The Fit, The Fab and The Face: Outfit and Inspo Thread

[danielledanielle]

I realized we don't have an OOTD, outfit of the day thread, which isn't needed but can still be a lot of fun.  It's dress up for me, but make it adult.

This was part spurred by my natural hair journey, Tress Trek - A Transition Journal from Relaxer to Natural and NYFW and Zendaya.  99% Zendaya.

The Fit- this can be your attire, or what has arisen from the Capsule Challenge, your makeup bag.  Hair and fragrance "fits" count, too


The Fab - What you loved enough to be inspired by or loved the most about your look


The Face - the proooodduccctsss, so I can add to my loves list, y'all. Or a pic of your face

Note: posting your actual self is optional.  Feel free to post pics or lists of what you included.  This really is about seeing what others are doing and getting inspired to try or retry things.

Also feel free to cross post to existing threads (and browse)

Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2025 

What are you wearing in 2025?? 

How Are You Styling Your Hair Today? 

What are you wearing, Fragrance edition! 

[danielledanielle]

Little Lewk Drop ☔ 

The Fit: BR Blazer and Pant with RTR rental for the shirt

The Fab: What can I say? I love to lightly skim work appropriate wear with coquettish elements, this bra laid button up is interesting.  If I had a plaid tie or cumberbun, I feel like this would take it from very cute to cuuuuuuuuutttteeeee 😅

The Face: Smoky Eye and bold lips seen on AW26 YSL show from nine other than...Dame McGrath.  I used my capsule to do this version, with Danessa Myricks Beauty Groundwork: Blooming Romance - Palette For Eyes, Brows, Face & Lips , Danessa Myricks Beauty Colorfix - Multi-Use Eye, Cheek & Lip Waterproof Liquid Pigment Evergreen  Danessa Myricks Beauty Colorfix Stix - Multi-Use Pearl Pigment Stick for Eye, Cheek & Lip Duo #6 Cel... (actually 9, cosmic veil) and Every I Wish You Wood pencil in Cuz I'm Black, lip combo will be posted in Lips on Lock 🔐: List Your Lip Combos 💄👄 but it's a very straightforward pairing 

PAT McGRATH LABS Legendary Longwear Lip Pencil Elson 

MAED Signature Lip Pigment Matte Liquid Lipstick Ritual Red 

The Fit: A really old button up from Target, BR silk pants and vest by RE/DONE, Boots Rag & Bone

The Fab: the vest, it's giving that 70s show

The Face: it's been a minute, but this is likely a Groundwerk + SEPHORA COLLECTION Colorful 8HR Longwear Transferproof Lip Liner 15 Molasses Collab 

[missjeanie]

@danielledanielle The first look is giving modern day Ally McBeal and the second makes me think you should work in a fabulous library and get to walk up and down the main aisles all day in a full on catwalk strut!  Yes!!!

[danielledanielle]

Taking 📝...future career ideas  🧐🤔🤣, TY @missjeanie 

[PDXXXX]

I have been missing this thread like crazy and finally got out of my sweats long enough to put on grown up clothes yesterday and felt like checking back in here.

I love androgynous looks and this one had me thinking of the old Blur song, "Girls & Boys" so much now it's been stuck in my darn head all day (Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls - Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys -Always should be someone you really love 🎶). Yay '90's. And love Blur.

This was a bit eclectic:

- A pair of Pilcro/Anthro cropped barrel chinos,

- Sweater from Banana Republic,

- My ride or die Ugg moto booties (I'm so paranoid I'll wear them out I actually have two pairs since they don't make them anymore),

- A tweed houndstooth moto jacket from Theory.

I swiped on some make up - mainly HAUS LABS BY LADY GAGA Color Fuse Talc-Free Blush Powder With Fermented Arnica French Rosette , Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer Fenty Glow and some Jones Road Just a Sec Eyeshadow in Bronze. But after putting on makeup realized I preferred the bare face I'm sporting in this pic. 

And yep, the song is still stuck in my head.

[danielledanielle]

I enjoy your presence here... So you do you and check in whenever. 

I feel you on the my fave pair vs obsolescence, may the soles of your boots never wear out or be scuffed 🙏🏽🙌🏽 @PDXXXX 

You make grunge look so good, classy one may say

[PDXXXX]

Thank you @danielledanielle . I'm officially adding "classy grunge" to my style goals - well put!

[danielledanielle]

Taking a page out of @itsfi and doing a few looks in honor of BHM💯 with visuals from music videos from Black Musicians 

The Fab:

"Made for Now" Janet Jackson, Daddy Yankee 2018

The Fit: So it's cold here, so the skirt was a no, especially an all white skirt.  I couldn't find cowrie shells...I know I have something, somewhere... But we have the cinched waist, shawl and I used a cardigan as a wrap for the feel

The Face: PAT McGRATH LABS MOTHERSHIP XII Eyeshadow Palette: Petalmorphosis with Holiday 5 pan, Sunlit (?) Seduction 

[PDXXXX]

I love seeing your inspo and how you made it your own @danielledanielle . The color palette is gorg and those boots to boot!

[danielledanielle]

Thank you @PDXXXX , I sometimes forget that Inspo doesn't need to be an imitation, so I'm glad it translated

[danielledanielle]

Bumping myself 🙃😏

Fit: H&M shirt dress, Boss Tiroko pant and scarf gifted by an Auntie 🥰

Fab: I love this for the graphic against reddish orange, I love all of it, but the scarf brings it together

Face: coming off of Golden Week in Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2026 

[curlychiquita]

I love these pants, @danielledanielle!

[danielledanielle]

Thank you @curlychiquita , this was from a successful Poshmark hunt!

