When the colder months roll around, we need to adapt our clothing accordingly, and that includes footwear.

Purchasing winter boots doesn’t have to mean that you have to forego on style and trends. Many fashionable boots and booties are designed for cold and wet conditions while still providing a look that makes you feel stylish.  

Here I’ve put together a list of boots that are not for extreme winter conditions but that I think are fashionable, comfortable, and also provide warmth and waterproof features.

GLOBALWIN Women’s Knee-High Combat Boots

These convertible knee-high boots can be worn to the knee or rolled down to uncover the chic looking faux fur lining at the top. The strap buckle accents and lace-up front make these boots trendy and also perfect for the winter months.

Eddie Bauer Trace Boot

The two-tone and combined textures of this boot gives it an interesting look. It has a full side zip for easy on/off and a waterproof leather outsole. A casual boot with a twist!

Naturalizer JESSIE WIDE CALF

Naturalizer knows all about comfortable footwear. These riding boots are designed for women with wider calves in mind. They offer a full-length side zip closure and an elastic goring panel at the calf for extra flexibility.

Naturalizer SPORTO HERO

Here’s another Naturalizer boot that I love. The casual trendy look can easily be worn with trousers or dresses. The boot is waterproof and has a full-length side zip closure. It also offers a smooth lining with a Thermolite sock for warmth and insulation and a non-slip traction outsole for stability.

JBU Haven

These comfortable booties offer a brushed faux nubuck upper with faux fur trim and a decorative buckle accent. The Microban antimicrobial treatment in this boot helps keep odors at bay and promotes a cooler, drier feel.

AQUATALIA Ocala Weatherproof Tall Boot

These high boots are super stylish and will keep you dry even in wet, rainy conditions. The weatherproof knee-high boot is embellished with a trendy side zipper that gives off a moto-chic look.

MARC FISHER LTD Brendan Genuine Shearling Wedge Bootie

I love this wedge bootie that delivers a chic cold-weather style. The shearling trim adds a luxe and trendy look. Wedges are a great way to add height while keeping stability.

Clarks Cora Tropic Ankle Boot

These ankle booties from Clarks are crafted with leather and synthetic fabrics and feature a zippered closure for easy on/off.

SOREL Emelie Chelsea

Sorel are known for their sturdy and warm snow boots, but they also design some trendy and fashionable boots. I love these botties in a two-tone combo. The seams are sealed waterproof.

Karen Scott Vickyy Extended Wide-Calf Riding Boots

These riding boots, created especially for Macy’s, are designed for women with wide calves. I like the croc effect leather and soft leather combination and also the buckle hardware at the ankle. This is a boot that can be dressed up or down depending on the occasion.

Franco Sarto Caleb Booties

This is an interesting but yet classic looking bootie that offers a chunky chain link and a slender foot line that gives it a distinctive style. Comes in different colors, though my favorite is the burgundy croc look.

Karen Scott Isabell Dress Boots

This is another option created for Macy’s, though you should be comfortable wearing heels. The heel is elegant and sturdy to provide a little height. The combination of textures gives it a trendy and interesting look.

Do you have a favorite style boot? Have you experimented for this season? Do you prefer high boots or low boots and booties? Do you have boot suggestions you want to share with the community? Please use the comment box below!

“Jennifer, my entire world has just crashed in front of me; David told me at breakfast this morning he is leaving us. He has fallen head over heels for a woman he met eight days ago. Yes, you heard that right; he met her eight days ago.”

Susan and David, in their 60s, had a tumultuous marriage that lasted for 40 years. They faced more than their share of challenges. Building a new business in a new country when they arrived in the US as newlyweds was one of them. While the business thrived, their marriage did not.

With almost half of marriages ending in divorce, here is a list of what you need to do should you decide to separate.

Take Stock of Your Finances

What Do You Own?

First, make a list of property you own jointly or separately. Same with debts and expenses. Then consider how will you divide any property – the matrimonial home, the rental, the cottage?

List your financial institutions and account numbers for your bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and investments.

