In The Well: cAr0l

OldGoat

Ladies (and lads) please show your apprication for the arival of Carol to the well. Question her with your questions, delve into her wardrobe and riffle through her drawers.
Remember that it's all about the fashion and lets keep 'chatting' to another thread.


Mods privledge of asking the first question.
Are you a good critic of other peoples clothes? If your friend asks your opinion on something she has just spent a small fortune on do you tell her out straight that it's kac or do you tell her it's georgous and then try to hide it with accessories?

insert-gear

Very good question Old Goat.

I like to get a sense of someones style so I can tear it apart with my questions so a brief idea please?

And the old favourites, most expensive item of clothing?

Ultimate fashion hatred?

Personal fashion faux pas

LadyMayBelle

Need to get a sense of your style too. What is your usual attire on a day to day basis? Are there any celebs whose fashion style you love?

cee_jay

OldGoat wrote: »

Ladies (and lads) please show your apprication for the arival of Carol to the well. Question her with your questions, delve into her wardrobe and riffle through her drawers.
Remember that it's all about the fashion and lets keep 'chatting' to another thread.


Mods privledge of asking the first question.
Are you a good critic of other peoples clothes? If your friend asks your opinion on something she has just spent a small fortune on do you tell her out straight that it's kac or do you tell her it's georgous and then try to hide it with accessories?

Well I am a pretty straight forward person in general so I tell them straight out.
Actually just did it last weekend to my mum She bought these expensive shoes that were horrible and made her return them to the shop and went and bought her a different pair instead.

cee_jay

insert-gear wrote: »

Very good question Old Goat.

I like to get a sense of someones style so I can tear it apart with my questions so a brief idea please?

And the old favourites, most expensive item of clothing?

Ultimate fashion hatred?

Personal fashion faux pas

Most expensive item is a dress I got in Monsoon a couple of summers back, paid nearly €300 for it, and I have only wore it once :mad:

Ultimate fashion hatred is probably those people who wear PJs outside the house (if you can call that fashion). Apart from that its probably body con dresses - kinda getting a bit tired of seeing the same style dress on practically every girl out on a Saturday night.

cee_jay

LadyPennyworth wrote: »

Need to get a sense of your style too. What is your usual attire on a day to day basis? Are there any celebs whose fashion style you love?

Love Holly Willoughby's fashion style.

My usual attire is jeans (I live in jeans), long boyfriend cardis, and converse. Luckily I can get away wearing this to work most days as long as I have a passable enough top on and the jeans are dark.

Seonad

What would you wear on a night out?

LadyMayBelle

So you're a jeans/converse/cardi person..sounds like myself

Is there anything to be said for buying a 'decent pair of runners' and not these lightweight converse yokes? (okay, that question would be one that comes form my mother; she hates converse). Do you wear 'proper' shoes at all?

Are you are people watcher for style?

Any blogs you use/like/recommend?

Biggest fashion mistake (to include the teenage years)

cee_jay

LadyPennyworth wrote: »

So you're a jeans/converse/cardi person..sounds like myself

Is there anything to be said for buying a 'decent pair of runners' and not these lightweight converse yokes? (okay, that question would be one that comes form my mother; she hates converse). Do you wear 'proper' shoes at all?

Are you are people watcher for style?

Any blogs you use/like/recommend?

Biggest fashion mistake (to include the teenage years)

My mother hated converse too - I have converted her though. There is definitely a lot to be said for a "decent pair of runners" - but only in the gym and not outside it! Although saying that converse and the rain really don't go.
I do wear "proper" shoes, I also wear boots similar to these and these, but never anything very high - I am tall and pretty accident prone so me and heels don't really go. I have around 20 pairs of shoes, love buying shoes but its the wearing them on a day to day basis that I never really get around to because the cons are so comfy.

As being a people watcher for style, I am for sure. Have asked strangers on the street/on nights out where they have bought something, and love the latest purchases thread here for ideas.

