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3 More Days to Shop Net-A-Porters Massive Designer Clearance Sale

If you have champagne tastes on a Heineken budget, here’s your chance to get more bang for your buck at Net-A-Porter’s designer clearance sale. It has been going on since Thanksgiving and it’s now down to the final three days. We’re talking major designers like Saint Laurent, Michael Kors and Alexander Wang for up to 70% off. If you haven’t shopped it, you’re seriously missing out – it’s pretty much the sale of a lifetime.

This is the perfect time to treat yourself to some designer duds at a price you can (mostly) afford. And once you find something (or some things) you like, use code GIFT20 at checkout so you can save an additional 20% on all sale items. Heaven right? Now get to shopping!

SOP DESIGNER DEALS AT NET-A-PORTER NOW!

Here’s a look at some of our favorite pieces from Net-A-Porter’s big sale:

The Best Shapewear for Every Outfit

Ahhh shapewear, the new most important under-accessory. Good shapewear can help you smooth out any lumps and bumps and, depending on the shapewear, make you look a size smaller as well. Who doesn’t want that?

Modern shapewear has come a long way from the uncomfortable girdles and bullet proof corsets of yesteryear. New technologies now make shapewear that is not only functional, but quite comfortable and stylish as well. Following is a list of the best pieces of shapewear for a variety of outfits. Remember, it doesn’t work if it doesn’t fit what you’re wearing.

Wrap Dresses

1. Extra Firm Control Open-Bust Torsette Full Slip – Control yourself in all-day comfort with the innovative collection from TC Fine Intimates. Perfect for giving you the smooth, firm look you need under your wrap dresses. Buy at Bare Necessities for $74.00.

Backless Dresses

2. Fashion Forms Women’s U Plunge Bodysuit – A nice sexy backless or low back dress is nice whether it’s for a night on the town or a pretty summer day dress. However, all of aren’t blessed to be able to go braless so some support is still needed. Fashion Forms Women’s U Plunge Bodysuit does just that and at a great price. Buy at Amazon.com for $28.00.

Skinny Jeans

3. Fat Free Dressing High Waist Thong – No more back fat and muffin tops. The Maidenform Fat Free Dressing High Waist Thong offers firm control in a flattering high-waist design. Comfortable and soft to touch. It will give you a smooth silhouette under your skinny jeans or any stretchy jeans. Buy at Figleaves.com for $40.00

Pants

4. Skinny Boyshorts by Skinnygirl Smoothers n’ Shapers – These shapers from Skinnygirl give you the smooth, no panty-line look in you need in your pants. These seamless boyshorts are constructed from ultra soft microfiber, that gives light control to the midsection, lower abdomen and hips. Buy at Amazon.com for $30.62.

Knits

5. Flexees® Decadence Camisole – Maidenform’s Flexees® Decadence Camisole is so comfortable you forget it’s shaping you! There are built in bra cups and adjustable straps. This camisole will keep you looking sleek and smooth under any of your sweaters and other knits. Buy Madienform for $42.00.

Plunging Necklines

6. Maidenform Sexy Plunge Bra – You want to wear that sexy shirt or dress with the plunging neckline, but there’s no way you’re going without a bra. Maidenform’s Sexy Plunge Bra was made with you in mind. This sexy bra gives you the support you want in the shape you need so you can wear all of your sexy tops and dresses. Buy at Maidenform for $30.

Go Bananas at the Banana Republic Big 50% Off Sale

Banana Republic has a a huge sale going on right now that you’re not going to want to miss. Save up to 50% off during their winter sale either online or in stores. Also take an additional 50% off sale items when you use promo code BRSALE50 at checkout. And to make an awesome sale even awesome-er you can get 35% off new styles through 1/13/2014 with the promo code Newstyle, and not just at Banana Republic, Gap and Old Navy as well. How’s that for a sale?

With so many ways to save there’s no reason not to shop. Hurry though these sales end soon!

Here are some of my faves from Banana Republic:

Bodacious Booty Workout Routine

Workout Summary

Main Goal: Lose Fat & Build Muscle
Workout Type: Multiple Muscle Group
Training Level: Intermediate
Days Per Week: 1 or 2 days
Equipment Required: Kettlebells

Workout Description

If your butt is going to be big, make sure it’s firm. This butt workout not only ensures you’ll have a high, tight, firm butt, but it works the worst of your lower body as well, giving your hamstrings and quads the attention they need and deserve.