Make sure you have copies of financial information: statements for outstanding loans, recent pay stubs, and your tax returns for the past three years.

Waiving Joint Account Statements

When you co-sign for a loan, credit card, or line of credit, each of the joint borrowers has the right to receive the same information from the lender about the loan.

For example, if you cosigned for a credit card with your former partner, the lender must give each of you copies of the credit agreement and the monthly statements, unless you consented either verbally or in writing to waive this right.

Negating Waiver

If you have already waived your right to separate disclosure, you can change your consent if you decide you would like to receive information about the joint account or loan.

Making Informed Decisions

Know your rights and responsibilities related to joint accounts and loans so you can decide what to do with the joint assets or debts you share with your partner. Get advice from your lawyer on the best way to handle these.

Contact your financial institution for advice on how to protect your interests in your joint accounts, such as preventing further borrowing from a line of credit or withdrawals from a joint bank account.

Keep Relevant Documents and Get Acquainted with Specifics

While you are working out your separation or divorce, keep bills and receipts for expenses related to your family. This will be helpful later when you are working out how to divide your property.

If you don’t close your joint accounts and loans, both of you may continue to be legally entitled to the funds in any joint accounts, as well as responsible for repaying any debts, even if your separation agreement states that only one person is responsible.

If one borrower doesn’t pay the debt, the lender can demand that any borrower listed in the loan or credit agreement pay the entire amount or continue making regular payments.

For certain credit cards, authorized users (also called “secondary cardholders”) can be held responsible for any outstanding balances, even if they did not sign the credit card application. To find out whether you are responsible, read your credit agreement or ask your lender.

Once you have closed joint accounts or paid off joint loans, check your credit report to make sure your financial information has been updated.

Establish Your Own Accounts and Deal with Joint Accounts

Make Your Accounts Your Own

Open your own checking and savings accounts and establish your own credit if you haven’t done so already.

Then go ahead and update your direct deposit information for paychecks, government checks, and any other regular payments you receive to ensure they are deposited to your own account.

Credit History

Make sure you have a credit history or start one. It’s important to have a credit history if you want to apply for credit or loans, such as credit cards or a mortgage. Some landlords and employers will check your credit history before considering you for an apartment or a job.

This can be an issue if most or all of a couple’s accounts and bills were registered and paid under one spouse’s name. As a result, the other spouse may have a low credit score. Take steps to build your credit history so that you have more financial options.

How Will You Split Your Pensions? And What About Extended Health Care Benefits?

This is of greater concern if one partner makes a substantially lesser income or may have taken time off work to raise the children.

Health care benefits are not equal from one company to the next. This is of greater concern if only one partner worked.

What Else to Consider

• Take your time before jumping in with someone new!
• Get emotional support from a family counsellor or a minister at your church.
• Practice self-care.
• Do not pit your adult children against your spouse. They will always be a part of him/her. No matter how old your adult children are, they will experience a sense of loss if your marriage were to end. They do not need to face an additional loss of a relationship with a parent as a result of the separation.

Where to Get Legal Help

Divorce is both financially and emotionally stressful. Anyone thinking of separating should seek legal advice as soon as they can. The laws that apply to financial matters such as property division and spousal support depend on where you live.

If you and your former partner need assistance in reaching an agreement on these issues, you can consult several resources:

• lawyers and notaries – who specialize in family law
• mediators
• arbitrators
• financial advisors
• credit counselors.

Have you been considering a divorce? Do you think you will experience difficulties splitting joint property, accounts, etc.? How can you help yourself in the financial department before making the final decision to divorce? Do you have any specific questions about divorce financial planning? Please share them in the comments below.

Because we’re not going on a tropical getaway anytime soon, Morphe Cosmetics just launched an Aegean Sea-inspired collection to get us in the spirit. Morphe enlisted beauty influencer iluvsarahii (Karen Sarahi Gonzalez) as the face of the palette and, well, the entire line that also includes makeup brushes and lip gloss. Though it’s meant to evoke that warm vacation vibe, we think it’s a pretty perfect collection for the season as the pinks and reds give us major Valentine’s Day vibes.

