Calling all you fashionistas/style gurus! We need your style-and-beauty tips

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello.

We're thinking of doing an MN Guide to Style and Beauty - but we can't do it without you!

We'd love you to post bestest, wittiest, most practical style/hair/beauty tips, secrets, rules, dos and don'ts on this thread.

Obviously, we're thinking "this will make you look good in the 13 seconds you have between getting up and getting the kids up", rather than "this will make you look good but takes six hours and £3000 to achieve".

Right, over to you. And thank you!

always wear lippy, I thought I looked washed out the other day so slapped some on and was told I looked glamorous!!

always wear Boden its the Marmite of the fashion world

and gives people a chance to have a right good bitch

you have the foundation wrong mate

ROFL @ "e.g. scarfs (buy a long woolly one from a very expensive shop and wrap it round your neck) "

Consider your shoes and bags when buying "occasion" wear
Whilst not exciting, decent neutral shoes will lengthen your legs in almost anything and rarely, if ever, look shit
The same cannot be said by overly glitzy toe stranglers or clumpy black clodhoppers matched to a delicate dress.

Also matchy matchy screams Mother of the Bride......you have been warned

RONALD
what dress at wallis

Wallis? Am I entering the twilight zone?

oh noes
whoel THREAD on wallis
brb

see through sleeves wrist length, black plain body
nice
you wanna link?

NO FOR THAT IS MINE
get off it

too late my fiend

You've all been ordering cheap dresses from Wallis. Beeches.

No one tells me anything. humph.

i am using the code

i repeat i amsuing the code

wally wallis

Link me all the nice stuff. Don't wanna sift through fuglies.

Have found that velvet number. purrrr

you cannot claim all of wallis.. you can claim all of per una if you want though

snurk

also ordered teal pocket dress for work

www.wallis.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=20551& storeId=12557&productId=1370457&langId=-1&categoryId=&parentcategoryrn=

link!!!!

love it...who is this wallis and what have they done with the old wallis?
where oh where has all the short crotched polyester gone?

Yes very very nice. Is it short though? Some of those coats are very like Boden's uptown coat but half the price.
I have already ordered this tonight in my wine addled state. If only I'd seen the Wallis thread earlier.

its £178 though
are you nuts