Ever heard of 'Dopamine Dressing'? It's the hottest trend happening on social media that involves picking out items from your closet that'll help boost your dopamine levels. Our special correspondent Katie Sands brought along some of her favorite looks to help you boost your mood. Watch!

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How To Dress For The Day To Boost Your Mood!

Welcome back to make up with cheddar. I'm Alicia Quarles, of course baker machado and Shannon Lanier is back with us and of course Katie. Yes, Katie today, she's telling us how we can all boost our mood by picking out the right thing from our closet segment. We're calling. What dopamine dopamine dressing though. I've never heard of that. Yes. What is dopamine dress? Okay, So we've all been through a lot through Covid. The economy is horrible as we know. So we have to get through this crazy heat wave right now. So we need to dress to boost our mood. We need to find joy. We need to find self expression. So we are seeing this trend everywhere. Tiktok instagram all social media and it's called dopamine dressing. So it was coined by psychologist john Karen in her book dress your best life. And she has been dubbed by the new york times as the dress Doctor has to be called the dress dot. That's a good title to have. So we're gonna get into it with some looks today. So we obviously when we see Tiktok trends, they can be like a little more provocative, but we're gonna show you some trends that you can wear to the office that you can wear to a wedding that you can wear to maybe an interview date night united and boost your mood at the same time, which is the best part you guys got the memo. Yes. Especially today. You know the trend checks. Yes, we know it. All right. So let's look at the first. So I'm going there first. Look. okay, I'm gonna stand up for a little bit. I have this mike on my leg. So we're gonna try to get up with it. But I love the dress. This is the mango dress we have seen this time and time again in the last couple of months. It's currently on deal for 39 $99. It comes in this bright blue and of course it comes in like a lime green that you can see when you click on the link. But what I will say is blue really boost your mood because it helps you keep peace, keep harmony. It brings out serenity. It kind of reminds us of the ocean of the sky. So definitely check this out and it's light. It's light. And the best part is the side slits because with how hot it is outside, you probably feel so cool in that I need that. Well, at least we're talking a lot about cutouts, but these are a way to like bring cutouts into a sophistication. They're not too sexy. So you can wear this to the office. So I'm in the first look. But of course we have so many. Let's let's bring out. Yes. Loving this green. Is this right? You instantly see this dress from River Island under $100 at $90. All our looks today. Of course it looks for less and you can wear this to a wedding. You can wear this to a date night, You can wear this to an event. It's that hombre green color. And then of course we're both in the amazon hell. These are under $40. So the entire look is really accessible, really affordable and I just think it looks incredible. It also looks really comfortable. I also have the ring in the middle. So that way it sort of cinches the waist to sort of make slims you in the middle, which is amazing. Wait, is it all about color? Can you just, Yes, you're good. So dopamine dressing is really all about what fits your mood, What makes you happy? So whether it's prince texture style silhouette, it's really whatever gets you going, what boost your dopamine? So this one for me, it brings out that like we always say we're like green with envy, right? This is the look for that. And green is such a great calming color. Also Sasha. Amazing. Love it. What's the next one I got to see? The next dress here is hollow. This is our gorgeous model. You yes, loving this. Incredible. So again, we have the green memo with the pants, both the top and the bottom are from Zara. We love this top. It retails under $40 as well. 39 99 polka dots to me just boost my mood. That's that big flower. Exactly. I think this top you can wear with a skirt, you can wear it with like slacks like this to the office to a date night girls Night and I love the dress version. Yes, we have the dress version right here for mango. Another polka dot option. We're seeing polka dots really everywhere and like it's like a play on polka dots. That's what I like to call the trend. But I just feel like you walk in in this look and you are instantly bringing a smile to other people. I gotta ask you, is the croce trend we're seeing considered a dopamine dressing or no. Yes. Okay, so we have the polka dots, we have the green, we have the bright colors. The next look that we're going to talk about is from royalty by malu MMA. Now we have a lot of celebrity trends coming out. A lot of celebrities are creating lines. This is the crochet said it's exclusively at Macy's. It comes in sizes extra small to extra extra large. I love this crochet because it's a rainbow set and rainbows booster mood, as do polka dots as do bright colors. So you can definitely check this one out. Um we're also, we might show some other looks a little bit later today. So you can check out all of our dopamine style dressing and we can all just get the trend and by the way, is everybody's moods better Now, after this segment. I feel like everybody is much happier after this. So, thank you so much for those amazing tips. we're gonna dopamine dress all week.