Swell Style: Magnetix Pendants

I'm currently hunting for a job. I've worked from home for the past ......well a really, really long time, and I needed a couple of dresses for interviews. I lucked out on a couple of shirt dresses on clearance at Target - one brown and one black. They are very simple bordering on boring, but I wanted something conservative and adaptable.  I knew that I needed to add something fun to the look - they needed something.

 Luckily, Donna Asch sent me a set of her Magnetix pendants* to try. This is the one that I wore today...

I wish I had thought of this idea - it's both simple and genius at the same time. You start with a necklace that has a magnet attached to it. You attach the pendants to the necklace magnet, switching easily from one look to another. The magnetic connection is very secure, I've been wearing the pendant all day and it fits tightly to the magnet. Pendants are made out of a variety of materials including shells, stones, and crystals.

Each Magnetix set comes in a little metal gift box. You can see the second pendant that I tried above.  I love both of them - just my style.  The pendants stick to the metal lid, so it's a great way to take your jewelry with you, either in your purse or in your bag if you are going out of town.

You can find Magnetix at Donna Asch Designs.com.

Image credit: Chase Your Bliss Photography
*Product supplied to writer for review.

Swell Smells & Style: Stella Solid Fragrance Necklace

When I was a little girl, I got a little yellow chick pin for Easter. I think it was made by AVON.  If you lifted the chick's head, there was a little pan of solid perfume underneath. I loved that pin. Even though I'm a big girl now, I still enjoy double-duty accessory-fragrances.


Several fragrance lines carry these items - I have a pin/necklace in the Marc Jacobs Daisy fragrance. That one is sort of triple duty, since I have the choice of wearing it either way. 

Stella McCartney is now offering a solid fragrance necklace. It's in her Stella fragrance, a little silver disc locket with the Stella McCartney logo on the top and the Stella fragrance inside. I like this one, because it's so non-frou-frou. Simple and modern. It's only available for a limited time and it's only available at Sephora.

The Stella fragrance is a Floral with notes of Rose, Peony, Mandarin, Rose Absolute, and Amber.

Image credit: Sephora