Carrying on from last weekend’s reading here are 58 More Ways to Improve Your Blog On a completely different topic, I am often asked by my clients about wearing leggings, how to, what with etc. This is a great post on You Look Fab with a whole host of photos of leggings options, if…
DetailsI spent a morning with Jen of Alluring Lingerie who showed me her gorgeous range of bras. Even though I’ve been fitted for bras over the recent years, we decided to do another fitting – and guess what – my rib cage has shrunk! Having kids expanded it a bit, but since that’s been a…
DetailsI’ve been reading and thinking about happiness – and discovered a blog by Gretchen who went on a Happiness Project for a year (and has since written a book on it which will be published in December 2009 The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean…
DetailsAccording to some recent research (though I doubt it would pass any sort of peer review) published in The Daily Mail (UK) DAVID THOMAS combed through a mountain of government statistics, academic research, media surveys and pollsters’ reports to uncover the truth about the way UK women are… here is a short extract: MRS…
DetailsYesterday we talked about giving your wardrobe a good purge. Until you’ve done this stage it’s impossible to work out what you do and don’t have, and if you really do have nothing to wear. Firstly, if your favourites are still wearable, but starting to wear out – put them…
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So many women will lament that they have ‘nothing to wear’ yet their significant other may say ‘but you have a wardrobe full of clothes’ – so why the disconnect? Usually this is because they need to do a big closet purge, get rid of what is not working, and discover the holes so…
DetailsAre you interested in improving your blog? I’m always looking at ways to improve my blog and of course, grow my readership, and in doing this I came across this great article at Copyblogger on the 7 Deadly Sins of Bloggers that I thought many of you may be interested in reading too. Also I…
DetailsI posted last week that I was excited to see that Elle MacPherson Intimates had brought our a range of bras up to a G cup – so today I went for a test drive – unfortunately the hype doesn’t live up to the reality. What I noticed first was that for a larger cup…
DetailsOn Friday I had lunch with author Nick Earls (Bachelor Kisses) and apart from all the hilarious stories (sorry, sworn to secrecy) he told me of life on the publicity trail (which I used to take him on over 10 years ago – during my life before I became an image consultant), he…
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The other day I posted on breaking the style rules, and I thought that I’d post some more ways to do it. Knowing your rules (or as I like to think of them – as Style Guidelines) is great as you will be more empowered when making choices shopping (hello? how much money have you…
DetailsI discovered this via Too Much Information – as we don’t get the US Glamour Magazine here, not something that was on my radar – but interesting none-the-less. It’s about the excitement created by this photo of this gorgeous model in the September issue of the magazine. Read about it here. And from Smart…
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I have provided post upon post of style ‘rules’ to follow, but one of the things I always teach my clients is how to break the style rules. Why Follow Style Rules? Why have rules at all? They help those who have no idea or no reference to figure out what works for their body…
DetailsThis morning my lovely daughter Niamh (4) decided she wanted to wear my great grandmother’s beautiful smocked baby dress (which a: she wouldn’t fit into, and b: is over 100 years old so would perish, so I don’t want her to wear it). So when I said no to that dress, she decided to put…
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The other day I received this comment on my post Enjoy the Power and Beauty of Your Youth from an Anonymous commenter: I actually think you are more beautiful now than at 27! I take one day at a time, for it is all we are given. I’m 34, my body will never again be…
DetailsLast week I was listening to ABC Radio National’s Life Matters program and there was an interview with Catharine MacIntosh the founder of a new and coming soon concept – Zero Baggage – where you take no luggage, and hire it all before you leave and it’s waiting at your destination for you. The concept…
DetailsThis morning I did a wardrobe audit for a lovely 53 year old client. She’d already thrown out a pile of stuff before I got there, but we managed to get rid of another 5 garbage bags of clothes that were no longer working for her. Like most ‘middle ageless ‘ (thanks Rosina) women,…
DetailsMaria Killam from Colour Me Happy alerted me to this quiz from House Beautiful, and since I’m crazy about colour (and have limited time to write a post today) I thought I’d snaffle it: 1. What’s the first color you see in the morning? Cream – the walls of my bedroom are…
DetailsI received this award from the thoughtful and stylish LPC at Privilege. Thanks SO much! LPC’s blog is an eclectic mix of things from her life and her interest, from exercise to fashion, from midlife to food, all from her high wasp perspective (which is interesting to me as WASPS are not something we…
DetailsRetailers who think the secret to great sales figures is all in the hiring of very attractive female staff could find themselves very much mistaken. According to the latest research from the University of South Australia the power of “gorgeous girls” at the counter has some very clear limits. UniSA PhD researcher, Bianca…
DetailsThe other day the 40 year old me got out a photo of the 27 year old me as I was teaching a section of my image consulting course which covers what kinds of facial features and shapes best suit very short hair. I wasn’t as taken aback by my Pixie haircut, which was more…
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