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Chelsea Santa

Summer Hair Care with Sassoon Salon

- Beauty, Collaborators

    With everyone ditching the hair ties and letting their hair flow loose in the summer, it’s super important to make sure we’re keeping our hair healthy and happy. Sun exposure and pollution strip your hair of essential oils, leaving hair brittle and dehydrated. Naturally radiant and silky hair is something we all strive for, and achieving it may not be as hard as you think. The experts at Sassoon Salon can be your saving grace.   For the past…

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My LED Light Therapy Experience

- Beauty

  If you guys have been following me on Instagram (here) for a while, you’ve seen my weekly InstaStory of myself at Skin Sutra Medspa, getting LED light therapy. I’m going to be talking in this post about the treatment, why I use it myself, my experience with the treatment and my results with some makeup free before and after shot??  For those of you guys that haven’t heard of LED light therapy before, it is exposure (by a creepy-baby-looking-mask)…

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Found Myself a CHRLDR

- Collaborators, Fitness

  Countdown with me: 81 days. 81 days 6 hours. 81 days 6 hours 47 minutes (and counting) until SUMMER! Contrary to my typical procrastination ways, I’m getting a head start on my summer body prep this year and there’s no better way to feel motivated to get fit than to do it in style with CHRLDR.           As a college student, my second skin is activewear (it just comes with the territory), and I’m not complaining.…

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The Duo Styles the same Valentine’s Day Inspired Dress

- Collaborators, Fashion

The day is almost here, Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re heading out to date night or a fun night out with your girls – (yay for Galentine’s Day!) you can always dress to impress in a Paperback Boutique ensemble! Nicole and I both wore this gorgeous dress from their boutique in our own styles to give you some variations on how you can play around with a classic red dress for this Valentine’s Day celebrations!   I wore the dress with a brown fur jacket…

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Rent The Runway

- Collaborators, Fashion

Ladies, we’ve all been there. The stressful “I have nothing to wear” stage of fury when trying to plan an outfit for a big event. My room can be completely spotless until I flip through my wardrobe and can’t find the perfect piece for whatever event is coming up. In an instant, tops are tossed and shoes cover the floor like you just walked into “the land of misfit looks”. Rent The Runway saves you from the stress of searching your…

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My Dubai Diaries- Photo tour of my travel

- Lifestyle

This would be our first time being reunited in several months, and with long distance, you look forward to this moment more than anything. My other half, Karim, is now living in Dubai (UAE), and I’m still a D.C. gal. We share a birthday a day apart and we knew we didn’t want to miss spending it together, so it was set… I was going to DUBAI! Even though this was a very personal trip for the both of us,…

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My Take on the Mini-Backpack Trend

- Fashion

I went through my four years of high school with probably as boring of a backpack as it gets, the typical black Jansport backpack. After graduating and starting college, the love story between my Jansport and I slowly faded. I found there were so many chic and easy alternatives to a backpack not only for school purposes, but that could be used as a fashion statement too. Since I was still adamant about sticking to my favorite color, (black, duh),…

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ColourPop Cosmetics

- Beauty

I think I speak for all of us when I say online shopping is amazing, except when it comes down to color matching makeup. You might be looking through the screen and think you’ve found your go-to new lip shade, but when the package arrives to your house, the color was just not what you envisioned. I found myself having this issue with ColourPop’s lip colors (and frankly all online makeup stores). While the prices are great, you often times…

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Oops! … I Patched it Again

- Fashion

Before I start this post, let me add two disclaimers: 1. I hope you read that in a Britney Spears voice. 2. If you didn’t, patches are too young for you bro… The countdown had begun on our blog launch and Nicole and I were trying to come up with an ideal and trendy way to show off our name TheDistrictDarlings.  We were drawn to the 90s trend and were all about oversized patched denim jackets.  Creating our own would be the perfect…

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Be Whimsy!

- Collaborators, Fashion

Chelsea and I were super excited to collaborate with the creative and expressive Whimsy Fashion.  We’re all for graphic tees anyway and then we saw their products… we knew they were going to be a lot of fun to style in our own unique ways. They have pages upon pages of statement t-shirts and tops from bold to inspiring.  Graphic tees are so versatile and can go from day to night or punk to princess with easy styling. My sister went…

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