The light is best in the early evenings, pink and soft, so Taghrid Chaaban, 21, prefers to take her photos after work. Three or four nights a week, when she has time or when she is wearing an outfit she considers especially successful, she'll come home and coerce her 14-year-old sister into playing photographer while she poses.

Sometimes she sets herself against a dusky sky, or in front of a brick wall, or along the curve of a road. The photos are artful in an Urban Outfitters catalog kind of way -- Chaaban's long brown hair catching the fading sunlight, a gauzy top floating in the wind, her sky-high stripper heels (a trademark) working in contrast with the delicate, femininity of the rest of her wardrobe. Then she'll upload the pictures to her blog, Taghrid.cc, carefully credit every item she is wearing and write text like: "I'm cheating on all my dresses with my new found love for jumpsuits."

Chaaban has been blogging for only a year, but she's quickly found an appreciative audience. The "press" section of her site includes links to stories about her blog in Vogue Girl Korea, Teen Vogue, Nylon and WWD. She said she doesn't follow her traffic too closely, but according to Google Analytics, her blog got 46,000 page views in May, and her posts frequently receive 50-plus comments.

"As far as styling an outfit and publishing it, I don't think what I do is that different than what the magazines do. I am on a much lower budget, and it is more about what I want than what sells," Chaaban said recently, speaking from her home in the San Fernando Valley. "We are all inspired by the magazines and those super-hot models, but we kind of turn it and make it our own."