Style Collective: “Beautiful Minds Inspire Others”
So I am so excited to share with you all our 2nd Style Collective Dallas Meetup! We did our first meetup in August which you can read about here! This 2nd Style Collective meet up included more awesome #girbosses and it was a fall picnic theme at White Rock Lake! Style Collective is an online community of female #girlbosses who connect, encourage and grow together in this awesome sisterhood! In a world where everyone is taught to have a “me first attitude” and to be the best and be better than the person next to you, it is so refreshing to have a community of women that is willing to help, encourage and sincerely wants you to succeed because we all have the same goal – to be successful bloggers! Photography credit goes to Megan Weaver at www.megan-weaver.com.
This month is my 6 month anniversary of Foreign Fresh & Fierce Style blog! I can’t believe 6 months has already flown by! I felt that I have learned so much and grown so much as a blogger. A big part of that is being connected with wonderful bloggers to share tips and overall just INSPIRE and encourage one another. I have felt discouraged at different times during my months of blogging. In the area, I always see some many opportunities for influencers but it appears that the invites are exclusive. So at times I would feel like a b-class blogger when I am not invited to them. But a few bloggers of Style Collective were very supportive and reminded me that your success has nothing to do with what invites you receive or not. Eventually other people and brand will see what a great blogger that you are but we just have to remember to be patience. This really did help me through my “what the heck…what about me?!” moments in blogging! LOL
Earrings | Scarf | High Lo top | Boots
Having this group of Style Collective bloggers has been encouraging when other bloggers in the area seems to be non responsive. Reaching out to connect with well-established bloggers can be quite intimidating and takes a lot of courage. So on 4 different occasions when you hear crickets on very simple questions/inquiries/collaborations, it can be discouraging as well. But I am just going to keep on keeping on and know that even if I do not have the beautiful K behind my IG followers count yet, I know that I am a great blogger and others will be able to see that as well one day too! I always have to remind myself to be happy and proud of the accomplishments that I already have as blogger. Not many new bloggers can say that 95% of the collaborations that they have is because the brands found them and they did not have to go out chasing brands for collabs so this is something to be proud of! I have gotten to work with many big brands and small brands and I will continue to expand my blog to reach other areas such as Beauty and Fitness! Staying positive is the key!
Meet the Style Collective Girlbosses
So I would like to introduce you to some awesome Style Collective sisters that I gotten to connect with and be encouraged by! Again we did a fall picnic at White Rock Lake which was a beautiful spot and we got to enjoy and beauty sunset. We had wine, cheese, crackers and meats and it was so nice to “chillin” and be in good company! I got my FAVORITE photographer to capture the shoot Megan Weaver which you have book with her because your pictures will be amazing!
Meet Kristi of Luluwithgrace! I loved her outfit as soon as she walked up! This is my first time meeting her and I was really happy to get to know her a bit more! Her and her husband are empty nesters and love to travel. Definitely check out her blog.
Meet Vanessa of Vanessaindallas!!! I was sooo excited when I found out Vanessa joined Style Collective and she will be at the meet up! We have been following each other prior to the meet up so we knew each other from Instagram. She was actually one of the first bloggers I followed when I first started blogging but we never were able to meet up prior! Check out her blog!
Meet Nataly of Beautifullyelegantblog! We initially met each other about a month prior at Fashion X Dallas fashion show! it was great to speak with her more and get to know a little bit about her! One comment that she made that I absolutely loved was that it felt so good to have her cell phone out taking a bunch of pictures and no one is looking at her crazy! HAHAHA because you now us blogger have to have a photo of everything!
Meet Ryan of Thrifsterchic on Instragam! This former Dallas Cowboys cheer leader loves fashion and traveling and her style is amazing! She does not have a blog yet but you can definitely see her style on her instagram account! I loved her outfit too when she walked in with Kristi! She has a beautiful smile and a fun personality!
Meet Avani of Fashionbeautydecor! She is a fashion blogger as well as the Founder of her own interior design company! This was my first time meeting her as well and I loved her fall look with hat and choker! She had just joined Style Collective and was very happy to be amongst awesome girl bosses too. Definitely check out her blog!
Meet Stephanie of SigningSteph! It was so great to see her again and catch up! She was one of the bloggers that met up during out last meet up! I always love her style and I was really loving her green earrings that I threatened to steal after the meet-up! LOL But you can find out where she got them by checking out her blog! You will be seeing me with a pair soon!
And last but not least meet my friend and style collective sister Jennifer with Sassyteacherchic! So her outfit was probably one of my favorites! it was the perfect fall picnic outfit with the white ruffles and green pants with boots She is teacher that definitely has style and not running award wearing apple sweaters and stirrup pants (which are coming back in style fyi)! Definitely check out her page where you can read about life lesssons, hair tips and fashion!
I hope you enjoyed getting know some new bloggers and learning a bit about my 6 month journey in blogging! I have lots of great beauty and travel posts coming soon! If you want to connect with other bloggers, definitely join Style Collective! It was one of the best decisions I made!
Stay fresh & FIERCELY you!
P.S. Let’s meet up on Instagram, Facebook , Twitter & Pinterest
This is so fun!!! I can’t wait to attend a meet up. You’re all beautiful and killing it! Girl boss status.
I LOVE this! We need to do this in NYC! You are all gorgeous! Love this sisterhood!
xo Jessica
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