Coleen’s Real Style
What Coleen Rooney doesn't know about style and shopping isn't worth knowing, and she is a fashion inspiration to girls everywhere. Now she's put together a glossy, gorgeous style guide that contains everything you could EVER want to know about high-street fashion, beauty, hair and makeup, body care and style.
Coleen's style guide is bursting with fashion and beauty tips to inspire and inform, showing you how to achieve a stylish, high-fashion look without spending a fortune or stepping out of the high street.
Glossy and gorgeous, accessible and fun, Coleen's Real Style is your ideal high-street shopping partner: chatty, friendly, honest and open, and highly knowledgeable about fashion. It also includes fabulous 'splurge or steal' features in which Coleen shows you how to recreate a designer look on a high-street budget and is crammed with stunning photographs of Coleen’s outfits and looks you can easily create yourself.
Contents includes:
Creating your perfect wardrobe: must-have pieces every girl should own. Coleen shows you how to create a perfect wardrobe to enable you to build up tons of different looks without spending a fortune, including how to find that perfect pair of jeans and how to make the most of your accessories.
How to work your wardrobe: now you have the essential pieces, let Coleen show you how to make them work for you. Demonstrating how easy it is to create different looks for loads of different occasions, from beach babe and party glamour puss to festival chic chick and sexy sporty girl!
Final touches: you've created a gorgeous look, now it's time to add the finishing touches! Tying it all together, this last section shows you how to apply the finishing touches and includes chapters on hair and skin care with DIY face masks and manicures, choosing the right perfume and creating dramatic new looks with your makeup.
A must for all real women out there!
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Coleen’s Real Style
Coleen Rooney
To my mum and dad. Thanks for putting up with me for all these years and coping with my love of clothes! I appreciate everything you have done for me and for going out of your way to give me all you can (the expensive Christmas coats, ha ha). And mum, thanks for introducing me to all the girly things in life.
To my Wayne. Thanks for all your support in everything I do. I love you. And yes, I do need all those bags and shoes…because I love them!
Coleen x
Contents
Experimenting and finding the styles that best suit your look.
Everyone who knows me knows that I love fashion, and by that I don’t mean going out and hitting the shops and spending until I drop, no matter what the papers say. It’s just that, like most girls I know, I simply enjoy clothes and love trying out new looks and styles. I’ve never really been into full-on fashion-y looks, though. Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing all the new styles from the catwalks every summer and winter and trying some of them out, but at the end of the day I’m a real girl with a real shape. And that means that no matter how much I love all the things I see, there are plenty of styles that are just never, ever going to do it for me.
Photograph © WireImage/Getty Images.
I love all the catwalk looks, but I’m a real girl with a real shape.
And that’s where my Real Style guide comes in. It’s not about telling you the latest designer clothes to buy or just pointing out what’s in fashion now, it’s about me sharing my experiences with you and showing you some great ways to help you look and feel your best. Because whether you like to dress up in the latest designer gear, or love high street faves like Topshop (and who doesn’t?), to me, real style does not come from copying someone else’s look or wearing a designer name from top to toe. At the end of the day, whatever you decide to wear the only name that should be all over your look is yours.
Handbag, La Redoute.
My top five
So let’s get started: I think the best way to do this is to take you through my idea of what makes a great, easy-to-wear set of clothes and styles – or ‘capsule wardrobe’. That’s what this section of the book is all about. I’ll come back to certain things in the following chapters, like tops and bottoms and dresses. Oh, and don’t worry, I’ve dedicated a whole chapter to jeans, so we’ll look at these in loads more detail later on.
But don’t flick through to that bit just yet; we’re going back to basics first. This is how I do it: when I’m deciding what to wear, I ask myself five key questions when I look at my outfit in the mirror:
Top, Yves Saint Laurent; skirt, Joseph.
Style Tip
It’s OK if a shaped jacket won’t button around the waist but fits well at the shoulders. buttoned up can look too office-like anyway, so just wear it loose the nipped-in cut of it will still highlight one of your best bits your waist.
1 Is this the right size?
Whether you’re a real boho-chic girl or love the sexy, fitted look, the bottom line is that whatever you wear, you want to feel comfortable. You don’t want to look too comfortable, though – I love chilling out and pottering about the house in my Juicy trackies, but they really won’t do for a big night out! No, what I mean is making sure that your clothes fit well, because this is really the first step to not just looking good but feeling good too.
Think of the times you’ve gone out wearing something that is too tight, only to spend the whole time trying to hold your tummy in and looking like you’re sucking a lemon. Or, if you feel your skirt is too short, you end up spending the evening pulling the hem, trying to wriggle it down all the time.
So it really is best to always wear clothes that fit well; that are the right size and in shapes that make the most of your figure – day and night. After all, why would you want to let anything get in the way of shopping, having fun or dancing the night away?
2 Which are my best bits?
It really helps to get to grips with the shape of your body, as this will give you a head start in finding the basic clothes shapes that suit you. Most of us go up and down in weight a bit but, generally, whether we are having a ‘fat’ or a ‘thin’ day, our basic shape stays the same. Mine is classic British pear: I’ve got quite a round bum (Wayne’s really cheeky and says it looks big when I wear my Juicy tracksuits). I don’t mind my shape and it’s not likely to change that much, so I always dress to make the most of it.
Jacket, French Connection; shoes, George at Asda;belt, Mexx.
I think my best bit is my waist, though, as it’s quite petite. This gives my body good proportion and balances out my shape, so I mostly go for clothes that highlight it. Big belts are brilliant for this. Also, as you can see, I’m definitely not the tall, leggy type, so I always have to take my height – and short legs – into consideration when buying new clothes. (Now you know why I love my heels.)