I am not really a blog follower. Beaut.ie is about it, but I love makeup. Was in Boston recently and spent around $400 in Sephora.

cee_jay

LadyPennyworth wrote: »

Biggest fashion mistake (to include the teenage years)

Probably a pair of white and luminous pink runners I had when I was 13. I begged my mum to buy them for me, and wore them everywhere, around 6 months later I realised how awful they really were.

Seren_

I've a few questions

Is there one item in your wardrobe that you just couldn't live without?

Do you think accessories make an outfit?

If you could buy any piece of clothing/shoes/whatever and money wasn't an object, what would you buy and why?

insert-gear

Do you ever read fashion magazines?

Is there any designers you like the style of

Do you ever wear lipstick?

Favourite colour combinations to wear?

Ever gotten professional advice (Im envisioning Bridget Jones' mum trying to get her colours done)

cee_jay

Your Text Here wrote: »

I've a few questions

Is there one item in your wardrobe that you just couldn't live without?

Do you think accessories make an outfit?

If you could buy any piece of clothing/shoes/whatever and money wasn't an object, what would you buy and why?

Love accessories, and love the way some people accessorise - they really do make an outfit. I, however, am the worst in the world for it. I have loads of chains, bracelets, earrings, etc etc, in every colour in the sun, and end up wearing the same ring, chain and bracelet nearly every day. I just don't think I am able to pull it off like some other people can with such ease. Saying that Bijou Brigette would be one of my fav shops for accessories and could easily spend €150 euro there everytime I go to Spain - what I wouldn't give for the shop to come over here!

The one item in my wardrobe I couldn't do without would probably be my favourite jeans. They are Tommy Hilfiger, got them in the states, they fit like a glove, are so soft, and I can't find the same pair anymore.

As for what I would buy if money was no object, that's a tough one! Would love a Chloe handbag to start (http://www.chloe.com/#/collections/accessories/spring-2010/look-07/en - the green one). I saw a pair of green boots in Schuh during the week, can't find them online just now though, they were €250 and I couldn't justify paying that for them, even though they were lovely. Would love Sarah Jessica Parker's shoe wardrobe (with the shoes) from Sex and the City - even though I wouldn't wear most of them. She had some fab shoes in that show.

cee_jay

insert-gear wrote: »

Do you ever read fashion magazines?

Is there any designers you like the style of

Do you ever wear lipstick?

Favourite colour combinations to wear?

Ever gotten professional advice (Im envisioning Bridget Jones' mum trying to get her colours done)

Never read fashion magazines, unless there is one lying on the table in the canteen at work, or at the hairdressers. Not a lover of them at all.

There's no particular designer I like the style of to be honest, I am a very much mix and match type person. And don't tend to buy designer normally.

Never wear lipstick, ever. Don't even own a lipstick. Am a lip gloss gal all the way, have around 10 Smashbox lip glosses in every colour Have been thinking of trying the whole red lipstick look for a wedding next week though, don't know how brave I am for that though.

Favourite colour combinations...... I am a lover of navy, not so much black. With navy I normally put either green, grey or white/cream. I tend to go for earthy tones more than pastel type colours.

As for professional advise, there's 2 beauty therapists in my family So they tend to advise on makeup a lot, they will recommend, get us to be guinea pigs and the like, so it can be very handy.

insert-gear

Do your friends consider you "the stylish one" do you ever get asked for clothes advice etc

How are you as a shopping partner?

We

fwiw, well threads on various forums usually start with this quote:

"A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except (x)day, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer" .

The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down: Why not on (x)day? and the voice from in the well shouts back: Because on (x)day, it’s your day in the well"

=]

cee_jay

insert-gear wrote: »

Do your friends consider you "the stylish one" do you ever get asked for clothes advice etc

How are you as a shopping partner?

