Profile
Sharon Haver
[style, beauty, and fashion expert]

FocusOnStyle has more columns than you can shake a lipstick at. Haver shines in her twice-weekly column called "It's A Style Thing."
In all, you'll find hours of fascinating, upbeat reading on FocusOnStyle.com." -- IBS Network

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Fashion expert Sharon Haver is everywoman's fashion, style, and beauty guru.

She knows the business of being beautiful inside and out.

With just about 20 years experience in the glamour industry as a New York-based photography fashion stylist, syndicated columnist, contributing editor, lecturer, on-air television/radio fashion expert, and founder/ style director of FocusOnStyle.com, Sharon Haver knows what the modern-thinking woman wants-- easygoing style that suits her individual needs, spiced with just the right amount of flip and wit.

Anyone, anywhere can effortlessly relate to the down-to-earth way Sharon parlays the latest fashions and beauty tricks into realistic, wearable looks. Her adeptness to scope out trends and convey style--from inexpensive to simply luxurious-- makes Sharon an informative and accessible source of fashion guidance.

FOCUS ON STYLE is like having your own personal stylist making everything work for you.

Insider secrets are revealed through her successful advice column, "Sharon Haver's FOCUS ON STYLE" which grew from a worldwide syndicated and news wire weekly column distributed by Scripps Howard News Service to FocusOnStyle.com, an independently operated online fashion, beauty, and style magazine that presently boasts in excess of 12 million visitors annually.

The column remains the anchor for the FocusOnStyle.comdestination website of which Sharon is the Founder and Style Director. As the resident fashion expert, Sharon also writes StyleThing!, a heads-up on the latest style buzz and QuickFix, makeover style solutions in a snap. FocusOnStyle.com also features its satellite sites like FrontRowFashion.com- a photographic look of what’s shown on designer runways, StyleMaze.com- a style-based shopping mall portal for women, men, kids, and home décor, the recently launched, Style-Pack .com, a trend shopping site for the savvy consumer, and Fashion-Bulletin.com- a online fashion and beauty community forum, and message board.

Sharon has recently been seen in starring as herself in her own Macy's national television commercials as the fashion guru and fashion spokesperson in the store's fall advertising and marketing campaign. She has most recently been heard on the airwaves as the Beauty Spokesperson- Syneron reFirme national Radio Media Tour.

As a quotable media fashion expert, Sharon's been interviewed in Women's Wear Daily (WWD), Entrepreneur Magazine, The Financial Times, USAToday.com, WeightWatchers.com, WebMd.com, MSNBC.com, LifetimeTV.com,The New York Times, New York Post (New York, NY), The Daily News (New York, NY) Chicago Sun Times (Chicago, IL), Real Simple Magazine, Kiplinger's, FAMILY CIRCLE Magazine, Women’s World Magazine, National Jeweler, Tiger Beat, Twist "Crimes of Fashion-- Style on Trial", Tango Magazine, Bop Magazine, New Woman, NY Newsday, The New Yorker, Mode, Star, The National Enquirer, The National Examiner, Tribune Media Services, Copley News Service, Denver Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA), Palm Beach Post (Palm Beach, FL), The Post-Standard, (Syracuse, NY), Naples Daily News (Naples, FL), Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN), The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com (Syracuse, NY), Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM), San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio TX) , The Miami Herald . (Miami, FL), The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA), Edmonton Journal,(Edmonton, Canada,The Herald Sun (Australia), Daily Mail (London, U.K), and more. (see full list of press clips)

Television and radio show appearances including: Daybreak USA, USA Radio Network, Living Today with Kerry Nolan / Martha Stewart Living Radio, The Buzz Factor, Growing Bolder, UPN9 News features, the upcoming ExpoTV, The Best of Beauty, Swedish Radio, a semi-regular on The Working Mom On The Run, American Journal, and The Montel Williams Show, and (how can you not mention?!), The Joe Franklin Show turned to her as an on-air fashion expert, as well as local programs. Rush Limbaugh as even quoted her! She has lectured at New York's Field Studies Center.

In the past, as the headliner for its weekly fashion package, Scripps Howard News Service newswire distributed FOCUS ON STYLE to nearly 400 daily newspapers and websites.

