How to Define your Ideal Style
Have you ever stared into your overflowing closet and felt like you had nothing to wear? If so, this post is for you...
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The Little Black Dress 3 Ways for the Holidays
’Tis the season for holiday events, outings, and parties. A whole month starting from the first of December is dedicated to dining and feasting with the people who matter the...
Holiday Gift Guide for the Wanderlusting Yogi
It's that time of year. To make your holiday gift list, and check it twice. We love sharing companies and products we love, and that align with our values at Encircled...
Can you travel light and still be fashionable?
This is a guest post from founder of TravelFashionGirl.com, Alex The answer is yes but it has less to do with fashion and more to do with refining your personal...
A Carry-On Only Packing Guide to Portugal
7 Days in Europe in the early Fall, in just a carry-on bag. It's possible. A packing guide from a 7-day trip to Portugal in early October.
How to Develop Great Personal Style
{Guest post from Anuschka Rees from INTO-MIND.com} Your style is a mix of preferences for different elements—like colors, silhouettes, textures, and patterns—that all together create a single visual narrative. Your style...
How to Get Away With Wearing Leggings as Pants
There's been a lot of controversial debate over whether leggings are pants. We've been told that only certain body types can wear leggings. (Not true) We've been told that leggings...
How to Be More With Less
When I launched Encircled in late 2012, I did so with a dream of helping women travel lighter, and stylishly. It's been almost 4 years since Encircled made it's first sale (it...
Accessorizing Tips from a Minimalist
When I picked up Marie Kondo's Spark Joy, I was already in the middle of a living light journey. I was already knee deep in the process of re-evaluating my core...
Beauty Roundup: Staff Beauty Picks
With the upcoming changes of the season, it's a perfect time to re-evaluate your beauty routine. For us, this means simplifying our routine and finding ways to kinder to the earth, and our...
How to put your Soul on the Agenda
When I moved into full-time entrepreneurship, the first thing I de-prioritized was self-care. Yep. I gained a solid 15lbs in my first year working full-time at Encircled. I stopped going to the gym.
3 Comfortable and Cute Airplane Outfits
{Guest post by Jessica from The Belle Voyage} Have you ever shown up to the airport in your pajamas? I totally have. For so many years, I thought it...