Loving this now | My Mom, The Style Icon

If you haven't seen this yet, chances are it will make it onto the periphery of your pop culture radar soon. My Mom, The Style Icon is a  blog that has - faster than a speeding bullet - become the next blog-to-book project, having been commissioned by Chronicle to produce a print edition of all the stylish retro mamas out there for 2011.

The blog is an homage to real-life style icons - mainly, our mums. The pictures tell the story, as do some of the comments. I particularly like her observation "that Women really knew how to accessorize in the '60s. Pins, hats, ribbons. If you wear any one of those items these days you better be prepared for some not-so-gentle ribbing. I think I liked people in the '60s better than us." Too true, lady, too true...

It's a log of inspirational pics. Women living life stylishly everywhere, everyday, without (in large) a staff to do it for them, the help of disposable fashion (a la Primark), endless credit and over-night shipping. 

If you've experienced internal strife about breaking free of the parred-down, frump-tastic modern woman uniform (more prevalent in the US than the UK, bless the British) of North Face fleece (in, of course, your colour of choice as a means to let your personality shine through), boot-cut jeans, running shoes, scruffy ponytail and nary an accessory in site, let this site inspire you to break the shackles of said uniform and live life with a bit of stylish elan.

My Mom, The Style Icon

A look back... favourite posts from 2009

2009 was an, erm, interesting year for me. I got engaged after a two-week courtship, made the muy prudent move to peel away from my start-up, got married, went around the world, climbed a mountain, made wine, set up home in a second city, started this site, started various other projects and have another little company in the works... it's probably been the most eventful year of this beauty blogger's life to date. Oh yes, and there was this little annoying thing called a RECESSION. Not the first in our collective lifetime, not going to be the last.

Amidst all the clamour, there was time to post and, more for myself than anyone else, I've complied a little list of my favourites from 2009. For my favourite blurbs from the last year of the first decade of the 21st century

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We're chuffed... and nominated for a juli b style award

Vote for Beauty Woo Me by clicking on the image.Just minding our own beauty blogging business the other day, and up pops a new email asking for a mailing address as we've been nominated for a juli b award. Tres bean, Rodney, tres bean.

Thus, I thought it appropriate to share the news, even if it's just for the sake of there being some record of us having actually been nominated (whether we get through this stage or not). If you fancy it and have a moment (oh yeah, and think the blog deserves it!), do click on the image and give us a vote!

Have a lovely Halloween to all and beware of teenagers with eggs and/or in packs greater than two!

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