Style Treaty

Congrats to Kirsty and Aphrodite over at Beaut.ie, there was a feature about them in the Sunday Tribune this week.

As last weekend was my sister’s birthday and we had plans to party like it’s 1999, we decided to treat ourselves to a make-over from Brown Thomas in preparation for our big night out on Saturday night. I had a voucher for a make-up session at the Laura Mercier counter, compliments of the Die for [...]

The last and best piece of advice that I picked up was that you should invest in a full length mirror and use it!! If your first impression is that there is something wrong with the outfit then there is!! Don’t look at it for too long as you’ll convince yourself that it’s ok.
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Celia recommends that you invest on a bag that is big enough to fit everything you need on a daily basis. She points out that everything is part of your outfit so if like me you change your bags daily and when you can’t fit everything in you plonk the rest in a plastic bag, [...]

As awful as it sounds Celia advises that the smaller you are the lower your heels should be, in other words if you are small (I assume she means under 5 foot 4) your heels should be mid height or lower but not high high stilettos as you end up looking like a child dressing [...]

More from Celia Larkin.
When she got into more detail she advised that there are two types of body shape, curvy and straight. Curvy people will find that they have a defined waist (as a rule of thumb if you are curvy your waist will be about 8-10 inches smaller than your hips). Curvy people will [...]

Samaritans Purse are organising an appeal in the lead up to Christmas 2006 to give simple gifts to worthy children all over the world. Check out the website here, it has all the details. Mary T brought the appeal to my attention, you fill a shoe box with about €20 worth of simple toys like [...]

On Thursday last I attended a talk in the Millstream Cafe in UL, which had been organised by the UL Women’s Forum for UL staff. The keynote speaker was Celia Larkin. She gave some brilliant advice on style and dressing for work which I will impart onto you over the next few days.
I’ll start with [...]

Flights to O’Hare Airport in Chicago can vary in price, we got ours back in May and we paid about €390 for them but I just had a look on the Aer Lingus website and to fly there on 27th October and come back 5th November would cost nearly €1200. So as you can see [...]

While in Chicago (I’m still working on the trip report by the way) I bought more make up than anything else, I’m not sure why, I didn’t buy anything that you can’t get in Brown Thomas and it wasn’t significantly cheaper.  I think it had to do with the sales staff, Chicagoans are naturally friendly [...]