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Here's the thing, a chic lifestyle isn't created by spending more money.
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It's created by caring more about your space, your rituals, your attention, your energy, and once you get that down,
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everything in your life starts looking and feeling more expensive.
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Hi muses!
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Welcome back to my channel where we talk about how women can have their cake and eat it too.
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I'm your host Nadine and I'm here to rebuild the village women once had
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so we can have the right conversations and create lives that feel as good as it looks.
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Raise your hand if you've tried chasing an aesthetic and so you spend all this money on clothes,
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accessories, furniture, and it still doesn't feel quite right because it doesn't feel like you.
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Been there, done that.
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I went through variations of redesigning my space every time I saw something I loved on Pinterest.
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And guess what?
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I visit my pin posts every couple of months and always realize that my taste has shifted again.
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I mean, of course, if you're online or on social media, you're bound to see trends change and be influenced by whatever is going on.
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But isn't it weird that some girls can wear t-shirts and sweats with some accessories and look so cool, but when you try it,
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it looks kind of awkward and a little bummy.
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It's because being chic is an energy.
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A tasteful lifestyle begins way before the products or the outfits or the apartment.
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It starts inside your nervous system.
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So let me show you how to actually become the woman
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who lives a chic life without buying a new personality or a whole new closet.
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As always, we don't gatekeep, so let's step into it.
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Before we get into things, I need to tell you the unsexy truth that changed my entire lifestyle.
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Chic is a feeling before it is an aesthetic.
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If your life feels chaotic, overstimulated, rushed, or cluttered, no amount of beige linen,
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burgundy velvet, or wood and gold accents will save you.
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Chic is created by baseline energy.
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Calm, intentional, deliberate.
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And that's why when you see something that is tasteful or you feel like a space is so chic, it feels elevated, comfortable, put together,
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but not in a try-hard way.
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I've personally noticed something that shifted when I started developing my own taste in things.
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You go from craving more, more clothes, more jewelry, more things, to craving better and higher quality.
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And that applies to all areas in life.
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That's where a lot of women unintentionally misunderstand chic living.
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It's not about consumption.
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It's about curation.
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So let's talk about that.
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The art of under consumption, the real quiet luxury.
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And no one talks about because we live in a digital world where products
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and trends are constantly shoved in front of our faces.
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I see all these trends with creators talking about de-influencing you to not buy things.
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And you might even notice your preferences in like clothes or design or fashion shifting the more you are on social media.
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Something you thought was ugly or a color you didn't really like, but because it was constantly being shown to you, it started growing on you.
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You're wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room.
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Now, were you influenced?
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Did you really like it?
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Or did you like it because everyone else had it?
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When you stop over consuming, you suddenly have space around you.
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It's negative space for you to notice beauty, space to enjoy what you already have, space for small pleasures to actually register as pleasure again,
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space to design and use your creativity, and space for you to actually decide whether
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or not you truly like something or if it's just being shoved in front of you.
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We live in a culture where everyone is over buying, over styling, over showing and honestly nothing is less chic than spending all this money
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and still missing the mark with how you want to look
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and feel or how you want your space to look and feel.
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Tasteful women don't look expensive because they spent money.
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They look expensive because they know what works for them.
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They choose quality.
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They choose what they truly like.
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It's like having an internal mood board that acts as your North Star.
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It's your vibe, your energy, your favorite colors and textures, and the experience you want to create for yourself and others.
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Literally art, okay?
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When you're being intentional with what you purchase and you're deliberately designing your life and lifestyle,
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you realize that you don't need 12 candles.
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You need one or two good ones that you love.
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You don't need bags of makeup and bookshelves full of perfumes, you need a set that works well for you and especially clothes, okay?
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Choosing quality items that you really love, that help you express yourself,
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that you can mix and match well to create your vibe instead of chasing fast fashion trends, totally chic.
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With all these aesthetics like old money aesthetic, clean girl aesthetic, you have to remember that you wear the clothes,
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not let the clothes wear you because then it'll just feel like you're performing
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or putting on a character rather than letting your style be an expression of who you are.
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There has to be a sense of pride in the ownership of your belongings
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and an aura of confidence around loving what you love regardless of what other people think.
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And that's where little luxuries come in, the tiny almost invisible moments that make your life feel rich, romantic, and elevated.
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So I'm going to share with you my personal list of a few things I find utterly chic.
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And you'll notice that none of these really require you to be rich rich.
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So number one, wine glasses for water.
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I think it really elevates and romanticizes the idea of drinking water.
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And it looks fun.
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And I don't know, it just looks classy at home.
