On to the next one...day two fo NJFFFW

After an awesome first day, I woke up Saturday morning in my hotel room at the Atlantic Palace and was greeted with a beautiful 16 floor view of the ocean and the board walk. Me and Sarah got ourselves dressed and was ready to start our day. The first event of the day was a Fashion panel discussion which touched on a lot of different issues and ideas that plus size women have to deal with on an everyday basis. and in true NJFFFW style the panel was made of great group of women.

-Gabi of Gabifresh.com
-Nikki Blonsky
-Chelsea Settles of MTV's Chelsea Settles
-Heather Feather of TLC's Big Sexy
-Jene Luciani
-Aimee Cheshire
-Kayla Humphries

As a blogger I feed off of knowing what other women think about fashion and things. There are so many brands on the market that aren't as main stream the Lane Bryants and the Torrids and we need to get to know them because we need those options. Also talking about how and why straight size lines don't make time to really invest in plus size clothing. It is so important to have to someone that really knows and understands a females body. And I couldn't agree more. Brands can't just slap together plus size clothes and think it'll be ok. We need quality, we need clothes that fit in the right areas.

After a deep discussion with the panel it was time to get some shopping on. There were some extremely great vendors that ranged from Make-up to jewelry, to clothing to bras, to skin care to fitness. Nfinite Form (the creators of NJFFFW) made sure to really cover all their basis. They really wanted all of us to have access to different ways of bettering ourselves beyond just clothing. I got some really great earrings...which you will see in a little bit.

My outfit for the day...I finally got to wear the romper I got from Asos like for ever ago!

 yes it is Gabi from Gabifresh.com. Yes my life is complete! and Ms. Kayla Humphries, she is gorgeous and has the most beautiful eyes ever!

After about an hour or so of shopping it was time for two more of the fashion slated for the weekend. We kicked it off with Darin Hennson entertaining us. Yes I said Darin Hennson, you know him from his role as Lim on Soul Food, Grant on Stomp the Yard and the infamous chorographer for in N'SYNC Britany Spears and Darin's Dance Grooves. The 1st of two fashions shows of the day was Swimsuit and Lingerie here's a few of the looks!

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Do a little fast forwarding to the after party for the night. We headed over to the Harlem Club at the Showboat for dinner, drinks some dancing and to see both Melanie Fiona and Eric Benet perform. As well as to absolutely gut busting comedians. Great food, good laughs, drinks and music is a recipe for a good time!

Lovely in a pink blazer for the night...

 My face was BEAT TO HELL saturday night thanks to Sarah of Queen Sized Flava!!! 

My new dope ass earring...I'll post about these in a later post!

until next time...

xoxo

Shay