How to Choose Earrings to Flatter Your Face Shape

earrings to suit your face shape by imogenl featuring diamond jewelry Last week I made a video to show you how to figure out your face shape.   Now I want to share with you how to choose earrings to flatter and balance your face shape. Longer narrow faces (oblong and rectangle) look best in earrings [...]

How to Choose a Necklace to Work with Your Neckline

One simple tip when choosing necklaces so that they harmonise with your neckline is to look at the shape of the neckline and replicate it in some way with the necklace. Watch this short video to see how it works. Dress:  Verily Necklace – V shaped from Mangowood boutique in Port Fairy, Victoria Necklace – curved [...]

What We Were Wearing at the AICI Sydney Conference

Prints and Dresses - L->R: Brenda Kinsel, Peta Spring, Suzanne Dekyvere, Evelyn Lundstrom

People always ask me, what do you wear to an image consultants conference? I mean – the pressure to appear stylish in front of a group of your peers. So I took a bunch of snaps of some of the outfits that were at the conference to share with you. Image consultants aren’t scared of [...]

The Power of the Third Piece

  3rd piece by imogenl featuring black pants The Third piece is your hero, it’s the accessory or piece of clothing that can add the excitement and personality to your outfit when everything else you’re wearing are  basics or supporting acts. Quite often it can be some sort of jacket, other times it will be [...]

How to Mix Metals

Many of us own both gold and silver jewellery, but tend to wear one more than the other, but still want to wear all our pieces. So how can you mix your metal jewellery with style? The key to mixing metals is to have one as dominant at around 75% and the other subordinate at [...]

How to Create a Casual Column of Colour

casual column of colour wearing Verily knit

Today I’m guest posting over at Creating Order from Chaos  about how I organise my life but before you go and read that post, I thought I’d just share my casual column of colour, given that has been a topic here recently. I’m sure some people wonder what an image consultant wears when they’re not [...]

How to Accessorize – The Busy Mum

If you are a busy mum and spend much of your time in practical clothing like a knit top with a pair of jeans, how do you dress it up to make it more stylish whilst still remaining practical?   Add Accessories to create Focal Points by imogenl featuring longsleeve shirts Firstly it depends on the [...]

Review: Anjolee Diamond Stud Earrings

anjolee-diamond-stud

I love jewellery, you’re probably all aware of this given that I’ve just written a book about accessorizing. Jewellery can totally transform what you’re wearing and really does provide the finishing touch to your outfit. So I was delighted when Anjolee sent me a pair of Diamond Stud Earrings to review (OK, they sent me [...]

What’s Your Favourite Flavour of Icing?

Accessories are the icing on the clothing cake.  Cake is nice enough by itself, but so much more delectable with some icing.   If you look at women you think dress stylishly, most likely there will be an accessory or two that makes the outfit work and adds that interest, that detail, that spark of [...]

How Much Jewellery at Once?

.Following on from my post the other day about matching jewellery, I received this reader question: I see that the larger earrings are paired with ring / bracelet, not a necklace. How do I tell when my earrings are “too much” to be worn with a necklace? Combining Jewellery by imogenl featuring chandelier earrings My general [...]