November 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Fashion & Beauty

Step by Step to 40s Style Party Hair

As promised here is a quick step by step tutorial to a 40s style hair do. It’s really dead easy to do, though you will find it gets easier to do with practice. One day I’ll do some tutorials on video, but right now I don’t have anything that videos for longer than 30 seconds,

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Fashion & Beauty

Ethical Design Spotlight – Beautiful Soul

I came across Beautiful Soul at the estEthica exhibition at London Fashion Week and got another look at the press day a couple of weeks ago. Designer Nicola Woods only graduated from the London College of Fashion in 2008 and, after spending her summer designing for a Charity in South Africa, returned to the UK

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Fashion & Beauty

Little Black Dress and A BIG Thank You.

Well, mostly black. This Laura Ashley dress has a block of coral colour and great wide shoulder straps that meet in the centre back. I’m in love with it, but as it’s slightly too small (you can probably see it pulling a bit on my hips, if you can’t then don’t look…) I’m letting it

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Fashion & Beauty

Countdown with Class…

There’s a bit of a calendar theme emerging here don’t you think? Yesterday post was on calendar jewellery and today’s is on Advent Calendars. I suspect this is a theme that will burn itself out pretty quickly as I can’t think of anywhere else to go with it. The reason for todays post is that

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Fashion & Beauty

Channeling Audrey Hepburn Hair…

I’ve had short hair for a long time. After an earlier experiment with a floppy Linda Evangelista cut I finally gave up long hair for good around the mid 90s and never looked back. Since then it’s generally hovered around chin length. Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford a hair cut, it made it’s way to

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Travel & Events

Champagne in Paris on a Shoestring

Bonjour! Retro Chick is back from her European jaunt. I had a few days of unrivalled luxury, all on a budget of next to nothing. Some things I was very lucky with and others required a little hard work and budgeting. Hairband - Topshop * Sunglasses - Wilkinsons * Silk Dress - M&S via a

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Fashion & Beauty

Luscious Lingerie – Miss Lala Presents

So, my obsession with gorgeous lingerie continues as last week I went to a press day and came face to face with a rack full of gorgeous pretties from Miss La La. Miss La La is not only a boutique in Covent Garden that stocks adorable fashion and accesories like Bebaroque, Ashish, Lowie and Sara

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Fashion & Beauty

Ethical Design Spotlight – Lowie

Seeing as I have a fantastic Lowie giveaway running, courtesy of Cerise UK,  it seemed to make sense to make them my ethical design spotlight for the October (yes, I know it’s November, I’m late, ok!) Designer Bronwyn Lowenthal started knitwear label Lowie in 2002 with the aim of producing clothing that people would actually

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Fashion & Beauty

Tim Burton and some Halloween Fashion Inspiration

Tim Burton has long been one of my favourite directors. I saw Edward Scissorhands at the cinema in Blackpool, in 1990 aged 11, and cried my little heart out with full on sobbing. Before I was aware that they were directed by the same person, let alone of the concept of director as Auteur, I

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