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Weekend Reading – happiness project this week

Happiness Project, weekend readingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 18, 20099 Comments

Earlier this week when taking out a basket of recycling to the bin at dusk, as I tipped the rubbish in, I caught a whiff of spring. I closed the bin, stopped and breathed in deeply and discovered that my garden is currently overflowing with the scent of beautiful flowers. As I walk around the…

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A Scientist’s View of Style

Personal Style, shoppingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 17, 200919 Comments

After reading a post on Already Pretty about whether style is an art or science, I was intriguied by a comment of Kristophine’s, and asked her to write me a post from the perspective of an actual scientist – I hope you find it interesting a perspective as I do!   How To Shop Like…

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How Does Your Lifestyle Influences Your Clothing Choices?

How Does Your Lifestyle Influences Your Clothing Choices?

Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 16, 200914 Comments

How does your lifestyle influence your clothing choices? The first step to discovering this is to do the following exercises to further break down your lifestyle. What do you do with yourself? How do you fill your time? Where do you go? Who do you see? Take some time to answer these questions to help…

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Who are You and How Does this Influence Your Style Choices?

Who are You and How Does this Influence Your Style Choices?

Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 15, 200911 Comments

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.” Gore Vidal   In this post you were asked to figure out where you are now with your clothing – it may be a great place and where you want to be, or it may not be. I like…

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how to gain confidence in your style

Style Confidence Comes from the Inside Out

Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 14, 200913 Comments

Yesterday I asked where confidence in appearance comes from – and many commented that lack of confidence can stem from negative comments made during childhood. These comments seem to burn right into us and are often very hard to shake off as we grow up – we take them as gospel truth, rather than just…

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Where does confidence in your appearance come from? How to look and feel more fabulous every day

Where Does Confidence in Appearance Come From?

Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportSeptember 13, 200923 Comments

Rosina wrote me this question: My style question is one of confidence.. I think I alluded to it once before. I really think I have a style: Jeans, boots, long tops, my own jewellery designs, huge purses, arm warmers or opera gloves, and lots of texture. However, I never, ever, EVER feel confident. If someone…

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Weekend Reading: Leggings, Trousers and Age

weekend readingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 12, 200910 Comments

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…

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Bra Fit and Flattery

Image Consulting, UncategorizedBy Imogen LamportSeptember 11, 200916 Comments

I 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…

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Will You Join Me in a Happiness Project?

About Imogen, Happiness Project, psychological mattersBy Imogen LamportSeptember 10, 200932 Comments

  I’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…

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The Average UK Woman and What She Spends to Look Good

Research, shoppingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 9, 200928 Comments

According 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…

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How to Find the Holes in Your Wardrobe

shopping, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 8, 200921 Comments

          Yesterday 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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6 Simple rules for cleaning out your closet from Inside Out Style Blog

6 Simple Rules for Cleaning Out Your Closet

WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 7, 200920 Comments

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…

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Weekend Reading -3 Great Articles To Improve Your Blog This Weekend

blogging, favourite blogs, weekend readingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 4, 20097 Comments

Are 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…

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Review – Elle MacPherson Intimates D – G cup range

large bustBy Imogen LamportSeptember 3, 200919 Comments

I 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…

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How to Prepare for a Book Publicity Tour

About ImogenBy Imogen LamportAugust 31, 200911 Comments

    On 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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How to break the Style Rules

5 More Ways to Break the Style Rules

Accessories, Colour, Personal Style, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportAugust 30, 200920 Comments

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…

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Weekend Reading

Body Image, favourite blogs, Research, weekend readingBy Imogen LamportAugust 28, 200914 Comments

I 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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How to break your colour rules

How to Break the Style Rules (and why you should)

Colour, Personal Style, style tipsBy Imogen LamportAugust 27, 200920 Comments

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…

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Generational Dressing

About Imogen, Style Tips for MothersBy Imogen LamportAugust 26, 200916 Comments

This 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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Why Do Women Let Themselves Go?

Body Image, Research, Style Tips for MothersBy Imogen LamportAugust 25, 200943 Comments

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…

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Travelling with Zero Baggage

travelBy Imogen LamportAugust 24, 200919 Comments

Last 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…

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