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Category Archives: Wellbeing

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…

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…

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…

Why Vulnerability is an Act of Strength and Courage

Why Vulnerability is an Act of Strength and Courage

Personal Style, Videos, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 13, 20174 Comments

Jill Chivers from Shop Your Wardrobe and I discuss why showing your vulnerability is an act of strength. Many women want to hide, to be invisible, to not draw attention to themselves. There are many reasons for this, often through feelings of poor self-esteem and worthiness, sometimes from messages received whilst growing up. Frequently people…

Tips on how to feel fabulous in your style - improve your self-esteem and add some self-care

Getting to “Feeling Fabulous” About Your Style

Personal Style, Videos, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 6, 201710 Comments

Following on from the video post we did about feeling fabulous in your style, Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I discuss this topic again, and in this video, Jill shares her journey to feeling fabulous. How to Feel Fabulous About Your Style Jill shares that feeling fabulous about her style is a conscious…

How sexual harassment will change your personal style

How I’ve Seen Sexual Harassment Influence Personal Style

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 27, 201721 Comments

Only a week ago my lovely assistant Kate and I were chatting, and as rumours have been rumbling around Australian media about who is the Australian Harvey Weinstein, my speculation, from having worked in publicity for Penguin Books back in the 1990s, was the host of a very popular TV show at that time as…

Compliments - Why You Should Give Them and Take Them

Compliments – Why You Should Give Them and Take Them

Lifestyle, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 23, 2017Leave a comment

Following on my from my blog post the other day about how I like to find the positive in the negative I wanted to discuss the topic of compliments. I used to think I was a realist, but then I realised that I’m always hoping for the best, so really I’m a natural optimist). I…

How to deal with internet haters

10 Things Your Hate Makes Me Grateful For

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 17, 2017152 Comments

Putting yourself out in public on a blog, like I do here on Inside Out Style makes you a target for internet trolls. Writing a blog and sharing photos of yourself is an act of vulnerability. The internet is a big, big place, and it makes many people anonymous, so they feel it’s quite OK…

Support Frocktober

Join Me In Some Frocktober Fun

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 30, 2017Leave a comment

What is Frocktober? Throughout October, the Frocktober campaign invites women to band together, don their most darling dresses and have a bit of fun while raising funds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation Did you know that there is currently no early detection test for ovarian cancer? Did you know that in Australia alone, one…

Why you should well

Why You Should Dress Well (Hint: it Can Make You Smarter)

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 7, 20176 Comments

Why Do You Need Style? Clothes and style are shallow. They are unimportant. Appearance shouldn’t matter as it’s what’s inside that counts right? Style matters, because your intellect and personality are not what people see first. Click To Tweet We have to get past the outside to get to the inside and find out what…

8 Causes and Solutions for Bad Breath and How to Tell Someone They've Got It

8 Causes and Solutions for Bad Breath and How to Tell Someone They’ve Got It

Grooming, More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 14, 20173 Comments

A memory I’ll never forget… … it was back in the 1990s and I was working at Penguin Books Australia. Walking to my office through reception, I was stopped by the receptionist to answer a query by someone who was waiting there. When this man spoke to me, my eyes began to water as his…

Best Yoga Apps to Try at Home

Reviews, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportMarch 31, 2017Leave a comment

I love yoga apps. They give me the opportunity to take a yoga class, or just do a quick routine. I can choose the level, the duration and even the kind of class I want to do all at the touch of a button. What’s more, I can do them in the comfort of my…

20 Stylish Fitness and Activity Tracker Accessories

Accessories, Lifestyle, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportFebruary 8, 20176 Comments

Many of you wear activity trackers. I wear one daily as it helps me know just how much time I’ve spent sitting down, and reminds me that I need to get up and move to stay healthy. Yet, most fitness trackers are fine for sport, but just don’t look right worn with your smarter or…

2016 in review on Inside Out Style blog

Why 2016 Was so Great

Lifestyle, More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJanuary 2, 201713 Comments

2016 has been a big year for me with many changes, challenges and also a few standout successes that I want to share with you. I’ve never been great at stopping to celebrate achievements and given that I’ve decided to focus on Gratitude in 2017, what better way than to have a look at my…

New years resolution 2017

Why I’ll Focus on Gratitude in 2017

Lifestyle, More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 31, 20164 Comments

  Every year rather than picking a bunch of New Year’s resolutions that I will have broken by the end of the first week in January, making me feel a bit crap and than throwing the whole lot in. Instead, I choose a word that is my theme for the year. A word that reminds…

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We Wish You a Merry Christmas

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 25, 20162 Comments

  To all my wonderful, fabulous and amazing blog readers (that’s right – each and every one of you). I want to take this opportunity to wish you a merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy Hanukkah or just a happy Sunday. It’s summer holidays here, and I’ve got family over from the UK, from Queensland and from…

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