As a shopping partner I have been told I am not the best. A friend has said I "shop like a man" - which is a bad thing in her eyes. I like to go in, have a quick scan to check for something interesting, and don't like hanging around.
Shops like TK Maxx do my nut in because I can't stand rooting.
Penneys on a busy day as well is my idea of hell on earth. Which is probably why I very rarely find bargains in there.
But the same friend will bring me shopping because I will tell her straight out if I like something or not.

I wouldn't be considered the "stylish one" - I have a few friends who always dress really well, and accessorise very well, so they would be the stylish ones, and me the slob in jeans & runners But when the occasion fits I do scrub up well and can don a dress when needs be.

insert-gear

Favourite item of jewellery?

And is there any jewellery you just cant wear (earings irritating you etc)

Seonad

Seonad wrote: »

What would you wear on a night out?

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OldGoat

Seonad wrote: »

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It's the interviewees perogitive to answer or not answer any questions that they want to.

LadyMayBelle

Hair wise, are you a dyer? If so, a home dyer or a salon one. Any particular hair products you use?

Any beauty tips you could share with us? I see you have have two beauticians in your family (lucky, I tried to convince my siblings for years to become one or a hairdresser..didn't work so well as they are lads!!)

cee_jay

insert-gear wrote: »

Favourite item of jewellery?

And is there any jewellery you just cant wear (earings irritating you etc)

Favourite item of jewellery is a charm bracelet I got for my birthday this year, its a ti sento one. Have 2 charms on it at the moment, a "C" and a drop pearl.
Think my mum has got me another charm for Christmas too, and I think its an oyster open with a pearl inside it.
I always seem to wear the same necklace, which is a silver wishbone. And have the same celtic knot ring on my middle finger since 2004 - that never comes off.
As for watches, at the moment I am rotating between around 5 different ones - love Fossil watches, have 3 currently.

There is a lot of jewellery I can't wear, all my jewellery is sterling silver just to be on the safe side because otherwise I come out in a rash or if its earrings it has happened where my lobe has swelled up around the earring :mad: very sore I can say!

cee_jay

Seonad wrote: »

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Sorry missed this question the other day!

On a night out, its dark wash jeans and a dressy top. That's for a night out on a Saturday night. A-Wear is currently my favourite shop for going out tops, because I find I get tired of those sort of tops fast. Also like New Look and River Island. Sometimes I might wear leggings/thick tights and a shirt style dress.
For weddings/special occasions, I have quite a few Pierce II Fionda and Debut style dresses.

cee_jay

LadyPennyworth wrote: »

Hair wise, are you a dyer? If so, a home dyer or a salon one. Any particular hair products you use?

Any beauty tips you could share with us? I see you have have two beauticians in your family (lucky, I tried to convince my siblings for years to become one or a hairdresser..didn't work so well as they are lads!!)

I dye every now and then, don't have the inclination to keep a dye up, so only ever go semi permanent, and it depends on the bank balance if its a home dye job or in the salon. Dyed it a brown/red colour last month in the salon for my birthday, but probably won't do that again for at least 6-9 months.
Although I can see it becoming a more regular occurance because I am beginning to notice a few grey hairs peeking through.

I always use Aussie Miracle Hair Insurance Leave in Conditioner - love the stuff, have been using it for over 2 years now.
Although in the past few weeks have been trying the whole "natural" shampoo and conditioner thing suggested on a thread here for curly hair even though I have straight hair. My scalp can get very dry and itchy at times so said I would try it out to see, but my hair has just been greasy since. So will be going back to Aussie/Pantene shampoo, and my normal conditioner.


As for beauty tips, it would be http://www.beautyexpress.co.uk/product-Heated-Mitts-PN32.htm - heated mitts (got this tip last week). My hands can be very dry, so smother your hands in intensive moisturiser, and stick in these for around 15 minutes, and your hands will be as soft as a baby's.

(by the way, the 2 in my family married into the family - so you'll have to get them onto the case pronto!)