Rosemary Mac Cabe

• photography stylists
• November 30, 2011, 16:30

A couple of weeks ago I did a shoot in the beautiful surroundings of the Pine Forest Art Centre with photographer Naomi Gaffey, Sarah Lanagan on make-up, David Cashman on hair and assisted by Ena Quinn, Hannah Copeland and Clare …

• reviews
• November 30, 2011, 12:00

A couple of weeks back, I was sent this eye palette by Sleek from Cloud 10 Beauty to trial. As I’m currently working my way through my Urban Decay Naked palette (like the rest of the country, I’d imagine), I …

• celebrity
• November 29, 2011, 08:30

Correction! That is not Evan Rachel Wood in American Horror Story. I am an idiot. But at least I can admit my own idiocy. And I’ll leave the post here so you can all see me for the sad, sorry, …

• dresses online shopping
• November 25, 2011, 17:30

Have you ever seen anything more beautiful? I hate to be overly dramatic about it, but this gorgeous maxi dress from Topshop is just stunning – and I can imagine so many occasions for which it would be perfect. (It …

• menswear
• November 25, 2011, 16:30

This week’s column was on menswear – did you read it? – and, in the course of my research, I came across these great menswear images from Next. Slick! I think one accusation levelled quite frequently at menswear is that …

• magazines photography
• November 25, 2011, 14:30

This shoot, featuring Karlie Kloss, in Vogue Germany, is worth reposting (and reposting and reposting) for its sheer dream factor – and for its resemblance to that Clarks Magic Steps ad, which will forever hold a special place in my …

• competitions
• November 25, 2011, 10:30

So Christmas is seriously getting closer and closer; I can’t quite believe that I started this series three weeks ago, it feels like only five minutes ago! But it’s made me accept that there’s no slowing time and that I …

• bargains
• November 25, 2011, 08:30

Oh HAI y’all it’s Black Friday, and y’all know what that means? Discounts! In the case of The Body Shop, it means 30% off everything instore today. That’s a serious discount and one I would definitely be taking advantage of, …

• DIY
• November 24, 2011, 08:30

Lately I’ve been faced with that familiar conundrum: how to make those things you love last longer – because no one wants to bin their number one dress of 2011 as soon as 2012 rolls around just because it’s frayed …

• competitions
• November 24, 2011, 08:30

Happy Thanksgiving! Mostly that’s what I’d like to say today; I’m taking a break from the blog for the whole day to eat turkey and yams and pumpkin pie and give thanks for colonialism and cheap flights in Portland. While …

• reviews
• November 23, 2011, 12:30

You have to give in to the inevitable when not one, not two but three make-up artists recommend the same foundation to you – and so it was with a hesitant and, frankly, suspicious, spirit that I purchased my first …

• celebrity magazines
• November 23, 2011, 10:30

The other day I watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona in Portland, Oregon with two of my favourite people in the world and we decided – or, rather, I decided – that, though ScarJo is hot, she is really annoying, or, at …

• street style
• November 23, 2011, 08:30

This is Eleanora. The other day she was papped by Mr Newton, just getting lunch on Park Avenue. As you do. Please discuss.

• celebrity dresses
• November 22, 2011, 14:30

Yes, you heard it here first – buying your wedding dress off the back of, oh, I don’t know, a royal wedding, say, or that teen vampire film wedding dress? So not cool. But thanks to the glorious powers of …

• celebrity street style
• November 22, 2011, 12:30

So this is going to be a bit of a picture dump, which I haven’t done in a while, so bear with me! Just a few things inspiring me at the moment . . . (Why is it that I’m …

• fashion shows seasonal dressing
• November 22, 2011, 10:30

Today is going to be a “case for” kinda day, I can feel it. In this case (geddit?) I’m talking saving my moolah all through this dastardly winter – but for what? you might ask. Well, you’re right to ask …

• online shopping underwear
• November 22, 2011, 08:30

Yesterday I started looking on Asos for some new bras – because yes, I’m the kind of gal who likes to throw caution to the wind and buy the most difficult and fiddly things online, ensuring that I spent way …

• celebrity denim
• November 21, 2011, 13:30

Have you tried out MiH jeans? I recently met Susan Wylie, their global head of press and PR, in Dublin where she did a bit of a show ‘n’ tell with their latest collections (Deirdre met her too; read about …