Bodacious Booty Workout

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Exercise Descriptions

1. Stiff Leg Deadlift – Kettlebells

Exercise Description

Grab a pair of dumbbells with an overhand grip and hold them at arm’s length in front of your thighs. Stand with your feet hip-width apart and your knees slightly bent. Without changing the bend in your knees, bend at your hips and lower your torso until it’s almost parallel to the floor (keep the weights as close to your body as possible). Pause, then return to standing. Your back should stay naturally arched during the entire movement.

Do 10 reps with a challenging weight (15 to 40lbs depending on your fitness ability).

2. Sprint, Back Peddle, Sprint

Exercise Description

Start in a lunge position with your back at a 45-degree angle, weight shifted forward. Drive through your big toe to take bounding steps forward. After about 10 yards, shift your hips back to quickly reverse the movement. Back peddle to the starting position (10 yards), keeping your chest up the entire time. Quickly shift your hips forward to repeat the forward movement again. That’s one rep. Do 10 reps of sprint-back, peddle, sprint total.

3. Kettlebell Swing

Exercise Description

Hold a kettlebell (or dumbbell) with both hands and stand with your feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent. Bend at your hips and lower your torso until it forms a 45-degree angle to the floor, keeping lower back naturally arched. Swing the kettlebell between your legs. Keeping your arms straight, thrust your hips forward, straighten your knees, and swing the kettlebell up over your head. Continue swinging until you’ve completed 10 reps with a challenging weight (17 to 26lb kettlebell depending on your fitness level).

4. Single Legged Bridge

Exercise Description

Lie faceup with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor, arms by your sides. Raise your hips so your body forms a straight line from your shoulders to your knees. Lift one knee to your chest, lower back to the start, and lift your other knee to your chest. Continue alternating until you’ve completed 10 reps on each leg, holding your hips high during the entire movement.

5. Jump Squats

Exercise Description

Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Push your hips back and bend your knees to lower into a squat (in preparation to leap). Explosively jump as high as you can. Land softly, and then immediately squat down to jump again. Do 10 reps total. Imagine that you’re pushing the floor away from you as you leap. You can use your arms to help you jump higher.

Equipment Needed

1. Best Kettlebells

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Back Strengthening Workout Routine

Get a stronger, sexier back and a better posture with this beginner back workout routine

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Sexy Back Workout Routine

Strengthen your core, improve your posture and have an incredibly sexy back with this back workout routine.

Main Goal: Build Muscle

Workout Type: Single Muscle Group

Training Level: Beginner

Days Per Week: 1

Equipment Required: Dumbbells, Workout Bench

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Exercise Descriptions

Exercise: Dumbbell Shrugs

Stand holding dumbbells at your side. Raise your shoulders up then down, returning to the starting position. Don’t roll your shoulders. It is a simple up and down motion.

Exercise: One Arm Dumbbell Row

Kneel over the side of a workout bench by placing your knee and hand of your supporting arm on the bench. Position foot of opposite leg slightly back to the side. Grasp dumbbell on the floor. Pull dumbbell to up to your side until it makes contact with your ribs or until your upper arm is just beyond horizontal. Return until arm is extended and shoulder is stretched downward. Repeat and continue with opposite arm.

Exercise: Dumbbell Dead Lift

Set your dumbbells in front of you on the floor. Stand with your feet at around shoulder width apart and position the dumbbells on the floor so that they are on either side of your feet. Reach down and grab the dumbbells with your palms facing inward and drop your hips. Keep your eyes looking ahead and be sure to keep a straight back and never allow it to round this is the starting position. Focus on standing up with the dumbbells, not pulling them from the floor. Drive through your heels and explode up. As the dumbbells rise to knee level contract your back by bringing your shoulder blades back. Bending at the knees, slowly lower the weight – keeping the dumbbells under strict control on the descent.

Exercise: Dumbbell Pullovers

Lie with your upper back parallel on the bench (you can do perpendicular as well, but that is harder and not best for beginners). Grasp one dumbbell from behind or from your side with both hands under inner plate of dumbbell. Position dumbbell over your chest with your elbows slightly bent. Keeping your elbows slightly bent throughout the movement, lower dumbbell over and beyond head until upper arms are in-line with your torso. Pull dumbbell up and over chest. Repeat.

Equipment Needed

1. Best Dumbbells:

2. Best Workout Bench:

Exercise Ball Abs Bonanza Workout Routine

Workout Summary

Main Goal: Strengthen Core
Workout Type: Single Muscle Group
Training Level: Intermediate
Days Per Week: 2
Equipment Required: Floor Mat, Exercise Ball

Workout Description

Grab an exercise ball and give your abs the workout of life. This abdominal routine will have begging for it to end, but will strengthen your core and give you the abs others will be jealous of. The Exercise Ball Abs bonanza is a workout that will strengthen your core. All of your abdominal muscles get an intense workout, building muscles and flattening abs. Workout should be completed on non-consecutive days, twice a week.

