How-to

How to Style – A Dress Over Pants

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You will have seen this trend doing the rounds on Instagram. Net-a-Porter has even devoted an entire edit to it.  It is of course wearing a dress over your jeans. Now you know what we say about trends, they aren’t for everyone, but if you are into interesting combo’s and artful layering you might like to give this a go. Flower Power Dress: H&M Pants: Sportsgirl Shoes: MR by an Repeller Bag: Gucci Why it Works: The magic of this look is that you don’t have to restrict yourself to just jeans; a dress can work well with any type… Continue Reading →

How to Style – Gingham

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Here at Leiden we don’t normally advocate for trends; we believe everyone should dress however they damn well please. Sometimes, however, a trend comes along that makes us want to jump on its bandwagon. This week we take a good hard look at gingham and monochrome dressing.   Fun and Flirty   Gingham Hero: Skirt from Country Road Top: H&M Shoes: Miu Miu Why it works: By keeping the colour palette simple, the gingham print takes centre stage. we balanced the flirty skirt length with a long sleeve shirt, but kept things fun with flouncy frill on the sleeve. Sexy… Continue Reading →

How to Style – Three Ways with Statement Socks

Emma Batchelor 1 Comment

The change of season can be a tricky time for getting dressed. If you aren’t yet ready to commit to stockings, a good way to get more wear out of your summer faves is working a sock and shoe combo. Bare legs, a statement sock to keep your feet that little bit warmer (although not that much warmer, we’ll admit it), and a matching shoe, can earn you bonus style cred. Be careful when choosing your sock length compared to the hemline of your dress, skirt or pants, as you don’t want to make your legs appear shorter than they… Continue Reading →

How to Dress in Colour with Fiona Keary from Style Liberation

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  The rollout of fabulous workshops put on by the Canberra Centre as part of their holistic health and wellbeing hub, Eden, continues this weekend with a style workshop exploring dressing with colour, lead by Fiona Keary from Style Liberation. Fiona is a resident stylist at the Canberra Centre in addition to running her own consultancy business, Style Liberation, through which she aims to help women find confidence and presence through personal style. In her second style workshop for the Canberra Centre, Fiona explained all the nuts and bolts of dressing with colour. As someone who has always embraced colour,… Continue Reading →

How to Grow Out a Pixie Cut

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       So you’ve finally gotten up the courage to cut your hair to the most talked about length, the pixie. For someone like me, this requires months worth of thought and pinning images before I even consider going to the salon. When I am going for a big hair change, I always think about how it is going to grow out afterwards. A pixie cut is one of the most challenging styles to grow out, unless mullets are your thing. But when the time comes and you are ready to let it grow, it can take a lot of patience… Continue Reading →

How to Avoid a Bad Hair Day – The Products You Need Now

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  So this morning I rolled out of bed all ready for a fresh day. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, what a beautiful day it was going to be! Then as I walked into the bathroom I caught a glimpse of myself on the mirror. Stopped dead in my tracks, I stared at the ghastly mess of hair on top of my head. Bad hair day. Luckily for me I have a huge arsenal of hair product with which I can use to tame the dreaded beast. But it got me thinking about the days before I… Continue Reading →

How To Shop for a new Fragrance

Tina Andrews 6 Comments

In my daily life as Beauty Personal Shopping Queen, I often meet people who want me to help them find a fragrance “I need a fragrance for my wedding” or “I want to smell like a chocolate coated musk stick” or “I want a coffee scent with a heart note of cigarettes” is often what I hear. OK, the last two are a slight embellishment, but I do hear some quirky requests and let me tell you, I am happy to oblige and show off my fragrance knowledge in these instances. Buying fragrance is an emotional purchase and very personal. It… Continue Reading →

A Beauty Masterclass with Eleanor Pendleton of Gritty Pretty

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  On a cold, foggy Saturday morning, I was lucky enough to attend a beauty masterclass lead by Gritty Pretty editor, Eleanor Pendleton, at the Canberra Centre. Eleanor was warm, open and fun, it was a pleasure to hear her speak about herself, her business and all things beauty. Like most of us, Eleanor’s first beauty memories are associated with her mum. ‘She had a morning ritual of moisturising from head to toe’ she laughs. ‘I’m also one of two sisters; we were always playing with makeup.’ In her teen years Eleanor described herself as a bit of a tomboy… Continue Reading →