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Number two, a signature scent.
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I love associating memory with scents.
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My current favorite perfume I got on my first ever girls trip.
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I'm actually wearing it right now and I can smell it.
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It smells so good and it always reminds me of our time together.
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Number three, matching silk pajama sets.
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It's giving elegant, classy girl definitely on my wish list.
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Number four, handwritten in notes, it's the thought, okay?
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I really appreciate people who put the time into writing a note.
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Number five, burgundy colors with silver accents.
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Obsessed.
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It could be a phase, but it's been a very long phase for me.
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So I don't know.
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I mean, something about it just feels very luxurious.
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Number six, taking your time, but being mindful of other people's time.
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I just think it's so elegant when women do things slowly, like she's not rushed.
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And number seven, this quiet, mysterious, but firm, confident energy.
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This, this gets me every time.
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This is giving sexy, unbothered energy.
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I really do believe little luxuries are about micro agreements with yourself.
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They tell your brain, my life matters enough to be cared for.
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So it's really in the details and thinking about the atmosphere you want to create.
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You are the designer.
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These little luxuries aren't about impressing anyone.
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They're about raising the emotional texture of your day.
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Because once you start feeling good about your life, something else naturally evolves too.
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Your taste.
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And taste, real taste, is what separates looking chic from being chic.
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I'm sure you've heard people say you can't buy taste or you can't buy class.
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Yes, because it is an energy and a muscle.
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And those magnetic and elevated but very cool women, train it every single day.
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A chic lifestyle isn't bought, okay?
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It's curated.
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It comes from training your taste, not copying someone else's mood board.
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I mean, you can use it for inspiration, but you want to develop your own.
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So if you're trying to train your eye and your taste, here are some things that I would do.
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First thing, follow less people online, but follow better ones who you really connect with emotionally, aesthetically, and energetically.
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Number two, go into clothing or furniture stores and touch fabrics.
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Get to know what is what and see how things pair well together, but do not buy anything yet.
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Number three, build a Pinterest board of things that actually make you feel something.
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There's definitely an art to curating a mood board.
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Think about the emotional message you want to create.
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And number four, anytime you want to buy something, ask yourself, do I really love this?
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or do I love how I think people would perceive me having this
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or do I want this because other people have it?
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Most people don't have bad style.
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They just have an untrained taste and an overstimulated attention.
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When you train your taste, you stop wanting everything and you start wanting the right things.
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You become decisive, selective, self-assured.
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And that's actually what makes women appear so elegant.
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The more selective you become, the slower and more intentional your life starts to feel.
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Which brings me to the next part of the chic lifestyle, the pace at which you live at.
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Chic isn't speed.
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It's grace and intention.
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It's the way you place something down instead of throwing it or chucking it somewhere.
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The way you speak, it's measured, warm, self-assured.
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The way you choose your partner, your friends, your daily habits.
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Stop trying to squeeze more into your days and start moving with presence, with care, and with standards.
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And once you start living that way, the way you curate your environment changes too.
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You stop decorating your home and you start designing your life.
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Taste is essentially how you decorate your life
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and standards are how you protect it
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So you have to learn how to curate your life like
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it's an art not a storage unit Start by editing your life aggressively
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Remove anything or anyone that drains you more than they pour into you
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Keep only what sparks peace instead of chaos or the things
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that relaxes your nervous system The moment you lay your eyes on it Invest slowly and intentionally,
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choosing pieces and habits that feel like they will still matter to you in 10 years.
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Let the things you own have stories.
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Like I said, a scent that is tied to certain seasons of your life, a necklace from a trip, a chair you saved up for and carefully chose.
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Prioritize experiences over excess.
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The memories you create will age better than anything you can buy and stop chasing fast pleasure.
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The impulse purchases, the dopamine hits, trade them for lasting enjoyment.
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The kind that lingers, the kind that builds your life into something you actually love living in.
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A chic lifestyle is built like a gallery, piece by piece, thoughtfully, and sometimes slowly.
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But everything in it feels like you.
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And this is the part no one tells you.
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A chic lifestyle is really just a self-concept.
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It's a belief that you are a woman worthy of a beautiful life.
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And once you start believing that, your choices shift, your routines shift, your surroundings shift, your energy shifts, because being chic is a self-concept you grow into.
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When you decide you're worthy of ease, beauty, and intention, your whole world rearranges itself around that belief.
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That's all the cake I have for you today.
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Thank you so much for watching until the end.
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I appreciate it so much.
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please like subscribe and leave a comment to share your thoughts and I'll see you in the next episode
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