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Category Archives: Lifestyle

3 months post bunion surgery update

Free to Do as I Please – 3 Month Bunion Surgery Update

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 19, 20182 Comments

The x-rays are in and my bones are healed up, so my orthopaedic surgeon has given me the all clear to run, jump and do as I please again. This is great news and what is also great is that my toes are starting to move much more freely again as well.  There is still…

Give an awesome experience gift and make some memories while you learn something new

Give an Awesome Experience Gift this Christmas

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 5, 20183 Comments

What to get the person who has everything or just doesn’t want any “thing”? How about an experience gift of some sort? How about something creative where they learn something new? Or go somewhere and discover something new? There are lots of fabulous experience gifts to give to someone (or just give to yourself), or…

9 Weeks Post Bunion Surgery Update

How I’m Feeling 9 Weeks After Bunion Surgery

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 29, 201816 Comments

It’s now been a little over 9 weeks since I had my bunion surgery and I thought I’d give you an update. What’s Changed in the Past 3 Weeks Since My Last Bunion Surgery Update I can stand the bed covers weighing down on my toes, it’s now no longer uncomfortable and I don’t need…

6 Weeks post bunion surgery update

Bunion Surgery Update – 6 Weeks Post Operation

Accessories, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 6, 201815 Comments

It’s been 6 weeks since my bunion surgery and I’m so so excited that I can finally drive again! I think that has been one of the hardest things about the recovery from my recent bunion surgery.  Having to ask others for help and being only able to go out and do things at the…

4 weeks post bunion surgery

4 Weeks Post Bunion Surgery Update

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportOctober 24, 201827 Comments

It’s now just over 4 weeks since I had my bones realigned in my right foot to remove my bunion and fix my foot.  Under doctor’s orders, I’m still wearing the post-operative shoe and have to do so for another 2 weeks) and find that I still need to keep my foot elevated a lot,…

Want to Avoid Getting Wrinkles? You Need a Sun Smart Strategy

Want to Avoid Getting Wrinkles? You Need a Sun Smart Strategy

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportOctober 19, 20187 Comments

When I was in my teenage years, getting a tan was seen as a great thing. In fact, the advertising in magazines for tanning products was all about how dark you could tan, rather than protecting your skin from the risk of skin cancers.  We would sit outside at lunchtime at school trying to soak…

What to Wear After a Foot Operation When You Have to Wear a Post-Operative Shoe

What to Wear After a Foot Operation When You Have to Wear a Post-Operative Shoe or Moonboot

More, Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportOctober 17, 201816 Comments

It’s now three weeks since I had my bunion operation and am continuing to recover slowly but surely.  Still needing to keep my foot elevated as much as possible, but can get around more than I have been.  I’m still sleeping with my foot out from under the covers (if it was winter I’d do…

Bunion surgery experience

Bunion Surgery 2 Week Post-Operation Update

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportOctober 9, 201842 Comments

Warning – this post includes photos of my feet and scars. It’s now been a couple of weeks since I had my bunion surgery and have discovered the answer to a question I’d been pondering… Now that I have metal screws in my foot, would I automatically trigger the security sensors at airports? Well, I…

Why I Decided to Have Bunion Surgery

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 26, 201854 Comments

My life as an image consultant and style blogger is all glamour. Absolutely, I’m sure that’s what you think. The reality, not so.  Really it’s lot of time spent thinking and writing about style and colour topics and seeing clients and helping them sort out their wardrobes. Now I’ve always loved a fabulous pair of…

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge

Enjoy a Trip to Northern Ireland

More, travelBy Imogen LamportSeptember 11, 201813 Comments

In July this year after I finished running my Personal Colour Analysis training in  London, I took my kids to Northern Ireland.   We had a fabulous week there, visiting with family and touring around the countryside. We flew into Belfast I hadn’t been to Belfast since 1997 and boy it’s changed since I was last…

Azzedine Alaia Exhbition - Design Museum London

Azzedine Alaïa Exhbition – Design Museum London

More, Reviews, travelBy Imogen LamportAugust 2, 20181 Comment

Currently showing at the Design Museum in London is an exhibition of couturier Azzedine Alaïa’s creations.  Tunisian-born Alaia tirelessly upheld the traditions of haute couture from his first show in the late 1970s until is final one just before his death in 2017.  He worked in the tradition of the great couturiers he admired, Madeleine…

