New year, new you? Not on my watch!

I’ve got to be honest. The phrase ‘new year, new you’ sets my teeth on edge and leads me to frantically ‘delete delete delete’ anything that references it.   I imagine that you might also be mildly offended by this message fed religiously to us once every 365...

Why being StyleStuck sucks

Remember the iconic catch cry of the 90s used by make-up brand Maybelline, ‘maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline?’. The catchy jingle was everywhere, cementing the brand in the minds of a generation. Along with the blue eye shadow caked on our lids even...

A swoon-worthy system for effortless style

A few years back now I hauled my ass off the couch to walk in the Carman’s Women’s 5km Fun Run in support of breast cancer research. Nothing terribly special about that besides the fact that on that morning, I quite literally conquered couch to 5km in one shot by...

What we wear still matters

In what feels like a time and place far, faraway, long before the world shifted and working from home and getting dressed up from the chest up became de rigueur, I had some initial musings about why what we wear matters.  I’ve given some more thought to this as we’ve...

3 Steps to inspirational style. Start today!

Right now, so many of us are suffering from a deep fatigue. An exhaustion that comes from being cooped up and bored with the same sameness of our everyday lives, while simultaneously being stretched like never before as we tackle the wild abnormality of our new...

Are you fast fashion or Chanel?

There’s a considerable difference between being fashionable and being stylish. Thinking about your clothing solely in terms of fashion confuses and undermines your sense of style and ability to achieve style success. It leads you to lament that you have a wardrobe...