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By Bethany Christo | Photos courtesy of Less Bitter More Glitter
The online retailer Less Bitter More Glitter sells a selection of bright, bold, whimsical gifts and goodies to celebrate the mini moments that make the ordinary extraordinary.
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ess Bitter More Glitter launched as an online retailer in October to serve as a “one-stop happy shop” for a Lisa Frank fever dream of brightly colored jewelry, accessories, paper goods, desk supplies, home décor, party items and more – with plenty of tassels, baubles, beads, charms, confetti and glitter galore. The brilliant mind and walking embodiment of Less Bitter More Glitter is Meg Smidt, the selfdescribed “love child of Lisa Frank and Ted Lasso” who’s also a certified life and business coach and mom of five adopted kids (plus a grandbaby and two deaf Great Danes). In her role as Your Coach Meg, she consults mainly female-led business owners and creatives in St. Louis, across the country and all over the world. In addition, she recently launched Confetti Club, a monthly VIP membership program and online platform for connecting with inspired, like-minded women
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that also offers discounts at Less Bitter More Glitter. The whimsical nostalgia of Less Bitter More Glitter’s offerings resonates with ages 5 to 95. “It just seems like everybody is looking for ways to celebrate even the tiniest of things and make themselves feel good,” Smidt says. “You can find bright, happy and encouraging things for yourself and also for people in your life who need more of that right now. And who doesn’t? That’s why it’s been embraced so well: Through everything with quarantine, people are looking for that bright spot of sunshine.” And Less Bitter More Glitter is just about the cheeriest corner of the internet. The happy gifts and goods are all an extension of Smidt’s personal lifelong style: an advocate of wearing all the bright colors and bold patterns (at the same time, if possible) and being a pop – nay, a glitter bomb – of color in a sea of desert tones. “People would ask me all the time where I get