Inside Kensington Palace London

Diana: Her Fashion Story and Inside Kensington Palace

More, Reviews, travelBy Imogen LamportJuly 24, 20188 Comments

On one of my two days off in London on my recent trip there, I decided to visit Kensington Palace – current home of Prince William and Kate Middleton and their children, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle along with Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, The Duke and Duchess…

Fashioned from Nature exhibition at the V&A London

Fashioned from Nature Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

More, Reviews, travelBy Imogen LamportJuly 13, 20185 Comments

One of the delights of London is the Victoria and Albert Museum (also known as the V & A) which always has a fashion exhibition to enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PaCzbe_gsU Currently (and running until 27 January 2019) is the Fashioned from Nature exhibition, a fascinating look into the influence of the natural world on fashion through history…

Inside Liberty of London

See Inside Liberty of London – My Favourite British Department Store

shopping, travelBy Imogen LamportJune 27, 20189 Comments

Whenever I visit London (and I realised on the way over on the  plane – in that 24 hours that is such fun in a tin tube – that it’s been 16 years since I was last here), I love to visit Liberty of London – just off Regent Street  in Central London – as…

Paint by numbers for adults - experience and review - see how they turn out

And This is Why I Have Creative Hobbies

Lifestyle, More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportApril 10, 201810 Comments

Do you have a hobby or some sort of activity you enjoy doing? What is it that you enjoy? There are so many different sorts of hobbies – from the physical (sports, golf, rock climbing, hiking, skydiving, yoga. etc) to the home-based (gardening, cooking etc.) to the social (dancing, Italian conversation classes, chess, mahjong etc)…

Road Testing Carbon Coco Charcoal Toothpaste

Road Testing: Carbon Coco Activated Charcoal Toothpaste

Beauty, grooming, Reviews, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportApril 7, 2018Leave a comment

Charcoal toothpaste is all the rage on the beauty blogs and as a woman who cares about her teeth and knows just how a good set of choppers makes a difference to your overall appearance, I was happy to road test Carbon Coco Activated Charcoal toothpaste when they offered to send me an Ultimate Carbon…

Brick Bay Winery Sculpture Trail

Discover What’s Inside Brick Bay Winery Sculpture Walk New Zealand

Lifestyle, More, travelBy Imogen LamportMarch 30, 20183 Comments

If you’re spending time on New Zealand’s North Island, don’t miss out on taking a detour off the highway north from Auckland to visit Brick Bay Sculpture Trail (and winery), located in the town of Warkworth. The Brick Bay Sculpture Trail is an easy and meandering 2km walk, suitable for most ages and abilities (seriously…

The 8 Qualities of a Successful Personal Stylist - what makes a great personal stylist - the qualities you need to succeed

The 8 Qualities of a Successful Personal Stylist

Image Consulting, Lifestyle, MoreBy Imogen LamportMarch 23, 201811 Comments

Recently, I received a raft of notifications from Linked In (the ‘business social media’ platform) with congratulations from colleagues and clients to mark my “14 year work anniversary” as they call it.  And one of these notes came from my brother which started a conversation about some of the ‘family values’ we’d been brought up…

Welcome to Inside Out Style blog headquarters - take a peek inside my home and read my review of the Vorwerk Kobold VK200 Upright Vacuum - it's the Rolls Royce of vacuums

Road Testing the Rolls Royce of Vacuums, the Vorwerk Kobold VK200

Lifestyle, More, Reviews, shopping, Sponsored Posts, videosBy Imogen LamportMarch 5, 201810 Comments

Sponsored by Godfreys Welcome to my studio, come inside and I’ll show you around as I road test the Vorwerk Kobold VK200 Upright Vacuum   Since you’re coming over, I thought I’d better just give the place a quick tidy up! Welcome to Inside Out Style Headquarters Today I thought I’d share with you a…

Benefits of getting out of your comfort zone

The One Word that Will Provide Direction and Guidance in 2018

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJanuary 1, 201817 Comments

Happy New Year to All You Lovely People! Each year for the past few years I’ve been picking a “word of the year”, a theme, for me to follow.  It works as a guiding principle for me and helps to keep me on track.   The words I’ve chosen over the past years are words that…

6 Life Lessons to take into your future to have a happier and more fulfilled life

6 Life Lessons to Take into the New Year

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 25, 201715 Comments

When I lived in the UK (start of 1999 – end of 2001) I found that I could never believe it was Christmas time as it hadn’t gotten hot yet.   Even though we are fed a diet of snow, ice and winter scenes for Christmas, in Australia it comes in summer so it just didn’t…

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