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12/7/2021 0 Comments

Body Type Signature Style Series: The Santa and The Christmas Cookie


This week, we are exploring how to resolve the body type challenges that get in the way of creating signature style. Today's topic is what I like to call The Santas and the Christmas Cookies. Keep reading to see what I mean...
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5 Style Tips for Santas and Christmas Cookies


The Santa and the Christmas Cookie are two different body types who often share both similar challenges and similar solutions to them. They both gain weight above the hips.

Santas have belly issues and Christmas Cookies have rounded bodies that are widest at the waist and belly areas. If you can relate, here are five tips that will help you create a signature style that works for you...

(1) Push your sleeves up - anyone remember sleeve bands? I used to wear them every day so that I could keep my sleeves in a permanently pushed-up position. 

(2) Wider on top, narrow on the bottom - most Santas and Christmas Cookies have narrow hips and tapered legs. Try different fabrics to see if you need your wider on top to be more flowy or more boxy.

(3) Bring the eye up - wear patterned tops, or prints, add scarves or necklaces and earrings that center attention on your beautiful face and shoulders.

(4) Don't cinch your waist - no belts or elastic waistlines

(5) Lower hems - the bottom of your tops should be below the belly. Try for right around the place where your body becomes more narrow.
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Column Dressing for the Santa and the Christmas


Wearing monochromatic outfits is likely to be very flattering.

​And column dressing is, as well, but make sure to match the inside pieces. If you add a topper, choose a different color.
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Is one of these your body type?

About the names. I wanted to give them names that had no negative connotations. And what could be more positive than Christmas?

See you tomorrow!

Love, Jeanine
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    ​Hi, I'm Jeanine Byers :)

    I'm an author,  Christian image consultant, proud former homeschool boy mom of a college student, Hallmark movie fan and big cuppa tea drinker. 

    I believe that creating your signature style is a spiritual calling. It's about seeing yourself as God does and delighting in your own beauty and style.

    I'm specializing in color analysis and signature style for black women.

    As women of color, we often aren't analyzed correctly when we receive color analysis. And all of our lives, we have been given sometimes subtle, and sometimes more overt societal messages about not meeting the cultural standards of beauty.

    My mission is to help you discover, embrace and celebrate your own beauty and style. 

    Thanks for dropping by! I'll see you soon.

    Love, Jeanine

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