As part of the recent AICI conference in Sydney, I was asked to ‘makeover’ two women. Straight makeovers are not something I generally do, the way I work is in educating the client on what works for them and empowering them to make the changes themselves. It’s more of an evolving than a making over, as…
DetailsWhile I was in Sydney at the AICI conference, I shared a hotel room with my lovely friend and image consultant colleague Jan from New Zealand. She was kind enough to let me take a happy snap of her outfits (missed a couple of days sorry) to share with you here. This was on Saturday This is…
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Metscan mentioned that she wanted to know what I packed and wore at the AICI conference in Sydney over the weekend. I spent 4 days in Sydney, the weather wasn’t great, though the forecast for Monday was sunny and mid 20s (that’s something like 80F). So I’ve done a quick Polyvore on the floor of the…
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Following on from my post the other day on figuring out whether you have warm or cool colouring, this comment was left by YSJ: I tried this, and although I can see the change in skin tone when I hold up different colors, I really can’t tell which ones look better on me! Is it…
DetailsThis weekend I’m in Sydney at the AICI Australian conference. On Friday I flew up early in the morning then spent the day doing 2 makeovers with two ”clients” with two other image consultant observers, watching the process and learning about the way I work. There will be blog posts and photos to come! Today…
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Reader Fins asked: To my question: I have grey streaks in what used to be very dark brown hair, and I have noticed that the hair looks more grey when I wear the greyer end of colours such as mauve or cocoa, whereas with mid-intensity blues or with aquas or dark charcoal my hair looks…
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Ok, so hopefully you now have some idea of whether you are warm or cool and your undertone vs overtone from these posts. Now it’s time to figure out your intensity – what is intensity? It’s the saturation or brightness or dullness of the colour. Albert Munsell was the man who figured out that colour…
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Yesterday in the comments of the first part of Discover Your Colours – Warm or Cool – this comment was left by rb: This is such a complicated thing. I have about the pinkest skin on earth so am a cool, but I have reddish brunette hair and blue eyes with gold flecks, so I’m…
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In honour of my new colour system (The Absolute Colour System of 18 colour directions) that I’ve been working on for the past few months, which has finally arrived from the printers, I thought that I’d do a week on colour concepts. Why does colour matter so much? It’s the difference between looking your…
DetailsThis week I found happiness with friends – my best friend from university (I met her on the first day of uni 22 years ago), we were each others bridesmaids, and I’m a godmother of her oldest daughter (now 12) came down to visit from Canberra with her 3 daughters and husband. It was…
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Image and Style Books – The Triumph of Individual Style by Carla Mathis The other day I did a review of The Little Black Book of Style – which I wan’t hugely impressed with. I was asked what books I did think were worth the money, I’ve already done a review of Christopher Hopkins Staging…
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Have you thought about setting yourself a wardrobe capsule challenge? What’s this? Well, it’s where you decide to limit what you wear in your wardrobe to just a few items for a week or longer. Project 333 is the well-known known version of this (where you take 33 items and wear them, and only them…
DetailsI’ve just finished reading Nina Garcia’s The Little Black Book of Style. With advice like “throw out what you don’t wear and what doesn’t look good on you” which is pretty basic stuff (though what many find hard to determine for themselves) there is some good advice to follow. Her basic 10…
DetailsI found my first grey hair at age 15 – easy to spot because my hair was so dark. I’m now around 80% grey and dye the roots every 3 weeks. I don’t feel ready to be grey, I feel it’s ageing on me and doesn’t feel like ‘me’ at all. I’ve done a…
DetailsThis week my kids have been on school holidays and so, the joys of being self-employed, taken some time off to spend time with them. Some of the things they’ve done this week that have made me happy: 1. I was cuddling my son Aston on the couch (which always makes me happy)…
DetailsThe Bra Queen presents the Love Your Life Challenge 30 days of stuff for YOU! Necks often look older than faces – so here are some tips to help yours remain more youthful. What are the essential items you should keep in your handbag? Luinae lists hers (and it’s a great…
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Whenever I’m going through a wardrobe and sorting it out for a client, I’m always making sure they have a few basics that will make the rest of the wardrobe work. So what is a basic and what am I looking for? To me, a basic is something that you need to make…
DetailsHow to wear leggings seems to be a highly googled question, and what sorts of shoes work with leggings is a hot topic, so here is my 2c on the subject. Ankle length (left) – work best with high vamp shoes and sandals, either in a colour that is similar or…
DetailsSunday morning, reading The Age newspaper over my breakfast, and what do I see – but an article about a study done at the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark that suggests that people with thinner thighs are more likely to suffer from heart disease! This study followed 3000 men and women over a 10…
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Reading through some keywords on my site statistics I discovered that this topic is popular as a search term that brings people to my blog, so I thought, to make future visitors happy when they get here, I’ll write a post on it so there are some answers! Ankle length pants are hard…
DetailsHave you worked through this series of exercises to help you discover your style – what have you learned about your personal style? What are your style words? Have you got multiple style personalities or are you more of a one style woman? Did you discover anything about your style that surprised you? Have you figured…
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