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Discover Your Colours – Your Intensity – Clear or Soft

Beauty, Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportOctober 7, 200921 Comments

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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Discover Your Colours – Skin Undertone,Overtone & Makeup

Beauty, Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportOctober 6, 200962 Comments

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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Discover Your Colours – Warm or Cool?

ColourBy Imogen LamportOctober 5, 200952 Comments

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…

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Happiness is … Communicating and Colour

Colour, Colour PsychologyBy Imogen LamportOctober 1, 200913 Comments

This 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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The Triumph of Individual Style – Review

Body Proportions, ReviewsBy Imogen LamportSeptember 30, 200914 Comments

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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Wardrobe Capsule Challenge

1 Week Wardrobe Capsule Challenge

Capsule Wardrobes, More, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 29, 200910 Comments

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…

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Little Black Book of Style – Review

Personal Style, ReviewsBy Imogen LamportSeptember 28, 200913 Comments

  I’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…

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Going Grey – Should or Shouldn’t?

BeautyBy Imogen LamportSeptember 28, 200941 Comments

I 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…

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Happiness is … Happy Kids

Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportSeptember 27, 20097 Comments

This 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)…

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wardrobe basics to own to make your heroes work

Wardrobe Basics or Supporting Acts

Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 25, 200920 Comments

  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…

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What Shoes to Wear with Leggings

Colour, Style Tips, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 23, 200921 Comments

How 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.       Here are some ideas:  1.Ankle length (left) – work best with high vamp shoes and sandals, either in a colour that…

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Thin Thighs = More Risk Heart Disease

MoreBy Imogen LamportSeptember 23, 200916 Comments

  Sunday 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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What Shoes Should Be Worn With Ankle Length Pants

Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportSeptember 22, 200915 Comments

  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…

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What’s Your Style?

About Imogen, Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportSeptember 20, 200918 Comments

Have 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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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, 200922 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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Bra Fit and Flattery

Image ConsultingBy 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 ImogenBy 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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