As girls, we must shop. It’s in our DNA, we’re sure of it! You do too, and that’s why we’re all here. A Girl Must Shop is a shopping blog devoted to serving the interests of hip, trendy gals who can appreciate the treasures that a shopping excursion can unearth, but don’t have the time to discover all the riches that exist!

We scour the great, vast Internet, read all the latest magazines, discover some unique shops, then check out all the sales and bring the best selections to you. With A Girl Must Shop, you’ll have the inside scoop on everything a girl could possibly want!

Who We Are

Megan Garnhum Capone, Founder

The mastermind behind A Girl Must Shop and recent bride Megan is a blog, design and marketing consultant and manages to single-handedly manage A Girl Must Shop in her free time. She is the ultimate shopper and is frequently complimented on her taste in clothes, handbags, and just about everything funky and cool. Megan appreciates the finer (read: expensive) things in life, but also loves to brag about the great deals she finds. Her style ranges from simple and classic, to wild and crazy, to cute and girly, depending on her mood. She’s also a major chocolate addict, loooooves martinis and silver jewelry, and has a weakness for Hello Kitty. Her favorite colors are red, yellow, lime green, and orange. Megan resides in Dracut, MA with her husband Jimbo and kitties Belle & Buddy.

Athena Ortiz, Editor-in-Chief
A single woman on the go, Athena works in sales and marketing in Lowell MA.   Her passions include social media, marketing, networking and finding bargains!  The only thing she will ever pay full price for is makeup and skin care products.  Favorite brands are Clarins, Strivectin, Bare Escentuals, Ren and Cargo. Designer labels make the hunt for bargains even more exciting for this intrepid shopper.  Many trophy items are hanging in Athena’s closet including J Brand, Sanctuary, Poleici, Betsey Jonhson, Vince, Michael Kors and more. Other hobbies include cooking, baking ,working out (in bargain workout clothes of course!), running, hiking, reality tv, travel, pets and her beautiful neice and nephew.

Janet, Contributor

Janet, an up-and-coming photographer from the Boston area, satisfies her eclectic taste in food, fashion, and fun through her many travels! She spent a few years living outside of Tokyo, and over the years has also visited Okinawa, Sapporo, South Korea, Paris, England, Scotland, Mexico, Belize, and Jamaica, as well as many cities throughout the U.S. Perhaps her international flair explains why she usually seeks out products that are daringly different, or off the beaten path. She’ll try almost anything once! Case in point: Janet’s hairdresser recently put maroon streaks in her hair, not requested, but well-liked!

Krista, Contributor

Krista is a conservative shopper who seeks out bargains among the finer things in life. A self- professed tomboy, Krista’s style is unique and fun, but most of all, comfortable. Calm earth tones are among her favorite colors. Krista’s hobbies include drawing, cooking, shopping, and more shopping! She also has a soft spot for toys, cartoons, horror movies, and flavored rum (currently on a Bacardi Apple kick).

Laurie, Contributor

Laurie is a writer, blogger, photographer and teacher with a love for all things digital. Music, books, photography and new media are her passions, so she’s always on the lookout for great books, cds, tech gadgets and photo gear. A careful shopper, she’s a Target freak for everyday retail therapy and basic needs, including work clothes that can get ruined with minimal guilt. She takes it a little more upscale for great jewelry (usually sterling silver and semi-precious stones) and handmade, well-made clothes. She describes her style as “late suburban hippie”, not always the norm in the dC metro area – another reason why she goes to NYC as often as possible. She’s owned by a high-maintenance Boston Terrier, so cool pet supplies and services are another necessity. She travels frequently and loves finding one-of-a-kind treasures and tacky souvenirs on the road. Finally, she’s a closet girly girl who grudgingly admits to a makeup and hair product obsession – and okay, perfume too. Thus, she cannot go into Ulta or to the MAC counter unsupervised. Find her a great, mid-priced, red wine and a delicious Italian meal, and she’ll be your friend forever. Her personal blog is LaurieWrites and she is the contributing editor for pets and extended family at blogher.org.

 

Cynthia Corral, Contributor

Cynthia lives in San Jose, California with her two teenagers and various animals, all of which supply endless stories to entertain those that don’t have to live with them. She hates the mall but has rediscovered a shopping love through the internet and has even bought a car on eBay while avoiding a graduate paper she was supposed to be writing. She works part-time in the Hi-Tech industry while working on her Masters in Mass Communication and spending every waking free moment at the gym. So you could say she’s a little obsessive. Or a lot. She also writes for http://SanJose.MetBlogs.com and http://CQCentral.com.

 

Michele, Contributor

Michele is a study in contrasts. She can spend just as much time in the Nordstrom’s shoe department as at REI and is as comfortable in business clothes as in kayaking gear (though she prefers the latter). Currently, she is trying to make her house look like a grown-up lives there, but she thinks that furniture costs more than it should. She prefers function over form and the clean lines of modern furniture. When she goes shopping, she knows what she is looking for and won’t settle for something that isn’t exactly right.

 

Shannon, Contributor

Shannon is a transplanted Nova Scotian, now living in Ottawa, but who hasn’t lost the ability to dismember a lobster with her bare hands. She is currently creatively unemployed, but has had past lives in tourism and software, where she carried out tasks as diverse as technical support, sales support, training and management. Shannon and her husband own a Beagle named Beagle, which belies their level of creativity. Her passions include blogging and other writing, cooking and, by extension, eating, window shopping (which will be upgraded to just plain shopping once she has a job), reading diverse blogs/magazines (both paper and online) and other publications, environmental awareness and green living, and finding new and innovative ways to reincorporate the nap into everyday. When awake, her expertises include building and sustaining online communities and working with social media. To see more of Shannon, visit her blog at ThreeSeven.

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• Freebies - Companies will occasionally send us products for us to review. If we like the product we’ll post it on our site and tell you why we like it. We’ll also tell you if we received the product for free. We often host contests where we give away these freebies to our readers.
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• Paid posts – Very occasionally we will accept payment in exchange for a blog post and we’ll disclose this information in the post, but we’ll only accept payment if we like the product and can write an honest review of the item. (We gotta to paid the bills, y’know?)
• Editorial policy – All editorial content on A Girl Must Shop comes from our honest opinions. If we don’t like a product we don’t post about it. Our number one goal is to share products that we like and think you’ll enjoy, too.

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