Finding the Perfect Little Black Birthday Dress! [8 Under $20]
Whether you like the classic little black dress or shy away from simple and embrace the trendier styles, I’ve put together 8 different looks.
Budget Stylista: The Little Black Dress
The LBD is essential to any wardrobe, even if fashion isn’t your favorite pass time. Slimming, chic, and eternally in style; the little black dress is perfect for every body type. Wear a LBD to turn heads, to look chic, or just polished in class. This must have can come cheap, in fact for under $30!

Rent the Runway Look of the Week: The Perfect LBD
I am obsessed with little black dresses. Quite literally obsessed. So obsessed that whenever I am shopping for a fancy dress I have to avoid even trying on the black ones because I know I will buy them. They’re slimming, dressy and I already have all the accessories I need to style them. My closet is in desperate need of a bit of color… but we’ll deal with that another time.
Candy Dish: Fashion & Beauty Palooza
• The 5 most convenient beauty products ever
• How to wear a belt around your torso
• Pull off Olivia Munn’s style
• Essie’s awesome new spring ling
• 10 dresses you’ll want to wear this spring
• A little handbag porn
• 1 little black dress worn 4 ways
8 Under $20: Little Black Dresses
The Little Black Dress: consider it your wardobe’s secret weapon. It can be styled hundreds of different ways and is therefore the perfect outfit for almost any occasion. Every woman should own at least one that she loves and she looks great in.
The End of The LBD?
If you’re like the majority of women, you’ve had it drilled into your head that the “little black dress” is the answer to all your wardrobe issues. It’s listed in every “must-have” wardrobe list because it “looks soooo great on everyone!” But experts now say that in actuality, only 1 in 5 women look good in black.
8 under $20: Target
And that, my friends, is when you should head to Target. Not only can you get a gift for everyone on your entire list there, but you can also pick up stuff for yourself without feeling guilty. Seriously, they’ve got a ton (and I mean a TON) of really great stuff under $20 lining those racks. I just want it all. And at these prices, I may just get it all.

Around the Web

8 Under $20: Alloy
I’ll be honest: I always thought Alloy was for the 12-17 age group, but then I started flipping through their merchandise and realized that they have a ton of cute stuff for us more sophisticated ladies. I mean, how could you not love this dress!?
8 Under $20: Anique Michelle
God, what did we ever do without the internet? Besides the amazingness that comes from sites like this, there’s online shopping. And it rules! You can get all your favorite things without leaving the house and online stores can charge less for all of it since they don’t have to spend all that extra money on actual storefronts. That means lots of fabulosity without spending lots of money.
Budget Stylista: The Little Black Dress Gone Wild
So it’s Friday night. You need to get ready and you spent far too long watching GLEE on your DVR and chatting with your roommate about the best mode of communicating with your crush tonight. Text? G-chat? BBM? You just don’t know! And now you have – uh – 20 minutes to get I-look-damn-good ready.
Celebrity Chic on the Cheap: Blake Makes Basic Look Gooood
Every week our style guru takes a celebrity look and breaks it down for you, our poor college fashionista. What does that mean? It means that while the celebrities are spending $5,000 on an ensemble, you don’t have to. All you have to do is click on the goods and – boom – you can buy the entire ensemble.
Wardrobe Wish List: Cutout Back Dress
This may look like any ordinary knit dress from the front, but turn around to reveal (and surprise your friends!) some awesome and sexy cutouts on the back. They turn this otherwise plain dress into one fit for a fabulous night out on the town.

Springing (Fashion) Forward: Spring’s Hottest Trends
I don’t know about you, but after what seemed to be the most grueling. winter. ever. I am excited and eager to dust off my spring wardrobe… and add some new pieces to it.