Start Shopping with Style Palace!

The long awaited, highly anticipated launch of stylepalace.com.au has finally arrived.

The team at Style Palace HQ would like to thank you all for your ongoing support and patience while the SP eBoutique has been under construction.Today we open the Palace doors and invite you to peruse the collections from some of Australia's leading fashion designers, accessories labels, swimwear collections and pampering body products.

Happy Shopping

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It's Playtime!

Channel 70’s glam in this season’s hottest alternative to the summer frock. Playsuits are back in a big way and we have all the options to take you from beach to bar and even to the race track.

For relaxed poolside glamour you can’t go past the cute aqua blue vintage print playsuit by Lil Designs. For a night out with the girls, check out Story by Tang’s version - a sexy little black silk number that looks great with a pair of killer heels.

For a knock-out evening option, our favourite is the Madame Marie Illustrious Whispers Catsuit in Oyster. The flowing fabric and wide-cut leg will ensure you float into the room, to make it an entrance everyone will remember.

These styles and more will be available from www.stylepalace.com.au very soon …

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The Milkmaid Braid and Hot Hair Tips for Summer

Paulette Contessi, owner of The Parlour Aveda Concept Salon in Nedlands, Western Australia said the hottest hair trend for summer was the milkmaid braid – a look celebrities including Sienna Miller and Jennifer Lopez have recently been seen sporting.

“This look is a playful alternative to the standard braid or ponytail and it’s simple to do with long hair – using your centre part as a guideline, create two plaits at the back of your hairline then run the plaits around the side of your head, over the crown, meeting up at the start,” Paulette said.

Ms Contessi offered five other top trends for the season and tips for summer hair care to protect against the combination of sun, salt, sweat and chlorine:

NATURAL INGREDIENTS

The myriad of chemicals in commercial hair products can lead to an itchy, dry scalp and weakening of hair strands so stay away from nasty chemicals in your hair and beauty regime and instead stick to naturally-based hair dyes.

SUN PROTECTION

With summer’s heat and dryness, it is vitally important keep your hair protected by regularly using an intense hair masque treatment – a great new product to try is Aveda Sun Care After-Sun Hair Masque.

BEACH BABE LOCKS

The hottest look this summer is natural relaxed waves and the great news is that it’s a very simple look to achieve simply by applying a light leave-in conditioner and curling each strand of hair around your fingers as you blow dry your hair!

NATURAL COLOURS

Frizzed-out, crazy coloured hair is out – this season it’s time to go back to nature and embrace your natural colour or ask your hairdresser to put in some natural looking highlights and lowlights.

CHOP IT

A short do is the easiest way to keep your hair looking fabulous and healthy during summer, so if you dare, take the plunge this season and chop it!

For more information about hair treatments, visit http://www.theparlour.com.au/.

What the heel is all the fuss about?

Posh wore these Antonio Berardi black latex thigh-high heelless boots to her latest fragrance launch and started tongues wagging about the latest fashion dilemma to strike shoe lovers everywhere…to heel or not to heel?

That is the question, but the answers are varied and while there are some staunch heelless shoe lovers out there - there certainly are some haters too!

Australian designer shoe store chain, Evelyn Miles, is currently stocking the Mark Jacobs heelless shoe which has reportedly received a mixed response from shoppers.

They have been most popular with the younger Gen Y and Gen X shoppers who, let’s face it, are often a little more daring and more eager to adopt new trends the second they emerge. But who also haven’t yet developed the nasty ‘foot issues’ us older chooks have been left with after years of wearing killer heels.

Needless to say, these heels bring new meaning to the phrase ‘killer heels’ and besides the fact that they may (or may not) look good, they are guaranteed to give you sore feet – if not a snapped Achilles heel!

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The SP launch parade was held during Perth Fashion Festival on Friday, 5 September. We have just finished putting together the parade highlights and if we must say so ourselves we are very proud of the finished product. Click on the pic of our Princess to see the footage.

We hope you enjoy the show! And stay tuned as SP will be live very, very soon.



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Hot new European Salon Trend Opens in Perth

Australia has opened its doors to Europe’s hottest hair and makeup trend – an express-service blow dry and makeup salon.

The nation’s first concept salon, Style Bar will offer fixed-cost 30 minute hair and makeup sessions with a backstage at fashion week atmosphere.

Style Bar clients can walk in off the street – no appointment needed – and select from a carefully-crafted menu of classic and seasonal hair and makeup styles.

“Style Bar will be the nation’s first express-service hair and make-up beauty salon, following suit of new concept salons that have been making waves in glamorous cities like London and New York,” owner and creator Paulette Contessi said.

Ms Contessi said Australia was making a name for itself in global fashion and the introduction of Style Bar was another example of the country’s pace in worldwide style trends.

Style Bar will initially be established in Perth but had already received interest from Sydney and Melbourne and the intention is to expand across Australia in the near future.

Style Bar will have an exclusive line of makeup – ‘Style Bar Cosmetics’, and will be the first in Perth to stock the full range of GHD hair products and straighteners.

Style Bar will also be the exclusive Australian outlet for Jonathan Products – created by world-renowned stylist Jonathan Antin, who has worked with a host of celebrities including Madonna, Kate Bosworth and Olivia Newton John.

Style Bar is set to open in Carillon City, on the Hay Street Level in Perth. For more information on Style Bar please visit stylebar.com.au.

Extremely Ethical Clothing

It is always great to hear about people and businesses that give a little back to the community and support making the world a more sustainable place to live. I came across this great site called lightningfast.com which was set up in 2006 by Steve and Will who wanted to make a difference and help the plight of children in some of the world's poorest communities. They have developed a range of groovy organic t-shirts and channel 50% of their profits to charities helping children and families in countries around the world.

Sustainability is part of all activities Lightning Fast is involved with and it's great to see fashion supporting such a great cause.

Please check out lightningfast.com and see what it's all about.

Congratulations Steve and Will from everyone at Style Palace - we salute you for making a difference.