You already know Morphe’s huge eyeshadow palettes are incredible for the price with bold, ultra-pigmented hues. This one is no different. Though if you’re one of Gonzalez’s 5+ million Instagram followers, you know she also loves a more natural glam, too. “With makeup, I go from one extreme to the other,” she tells STYLECASTER. “I’m either creating a soft look with a wash of color on my lid and maybe some gemstones to give a Euphoria-type feel or I’m creating a bold, cut crease eye that includes some of the magenta and blue shades together.” She can do it all with this palette.

Source: Instagram

Still, Gonzalez recommends experimenting with the collection and playing around with the shades and textures. “Don’t be afraid to mix or step out of your comfort zone,” she says. “The glosses are great with a lip pencil, but I love the idea of popping some of the gloss onto my eyelid for a glossy finish.”

Source: Instagram

Morphe’s Director of Global Artistry, Lipsticknick agrees with Gonzalez but says you can also step into these louder looks slowly. “One of my favorite ways to play with any bold colors is by mixing them with neutrals for a well-balanced look that has some flare to it,” she says. “Use the neutrals to create a soft everyday look, and then take a bold color like the magenta or turquoise and use a small smudge brush to pack that color all along the lash line.”

Ready to start experimenting? Shop the entire line, below!

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Morphe.

35S Sweet Oasis Artistry Palette

With 35 soft shimmers and velvety mattes.

Morphe.

Sweet Oasis Mini Lip Gloss Trio

Get three buttery, cream glosses including Tipsy (a shimmering golden pink), Shimmy (a shimmering apricot) and Groupie (a warm rose).

Morphe.

Sweet Oasis 6-Piece Eye Brush Set

Everything you need to create unlimited eye looks.

She’s been teasing us for months and now, JLo Beauty is finally here. You might not be able to shop it yet but we have all the details so you can game-plan what to add to your skincare routine. Because if the 51-year-old uses her own line, well, we know it seriously works. Just look at that “JLo Glow.”

JLo Beauty was inspired by Lopez’s lifelong mantra, The Five S’s: sleep, sunscreen, serum, supplements and sano—from the Spanish phrase, vivir sano, meaning live healthy. Lopez is all about that life, shunning drink and smoking, eating well, exercising and drinking lots of water. Self-care and skincare go hand-in-hand with this ethos.

Growing up, Lopez’s skincare routine was much simpler: Ivory soap and Avon. Her mother told her olive oil was a cure for everything so Lopez made her it was the base for her skincare line. “It’s all about the family tradition of using olive oil for skin and hair,” she told STYLECASTER. The line aims to give you hydration and a “full, youthful, glowy look.” Not that looking younger is the key to looking beautiful. Lopez tells herself, “I’m beautiful and youthful at any age.”

“I think there’s an unnatural standard with all the filters and fillers in the world right now,” she continues. “Aging in a graceful way is a crazy thought. You look great, whatever age you are. Not great for 50, great period!” Not that she wakes up feeling amazing every day. Lopez is actually human. “I have mornings I wake up and feel like crap,” she admits. “I tell myself, like my idol Barbra Streisand, ‘Hello, gorgeous!’ I tell myself I’m going to have the best day ever, the best day yet.”

Source: Instagram

Keep reading for all the details on the new eight-piece line that officially launches January 1. But set your iCal, because you can get early access to shop on December 8.

Our mission at STYLECASTER is to bring style to the people, and we only feature products we think you’ll love as much as we do. Please note that if you purchase something by clicking on a link within this story, we may receive a small commission of the sale.

JLo Beauty.

That Fresh Take Eye Cream with Peptides

This hydrating eye cream is packed with patented peptides to help smooth fine lines, sugar-derived matrix for firming and a blurring complex to hide the look of dark circles.

JLo Beauty.

That Hit Single Gel-Cream Cleanser

This gel-cream cleanser features the brand’s Olive Complex, an antioxidant-rich, olive blend of
squalane, fermented oil, extra virgin oil and leaf extract for all-day hydration.

