When I started blogging 8 years ago I wanted to do it as I needed to create a marketing stream for my image consulting business, to help establish me as a credible source of information and to help find a global audience who would be interested in investing in my first ebook. As an introvert,…
Do you find what you read here useful? Then please share it! Your sharing my content on social media has a positive impact…. When you share one of my blog posts either via email or your social media you make a difference to my (and my family’s) life. These days Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest algorithms…
This has got to be the easiest garment to knit – seriously! Hand knits are right on trend this year and you can pay a fortune buying them, or a few days knitting one like this (I like to knit while watching TV, but nothing complicated so that I can just knit without looking which…
Last night I witnessed a stunning performance of the record breaking London Palladium production of the classic musical The Sound of Music which has just opened at the Regent’s Theatre in Melbourne. Opening nights are always magic, with the celebrity spotting red carpet before the show and well dressed theatre patrons in their finery (and…
One of my fondest memories of my late teen years was watching the Saturday afternoon musical movie that would play on the TV. All those fabulous old films from the 1940s with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly. I loved watching the dancing, the gorgeous costumes (those dresses … divine) and it spawned my…
Why should it matter what our leaders look like? Both Australia and the USA (and probably a few other countries in the world) are currently in election campaign mode. Our politicians are in front of TV and newspaper cameras every day and what they look like may influence how we vote. You may say “no,…
The First Monday in May is a documentary film around the making of The Met Gala ball, but it’s so much more than that. It’s a virtual feast of exquisite fashion curated by the genius of Andrew Bolton of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This film is a…
200 Years of Australian fashion is a celebration of over 90 designers and makers, from early dressmaking establishments, through the mid-century salons of the “Paris End” of Collins Street to contemporary fashion designers of today. The exhibition starts with a series of images projected onto curtains all set on the beach. Paola di Troccio the…
There are a number of wardrobing and outfit planning apps out available so I asked my readers which they used and what they liked. Here are their thoughts and experiences on some of the wardrobe apps currently on the market. ClosetSpace Helen:I use ClosetSpace on my Android phone and occasionally the computer. Its essentially an…
Recently I’ve been sharing some of my readers favourite blog posts, the ones they have found have really shaped their styles (Katie, Carol, Corey, Ruth, Kaira, Celine’s favourites) and it got me wondering what were the most read posts of 2015 by all my lovely blog readers? So I delved into my Google Analytics to…
If you’ve been reading Inside Out Style for some time you may have discovered that rather than make a bunch of New Years Resolutions that I end up not keeping. Instead I choose a word of the year, a word that I use as my focus for the year. A word that will influence all…
Celine from France shares her favourite blog posts, the ones that have made a big difference for her. I have found so many blog posts helpful. Here are just a few: Dressing to Look Taller, Column of color, Body Shape Bible O and Shape H, Tips for Going gray Stylish after 40, Warm weather capsule…
Following on in my series of reader’s favourite posts, here are Carol’s list. Not in any particular order as all blogs great; – Column of colour – I take notice when I am putting on a vest or jacket as to what I am wearing on the bottom – Choosing colours when you have grey…
The other day one of my Evolvers (that’s what the Evolve Your Style members call themselves over on their community page) mentioned how much a certain blog post had impacted on her and her style journey. That got me thinking that many of you may have favourite blog posts and so I asked readers to…
Sponsored by Nuffnang and Cats the Musical The all singing, all dancing Cats the musical is back in Melbourne and I was lucky enough to enjoy the red carpet premiere’s on Sunday evening. Star spotting on arrival is fun, and it was interesting that many celebrities brought their kids to the performance. The biggest name…
I’ve got a confession. I’m a chocoholic. I’ve been a chocoholic since childhood. My brother hates chocolate, and I love it. I always thought that I got the love of chocolate for two since he didn’t like it. He got the love of licorice (I hate that). When I was invited to take a Chocolate…
A friend of mine told me last year that she’d spent some time playing Kate Winslet’s body double in a movie called The Dressmaker (not the naked kind, the clothed kind of body double). From what she told me and watching the movie trailer I knew that I had to see it. As soon as…
I’ve spent the past week intensely immersed in our Academy of Professional Image Certified Personal Colour Analysis Training. It’s a full on full time course, and we teach our students just so much about colour and how to discover their client’s personal best colours, how to wear their colours plus so much more. Students…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin The secret (well not so secret) is out, I’m over 40, in fact I’m well over 40, much closer to 50 than 40 these days and I love blogging about style for women who are in a similar situation. Sure I know that many of you are under 40, and…
Yesterday marked 7 years since I started this blog and what a ride it has been. Blogging has brought so much to my life from friendships to travel, and has provided me with a whole new way to run my image consulting (personal styling) business. To celebrate I’m sharing my Top7 Benefits of Blogging 1.…
Ruth Essex is also an image consultant (in the UK) who has taken part in my 31 day Evolve Your Style challenge has written this review of the program and I asked her if I could share it with you. She kindly said yes. Prologue: This summer I went on a big adventure and together…