[danielledanielle]

The Fit: Corset is Aqua, Pants RTR purchase and the shirt is a way back 

The Fab; NYE! 🪩  I wanted to be shiny

The Face: One of pmg's holiday 5 pans with Dior Sequin 999

The Fit: MM Cape, BR shirt dress, DVF pants and Aerosoles loafers

The Fab: Again NYE 🥂...I used the dress's belt cloth as a tie

The Face: Lashes are called Stiletto from Cade Cosmetics.  They are very curly, but tapered, so it's pretty intense without overwhelming.  The shadow is the PMG 5 pan (Spectular Seduction) with Dior's Miss Dior 5 pan.  I love how the shimmer people just blended in

[curlychiquita]

You look beautiful! I love both eye looks with your outfits, @danielledanielle!

[danielledanielle]

Thank you so much @curlychiquita 

[itsfi]

Ringing in the new year in style @danielledanielle 😍😍

[danielledanielle]

 

@itsfi 

[itsfi]

This duo of outfits took some time for me to put together. Some of it was me being very selective with what pieces I wanted and taking my time to find themm and, some, much, of it, was the weather - it's been colder than usual for this time of the year on this coast and I've been bundled up in thicker sweaters and puffy jackets a lot more, with basic black pants and a blouse. But with a few sunny and warmer days sprinkled here and there this and last week, I grabbed the outfits I had waiting on standby. Sorry for the delay @danielledanielle.

The INSPO:

Image from The Daily Mail

Debbie Ocean

The mastermind behind Ocean's 8, Debbie Ocean has used her time in prison to meticulously plan The Met Gala heist.

The Fit:

• Long, black, single-breasted trench
• Olive green mock neck satin midi dress (altered, see below) - I had a vision for a dress in this shade. Months passed, then this piece popped up, and with some alterations by the good people at Nordstrom, my vision for the dress came to be. 
• Light tan ankle strap heels
• Bow clutch, Cuyana
• Drop earrings
• Leaf bracelet
• Aviator sunnies

The Fab:

• The dress - I had it altered to remove the sleeve - it looks very fashion forward but I didn't feel comfortable pulling it off, and it wasn't what I originally had in mind, and in this instance, I wanted to keep to that design. Removed the sleeve and turned it into a belt of sorts. Also, you can't see from this image but the original design has a cutout on one side. I had that covered up, which gave the top and waist a more fitted look and the sleeve as belt tied (heehee!) the new fit together.
• The clutch - I also really like the clutch. Have worn it with a few outfits, dressy and more casual.
• The jewelry - Were they cobbled together by Mindy Kaling's Amita or did Sandra Bullock's Debbie Ocean loft them in the con artist scamming scent at the fancy department store after she's released from prison? Dunno, on the advice of her legal counsel, Debbie pleads the Fifth.

The Face:

• More of a neutrals, mocha mousse inspired look a la this week's @Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2025Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2025 
• In a nod to Riri, it's Fenty Icon Semi-Matte Lipstick (discontinued) Pose Queen. I have a full size refill of this shade but am working my way through this sample packet. I won't be able to use it up this year but hope to see it on the Foil Challenge sometime next year - there's a lot in these blister packets so it won't be anytime soon, maybe before spring if I'm lucky. 

Lou Miller

Every mastermind needs a partner in crime and for Debbie Ocean, that's Lou Miller. Lou's style in the film is largely made up of exceptionally tailored suits (is that at the hands of Helena Bonham Carter's Rose Well?), lots of leather and velvet fabrics in a variety of shades, jackets that standout all by themselves and loads of jewelry.

The Fit:

• Dropped waist, A-line, leopard-print dress - it looks like a mini in the photo; on me, it lands about an inch above my knee. 
• Fluffy, faux (feathers? or is it fur?), burgundy jacket
• Fishnet stockings
• Square-toe, stacked heel, black knee-high boots
• Small bracelet hobo bag, Chloe
• Lots of jewelry (did a little reorganizing and decluttering a couple of months ago, and came upon some old costume ring pieces that I didn't know I had)
• Aviator sunglasses

The Fab:

• The jacket: Okay, true story - I saw a jacket similar to this in Target one night and it's what got my wheels in my brain turning on how to put together an outfit inspired by Cate Blanchett's Lou Miller. It's a great looking jacket but it's one of those items that I'd have in my closet as an "outside my box" piece of clothing. I didn't purchase the jacket that evening and it was gone when I did finaly decide to go back for it. 😣 I did, however, find something similar at a local store that was, sadly, closing up shop, so I was able to pick it up during their liquidation sale. It was the last one, the one on the mannequin so I got it for a steal. 
• The hobo bag: I typically wear this by holding the loop in one hand like I might a top handle bag, but I love that the handle is designed like a bracelet and is worn on the wrist, like a bracelet. Very fitting for a character who is often decked, D-E-C-K-E-D decked!! in jewelry.

The Face:

• Same capsule as the one I used for the Debbie Ocean inspired outfit, but I went lighter, softer on the eyeshadow with just a wash of color and used the darker shadow from Yves Saint Laurent Couture Mini Clutch Eyeshadow Palette 100 Stora Dolls for eyeliner.
• Again, in keeping it in the Ocean's 8 family, went Rihanna's Fenty Icon Semi-Matte Lipstick (discontinued) but this time in Scholar Sista. More details on the lip look on the 100 Days of Lipstick Challenge thread. 

[ather]

@itsfi  I love how you got the inspiration for these looks!!!! I bet you look fabulous in both!! I love the accent jewelry pieces you picked out and the lip colours are perfect! 

[itsfi]

Thank you @ather! I was sorting through some boxes and found some rings I used to wear a long time ago. Shopping your stash can be even more fun when it's not planned! 😆