About Me

About Caitlin

If you hadn’t guessed by the title of this website, I’m Cait. My full name is Caitlin, but the two are interchangeable, and I’ve never really preferred one over the other. You can definitely tell who knows me from blogging and who knows me from elsewhere based on which they use 😉

Some quick facts about me:

  • I was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri
  • I attended Purdue University and studied public relations
  • I moved to Chicago after graduating college in 2016 and worked in PR for a year
  • I took my blog full-time (EEK!) in May 2017
  • Even though I have lived in Chicago for nearly three years, I am still an avid Cardinals fan, and still HATE the Cubs
  • I love blue fireworks and Christmas lights
  • My go-to Starbucks order: a grande chai tea latte with coconut milk
  • I am obsessed with queso and one day plan on writing a blog post breaking down the best queso dips I have ever had
  • My dog is named Sadie and looks like an ewok, but is far more lovable
  • I minored in Spanish and had the chance to study abroad in both Spain and Costa Rica
  • If I wasn’t blogging, I’d probably still be self-employed, maybe owning a boutique or an interior design business
  • I have attended five Fashion Weeks (4 NYFW & 1 LFW) and one of my dreams is to hit a full Fashion Month
  • My favorite colors are pink and Tiffany blue

About Sophisticaition.com

I’d love to tell you a story about dressing up in my mom’s clothes as a child and instantly falling in love with couture, but that, my dear, is not how my personal style developed. Thanks to bad astigmatism and some horrible genetics, I had both glasses and braces for two rough years in middle and high school. YIKES! Needless to say, I was not confident in my appearance. After I got contacts made specifically for my astigmatism and the braces came off, nothing changes. I may have looked completely different but I still felt just as insecure. I picked apart my body and found flaws in nearly everything. I also got obsessive about counting calories and tracked my weight every single day. It took a long time for me to realize that these methods would not help me feel better about myself. Outer beauty comes from inner beauty.

I got super involved in high school through activities, volunteering and expanding friend groups, which led me to slowly let down my walls. I continued being over involved in college, joining a sorority, Dance Marathon, the Lala, and a laundry list of other organizations. One lazy afternoon, I started experimenting with makeup and fun pieces of clothing that a sorority sister had. I realized that I loved the way “playing dress-up” made me feel. Each outfit allowed me to be some aspect of myself that I may not have even known existed: Cait with a red lip and a LBD is not the same Cait with a Free People tunic and gold eyeshadow. It was like I found myself through these various pieces of clothing, and once I had done so, I was never going back.

Sophisticaition began in July 2015 but at first, I didn’t share it with anyone. After some hard conversations with friends, I realized that by hiding my blog from the world, I was saying that I was ashamed or scared for others to see a major part of me, and that an insecurity was still holding me back. I finally went public with my blog in January 2016, and since then I am extremely proud of the respect it has earned from brands, bloggers and my readers alike. Most importantly, I love that every single day, I have the chance to help young women look, feel and be their best selves. That’s what true sophisticaition is!

Welcome to my blog, where I spill my soul on the internet every Monday, Wednesday and Friday <3