Feel Good Fashion & Beauty Tips
Hello from sunny Spain! We are mixing work with pleasure over at the Villa after an incredibly exciting but also busy few weeks working with incredible brands and covering all things fashion for national and international outlets.
I’m rounding up this week’s Feel Good Fashion & Beauty favourites from my content on Instagram, TikTok & YouTube!
Silver sequins and the sweetest jewellery 🫶🏼
What could be a better combination?!
Admittedly this was filmed last week when there was a fiery yellow ball in the sky, but even on the dullest of days, the humble sequin has the power to boost your complexion like nothing else. ✨✨
Watch the Feel Good Fashion Reel here:
Fix droopy eyes in seconds! 👀
So simple, but sooo good!
This hack takes moments, but lifts your whole face!
Just remember to blend well!!
Try it and let me know… and share your age defying beauty hacks in the comments below! I’ll try them out!
Watch the Feel Good Beauty reel here:
It’s ok to walk away… 🦋
One saying that always gets me thinking is ‘we are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with’.
It’s definitely food for thought. Do your tribe lift you up, make you feel happy, make your heart burst with joy?
Or do they bring about feelings of self-doubt, low confidence, or just make you stick to bad habits?
We all change. Sometimes through naturally getting older and wiser, sometimes after life-changing events, sometimes after therapy, and it’s ok to leave certain people behind if they no longer feel good for you.
If something is right energetically, it feels expansive and makes you grow, if it is wrong, the energy contracts and somehow makes you feel smaller and tighter.
It’s perfectly ok to do a little energy ‘health check’ with those around you every now and again and say farewell to those who are no longer on your wavelength.
It’s not mean or selfish. It’s self-care.
It may well not be forever either…
I’ve got some first hand experience of this, having ‘separated’ from some major players in my life for a few years, as I realised the relationship was doing me more harm than good.
It was one of the best decisions I could ever make for my own mental health.
Trust yourself and prioritise your own wellbeing.
You’ve got this.
View the Feel Good Fashion reel here:
Cycling into the holidays in style… 🚲🏝️
At the risk of sounding exactly like my parents, I cannot believe how fast this year has flown by.
I’ve got 4 possible reasons for the above, let me know which one you most resonate with:
1. The years go by faster as we get older, as they become a proportionally smaller part of our lives. (Depressing but possibly true)
2. We are all just busier. (Depressing but probably true)
3. Time has literally sped up - this is what is literally happening according to many Spiritualists and although also a bit depressing (depending I guess on how you look at it) is a WAY more fun hypothesis than 1 & 2.
4. All of the above. 💨
Either way, I can’t believe I am on the first stint of our Summer hols, back at the Villa here in Spain. We are here for 10 days or so, then back for a spell, so Jack can go to Boardmasters Festival (yep, we’ve reached the stage where the kids social life is usually more interesting than ours), then back here for the rest of August.
Despite the appearance of that rather novel fiery ball in the sky (I had almost forgotten what it was) it’s pretty much home from home here, so I will be working a teeny bit… to be honest I’d struggle to go cold turkey for too long… but I am also planning to prioritise plenty of me-time in the sunshine, and get stuck into a really really great book, it’s the only time I have the headspace to really read.. and I can’t wait to dive right in!
View the Feel Good Fashion post here:
You absolutely need to know this! ☀️
Not just for bikinis, but anything with a tie-close - and it’s genius, even if I do say so myself! ⭐️
Just loop each side into a very loose knot, thread each end through the other loop, and you have an adjustable fastening that won’t need re-doing each time.
Wearing my very favourite bikini brand - the one and only Trubikini - swimwear to treasure, go and take a peek!
Watch the Feel Good Fashion reel here:
Underarm hair: Are you team grow or team mow?! 🤔
This one has really got me thinking.
Recently, many female celebs have championed body hair, with Julia Roberts, Miley Cyrus, Sophia Loren and Madonna all leading the charge.
A Mintel study has recently found that one in four women stopped shaving their body hair, and this figure has only increased since lockdown 📈
Brands are also getting in on the act, with companies such as Nike and Nuud also jumping on the bodyhairpositive bandwagon.
For some, it's another accessory - a way of making a look more unique and personal or even an outfit more interesting 💫
For others it's nothing short of revolting.
Full disclosure - I'm not a fan - but I have challenged myself to examine why.
As a stylist, I appreciate beauty, symmetry, the sensual curves of a woman - and to me a bit of pit hair seems incongruous - but I'm not sure that I'm not still being influenced by connotations of uncleanliness about this that I was taught in the 80s - which is of course ridiculous.
Another part of me thinks this shaving malarkey is all just wrong. - Exactly WHO are we doing it for?!
Is it just (another) way of teaching women to be ashamed of their beautiful, miraculous body's in all their natural glory - just as in many societies we are asked to hide away to breastfeed whilst racy booby shots objectifying us are the accepted norm?
Although aesthetically I prefer the clean lines of shaving... I do feel, especially with a beautiful teenage daughter coming out into the world, that connotations of shame, uncleanliness and any other negativity should be abolished 🙅♀️
Have your say over on Instagram!
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🌟Fun fact!! 🌟
I used to be a method actor 🎭
I trained under the Stanislavski system of really ‘becoming’ a character.... sensory recall, emotional memory, deep character... I absolutely loved becoming someone else for a while, and thinking how. would they move, how would they speak, how would they feel.
Every actor has a favourite trigger that really helps them fully slip into character before a show. For some it’s doing a certain activity which helps sets the tone, for others it’s being quiet and recalling a particular moment that makes them feel something... for me it was always the ritual of stepping into the costume 💫
From the underwear, right through to the shoes, I turned the act of dressing for the part into a meditative ritual. As I put on my clothes, I became the other person dressing for their day. By the time I was fully ready, I stood differently, behaved differently, I had become them until the end of the production.
I think this was part of the reason why I became a stylist, clothes for me have always held a certain transformational magic...they can empower... provide escapism.. feed your imagination.. they allow you to be whomever you want to be ⭐️
They allow us to embrace, explore and express the many facets of ourselves, a playground of colour, silhouette, pattern and print...
...which is why I shall be forever playing dress up!
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YOUR Summer reads recommendations! 📚
This is definitely a post to save for later and share with your friends - view the full list over on my Instagram!
Looking for a juicy book to get stuck into this Summer? ☀️
Well here's what you lovely lot recommended to me on stories last week, I promised I'd share and here we are.
The specification was: something 'unputdownable' and this is what you came up with!
If you have any other must-read recommendations, please leave them in the comments below for us all to refer back to.
Happy reading my friends!
View the Book Recommendations post here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvfQXukMPn4/?img_index=1
Have a wonderful weekend!
Love,
Mx
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