About the Author

Somer Flaherty Tejwani has more than a decade of experience in fashion, styling and beauty working as a fashion stylist, a journalism and styling professor, a fashion editor and writer, and a published fashion and beauty author. Her work has appeared in national magazines like Teen Vogue, Sunset Magazine and Bespoke The St. Regis Hotel Magazine, The Montage Hotel Magazine, Loews Hotel Magazine along with regional titles such as Laguna Beach Magazine, and Newport Beach Magazine. She served as fashion editor of Marin Magazine for 5 years. Somer's contacts in the fashion industry include stylists, artists, editors, and designers.