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.
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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...
Carry-On Only Made Easy
{Guest Post from Brooke of HerPackinglist.com} As the owner of Her Packing List, I see a lot of women enter our community that seem to be asking the same burning...
4 Vintage Finds + Basic White Tee
One of the best ways to keep fashion sustainable, is to reuse clothing that's already been made. This keeps clothing out of landfills and prevents us from using more precious...
How to Wear Tie Dye This Summer
Everyone loves tie dye t-shirts. But a tie dyed multi-way scarf-dress-top? Sounds amazing, but we knew the first question would be -- how do I wear that?
How to Wear the Chrysalis Cardi as a Vest
Wearing the Chrysalis Cardi as a vest is both fun and practical for summer - and it's an easy look to recreate!