JLo Beauty.

That JLo Glow Serum with Olive Complex

Here’s that JLo-glow promise in a tube. It contains the Olive Complex, as well as yeast-derived ferment for softer skin, Japanese rice sake ferment for brightening and sugar-derived matrix for firming.

JLo Beauty.

That Limitless Glow Sheet Mask

Keep the glow going with serum-packed sheet masks.

JLo Beauty.

That Star Filter Highlighting Complexion Booster

Would it be a JLo line without bronzer and highlighter? In three shades, mineral pigments give an instant glow. Use it alone or add it to moisturizer.

JLo Beauty.

That Inner Love

Lopez says “you can’t really have great skin if you don’t do something from the inside out.” This supplement contains olive extract, vitamin E, manganese and copper. Check with your doctor to make sure they’re the right vitamins for you.

JLo Beauty.

That Blockbuster Wonder Night Cream with Hyaluronic Acid

Along with the Olive Complex, this “wonder cream” is full of antioxidant-rich peptides, hyaluronic acid and yeast-derived ferment for silky smooth skin.

JLo Beauty.

That Big Screen Moisturizer with Broad Spectrum SPF 30

Forget having great skin without sunscreen! Not only does this one have broad spectrum SPF30, but it also contains marine bamboo to help protect skin from blue light, as well as hyaluronic acid,
glycerin and natural sugars for hydration. 

Additional reporting by Alana Peden.

Now that all the post-holiday sales are over, it’s time to assess your beauty stock and see what you already have, what you need and what’s expired and needs to be tossed. Ulta’s Love Your Skin sale for 2021 will help you stock up on old favorites and incorporate some new launches into your routine. It might not be time for spring cleaning but is the perfect moment for a 2021 refresh.

This big skincare sale features 50 percent off products daily, either a few specific items or an entire brand. There are new discounts each day so you’ll want to look ahead and game-plan if there’s something specific you want, such as the celebrity-favorite Nurse Jamie face roller. There are products available for every skin type and concern, including acne cleansers, anti-aging serums and dry skin savors.

The sale runs through January 23. Shop some of our favorite products, below and check back here for more.

Our mission at STYLECASTER is to bring style to the people, and we only feature products we think you’ll love as much as we do. Please note that if you purchase something by clicking on a link within this story, we may receive a small commission of the sale.

January 14

Murad.

Murad AHA/BHA Exfoliating Cleanser

Score half off this cleanser with exfoliating acids and Jojoba skin-polishing beads.

GlamGlow.

GlamGlow YouthMud Glow Stimulating & Exfoliating Treatment Mask

Reset your skin with exfoliating volcanic pumice rock.

January 15

Peter Thomas Roth.

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FIRMx Eye

Depuff, brighten and smooth under eyes.

January 16

Ulta.

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream Minis Original & Pink Grapefruit Infusion

Get two mini versions of this best-selling face cream.

January 17

Ulta.

ZitSticka Skin Discipline

Vitamins, minerals, probiotics and fatty acids help to minimize breakouts.

January 18

Ulta.

Skyn Iceland Hydro Cool Firming Eye Gels

Depuff your eyes while you’re on a Zoom call.

January 19

Ulta. 

Peach & Lily Super Reboot Resurfacing Mask

A blend of 10 percent AHA, 0.5 percent BHA, and blue agave exfoliate and smooth skin.

January 20

Ulta.

Nurse Jamie Uplift Facial Massaging Beauty Roller

Khloe Kardashian and Hilary Duff are both fans of this massaging facial roller to lift and sculpt.

January 21

Ulta.

ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm

Remove makeup, daily grime and pollutants with this hydrating balm.

January 22

Ulta.

Tarte Maracuja Oil

This fan-favorite hydrating oil can be used on your face or body.

January 23

Ulta.

Philosophy Renewed Hope In A Jar Refreshing & Refining Moisturizer

Alpha hydroxy acids, three forms of hyaluronate and an Asian fruit extract work to hydrate and renew skin.