psychological matters

How Did I End Up Frumpy?

July 29, 2010 By Imogen 18 Comments

..This is a lament that I hear from women of a certain age who feel they’ve lost their style mojo and they’re not sure when and where they lost it. It tends to creep up on us, as we get older we tend to have less time to go to shops and try on clothes. [...]

Filed Under: Personal Style, psychological matters

How Do You Like to Be Complimented?

July 26, 2010 By Imogen 23 Comments

. .Yesterday I was talking to a friend who I’ve known since I was 16 and she commented that back then she was jealous of my super cool trendy hairdo I had back then (it was an asymmetrical style very 1984), and it’s funny that I never saw myself as either cool or trendy back [...]

Filed Under: Body Image, Personal Style, psychological matters

Happiness Project Update

June 13, 2010 By Imogen 35 Comments

I apologise that I’ve not written much this week. I’ve been a bit less focussed on blogging as my son has (for the past couple of months) been going through series of medical tests, and he’s scheduled to have an operation this coming week to have a small tumor removed. All these weeks of testing, [...]

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Happiness Project Update

May 8, 2010 By Imogen 6 Comments

s. said… OFF TOPIC: How’s your Happiness Project coming along, girl? I’m finally starting my own and would love to know what stage you’re at, yourself, at the moment. To answer S – thanks for asking: Given my busy training schedule of late (I just spent a fun week with Pauline from Malaysia who came all [...]

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Weekend Reading: Literature and Luck

March 5, 2010 By Imogen 11 Comments

Last weekend in The Age newspaper, this article was reprinted from The Guardian, and it sums up so much of what is important about clothing, in life an in literature. According to F Scott Fitzgerald, it is always “better to wear a becoming dress three times straight than to alternate it with two frights”. This is [...]

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Waste not, Want Not

January 18, 2010 By Imogen 10 Comments

Do you buy clothes only to return them? Do you buy clothes thinking that if they don’t work you will return them, but never get around to it? How much money and time is this costing you? In my work as an image consultant I see heaps of waste, whether it be waste of money [...]

Filed Under: Personal Style, psychological matters, shopping

Weekend Reading: Favourite Posts of 2009

January 9, 2010 By Imogen 8 Comments

I wanted to share some of the posts I most enjoyed writing or putting together over the past year of blogging. Enjoy the Power and Beauty of Your Youth Before and After How to Break the Style Rules The Movie of Your Wardrobe How to Be Stylish at Any Age How to Mix Colours How to [...]

Filed Under: About Imogen, Happiness Project, weekend reading

Weekend Reading (and Watching) Happy New Year to All

January 1, 2010 By Imogen 16 Comments

. . It’s 2010, and I always find the promise of a new year cleansing – a new beginning, a fresh look a the world, the opportunity to try something new or different. Sure, 1 January is an arbitary date and I could do the same thing any day of the year, but I suppose [...]

Filed Under: Happiness Project, Hats, makeup, weekend reading

Colour My World

December 21, 2009 By Imogen 8 Comments

Blogger Karen left this comment on What to Wear When Dating Do you think different cultures see colors representing different things than we normally find in the western world? Brides in China wear red for luck. In the US they might look like tarts or very aggressive women in red satin and lace. In China,white [...]

Filed Under: Colour Guide, psychological matters

Weekend Reading – Beauty Myths and Facts

December 4, 2009 By Imogen 7 Comments

How many of us are sucked in by the advertising for beauty products – the latest cream that says that 87% of people saw less lines and wrinkles? I know I desperately want to believe, but also am aware, when reading the fine print that that’s only the perception of a study of 20 people. [...]

Filed Under: grooming, Happiness Project, skin care, weekend reading