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Woot! Customer #2.

Here are the specs I'm working with (minus the pictures):

Let's get started. First, I began with this user's profile. She seems to be a very bubbly, bright person. Her favorite colors are light blue, pink, and lime green. Perfect for Easter! I'm not sure if she means pastels, but everything on her profile leans that direction. Blue and green work well with her perfectly green eyes anyway. I'll include a cute Easter Sunday dress as a holiday special.

Let's start from the top and work our way down. Her complexion is dark enough to handle darker clothes and some of her pictures show her wearing things that are a good color for her so i'll stick with that. One of the things that many people either don't know or just fail to consider is that it isn't always the top that makes an outfit. It is usually the smaller things, such as the shoes, jewelry, or belt. If you wear an awesome top people may say "Wow! That's really cute." However, when it comes to starting trends, people remember the small things. That being said, I think the tops I choose will be pretty simple. Maybe a bit of frill around the edge, but definitely no ornate patterns. Stripes are nice because they can create the illusion of added height or girth, depending on whether you choose vertical or horizontal stripes. There's no need to make this person any wider because she's not anorexic or anything but she is 5'3" so maybe we'll get some vertical stripes if I can find any that don't look silly. Diagonal stripes are still stripe-y without changing the body any:

pink pastel diagonal stripes or blue pastel diagonal stripes are both cute I think. There's also this Capricorn tank from Aerie: Capricorn tank

Now for bottoms. All of those tops go fine with jeans and I don't reckon she needs help shopping for them so the bottoms I pick aren't necessarily designed to complement those tops; I just think they would look good on her. The things I consider when choosing bottoms are the type of top we're using. She said she likes "tank top-ish stuff" which is why I chose those tops, and shorts or mini skirts go well with them. Since we're staying on the conservative side i'll stay away from mini skirts so that leaves me with shorts. You don't want to mix patterns if you decide to wear shorts with either of those first two tops make sure they are solid.

Mossimo pink plaid shorts I think these are really cute and the color is bright. I was looking for some blue and green plaid but none of them seemed quite right.
Mossimo Turquoise Knickers Okay, so these aren't shorts. I came across them and I was like "OMG! Perfect for that orange Capricorn tank from Aerie.

Shoes! I'll admit these aren't my specialty, but I think I have a winner here: Aerosoles Algebra I know you don't like math so I apologize for the model name of this shoe. Go for the Dark Tan Combo version of this shoe; even the light brown is too dark I think.

Now for the Easter special! Being a guy, I have very limited experience in dress-shopping. I think I found a cute one though if you need something to wear to the Easter Sunday service or any time during the spring: Victoria's Secret strapless smocked this will work in either the lake blue or the serenity pink.

Whew! 7 products, 55 minutes, and (hopefully) 1 happy customer. I hope you enjoyed reading this and Happy Easter!