Give Me 5 Minutes, I'll Transform Your Style Without Buying Anything New

Give me five minutes and I'll transform your style without buying anything new. It's easy. Let's get started. Today I am sharing five transformative techniques that require zero purchases of anything new and will instantly transform your style. True style comes from creativity, not consumption. When you slow down and try to experiment with what's already in your wardrobe, you begin to learn about what works and what doesn't work, what you like and what you dislike, and essentially you start building your personal style. So let's talk about the five techniques. Technique number one, the fresh eyes approach. Some of you are going to hate me for this one, but stick with me. If you haven't done this in a while, remove everything from your closet. This may seem pretty scary, but not only does this help you rediscover what's in your wardrobe, but it's also a really nice opportunity to properly clean inside your wardrobe at the same time. Remove all the dust, refold things, rehang things. A clean and organized wardrobe is a great way to breathe life back into your wardrobe and your style without actually going out and buying anything new. It's just like a really nice starting point and a nice fresh slate. As you are doing this little cleanup, notice if any items are catching your eye as items that you haven't worn in a very long time. Put those pieces aside and then challenge yourself to style those pieces at some stage. So once you've done that, you can try technique number two, the unexpected pairing method. Here is where you want to try experimenting with unexpected items in your wardrobe. You've got to be willing to make some mistakes with this method. Like we're aiming to mix some weird things together. You might make six terrible outfits, but then you have this one great outfit that comes out of it. When I did this myself, I was laughing at myself quite a lot with some of the pairings that I put together, but then I was also really pleasantly surprised with some of the outfits that I made as well. So technique three is to test out and play around with some new styling rules. So there's been three new styling rules that I've kind of seen repeated a lot recently by people, and they are no tucking, showing your neckline under jumpers and buttoning differently. So let me explain them now in the past eight or so years, I guess the half tuck has been really pushed and almost always encouraged. Nowadays, no tuck is prominent at the moment. It's really accepted to just not tuck at all. And to let shirts and t-shirts hang over trousers in more of a relaxed kind of way. This relaxed way of styling also shows up in buttoning and unbuttoning shirts and cardigans. So really playing around with how many buttons you undo and how many you do up helps to create different kinds of visual lines, which then creates different silhouettes and shapes in your outfits. Another thing I've seen recently is showing the neckline of your t-shirt underneath your jumper. So just up the top here, usually in a crew neck style, a little white line of a t-shirt. I've seen this repeated quite a lot recently. So these are all obviously going to be personal style preferences, but it's worth playing around with all these new different styling rules and seeing what you like and dislike when you're experimenting with your current wardrobe. It can definitely help when you don't want to buy anything new. Technique number four is accessory transformation. So knowing how one simple accessory can change how the entire look is perceived and styled. For example, this one outfit that I'm wearing here uses a different accessory to finish the look. Each of these outfits give off a completely different end vibe. So don't underestimate how much of an impact small accessories can make on the overall vibe of your outfit. So definitely experiment with all your accessories that you already have in your wardrobe, wear them with different things. Go back to that unexpected pairing items tip and just start mixing them with different things and see how they come out. Technique five is the silhouette shift. Much like accessories, changing the shape of your outfit can change the complete overall vibe of the outfit as well. Sometimes we can play around with mixing different shapes in our wardrobes to help refresh our style and breathe a little bit more life into our style. You can see how I'm mixing just a few different shapes of items here and making each outfit feel different and unique. At the end of the day, experimenting and playing around with different items in your wardrobe will always breathe fresh life into your wardrobe without shocking. You just have to be willing to make mistakes and laugh at yourself along the way. Some outfits you'll love and then others won't work and that's totally fine. That's exactly how we learn. If you want to see how I play around with my own wardrobe and style things in different ways, I have left a playlist up on the screen for you now of all of my lookbooks. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Bye!