A selection of newspapers that featured the newswire column: ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS (Denver, CO), COLUMBUS DISPATCH (Columbus, OH), THE BIRMINGHAM POST, (Birmingham, AL), THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE, (Riverside, CA), STANDARD TIMES (New Bedford, MA), NAPLES DAILY NEWS (Naples, FL), STUART NEWS/PORT ST. LUCIE (Stuart, FL), SOUTH KING COUNTY JOURNAL (Kent, WA), READING EAGLE TIMES (Reading, PA), DECAUTER DAILY, (Decauter, GA), REPUBLICAN AMERICAN (Waterbury, CT), MOBILE PRESS REGISTER (Mobile, AL), THE TENNESSEAN (Nashville, TN), THE DAILY REPUBLIC (Fairfield, CA), MORNING NEWS (Florence, SC), ROCKHILL HERALD (Charlotte, SC), DAILY JEFFERSONIAN (Cambridge, OH), DAYTON DAILY NEWS (Dayton, OH), INDEPENDENT (Massillion, OH), ALLIANCE REVIEW (Canton, OH), CRESCENT-NEWS (Defiance, OH), THE DETROIT NEWS (Detroit, MI), THE SUNDAY PATRIOT NEWS (Harrisburg, PA), QUAD CITY TIMES (Davenport, IA), GLOBE-GAZETTE (Mason City, IA), SIOUX CITY JOURNAL (Sioux City, IA), ABILINE REPORTER-NEWS (Abiline, TX), UNION LEADER (Manchester, NH), PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE (Pittsburgh, PA), HERALD-STANDARD (Uniontown, PA), BUCKS COUNTY COURIER TIMES (Levittown, PA), DAILY LOCAL NEWS (West Chester, PA), COURIER EXPRESS (DuBois, PA), STAR HERALD (Scottsbluff, NE), STAR PRESS (Muncie, IN), TRIBUNE (South Bend, IN), NEWS TOPIC (Lenoir, NC), MORNING NEWS (Florence, SC), SUNDAY ENTERPRISE (Brockton, MA), SUN (Lowell, MA), WATERVILLE SENTINEL (Central Maine), SUN HERALD (Biloxi-Gulfport, MS), NEWS PRESS (Stillwater, OK), DAILY CAMERA (Boulder, CO), DAILY NEWS (Jacksonville, NC), DAILY BREEZE (Torrence, CA), SACRAMENTO BEE (Sacramanto, CA), SUNDAY MERCURY (Guelph, ON, Canada), WAN Online (World African Network), PEEKABOO online.

As a photography fashion stylist for a cornucopia of clients, Sharon enhanced the look of magazine covers/pages, catalogs, advertisements, commercials, industrials, and visual imaging. Her score of styling accounts included Ladies Home Journal, Vogue Mexico, Us Magazine, Live! With Regis And Kathie Lee, A Current Affair, Avon, Macy's, Sigred Olsen, Candies, Le Tigre, Perry Ellis, Pepsi Cola, VF Corporation (Basset Walker, Hathaway, Lollipops, Lee Jeans, Skeets, and Cottonworks), Gantos Department Stores, Bamberger's, GTE, BMG Music, IBM, Manufacturer's Hanover Trust, RJ Reynolds, Lady Manhattan, Oleg Cassini Suits and Night, Evan-Picone, Merona, In Fashion Magazine, Gunnar, Zoom, American Photographer, Soap Opera Weekly, and others .

Sharon had the pleasure of dressing some pretty famous bodies as a fashion stylist, including Rebecca Romijn, Kelly Ripa, Famke Jansen, Elle MacPherson, Wilt Chamberlin, Tracee Ellis Ross, Debbie Gibson, Willow Bay, Kyra Sedgwick, Sally Kirkland, Judy Tenuta, Kathleen Kinmont, Tim Robbins, Jonathan Silverman, Miss USA contestants, soap stars, models, and more.

Both her by-line coupled with her styling graced pages of 'Teen, Twist, Star, First For Women, contributing editor for What People Are Wearing, and more.

She is recognized in the Marquis Who's Who of American Women.

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