About This Blog

Welcome, Friends! I am thrilled you are here.

Let me share a little bit about this blog and myself. I created this blog because I found myself stalking my favorite blogs–as one does–and influencers feeling a sense longing for a balance between the fast fashion world and sustainable shopping; non-toxic beauty and home products, yet owning conventional furniture, decor etc; and striving for a clean diet while also indulging every once in a while.

Currently, I don’t have the budget for a 100% sustainable wardrobe, don’t have a perfectly styled and curated non-toxic home, and often found myself wondering if I belong to either of those worlds. Simply because I don’t have a 100% sustainable wardrobe, nor the lack of a perfectly styled and non-toxic home keep me from being part of those groups. Afterall, it is about the journey and not perfection. Additionally, I am struggling to find items that fit my style and the colors that I love wearing from sustainable brands. The more I learn about my style and color preferences, the harder it seems to belong to and support the sustainable slow fashion movement.

So – I started my own imperfect corner of the internet trying to achieve and sharing a balanced perspective. I approach most areas of my life with an 80/20 rule. I am hoping to create a place where we can all feel inspired and lift each other up, rather than feeling inadequate and tear each other down. To sum it up, a real-life approach to living your best sustainable life.

What can you expect to find here?

You’ll find a lot of different content on my blog. As I am just starting out on my journey, I am sure content will evolve, and change over time. Currently I am passionate to share everyday attainable style content, clean beauty & home content, and some tips and tricks that make everyday life easier:

Style

I am all about easy attainable everyday style, a curated closet full of items I love, I am a serial outfit repeater. Additionally, I fully embrace the concept of a “style uniform” to make getting ready in the mornings easier. Every style post is meant for REAL LIFE and inspired by my own wardrobe journey. Nothing fancy in this corner of the internet. Most style and beauty posts are geared toward the soft summer color analysis palette. As those are the colors that look best on me. Generally speaking, soft summer colors are more muted, slightly cool toned. While those are my preferred colors, style ideas and color palettes are easily transferable to any color preference.

Beauty & Home Products

I am passionate about non-toxic, clean, and sustainable practices – which will shine through in all of my posts. Again, I am striving for a balanced perspective.

My beauty related posts focus on clean skincare, non-toxic & natural looking make-up and hair. I love make-up but don’t wear a lot of it. Just enough to enhance my natural features and give me that pulled together feeling. My beauty, make-up, and hair routines are clean, functional, easy, and suitable for everyday life.

More about Anke

I am a German living in the Midwest with my Husband and daughter – who are my world. I am also in the middle stages of my PhD in the environmental field. Both, my love for the environment and sustainability, play an integral part in my life.

I started this blog to connect with you, my like-minded readers! Helping you and bringing people of all life paths together through my content on this blog is the reason I am here – so thank you!

Please reach out on Instagram. I look forward to connecting with all of you!