• magazines models
• November 21, 2011, 10:30

Seriously, deep breaths. This is like fashion magazine perfection – I would buy this magazine twice if (a) I was in Russia, (b) I spoke Russian, (c) I wasn’t in Portland, not buying magazines and drinking copious amounts of coffee …

• online shopping shoes and boots
• November 21, 2011, 08:30

Seriously, fashion has me bankrupt. When people ask what I spend my money on, after rent and, well, a copious amount of eating-out, fashion is way up there – and it’s a habit I just can’t seem to kick. I …

• competitions
• November 18, 2011, 08:30

This competition is now closed. So this week’s giveaway comes courtesy of the lovely folks behind Sally Hansen, you know, where you get your spray tan and your stick-on nail effects and, now, your complete salon manicure – basically, a …

• advertising
• November 17, 2011, 14:30

Well, the United Colours of Benetton – you know the ones, famed in the 1990s for controversial ad campaigns and the embracing of all creeds and races in their imagery – has come to the forefront of the world stage …

• designer collaborations
• November 17, 2011, 12:41

And I mean, the very skinny. I rocked up this morning to check out the range, fully prepared to be too late to queue given reports online that stores in the Middle East had already sold out of the much …

• dresses stylists
• November 16, 2011, 11:00

A couple of weeks ago I got together with Ailbhe O’Donnell, Ellie Balfe on make-up, Sarah Lanagan on hair and the seven-months-pregnant Joanna Creighton Muldowney to do a maternity shoot for a special supplement, Bringing Up Baby, published with the …

• celebrity
• November 15, 2011, 15:00

You’ll have to admit, if someone were to tell your 10-years-ago self that Victoria Beckham, or Posh Spice, as she was better known, would become one of the best selling and well respected female designers of the noughties, would you …

• magazines stylists
• November 15, 2011, 12:30

I recently posted a gorgeous editorial from Irish Tatler, styled by Sarah Rickard with photos by Liam Murphy and the gorgeous 16-year-old up-and-coming models, Kelly from Morgan and Gracie from 1st Option. Just take a look, if you haven’t already, …

• reviews
• November 15, 2011, 10:30

I was going to kind of ignore the existence of Benefit’s They’re Real – it was going to be one of the millions of products that goes in and out of my house and is never spoken of again, but …

• celebrity music
• November 15, 2011, 08:30

As part of her new role, Alesha Dixon will act as spokesperson for Avon’s makeup and domestic violence cause . . . hmmm. An odd pairing, although I have heard really empowering (if you’ll excuse overuse of an overused words) …

• magazines models seasonal dressing
• November 14, 2011, 16:30

Yes, I’m talking about summer; the terrible thing about working in this industry is that you spend your whole time wishing for the arrival of the coming season. Just as A/W has arrived – a season I’ve been dying for …

• Irish designs
• November 14, 2011, 15:30

Yesterday I did a bit of a search for Irish fashion websites as I was trying to put something together for this Wednesday’s paper – the column is going to be a cracker, I’ll tell you now, and I ain’t …

• high street
• November 14, 2011, 10:30

The Kilkenny store, though I pass it by really frequently – y’know, as I navigate the big hassle of Trinity trying to get from Tara St to Denzille Lane – is one that I would rarely go into. It reminds …

• online shopping
• November 14, 2011, 08:30

You could be forgiven for suspecting I’m talking about the state of my fridge, which I leave sadly neglected, 99 per cent of the time, but in fact I’m talking about Black Milk clothing – a brand you will no …

• high street seasonal dressing
• November 11, 2011, 17:30

I saw these pics earlier today and, as I scrolled down, my heart sank – because there was no way these were within my price range. I quite literally want everything. But where are they from? The answer apres le …

• celebrity magazines
• November 11, 2011, 17:00

I really don’t know why the Olsen twins haven’t been on the cover of Vogue a couple of hundred times now – their style is just so incredible and Olsens Anonymous is becoming my one-stop shop for sating my Olsen …

• competitions menswear
• November 11, 2011, 15:45

So, from now until Christmas I’m going to be doing a giveaway every Friday to help you pack your stockings ahead of time – every little counts, doesn’t it? I know that I’m really excited about Christmas, even going so …