Exercise Ball Abs Bonanza Workout

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Exercise Descriptions

1. Exercise Ball Crunch

Exercise Description

These are your standard crunches except they are on a exercise ball. Lay on the exercise ball, making sure it is in the middle of your back with your feet planted firmly on the floor. Place your hands lightly behind your ears and use your abdominal muscles to crunch up. Bring your shoulders up off of the ball and when you feel your muscles contract, return to the starting position. Repeat.

2. Pass the Ball

Exercise Description

Pass the ball is a tough move, but great for working your entire core. All your abdominal muscles get worked with this move, and you will feel it later. Lay on a mat with your legs out in front of you and your arms stretched out over your head and the exercise ball placed between your feet. Next grip the ball with your feet and bring it up, as you reach the half way mark, crunch up bringing your shoulders and arms up and grab the ball. From there stretch out in the starting position, this time with the ball in your hands over your head and without your feet or hands touching the ground. Next repeat the move again bringing the ball back to the original starting position. That’s one rep.

3. Elevated Exercise Ball Crunch

Exercise Description

This exercise is similar to your standard crunch, except your lay with your back on the floor and your legs propped up on the exercise ball, under your knees, behind your thighs. Place your hands behind your ears, use your abs to crunch up, bringing your shoulders off the ground. Once you feel your abdominal muscles contract, return to the starting position.

4. Exercise Ball Ab Roll Up

Exercise Description

Lie on the floor with your legs extended in front of you with your heels on the exercise ball. Place you hands behind your ears, crunch up bringing your shoulders off the ground. As you crunch your body upwards, roll the exercise ball towards you. Roll the ball back out, while lowering your body back to the ground, returning to the starting position.

Equipment Needed

1. Best Floor Mat:

2. Best Exercise Ball:

30 Minute Abs Grind Workout Routine

Workout Summary

Main Goal: Flat Abs

Workout Type: Single Muscle Group

Training Level: Beginner & Intermediate

Days Per Week: 3 – MWF

Equipment Required: Bodyweight, Floor Mat

Workout Description

Get the sexy abs you’ve been dreaming of with this intense 30 min abs workout routine. This is an intense 30 minute abdominal workout that should be completed on alternating days, preferably on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. It will yield results in two weeks when combined with a regular cardio workout.

30 Minute Abs Grind Workout

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Exercise Descriptions

Here are descriptions and pictures of all the exercise in the Abs Grind Workout. Be sure to share below so you can get the PDF file and take the workout with you.

1. Crunches

Exercise Description

These are your standard crunches. Lay on your back with you your knees bent and flat on the floor. Place your hands behind your ears, and crunch up, bringing your shoulder blades off the ground. Return to the starting position without allowing your shoulders to completely touch the floor.

2. Indian Style Crunches

Exercise Description

This is a modified crunches exercise. You want to lay flat on the floor crossing your legs “Indian Style.” Place your hands behind your ears, and crunch up, bringing your shoulder blades off the ground. Return to the starting position without allowing your shoulders to completely touch the floor.

3. Straight Leg Crunches

Exercise Description

Another modified crunches workout. Lay flat on your back with your legs extended straight out in front of you. You should look like a straight line. Place your hands behind your ears, and crunch up, bringing your shoulder blades off the ground. Return to the starting position without allowing your shoulders to completely touch the floor.

4. Oblique Crunches

Exercise Description

This workout will tone and strengthen your obliques. Lay on the floor with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Keeping your knees bent and together lay your legs flat on the ground to your right. Place your hands behind your ears, and crunch up, bringing your shoulder blades off the ground. Return to the starting position without allowing your shoulders to completely touch the floor. Repeat on the left.

5. Abdominal Leg Raises

Exercise Description

Abdominal leg raises are a great way to work the lower abs. Lay on your back with your legs extended out in front of you. Put your legs together, ankles touching. Place your arms on the floor alongside your torso. Press your lower back into the floor to prevent pain or injury. Slowly raise your legs off the floor until they form a 90-degree angle to your torso and are perpendicular to the floor. Keep your legs as straight as possible to really work your abs. Now slowly lower your legs, but don’t allow them to touch the floor. Repeat.

