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Develop Personal Style: Using Pinterest To Create A Style Moodboard

I’m sitting in a café at the moment in jeans, a tucked in long-sleeve thermal and a thick woolly knit that has pom poms on it. I sound like a piñata, but if you saw me you would think there’s just the right amount of pom poms on this jumper to not want to whack me with a stick.

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How To Wear Printed Socks

It takes someone comfortable in his style to pull a look like this off, but you don't have to be a style extraordinaire to do it. This look is perfect for the races, derby day, cocktail parties and smart casual events and helps you to look like the perfect gentleman when out and about.

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Is It Too Good To Wear?

We fell in love with them in the store and we’re worried about ruining them doing mundane tasks. So we save them, adoring them gathering dust and wishing we had the right place to wear them. I hear you!

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Kicking My Own Happy Wardrobe Goals

Can you believe it's nearly 2018? It dawned on me today when I was working on a photo shoot in a beautiful California bungalow style home, shooting luxurious towels in the warm sun what a different year this has been for me.

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How To Clean Out Your Closet

The new year will be approaching soon, reminding us of all the things we planned to do but didn't get around to because we got stuck on Pinterest, looking up recipes for diet food that doesn't taste like diet food (sorry, we found no pins that matched your search). So, to start the new year feeling like an Effortless Bitch, you need to learn how to clean out your closet like a Fashion Stylist.

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Summer Maternity Wear For The Hot & Pregnant

I do not, for one second, envy those Effortless Bitches carrying a baby in Spring and Summer in Australia. If you're not swollen from the pregnancy yet, you're certainly sporting swollen feet from the heat and those sandals you got that had extra room for just that aren't feeling so fab anymore. If you're after some summer maternity clothing - follow me, I have the goods.

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Bathroom & Makeup Organisation Ideas

If you’ve been keeping up with my latest posts, you’d have read my Home Organisation Rampage article about being so motivated to organise that I’ve gotten angry when my Dymo labeller runs out of labels. I’m not ashamed to be that person.

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My Home Organisation Rampage

Part of my job as a Stylist is to help clients maintain an interchangeable and organised wardrobe. Organising for me is contagious, I love containers and my Dymo labeller. The other day when my labeller ran out of labels, I felt like throwing my Ikea step ladder, that I was standing on, through the window.

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How To Store Your Clothes For A Year Or Longer

This time of year, many of my clients are jetting off overseas for a few months at a time and leaving many of their gorgeous clothes in storage. The scary part about storing your clothing for a long period of time is that you could come home to find your clothes are mouldy, rust, moth or cockroach eaten and even discoloured. A horrible thought, I know.

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What To Wear To School Pick Up

Now I must admit, I haven’t been in a school for years.I don’t have children and I like to keep a safe distance from un-hemmed pants, scuffed black shoes and the overwhelming scent of body spray, but when living in Sydney, it’s easy to pass the schools and see the general dress code that’s going on between mothers.

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How To Care For Your Skin In Winter

I have this problem in winter where I get dry skin between my eyebrows. Being in and out of heated shopping centres all day with clients and then in the cold outside can really give my skin a less than flawless glow.

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The First Date Outfit

When your heart is playing matchmaker, your wardrobe should too. What to wear on a first date is one of the most common questions asked on this blog, and I thought it was the right time I sit down and share my thoughts on it.

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