Style Your Life blog with celebrity stylist and image consultant Ceril Campbell
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It’s a great Mother’s day present or a gift for yourself to find out how to become “your best you” with self-confidence and style. Whether you are a new young mum or a more mature woman I want you to look in the mirror and love what you see.
Discover the New You, celebrity stylist secrets to transform your life.
The question I get asked all the time is what makes a good stylist? In my opinion, after 30 years of styling, it’s being able to translate the client’s brief into reality efficiently, on a budget, and in a short time period, whilst making the artist look and feel wonderful for both their own esteem and public perception.
So when asked to create an image and look, at very short notice, for the new girl band VANQUISH, I talked to the girls themselves about their look and also their manager and their video director and listened carefully to all their wishes….to make sure there could be no mistakes
I observed their individual personalities,
watched them perform,
considered their target age audience for what looks would be aspirational
selected styles/colours/looks to fit each personality,bodyshape,and colouring
and most importantly made sure the artistes were happy and comfortable in the 3 sets of performance outfits my assistant stylist Sophie selected to my brief
With a selection of High st clothing ranging from New Look to Zara, Topshop, Primark and more all in one very long day, the girls had 3 sets of outfits together ready to perform on the main stage at the British Grand Prix last Saturday, the VIP tent on Sunday and for their new Video to be filmed across Monday and Tuesday
Here are some of the results
everyone seemed very happy, especially the girls.
“ROYAL WEDDING OF A LIFETIME” for the USA TV network, A&E.
will be shown on Mylifetime.com over 6 shows starting Monday 18th April at 11pm (not sure whether that is UK time)
I am appearing in shows 2 and 3. “Tale of 2 princesses at 8pm on 21st April and 9pm “Kate’s gown of renown” at 9pm.
It was such fun filming it as I was given a “Kate Middleton look-alike” to style and show how the real Kate would get the look both in a wedding dress and her day clothes.
Looking forward to the wedding on the 29th when I am commenting for BBC Radio 5 live on the fashions and The Dress.
Last weekend saw the 83rd Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood. As we’ve come to expect, there were many glamorous dresses to be seen on the red carpet. Here are a few of my suggestions as to what the celebrities could be wearing underneath to get their look – all chosen from the range at my RedCarpetUndies website.
For Natalie Portman, showing off her baby bump,an over the tum thong by Anita:
For the Anne Hathaway strapless look, the Charnos Eve multiway bra:
For Scarlett Johansson, the Ultimo Miracle Backless Body:
And for Gwyneth Paltrow, the Ultimo Miracle V-shaped Body (as modelled by Mel B):
Click on a photo above to go to that item on the RedCarpetUndies site.
Get the look, like Emma Watson at the BAFTAs this weekend, with a multiway bra from my lingerie website, RedCarpetUndies…
The latest trend in celebrity fashion, as demonstrated by Cheryl Cole at the National Television Awards, is the “side boob”. The Sun were quick to pick up on it, in their article here.
To help you get the look, Ultimo have produced the “side cleavage bra” – you can buy this online now from my Red Carpet Undies website.
Toupee tape is definitely a must-have for the Christmas Party Season. The tape holds your "barely there" low-cut, plunging or backless dresses firmly in place usually stopping any wardrobe malfunctions. But it’s important that the tape is carefully placed on non-moisturised, clean, dry skin to hold it properly in place. Most importantly care should be taken that the tape doesn’t show. Unfortunately no-one was checking Emma Watson’s tape (at the Harry Potter premiere) that was supposed to be holding her backless dress in place…This picture was in all the papers – unfortunately as the back view, not the more glamorous front view of Emma.
You can buy top grade tape that stays put on both your dresses and your body at www.redcarpetundies.com
This photograph, in today’s Daily Mail, shows actress Christina Hendricks (from TV’s Mad Men series) wearing cargo trousers, flip flops, t-shirt and a cardigan, no makeup and specs, looking absolutely normal. This just goes to show that there’s hope for us all. However we look on an everyday basis, we all can look fabulous too with the help of good makeup and hair styling/cut, and properly fitted underwear and shapewear that gives curves in the right places. Clothes that flatter and suit the bodyshape- (in Christina’s case a curvaceous hourglass)- will simply be the icing on the cake.
See, there’s hope for us all without airbrushing or cosmetic surgery. It’s all about learning how to make the most of yourself when you need to! 
I will be giving my first guest tutorial “Celebrity stylist” session at the new Style School is West London today.
My class is for a group of 16 year olds.
They will learn about first impressions, body language, looking appropriate, what makes a great Celebrity stylist, how to work with Celebrities, Celebrity insecurities, bodyshape, shapewear and lingerie, finding the best Red Carpet outfits, which celebrities are stylish and of course about my world-past and present.
I find it fascinating and rewarding working with teenagers, especially when it also helps their own self-esteem and confidence . Its so important to show them they dont have to be a size 0 either
my next affordable-to-all group workshop for women to find out how to solve all their beauty, style, bodyshape, hair,lingerie, wardrobe dilemmas in a 2 hour workshop with me this evening in Chelsea.
The next workshops are on Thursday 22nd Thursday 23rd September.
My first workshop out of London at Warner Leisure Hotels at Littlecote, Berkshire is on 25th September.