Equipment Needed

1. Best Floor Mat

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Retailer Spotlight: Los Angeles Based Luxury Brand L’Cheriyve

Retailer Spotlight is our series featuring clothing and accessory brands that may not be household names, but are exciting, fashion forward and chic and perfect for the curvy ladies this magazine caters to. This week we had the chance to sit down with Brandon Gerson of L’Cheriyve, an amazing company that makes Trenchcapades, the sexiest trench coats you will ever see.

L’Cherie Black Trench

Tell us about your company. How it got started and the lines your produce.

L’Cheriyve was founded in March of 2012 receiving our Trademark for Trenchcapades in September 2012. We were created by women for women and invites you to experience what it is like to truly be adored.

A Los Angeles luxury lifestyle brand, L’Cheriyve, inspires women to embrace their inner femininity and to be adored by those around them. L’Cheriyve is pioneering a new apparel category with their trademarked Trenchcapades™, an exclusive line of season-less couture trench coats; their unique twist on boudoir photography; and their intimate line of playful belongings.

The Trenchcapade is our signature product featuring an eleven-piece collection. It is our sexy, yet sophisticated rendition of an iconic trench coat, designed for women who want to be adored. Each of the 11 Trenchcapades are available world wide exclusively via L’Cheriyve’s immersive online shopping, personal fittings at our Los Angeles Studio, and private events and showings.

Hand crafted in Los Angeles, the Trenchcapade™ is a couture accessory, only available in limited quantities, that brings together sumptuous fabrics and exquisite details that accentuate the female figure. The Trenchcapade inspires an adventure waiting to happen.

With so many outerwear lines available to consumers what makes L’Cheriyve special?

Luxury brands have lost their exclusivity and have diluted their product lines to become available to the masses. L’Cheriyve provides its clients with more than just another product or service, and they get to have a unique experience that brings a distinct joy to their lives. L’Cheriyve produces a limited number of Trenchcapades solely in couture fabrics & leather skins, which can only be purchased online through LCheriyve.com.

The beauty of the Trenchcapade is that it is not available at any of your typical retail stores and won’t be seen on every corner. Our elegant boudoir photography is shot in a French inspired studio specifically created to ensure a creative, safe, luxurious space to capture the most gorgeous photos in unique, eye catching backgrounds. We hand selected only the finest “Playful Belongings” to encourage adventurous, intimate fun.

Describe the woman who would wear a L’Cheriyve coat.

The L’Cheriyve Woman craves experiences that are luxurious and exciting. She seeks exclusivity and uniqueness, the essence of playful and fun sensuality. A woman who is feminine, she possesses a passionate spirit and more than anything she desires to simply be adored.

Where can one find your coats? Do you have your own boutique?

Our Trenchcapades are available on our website www.lcheriyve.com or in our Los Angles show room. Currently we are participating in the Bryant Park Holiday Shops in New York City and we will be there until January 5^th. Our coats are not available in retail.

What’s next for L’Cheriyve? Any new lines on the horizon?

All of our Trenchcapades are made in limited quantities. Once we use up the specific fabric we retire that product. Therefore our Trenches will always be xclusive as they are made in limited runs. No more than 40 of any one trench is ever made.

We are considering again participating in New York Fashion Week, as we received such rave reviews and exposure in September of 2013. At that point we would début our next collection. We are also rolling out a line of bracelet handcuffs.

L’Cheriyve Bracelet Hand Cuffs are hand crafted in Los Angeles. They are offered in:

Sterling Silver, gunmetal dipped, 14K gold dipped.
With Pave Cubic Zirconas in Sterling Silver, Gun Metal Dipped, and 14K Gold Dipped
Both the Pave and Plain can be offered in solid gold with diamonds upon request.

You can follow L’Cheriyve on Twitter @LCheriyve

Retailer Spotlight: Los Angeles Based Luxury Brand L’Cheriyve

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Tell us about your company. How it got started and the lines your produce.

With so many outerwear lines available to consumers what makes L’Cheriyve special?

Describe the woman who would wear a L’Cheriyve coat.

Where can one find your coats? Do you have your own boutique?

What’s next for L’Cheriyve? Any new lines on the horizon?

L’Cheriyve Bracelet Hand Cuffs are hand crafted in Los Angeles. They are offered in:

Sterling Silver, gunmetal dipped, 14K gold dipped.
With Pave Cubic Zirconas in Sterling Silver, Gun Metal Dipped, and 14K Gold Dipped
Both the Pave and Plain can be offered in solid gold with diamonds upon request.

Shop their website: Lcheriyve.com
You can follow L’Cheriyve on Twitter: @LCheriyve