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Pantone’s Colour of 2017 – Greenery

Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportDecember 12, 201618 Comments

  Pantone has just released it’s 2017 “Colour of the Year” a colour you can expect to see in home furnishings and furniture and for 2017 it’s called Greenery. It’s a Granny Smith apple green. It’s verdant foliage. It’s lush grass. This colour represents new growth and change. It’s aim is to calm and remind…

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Get Creative with Curves – Weekend Style Challenge

MoreBy Imogen LamportDecember 10, 20161 Comment

This weekend your challenge is to get creative with curves. Discover the power and illusion of curves here, and then look through your wardrobe for your curved garments and take them out for a whirl. Share your diagonally inspired outfits on theStyle Lounge (Facebook) and Instagram (#insideoutstyle #weekendstylechallenge @insideoutstyle) and show us your curvy style!

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Rectangle face shape earrings - what to choose

How to Choose Earrings for Your Rectangular Shaped Face

Accessories, Face, Face StylesBy Imogen LamportDecember 9, 2016Leave a comment

When you are thinking about choosing earrings to flatter your face shape, think about how to balance it.  If it’s longer, like a rectangle face shape (more than 1.5 times the width in length), then you want to slightly widen the face to make it appear slightly shorter. How to Choose Earrings to Flatter a…

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Mornington Peninsula in a Mustang

Mornington in a Mustang – Where to Go When You Visit Melbourne

Travel and PackingBy Imogen LamportDecember 7, 2016Leave a comment

  Melbourne is a great city. Not only for it’s many cultural delights in the city area, but also because around Melbourne there are many wonderful places to visit (that take less than an hour and a half to drive to) just outside its metropolitan borders. The Mornington Peninsula is one of these areas. It…

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Understanding elements of style

How Curved Lines Work

Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportDecember 6, 20165 Comments

Becoming a magician with clothes involves learning the illusion of line. The slowest line we see is the curved line. Why? Well as our eye follows its path, it’s curves slow us down. Thus, if it’s a slower line to look at, it adds volume and curves to our bodies. Where do we find curves…

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Create an outfit with diagonals

Use Diagonals in Your Outfit – Weekend Style Challenge

Outfits, Week 8By Imogen LamportDecember 3, 2016Leave a comment

  Diagonals are action lines – they create movement, and interest. They move your eye from one point to another (as I discussed here). This weekend, your challenge is to find some diagonals and use them in an outfit.     There are lots of different places you’ll find diagonals, from necklines (V) to collars,…

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How to Dress With Conflicting Body Shape Advice

Body Proportions, Body Shapes, Reader QuestionsBy Imogen LamportDecember 2, 20164 Comments

Dear Imogen, Thank you so much for creating Inside Out Style. Many of the style blogs I find are designed for models or teens, at least that’s how it seems to me. Most of your articles are for more mature women, with children. And you don’t pretend to have a perfect figure, you teach us…

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How to Choose Earrings For Your Heart Shaped Face

Accessories, Face, Face StylesBy Imogen LamportDecember 1, 20161 Comment

When you are thinking about choosing earrings to flatter your face shape, think about how to balance it. How to Choose Earrings to Flatter a Heart Shape Face A heart shape face has a wider forehead and then narrows down to a more pointed V shape jaw. Thus the earrings that flatter will widen as…

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How Diagonal Lines Work in Outfits

WardrobeBy Imogen LamportNovember 29, 201616 Comments

Diagonal lines create movement and action. They move the eye from one element to another and can be used to move the gaze upward or downward, depending on the direction of the diagonal. In Western cultures, because we read left to right, the left to right diagonal moves the gaze upwards (towards the face). The…

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Teeth whitening with PureSmile

Trying Out Teeth Whitening

Beauty, GroomingBy Imogen LamportNovember 28, 20162 Comments

One of the things I’ve noticed all my life, is just how your teeth affect how you smile. I’ve got friends who have chipped and uneven teeth and they always smile with their lips closed, which tends to make the smile feel less authentic. I had terrible teeth as a kid, a bunch of gravestones,…

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Create an outfit that has vertical lines - weekend style challenge - inside out style

Create a Vertical Outfit – Weekend Style Challenge

OutfitsBy Imogen LamportNovember 26, 2016Leave a comment

This weekend, your style challenge is to create an outfit based around vertical lines (check out this post, and this one on ideas and tips to adding verticals to your outfit). You can use a jacket or some sort of outer layer left open to add extra verticals. You can add a long scarf for…

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Should your hair have highlights or block colour?