• celebrity music street style
• November 9, 2011, 11:30

Ah, Alexa, Alexa – the girl all girls want to be, the girl all (sensible) guys want to be with. Because, let’s face it, TV career aside, she seems a bit like the kind of girl you’d go on a …

• models music
• November 9, 2011, 08:30

Duran Duran‘s latest video premiered yesterday – Girl Panic!, featuring the original supers. Naomi (Campbell), Helena (Christensen), Eva (Herzigova), Cindy (Crawford) and Yasmin (Le Bon) make up the composite parts of the band, writhing around a plush hotel room, giving …

• trousers
• November 8, 2011, 12:30

And am promptly returning. Why’s that, you ask? Because I paid €47.50 for them in the Grafton Street store – and online they’re costing £19. That’s some sterling-euro discrepancy sh*t I just cannot get on board with. I’ve also been …

• stylists
• November 8, 2011, 10:30

Sometimes there are items I lust after slightly, and then forget about. And there are others, items that seem to play on my mind and remain in my consciousness long after I’ve stopped actively thinking about them. Typically, the Isabel …

• shoes and boots
• November 8, 2011, 08:30

Yesterday I was styling a shoot for Xposé with New Look and realised, while I was putting looks together, that the most versatile item in fashion isn’t the little black dress, as always believed – but it is, in fact, …

• hair reviews
• November 7, 2011, 16:00

I’m not a big advocate of expensive or fiddly hair tools. I am the ashamed owner of one wand (is that really what they’re called? Just “the wand”?); I own a ceramic hair straightener that is not a GHD but …

• models music photography stylists
• November 7, 2011, 10:30

A couple of weeks ago, I styled a shoot based around the anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind. We wanted it to be very 1990s, with two girls giving off a very teenage best-friend vibe, channelling My So-Called Life and photoshoots featuring …

• celebrity magazines
• November 3, 2011, 16:30

I just saw this editorial featuring Isabel Lucas in Australian Vogue and quite literally caught my breath in the back of my throat. Incredible. I remember when young Lucas was poor, tormented Tasha in Home & Away as if it …

• seasonal dressing
• November 3, 2011, 14:00

Smashbox is one of my favourite brands – so it’s odd that (as far as I know) I haven’t waxed lyrical about it here yet. (I did, however, mention it in a little Q&A I did with Emma over at …

• dresses seasonal dressing
• November 3, 2011, 10:30

I was in New Look recently and commented to Clare, their lovely PR, about how gorgeous the party dresses were. She said that it’s something they’re focusing on a bit more this season, and it shows! Kelly Brook has been …

• celebrity
• November 2, 2011, 15:06

I haven’t done much lately on celebrities – or, in fact, on Halloween – because, well, it began to bore me. Then Heidi Klum and Seal brought my celebrity love back to the fore with this.

• beauty reviews
• November 2, 2011, 10:30

So, okay, the blog has been a bit review-heavy, but I’ve received a good few products to review lately (this among them) and I now have to catch up a bit and let all the reviews out like one, big, …

• designer collaborations high street
• November 1, 2011, 16:30

American designer Rory Beca has teamed up with US high-street giant Forever 21 to produce a collection of affordable classics, none of which costs more than €30. I love the styling of the lookbook and while, let’s face it, you …

• reviews
• November 1, 2011, 14:30

So yesterday I watched the kids in my neighborhood light an enormous bonfire, basically in their back gardens, into which they threw everything they could get their grubby little mitts on – including, but not limited to, bangers and fireworks …

• competitions
• November 1, 2011, 11:00

If you don’t know, Ellie Balfe is a make-up artist extraordinaire but also, and obviously I love this part, a blogger who has a really great blog where she talks about things she loves, things she doesn’t, interiors, weddings . …

• reviews
• November 1, 2011, 10:30

So, a couple of weeks ago I was invited to Rouge in Ranelagh to try out their manicures with young Emma. It was on one of those perfect days when you have very little work to do and can kind …

• designer collaborations high street
• November 1, 2011, 08:30

Are you a Mary Katrantzou fan? If not, I have no idea why not – it’s not as if you haven’t had enough opportunities to bathe in the glow of her brilliance! In any case, when the folks over at …