this year coming out of COVID (metaphorically if not actually, as we wait for vaccinations to go up and cases to go down) that has me not in any hurry to pick up that part of my beauty routine. (Hello, super pale legs!)

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good (fake) golden tan, but I’ve also learned to embrace my natural complexion a bit more. Even though it’s nearly translucent and not the beauty standard I grew up with (or one that jives with the current Instagram Filtering Method of Choice), it’s kinda nice not having to have 4 different foundation shades on hand to rotate as your tan fades, DHA-stained sheets, or the fear of wearing white and the dreaded tan transfer.

Come to think of it, there are a few things I stopped doing in quarantine because I didn’t need to anymore– self-tanning, wearing makeup every day, always having a pedicure– that I haven’t picked back up as things inched back to normal. I realized I never needed to do them; I just felt like I did. And when I didn’t “have” to, I realize I didn’t want to. At least not every day or because society deemed it appropriate.

So now I’m looking at those once-omnipresent rituals and reevaluating where they fit in my routine. Do I still love a full face? Yep. Just not all the time. And if you love to wear a full face every day? Do it, go for it, that’s awesome. But, for example, I’m not sure I’ll ever wear a full face of makeup to the office because I feel like I have to. And maybe I don’t have a perma-tan April through October without fail for fear of someone seeing my bright white calves.

What has fallen out of your beauty routine over the last year?

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