How to Decide if Your Hair Should Have Highlights or Block Colour

Beauty, Colour, Hair, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportNovember 25, 20162 Comments

Hair Texture and Highlights or Block Colour Once you have figured out how to find the most flattering kinds of hair colours to suit your complexion so you look glowing, healthy and gorgeous, the second consideration is that of block colour versus higlight and lowlights. The answer to this conundrum comes down more to hair…

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How to look for verticals to look taller and slimmer

How You Can Use Verticals To Look Taller and Slimmer

Body, Body ImageBy Imogen LamportNovember 23, 20162 Comments

As I discussed in this post on my Three Rules of Horizontal Lines, line in clothing design creates optical illusions depending on the direction of the line. Verticals lengthen. Partly because they go up and down (giving height) but also because our eyes move along them more quickly than they do on horizontal or curved…

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Judith of Style Crone shares her stylish thoughts on Inside Out Style

Stylish Thoughts – Style Crone

Stylish ThoughtsBy Imogen LamportNovember 22, 20163 Comments

I’m excited to be able to welcome Denver Colorado (USA) based blogger and avid second hand shopper Judith Boyd of Style Crone to the Stylish Thoughts family. What is the secret to great style? For me, there really isn’t a secret. I think it’s important to take care of myself, which helps me to feel…

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Hair styles and Hair colours

How to Know if Your Hair Colour Is Wrong

Beauty, Colour, Discover Your Colours, HairBy Imogen LamportNovember 18, 20165 Comments

One question that comes up with my clients and also on my 7 Steps to Style program forums is that of hair colouring and what works best. Skin Undertone and Hair Colour First consideration is always your skin. You want to find a hair colour that flatters your complexion. In fact, hair, as it’s so…

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NGV David Hockney

Glorious Colour – David Hockney Exhibition at the NGV

Lifestyle, Travel and PackingBy Imogen LamportNovember 16, 20162 Comments

Many, many years ago I came across a coffee table book of British artist, David Hockney prints and immediately fell in love with his art. I adore his use of colour and what appears to be a quite simple, natural style. So I was excited to go to the opening of the new David Hockney:…

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Discover how understanding the effects of horizontal lines will make it so much easier to create flattering outfits

Imogen’s Three Rules of Horizontal Lines

Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportNovember 15, 20169 Comments

Before you take that garment into the change room, understanding the illusion of line really helps you choose clothes that flatter your figure. Lines are used in clothing design in a number of ways: As part of the silhouette – that’s the outline of the garment In the construction – that’s all the seams that…

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What Your Underwear Says About You

Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportNovember 14, 2016Leave a comment

We all wear it – underwear that is (well most of us do anyway 😉 ) so what does your underwear say about you? Did you know that your personality influences what you wear under your clothes? What Does Your Underwear Say About Your Personality? “I need to be comfortable” Relaxed Go for cotton based…

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Forgotten all about it - weekend style challenge

Forgot All About It – Weekend Style Challenge

Wardrobe, Week 3By Imogen LamportNovember 12, 20161 Comment

  This weekend, your style challenge is to go to the back of your drawers, shelves and wardrobe, fossick around and find something that you had forgotten about (or haven’t worn in ages) and wear it. It could be anything in your wardrobe, from a garment to an accessory. Style it up (or if you’ve…

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Brunch at Magic Mountain Saloon Melbourne

Feeling Like a Boozy Brunch this Weekend?

LifestyleBy Imogen LamportNovember 11, 2016Leave a comment

I love a weekend brunch. Going out, eat a lazy brunch (that’s breakfast and lunch) and relaxing is one of my favourite weekend treats. Now, if you’re bored with the regular brunch fare of eggs and bacon on toast, then I have the solution for you. Take a trip to Magic Mountain Saloon (Little Collins…

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What to wear - trans-seasonal dressing tips

Trans-Seasonal Dressing Tips

WardrobeBy Imogen LamportNovember 10, 20167 Comments

Spring and Autumn are two seasons that often have more temperature variation than winter and summer. This can make dressing tricky. For many of us we live in places that have trans-seasonal seasons that can go for a while and dressing can be tricky. Melbourne can easily have a 20C temperature variation from morning to…

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