BODY CONFIDENCE WEEK - Enhancing Your Waist

Whether you have a teeny-tiny waist or a wide waist, it will give you a super-feminine boost to draw attention to your waist and many it look as small as possible, so here are some hints and tricks on ways to dress around your waist.

Nina Dobrev

1. Grow a tail

If your waist is already quite small like Nina, a fishtail is a great way to show it off, and if your waist is wider, a corseted fishtail will cinch in your waist and give it definition. Nina is wearing a Donna Karan dress, which, let's face it, as regular people there's no way we can afford. Jess Wright's dress is much more pocket-friendly, has gorgeous lace detail and is less formal, making it more suitable for a night out 

2. Fake it

Kate Moss

If it's one of Stella McCartney's signature designs, you know that it's got to be good. The optical illusion dress is an invension sent by heaven. There are many different styles, colours and they can have many different effects. Some of them have  straight shapes on them to make you look more slender, some have oblongs on your chest to make your boobs look bigger, but what I think is the most flattering are the hourglass dresses, and these are possibly the best and most genius way of faking your way to a tiny waist, which is why this kind of dress is perfect for a boyish girl like Kate.

3. Trench it up

Jennifer Lopez

Audrey Hepburn brought MAC's on the map (I know it rhymes. Be mature ;-) ), and Trench Coats and MAC's are a really good way to define your waist. If you tighten the belt, it makes the top and bottom of the dress poof up and make your waist look miniscule in comparison. And it keeps you warm. 

To add to the advantages, if you're brave enough to wear it like a dress like pear-shape J-Lo it also brings the eye down to a point that enhances all cleavage, which make your bust look wider.

4. Go 50's

Zooey Deschanel

A 50's skirt/dress or a skater skirt could really help to emphasise your waist. Since they're normally high waisted and poofy it makes you waist look really...not poofy. And seeing as leather is the main material this autumn, you could combine the two together and get a leather skater skirt. Or you go could the whole hog like top heavy Zooey and get a 50's housewives dress, which would be really cute for a luncheon or formal-but-not-worth-a-ballgown event.

5.  Cut it out

Selena Gomez

If you have a tiny waist, cut out can draw attention to it to emphasis your hourglass figure. However, if you're boyish, like Selena, cut out just below the waist  can have the same effect as an optical illusion dress, and it is also an opportunity to take advantage of your slender hips. In addition, many cutout dresses (like the RARE dress at the bottom) have a backless detail, which is ideal for a girl like Selena, as generally, you have to be a slender girl to work a backless dress.

Eva Longoria

6. Go ruffly

Ruffles have the same effect as trench coats and 50's skirts - where everything around the waist is so puffy, it shrinks the waist in comparison, and, also like trench coats, if you choose to go for a ruffly collar like pear-shaped Eva, the plunging neckline will likely enhance and show off your bust.

Nicole Scherzinger

7. Peplum Power

So, this time last year, I'd never heard the word 'Peplum' in my life.

Then, 2012 comes, Victoria Beckham decides to design a totally 'unique' dress that fakes an hourglass figure and BAM. Peplum's everywhere!

The TOWIE Cast, Blake Lively, Kate Middleton, Charlize Theron, Kim Kardashian...everyone is wearing Peplum, and there's a reason.

It's basically just ruffles on your hips. Need I say more?

Oh, and if you can't be bothered to get everything in Peplum, try the Peplum  leather belt at ASOS.com. Lifesaver.

Kim Kardashian

8. To state the obvious...

Wear a belt to cinch you in at the waist. Waist enhancement 101.

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