4 Ways to Immediately Kill the Winter Blues

last updated 5 January 2016

The first Monday of 2016 is upon us (sorry for the reminder), and while enjoying the last few blissful hours of vacation, you're probably trying to avoid what looms ahead. We get it. So with the purpose of distracting you from those last-day-of-vacation blues, we have a few things that will give you something to look forward to, make you laugh, and provide you with a little retail therapy. Scroll down for our mood-lifting suggestions!

4-remedies-for-the-back-to-work-blues-1664931 — Look at these pictures of North West at ballet class and try not to smile:

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Add this pretty, affordable top to your wardrobe:

Topshop + Tuck Drape Front Blouse

Topshop

Tuck Drape Front Blouse

4-remedies-for-the-back-to-work-blues-1664924 — Scroll through Amy Schumer's hilarious Instagram:

Never fails.

Follow: @amyschumer

4-remedies-for-the-back-to-work-blues-1664926 — Plan tomorrow's outfit around a pair of metallic shoes:

They'll make you smile every time you look down tomorrow.

Topshop + JUNO Soft Glove Mid Shoes

Topshop

JUNO Soft Glove Mid Shoes

Étoile Isabel Marant

Lili Flats

Loeffler Randall

Ambra Lace Up Flats

Tell us in the comments below, how you prepare yourself for heading back to work after a holiday?

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Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.